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

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 28 24
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 -8
Permanent jobs citing .NET 7,291 7,980 15,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.40% 7.86% 9.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 34.74% 26.06% 23.81%
Number of salaries quoted 6,015 6,205 9,389
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,875
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 £72,875 £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 20,989 30,626 64,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.31% 30.16% 40.72%
Number of salaries quoted 15,696 18,846 30,127
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.57% +14.09%
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 7 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 7 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 6,456 £60,000 -4.81% 1,384
UK excluding London +2 5,483 £55,000 - 1,019
Work from Home +1 3,445 £57,500 -4.17% 1,114
London 0 1,485 £77,500 - 458
North of England +19 1,483 £55,000 - 311
South East +4 1,435 £60,000 - 171
Midlands +36 958 £50,000 -9.09% 226
North West +23 838 £55,000 -4.35% 186
South West +15 618 £55,000 - 115
West Midlands +41 502 £52,500 -4.55% 132
Yorkshire +16 485 £55,000 - 94
East Midlands +17 454 £50,000 -4.76% 94
East of England +16 421 £55,000 -4.35% 67
Scotland -44 345 £60,000 - 78
North East +22 160 £60,000 +9.09% 33
Wales -4 138 £52,686 +17.73% 41
Northern Ireland -6 85 £55,000 +17.65% 22
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 (4.11%) ArcGIS
2 282 (3.87%) GeoServer
3 224 (3.07%) CMS
4 195 (2.67%) IIS
5 171 (2.35%) SharePoint
6 133 (1.82%) Umbraco
7 57 (0.78%) Kentico
8 52 (0.71%) Sitecore CMS
9 41 (0.56%) Apache
9 41 (0.56%) Confluence
10 40 (0.55%) 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%) BizTalk Server
14 10 (0.14%) Apache Spark
14 10 (0.14%) nginx
14 10 (0.14%) WordPress
15 8 (0.11%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 88 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.27%) Photoshop
4 10 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.11%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.096%) Trello
7 4 (0.055%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.027%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.027%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.027%) Sketch
8 2 (0.027%) S-PLUS
9 1 (0.014%) Mathematica
9 1 (0.014%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.014%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 124 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 30 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
4 27 (0.37%) SDL Web 8
5 26 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
6 12 (0.16%) Shopify
7 10 (0.14%) Maximo
8 5 (0.069%) Endur
8 5 (0.069%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.055%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.055%) Visualfiles
10 3 (0.041%) Magento
10 3 (0.041%) Sage 200
11 2 (0.027%) BusinessWorks
11 2 (0.027%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.027%) nopCommerce
11 2 (0.027%) SystmOne
11 2 (0.027%) Teamcenter
11 2 (0.027%) Towers Watson Igloo
11 2 (0.027%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 4,261 (58.44%) Azure
2 1,488 (20.41%) AWS
3 1,030 (14.13%) Azure DevOps
4 443 (6.08%) Power Platform
5 400 (5.49%) Serverless
6 313 (4.29%) SaaS
7 296 (4.06%) Dynamics 365
8 283 (3.88%) Azure Service Bus
9 268 (3.68%) Azure Functions
10 252 (3.46%) IBM Cloud
11 235 (3.22%) Azure Logic Apps
12 205 (2.81%) GCP
13 199 (2.73%) PowerApps
14 198 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
15 188 (2.58%) GitHub
16 158 (2.17%) Power Automate
17 157 (2.15%) Azure API Management
18 121 (1.66%) PaaS
19 100 (1.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 83 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 184 (2.52%) Internet
2 70 (0.96%) DNS
3 63 (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 15 (0.21%) Network Security
10 14 (0.19%) Broadband
10 14 (0.19%) Mobile Broadband
10 14 (0.19%) Modbus
11 13 (0.18%) Ethernet
12 10 (0.14%) CTI
13 9 (0.12%) DHCP
13 9 (0.12%) FTP
14 8 (0.11%) LAN
14 8 (0.11%) SAN
14 8 (0.11%) VPN
14 8 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,434 (33.38%) SQL Server
2 687 (9.42%) PostgreSQL
3 608 (8.34%) MongoDB
4 519 (7.12%) NoSQL
5 360 (4.94%) Relational Database
6 313 (4.29%) GIS
7 282 (3.87%) QGIS
8 276 (3.79%) Elasticsearch
9 275 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
10 252 (3.46%) DB2
11 209 (2.87%) MySQL
12 182 (2.50%) Power BI
13 133 (1.82%) Redis
14 112 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 105 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 88 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
17 50 (0.69%) DynamoDB
18 45 (0.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 44 (0.60%) MS Access
20 36 (0.49%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 678 (9.30%) Git
2 510 (6.99%) Visual Studio
3 198 (2.72%) JIRA
4 159 (2.18%) Jenkins
5 134 (1.84%) NUnit
6 125 (1.71%) TeamCity
7 106 (1.45%) Team Foundation Server
8 91 (1.25%) GitLab
9 83 (1.14%) Selenium
10 72 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
11 69 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
12 66 (0.91%) Moq
12 66 (0.91%) Postman
13 59 (0.81%) Jasmine
14 48 (0.66%) SpecFlow
15 45 (0.62%) Karma Test Runner
16 39 (0.53%) SoapUI
17 36 (0.49%) Bitbucket
17 36 (0.49%) MSTest
18 33 (0.45%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,122 (15.39%) Social Skills
2 966 (13.25%) Finance
3 384 (5.27%) Public Sector
4 358 (4.91%) Analytical Skills
5 288 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 258 (3.54%) Marketing
7 225 (3.09%) Retail
8 211 (2.89%) Law
9 165 (2.26%) Games
10 143 (1.96%) Front Office
11 137 (1.88%) Banking
12 133 (1.82%) Manufacturing
13 117 (1.60%) Legal
14 105 (1.44%) Back Office
15 104 (1.43%) Advertising
16 77 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
16 77 (1.06%) Tech for Good
17 72 (0.99%) Aerospace
18 59 (0.81%) Electronics
19 58 (0.80%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4,765 (65.35%) Developer
2 2,555 (35.04%) .NET Developer
3 1,524 (20.90%) Senior
4 1,199 (16.44%) C# Developer
5 1,096 (15.03%) Software Engineer
6 915 (12.55%) Senior Developer
7 873 (11.97%) Software Developer
8 828 (11.36%) C# .NET Developer
9 685 (9.40%) Lead
10 622 (8.53%) Full Stack Developer
11 478 (6.56%) Senior Software Engineer
12 428 (5.87%) Senior .NET Developer
13 331 (4.54%) Lead Developer
14 308 (4.22%) .NET Software Developer
15 307 (4.21%) Architect
16 265 (3.63%) .NET Software Engineer
17 252 (3.46%) Azure Developer
18 250 (3.43%) Senior Software Developer
19 227 (3.11%) Senior C# Developer
20 210 (2.88%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,388 (32.75%) ASP.NET
2 2,339 (32.08%) .NET Core
3 1,988 (27.27%) AngularJS
4 1,931 (26.48%) React
5 1,838 (25.21%) CSS
6 1,830 (25.10%) HTML
7 1,648 (22.60%) .NET Framework
8 1,227 (16.83%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1,124 (15.42%) Entity Framework
10 1,088 (14.92%) ASP.NET MVC
11 1,005 (13.78%) Vue
12 708 (9.71%) REST
13 699 (9.59%) Web Services
14 692 (9.49%) RESTful
15 639 (8.76%) HTML5
16 566 (7.76%) jQuery
17 558 (7.65%) Node.js
18 547 (7.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 493 (6.76%) Blazor
20 452 (6.20%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 436 (5.98%) Greenfield Project
2 343 (4.70%) Data Structures
3 326 (4.47%) Algorithms
4 264 (3.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 254 (3.48%) Blockchain
6 208 (2.85%) Mobile App
7 169 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
8 166 (2.28%) Product Ownership
9 146 (2.00%) Hedge funds
10 130 (1.78%) e-Learning
11 128 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 123 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
13 122 (1.67%) Cloud Native
14 110 (1.51%) Derivative
14 110 (1.51%) Equities
15 106 (1.45%) Fixed Income
16 104 (1.43%) Management Information System
17 97 (1.33%) Client/Server
18 80 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
19 69 (0.95%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 616 (8.45%) Windows
2 445 (6.10%) Linux
3 375 (5.14%) Android
4 328 (4.50%) Apple iOS
5 44 (0.60%) 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 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 (0.027%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.014%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.014%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.014%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,341 (45.82%) Agile
2 2,377 (32.60%) Full Stack Development
3 1,968 (26.99%) DevOps
4 1,888 (25.89%) MVC
5 1,852 (25.40%) Software Engineering
6 1,357 (18.61%) Microservices
7 989 (13.56%) Web Development
8 934 (12.81%) Problem-Solving
9 891 (12.22%) TDD
10 819 (11.23%) Scrum
11 744 (10.20%) CI/CD
12 709 (9.72%) OO
13 680 (9.33%) Computer Science
14 678 (9.30%) Design Patterns
15 634 (8.70%) Mentoring
16 572 (7.85%) SOLID
17 537 (7.37%) Artificial Intelligence
18 492 (6.75%) OOP
19 460 (6.31%) BDD
19 460 (6.31%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5,829 (79.95%) C#
2 3,436 (47.13%) JavaScript
3 2,644 (36.26%) SQL
4 1,099 (15.07%) TypeScript
5 843 (11.56%) Python
6 521 (7.15%) Java
7 395 (5.42%) T-SQL
8 267 (3.66%) VB.NET
9 220 (3.02%) PowerShell
10 216 (2.96%) C++
11 174 (2.39%) VB
12 145 (1.99%) C
13 77 (1.06%) PHP
14 45 (0.62%) VB6
15 44 (0.60%) Bicep
15 44 (0.60%) XAML
16 43 (0.59%) XPath
17 41 (0.56%) VBA
18 35 (0.48%) Go
19 26 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 965 (13.24%) Degree
2 526 (7.21%) Security Cleared
3 464 (6.36%) SC Cleared
4 355 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 88 (1.21%) Master's Degree
6 55 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 54 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 42 (0.58%) Azure Certification
8 42 (0.58%) DBS Check
9 38 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
10 34 (0.47%) AWS Certification
11 17 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 16 (0.22%) 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
1 388 (5.32%) QA
2 85 (1.17%) Accessibility
3 28 (0.38%) GDPR
4 26 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (0.30%) SLA
6 21 (0.29%) Data Quality
7 15 (0.21%) WAI
8 12 (0.16%) HIPAA
8 12 (0.16%) PMO
9 8 (0.11%) ISO 9001
9 8 (0.11%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.096%) ISO 13485
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%) ISO 9000
13 3 (0.041%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 582 (7.98%) Docker
2 83 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 39 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
4 27 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.19%) Firmware
6 9 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.11%) vSphere
8 7 (0.096%) VMware Server
9 5 (0.069%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.055%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.027%) NFS
12 1 (0.014%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 492 (6.75%) Kubernetes
2 215 (2.95%) Terraform
3 62 (0.85%) Ansible
4 39 (0.53%) Prometheus
5 32 (0.44%) Grafana
6 24 (0.33%) Progress Chef
7 22 (0.30%) Puppet
8 15 (0.21%) Consul
9 11 (0.15%) MIIS
10 6 (0.082%) Kibana
11 5 (0.069%) Control-M
11 5 (0.069%) Istio
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 (0.027%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 2,148 (29.46%) Microsoft
2 296 (4.06%) ESRI
3 265 (3.63%) IBM
4 254 (3.48%) Red Hat
5 169 (2.32%) Oracle
6 156 (2.14%) Google
7 101 (1.39%) Xamarin
8 97 (1.33%) Facebook
9 85 (1.17%) Sitecore
10 49 (0.67%) Salesforce
11 47 (0.64%) Apple
12 46 (0.63%) SAP
13 39 (0.53%) Optimizely
14 36 (0.49%) Sony
14 36 (0.49%) Yahoo!
15 32 (0.44%) Sparx
16 31 (0.43%) DevExpress
16 31 (0.43%) VMware
17 29 (0.40%) Dynatrace
18 28 (0.38%) Splunk