.NET Developer Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 May 2026.

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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 337 100
Rank change year-on-year +73 -237 +85
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 662 368 2,647
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.71% 0.86% 2.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.96% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 621 327 2,534
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £39,729
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -

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 86,624 38,246 93,392
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.40% 89.23% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 57,551 21,495 68,448
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,750 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -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 25 May 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 25 May 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 +90 621 £57,500 -4.17% 195
UK excluding London +86 543 £55,000 +3.77% 157
Work from Home +70 291 £55,000 - 167
North of England +49 181 £55,000 -8.33% 53
South East +73 162 £55,000 +1.38% 48
London -17 101 £80,750 +0.94% 47
North West +34 96 £60,000 - 29
Midlands -4 67 £55,000 +4.76% 16
East of England +12 57 £60,000 +13.21% 24
Yorkshire -7 55 £60,000 -7.69% 12
South West -21 55 £52,500 +2.44% 9
West Midlands -13 40 £55,000 -4.35% 8
North East -17 30 £55,000 -48.84% 12
East Midlands -10 27 £52,500 +13.51% 8
Scotland -10 14 £60,000 +84.62% 4
Wales -30 7 £50,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 25 May 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.

1 662 (100.00%) .NET
2 434 (65.56%) C#
3 301 (45.47%) Full-Stack Development
4 283 (42.75%) Azure
5 245 (37.01%) .NET Core
6 238 (35.95%) SQL
7 200 (30.21%) ASP.NET
8 190 (28.70%) Microsoft
9 189 (28.55%) Agile
10 172 (25.98%) ASP.NET Core
11 149 (22.51%) Azure SQL Database
12 131 (19.79%) MongoDB
13 125 (18.88%) CI/CD
14 107 (16.16%) CSS
14 107 (16.16%) React
15 106 (16.01%) DevOps
15 106 (16.01%) HTML
16 105 (15.86%) Software Engineering
17 100 (15.11%) JavaScript
18 99 (14.95%) Microservices
19 95 (14.35%) RESTful
20 94 (14.20%) Vue
21 86 (12.99%) AngularJS
22 85 (12.84%) Blazor
22 85 (12.84%) SaaS
23 84 (12.69%) AWS
24 82 (12.39%) AI
24 82 (12.39%) Azure DevOps
25 79 (11.93%) Entity Framework
25 79 (11.93%) SQL Server

.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 3 (0.45%) NServiceBus
2 2 (0.30%) IIS
2 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.15%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 283 (42.75%) Azure
2 85 (12.84%) SaaS
3 84 (12.69%) AWS
4 82 (12.39%) Azure DevOps
5 66 (9.97%) GitHub
6 50 (7.55%) Azure AI
7 39 (5.89%) GitHub Copilot
8 35 (5.29%) Serverless
9 32 (4.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 24 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (2.87%) Azure Functions
11 19 (2.87%) Azure Logic Apps
12 14 (2.11%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (1.81%) PaaS
14 10 (1.51%) Amazon S3
14 10 (1.51%) Azure App Service
14 10 (1.51%) Entra ID
15 9 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (1.36%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.87%) Internet
2 3 (0.45%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (22.51%) Azure SQL Database
2 131 (19.79%) MongoDB
3 79 (11.93%) SQL Server
4 43 (6.50%) Elasticsearch
5 23 (3.47%) NoSQL
6 14 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (1.81%) MySQL
8 9 (1.36%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.60%) NonStop SQL
9 4 (0.60%) Power BI
10 2 (0.30%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.30%) CouchDB
10 2 (0.30%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.15%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.15%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (4.08%) Git
2 3 (0.45%) MSTest
2 3 (0.45%) NUnit
3 2 (0.30%) JIRA
3 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.15%) Postman
4 1 (0.15%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.15%) Vite
4 1 (0.15%) webpack
General
1 68 (10.27%) Finance
2 28 (4.23%) Social Skills
3 25 (3.78%) Games
4 15 (2.27%) Advertising
5 10 (1.51%) Law
6 9 (1.36%) Marketing
7 7 (1.06%) Automotive
7 7 (1.06%) Manufacturing
7 7 (1.06%) Retail
8 6 (0.91%) Banking
9 4 (0.60%) Aerospace
9 4 (0.60%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (0.60%) Back Office
10 3 (0.45%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.45%) Legal
10 3 (0.45%) Music Industry
11 2 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.15%) iGaming
12 1 (0.15%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 662 (100.00%) .NET
2 245 (37.01%) .NET Core
3 200 (30.21%) ASP.NET
4 172 (25.98%) ASP.NET Core
5 107 (16.16%) CSS
5 107 (16.16%) React
6 106 (16.01%) HTML
7 95 (14.35%) RESTful
8 94 (14.20%) Vue
9 86 (12.99%) AngularJS
10 85 (12.84%) Blazor
11 79 (11.93%) Entity Framework
12 64 (9.67%) ASP.NET Web API
13 54 (8.16%) .NET Framework
14 49 (7.40%) ML.NET
15 43 (6.50%) Node.js
16 40 (6.04%) LINQ
17 19 (2.87%) REST
18 14 (2.11%) WinForms
19 13 (1.96%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.40%) Mobile App
2 38 (5.74%) Greenfield Project
3 18 (2.72%) Cloud Native
4 16 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (2.11%) Hedge funds
5 14 (2.11%) PropTech
6 9 (1.36%) Digital TV
6 9 (1.36%) Social Network
6 9 (1.36%) Sports Betting
7 7 (1.06%) iPhone
7 7 (1.06%) Legacy Code
8 6 (0.91%) BBC
8 6 (0.91%) Product Ownership
8 6 (0.91%) Social Media
9 5 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.30%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.30%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.30%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.30%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.21%) Android
2 6 (0.91%) Windows
3 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (45.47%) Full-Stack Development
2 189 (28.55%) Agile
3 125 (18.88%) CI/CD
4 106 (16.01%) DevOps
5 105 (15.86%) Software Engineering
6 99 (14.95%) Microservices
7 82 (12.39%) AI
8 58 (8.76%) Multithreading
9 54 (8.16%) Machine Learning
10 47 (7.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 42 (6.34%) SDLC
12 41 (6.19%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (5.74%) OO
14 35 (5.29%) TDD
15 34 (5.14%) Scrum
16 31 (4.68%) MVC
17 28 (4.23%) Kanban
18 26 (3.93%) Analytics
18 26 (3.93%) CQRS
19 25 (3.78%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 434 (65.56%) C#
2 238 (35.95%) SQL
3 100 (15.11%) JavaScript
4 77 (11.63%) TypeScript
5 15 (2.27%) VB
6 13 (1.96%) Python
7 8 (1.21%) VB.NET
8 5 (0.76%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.45%) Bicep
10 2 (0.30%) C++
11 1 (0.15%) Java
11 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 37 (5.59%) SC Cleared
1 37 (5.59%) Security Cleared
2 23 (3.47%) Degree
3 15 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (1.06%) AWS Certification
4 7 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
5 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (0.76%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.60%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.36%) QA
2 5 (0.76%) GDPR
3 1 (0.15%) Accessibility
System Software
1 75 (11.33%) Docker
2 5 (0.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 53 (8.01%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 190 (28.70%) Microsoft
2 19 (2.87%) Google
3 18 (2.72%) Facebook
4 16 (2.42%) Xamarin
5 6 (0.91%) Apple
5 6 (0.91%) Sony
5 6 (0.91%) Yahoo!
5 6 (0.91%) YouTube
6 5 (0.76%) OpenAI
6 5 (0.76%) Oracle
7 4 (0.60%) Sage
8 2 (0.30%) iManage
8 2 (0.30%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.15%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.15%) Databricks
9 1 (0.15%) DevExpress
9 1 (0.15%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.15%) Infragistics
9 1 (0.15%) Perforce
9 1 (0.15%) ServiceNow