Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 27 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 -8
Permanent jobs citing .NET 7,240 8,294 14,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.37% 7.91% 9.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 34.43% 26.08% 24.10%
Number of salaries quoted 5,984 6,420 9,436
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +7.76% +10.48%
75th Percentile £73,750 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

.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 requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,028 31,808 62,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.42% 30.35% 40.24%
Number of salaries quoted 15,726 19,512 30,385
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,227 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing .NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the UK

.NET
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing .NET.

Salary trend for .NET in the UK

.NET
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for .NET in the UK

.NET
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +1 6,417 £60,000 -4.00% 1,344
UK excluding London +3 5,433 £55,000 - 990
Work from Home +2 3,443 £57,500 -4.17% 1,069
London 0 1,487 £77,500 - 444
North of England +14 1,461 £55,000 - 296
South East +4 1,436 £60,000 - 209
Midlands +31 950 £50,000 -9.09% 195
North West +20 833 £55,000 -4.35% 168
South West +10 610 £55,000 - 98
West Midlands +40 503 £52,500 -4.55% 111
Yorkshire +16 475 £55,000 - 92
East Midlands +17 447 £50,000 -4.76% 84
East of England +14 417 £55,000 -8.33% 76
Scotland -47 336 £60,000 - 75
North East +24 153 £60,000 +9.09% 40
Wales -3 141 £52,686 +17.08% 38
Northern Ireland -7 85 £55,000 +19.57% 21
Channel Islands -3 1 £57,500 +64.29% 1

.NET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 300 (4.14%) ArcGIS
2 282 (3.90%) GeoServer
3 224 (3.09%) CMS
4 198 (2.73%) IIS
5 183 (2.53%) SharePoint
6 137 (1.89%) Umbraco
7 57 (0.79%) Kentico
8 52 (0.72%) Sitecore CMS
9 43 (0.59%) Confluence
10 40 (0.55%) Apache
10 40 (0.55%) Headless CMS
11 20 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
12 17 (0.23%) EPiServer
13 15 (0.21%) NServiceBus
14 11 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
14 11 (0.15%) Apache Spark
14 11 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
15 10 (0.14%) nginx
15 10 (0.14%) WordPress
16 8 (0.11%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 90 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.28%) Photoshop
4 10 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.11%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.097%) Trello
7 4 (0.055%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.028%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.028%) Sketch
8 2 (0.028%) S-PLUS
9 1 (0.014%) Mathematica
9 1 (0.014%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.014%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 127 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 28 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
4 27 (0.37%) SDL Web 8
5 26 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
6 12 (0.17%) Shopify
7 11 (0.15%) Maximo
8 5 (0.069%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.055%) BusinessWorks
9 4 (0.055%) Endur
9 4 (0.055%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.055%) Visualfiles
10 3 (0.041%) Magento
10 3 (0.041%) Sage 200
11 2 (0.028%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.028%) nopCommerce
11 2 (0.028%) SystmOne
11 2 (0.028%) Teamcenter
11 2 (0.028%) Towers Watson Igloo
11 2 (0.028%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 4,214 (58.20%) Azure
2 1,473 (20.35%) AWS
3 1,034 (14.28%) Azure DevOps
4 439 (6.06%) Power Platform
5 393 (5.43%) Serverless
6 304 (4.20%) SaaS
7 298 (4.12%) Dynamics 365
8 283 (3.91%) Azure Service Bus
9 263 (3.63%) Azure Functions
10 232 (3.20%) IBM Cloud
11 228 (3.15%) Azure Logic Apps
12 214 (2.96%) GCP
13 199 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
14 190 (2.62%) PowerApps
15 187 (2.58%) GitHub
16 152 (2.10%) Azure API Management
17 145 (2.00%) Power Automate
18 124 (1.71%) PaaS
19 102 (1.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 79 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 181 (2.50%) Internet
2 66 (0.91%) DNS
3 62 (0.86%) TCP/IP
4 38 (0.52%) Firewall
5 31 (0.43%) HTTP
6 30 (0.41%) SSL
7 18 (0.25%) RS-232
8 16 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
9 14 (0.19%) Modbus
9 14 (0.19%) Network Security
10 13 (0.18%) Broadband
10 13 (0.18%) Ethernet
10 13 (0.18%) Mobile Broadband
11 10 (0.14%) CTI
12 9 (0.12%) DHCP
12 9 (0.12%) FTP
13 8 (0.11%) LAN
13 8 (0.11%) SAN
13 8 (0.11%) VPN
13 8 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,432 (33.59%) SQL Server
2 672 (9.28%) PostgreSQL
3 586 (8.09%) MongoDB
4 505 (6.98%) NoSQL
5 344 (4.75%) Relational Database
6 314 (4.34%) GIS
7 282 (3.90%) QGIS
8 274 (3.78%) Elasticsearch
9 273 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
10 232 (3.20%) DB2
11 203 (2.80%) MySQL
12 176 (2.43%) Power BI
13 133 (1.84%) Redis
14 116 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 106 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 89 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
17 51 (0.70%) DynamoDB
18 45 (0.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 42 (0.58%) MS Access
20 37 (0.51%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 671 (9.27%) Git
2 502 (6.93%) Visual Studio
3 197 (2.72%) JIRA
4 158 (2.18%) Jenkins
5 135 (1.86%) NUnit
6 130 (1.80%) TeamCity
7 108 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
8 92 (1.27%) GitLab
9 89 (1.23%) Selenium
10 71 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
11 68 (0.94%) Postman
12 66 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
13 64 (0.88%) Moq
14 59 (0.81%) Jasmine
15 51 (0.70%) SpecFlow
16 45 (0.62%) Karma Test Runner
17 40 (0.55%) SoapUI
18 36 (0.50%) Bitbucket
18 36 (0.50%) MSTest
19 34 (0.47%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,114 (15.39%) Social Skills
2 973 (13.44%) Finance
3 366 (5.06%) Public Sector
4 364 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
5 271 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 254 (3.51%) Marketing
7 226 (3.12%) Retail
8 206 (2.85%) Law
9 162 (2.24%) Games
10 144 (1.99%) Banking
10 144 (1.99%) Front Office
11 133 (1.84%) Manufacturing
12 119 (1.64%) Legal
13 101 (1.40%) Advertising
14 100 (1.38%) Back Office
15 74 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
16 73 (1.01%) Tech for Good
17 68 (0.94%) Aerospace
18 59 (0.81%) Electronics
19 57 (0.79%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4,733 (65.37%) Developer
2 2,535 (35.01%) .NET Developer
3 1,523 (21.04%) Senior
4 1,181 (16.31%) C# Developer
5 1,086 (15.00%) Software Engineer
6 920 (12.71%) Senior Developer
7 868 (11.99%) Software Developer
8 817 (11.28%) C# .NET Developer
9 666 (9.20%) Lead
10 616 (8.51%) Full Stack Developer
11 469 (6.48%) Senior Software Engineer
12 435 (6.01%) Senior .NET Developer
13 327 (4.52%) Lead Developer
14 311 (4.30%) .NET Software Developer
15 310 (4.28%) Architect
16 268 (3.70%) .NET Software Engineer
17 246 (3.40%) Senior Software Developer
18 245 (3.38%) Azure Developer
19 219 (3.02%) Senior C# Developer
20 214 (2.96%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,367 (32.69%) ASP.NET
2 2,328 (32.15%) .NET Core
3 1,959 (27.06%) AngularJS
4 1,914 (26.44%) React
5 1,806 (24.94%) CSS
6 1,802 (24.89%) HTML
7 1,624 (22.43%) .NET Framework
8 1,198 (16.55%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1,096 (15.14%) Entity Framework
10 1,084 (14.97%) ASP.NET MVC
11 981 (13.55%) Vue
12 689 (9.52%) REST
13 682 (9.42%) RESTful
14 671 (9.27%) Web Services
15 630 (8.70%) HTML5
16 549 (7.58%) jQuery
17 538 (7.43%) Node.js
18 523 (7.22%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 488 (6.74%) Blazor
20 440 (6.08%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 434 (5.99%) Greenfield Project
2 325 (4.49%) Data Structures
3 311 (4.30%) Algorithms
4 244 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 234 (3.23%) Blockchain
6 209 (2.89%) Mobile App
7 170 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
8 163 (2.25%) Product Ownership
9 146 (2.02%) Hedge funds
10 134 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 124 (1.71%) Cloud Native
12 123 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
13 118 (1.63%) e-Learning
14 115 (1.59%) Equities
15 111 (1.53%) Derivative
15 111 (1.53%) Fixed Income
16 103 (1.42%) Management Information System
17 97 (1.34%) Client/Server
18 80 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
19 67 (0.93%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 592 (8.18%) Windows
2 423 (5.84%) Linux
3 354 (4.89%) Android
4 310 (4.28%) Apple iOS
5 42 (0.58%) Windows Server
6 24 (0.33%) Windows 10
7 22 (0.30%) AIX
8 17 (0.23%) VMS
9 15 (0.21%) Ubuntu
10 13 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.12%) Mac OS
11 9 (0.12%) Unix
12 5 (0.069%) Windows Mobile
13 3 (0.041%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.028%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.014%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,313 (45.76%) Agile
2 2,324 (32.10%) Full Stack Development
3 1,972 (27.24%) DevOps
4 1,875 (25.90%) MVC
5 1,840 (25.41%) Software Engineering
6 1,337 (18.47%) Microservices
7 972 (13.43%) Web Development
8 922 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
9 879 (12.14%) TDD
10 813 (11.23%) Scrum
11 744 (10.28%) CI/CD
12 682 (9.42%) OO
13 676 (9.34%) Computer Science
14 658 (9.09%) Design Patterns
15 625 (8.63%) Mentoring
16 556 (7.68%) SOLID
17 525 (7.25%) Artificial Intelligence
18 466 (6.44%) OOP
19 460 (6.35%) SDLC
20 459 (6.34%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 5,784 (79.89%) C#
2 3,419 (47.22%) JavaScript
3 2,629 (36.31%) SQL
4 1,100 (15.19%) TypeScript
5 840 (11.60%) Python
6 504 (6.96%) Java
7 401 (5.54%) T-SQL
8 262 (3.62%) VB.NET
9 225 (3.11%) PowerShell
10 216 (2.98%) C++
11 169 (2.33%) VB
12 144 (1.99%) C
13 78 (1.08%) PHP
14 47 (0.65%) Bicep
15 46 (0.64%) VB6
16 45 (0.62%) XAML
17 44 (0.61%) XPath
18 42 (0.58%) VBA
19 37 (0.51%) Go
20 25 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 968 (13.37%) Degree
2 526 (7.27%) Security Cleared
3 466 (6.44%) SC Cleared
4 353 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 88 (1.22%) Master's Degree
6 61 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 53 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 41 (0.57%) Azure Certification
9 40 (0.55%) DBS Check
10 39 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
11 32 (0.44%) AWS Certification
12 16 (0.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 16 (0.22%) HNC
13 13 (0.18%) PhD
14 11 (0.15%) DV Cleared
15 9 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (0.11%) Chartered Engineer
16 8 (0.11%) CIPD
16 8 (0.11%) HND
16 8 (0.11%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 396 (5.47%) QA
2 90 (1.24%) Accessibility
3 28 (0.39%) GDPR
4 24 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (0.30%) SLA
6 21 (0.29%) Data Quality
7 15 (0.21%) WAI
8 14 (0.19%) PMO
9 12 (0.17%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.11%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.097%) HL7
11 7 (0.097%) ISO 13485
12 6 (0.083%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.083%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.055%) DICOM
13 4 (0.055%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 4 (0.055%) WCAG
14 3 (0.041%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.041%) ISO 9000
14 3 (0.041%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 584 (8.07%) Docker
2 82 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 39 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
4 27 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.18%) Firmware
6 10 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.11%) vSphere
8 7 (0.097%) VMware Server
9 5 (0.069%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.055%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.028%) NFS
12 1 (0.014%) GridGain
12 1 (0.014%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 491 (6.78%) Kubernetes
2 216 (2.98%) Terraform
3 65 (0.90%) Ansible
4 35 (0.48%) Prometheus
5 31 (0.43%) Grafana
6 24 (0.33%) Progress Chef
7 21 (0.29%) Puppet
8 14 (0.19%) Consul
9 11 (0.15%) MIIS
10 6 (0.083%) Control-M
10 6 (0.083%) Istio
10 6 (0.083%) Kibana
11 5 (0.069%) Packer
11 5 (0.069%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.055%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.041%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.041%) SCOM
13 3 (0.041%) SCOrch
13 3 (0.041%) vMotion
14 2 (0.028%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 2,143 (29.60%) Microsoft
2 296 (4.09%) ESRI
3 247 (3.41%) IBM
4 234 (3.23%) Red Hat
5 163 (2.25%) Oracle
6 157 (2.17%) Google
7 99 (1.37%) Xamarin
8 96 (1.33%) Facebook
9 84 (1.16%) Sitecore
10 47 (0.65%) Apple
10 47 (0.65%) SAP
11 44 (0.61%) Salesforce
12 38 (0.52%) Optimizely
13 36 (0.50%) Sony
13 36 (0.50%) Yahoo!
14 33 (0.46%) Sparx
15 31 (0.43%) DevExpress
15 31 (0.43%) VMware
16 27 (0.37%) Dynatrace
16 27 (0.37%) Splunk