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

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 27 24
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 -8
Permanent jobs citing .NET 7,276 8,140 15,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.39% 7.87% 9.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 34.59% 26.13% 23.87%
Number of salaries quoted 5,996 6,323 9,449
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 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +14.29%
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 21,033 31,146 63,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.35% 30.11% 40.40%
Number of salaries quoted 15,718 19,186 30,317
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,898 £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 £79,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £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 5 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 5 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 6,448 £60,000 -4.00% 1,331
UK excluding London +2 5,472 £55,000 - 994
Work from Home +2 3,442 £57,500 -4.17% 902
London 0 1,483 £77,500 - 430
North of England +16 1,471 £55,000 - 309
South East +3 1,442 £60,000 - 176
Midlands +36 956 £50,000 -9.09% 212
North West +22 831 £55,000 -4.35% 181
South West +14 622 £55,000 - 107
West Midlands +40 503 £52,500 -4.55% 122
Yorkshire +16 482 £55,000 - 97
East Midlands +16 453 £50,000 -4.76% 90
East of England +15 419 £55,000 -4.35% 65
Scotland -46 342 £60,000 - 79
North East +21 158 £60,000 +9.09% 33
Wales -5 138 £52,686 +17.08% 38
Northern Ireland -7 85 £55,000 +19.57% 20
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 (4.12%) ArcGIS
2 282 (3.88%) GeoServer
3 224 (3.08%) CMS
4 195 (2.68%) IIS
5 175 (2.41%) SharePoint
6 133 (1.83%) Umbraco
7 57 (0.78%) Kentico
8 52 (0.71%) Sitecore CMS
9 42 (0.58%) Confluence
10 40 (0.55%) Apache
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 33 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 29 (0.40%) 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%) BusinessWorks
10 3 (0.041%) Magento
10 3 (0.041%) Sage 200
11 2 (0.027%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.027%) nopCommerce
11 2 (0.027%) SAP S/4HANA
11 2 (0.027%) SystmOne
11 2 (0.027%) Teamcenter
11 2 (0.027%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 4,243 (58.32%) Azure
2 1,483 (20.38%) AWS
3 1,035 (14.22%) Azure DevOps
4 443 (6.09%) Power Platform
5 402 (5.53%) Serverless
6 310 (4.26%) SaaS
7 300 (4.12%) Dynamics 365
8 285 (3.92%) Azure Service Bus
9 270 (3.71%) Azure Functions
10 252 (3.46%) IBM Cloud
11 236 (3.24%) Azure Logic Apps
12 206 (2.83%) GCP
13 199 (2.74%) PowerApps
14 198 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
15 190 (2.61%) GitHub
16 158 (2.17%) Azure API Management
17 156 (2.14%) Power Automate
18 124 (1.70%) PaaS
19 101 (1.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 82 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 182 (2.50%) Internet
2 67 (0.92%) DNS
3 63 (0.87%) 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%) Modbus
11 13 (0.18%) Broadband
11 13 (0.18%) Ethernet
11 13 (0.18%) Mobile Broadband
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 2,426 (33.34%) SQL Server
2 689 (9.47%) PostgreSQL
3 604 (8.30%) MongoDB
4 521 (7.16%) NoSQL
5 358 (4.92%) Relational Database
6 313 (4.30%) GIS
7 282 (3.88%) QGIS
8 274 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
9 271 (3.72%) Azure SQL Database
10 252 (3.46%) DB2
11 209 (2.87%) MySQL
12 181 (2.49%) Power BI
13 132 (1.81%) Redis
14 114 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 106 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 88 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
17 51 (0.70%) DynamoDB
18 45 (0.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 44 (0.60%) MS Access
20 36 (0.49%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 675 (9.28%) Git
2 511 (7.02%) Visual Studio
3 198 (2.72%) JIRA
4 160 (2.20%) Jenkins
5 136 (1.87%) NUnit
6 127 (1.75%) TeamCity
7 105 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
8 93 (1.28%) GitLab
9 86 (1.18%) Selenium
10 73 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
11 69 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
12 68 (0.93%) Postman
13 65 (0.89%) Moq
14 59 (0.81%) Jasmine
15 49 (0.67%) SpecFlow
16 45 (0.62%) Karma Test Runner
17 39 (0.54%) SoapUI
18 36 (0.49%) Bitbucket
18 36 (0.49%) MSTest
19 33 (0.45%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,120 (15.39%) Social Skills
2 967 (13.29%) Finance
3 387 (5.32%) Public Sector
4 358 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
5 286 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 257 (3.53%) Marketing
7 226 (3.11%) Retail
8 211 (2.90%) Law
9 164 (2.25%) Games
10 142 (1.95%) Front Office
11 140 (1.92%) Banking
12 132 (1.81%) Manufacturing
13 118 (1.62%) Legal
14 103 (1.42%) Back Office
15 101 (1.39%) Advertising
16 77 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
17 74 (1.02%) Tech for Good
18 70 (0.96%) Aerospace
19 59 (0.81%) Automotive
20 58 (0.80%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 4,750 (65.28%) Developer
2 2,533 (34.81%) .NET Developer
3 1,534 (21.08%) Senior
4 1,190 (16.36%) C# Developer
5 1,090 (14.98%) Software Engineer
6 926 (12.73%) Senior Developer
7 875 (12.03%) Software Developer
8 819 (11.26%) C# .NET Developer
9 685 (9.41%) Lead
10 625 (8.59%) Full Stack Developer
11 476 (6.54%) Senior Software Engineer
12 434 (5.96%) Senior .NET Developer
13 332 (4.56%) Lead Developer
14 311 (4.27%) .NET Software Developer
15 310 (4.26%) Architect
16 266 (3.66%) .NET Software Engineer
17 252 (3.46%) Senior Software Developer
18 250 (3.44%) Azure Developer
19 227 (3.12%) Senior C# Developer
20 212 (2.91%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,384 (32.77%) ASP.NET
2 2,332 (32.05%) .NET Core
3 1,977 (27.17%) AngularJS
4 1,922 (26.42%) React
5 1,834 (25.21%) CSS
6 1,827 (25.11%) HTML
7 1,641 (22.55%) .NET Framework
8 1,210 (16.63%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1,113 (15.30%) Entity Framework
10 1,084 (14.90%) ASP.NET MVC
11 1,000 (13.74%) Vue
12 706 (9.70%) REST
13 694 (9.54%) Web Services
14 685 (9.41%) RESTful
15 631 (8.67%) HTML5
16 566 (7.78%) jQuery
17 550 (7.56%) Node.js
18 544 (7.48%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 487 (6.69%) Blazor
20 454 (6.24%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 435 (5.98%) Greenfield Project
2 343 (4.71%) Data Structures
3 326 (4.48%) Algorithms
4 264 (3.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 254 (3.49%) Blockchain
6 212 (2.91%) Mobile App
7 170 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
8 164 (2.25%) Product Ownership
9 144 (1.98%) Hedge funds
10 130 (1.79%) e-Learning
11 129 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 124 (1.70%) Cloud Native
13 123 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
14 110 (1.51%) Equities
15 109 (1.50%) Derivative
16 106 (1.46%) Fixed Income
17 105 (1.44%) Management Information System
18 97 (1.33%) Client/Server
19 80 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
20 69 (0.95%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 612 (8.41%) Windows
2 441 (6.06%) Linux
3 374 (5.14%) Android
4 329 (4.52%) 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 (0.027%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.014%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,330 (45.77%) Agile
2 2,357 (32.39%) Full Stack Development
3 1,978 (27.19%) DevOps
4 1,889 (25.96%) MVC
5 1,847 (25.38%) Software Engineering
6 1,342 (18.44%) Microservices
7 990 (13.61%) Web Development
8 931 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
9 879 (12.08%) TDD
10 813 (11.17%) Scrum
11 755 (10.38%) CI/CD
12 708 (9.73%) OO
13 682 (9.37%) Computer Science
14 679 (9.33%) Design Patterns
15 635 (8.73%) Mentoring
16 574 (7.89%) SOLID
17 541 (7.44%) Artificial Intelligence
18 492 (6.76%) OOP
19 462 (6.35%) SDLC
20 454 (6.24%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 5,810 (79.85%) C#
2 3,428 (47.11%) JavaScript
3 2,647 (36.38%) SQL
4 1,096 (15.06%) TypeScript
5 848 (11.65%) Python
6 523 (7.19%) Java
7 401 (5.51%) T-SQL
8 267 (3.67%) VB.NET
9 223 (3.06%) PowerShell
10 217 (2.98%) C++
11 174 (2.39%) VB
12 143 (1.97%) C
13 78 (1.07%) PHP
14 45 (0.62%) Bicep
14 45 (0.62%) VB6
14 45 (0.62%) XAML
15 43 (0.59%) XPath
16 42 (0.58%) VBA
17 37 (0.51%) Go
18 27 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 970 (13.33%) Degree
2 529 (7.27%) Security Cleared
3 467 (6.42%) SC Cleared
4 355 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 88 (1.21%) Master's Degree
6 61 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 55 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 42 (0.58%) Azure Certification
9 41 (0.56%) DBS Check
10 39 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
11 34 (0.47%) AWS Certification
12 17 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 16 (0.22%) HNC
14 13 (0.18%) PhD
15 11 (0.15%) DV Cleared
16 9 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
17 8 (0.11%) Chartered Engineer
17 8 (0.11%) CIPD
17 8 (0.11%) HND
17 8 (0.11%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 394 (5.42%) QA
2 89 (1.22%) Accessibility
3 28 (0.38%) GDPR
4 25 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (0.29%) Data Quality
5 21 (0.29%) SLA
6 15 (0.21%) WAI
7 12 (0.16%) HIPAA
7 12 (0.16%) PMO
8 8 (0.11%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.096%) HL7
9 7 (0.096%) ISO 13485
9 7 (0.096%) ISO 9001
10 6 (0.082%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.055%) DICOM
11 4 (0.055%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 4 (0.055%) WCAG
12 3 (0.041%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.041%) ISO 9000
12 3 (0.041%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 586 (8.05%) Docker
2 82 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 40 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
4 27 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.18%) 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
1 495 (6.80%) Kubernetes
2 218 (3.00%) Terraform
3 62 (0.85%) Ansible
4 39 (0.54%) 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%) Control-M
10 6 (0.082%) Kibana
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%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2,144 (29.47%) Microsoft
2 296 (4.07%) ESRI
3 265 (3.64%) IBM
4 254 (3.49%) Red Hat
5 170 (2.34%) Oracle
6 158 (2.17%) Google
7 101 (1.39%) Xamarin
8 96 (1.32%) Facebook
9 85 (1.17%) Sitecore
10 47 (0.65%) Apple
10 47 (0.65%) Salesforce
11 46 (0.63%) SAP
12 39 (0.54%) Optimizely
13 36 (0.49%) Sony
13 36 (0.49%) Yahoo!
14 33 (0.45%) Sparx
15 31 (0.43%) DevExpress
15 31 (0.43%) VMware
16 29 (0.40%) Dynatrace
17 28 (0.38%) Splunk