Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring .NET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited .NET over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 27 27
Rank change year-on-year -36 0 -3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,195 7,330 7,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.01% 7.39% 7.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.78% 34.78% 26.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,648 6,041 6,183
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,669 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year - -2.65% +7.62%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

.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 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 8,858 21,074 30,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.19% 21.24% 30.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6,395 15,767 18,787
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,907
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -11.11% +7.89%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

.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 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for .NET in the UK

.NET
Top 17 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 11 May 2025. 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 -36 2,014 £62,500 +4.17% 1,728
UK excluding London -39 1,533 £55,000 - 1,334
Work from Home -19 1,184 £60,000 +4.35% 1,309
London -36 554 £77,500 - 611
North of England -42 526 £57,500 +4.55% 425
South East -39 415 £60,000 - 376
North West -53 370 £57,500 +4.55% 256
Midlands -50 264 £53,688 +7.38% 227
West Midlands -35 180 £55,000 +4.76% 124
East of England -51 124 £52,500 -4.55% 130
Yorkshire -42 99 £58,000 +5.45% 111
South West -70 89 £55,000 - 104
Scotland -13 83 £50,000 -16.67% 60
East Midlands -56 83 £52,500 +5.00% 93
North East -4 57 £55,000 -8.33% 66
Wales -26 32 £65,000 +23.37% 26
Northern Ireland -21 1 £50,000 -9.09% 23

.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 66 (3.01%) SharePoint
2 51 (2.32%) Confluence
3 43 (1.96%) IIS
4 30 (1.37%) CMS
5 20 (0.91%) Umbraco
6 13 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.27%) NServiceBus
8 5 (0.23%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
8 5 (0.23%) WordPress
9 4 (0.18%) Apache
9 4 (0.18%) Kentico
9 4 (0.18%) OpenEdge
9 4 (0.18%) Sitefinity
9 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.14%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.14%) ColdFusion
10 3 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
11 2 (0.091%) nginx
Applications
1 41 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.41%) Trello
4 7 (0.32%) Chatbot
5 6 (0.27%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.091%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.091%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.091%) Revit
8 1 (0.046%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.046%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 89 (4.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.73%) Sage 200
2 16 (0.73%) Sage 50
3 12 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
3 12 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
4 7 (0.32%) Elite 3E
5 5 (0.23%) Endur
6 3 (0.14%) Infor CloudSuite
6 3 (0.14%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 2 (0.091%) Carpe Diem
7 2 (0.091%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.091%) Eikon
7 2 (0.091%) Magento
7 2 (0.091%) Odoo
7 2 (0.091%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 2 (0.091%) RMDS
7 2 (0.091%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.046%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.046%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.046%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,280 (58.31%) Azure
2 553 (25.19%) AWS
3 327 (14.90%) Azure DevOps
4 240 (10.93%) Power Platform
5 221 (10.07%) GCP
6 167 (7.61%) Dynamics 365
7 157 (7.15%) SaaS
8 118 (5.38%) GitHub
9 110 (5.01%) PowerApps
10 107 (4.87%) Serverless
11 106 (4.83%) Power Automate
12 104 (4.74%) Azure Service Bus
13 73 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
14 67 (3.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 59 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
16 57 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
17 56 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
18 53 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
19 51 (2.32%) Azure Functions
20 38 (1.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.14%) Network Security
2 23 (1.05%) HTTP
3 14 (0.64%) TCP/IP
4 11 (0.50%) Modbus
4 11 (0.50%) MQTT
5 8 (0.36%) Internet
6 4 (0.18%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.091%) Broadband
7 2 (0.091%) Firewall
7 2 (0.091%) Intranet
7 2 (0.091%) Multicast
7 2 (0.091%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.091%) RTP
7 2 (0.091%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.046%) AMQP
8 1 (0.046%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.046%) Diameter Protocol
8 1 (0.046%) GGSN
8 1 (0.046%) VoLTE
8 1 (0.046%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 650 (29.61%) SQL Server
2 132 (6.01%) MySQL
3 121 (5.51%) Elasticsearch
4 120 (5.47%) Relational Database
5 109 (4.97%) NoSQL
6 98 (4.46%) MongoDB
6 98 (4.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 90 (4.10%) Power BI
8 83 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
9 76 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
10 59 (2.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 30 (1.37%) Redis
12 26 (1.18%) DB2
13 24 (1.09%) RDBMS
14 14 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
14 14 (0.64%) DynamoDB
15 11 (0.50%) MS Access
16 9 (0.41%) Tableau
17 7 (0.32%) Big Data
17 7 (0.32%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 312 (14.21%) Git
2 182 (8.29%) Visual Studio
3 106 (4.83%) JIRA
4 76 (3.46%) Octopus Deploy
5 55 (2.51%) Jenkins
6 50 (2.28%) Team Foundation Server
7 48 (2.19%) Bitbucket
8 41 (1.87%) TeamCity
9 39 (1.78%) MSBuild
10 38 (1.73%) NUnit
11 34 (1.55%) Selenium
12 26 (1.18%) GitLab
13 21 (0.96%) Postman
13 21 (0.96%) SpecFlow
14 17 (0.77%) webpack
15 14 (0.64%) MagicDraw
16 13 (0.59%) Moq
17 11 (0.50%) Babel
17 11 (0.50%) Cypress.io
17 11 (0.50%) PowerBuilder
General
1 528 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 378 (17.22%) Finance
3 305 (13.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 132 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
5 97 (4.42%) Retail
6 75 (3.42%) Law
7 71 (3.23%) Manufacturing
8 61 (2.78%) Banking
9 41 (1.87%) Marketing
10 37 (1.69%) Tech for Good
11 34 (1.55%) Automotive
11 34 (1.55%) Front Office
12 32 (1.46%) Public Sector
13 27 (1.23%) Back Office
14 23 (1.05%) Legal
15 19 (0.87%) Electronics
16 16 (0.73%) Advertising
16 16 (0.73%) Games
17 14 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
18 13 (0.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,172 (53.39%) Developer
2 700 (31.89%) Senior
3 456 (20.77%) Software Engineer
4 400 (18.22%) .NET Developer
5 309 (14.08%) Senior Developer
6 296 (13.49%) Senior Software Engineer
7 275 (12.53%) C# Developer
8 214 (9.75%) Software Developer
9 198 (9.02%) Lead
10 144 (6.56%) C# .NET Developer
10 144 (6.56%) Full-Stack Developer
11 108 (4.92%) Architect
12 86 (3.92%) Senior .NET Developer
12 86 (3.92%) Senior C# Developer
13 75 (3.42%) Lead Developer
14 66 (3.01%) Dynamics 365 Developer
15 60 (2.73%) Development Manager
16 59 (2.69%) Full-Stack C# Developer
17 58 (2.64%) .NET Software Developer
18 55 (2.51%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 475 (21.64%) .NET Core
2 456 (20.77%) .NET Framework
3 438 (19.95%) ASP.NET
4 390 (17.77%) React
5 379 (17.27%) HTML
6 371 (16.90%) CSS
7 311 (14.17%) Node.js
8 297 (13.53%) AngularJS
9 209 (9.52%) REST
10 192 (8.75%) Entity Framework
11 174 (7.93%) RESTful
12 152 (6.92%) ASP.NET Web API
13 150 (6.83%) XML
14 127 (5.79%) HTML5
14 127 (5.79%) JSON
15 120 (5.47%) ASP.NET MVC
16 116 (5.28%) Blazor
17 103 (4.69%) jQuery
18 93 (4.24%) Vue
19 86 (3.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 227 (10.34%) Cyberattack
2 201 (9.16%) Self-Motivation
3 180 (8.20%) Linux Command Line
4 86 (3.92%) Cloud Native
4 86 (3.92%) Mobile App
5 77 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
6 62 (2.82%) Product Ownership
7 39 (1.78%) Management Information System
8 35 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
9 32 (1.46%) Client/Server
9 32 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
10 28 (1.28%) IoT
11 27 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
12 26 (1.18%) Onboarding
13 25 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
14 24 (1.09%) Algorithms
14 24 (1.09%) Data Structures
15 21 (0.96%) Virtual Team
16 20 (0.91%) Private Cloud
17 19 (0.87%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 329 (14.99%) Linux
2 165 (7.52%) Windows
3 76 (3.46%) Android
4 30 (1.37%) Apple iOS
5 28 (1.28%) Unix
6 25 (1.14%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.27%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.046%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,073 (48.88%) Agile
2 744 (33.90%) Software Engineering
3 605 (27.56%) DevOps
4 520 (23.69%) Microservices
5 503 (22.92%) CI/CD
6 456 (20.77%) Problem-Solving
7 445 (20.27%) Mentoring
8 363 (16.54%) Full-Stack Development
9 340 (15.49%) MVC
10 332 (15.13%) Scrum
11 311 (14.17%) User Experience
12 232 (10.57%) Machine Learning
13 227 (10.34%) Computer Science
14 222 (10.11%) Design Patterns
15 219 (9.98%) OO
16 206 (9.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 197 (8.97%) Data Engineering
18 196 (8.93%) TDD
19 193 (8.79%) Cloud Security
20 183 (8.34%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1,550 (70.62%) C#
2 878 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 790 (35.99%) SQL
4 431 (19.64%) Java
5 416 (18.95%) Python
6 333 (15.17%) C++
7 248 (11.30%) TypeScript
8 232 (10.57%) Go
9 228 (10.39%) Rust
10 92 (4.19%) VB.NET
11 77 (3.51%) PHP
12 75 (3.42%) T-SQL
13 53 (2.41%) PowerShell
14 46 (2.10%) C
15 39 (1.78%) PL/SQL
16 21 (0.96%) Bicep
17 14 (0.64%) Bash
18 13 (0.59%) VB
18 13 (0.59%) X++
18 13 (0.59%) XAML
Qualifications
1 317 (14.44%) Degree
2 277 (12.62%) Security Cleared
3 230 (10.48%) DV Cleared
4 181 (8.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 180 (8.20%) AWS Certification
6 178 (8.11%) AWS Certified Developer
7 151 (6.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 49 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 46 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 39 (1.78%) Master's Degree
11 26 (1.18%) Azure Certification
12 23 (1.05%) SC Cleared
13 22 (1.00%) DBS Check
14 14 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (0.32%) MCSE
16 7 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
17 6 (0.27%) MCP
18 5 (0.23%) PhD
19 3 (0.14%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (6.88%) QA
2 45 (2.05%) GDPR
3 40 (1.82%) Accessibility
4 20 (0.91%) SLA
5 19 (0.87%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.27%) CDISC
7 6 (0.27%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.14%) ISO 13485
10 3 (0.14%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.091%) HL7
11 2 (0.091%) MiFID
11 2 (0.091%) WCAG
12 1 (0.046%) NCSC
System Software
1 309 (14.08%) Docker
2 17 (0.77%) Firmware
3 11 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.14%) LXC
6 2 (0.091%) vSphere
7 1 (0.046%) KVM
7 1 (0.046%) Squid
7 1 (0.046%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.046%) Xen
Systems Management
1 269 (12.26%) Kubernetes
2 123 (5.60%) Terraform
3 93 (4.24%) Ansible
4 20 (0.91%) Grafana
5 16 (0.73%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.23%) Kibana
8 3 (0.14%) Control-M
9 2 (0.091%) MIIS
9 2 (0.091%) Puppet
9 2 (0.091%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.046%) CFEngine
10 1 (0.046%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.046%) logstash
10 1 (0.046%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.046%) SCCM
10 1 (0.046%) SCOM
10 1 (0.046%) vRealize
Vendors
1 564 (25.69%) Microsoft
2 78 (3.55%) Oracle
3 44 (2.00%) Atlassian
4 43 (1.96%) Databricks
5 20 (0.91%) Xamarin
6 17 (0.77%) Sage
7 14 (0.64%) Google
7 14 (0.64%) ServiceNow
8 11 (0.50%) Salesforce
8 11 (0.50%) VMware
9 9 (0.41%) Okta
9 9 (0.41%) Telerik
10 8 (0.36%) IBM
10 8 (0.36%) Siebel
10 8 (0.36%) UiPath
11 7 (0.32%) Adobe
11 7 (0.32%) EMC
11 7 (0.32%) SolarWinds
12 6 (0.27%) Epicor
12 6 (0.27%) Facebook