.NET engineers in the services world

A role across the services world, every Company Tier together, Accenture left out. Accenture posts more .NET than the rest of the services world put together, and its .NET is described with the rest of its hiring on its own.

The short answer

Many banks, insurers, manufacturers and public bodies run their business systems on Microsoft's stack, and the services firms that build and maintain those systems hire .NET engineers to do it. In the services world .NET is a steady middle-sized role, a little below its weight at product companies. Most of it is full-stack work, C# and ASP.NET behind Angular or React, on SQL Server and Azure. The giants, like Infosys, IBM and Capgemini, hold the largest share but hire it below their services weight, while the quiet foreign majors and the consulting arms hire it well above theirs, Tieto and Deloitte above all. What sets .NET apart in 2026 is AI. The share of .NET openings that ask for experience with language models rose every quarter and by July to September 2026 was far higher than for services roles overall, as .NET applications began to carry AI features. Openings fell through 2026 with the rest of services, as Infosys and IBM stopped posting .NET jobs, and the consulting arms became the largest employer. The door is a little narrower than the services door, with mid-level openings the clear majority.

Where the work sits

The giants hold the largest share, below their weight.

Company Tier 1, The IT services giants, posts more .NET than any other tier, mostly at Infosys and IBM, with Capgemini, TCS and Cognizant behind. But .NET is a smaller part of the giants' hiring than of services as a whole.

The quiet foreign majors and the consulting arms are where it weighs most. In Company Tier 3, The quiet foreign majors, .NET is well above its services weight. Tieto, the Nordic firm, posts .NET more than anything else, and NEC Software Solutions and CGI hire it too. In Company Tier 7, The consulting firms' engineering arms, .NET is as high, at Deloitte, C3, Crowe's IT arm, where it is most of what the firm posts, and BCG.

About their weight. The build firms, at EPAM, Endava and Caizin, the mid-sized firms, at Happiest Minds above all, the small shops, like thinkbridge and Trantor, and the BPO and KPO firms, like AML RightSource and TransPerfect, hire .NET at about the services rate.

Below it. The specialist firms, like YASH Technologies, the infrastructure firms, like Park Place Technologies and Unisys, and the engineering-services firms, like Quest Global and NeST Digital, hire .NET at below their services weight.

What the work is

Most .NET openings are full-stack, C# and ASP.NET on the server with Angular or React in the browser. The rest are backend services alone. The build firms and the consulting arms are the most full-stack, the mid-sized firms split evenly, and the engineering-services firms lean to the backend.

The postings require C#, .NET and ASP.NET Core or ASP.NET MVC, with Entity Framework for the database and SQL Server most of all. Angular is required more often than React across the record, Azure more often than AWS, and Azure DevOps for the pipeline. Testing with xUnit and NUnit and code-quality checks with SonarQube appear often. Backend postings add Kubernetes, Docker and REST Assured for testing services.

The emphasis differs by kind of firm.

The giants and the quiet foreign majors lean to Angular, Entity Framework and SQL Server, the classic enterprise stack.

The build firms and the consulting arms lean to React and Azure, and the consulting arms to GitHub Actions.

The specialist firms have more backend work than most, with Docker and Kubernetes.

Bengaluru has most of the work, but less of it than for services hiring as a whole. Pune and Delhi NCR hold a larger share of .NET than of services overall.

Enterprise application work. Beside the .NET role itself, the services world posts a sizeable number of jobs for building on a client's business systems that name no particular platform, ERP, CRM and integration work done in code rather than on SAP, Salesforce, Oracle or MuleSoft. Their skills split between Java with Spring Boot and C# with .NET, with SQL, Azure and Angular or React; the .NET part is described here, and the Java part under Java backend and full-stack engineers in the services world. Infosys, IBM, EPAM, CGI and YASH Technologies post the most, and EPAM and YASH Technologies grew this work through 2026 as IBM and Infosys stopped posting it. Work on a named platform is described under its own role, SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Oracle and Workday, low-code and automation, and integration.

What is changing

These readings follow the record quarter by quarter, from October to December 2025, the third quarter of the financial year 2025-26, to July to September 2026, the second quarter of 2026-27. A longer record will show whether they last.

.NET fell about in step with services hiring

Its openings dropped in every quarter, more gently than testing or cloud and more steeply than Java, so its share of services hiring rose into early 2026 and settled back by July to September 2026. Product companies kept .NET at a similar share.

The giants stopped and the consulting arms took over

Infosys and IBM, the two largest .NET employers in the winter of 2025, posted no .NET jobs after March 2026. Deloitte's .NET hiring grew in every quarter, so by July to September 2026 the consulting arms posted more .NET than any other tier, with the build firms second.

AI arrived in .NET

The share of .NET openings asking for experience with language models rose in every quarter, from a very small one in October to December 2025 to a large one in July to September 2026, far above the services rate. AI is most common in the consulting arms' .NET openings, with the small shops, the build firms and the specialist firms behind, and rare at the giants.

Full-stack, React and Azure grew

Full-stack .NET became the great majority of the role by July to September 2026. React and Azure were required in a larger share of openings in every quarter, while ASP.NET Core was named less often.

Persistently open roles

.NET jobs are persistently open about as often as services jobs overall. When one is posted again, its first and last postings are typically about three weeks apart, and rarely more than seven weeks.

The giants keep .NET jobs open far longer than anyone else.

IBM posted most of its .NET jobs more than once, and Infosys, Capgemini, Virtusa and Tieto post the same job again far more often than the services average. The small shops and the specialist firms rarely do.

AI .NET jobs fill quickly. .NET jobs that ask for language-model experience are posted again far less often than other .NET jobs.

Testing and quality tools are the hardest to find. The skills found most often in persistently open .NET jobs are Jest, SonarQube and xUnit, with TypeScript, ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework.

The door

The .NET door is a little narrower than the services door. Junior openings are rarer than the services rate and entry-level openings almost absent, while mid-level openings are the clear majority and senior and staff openings are at about the services share.

Juniors are spread across many firms rather than concentrated in one. The quiet foreign majors, Tieto, CGI and Sopra Steria among them, the mid-sized firms, at Happiest Minds, and the small shops, at thinkbridge, take the most.

The small shops and the BPO and KPO firms take juniors most readily in proportion. The specialist firms post no junior .NET openings, and the build firms and the giants almost none.

The build firms are the most senior, with senior and staff openings the majority there.

In one line

If you write C# and ASP.NET with Angular or React on Azure, the services world hires you steadily at the mid level, now more at the consulting arms and the foreign majors than at the giants, and more and more it wants you to build AI features into the applications you write.

Terms used on this page

.NET, C# and ASP.NET

Microsoft's platform for building software, its main language, and its framework for web applications and services.

Entity Framework

Microsoft's tool for reading and writing a database from C# code.

SQL Server

Microsoft's database.

xUnit, NUnit and SonarQube

Tools for testing .NET code and for checking code quality automatically.

Enterprise application work

Building and connecting a company's business systems in ordinary code rather than on a packaged platform.

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