.NET Developer Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 December 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 232 145
Rank change year-on-year -114 -87 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 326 730 1,067
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.30% 2.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 1.39% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 298 565 991
10th Percentile £43,750 £32,900 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £115,250 £86,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -5.45% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 53,377 52,658 46,149
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.36% 93.53% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 32,887 28,141 35,810
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,911 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -

.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 21 December 2025.

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 21 December 2025. 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 -101 298 £65,000 +13.04% 217
UK excluding London -106 219 £60,000 +15.38% 181
Work from Home -72 164 £70,000 +27.27% 188
London -1 84 £75,000 - 63
South East +14 73 £70,000 +40.00% 74
North of England -49 73 £60,000 +9.09% 45
North West -18 42 £60,000 +4.35% 28
Midlands -40 27 £52,250 -9.13% 19
South West -23 26 £50,750 -13.62% 14
Yorkshire -17 22 £60,000 +14.29% 9
West Midlands -4 14 £52,500 -8.70% 10
East Midlands -30 13 £52,000 -5.45% 9
East of England -46 10 £60,000 +20.00% 15
North East -5 9 £50,000 - 8
Wales -3 6 £45,000 -10.00% 7
Scotland -64 4 £55,000 +15.79% 7

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

For the 6 months to 21 December 2025, .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.

1 326 (100.00%) .NET
2 227 (69.63%) C#
3 198 (60.74%) Azure
4 165 (50.61%) Agile
5 133 (40.80%) .NET Core
6 132 (40.49%) JavaScript
7 127 (38.96%) Full-Stack Development
8 126 (38.65%) SQL
9 106 (32.52%) CI/CD
10 101 (30.98%) Microservices
10 101 (30.98%) SQL Server
11 98 (30.06%) ASP.NET
12 91 (27.91%) TypeScript
13 90 (27.61%) AWS
14 89 (27.30%) DevOps
14 89 (27.30%) MVC
15 88 (26.99%) React
16 85 (26.07%) Microsoft
17 84 (25.77%) .NET Framework
18 70 (21.47%) SaaS
19 69 (21.17%) AngularJS
19 69 (21.17%) RESTful
20 68 (20.86%) HTML
21 66 (20.25%) Software Engineering
22 65 (19.94%) ASP.NET Web API
23 61 (18.71%) Scrum
24 60 (18.40%) ASP.NET MVC
24 60 (18.40%) CSS
25 59 (18.10%) Entity Framework
25 59 (18.10%) Git

.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 9 (2.76%) CMS
2 6 (1.84%) Confluence
3 5 (1.53%) IIS
4 1 (0.31%) Kentico
4 1 (0.31%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.31%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.61%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.31%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.31%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 198 (60.74%) Azure
2 90 (27.61%) AWS
3 70 (21.47%) SaaS
4 50 (15.34%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (14.42%) Serverless
6 35 (10.74%) GitHub
7 31 (9.51%) GCP
8 30 (9.20%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (5.83%) Azure App Service
10 18 (5.52%) Entra ID
11 17 (5.21%) PaaS
12 16 (4.91%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (3.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (3.68%) Amazon EventBridge
13 12 (3.68%) Amazon S3
13 12 (3.68%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (3.68%) AWS Step Functions
14 11 (3.37%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.92%) Internet
2 1 (0.31%) DNS
2 1 (0.31%) HTTP
2 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (30.98%) SQL Server
2 51 (15.64%) NoSQL
3 49 (15.03%) MongoDB
4 45 (13.80%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (5.52%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (3.68%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.45%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.15%) MySQL
10 6 (1.84%) NonStop SQL
11 5 (1.53%) Power BI
12 1 (0.31%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.31%) RavenDB
12 1 (0.31%) Redis
12 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 59 (18.10%) Git
2 13 (3.99%) Visual Studio
3 8 (2.45%) JIRA
4 4 (1.23%) Postman
5 3 (0.92%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.92%) JMeter
5 3 (0.92%) Selenium
5 3 (0.92%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.92%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.61%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.61%) NUnit
7 1 (0.31%) GitLab
7 1 (0.31%) MSTest
7 1 (0.31%) Sourcetree
General
1 69 (21.17%) Finance
2 65 (19.94%) Social Skills
3 10 (3.07%) Front Office
4 8 (2.45%) Public Sector
4 8 (2.45%) Retail
5 7 (2.15%) Banking
6 6 (1.84%) Advertising
6 6 (1.84%) Games
7 5 (1.53%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.53%) Back Office
7 5 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.23%) Electronics
8 4 (1.23%) Law
8 4 (1.23%) Legal
9 3 (0.92%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.61%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.31%) Marketing
11 1 (0.31%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 326 (100.00%) .NET
2 133 (40.80%) .NET Core
3 98 (30.06%) ASP.NET
4 88 (26.99%) React
5 84 (25.77%) .NET Framework
6 69 (21.17%) AngularJS
6 69 (21.17%) RESTful
7 68 (20.86%) HTML
8 65 (19.94%) ASP.NET Web API
9 60 (18.40%) ASP.NET MVC
9 60 (18.40%) CSS
10 59 (18.10%) Entity Framework
11 53 (16.26%) Blazor
12 37 (11.35%) Vue
13 34 (10.43%) REST
14 33 (10.12%) ASP.NET Core
15 23 (7.06%) Node.js
16 21 (6.44%) Razor View Engine
17 20 (6.13%) ASP.NET Web Forms
17 20 (6.13%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.98%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.13%) Mobile App
3 16 (4.91%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (1.84%) Clustering
6 6 (1.84%) Digital TV
7 5 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (1.53%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.23%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.92%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.92%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.92%) PropTech
10 2 (0.61%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.61%) Online Games
10 2 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.61%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.84%) Android
1 6 (1.84%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.23%) Linux
3 1 (0.31%) VMS
3 1 (0.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (50.61%) Agile
2 127 (38.96%) Full-Stack Development
3 106 (32.52%) CI/CD
4 101 (30.98%) Microservices
5 89 (27.30%) DevOps
5 89 (27.30%) MVC
6 66 (20.25%) Software Engineering
7 61 (18.71%) Scrum
8 52 (15.95%) Roadmaps
9 49 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
10 47 (14.42%) AI
11 46 (14.11%) TDD
12 43 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 42 (12.88%) Clean Code
14 40 (12.27%) Kanban
15 32 (9.82%) Business Strategy
16 30 (9.20%) Front End Development
17 28 (8.59%) Containerisation
18 27 (8.28%) Design Patterns
18 27 (8.28%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 227 (69.63%) C#
2 132 (40.49%) JavaScript
3 126 (38.65%) SQL
4 91 (27.91%) TypeScript
5 5 (1.53%) PowerShell
5 5 (1.53%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.23%) XAML
7 3 (0.92%) Erlang
8 2 (0.61%) Bicep
8 2 (0.61%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.31%) Java
9 1 (0.31%) Python
9 1 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 29 (8.90%) Degree
2 22 (6.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.99%) Master's Degree
4 10 (3.07%) AWS Certification
4 10 (3.07%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.31%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.20%) QA
2 8 (2.45%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.92%) WCAG
4 2 (0.61%) GDPR
5 1 (0.31%) HL7
5 1 (0.31%) IFRS
5 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 39 (11.96%) Docker
2 15 (4.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (5.83%) Terraform
2 10 (3.07%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 85 (26.07%) Microsoft
2 6 (1.84%) Facebook
2 6 (1.84%) YouTube
3 5 (1.53%) Xamarin
4 4 (1.23%) Dynatrace
4 4 (1.23%) Oracle
4 4 (1.23%) Telerik
5 2 (0.61%) Adobe
5 2 (0.61%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.31%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.31%) Foundry
6 1 (0.31%) Infragistics
6 1 (0.31%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.31%) Okta
6 1 (0.31%) Perforce
6 1 (0.31%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow