Senior .NET Developer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Senior .NET Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior .NET Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 October 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 500 351
Rank change year-on-year -73 -149 +52
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior .NET Developer 107 38 287
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.11% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.12% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 99 34 189
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,625 £48,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +2.08% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,188 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £82,275 £75,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.17% -3.08% -7.14%

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 80,470 31,061 49,429
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.85% 89.52% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 55,562 17,295 27,523
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,125 £39,390
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,566 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.11% -6.87% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,589 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.50% -0.91% -8.33%

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

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 UK excluding London.

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

Senior .NET Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Senior .NET Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior .NET Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

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

Senior .NET 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 Senior .NET Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 October 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 -33 49 £70,000 +16.67% 14
South East -18 32 £65,000 -3.70% 13
North East - 27 £75,000 -
North West -22 20 £60,000 -2.04% 7
Scotland - 8 £60,000 -
South West -72 6 £80,000 +6.67%
Midlands -59 5 £65,000 +4.00% 12
East Midlands -27 4 £61,250 +17.79% 5
Wales -63 4 £55,000 +32.53% 3
East of England - 4 £57,500 - 4
Yorkshire -36 2 £60,000 - 7
West Midlands -41 1 £65,000 +3.17% 7
Senior .NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 October 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior .NET Developer in the job title.

1 107 (100.00%) .NET
2 52 (48.60%) C#
3 23 (21.50%) Azure
4 21 (19.63%) SC Cleared
4 21 (19.63%) Security Cleared
5 20 (18.69%) .NET Core
5 20 (18.69%) React
5 20 (18.69%) SQL Server
6 18 (16.82%) JavaScript
6 18 (16.82%) Software Engineering
7 17 (15.89%) Agile
7 17 (15.89%) ASP.NET
7 17 (15.89%) CI/CD
8 16 (14.95%) .NET Framework
9 15 (14.02%) ASP.NET Core
9 15 (14.02%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (12.15%) REST
10 13 (12.15%) SQL
11 12 (11.21%) AI
11 12 (11.21%) Entity Framework
12 11 (10.28%) Fintech
12 11 (10.28%) Test Automation
13 10 (9.35%) Git
13 10 (9.35%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (9.35%) TDD
13 10 (9.35%) TypeScript
14 9 (8.41%) CSS
14 9 (8.41%) Docker
14 9 (8.41%) GitHub
14 9 (8.41%) HTML

Senior .NET 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 2 (1.87%) CMS
1 2 (1.87%) Umbraco
2 1 (0.93%) Kentico
2 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 23 (21.50%) Azure
2 9 (8.41%) GitHub
3 7 (6.54%) GitHub Copilot
4 6 (5.61%) Serverless
5 5 (4.67%) AWS
5 5 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (4.67%) SaaS
6 3 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.87%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.87%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.87%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.93%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (0.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.93%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.93%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.93%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.93%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.80%) Internet
2 1 (0.93%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (18.69%) SQL Server
2 8 (7.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (5.61%) MySQL
4 4 (3.74%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.74%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.80%) SQLite
6 2 (1.87%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (9.35%) Git
2 2 (1.87%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.87%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.93%) GitLab
3 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.93%) JetBrains Rider
General
1 25 (23.36%) Finance
2 7 (6.54%) Billing
3 4 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (3.74%) Back Office
3 4 (3.74%) Law
4 3 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (2.80%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.87%) Social Skills
6 1 (0.93%) iGaming
6 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (100.00%) .NET
2 20 (18.69%) .NET Core
2 20 (18.69%) React
3 17 (15.89%) ASP.NET
4 16 (14.95%) .NET Framework
5 15 (14.02%) ASP.NET Core
6 13 (12.15%) REST
7 12 (11.21%) Entity Framework
8 9 (8.41%) CSS
8 9 (8.41%) HTML
9 7 (6.54%) AngularJS
10 5 (4.67%) RESTful
10 5 (4.67%) WinForms
11 4 (3.74%) jQuery
11 4 (3.74%) Swagger
11 4 (3.74%) Vue
11 4 (3.74%) Web Services
12 2 (1.87%) ASP.NET Web API
12 2 (1.87%) Blazor
13 1 (0.93%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.61%) Mobile App
2 4 (3.74%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.87%) Hedge funds
3 2 (1.87%) Legacy Code
4 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.93%) IoT
4 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.93%) N-Tier
4 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.93%) Robotics
4 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.74%) Android
1 4 (3.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (16.82%) Software Engineering
2 17 (15.89%) Agile
2 17 (15.89%) CI/CD
3 15 (14.02%) Full-Stack Development
4 12 (11.21%) AI
5 11 (10.28%) Fintech
5 11 (10.28%) Test Automation
6 10 (9.35%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (9.35%) TDD
7 7 (6.54%) DevOps
7 7 (6.54%) Microservices
7 7 (6.54%) Scrum
8 6 (5.61%) API Integration
8 6 (5.61%) Clean Code
8 6 (5.61%) Collaborative Engineering
9 5 (4.67%) Code Quality
9 5 (4.67%) Decision-Making
9 5 (4.67%) OOP
9 5 (4.67%) Product Roadmap
9 5 (4.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 52 (48.60%) C#
2 18 (16.82%) JavaScript
3 13 (12.15%) SQL
4 10 (9.35%) TypeScript
5 5 (4.67%) Python
6 4 (3.74%) VB.NET
7 2 (1.87%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.93%) C++
8 1 (0.93%) Java
8 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.93%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (19.63%) SC Cleared
1 21 (19.63%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.80%) Degree
2 3 (2.80%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.87%) QA
System Software
1 9 (8.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (6.54%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (3.74%) Microsoft
1 4 (3.74%) Xamarin
2 1 (0.93%) Blue Prism
2 1 (0.93%) Infor
2 1 (0.93%) Veracode