.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 £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 February 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 462 469
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Software Developer 76 72 184
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.23% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.25% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 74 66 175
10th Percentile £45,000 - £36,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -5.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £74,375 £53,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £58,750 £71,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -16.67% +9.09%

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 44,944 28,922 48,210
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.34% 91.34% 94.94%
Number of salaries quoted 28,221 14,360 37,272
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 22 February 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 22 February 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
South East +22 33 £112,500 +87.50% 1
North of England -10 17 £65,000 +30.00% 10
South West - 14 £50,000 - 5
North West -4 9 £45,000 -10.00% 5
Yorkshire - 8 £65,000 - 5
East of England +6 6 £55,000 +3.77% 1
Wales - 5 £45,000 -
Midlands +3 1 £50,000 -13.04%
East Midlands - 1 £50,000 -
.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 22 February 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 76 (100.00%) .NET
2 36 (47.37%) C#
3 34 (44.74%) Software Engineering
4 32 (42.11%) Agile
4 32 (42.11%) SaaS
5 30 (39.47%) Azure
6 26 (34.21%) AWS
6 26 (34.21%) JavaScript
7 19 (25.00%) TypeScript
8 17 (22.37%) AI
8 17 (22.37%) Business Strategy
8 17 (22.37%) Full-Stack Development
8 17 (22.37%) GCP
8 17 (22.37%) Roadmaps
9 15 (19.74%) .NET Framework
10 12 (15.79%) .NET Core
10 12 (15.79%) SQL Server
11 11 (14.47%) Microsoft
12 10 (13.16%) SQL
13 9 (11.84%) CSS
13 9 (11.84%) HTML
14 8 (10.53%) SDLC
15 7 (9.21%) ASP.NET
15 7 (9.21%) CI/CD
15 7 (9.21%) Migration
16 6 (7.89%) Blazor
16 6 (7.89%) RabbitMQ
17 5 (6.58%) Continuous Improvement
17 5 (6.58%) DevOps
17 5 (6.58%) Docker

.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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.32%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 32 (42.11%) SaaS
2 30 (39.47%) Azure
3 26 (34.21%) AWS
4 17 (22.37%) GCP
5 4 (5.26%) Serverless
6 3 (3.95%) Azure App Service
6 3 (3.95%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.95%) GitHub
7 1 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.32%) Firebase
7 1 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.32%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.95%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.63%) MySQL
3 1 (1.32%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.32%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Visual Studio
2 3 (3.95%) Git
3 1 (1.32%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.32%) Postman
3 1 (1.32%) SpecFlow
General
1 20 (26.32%) Finance
2 7 (9.21%) Manufacturing
3 4 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (2.63%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (100.00%) .NET
2 15 (19.74%) .NET Framework
3 12 (15.79%) .NET Core
4 9 (11.84%) CSS
4 9 (11.84%) HTML
5 7 (9.21%) ASP.NET
6 6 (7.89%) Blazor
6 6 (7.89%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (6.58%) Vue
8 4 (5.26%) Autofac
8 4 (5.26%) Entity Framework
9 3 (3.95%) AngularJS
9 3 (3.95%) KnockoutJS
9 3 (3.95%) React
10 2 (2.63%) RESTful
11 1 (1.32%) JSON
11 1 (1.32%) WCF
11 1 (1.32%) Web Services
11 1 (1.32%) WSDL
11 1 (1.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.95%) Cloud Native
1 3 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (44.74%) Software Engineering
2 32 (42.11%) Agile
3 17 (22.37%) AI
3 17 (22.37%) Business Strategy
3 17 (22.37%) Full-Stack Development
3 17 (22.37%) Roadmaps
4 8 (10.53%) SDLC
5 7 (9.21%) CI/CD
5 7 (9.21%) Migration
6 5 (6.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (6.58%) DevOps
6 5 (6.58%) Microservices
6 5 (6.58%) MVC
6 5 (6.58%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (6.58%) TDD
7 4 (5.26%) B2B
7 4 (5.26%) Dependency Injection
7 4 (5.26%) RAD
8 3 (3.95%) MVVM
8 3 (3.95%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 36 (47.37%) C#
2 26 (34.21%) JavaScript
3 19 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 10 (13.16%) SQL
5 2 (2.63%) VB.NET
System Software
1 5 (6.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (14.47%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.32%) Xamarin