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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 27 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 -8
Permanent jobs citing .NET 7,330 7,945 15,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.39% 7.87% 9.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 34.78% 26.11% 23.79%
Number of salaries quoted 6,041 6,183 9,334
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,900
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% +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 21,074 30,426 64,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.24% 30.12% 40.73%
Number of salaries quoted 15,767 18,780 29,905
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,853 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,563
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.89% +13.75%
75th Percentile £78,750 £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 10 May 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 10 May 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 +3 6,487 £60,000 -7.69% 1,302
UK excluding London +2 5,509 £55,000 -2.65% 977
Work from Home +1 3,463 £57,500 -4.17% 1,099
North of England +18 1,497 £55,000 - 311
London +1 1,496 £77,500 - 409
South East +3 1,446 £60,000 - 164
Midlands +29 954 £50,000 -9.09% 210
North West +21 845 £55,000 -4.35% 182
South West +17 620 £55,000 - 107
West Midlands +40 500 £52,500 -4.55% 128
Yorkshire +18 492 £55,000 - 95
East Midlands +15 452 £50,000 -4.76% 82
East of England +17 420 £55,000 -4.35% 73
Scotland -42 349 £60,000 - 74
North East +23 160 £60,000 +9.09% 36
Wales -4 138 £52,686 +17.41% 36
Northern Ireland -9 85 £55,000 +19.57% 18
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 (4.09%) ArcGIS
2 282 (3.85%) GeoServer
3 225 (3.07%) CMS
4 193 (2.63%) IIS
5 171 (2.33%) SharePoint
6 133 (1.81%) Umbraco
7 58 (0.79%) Kentico
8 53 (0.72%) Sitecore CMS
9 42 (0.57%) Confluence
10 41 (0.56%) Apache
10 41 (0.56%) Headless CMS
11 20 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
12 17 (0.23%) EPiServer
12 17 (0.23%) NServiceBus
13 11 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
13 11 (0.15%) Apache Spark
13 11 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
14 10 (0.14%) nginx
14 10 (0.14%) WordPress
15 9 (0.12%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 89 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.27%) Photoshop
4 10 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.095%) Trello
6 4 (0.055%) Adobe XD
6 4 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.027%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.027%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.027%) Sketch
7 2 (0.027%) S-PLUS
8 1 (0.014%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.014%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.014%) Fusion 360
8 1 (0.014%) Mathematica
8 1 (0.014%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.014%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.014%) Revit
Business Applications
1 125 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 30 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
4 27 (0.37%) SDL Web 8
5 25 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
6 11 (0.15%) Shopify
7 10 (0.14%) Maximo
8 5 (0.068%) Endur
8 5 (0.068%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.055%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.055%) Visualfiles
10 3 (0.041%) Magento
10 3 (0.041%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.041%) Sage 200
11 2 (0.027%) BusinessWorks
11 2 (0.027%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.027%) nopCommerce
11 2 (0.027%) Teamcenter
11 2 (0.027%) Towers Watson Igloo
11 2 (0.027%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 4,281 (58.40%) Azure
2 1,501 (20.48%) AWS
3 1,033 (14.09%) Azure DevOps
4 444 (6.06%) Power Platform
5 403 (5.50%) Serverless
6 316 (4.31%) SaaS
7 296 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
8 282 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
9 269 (3.67%) Azure Functions
10 252 (3.44%) IBM Cloud
11 235 (3.21%) Azure Logic Apps
12 205 (2.80%) GCP
13 202 (2.76%) PowerApps
14 199 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
15 191 (2.61%) GitHub
16 162 (2.21%) Power Automate
17 155 (2.11%) Azure API Management
18 120 (1.64%) PaaS
19 99 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 87 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 185 (2.52%) Internet
2 69 (0.94%) DNS
3 64 (0.87%) TCP/IP
4 38 (0.52%) Firewall
5 30 (0.41%) HTTP
5 30 (0.41%) SSL
6 18 (0.25%) RS-232
7 16 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
8 15 (0.20%) Network Security
9 14 (0.19%) Broadband
9 14 (0.19%) Ethernet
9 14 (0.19%) Mobile Broadband
9 14 (0.19%) Modbus
10 10 (0.14%) CTI
11 9 (0.12%) FTP
12 8 (0.11%) DHCP
12 8 (0.11%) LAN
12 8 (0.11%) SAN
12 8 (0.11%) VPN
12 8 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,437 (33.25%) SQL Server
2 687 (9.37%) PostgreSQL
3 608 (8.29%) MongoDB
4 521 (7.11%) NoSQL
5 362 (4.94%) Relational Database
6 313 (4.27%) GIS
7 282 (3.85%) QGIS
8 278 (3.79%) Elasticsearch
9 272 (3.71%) Azure SQL Database
10 252 (3.44%) DB2
11 211 (2.88%) MySQL
12 185 (2.52%) Power BI
13 133 (1.81%) Redis
14 112 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 108 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 89 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
17 50 (0.68%) DynamoDB
18 45 (0.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 44 (0.60%) MS Access
20 36 (0.49%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 688 (9.39%) Git
2 512 (6.98%) Visual Studio
3 198 (2.70%) JIRA
4 163 (2.22%) Jenkins
5 134 (1.83%) NUnit
6 124 (1.69%) TeamCity
7 105 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
8 92 (1.26%) GitLab
9 85 (1.16%) Selenium
10 71 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
11 70 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
12 66 (0.90%) Moq
13 65 (0.89%) Postman
14 60 (0.82%) Jasmine
15 49 (0.67%) SpecFlow
16 45 (0.61%) Karma Test Runner
17 38 (0.52%) SoapUI
18 37 (0.50%) MSTest
19 35 (0.48%) Bitbucket
20 33 (0.45%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,124 (15.33%) Social Skills
2 969 (13.22%) Finance
3 387 (5.28%) Public Sector
4 365 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
5 292 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 261 (3.56%) Marketing
7 222 (3.03%) Retail
8 214 (2.92%) Law
9 166 (2.26%) Games
10 143 (1.95%) Front Office
11 137 (1.87%) Banking
12 134 (1.83%) Manufacturing
13 116 (1.58%) Legal
14 107 (1.46%) Back Office
15 105 (1.43%) Advertising
16 78 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
16 78 (1.06%) Tech for Good
17 74 (1.01%) Aerospace
18 59 (0.80%) Automotive
18 59 (0.80%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 4,783 (65.25%) Developer
2 2,560 (34.92%) .NET Developer
3 1,534 (20.93%) Senior
4 1,210 (16.51%) C# Developer
5 1,103 (15.05%) Software Engineer
6 921 (12.56%) Senior Developer
7 875 (11.94%) Software Developer
8 834 (11.38%) C# .NET Developer
9 691 (9.43%) Lead
10 625 (8.53%) Full Stack Developer
11 483 (6.59%) Senior Software Engineer
12 429 (5.85%) Senior .NET Developer
13 332 (4.53%) Lead Developer
14 307 (4.19%) Architect
15 306 (4.17%) .NET Software Developer
16 266 (3.63%) .NET Software Engineer
17 253 (3.45%) Azure Developer
17 253 (3.45%) Senior Software Developer
18 232 (3.17%) Senior C# Developer
19 214 (2.92%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,390 (32.61%) ASP.NET
2 2,349 (32.05%) .NET Core
3 1,998 (27.26%) AngularJS
4 1,939 (26.45%) React
5 1,849 (25.23%) CSS
6 1,842 (25.13%) HTML
7 1,660 (22.65%) .NET Framework
8 1,232 (16.81%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1,131 (15.43%) Entity Framework
10 1,093 (14.91%) ASP.NET MVC
11 1,008 (13.75%) Vue
12 711 (9.70%) REST
13 703 (9.59%) Web Services
14 697 (9.51%) RESTful
15 642 (8.76%) HTML5
16 569 (7.76%) jQuery
17 560 (7.64%) Node.js
18 549 (7.49%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 492 (6.71%) Blazor
20 450 (6.14%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 439 (5.99%) Greenfield Project
2 343 (4.68%) Data Structures
3 327 (4.46%) Algorithms
4 264 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 254 (3.47%) Blockchain
6 210 (2.86%) Mobile App
7 170 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
8 169 (2.31%) Product Ownership
9 147 (2.01%) Hedge funds
10 130 (1.77%) e-Learning
11 127 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 124 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
13 122 (1.66%) Cloud Native
14 112 (1.53%) Derivative
15 110 (1.50%) Equities
16 105 (1.43%) Fixed Income
17 103 (1.41%) Management Information System
18 97 (1.32%) Client/Server
19 80 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
20 71 (0.97%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 621 (8.47%) Windows
2 445 (6.07%) Linux
3 374 (5.10%) Android
4 327 (4.46%) Apple iOS
5 43 (0.59%) Windows Server
6 24 (0.33%) Windows 10
7 22 (0.30%) AIX
8 17 (0.23%) VMS
9 16 (0.22%) Ubuntu
10 14 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 12 (0.16%) Unix
12 9 (0.12%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.068%) Windows Mobile
14 3 (0.041%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.027%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.014%) Embedded Linux
16 1 (0.014%) FreeRTOS
16 1 (0.014%) VxWorks
16 1 (0.014%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,359 (45.83%) Agile
2 2,389 (32.59%) Full Stack Development
3 1,976 (26.96%) DevOps
4 1,893 (25.83%) MVC
5 1,861 (25.39%) Software Engineering
6 1,367 (18.65%) Microservices
7 990 (13.51%) Web Development
8 944 (12.88%) Problem-Solving
9 895 (12.21%) TDD
10 828 (11.30%) Scrum
11 749 (10.22%) CI/CD
12 712 (9.71%) OO
13 683 (9.32%) Computer Science
14 677 (9.24%) Design Patterns
15 635 (8.66%) Mentoring
16 578 (7.89%) SOLID
17 540 (7.37%) Artificial Intelligence
18 494 (6.74%) OOP
19 463 (6.32%) BDD
20 457 (6.23%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5,859 (79.93%) C#
2 3,450 (47.07%) JavaScript
3 2,651 (36.17%) SQL
4 1,106 (15.09%) TypeScript
5 845 (11.53%) Python
6 527 (7.19%) Java
7 394 (5.38%) T-SQL
8 270 (3.68%) VB.NET
9 221 (3.02%) PowerShell
10 217 (2.96%) C++
11 174 (2.37%) VB
12 145 (1.98%) C
13 76 (1.04%) PHP
14 45 (0.61%) VB6
15 44 (0.60%) Bicep
16 43 (0.59%) XAML
16 43 (0.59%) XPath
17 42 (0.57%) VBA
18 35 (0.48%) Go
19 26 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 971 (13.25%) Degree
2 529 (7.22%) Security Cleared
3 467 (6.37%) SC Cleared
4 357 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 89 (1.21%) Master's Degree
6 57 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 54 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 42 (0.57%) Azure Certification
8 42 (0.57%) DBS Check
9 39 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
10 35 (0.48%) AWS Certification
11 18 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 15 (0.20%) HNC
13 13 (0.18%) PhD
14 11 (0.15%) DV Cleared
15 10 (0.14%) 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
1 390 (5.32%) QA
2 85 (1.16%) Accessibility
3 28 (0.38%) GDPR
4 25 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (0.30%) SLA
6 21 (0.29%) Data Quality
7 15 (0.20%) WAI
8 12 (0.16%) HIPAA
8 12 (0.16%) PMO
9 8 (0.11%) ISO 9001
10 7 (0.095%) ISO 13485
10 7 (0.095%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.082%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.082%) HL7
12 4 (0.055%) DICOM
12 4 (0.055%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 4 (0.055%) WCAG
13 3 (0.041%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.041%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.027%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 586 (7.99%) Docker
2 83 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 40 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.18%) Firmware
6 9 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.11%) vSphere
8 7 (0.095%) VMware Server
9 4 (0.055%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.055%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.027%) NFS
11 1 (0.014%) GridGain
11 1 (0.014%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 496 (6.77%) Kubernetes
2 215 (2.93%) Terraform
3 64 (0.87%) Ansible
4 40 (0.55%) Prometheus
5 33 (0.45%) Grafana
6 24 (0.33%) Progress Chef
7 23 (0.31%) Puppet
8 16 (0.22%) Consul
9 11 (0.15%) MIIS
10 6 (0.082%) Kibana
11 5 (0.068%) Control-M
11 5 (0.068%) Istio
11 5 (0.068%) Packer
11 5 (0.068%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.041%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.041%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.041%) SCOM
12 3 (0.041%) SCOrch
12 3 (0.041%) vMotion
13 2 (0.027%) cPanel
Vendors
1 2,162 (29.50%) Microsoft
2 296 (4.04%) ESRI
3 265 (3.62%) IBM
4 254 (3.47%) Red Hat
5 173 (2.36%) Oracle
6 157 (2.14%) Google
7 102 (1.39%) Xamarin
8 96 (1.31%) Facebook
9 87 (1.19%) Sitecore
10 49 (0.67%) Salesforce
11 47 (0.64%) Apple
12 46 (0.63%) SAP
13 41 (0.56%) Optimizely
14 36 (0.49%) Sony
14 36 (0.49%) Yahoo!
15 33 (0.45%) Sparx
16 32 (0.44%) DevExpress
16 32 (0.44%) VMware
17 28 (0.38%) Dynatrace
17 28 (0.38%) Splunk