.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 16 February 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 254 90
Rank change year-on-year -81 -164 +85
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 375 590 2,301
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.20% 3.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 1.30% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 348 443 2,218
10th Percentile £45,000 £32,750 £39,741
25th Percentile £50,000 £44,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £81,938 £71,938 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +4.76%

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 61,342 45,212 71,086
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 91.63% 94.88%
Number of salaries quoted 38,572 23,464 55,607
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,268
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 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -64 345 £65,000 +13.04% 225
UK excluding London -72 273 £60,000 +14.29% 182
Work from Home -35 176 £70,000 +35.92% 189
South East +15 91 £70,000 +33.33% 53
North of England -43 88 £60,000 +6.67% 60
London -7 78 £80,000 -11.11% 61
North West -22 49 £60,000 +2.13% 36
Midlands -22 43 £50,000 -9.09% 19
Yorkshire -27 27 £60,000 +20.00% 15
West Midlands +3 23 £50,000 -13.04% 13
South West -29 22 £57,500 -4.17% 21
East Midlands -26 20 £52,500 - 6
East of England -29 20 £55,000 +10.00% 20
North East -4 12 £55,000 +22.22% 9
Wales -5 5 £45,000 -40.00% 4
Scotland -59 4 £55,000 +69.23% 6

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

For the 6 months to 16 February 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.

1 375 (100.00%) .NET
2 235 (62.67%) C#
3 189 (50.40%) Azure
4 163 (43.47%) Agile
5 150 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 131 (34.93%) .NET Core
7 124 (33.07%) JavaScript
8 112 (29.87%) SQL
9 94 (25.07%) React
10 92 (24.53%) ASP.NET
10 92 (24.53%) CI/CD
11 87 (23.20%) Microservices
11 87 (23.20%) SQL Server
12 85 (22.67%) TypeScript
13 81 (21.60%) AWS
14 80 (21.33%) SaaS
15 77 (20.53%) DevOps
15 77 (20.53%) Software Engineering
16 76 (20.27%) Microsoft
17 75 (20.00%) MVC
18 69 (18.40%) .NET Framework
19 62 (16.53%) AngularJS
20 60 (16.00%) HTML
21 58 (15.47%) RESTful
22 56 (14.93%) CSS
23 49 (13.07%) AI
24 48 (12.80%) ASP.NET Web API
24 48 (12.80%) Blazor
25 47 (12.53%) Azure DevOps
25 47 (12.53%) 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 5 (1.33%) CMS
1 5 (1.33%) IIS
2 1 (0.27%) Confluence
2 1 (0.27%) Kentico
2 1 (0.27%) NServiceBus
2 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.27%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.27%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 189 (50.40%) Azure
2 81 (21.60%) AWS
3 80 (21.33%) SaaS
4 47 (12.53%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (12.00%) Serverless
6 35 (9.33%) GitHub
7 31 (8.27%) GitHub Actions
8 30 (8.00%) GCP
9 20 (5.33%) Entra ID
10 19 (5.07%) Azure App Service
11 16 (4.27%) PaaS
12 13 (3.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (3.47%) Amazon S3
12 13 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (3.20%) Amazon EventBridge
13 12 (3.20%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (3.20%) AWS Step Functions
14 11 (2.93%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (2.93%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.33%) Internet
2 1 (0.27%) DNS
2 1 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (23.20%) SQL Server
2 45 (12.00%) NoSQL
3 40 (10.67%) MongoDB
4 38 (10.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 15 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (3.20%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.33%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.07%) NonStop SQL
9 4 (1.07%) Power BI
10 3 (0.80%) MySQL
11 2 (0.53%) CouchDB
12 1 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.27%) RavenDB
12 1 (0.27%) Redis
12 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 47 (12.53%) Git
2 11 (2.93%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.53%) Postman
4 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.27%) JIRA
4 1 (0.27%) JMeter
4 1 (0.27%) Selenium
4 1 (0.27%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 71 (18.93%) Finance
2 54 (14.40%) Social Skills
3 7 (1.87%) Banking
3 7 (1.87%) Games
3 7 (1.87%) Manufacturing
4 6 (1.60%) Front Office
5 5 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (1.33%) Legal
5 5 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (1.07%) Advertising
6 4 (1.07%) Electronics
6 4 (1.07%) Law
7 3 (0.80%) Investment Banking
7 3 (0.80%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.53%) Back Office
8 2 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.53%) Retail
9 1 (0.27%) iGaming
9 1 (0.27%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 375 (100.00%) .NET
2 131 (34.93%) .NET Core
3 94 (25.07%) React
4 92 (24.53%) ASP.NET
5 69 (18.40%) .NET Framework
6 62 (16.53%) AngularJS
7 60 (16.00%) HTML
8 58 (15.47%) RESTful
9 56 (14.93%) CSS
10 48 (12.80%) ASP.NET Web API
10 48 (12.80%) Blazor
11 44 (11.73%) ASP.NET MVC
12 42 (11.20%) ASP.NET Core
12 42 (11.20%) Entity Framework
13 33 (8.80%) Vue
14 31 (8.27%) REST
15 22 (5.87%) Razor View Engine
16 19 (5.07%) ASP.NET Web Forms
17 16 (4.27%) HTML5
18 15 (4.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.93%) Mobile App
2 20 (5.33%) Cloud Native
3 11 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (2.67%) Hedge funds
5 8 (2.13%) PropTech
6 5 (1.33%) Digital TV
6 5 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.33%) Sports Betting
7 4 (1.07%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.80%) Clustering
8 3 (0.80%) Fixed Income
8 3 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.53%) Derivative
9 2 (0.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.53%) IoT
9 2 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.53%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.33%) Android
2 4 (1.07%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.07%) Linux
3 1 (0.27%) VMS
3 1 (0.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (43.47%) Agile
2 150 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 92 (24.53%) CI/CD
4 87 (23.20%) Microservices
5 77 (20.53%) DevOps
5 77 (20.53%) Software Engineering
6 75 (20.00%) MVC
7 49 (13.07%) AI
8 47 (12.53%) Problem-Solving
8 47 (12.53%) Scrum
9 44 (11.73%) Roadmaps
10 38 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (9.60%) TDD
12 35 (9.33%) Clean Code
13 32 (8.53%) Business Strategy
14 30 (8.00%) Kanban
15 24 (6.40%) Mentoring
16 23 (6.13%) Containerisation
16 23 (6.13%) Front End Development
17 22 (5.87%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 235 (62.67%) C#
2 124 (33.07%) JavaScript
3 112 (29.87%) SQL
4 85 (22.67%) TypeScript
5 5 (1.33%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.07%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.07%) XAML
7 3 (0.80%) Erlang
7 3 (0.80%) VB
8 2 (0.53%) Bicep
8 2 (0.53%) Java
8 2 (0.53%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 24 (6.40%) Degree
2 19 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.47%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.67%) AWS Certification
4 10 (2.67%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.60%) QA
2 5 (1.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.27%) IFRS
3 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (9.87%) Docker
2 15 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (5.07%) Terraform
2 10 (2.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 76 (20.27%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.40%) Xamarin
3 5 (1.33%) Facebook
4 4 (1.07%) Telerik
4 4 (1.07%) YouTube
5 2 (0.53%) Dynatrace
5 2 (0.53%) Google
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe
6 1 (0.27%) Apple
6 1 (0.27%) Databricks
6 1 (0.27%) Foundry
6 1 (0.27%) IBM
6 1 (0.27%) Infragistics
6 1 (0.27%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.27%) Okta
6 1 (0.27%) Perforce
6 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.27%) Sony
6 1 (0.27%) Yahoo!