Job posts for this role ask most for C# and .NET, with SQL and SQL Server for the data, ASP.NET Core for newer services and ASP.NET MVC on older ones, and Angular or React for the screens. The full story of what each skill is used for is on the skills page.

Among product companies, .NET is hired almost entirely by B2B companies. The hiring hotspots are the companies whose software runs one kind of business from end to end.

Fintech is one of the largest hiring hotspots. SimCorp builds asset management and fund administration software for asset managers, with Angular and Azure in front of a large .NET core. S&P Global, Moody's, LSEG and Morningstar build financial data, ratings and research, the ratings, research and market data of finance. These are mostly senior jobs (who they hire). Insurtech is one of the most .NET-heavy industries in the market. Vertafore, Applied Systems and Zywave build insurance agency and broker software, the software that brokers work in, and Insurity and Duck Creek build core insurance software (policy, billing and claims) (who they hire). Bajaj Finserv builds its lending apps for digital lending and BNPL in .NET, and it is one of the most junior-friendly .NET employers in the market. Hive Financial Systems and Solifi build software for SME and business lending, and Experian and Equifax hire .NET engineers too.

Enterprise SaaS and software hires as many .NET engineers as finance does. Alegeus and Alight build benefits administration software, and isolved, PrismHR and UKG build payroll, mostly on Azure. Docusign builds its e-signature product, part of document processing, management and e-signature software, in .NET. Infor and Deltek build ERP and business accounting software that companies run on. TeamViewer, Kaseya and Ivanti build IT service management (ITSM) and IT operations software. BlackLine and Trintech build financial close, FP&A and tax software. Five9 and NiCE build contact centre software (CCaaS). Seismic builds sales software in .NET and takes juniors more readily than most.

Industrial tech and mobility runs on .NET wherever an industry needs its own business software. ServiceChannel, RealPage and MRI Software build property and facilities management software, and .NET is most of what they hire for. Solera, CDK Global, ACV Auctions and Copart build dealer, auction and repair software, part of car dealer software and used-car marketplaces, with SQL Server and React. Lytx builds software for fleet management and telematics and is open to juniors. In energy and climate tech, GE Vernova builds software for renewable energy and battery storage, and Energy Exemplar and Enverus build energy market analytics and trading software. Trimble and Bentley build construction software, and Johnson Controls and Rockwell Automation build the software for buildings and factories.

Traditional industries going digital, in schools, courts, government and farms, hires .NET more heavily than any other part of the product world. Wolters Kluwer and LexisNexis build legal research and legal AI, and Icertis builds contract lifecycle management (CLM) software. Tyler Technologies, OpenGov and Granicus build software for governments in Govtech and nonprofits, and Momentive builds nonprofit and association management software. Pearson, StarRez and PowerSchool build education software in .NET too.

In healthtech and life sciences, Netsmart, Provation, Altera Digital Health and Veradigm build electronic health record (EHR) software that clinics and hospitals work in. HealthEdge and Gainwell build claims software, part of health payer platforms and prior authorisation, and symplr builds hospital operations software. A few more pockets are worth knowing. PDI Technologies and Diebold Nixdorf build retail checkout and store systems, and Thomson Reuters, one of the news and professional information providers, builds in .NET.

In the services world, .NET engineers build and maintain business applications for clients, full-stack with Angular or React. Accenture is the largest single employer of .NET engineers in India, though .NET is a smaller part of its hiring than at most services firms (who they hire). The IT services giants, like Infosys, IBM, Capgemini and TCS, hire many as well.

The quiet foreign majors, like Tieto, CGI, NTT DATA and NEC Software Solutions, hire .NET more heavily than any other big services firms, with SQL Server and Azure for clients in Europe. The consulting firms' engineering arms, like Deloitte, Crowe, BCG and PwC India, hire it just as heavily and build Azure-first (who they hire). The services firms that feel like product companies, like EPAM and Endava, and the mid-sized IT services firms, like Happiest Minds, UST and Infinite Computer Solutions, hire .NET engineers too. Across services, junior .NET openings are rare. More on all of them is in the services world's .NET hiring.

Among the GCCs, .NET follows the parents whose own systems were built on Microsoft. These centres build and run the parent's business applications.

The healthcare companies are the main GCC hiring hotspot. Inside pharma, medical and healthcare companies, Eurofins, Optum and HCA Healthcare hire .NET engineers at the centres that build the parent's apps and platforms (who they hire). Inside the insurers, FM Global, Assurant, Chubb and MetLife hire .NET heavily too, and the centres that run the insurer's wider engineering are more open to juniors than most GCCs. Inside the logistics operators and distributors, UPS hires the most, along with Maersk and Ingram Micro. Inside the energy and oil majors, bp, ExxonMobil, Chevron and SLB are small but hire .NET heavily.

The banks hire the most .NET engineers of any GCC group, though .NET is a smaller part of their hiring than at these others. Inside the banks and financial institutions, Commonwealth Bank, JPMorganChase and Societe Generale hire them for new platforms, and Wells Fargo and NatWest Group for the bank's wider engineering (who they hire). More on .NET across the GCCs is in the GCCs' .NET hiring.

In big tech, .NET is Microsoft's own stack, and Microsoft hires .NET engineers more readily than most employers do. It is also more open to juniors than most (who they hire). Amazon hires very few, and Google none.

The staffing companies, like BairesDev, TekWissen, Andor Tech and Golden Opportunities, place .NET engineers with clients, mostly on ASP.NET Core, and rarely take juniors. The hiring platforms, like Uplers, hackajob and Weekday AI, offer some remote .NET work.

.NET engineers are rarely hired by the chip makers, the companies that build networks, security and data platforms, or the consumer internet companies, which build in Java, Go and Node. The GCCs of the retailers hire few .NET engineers as well.