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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 42 22
Rank change year-on-year -2 -20 -2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,231 980 1,901
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.11% 6.03% 8.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.47% 25.41% 28.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,062 680 1,437
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £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% -4.76%

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 4,481 3,857 6,751
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.59% 23.74% 28.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,311 2,567 4,829
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £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 £86,250 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £119,250 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -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 16 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 37 (3.01%) SharePoint
2 15 (1.22%) IIS
3 10 (0.81%) CMS
4 8 (0.65%) SharePoint Server
5 6 (0.49%) Confluence
5 6 (0.49%) nginx
5 6 (0.49%) Umbraco
6 5 (0.41%) EPiServer
7 4 (0.32%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.32%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.32%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.24%) DNN
8 3 (0.24%) Immediacy CMS
8 3 (0.24%) Kentico
8 3 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.24%) Sitefinity
8 3 (0.24%) WordPress
9 1 (0.081%) Apache
9 1 (0.081%) Appian
9 1 (0.081%) Drupal
Applications
1 9 (0.73%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.081%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.41%) 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
1 794 (64.50%) Azure
2 269 (21.85%) Azure DevOps
3 255 (20.71%) AWS
4 159 (12.92%) GitHub
5 158 (12.84%) Azure AI
6 140 (11.37%) GitHub Copilot
7 86 (6.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 85 (6.90%) SaaS
9 82 (6.66%) Power Platform
10 59 (4.79%) PowerApps
11 58 (4.71%) Power Automate
12 52 (4.22%) Serverless
13 41 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
14 40 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
15 36 (2.92%) Dynamics 365
16 34 (2.76%) Azure Logic Apps
16 34 (2.76%) GCP
17 24 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
17 24 (1.95%) Azure Monitor
18 21 (1.71%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 56 (4.55%) Internet
2 6 (0.49%) HTTP
2 6 (0.49%) Hyperconnected
3 5 (0.41%) Broadband
4 3 (0.24%) Intranet
5 2 (0.16%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.081%) Network Security
6 1 (0.081%) SSL
6 1 (0.081%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 471 (38.26%) Azure SQL Database
2 406 (32.98%) MongoDB
3 214 (17.38%) SQL Server
4 156 (12.67%) Elasticsearch
5 44 (3.57%) Power BI
6 35 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
7 33 (2.68%) Relational Database
8 31 (2.52%) MySQL
9 17 (1.38%) Spark SQL
10 15 (1.22%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 12 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 11 (0.89%) NonStop SQL
13 11 (0.89%) Redis
14 10 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
15 8 (0.65%) Metadata
16 5 (0.41%) GIS
17 4 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
17 4 (0.32%) Crystal Reports
17 4 (0.32%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 86 (6.99%) Git
2 21 (1.71%) JIRA
3 11 (0.89%) NUnit
4 10 (0.81%) Bitbucket
4 10 (0.81%) Claude Code
4 10 (0.81%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.81%) Selenium
5 9 (0.73%) Visual Studio
6 7 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 7 (0.57%) GitLab
6 7 (0.57%) Postman
6 7 (0.57%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.41%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (0.41%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.32%) MSTest
8 4 (0.32%) Snyk
9 3 (0.24%) Mercurial
9 3 (0.24%) SoapUI
9 3 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 182 (14.78%) Social Skills
2 153 (12.43%) Finance
3 87 (7.07%) Legal
4 73 (5.93%) Public Sector
5 68 (5.52%) Law
6 60 (4.87%) Analytical Skills
6 60 (4.87%) Games
7 56 (4.55%) Advertising
8 51 (4.14%) Marketing
9 50 (4.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 50 (4.06%) Retail
10 35 (2.84%) Legal Technology
11 21 (1.71%) Aerospace
12 13 (1.06%) Manufacturing
13 11 (0.89%) Music Industry
14 8 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.49%) Back Office
16 6 (0.49%) Local Government
16 6 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 811 (65.88%) Developer
2 611 (49.63%) .NET Developer
3 205 (16.65%) Senior
4 174 (14.13%) Software Engineer
5 121 (9.83%) Senior Developer
6 108 (8.77%) Lead
7 84 (6.82%) C# Developer
8 77 (6.26%) .NET Software Engineer
9 72 (5.85%) C# .NET Developer
10 71 (5.77%) C# Software Engineer
11 62 (5.04%) Full-Stack Developer
12 60 (4.87%) Senior Software Engineer
13 54 (4.39%) Software Developer
14 49 (3.98%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 47 (3.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 44 (3.57%) Lead Developer
17 40 (3.25%) Architect
18 33 (2.68%) .NET Software Developer
18 33 (2.68%) Development Manager
19 29 (2.36%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 559 (45.41%) .NET Core
2 544 (44.19%) ASP.NET
3 479 (38.91%) ASP.NET Core
4 283 (22.99%) React
5 242 (19.66%) CSS
6 239 (19.42%) HTML
7 231 (18.77%) Blazor
8 228 (18.52%) Entity Framework
9 222 (18.03%) AngularJS
10 200 (16.25%) RESTful
11 188 (15.27%) Vue
12 185 (15.03%) Node.js
13 176 (14.30%) ASP.NET Web API
14 149 (12.10%) .NET Framework
14 149 (12.10%) ML.NET
15 109 (8.85%) LINQ
16 78 (6.34%) REST
17 42 (3.41%) JSON
18 37 (3.01%) XML
19 30 (2.44%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 99 (8.04%) Greenfield Project
2 72 (5.85%) Enterprise Software
3 52 (4.22%) Product Ownership
4 49 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
5 42 (3.41%) Cloud Native
6 31 (2.52%) AI Agents
7 28 (2.27%) Mobile App
8 26 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (1.54%) Digital TV
10 17 (1.38%) BBC
10 17 (1.38%) iPhone
10 17 (1.38%) Social Media
11 15 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
12 14 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.06%) Data Structures
13 13 (1.06%) Management Information System
14 12 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
14 12 (0.97%) Social Network
14 12 (0.97%) Sports Betting
15 10 (0.81%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.76%) Windows
2 25 (2.03%) Linux
3 22 (1.79%) Android
4 19 (1.54%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.41%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 645 (52.40%) Full-Stack Development
2 621 (50.45%) Agile
3 408 (33.14%) CI/CD
4 367 (29.81%) DevOps
5 333 (27.05%) Microservices
6 321 (26.08%) Software Engineering
7 249 (20.23%) AI
8 187 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
9 183 (14.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 177 (14.38%) Machine Learning
11 162 (13.16%) Multithreading
12 135 (10.97%) Mentoring
13 134 (10.89%) Scrum
14 114 (9.26%) OO
15 98 (7.96%) TDD
16 96 (7.80%) SDLC
17 85 (6.90%) Workflow
18 80 (6.50%) API Development
18 80 (6.50%) Software Architecture
18 80 (6.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,092 (88.71%) C#
2 679 (55.16%) SQL
3 356 (28.92%) JavaScript
4 231 (18.77%) TypeScript
5 88 (7.15%) Java
6 79 (6.42%) Python
7 39 (3.17%) PowerShell
8 32 (2.60%) C++
9 26 (2.11%) T-SQL
10 17 (1.38%) VB.NET
11 14 (1.14%) Bicep
12 12 (0.97%) Go
13 7 (0.57%) Bash
13 7 (0.57%) PHP
14 6 (0.49%) Rust
15 5 (0.41%) C
15 5 (0.41%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.32%) COBOL
16 4 (0.32%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 66 (5.36%) Degree
2 42 (3.41%) Security Cleared
3 34 (2.76%) SC Cleared
4 15 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (0.65%) Master's Degree
6 7 (0.57%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.32%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.24%) ICAEW
9 2 (0.16%) CSQA
9 2 (0.16%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.16%) OCP
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.081%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.081%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.081%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (10.64%) QA
2 31 (2.52%) Data Quality
3 10 (0.81%) GDPR
4 8 (0.65%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.32%) WCAG
8 2 (0.16%) NIST
9 1 (0.081%) NCSC
9 1 (0.081%) PMO
System Software
1 217 (17.63%) Docker
2 6 (0.49%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.081%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 195 (15.84%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.22%) Ansible
3 11 (0.89%) Grafana
3 11 (0.89%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.081%) Consul
4 1 (0.081%) Control-M
4 1 (0.081%) MIIS
4 1 (0.081%) Packer
4 1 (0.081%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.081%) Puppet
Vendors
1 658 (53.45%) Microsoft
2 72 (5.85%) Google
3 59 (4.79%) Facebook
4 21 (1.71%) YouTube
5 17 (1.38%) Apple
5 17 (1.38%) Oracle
5 17 (1.38%) Sony
5 17 (1.38%) Yahoo!
6 16 (1.30%) Adobe
6 16 (1.30%) OpenAI
7 15 (1.22%) Databricks
8 12 (0.97%) Salesforce
9 8 (0.65%) ServiceNow
10 7 (0.57%) iManage
10 7 (0.57%) Intapp
11 6 (0.49%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.41%) Aderant
12 5 (0.41%) Optimizely
13 4 (0.32%) ESRI
13 4 (0.32%) JDA