.NET Developer Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 June 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 358 92
Rank change year-on-year +148 -266 +85
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 914 363 2,821
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.96% 0.79% 2.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 0.88% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 872 335 2,637
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 89,842 41,384 100,134
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 89.50% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 61,632 23,849 72,187
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.00% - -6.54%

.NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

.NET Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

.NET Developer
Salary Trend

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

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

.NET Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Developer over the 6 months to 28 June 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Developer in the UK

.NET Developer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 June 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
England +137 857 £55,000 -8.33% 192
UK excluding London +162 787 £55,000 - 150
Work from Home +146 546 £55,000 -4.35% 166
North of England +71 246 £55,000 -8.33% 49
South East +106 237 £55,000 - 55
North West +47 118 £55,000 -8.33% 21
London -23 110 £80,000 - 59
East of England +59 101 £60,000 +13.21% 19
Midlands +27 91 £55,000 +10.00% 14
South West -14 73 £52,500 +5.00% 9
Yorkshire +17 67 £55,000 -8.33% 11
North East +5 61 £55,000 -45.00% 17
West Midlands +8 51 £55,000 +2.33% 9
East Midlands +13 40 £52,500 +16.67% 5
Scotland +33 27 £55,000 +69.23% 3
Wales -29 12 £50,000 - 3

.NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 June 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 featuring .NET Developer in the job title.

1 914 (100.00%) .NET
2 706 (77.24%) C#
3 545 (59.63%) Full-Stack Development
4 542 (59.30%) Azure
5 491 (53.72%) .NET Core
6 485 (53.06%) SQL
7 458 (50.11%) ASP.NET
8 440 (48.14%) Microsoft
9 425 (46.50%) ASP.NET Core
10 390 (42.67%) Azure SQL Database
11 372 (40.70%) Agile
12 352 (38.51%) MongoDB
13 206 (22.54%) CI/CD
14 200 (21.88%) JavaScript
15 199 (21.77%) DevOps
16 195 (21.33%) React
17 189 (20.68%) CSS
18 188 (20.57%) HTML
19 187 (20.46%) Blazor
20 178 (19.47%) AI
21 176 (19.26%) Microservices
22 174 (19.04%) Azure DevOps
23 173 (18.93%) Entity Framework
23 173 (18.93%) Vue
24 172 (18.82%) RESTful
25 168 (18.38%) AngularJS
25 168 (18.38%) TypeScript
26 156 (17.07%) ASP.NET Web API
27 147 (16.08%) Multithreading
28 142 (15.54%) Docker

.NET Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (0.44%) NServiceBus
2 3 (0.33%) IIS
3 2 (0.22%) CMS
3 2 (0.22%) DNN
3 2 (0.22%) EPiServer
3 2 (0.22%) Immediacy CMS
3 2 (0.22%) Kentico
3 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (0.22%) Sitefinity
3 2 (0.22%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.11%) Sage 200
1 1 (0.11%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 542 (59.30%) Azure
2 174 (19.04%) Azure DevOps
3 133 (14.55%) Azure AI
3 133 (14.55%) GitHub
4 126 (13.79%) AWS
5 113 (12.36%) GitHub Copilot
6 70 (7.66%) SaaS
7 63 (6.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 27 (2.95%) Serverless
9 21 (2.30%) Azure Logic Apps
10 19 (2.08%) Azure Functions
11 18 (1.97%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (1.64%) Google Play
14 11 (1.20%) PaaS
15 8 (0.88%) Azure App Service
15 8 (0.88%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (0.88%) Entra ID
15 8 (0.88%) Power Platform
16 6 (0.66%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 53 (5.80%) Internet
2 8 (0.88%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 390 (42.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 352 (38.51%) MongoDB
3 132 (14.44%) Elasticsearch
4 92 (10.07%) SQL Server
5 14 (1.53%) MySQL
6 9 (0.98%) NonStop SQL
7 8 (0.88%) NoSQL
8 6 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.44%) Power BI
11 3 (0.33%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.33%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.33%) SQLite
12 2 (0.22%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.22%) CouchDB
13 1 (0.11%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.11%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.11%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (2.52%) Git
2 7 (0.77%) JIRA
3 5 (0.55%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.33%) MSTest
4 3 (0.33%) NUnit
4 3 (0.33%) Postman
5 1 (0.11%) GitLab
5 1 (0.11%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.11%) JetBrains Rider
5 1 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.11%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.11%) Vite
5 1 (0.11%) webpack
General
1 98 (10.72%) Finance
2 48 (5.25%) Games
3 47 (5.14%) Advertising
4 36 (3.94%) Marketing
5 29 (3.17%) Social Skills
6 24 (2.63%) Retail
7 11 (1.20%) Aerospace
8 10 (1.09%) Law
9 9 (0.98%) Music Industry
10 8 (0.88%) Automotive
10 8 (0.88%) Banking
10 8 (0.88%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.55%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (0.55%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.44%) Back Office
13 3 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.33%) Legal
13 3 (0.33%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.11%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.11%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 914 (100.00%) .NET
2 491 (53.72%) .NET Core
3 458 (50.11%) ASP.NET
4 425 (46.50%) ASP.NET Core
5 195 (21.33%) React
6 189 (20.68%) CSS
7 188 (20.57%) HTML
8 187 (20.46%) Blazor
9 173 (18.93%) Entity Framework
9 173 (18.93%) Vue
10 172 (18.82%) RESTful
11 168 (18.38%) AngularJS
12 156 (17.07%) ASP.NET Web API
13 132 (14.44%) ML.NET
14 128 (14.00%) Node.js
15 100 (10.94%) LINQ
16 90 (9.85%) .NET Framework
17 28 (3.06%) WinForms
18 27 (2.95%) REST
19 22 (2.41%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 86 (9.41%) Greenfield Project
2 48 (5.25%) Mobile App
3 39 (4.27%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (2.08%) Digital TV
5 15 (1.64%) BBC
5 15 (1.64%) iPhone
5 15 (1.64%) Social Media
5 15 (1.64%) Social Network
6 11 (1.20%) Hedge funds
7 9 (0.98%) Cloud Native
7 9 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (0.98%) Legacy Code
8 8 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (0.88%) PropTech
8 8 (0.88%) Sports Betting
9 6 (0.66%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.44%) Tandem
11 3 (0.33%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.33%) IoT
12 2 (0.22%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.08%) Android
2 11 (1.20%) Windows
3 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 545 (59.63%) Full-Stack Development
2 372 (40.70%) Agile
3 206 (22.54%) CI/CD
4 199 (21.77%) DevOps
5 178 (19.47%) AI
6 176 (19.26%) Microservices
7 147 (16.08%) Multithreading
8 138 (15.10%) Machine Learning
9 110 (12.04%) Software Engineering
10 82 (8.97%) OO
11 81 (8.86%) Scrum
12 78 (8.53%) TDD
13 58 (6.35%) Kanban
14 57 (6.24%) BDD
15 55 (6.02%) SDLC
16 52 (5.69%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
17 48 (5.25%) Problem-Solving
18 45 (4.92%) Analytics
18 45 (4.92%) Continuous Improvement
19 33 (3.61%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 706 (77.24%) C#
2 485 (53.06%) SQL
3 200 (21.88%) JavaScript
4 168 (18.38%) TypeScript
5 15 (1.64%) Python
5 15 (1.64%) VB
5 15 (1.64%) VB.NET
6 14 (1.53%) T-SQL
7 4 (0.44%) Kotlin
7 4 (0.44%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.33%) Bicep
8 3 (0.33%) C++
9 2 (0.22%) Java
10 1 (0.11%) ABAP
10 1 (0.11%) Delphi
10 1 (0.11%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (4.05%) SC Cleared
1 37 (4.05%) Security Cleared
2 28 (3.06%) Degree
3 15 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (0.55%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.22%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.11%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (1.53%) QA
2 5 (0.55%) GDPR
3 3 (0.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 142 (15.54%) Docker
2 3 (0.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 127 (13.89%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.66%) Terraform
Vendors
1 440 (48.14%) Microsoft
2 52 (5.69%) Facebook
3 42 (4.60%) Google
4 18 (1.97%) YouTube
5 15 (1.64%) Apple
5 15 (1.64%) Sony
5 15 (1.64%) Yahoo!
6 13 (1.42%) Xamarin
7 8 (0.88%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.55%) Oracle
9 4 (0.44%) Sage
10 3 (0.33%) SAP
11 2 (0.22%) Alterian
11 2 (0.22%) IBM
11 2 (0.22%) iManage
11 2 (0.22%) OneLogin
11 2 (0.22%) Optimizely
11 2 (0.22%) Sitecore
12 1 (0.11%) Databricks
12 1 (0.11%) Veracode