.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 1 April 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 277 98
Rank change year-on-year -52 -179 +89
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 433 453 2,508
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.11% 2.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 1.23% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 391 405 2,416
10th Percentile £43,750 £35,050 £39,894
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +1.85%

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 73,166 36,757 84,704
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.18% 89.95% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 46,994 23,163 63,811
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,550
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -4.76%

.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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -36 397 £60,000 +4.35% 221
UK excluding London -39 335 £55,000 +4.76% 169
Work from Home -55 164 £55,000 +6.28% 201
North of England -33 118 £60,000 +9.09% 54
South East -22 87 £58,750 +11.90% 48
London -47 73 £80,000 -5.88% 65
North West -35 56 £65,000 +18.18% 32
Yorkshire -17 50 £60,000 - 16
Midlands -24 47 £51,250 -4.65% 19
South West -16 41 £50,000 -20.00% 19
East of England -47 30 £55,000 +15.79% 21
West Midlands -13 27 £50,000 -13.04% 10
East Midlands -37 20 £55,000 +4.76% 9
North East -20 12 £55,000 +22.22% 8
Wales -21 6 £45,000 -10.00% 4
Scotland -44 6 £55,000 +69.23% 5

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

For the 6 months to 1 April 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.

1 433 (100.00%) .NET
2 278 (64.20%) C#
3 182 (42.03%) Full-Stack Development
4 165 (38.11%) Azure
5 144 (33.26%) .NET Core
6 127 (29.33%) SQL
7 125 (28.87%) Agile
8 96 (22.17%) ASP.NET
9 92 (21.25%) CI/CD
10 89 (20.55%) React
11 87 (20.09%) JavaScript
12 84 (19.40%) SQL Server
13 79 (18.24%) Microsoft
14 77 (17.78%) DevOps
15 76 (17.55%) Microservices
16 74 (17.09%) HTML
17 72 (16.63%) CSS
18 70 (16.17%) Software Engineering
19 65 (15.01%) SaaS
20 64 (14.78%) RESTful
21 63 (14.55%) .NET Framework
22 60 (13.86%) MVC
23 59 (13.63%) ASP.NET Core
24 57 (13.16%) AngularJS
25 54 (12.47%) TypeScript
26 53 (12.24%) AWS
26 53 (12.24%) Blazor
27 46 (10.62%) Azure DevOps
27 46 (10.62%) Problem-Solving
28 45 (10.39%) 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 3 (0.69%) IIS
2 2 (0.46%) CMS
2 2 (0.46%) NServiceBus
2 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.23%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 165 (38.11%) Azure
2 65 (15.01%) SaaS
3 53 (12.24%) AWS
4 46 (10.62%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (9.24%) GitHub
6 39 (9.01%) Serverless
7 29 (6.70%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (3.93%) Azure App Service
8 17 (3.93%) Azure Logic Apps
8 17 (3.93%) Entra ID
9 16 (3.70%) PaaS
10 15 (3.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 14 (3.23%) Azure AI
12 13 (3.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (3.00%) Amazon S3
12 13 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (2.77%) Amazon EventBridge
13 12 (2.77%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (2.77%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.15%) Internet
2 2 (0.46%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.23%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (19.40%) SQL Server
2 43 (9.93%) Azure SQL Database
3 37 (8.55%) NoSQL
4 36 (8.31%) MongoDB
5 14 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (2.77%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.15%) MySQL
9 4 (0.92%) Power BI
10 3 (0.69%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.46%) CouchDB
11 2 (0.46%) NonStop SQL
12 1 (0.23%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.23%) Redis
12 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (9.24%) Git
2 10 (2.31%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.23%) MSTest
3 1 (0.23%) NUnit
3 1 (0.23%) Postman
3 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.23%) Vite
3 1 (0.23%) webpack
General
1 50 (11.55%) Finance
2 43 (9.93%) Social Skills
3 10 (2.31%) Games
4 9 (2.08%) Banking
5 7 (1.62%) Law
5 7 (1.62%) Manufacturing
6 5 (1.15%) Advertising
6 5 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (0.92%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (0.92%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.69%) Electronics
8 3 (0.69%) Front Office
8 3 (0.69%) Marketing
9 2 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.46%) Legal
9 2 (0.46%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.23%) Back Office
10 1 (0.23%) iGaming
10 1 (0.23%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 433 (100.00%) .NET
2 144 (33.26%) .NET Core
3 96 (22.17%) ASP.NET
4 89 (20.55%) React
5 74 (17.09%) HTML
6 72 (16.63%) CSS
7 64 (14.78%) RESTful
8 63 (14.55%) .NET Framework
9 59 (13.63%) ASP.NET Core
10 57 (13.16%) AngularJS
11 53 (12.24%) Blazor
12 43 (9.93%) Entity Framework
13 41 (9.47%) Vue
14 33 (7.62%) ASP.NET Web API
15 30 (6.93%) REST
16 27 (6.24%) ASP.NET MVC
17 20 (4.62%) Razor View Engine
18 15 (3.46%) ASP.NET Web Forms
19 13 (3.00%) ML.NET
19 13 (3.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.16%) Mobile App
2 20 (4.62%) Cloud Native
3 12 (2.77%) Hedge funds
4 10 (2.31%) PropTech
5 8 (1.85%) Sports Betting
6 7 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.39%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.15%) Legacy Code
9 4 (0.92%) Digital TV
9 4 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.92%) Social Network
10 3 (0.69%) Derivative
11 2 (0.46%) BBC
11 2 (0.46%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.46%) IoT
11 2 (0.46%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.46%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.92%) Android
2 3 (0.69%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.69%) Windows
3 2 (0.46%) Linux
3 2 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (42.03%) Full-Stack Development
2 125 (28.87%) Agile
3 92 (21.25%) CI/CD
4 77 (17.78%) DevOps
5 76 (17.55%) Microservices
6 70 (16.17%) Software Engineering
7 60 (13.86%) MVC
8 46 (10.62%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (7.62%) Scrum
11 32 (7.39%) TDD
12 30 (6.93%) Clean Code
13 29 (6.70%) AI
14 26 (6.00%) SDLC
15 23 (5.31%) Containerisation
15 23 (5.31%) Kanban
16 22 (5.08%) Mentoring
17 21 (4.85%) Code Quality
18 20 (4.62%) Machine Learning
18 20 (4.62%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 278 (64.20%) C#
2 127 (29.33%) SQL
3 87 (20.09%) JavaScript
4 54 (12.47%) TypeScript
5 6 (1.39%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.92%) Bicep
7 3 (0.69%) VB
7 3 (0.69%) XAML
8 2 (0.46%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.46%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.23%) C++
9 1 (0.23%) Erlang
9 1 (0.23%) Java
Qualifications
1 20 (4.62%) Degree
2 17 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
2 17 (3.93%) SC Cleared
2 17 (3.93%) Security Cleared
3 10 (2.31%) AWS Certification
3 10 (2.31%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (2.08%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.16%) QA
2 4 (0.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 45 (10.39%) Docker
2 10 (2.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (3.93%) Kubernetes
1 17 (3.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 79 (18.24%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.54%) Xamarin
3 6 (1.39%) Facebook
4 4 (0.92%) Google
4 4 (0.92%) Telerik
5 3 (0.69%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.46%) Apple
6 2 (0.46%) Oracle
6 2 (0.46%) Sage
6 2 (0.46%) Sony
6 2 (0.46%) Yahoo!
6 2 (0.46%) YouTube
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe
7 1 (0.23%) Databricks
7 1 (0.23%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.23%) Foundry
7 1 (0.23%) IBM
7 1 (0.23%) Infragistics
7 1 (0.23%) Perforce
7 1 (0.23%) ServiceNow