.NET Developer Job Trends in the South East

.NET Developer
England > South East

The median .NET Developer salary in the South East is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 230 78
Rank change year-on-year +133 -152 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 270 58 500
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.71% 0.68% 3.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.79% 0.76% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 258 55 473
10th Percentile £42,125 £45,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £74,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 15,119 7,648 15,415
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.56% 89.08% 94.15%
Number of salaries quoted 10,714 4,253 10,986
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -10.00%

.NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring '.NET Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

.NET Developer job vacancy trend in the South East

.NET Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in the South East

.NET Developer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Developer in the South East

.NET Developer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 July 2026. 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
Thames Valley +66 74 £55,000 -12.00% 3
Surrey +33 68 £55,000 -8.33%
Hampshire -8 47 £58,750 +11.90% 3
Kent - 43 £52,500 - 7
Oxfordshire +12 28 £55,000 -8.33% 2
Berkshire +44 27 £60,000 -20.00% 1
West Sussex - 21 £60,000 - 1
Buckinghamshire +5 19 £51,500 -19.22%
East Sussex -12 12 £51,250 +2.50%
Isle of Wight - 5 £50,000 - 2
.NET Developer
England

.NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 18 July 2026, .NET Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring .NET Developer in the job title.

1 270 (100.00%) .NET
2 230 (85.19%) C#
3 191 (70.74%) Azure
4 184 (68.15%) Full-Stack Development
5 179 (66.30%) ASP.NET
6 176 (65.19%) SQL
7 171 (63.33%) Microsoft
8 157 (58.15%) .NET Core
8 157 (58.15%) ASP.NET Core
9 140 (51.85%) Azure SQL Database
10 136 (50.37%) Agile
10 136 (50.37%) MongoDB
11 80 (29.63%) Microservices
12 71 (26.30%) CSS
12 71 (26.30%) HTML
13 68 (25.19%) JavaScript
13 68 (25.19%) Vue
14 67 (24.81%) AI
14 67 (24.81%) Blazor
15 63 (23.33%) Elasticsearch
15 63 (23.33%) React
16 62 (22.96%) CI/CD
16 62 (22.96%) Entity Framework
17 61 (22.59%) DevOps
18 60 (22.22%) TypeScript
19 58 (21.48%) AngularJS
19 58 (21.48%) Docker
19 58 (21.48%) Node.js
20 57 (21.11%) ASP.NET Web API
21 55 (20.37%) Azure DevOps

.NET Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.11%) IIS
2 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 191 (70.74%) Azure
2 55 (20.37%) Azure DevOps
2 55 (20.37%) GitHub
3 54 (20.00%) AWS
4 49 (18.15%) GitHub Copilot
5 46 (17.04%) Azure AI
6 20 (7.41%) SaaS
7 16 (5.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 10 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (2.96%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (2.59%) Serverless
11 5 (1.85%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (1.85%) Azure Functions
11 5 (1.85%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.48%) Google Play
13 2 (0.74%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (0.74%) Amazon S3
13 2 (0.74%) Amazon SQS
13 2 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.89%) Internet
2 4 (1.48%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.37%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (51.85%) Azure SQL Database
2 136 (50.37%) MongoDB
3 63 (23.33%) Elasticsearch
4 40 (14.81%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.85%) MySQL
5 5 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.74%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.37%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.37%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (5.93%) Git
2 4 (1.48%) JIRA
3 2 (0.74%) Postman
3 2 (0.74%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.37%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.37%) GitLab
4 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.37%) JetBrains Rider
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (8.52%) Finance
2 22 (8.15%) Advertising
3 21 (7.78%) Games
4 17 (6.30%) Social Skills
5 14 (5.19%) Retail
6 11 (4.07%) Marketing
7 8 (2.96%) Automotive
8 5 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.85%) Music Industry
9 1 (0.37%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.37%) Local Government
9 1 (0.37%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 270 (100.00%) .NET
2 179 (66.30%) ASP.NET
3 157 (58.15%) .NET Core
3 157 (58.15%) ASP.NET Core
4 71 (26.30%) CSS
4 71 (26.30%) HTML
5 68 (25.19%) Vue
6 67 (24.81%) Blazor
7 63 (23.33%) React
8 62 (22.96%) Entity Framework
9 58 (21.48%) AngularJS
9 58 (21.48%) Node.js
10 57 (21.11%) ASP.NET Web API
11 46 (17.04%) ML.NET
12 41 (15.19%) RESTful
13 36 (13.33%) .NET Framework
14 30 (11.11%) LINQ
15 16 (5.93%) WinForms
16 11 (4.07%) ASP.NET MVC
17 10 (3.70%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 39 (14.44%) Greenfield Project
2 19 (7.04%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (4.07%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.22%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.85%) Digital TV
5 5 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.48%) iPhone
6 4 (1.48%) Social Network
7 2 (0.74%) IoT
7 2 (0.74%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.37%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.85%) Android
2 2 (0.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (68.15%) Full-Stack Development
2 136 (50.37%) Agile
3 80 (29.63%) Microservices
4 67 (24.81%) AI
5 62 (22.96%) CI/CD
6 61 (22.59%) DevOps
7 46 (17.04%) Machine Learning
8 45 (16.67%) TDD
9 44 (16.30%) Multithreading
10 40 (14.81%) Scrum
11 38 (14.07%) BDD
12 36 (13.33%) Kanban
13 34 (12.59%) Software Engineering
14 25 (9.26%) MVC
15 23 (8.52%) SDLC
16 22 (8.15%) OO
17 19 (7.04%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
17 19 (7.04%) Web Development
18 17 (6.30%) Continuous Improvement
18 17 (6.30%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 230 (85.19%) C#
2 176 (65.19%) SQL
3 68 (25.19%) JavaScript
4 60 (22.22%) TypeScript
5 6 (2.22%) VB.NET
6 5 (1.85%) Python
7 4 (1.48%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.11%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.11%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.37%) C++
9 1 (0.37%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (4.81%) SC Cleared
1 13 (4.81%) Security Cleared
2 5 (1.85%) Azure Certification
2 5 (1.85%) Degree
2 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.96%) QA
2 5 (1.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 58 (21.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 49 (18.15%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 171 (63.33%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.93%) Facebook
3 15 (5.56%) Google
4 12 (4.44%) YouTube
5 6 (2.22%) Oracle
6 5 (1.85%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.74%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.37%) Infor
8 1 (0.37%) Veracode