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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 38 22
Rank change year-on-year -2 -16 -2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,260 1,049 1,984
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.40% 6.38% 8.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.15% 25.70% 28.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,096 738 1,591
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,400 £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 £75,688 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £94,144 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 4,476 4,082 6,895
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 19.19% 24.83% 28.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,319 2,771 5,246
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,733 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +3.13% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -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 1 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 41 (3.25%) SharePoint
2 12 (0.95%) IIS
3 10 (0.79%) CMS
4 8 (0.63%) 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 (0.079%) Apache
8 1 (0.079%) Appian
8 1 (0.079%) Drupal
Applications
1 9 (0.71%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.079%) 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
1 817 (64.84%) Azure
2 279 (22.14%) Azure DevOps
3 254 (20.16%) AWS
4 166 (13.17%) GitHub
5 165 (13.10%) Azure AI
6 146 (11.59%) GitHub Copilot
7 86 (6.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 84 (6.67%) Power Platform
8 84 (6.67%) SaaS
9 62 (4.92%) PowerApps
10 60 (4.76%) Power Automate
11 44 (3.49%) Serverless
12 43 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
13 41 (3.25%) Azure Service Bus
14 37 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
14 37 (2.94%) GCP
15 33 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
16 24 (1.90%) Azure Monitor
17 22 (1.75%) Azure Functions
18 21 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 57 (4.52%) Internet
2 7 (0.56%) Hyperconnected
3 6 (0.48%) HTTP
4 5 (0.40%) Broadband
4 5 (0.40%) 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
1 490 (38.89%) Azure SQL Database
2 420 (33.33%) MongoDB
3 222 (17.62%) SQL Server
4 162 (12.86%) Elasticsearch
5 47 (3.73%) Power BI
6 35 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
7 32 (2.54%) MySQL
8 31 (2.46%) Relational Database
9 22 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 21 (1.67%) NoSQL
11 16 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 11 (0.87%) NonStop SQL
12 11 (0.87%) Redis
13 10 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (0.63%) Metadata
14 8 (0.63%) Spark SQL
15 6 (0.48%) Data Lake
16 5 (0.40%) MariaDB
17 4 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
17 4 (0.32%) Db2
Development Applications
1 88 (6.98%) Git
2 23 (1.83%) JIRA
3 13 (1.03%) NUnit
4 11 (0.87%) Bitbucket
4 11 (0.87%) Selenium
5 10 (0.79%) Jenkins
6 9 (0.71%) TeamCity
6 9 (0.71%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.63%) Claude Code
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%) JUnit
11 3 (0.24%) Mercurial
11 3 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 185 (14.68%) Social Skills
2 156 (12.38%) Finance
3 88 (6.98%) Legal
4 74 (5.87%) Law
5 63 (5.00%) Games
5 63 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 60 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
7 59 (4.68%) Advertising
8 54 (4.29%) Marketing
9 50 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 50 (3.97%) Retail
10 36 (2.86%) Legal Technology
11 21 (1.67%) Aerospace
12 16 (1.27%) Manufacturing
13 11 (0.87%) Music Industry
14 7 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.48%) Back Office
15 6 (0.48%) Local Government
15 6 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 841 (66.75%) Developer
2 626 (49.68%) .NET Developer
3 211 (16.75%) Senior
4 179 (14.21%) Software Engineer
5 125 (9.92%) Senior Developer
6 111 (8.81%) Lead
7 90 (7.14%) C# Developer
8 77 (6.11%) .NET Software Engineer
9 76 (6.03%) C# .NET Developer
10 72 (5.71%) C# Software Engineer
11 64 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
12 61 (4.84%) Software Developer
13 59 (4.68%) Senior Software Engineer
14 51 (4.05%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 47 (3.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 46 (3.65%) Lead Developer
17 45 (3.57%) Architect
18 34 (2.70%) .NET Software Developer
18 34 (2.70%) Development Manager
19 30 (2.38%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 580 (46.03%) .NET Core
2 563 (44.68%) ASP.NET
3 494 (39.21%) ASP.NET Core
4 289 (22.94%) React
5 249 (19.76%) CSS
6 246 (19.52%) HTML
7 235 (18.65%) Entity Framework
8 234 (18.57%) Blazor
9 226 (17.94%) AngularJS
10 208 (16.51%) RESTful
11 195 (15.48%) Node.js
12 193 (15.32%) Vue
13 180 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
14 156 (12.38%) ML.NET
15 154 (12.22%) .NET Framework
16 111 (8.81%) LINQ
17 83 (6.59%) REST
18 43 (3.41%) JSON
19 34 (2.70%) XML
20 33 (2.62%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 101 (8.02%) Greenfield Project
2 75 (5.95%) Enterprise Software
3 52 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (4.13%) Product Ownership
4 48 (3.81%) Cloud Native
5 29 (2.30%) AI Agents
5 29 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (2.22%) Mobile App
7 20 (1.59%) Digital TV
8 18 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
9 17 (1.35%) BBC
9 17 (1.35%) iPhone
9 17 (1.35%) Social Media
10 14 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.11%) Social Network
11 13 (1.03%) Management Information System
12 12 (0.95%) Data Structures
12 12 (0.95%) Sports Betting
13 10 (0.79%) IoT
14 9 (0.71%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.70%) Windows
2 25 (1.98%) Linux
3 22 (1.75%) Android
4 16 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.32%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 657 (52.14%) Full-Stack Development
2 636 (50.48%) Agile
3 418 (33.17%) CI/CD
4 385 (30.56%) DevOps
5 351 (27.86%) Microservices
6 337 (26.75%) Software Engineering
7 260 (20.63%) AI
8 189 (15.00%) Machine Learning
9 188 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
10 179 (14.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 170 (13.49%) Multithreading
12 139 (11.03%) Scrum
13 126 (10.00%) Mentoring
14 119 (9.44%) OO
15 106 (8.41%) TDD
16 99 (7.86%) SDLC
17 84 (6.67%) Workflow
18 83 (6.59%) Clean Code
19 82 (6.51%) Software Testing
20 81 (6.43%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,107 (87.86%) C#
2 692 (54.92%) SQL
3 357 (28.33%) JavaScript
4 242 (19.21%) TypeScript
5 85 (6.75%) Python
6 84 (6.67%) Java
7 42 (3.33%) PowerShell
8 28 (2.22%) T-SQL
9 23 (1.83%) C++
10 19 (1.51%) VB.NET
11 13 (1.03%) Bicep
12 12 (0.95%) Go
13 10 (0.79%) PHP
14 8 (0.63%) Rust
15 7 (0.56%) Bash
15 7 (0.56%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.48%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.48%) Ruby
17 5 (0.40%) C
17 5 (0.40%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 69 (5.48%) Degree
2 42 (3.33%) Security Cleared
3 34 (2.70%) SC Cleared
4 16 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (0.71%) 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 (0.079%) 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
1 135 (10.71%) QA
2 19 (1.51%) Data Quality
3 10 (0.79%) GDPR
4 8 (0.63%) 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 (0.079%) NCSC
System Software
1 223 (17.70%) Docker
2 6 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 202 (16.03%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.11%) 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
1 683 (54.21%) Microsoft
2 73 (5.79%) Google
3 61 (4.84%) Facebook
4 21 (1.67%) YouTube
5 19 (1.51%) Adobe
6 17 (1.35%) Apple
6 17 (1.35%) Sony
6 17 (1.35%) Yahoo!
7 16 (1.27%) OpenAI
7 16 (1.27%) Oracle
7 16 (1.27%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.19%) Databricks
9 9 (0.71%) 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