Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 23 January 2022

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for .NET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited .NET over the 6 months to 23 January 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
23 Jan 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 14 13 9
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 -3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 3,814 1,636 1,214
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.12% 15.14% 16.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 30.50% 30.72% 34.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3,114 1,487 1,064
10th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% +12.24% -2.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,125
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -

.NET is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 12,506 5,326 3,505
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 43.02% 49.28% 47.64%
Number of salaries quoted 9,719 4,810 3,076
10th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - +4.76%

.NET
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing .NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

.NET trend for jobs with a WFH option

.NET
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing .NET.

.NET salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

.NET
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing .NET over the 6 months to 23 January 2022.

.NET salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 23 January 2022, .NET job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for .NET.

1 3,050 (79.97%) C#
2 1,977 (51.84%) Azure
3 1,861 (48.79%) Agile Software Development
4 1,614 (42.32%) SQL
5 1,568 (41.11%) .NET Core
6 1,357 (35.58%) JavaScript
7 1,271 (33.32%) SQL Server
8 1,192 (31.25%) Microsoft
9 1,158 (30.36%) DevOps
10 1,019 (26.72%) ASP.NET
11 999 (26.19%) Software Engineering
12 945 (24.78%) MVC
13 905 (23.73%) React
14 826 (21.66%) Finance
15 813 (21.32%) AWS
16 808 (21.19%) Full Stack Development
17 800 (20.98%) CI/CD
18 776 (20.35%) Microservices
19 773 (20.27%) .NET Framework
20 725 (19.01%) AngularJS
21 691 (18.12%) HTML
22 676 (17.72%) Scrum
23 646 (16.94%) Social Skills
24 625 (16.39%) CSS
25 614 (16.10%) TDD
26 602 (15.78%) Docker
27 527 (13.82%) Git (software)
28 513 (13.45%) Kubernetes
29 501 (13.14%) Mentoring
30 494 (12.95%) Test Automation

.NET
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 176 (4.61%) CMS
2 125 (3.28%) Umbraco
3 117 (3.07%) SharePoint
4 94 (2.46%) IIS
5 84 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
6 76 (1.99%) EPiServer
7 62 (1.63%) BizTalk Server
8 60 (1.57%) Confluence
8 60 (1.57%) Kentico
9 59 (1.55%) Sitecore CMS
10 40 (1.05%) Headless CMS
11 22 (0.58%) SharePoint 2010
12 15 (0.39%) Apache
13 11 (0.29%) WordPress
14 10 (0.26%) nginx
15 8 (0.21%) Apache Spark
16 7 (0.18%) Drupal
16 7 (0.18%) Ethereum
17 6 (0.16%) NServiceBus
17 6 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 47 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.37%) MS Visio
3 13 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.052%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.052%) EngageOne
5 2 (0.052%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.026%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.026%) Weka
Business Applications
1 76 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
3 12 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
4 11 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
5 7 (0.18%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.18%) Salesforce.com CRM
6 6 (0.16%) Maximo
7 5 (0.13%) nopCommerce
8 4 (0.10%) Magento
9 3 (0.079%) Primavera
9 3 (0.079%) Visualfiles
10 2 (0.052%) Dynamics GP
10 2 (0.052%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 2 (0.052%) Unit4 Business World
11 1 (0.026%) BusinessWorks
11 1 (0.026%) Loan IQ
11 1 (0.026%) Sage 200
11 1 (0.026%) Sage 50
11 1 (0.026%) SDL Web 8
11 1 (0.026%) Sentinel
Cloud Services
1 1,977 (51.84%) Azure
2 813 (21.32%) AWS
3 372 (9.75%) SaaS
4 298 (7.81%) Serverless
5 195 (5.11%) GCP
6 134 (3.51%) Azure Service Bus
7 132 (3.46%) Azure Functions
8 130 (3.41%) Power Platform
9 105 (2.75%) PaaS
10 103 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
11 100 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
12 96 (2.52%) Azure Logic Apps
13 83 (2.18%) GitHub
14 66 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
15 65 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
16 60 (1.57%) Azure Storage
16 60 (1.57%) PowerApps
17 54 (1.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 48 (1.26%) Azure Active Directory
18 48 (1.26%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 53 (1.39%) Internet
2 47 (1.23%) HTTP
3 24 (0.63%) DNS
3 24 (0.63%) TCP/IP
4 21 (0.55%) VoIP
5 16 (0.42%) Firewall
6 10 (0.26%) Modbus
7 8 (0.21%) Intranet
8 7 (0.18%) Multicast
8 7 (0.18%) RTSP
8 7 (0.18%) Unicast
9 6 (0.16%) DHCP
9 6 (0.16%) Network Security
10 5 (0.13%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.13%) SSL
11 4 (0.10%) BGP
11 4 (0.10%) DSL
11 4 (0.10%) LAN
11 4 (0.10%) SSH
11 4 (0.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,271 (33.32%) SQL Server
2 182 (4.77%) NoSQL
3 168 (4.40%) Relational Database
4 122 (3.20%) MySQL
5 114 (2.99%) MongoDB
6 103 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 99 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
8 88 (2.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 84 (2.20%) Power BI
10 63 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
11 58 (1.52%) Redis
12 46 (1.21%) SQL Server 2012
13 42 (1.10%) Big Data
14 41 (1.07%) Amazon DynamoDB
14 41 (1.07%) RDBMS
15 38 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
16 37 (0.97%) Blockchain
17 35 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
18 31 (0.81%) SQL Server 2008
19 28 (0.73%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 527 (13.82%) Git (software)
2 224 (5.87%) Visual Studio
3 192 (5.03%) Team Foundation Server
4 146 (3.83%) JIRA
5 143 (3.75%) Octopus Deploy
6 131 (3.43%) TeamCity
7 127 (3.33%) Jenkins
8 126 (3.30%) Selenium
9 91 (2.39%) NUnit
10 80 (2.10%) SpecFlow
11 56 (1.47%) Cypress.io
12 47 (1.23%) ReSharper
13 41 (1.07%) Moq
14 40 (1.05%) Visual Studio Team System
15 36 (0.94%) Postman
16 30 (0.79%) Bitbucket
17 29 (0.76%) GitLab
18 25 (0.66%) MSBuild
19 23 (0.60%) MSTest
20 21 (0.55%) Android Studio
General
1 826 (21.66%) Finance
2 646 (16.94%) Social Skills
3 169 (4.43%) Banking
4 163 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
5 155 (4.06%) Retail
6 148 (3.88%) Public Sector
7 124 (3.25%) Marketing
8 102 (2.67%) Law
9 101 (2.65%) Manufacturing
10 83 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 58 (1.52%) Electronics
11 58 (1.52%) Telecoms
12 54 (1.42%) Games
12 54 (1.42%) Legal
13 44 (1.15%) Automotive
14 42 (1.10%) Local Government
15 41 (1.07%) Publishing
16 39 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
17 36 (0.94%) Financial Institution
18 25 (0.66%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2,738 (71.79%) Developer
2 1,168 (30.62%) .NET Developer
3 981 (25.72%) C# Developer
4 671 (17.59%) Senior Developer
5 526 (13.79%) Software Developer
6 402 (10.54%) C# .NET Developer
7 375 (9.83%) Software Engineer
8 337 (8.84%) Full Stack Developer
9 335 (8.78%) Senior .NET Developer
10 205 (5.37%) C# Software Developer
11 202 (5.30%) Azure Developer
12 201 (5.27%) .NET Software Developer
13 197 (5.17%) Senior C# Developer
14 156 (4.09%) Architect
15 143 (3.75%) React Developer
16 132 (3.46%) Angular Developer
17 119 (3.12%) Lead Developer
17 119 (3.12%) Web Developer
18 117 (3.07%) Senior Software Developer
19 114 (2.99%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,568 (41.11%) .NET Core
2 1,019 (26.72%) ASP.NET
3 905 (23.73%) React
4 773 (20.27%) .NET Framework
5 725 (19.01%) AngularJS
6 691 (18.12%) HTML
7 625 (16.39%) CSS
8 421 (11.04%) ASP.NET MVC
9 393 (10.30%) ASP.NET Web API
10 388 (10.17%) RESTful
11 368 (9.65%) Web Services
12 310 (8.13%) REST
13 309 (8.10%) Entity Framework
14 303 (7.94%) jQuery
15 255 (6.69%) JSON
16 242 (6.35%) Node.js
17 239 (6.27%) HTML5
18 211 (5.53%) XML
19 172 (4.51%) Vue.js
20 167 (4.38%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 276 (7.24%) Greenfield Project
2 241 (6.32%) User Experience
3 201 (5.27%) Mobile App
4 127 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
4 127 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
5 91 (2.39%) Cloud Native
6 69 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
7 45 (1.18%) Virtual Team
8 42 (1.10%) Tandem
9 39 (1.02%) Algorithms
10 36 (0.94%) Video\Live Streaming
11 34 (0.89%) e-Health
12 31 (0.81%) Blog
13 29 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
14 28 (0.73%) FMCG
14 28 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
15 27 (0.71%) Management Information System
16 26 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 24 (0.63%) Legacy Code
18 22 (0.58%) Internet of Things
Operating Systems
1 244 (6.40%) Windows
2 199 (5.22%) Linux
3 105 (2.75%) Android
4 84 (2.20%) Windows Server
5 70 (1.84%) Apple iOS
6 24 (0.63%) Unix
7 12 (0.31%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.13%) VMS
10 4 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
10 4 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.026%) CentOS
11 1 (0.026%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.026%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,861 (48.79%) Agile Software Development
2 1,158 (30.36%) DevOps
3 999 (26.19%) Software Engineering
4 945 (24.78%) MVC
5 808 (21.19%) Full Stack Development
6 800 (20.98%) CI/CD
7 776 (20.35%) Microservices
8 676 (17.72%) Scrum
9 614 (16.10%) TDD
10 501 (13.14%) Mentoring
11 494 (12.95%) Test Automation
12 371 (9.73%) Problem-Solving
13 348 (9.12%) Unit Testing
14 319 (8.36%) Web Development
15 290 (7.60%) SOLID
16 284 (7.45%) SDLC
17 266 (6.97%) Fintech
18 244 (6.40%) Infrastructure as Code
19 243 (6.37%) Computer Science
20 229 (6.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 3,050 (79.97%) C#
2 1,614 (42.32%) SQL
3 1,357 (35.58%) JavaScript
4 450 (11.80%) T-SQL
5 384 (10.07%) TypeScript
6 365 (9.57%) Java
7 298 (7.81%) Python
8 260 (6.82%) PowerShell
9 205 (5.37%) VB.NET
10 93 (2.44%) C++
11 89 (2.33%) PHP
12 85 (2.23%) VB
13 74 (1.94%) VB6
14 71 (1.86%) C
15 46 (1.21%) Bash
16 45 (1.18%) Kotlin
17 38 (1.00%) Scala
18 34 (0.89%) Rust
19 33 (0.87%) Go
20 31 (0.81%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 320 (8.39%) Degree
2 136 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 116 (3.04%) Security Cleared
4 74 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 61 (1.60%) SC Cleared
6 32 (0.84%) DBS Check
7 22 (0.58%) ISTQB
8 19 (0.50%) Master's Degree
9 15 (0.39%) DV Cleared
10 10 (0.26%) ISEB
11 8 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 6 (0.16%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.16%) MCPD
12 6 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
13 5 (0.13%) MCSE
14 4 (0.10%) CCNA
14 4 (0.10%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.10%) Network+ Certification
14 4 (0.10%) Six Sigma Black Belt
14 4 (0.10%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 290 (7.60%) QA
2 68 (1.78%) Accessibility
3 24 (0.63%) SLA
4 6 (0.16%) GDPR
5 5 (0.13%) ISO 13485
5 5 (0.13%) PMO
6 4 (0.10%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.10%) PSD2
7 3 (0.079%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.079%) GAMP
7 3 (0.079%) HL7
7 3 (0.079%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.052%) GRC
8 2 (0.052%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.052%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.026%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.026%) WCAG
System Software
1 602 (15.78%) Docker
2 65 (1.70%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.18%) vSphere
6 6 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.13%) XenApp
8 4 (0.10%) iptables
8 4 (0.10%) LXC
8 4 (0.10%) Snort
9 3 (0.079%) Firmware
9 3 (0.079%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.079%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.052%) Xen
11 1 (0.026%) NFS
11 1 (0.026%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 513 (13.45%) Kubernetes
2 176 (4.61%) Terraform
3 69 (1.81%) Grafana
4 32 (0.84%) Prometheus
5 30 (0.79%) Ansible
6 17 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.39%) Puppet
8 13 (0.34%) MIIS
9 11 (0.29%) Kibana
9 11 (0.29%) Opscode Chef
10 7 (0.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 6 (0.16%) logstash
12 4 (0.10%) Nagios
12 4 (0.10%) NetBackup
12 4 (0.10%) SCCM
12 4 (0.10%) WSUS
13 3 (0.079%) Rancher
13 3 (0.079%) Salt
14 2 (0.052%) IBM BigFix
14 2 (0.052%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,192 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 146 (3.83%) Google
3 144 (3.78%) Oracle
4 102 (2.67%) Xamarin
5 69 (1.81%) Sitecore
6 39 (1.02%) SAP
7 30 (0.79%) Dell
8 26 (0.68%) Telerik
9 24 (0.63%) NEC
9 24 (0.63%) Northgate
10 20 (0.52%) Salesforce.com
11 17 (0.45%) Apple
11 17 (0.45%) ServiceNow
12 15 (0.39%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.37%) VMware
14 13 (0.34%) Citrix
15 12 (0.31%) MuleSoft
15 12 (0.31%) WooCommerce
16 11 (0.29%) HP
16 11 (0.29%) UiPath