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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 39 21
Rank change year-on-year 0 -18 -2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,267 1,069 2,054
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.46% 6.47% 8.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.14% 25.97% 29.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,105 753 1,692
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £94,756 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -5.29%

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 4,503 4,116 6,960
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 19.40% 24.90% 28.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,362 2,797 5,427
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £86,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +8.00% -7.41%

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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 26 August 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 41 (3.24%) SharePoint
2 11 (0.87%) CMS
2 11 (0.87%) IIS
3 8 (0.63%) SharePoint Server
4 7 (0.55%) Umbraco
5 6 (0.47%) Confluence
5 6 (0.47%) nginx
6 5 (0.39%) 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 (0.079%) Apache
8 1 (0.079%) Appian
8 1 (0.079%) Drupal
Applications
1 8 (0.63%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.079%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.39%) 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
1 822 (64.88%) Azure
2 281 (22.18%) Azure DevOps
3 254 (20.05%) AWS
4 167 (13.18%) GitHub
5 165 (13.02%) Azure AI
6 146 (11.52%) GitHub Copilot
7 87 (6.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 87 (6.87%) SaaS
8 81 (6.39%) Power Platform
9 59 (4.66%) PowerApps
10 57 (4.50%) Power Automate
11 43 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
12 42 (3.31%) Serverless
13 41 (3.24%) Azure Service Bus
14 37 (2.92%) Azure Logic Apps
14 37 (2.92%) GCP
15 31 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
16 24 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
17 22 (1.74%) Azure Functions
18 21 (1.66%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 57 (4.50%) Internet
2 7 (0.55%) Hyperconnected
3 6 (0.47%) HTTP
4 5 (0.39%) Broadband
4 5 (0.39%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.24%) Intranet
5 3 (0.24%) Modbus
6 1 (0.079%) Network Security
6 1 (0.079%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 489 (38.60%) Azure SQL Database
2 420 (33.15%) MongoDB
3 227 (17.92%) SQL Server
4 162 (12.79%) Elasticsearch
5 45 (3.55%) Power BI
6 36 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
7 34 (2.68%) MySQL
8 30 (2.37%) Relational Database
9 24 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 23 (1.82%) NoSQL
11 18 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 12 (0.95%) Redis
13 11 (0.87%) NonStop SQL
14 10 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
15 8 (0.63%) Metadata
16 6 (0.47%) Data Lake
16 6 (0.47%) Spark SQL
17 5 (0.39%) Db2
17 5 (0.39%) MariaDB
18 4 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 88 (6.95%) Git
2 23 (1.82%) JIRA
3 13 (1.03%) NUnit
3 13 (1.03%) Selenium
4 11 (0.87%) Bitbucket
5 10 (0.79%) Jenkins
6 9 (0.71%) TeamCity
6 9 (0.71%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.63%) Claude Code
7 8 (0.63%) Postman
8 7 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (0.55%) GitLab
9 6 (0.47%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
10 5 (0.39%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.32%) MSTest
11 4 (0.32%) Snyk
12 3 (0.24%) Jasmine
12 3 (0.24%) Mercurial
12 3 (0.24%) SoapUI
General
1 185 (14.60%) Social Skills
2 155 (12.23%) Finance
3 89 (7.02%) Legal
4 76 (6.00%) Law
5 63 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (4.97%) Games
6 60 (4.74%) Public Sector
7 59 (4.66%) Advertising
8 55 (4.34%) Marketing
9 51 (4.03%) Retail
10 50 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 37 (2.92%) Legal Technology
12 21 (1.66%) Aerospace
13 16 (1.26%) Manufacturing
14 11 (0.87%) Music Industry
15 7 (0.55%) Back Office
15 7 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.47%) Local Government
16 6 (0.47%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 845 (66.69%) Developer
2 625 (49.33%) .NET Developer
3 213 (16.81%) Senior
4 183 (14.44%) Software Engineer
5 129 (10.18%) Senior Developer
6 112 (8.84%) Lead
7 91 (7.18%) C# Developer
8 80 (6.31%) .NET Software Engineer
9 77 (6.08%) C# .NET Developer
10 73 (5.76%) C# Software Engineer
11 67 (5.29%) Full-Stack Developer
12 61 (4.81%) Software Developer
13 58 (4.58%) Senior Software Engineer
14 54 (4.26%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 49 (3.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 46 (3.63%) Lead Developer
17 44 (3.47%) Architect
18 36 (2.84%) .NET Software Developer
19 33 (2.60%) Development Manager
20 32 (2.53%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 581 (45.86%) .NET Core
2 565 (44.59%) ASP.NET
3 495 (39.07%) ASP.NET Core
4 291 (22.97%) React
5 254 (20.05%) CSS
6 251 (19.81%) HTML
7 234 (18.47%) Entity Framework
8 233 (18.39%) Blazor
9 227 (17.92%) AngularJS
10 209 (16.50%) RESTful
11 195 (15.39%) Node.js
12 194 (15.31%) Vue
13 180 (14.21%) ASP.NET Web API
14 156 (12.31%) .NET Framework
14 156 (12.31%) ML.NET
15 111 (8.76%) LINQ
16 84 (6.63%) REST
17 43 (3.39%) JSON
18 34 (2.68%) XML
19 32 (2.53%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 101 (7.97%) Greenfield Project
2 75 (5.92%) Enterprise Software
3 53 (4.18%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (4.18%) Product Ownership
4 50 (3.95%) Cloud Native
5 29 (2.29%) AI Agents
5 29 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
5 29 (2.29%) Mobile App
6 20 (1.58%) Digital TV
7 19 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
8 17 (1.34%) BBC
8 17 (1.34%) iPhone
8 17 (1.34%) Social Media
9 14 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (1.10%) Social Network
10 13 (1.03%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.03%) Sports Betting
11 11 (0.87%) Data Structures
12 10 (0.79%) IoT
13 9 (0.71%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.60%) Windows
2 25 (1.97%) Linux
3 22 (1.74%) Android
4 15 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.32%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 659 (52.01%) Full-Stack Development
2 640 (50.51%) Agile
3 418 (32.99%) CI/CD
4 387 (30.54%) DevOps
5 358 (28.26%) Microservices
6 340 (26.84%) Software Engineering
7 261 (20.60%) AI
8 191 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
9 190 (15.00%) Machine Learning
10 182 (14.36%) Continuous Improvement
11 170 (13.42%) Multithreading
12 141 (11.13%) Scrum
13 123 (9.71%) Mentoring
14 119 (9.39%) OO
15 106 (8.37%) TDD
16 100 (7.89%) SDLC
17 88 (6.95%) Clean Code
18 84 (6.63%) Workflow
19 83 (6.55%) Software Architecture
19 83 (6.55%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,111 (87.69%) C#
2 696 (54.93%) SQL
3 360 (28.41%) JavaScript
4 243 (19.18%) TypeScript
5 85 (6.71%) Java
5 85 (6.71%) Python
6 42 (3.31%) PowerShell
7 28 (2.21%) T-SQL
8 21 (1.66%) C++
9 20 (1.58%) VB.NET
10 14 (1.10%) Bicep
11 12 (0.95%) Go
12 10 (0.79%) PHP
13 8 (0.63%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.63%) Rust
14 7 (0.55%) Bash
15 6 (0.47%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.47%) Ruby
16 5 (0.39%) C
16 5 (0.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 71 (5.60%) Degree
2 42 (3.31%) Security Cleared
3 34 (2.68%) SC Cleared
4 16 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (0.71%) Master's Degree
7 7 (0.55%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.32%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.24%) ICAEW
10 2 (0.16%) CSQA
10 2 (0.16%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.16%) OCP
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.079%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.079%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.079%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (10.81%) QA
2 16 (1.26%) Data Quality
3 10 (0.79%) GDPR
4 8 (0.63%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.32%) WCAG
7 2 (0.16%) NIST
7 2 (0.16%) SLA
8 1 (0.079%) NCSC
System Software
1 224 (17.68%) Docker
2 6 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 205 (16.18%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.10%) Ansible
3 11 (0.87%) Grafana
3 11 (0.87%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.16%) MIIS
5 1 (0.079%) Consul
5 1 (0.079%) Packer
5 1 (0.079%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.079%) Puppet
Vendors
1 680 (53.67%) Microsoft
2 73 (5.76%) Google
3 61 (4.81%) Facebook
4 21 (1.66%) YouTube
5 19 (1.50%) Adobe
6 17 (1.34%) Apple
6 17 (1.34%) Sony
6 17 (1.34%) Yahoo!
7 16 (1.26%) OpenAI
7 16 (1.26%) Oracle
7 16 (1.26%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.18%) Databricks
9 10 (0.79%) ServiceNow
10 7 (0.55%) iManage
10 7 (0.55%) Intapp
11 5 (0.39%) Aderant
11 5 (0.39%) Optimizely
11 5 (0.39%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.32%) JDA
12 4 (0.32%) SAP