Hybrid/Remote .NET Job Trends

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring .NET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 41 22
Rank change year-on-year +1 -19 -2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,252 976 1,929
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.36% 6.08% 8.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.03% 25.24% 28.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,091 674 1,530
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,375 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.62% +5.00% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -5.07%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

.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 with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,467 3,867 6,740
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 19.11% 24.10% 28.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3,319 2,583 5,079
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

.NET job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing .NET.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing .NET

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing .NET over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

.NET salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 40 (3.19%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.04%) IIS
3 10 (0.80%) CMS
4 8 (0.64%) SharePoint Server
5 6 (0.48%) Confluence
5 6 (0.48%) nginx
5 6 (0.48%) Umbraco
6 5 (0.40%) EPiServer
7 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.24%) DNN
7 3 (0.24%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.24%) Immediacy CMS
7 3 (0.24%) Kentico
7 3 (0.24%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.24%) Sitefinity
7 3 (0.24%) WordPress
8 1 (0.080%) Apache
8 1 (0.080%) Appian
8 1 (0.080%) Drupal
Applications
1 9 (0.72%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.080%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.40%) Elite 3E
3 3 (0.24%) Carpe Diem
3 3 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.16%) Magento
4 2 (0.16%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.16%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 807 (64.46%) Azure
2 277 (22.12%) Azure DevOps
3 259 (20.69%) AWS
4 165 (13.18%) Azure AI
4 165 (13.18%) GitHub
5 146 (11.66%) GitHub Copilot
6 86 (6.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 83 (6.63%) Power Platform
8 81 (6.47%) SaaS
9 61 (4.87%) PowerApps
10 59 (4.71%) Power Automate
11 51 (4.07%) Serverless
12 42 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
13 40 (3.19%) Azure Service Bus
14 36 (2.88%) Azure Logic Apps
15 35 (2.80%) GCP
16 33 (2.64%) Dynamics 365
17 24 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
18 23 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
19 21 (1.68%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 57 (4.55%) Internet
2 7 (0.56%) Hyperconnected
3 6 (0.48%) HTTP
4 5 (0.40%) Broadband
5 3 (0.24%) Intranet
5 3 (0.24%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.080%) Modbus
6 1 (0.080%) Network Security
6 1 (0.080%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 489 (39.06%) Azure SQL Database
2 420 (33.55%) MongoDB
3 217 (17.33%) SQL Server
4 161 (12.86%) Elasticsearch
5 46 (3.67%) Power BI
6 35 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
7 32 (2.56%) MySQL
8 31 (2.48%) Relational Database
9 19 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 18 (1.44%) NoSQL
11 16 (1.28%) Spark SQL
12 14 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 11 (0.88%) NonStop SQL
14 10 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (0.80%) Redis
15 8 (0.64%) Metadata
16 5 (0.40%) MariaDB
17 4 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
17 4 (0.32%) Crystal Reports
17 4 (0.32%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 87 (6.95%) Git
2 21 (1.68%) JIRA
3 13 (1.04%) NUnit
4 11 (0.88%) Bitbucket
4 11 (0.88%) Selenium
5 10 (0.80%) Jenkins
6 9 (0.72%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.64%) Claude Code
7 8 (0.64%) TeamCity
8 7 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (0.56%) GitLab
8 7 (0.56%) Postman
9 5 (0.40%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
9 5 (0.40%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.32%) MSTest
10 4 (0.32%) Snyk
11 3 (0.24%) Mercurial
11 3 (0.24%) SoapUI
11 3 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 182 (14.54%) Social Skills
2 151 (12.06%) Finance
3 88 (7.03%) Legal
4 72 (5.75%) Law
5 70 (5.59%) Public Sector
6 64 (5.11%) Games
7 62 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
8 59 (4.71%) Advertising
9 54 (4.31%) Marketing
10 50 (3.99%) Retail
11 49 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 36 (2.88%) Legal Technology
13 21 (1.68%) Aerospace
14 14 (1.12%) Manufacturing
15 11 (0.88%) Music Industry
16 7 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.48%) Back Office
17 6 (0.48%) Local Government
17 6 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 833 (66.53%) Developer
2 625 (49.92%) .NET Developer
3 206 (16.45%) Senior
4 176 (14.06%) Software Engineer
5 122 (9.74%) Senior Developer
6 111 (8.87%) Lead
7 86 (6.87%) C# Developer
8 76 (6.07%) .NET Software Engineer
9 73 (5.83%) C# .NET Developer
10 71 (5.67%) C# Software Engineer
11 64 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
12 60 (4.79%) Software Developer
13 58 (4.63%) Senior Software Engineer
14 51 (4.07%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 47 (3.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 46 (3.67%) Lead Developer
17 41 (3.27%) Architect
18 34 (2.72%) Development Manager
19 33 (2.64%) .NET Software Developer
20 30 (2.40%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 576 (46.01%) .NET Core
2 561 (44.81%) ASP.NET
3 494 (39.46%) ASP.NET Core
4 285 (22.76%) React
5 248 (19.81%) CSS
6 245 (19.57%) HTML
7 235 (18.77%) Blazor
7 235 (18.77%) Entity Framework
8 226 (18.05%) AngularJS
9 208 (16.61%) RESTful
10 194 (15.50%) Node.js
11 193 (15.42%) Vue
12 180 (14.38%) ASP.NET Web API
13 156 (12.46%) ML.NET
14 153 (12.22%) .NET Framework
15 111 (8.87%) LINQ
16 80 (6.39%) REST
17 43 (3.43%) JSON
18 35 (2.80%) XML
19 32 (2.56%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 101 (8.07%) Greenfield Project
2 74 (5.91%) Enterprise Software
3 52 (4.15%) Product Ownership
4 50 (3.99%) Distributed Systems
5 45 (3.59%) Cloud Native
6 30 (2.40%) AI Agents
7 28 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
8 27 (2.16%) Mobile App
9 20 (1.60%) Digital TV
10 17 (1.36%) BBC
10 17 (1.36%) iPhone
10 17 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
10 17 (1.36%) Social Media
11 14 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (1.12%) Social Network
12 13 (1.04%) Management Information System
13 12 (0.96%) Data Structures
13 12 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
13 12 (0.96%) Sports Betting
14 10 (0.80%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.72%) Windows
2 25 (2.00%) Linux
3 22 (1.76%) Android
4 17 (1.36%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.32%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 664 (53.04%) Full-Stack Development
2 638 (50.96%) Agile
3 418 (33.39%) CI/CD
4 379 (30.27%) DevOps
5 345 (27.56%) Microservices
6 328 (26.20%) Software Engineering
7 256 (20.45%) AI
8 187 (14.94%) Machine Learning
9 184 (14.70%) Problem-Solving
10 179 (14.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 169 (13.50%) Multithreading
12 138 (11.02%) Scrum
13 132 (10.54%) Mentoring
14 118 (9.42%) OO
15 104 (8.31%) TDD
16 99 (7.91%) SDLC
17 84 (6.71%) Workflow
18 82 (6.55%) Software Testing
19 81 (6.47%) Software Architecture
20 79 (6.31%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 1,103 (88.10%) C#
2 692 (55.27%) SQL
3 361 (28.83%) JavaScript
4 239 (19.09%) TypeScript
5 90 (7.19%) Java
6 81 (6.47%) Python
7 41 (3.27%) PowerShell
8 31 (2.48%) C++
9 27 (2.16%) T-SQL
10 18 (1.44%) VB.NET
11 13 (1.04%) Bicep
12 12 (0.96%) Go
13 9 (0.72%) PHP
14 7 (0.56%) Bash
14 7 (0.56%) Rust
15 6 (0.48%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.48%) Ruby
16 5 (0.40%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.40%) C
16 5 (0.40%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 68 (5.43%) Degree
2 41 (3.27%) Security Cleared
3 33 (2.64%) SC Cleared
4 16 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (0.72%) Master's Degree
7 7 (0.56%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.32%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.24%) ICAEW
10 2 (0.16%) CSQA
10 2 (0.16%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.16%) OCP
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.080%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.080%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.080%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (10.70%) QA
2 28 (2.24%) Data Quality
3 10 (0.80%) GDPR
4 8 (0.64%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.32%) WCAG
7 2 (0.16%) NIST
8 1 (0.080%) NCSC
System Software
1 222 (17.73%) Docker
2 6 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 201 (16.05%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.12%) Ansible
3 11 (0.88%) Grafana
3 11 (0.88%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.16%) MIIS
5 1 (0.080%) Consul
5 1 (0.080%) Packer
5 1 (0.080%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.080%) Puppet
Vendors
1 677 (54.07%) Microsoft
2 73 (5.83%) Google
3 61 (4.87%) Facebook
4 21 (1.68%) YouTube
5 18 (1.44%) Adobe
6 17 (1.36%) Apple
6 17 (1.36%) Sony
6 17 (1.36%) Yahoo!
7 16 (1.28%) OpenAI
7 16 (1.28%) Oracle
8 15 (1.20%) Databricks
8 15 (1.20%) Salesforce
9 9 (0.72%) ServiceNow
10 7 (0.56%) iManage
10 7 (0.56%) Intapp
11 5 (0.40%) Aderant
11 5 (0.40%) DevExpress
11 5 (0.40%) Optimizely
11 5 (0.40%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.32%) SAP