.NET Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring .NET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 41 18
Rank change year-on-year -46 -23 +40
Permanent jobs citing .NET 110 194 468
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.65% 5.48% 7.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.16% 35.66% 43.21%
Number of salaries quoted 100 145 443
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,500 £33,350
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £81,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

.NET falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 405 544 1,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.08% 15.38% 17.36%
Number of salaries quoted 358 387 961
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -4.46%
75th Percentile £67,250 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,296 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

.NET job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

.NET
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing .NET.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing .NET

.NET
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET in the West Midlands

.NET
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham -30 36 £50,000 -13.04% 18
Warwickshire -12 23 £65,000 -7.14% 4
Herefordshire -8 11 £40,000 -33.33% 1
Coventry -16 11 £45,000 -38.98% 4
Staffordshire -26 7 £62,500 +31.58% 7
Shropshire -21 5 £52,500 +7.69% 3
Solihull +1 3 £60,000 +14.29% 1
Worcestershire -18 2 £53,750 - 4
Walsall +2 1 £59,000 -1.67%
.NET
England

.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.73%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.82%) CMS
2 2 (1.82%) IIS
2 2 (1.82%) NServiceBus
2 2 (1.82%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.91%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (10.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.82%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
Cloud Services
1 36 (32.73%) Azure
2 27 (24.55%) SaaS
3 25 (22.73%) Power Platform
4 20 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
5 14 (12.73%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (11.82%) Power Automate
6 13 (11.82%) PowerApps
7 12 (10.91%) GitHub
8 9 (8.18%) GitHub Copilot
9 8 (7.27%) Figma
10 4 (3.64%) AWS
10 4 (3.64%) Serverless
11 3 (2.73%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.73%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
13 1 (0.91%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.82%) Intranet
2 1 (0.91%) DHCP
2 1 (0.91%) DNS
2 1 (0.91%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 16 (14.55%) Power BI
3 12 (10.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (6.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (2.73%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.82%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (1.82%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.82%) Metadata
7 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (8.18%) Visual Studio
2 4 (3.64%) Git
3 2 (1.82%) JIRA
4 1 (0.91%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.91%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.91%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.91%) Postman
4 1 (0.91%) Selenium
4 1 (0.91%) Snyk
4 1 (0.91%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.36%) Law
3 5 (4.55%) Finance
4 4 (3.64%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.82%) Legal
5 2 (1.82%) Marketing
5 2 (1.82%) Retail
6 1 (0.91%) Advertising
6 1 (0.91%) Automotive
6 1 (0.91%) Games
6 1 (0.91%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.91%) Police
Job Titles
1 81 (73.64%) Developer
2 23 (20.91%) .NET Developer
3 22 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 14 (12.73%) Senior
5 13 (11.82%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 12 (10.91%) Systems Developer
7 11 (10.00%) Business Developer
8 10 (9.09%) Lead
9 9 (8.18%) Senior Developer
10 8 (7.27%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 8 (7.27%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (7.27%) Xamarin Developer
11 7 (6.36%) Senior Software Developer
12 6 (5.45%) Angular Developer
12 6 (5.45%) C# Developer
12 6 (5.45%) CRM Developer
12 6 (5.45%) Designer
12 6 (5.45%) Lead Developer
12 6 (5.45%) UX Designer
13 5 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (15.45%) AngularJS
2 16 (14.55%) .NET Framework
2 16 (14.55%) Blazor
3 14 (12.73%) .NET Core
4 8 (7.27%) Material Design
4 8 (7.27%) WebAssembly
5 5 (4.55%) ASP.NET
5 5 (4.55%) React
6 4 (3.64%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (3.64%) HTML
7 3 (2.73%) CSS
7 3 (2.73%) Razor View Engine
7 3 (2.73%) REST
7 3 (2.73%) Vue
7 3 (2.73%) Web Services
7 3 (2.73%) WinForms
7 3 (2.73%) WPF
8 2 (1.82%) Apache Cordova
8 2 (1.82%) Node.js
9 1 (0.91%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.73%) Product Ownership
2 9 (8.18%) Mobile App
3 8 (7.27%) PropTech
4 6 (5.45%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.82%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.91%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.91%) EPoS
7 1 (0.91%) IoT
7 1 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.91%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.91%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.91%) Photography
7 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.73%) Windows
2 1 (0.91%) Android
2 1 (0.91%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (24.55%) Agile
2 25 (22.73%) DevOps
3 22 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 21 (19.09%) CRM
5 18 (16.36%) Business Intelligence
6 17 (15.45%) AI
6 17 (15.45%) CI/CD
6 17 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (10.91%) User Experience
8 11 (10.00%) Data Integration
8 11 (10.00%) Front End Development
9 10 (9.09%) User Stories
10 9 (8.18%) Customer Engagement
10 9 (8.18%) Customer Service
10 9 (8.18%) Wireframes
11 8 (7.27%) API Development
11 8 (7.27%) Interaction Design
11 8 (7.27%) Microservices
11 8 (7.27%) Responsive Web Design
11 8 (7.27%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 81 (73.64%) C#
2 27 (24.55%) SQL
3 26 (23.64%) JavaScript
4 14 (12.73%) TypeScript
5 5 (4.55%) Python
6 4 (3.64%) Java
7 3 (2.73%) PHP
7 3 (2.73%) VB.NET
8 2 (1.82%) Bicep
8 2 (1.82%) Go
8 2 (1.82%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.82%) Rust
8 2 (1.82%) Scala
8 2 (1.82%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.91%) C
9 1 (0.91%) C++
9 1 (0.91%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (1.82%) DBS Check
1 2 (1.82%) Degree
1 2 (1.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (0.91%) AWS Certification
2 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (0.91%) Master's Degree
2 1 (0.91%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.91%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.91%) Accessibility
2 11 (10.00%) QA
3 10 (9.09%) WCAG
4 3 (2.73%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.82%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (3.64%) Docker
2 1 (0.91%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.91%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (3.64%) Kubernetes
1 4 (3.64%) Terraform
2 2 (1.82%) Ansible
3 1 (0.91%) Argo
Vendors
1 21 (19.09%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.09%) Xamarin
3 2 (1.82%) Databricks
3 2 (1.82%) Infor
4 1 (0.91%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.91%) Facebook
4 1 (0.91%) Google
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle