.NET Software Developer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

.NET Software Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median .NET Software Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 570 499 431
Rank change year-on-year -71 -68 +45
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Software Developer 100 40 220
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.12% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.13% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 96 39 219
10th Percentile £38,750 £43,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £55,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £112,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -55.56% +125.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £143,750 £64,375
90th Percentile £70,000 - £70,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £112,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -53.33% +125.00% -16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 78,906 30,717 52,808
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.39% 89.30% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 54,746 17,484 30,834
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,620
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,589 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.53% - -8.33%

.NET Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring '.NET Software Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

.NET Software Developer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

.NET Software Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for .NET Software Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for .NET Software Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

.NET Software Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Software Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 September 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Software Developer in the UK excluding London

.NET Software Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Software Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
North of England -31 42 £50,000 -16.67% 3
South East -29 35 £55,000 -60.00% 3
North West +4 19 £60,000 +50.00% 3
Yorkshire -34 15 £50,000 -16.67%
Midlands -37 9 £52,500 +5.53% 3
North East -63 8 £85,000 -26.09%
South West -83 8 £42,500 -28.57%
East Midlands -38 5 £50,000 -3.85% 2
East of England - 5 £47,500 - 2
West Midlands -41 4 £55,000 +15.79% 1
Wales -69 1 £55,000 +32.53% 2
.NET Software Developer
UK

.NET Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 September 2026, .NET Software 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 UK excluding London region featuring .NET Software Developer in the job title.

1 100 (100.00%) .NET
2 77 (77.00%) C#
3 54 (54.00%) Software Engineering
4 41 (41.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 36 (36.00%) SDLC
6 35 (35.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 35 (35.00%) CSS
6 35 (35.00%) HTML
7 34 (34.00%) SQL Server
8 33 (33.00%) SQL
9 31 (31.00%) Azure
10 28 (28.00%) AWS
10 28 (28.00%) Vue
11 24 (24.00%) .NET Core
12 21 (21.00%) CI/CD
12 21 (21.00%) SaaS
13 20 (20.00%) CQRS
13 20 (20.00%) Microservices
13 20 (20.00%) Product Vision
13 20 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
14 19 (19.00%) JavaScript
15 17 (17.00%) Agile
15 17 (17.00%) Degree
15 17 (17.00%) Git
15 17 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
16 16 (16.00%) Microsoft
17 15 (15.00%) ASP.NET
17 15 (15.00%) DevOps
18 14 (14.00%) Clean Code
18 14 (14.00%) Computer Science

.NET Software Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 31 (31.00%) Azure
2 28 (28.00%) AWS
3 21 (21.00%) SaaS
4 7 (7.00%) GitHub
5 6 (6.00%) Azure Functions
5 6 (6.00%) Serverless
6 5 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.00%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.00%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.00%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.00%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (34.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (12.00%) Relational Database
3 9 (9.00%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.00%) MySQL
5 2 (2.00%) SQLite
6 1 (1.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (17.00%) Git
General
1 19 (19.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.00%) Finance
3 8 (8.00%) Automotive
4 7 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.00%) Law
6 3 (3.00%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.00%) Advertising
7 1 (1.00%) Legal
7 1 (1.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (100.00%) .NET
2 35 (35.00%) CSS
2 35 (35.00%) HTML
3 28 (28.00%) Vue
4 24 (24.00%) .NET Core
5 15 (15.00%) ASP.NET
6 13 (13.00%) .NET Framework
7 10 (10.00%) Entity Framework
7 10 (10.00%) RESTful
8 8 (8.00%) AngularJS
8 8 (8.00%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (8.00%) React
9 4 (4.00%) ASP.NET MVC
9 4 (4.00%) ASP.NET Web API
9 4 (4.00%) CSS3
9 4 (4.00%) HTML5
10 3 (3.00%) REST
10 3 (3.00%) WinForms
11 2 (2.00%) HTML5 Canvas
11 2 (2.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.00%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.00%) Low-Code
3 2 (2.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.00%) Robotics
3 2 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.00%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.00%) IoT
4 1 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.00%) Windows
2 1 (1.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (54.00%) Software Engineering
2 41 (41.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 36 (36.00%) SDLC
4 35 (35.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (21.00%) CI/CD
6 20 (20.00%) CQRS
6 20 (20.00%) Microservices
6 20 (20.00%) Product Vision
6 20 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
7 17 (17.00%) Agile
7 17 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (15.00%) DevOps
9 14 (14.00%) Clean Code
9 14 (14.00%) Computer Science
10 13 (13.00%) AI
11 9 (9.00%) API Integration
12 8 (8.00%) OOP
12 8 (8.00%) Roadmaps
12 8 (8.00%) Scrum
13 7 (7.00%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 77 (77.00%) C#
2 33 (33.00%) SQL
3 19 (19.00%) JavaScript
4 7 (7.00%) Python
5 3 (3.00%) VB.NET
6 2 (2.00%) C
6 2 (2.00%) Dart
6 2 (2.00%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.00%) R
7 1 (1.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (17.00%) Degree
2 9 (9.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.00%) GDPR
2 4 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 10 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.00%) Sage
3 5 (5.00%) Oracle
4 3 (3.00%) DevExpress
5 2 (2.00%) Telerik