Senior .NET Developer Job Trends in the South East

Senior .NET Developer
England > South East

The median Senior .NET Developer salary in the South East is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 August 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 277 240
Rank change year-on-year -19 -37 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior .NET Developer 25 9 100
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.15% 0.10% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.12% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 19 9 88
10th Percentile - £53,500 £52,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £58,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,000 - £82,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -7.14%

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 15,777 7,757 13,519
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.49% 89.54% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 11,162 4,351 9,303
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £38,000
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 £87,200 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

Senior .NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Senior .NET Developer job vacancy trend in the South East

Senior .NET Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

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

Senior .NET Developer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior .NET Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 1 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior .NET Developer in the South East

Senior .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 Senior .NET Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 August 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 +15 16 £60,000 -20.00%
Berkshire - 10 £60,000 -
Oxfordshire -18 6 £65,000 -3.70%
Hampshire -36 5 £61,250 +11.36% 2
Surrey - 3 £90,000 -
East Sussex - 1 £65,000 -
Senior .NET Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 August 2026, Senior .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 Senior .NET Developer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) .NET
2 14 (56.00%) SC Cleared
2 14 (56.00%) Security Cleared
3 8 (32.00%) C#
4 6 (24.00%) SQL Server
5 4 (16.00%) Agile
5 4 (16.00%) ASP.NET
5 4 (16.00%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (12.00%) .NET Framework
6 3 (12.00%) DevOps
6 3 (12.00%) Entity Framework
6 3 (12.00%) Git
6 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (8.00%) AI
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (8.00%) AWS
7 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (8.00%) Code Quality
7 2 (8.00%) Containerisation
7 2 (8.00%) Docker
7 2 (8.00%) Event-Driven
7 2 (8.00%) Fintech
7 2 (8.00%) Mentoring
7 2 (8.00%) OOP
7 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
7 2 (8.00%) Reverse Engineering
7 2 (8.00%) Scrum

Senior .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 1 (4.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (8.00%) AWS
1 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (8.00%) Serverless
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (4.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (4.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (4.00%) Azure
2 1 (4.00%) GitHub
2 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (4.00%) SaaS
2 1 (4.00%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.00%) MySQL
3 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) GitLab
2 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) JetBrains Rider
2 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (24.00%) Finance
2 2 (8.00%) Billing
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.00%) Law
3 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (16.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (16.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (12.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (12.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (4.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (4.00%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (4.00%) CSS
4 1 (4.00%) HTML
4 1 (4.00%) JWT
4 1 (4.00%) MediatR
4 1 (4.00%) Middleware
4 1 (4.00%) OAuth
4 1 (4.00%) OpenAPI
4 1 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.00%) React
4 1 (4.00%) REST
4 1 (4.00%) RESTful
4 1 (4.00%) SOAP
4 1 (4.00%) XHR
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (8.00%) Legacy Code
1 2 (8.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (16.00%) Agile
2 3 (12.00%) DevOps
2 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (8.00%) AI
3 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (8.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (8.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (8.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (8.00%) Fintech
3 2 (8.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (8.00%) OOP
3 2 (8.00%) Reverse Engineering
3 2 (8.00%) Scrum
4 1 (4.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (4.00%) Intelligent Automation
4 1 (4.00%) LLM
4 1 (4.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (4.00%) Secrets Management
4 1 (4.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (4.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) C#
2 1 (4.00%) C++
2 1 (4.00%) Java
2 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.00%) SQL
2 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (56.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (56.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (4.00%) Infor
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.00%) Veracode
1 1 (4.00%) Xamarin