.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 30 July 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 368 115
Rank change year-on-year +165 -253 +54
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 1,010 359 1,930
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.99% 0.73% 2.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 0.81% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 966 332 1,760
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,250 £90,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%

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 96,591 44,419 82,565
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.36% 90.03% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 66,030 26,374 56,860
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%

.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 30 July 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 30 July 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 +149 947 £55,000 -8.33% 193
UK excluding London +177 875 £55,000 - 147
Work from Home +136 636 £55,000 -4.35% 168
South East +137 279 £55,000 - 50
North of England +93 267 £55,000 -8.33% 45
London -28 120 £80,000 +6.67% 58
North West +39 115 £55,000 -8.33% 22
East of England +53 111 £60,000 +13.21% 25
Midlands +23 91 £55,000 +10.00% 18
South West -9 80 £52,500 +5.00% 8
Yorkshire +32 78 £55,000 -8.33% 15
North East +11 74 £55,000 -45.00% 10
West Midlands +6 53 £55,000 -4.35% 11
East Midlands +7 38 £52,500 +16.67% 7
Scotland +37 31 £55,000 +69.23% 2
Wales -45 16 £50,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 30 July 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 1,010 (100.00%) .NET
2 799 (79.11%) C#
3 615 (60.89%) Full-Stack Development
4 612 (60.59%) Azure
5 550 (54.46%) SQL
6 548 (54.26%) .NET Core
7 540 (53.47%) ASP.NET
8 526 (52.08%) Microsoft
9 491 (48.61%) ASP.NET Core
10 452 (44.75%) Azure SQL Database
11 423 (41.88%) Agile
12 411 (40.69%) MongoDB
13 232 (22.97%) JavaScript
14 228 (22.57%) DevOps
15 224 (22.18%) CI/CD
16 218 (21.58%) Blazor
17 214 (21.19%) React
18 212 (20.99%) CSS
19 211 (20.89%) HTML
20 208 (20.59%) Entity Framework
20 208 (20.59%) Microservices
21 205 (20.30%) AI
22 203 (20.10%) Azure DevOps
23 193 (19.11%) TypeScript
24 191 (18.91%) RESTful
24 191 (18.91%) Vue
25 184 (18.22%) AngularJS
26 181 (17.92%) ASP.NET Web API
27 172 (17.03%) Docker
28 168 (16.63%) Multithreading

.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 7 (0.69%) IIS
2 4 (0.40%) NServiceBus
3 3 (0.30%) CMS
3 3 (0.30%) DNN
3 3 (0.30%) EPiServer
3 3 (0.30%) Immediacy CMS
3 3 (0.30%) Kentico
3 3 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (0.30%) Sitefinity
3 3 (0.30%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.099%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.099%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Elite 3E
1 2 (0.20%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.099%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.099%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.099%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 612 (60.59%) Azure
2 203 (20.10%) Azure DevOps
3 155 (15.35%) Azure AI
4 154 (15.25%) GitHub
5 146 (14.46%) AWS
6 138 (13.66%) GitHub Copilot
7 70 (6.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 66 (6.53%) SaaS
9 23 (2.28%) Serverless
10 22 (2.18%) Azure Service Bus
11 17 (1.68%) Azure Logic Apps
11 17 (1.68%) Google Play
12 16 (1.58%) Azure Functions
13 13 (1.29%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (0.89%) PaaS
14 9 (0.89%) Power Platform
15 8 (0.79%) Anthropic Claude
15 8 (0.79%) Azure Key Vault
16 5 (0.50%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 60 (5.94%) Internet
2 7 (0.69%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.099%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 452 (44.75%) Azure SQL Database
2 411 (40.69%) MongoDB
3 157 (15.54%) Elasticsearch
4 118 (11.68%) SQL Server
5 19 (1.88%) MySQL
6 12 (1.19%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.09%) NonStop SQL
8 7 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.59%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.50%) Power BI
11 4 (0.40%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.40%) SQLite
12 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.20%) CouchDB
13 1 (0.099%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.099%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.099%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.099%) SAP BW
13 1 (0.099%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (3.76%) Git
2 7 (0.69%) JIRA
3 6 (0.59%) Visual Studio
4 5 (0.50%) Claude Code
5 4 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.30%) MSTest
6 3 (0.30%) NUnit
7 2 (0.20%) Postman
7 2 (0.20%) Selenium
8 1 (0.099%) GitLab
8 1 (0.099%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.099%) JetBrains Rider
8 1 (0.099%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.099%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.099%) Vite
8 1 (0.099%) webpack
General
1 123 (12.18%) Finance
2 56 (5.54%) Advertising
3 54 (5.35%) Games
4 44 (4.36%) Marketing
4 44 (4.36%) Social Skills
5 31 (3.07%) Retail
6 14 (1.39%) Aerospace
7 11 (1.09%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (1.09%) Law
7 11 (1.09%) Music Industry
8 8 (0.79%) Automotive
8 8 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (0.69%) Banking
10 5 (0.50%) Back Office
11 4 (0.40%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.40%) Legal
11 4 (0.40%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.40%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.099%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.099%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,010 (100.00%) .NET
2 548 (54.26%) .NET Core
3 540 (53.47%) ASP.NET
4 491 (48.61%) ASP.NET Core
5 218 (21.58%) Blazor
6 214 (21.19%) React
7 212 (20.99%) CSS
8 211 (20.89%) HTML
9 208 (20.59%) Entity Framework
10 191 (18.91%) RESTful
10 191 (18.91%) Vue
11 184 (18.22%) AngularJS
12 181 (17.92%) ASP.NET Web API
13 154 (15.25%) ML.NET
14 147 (14.55%) Node.js
15 114 (11.29%) LINQ
16 113 (11.19%) .NET Framework
17 39 (3.86%) REST
18 35 (3.47%) WinForms
19 26 (2.57%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 100 (9.90%) Greenfield Project
2 48 (4.75%) Enterprise Software
3 44 (4.36%) Mobile App
4 20 (1.98%) Digital TV
5 17 (1.68%) BBC
5 17 (1.68%) iPhone
5 17 (1.68%) Social Media
6 14 (1.39%) Social Network
7 13 (1.29%) Legacy Code
8 12 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (0.99%) Cloud Native
9 10 (0.99%) Hedge funds
9 10 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (0.79%) Product Ownership
11 7 (0.69%) Sports Betting
12 6 (0.59%) PropTech
13 5 (0.50%) IoT
13 5 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.50%) Tandem
14 4 (0.40%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.08%) Android
2 17 (1.68%) Windows
3 1 (0.099%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 615 (60.89%) Full-Stack Development
2 423 (41.88%) Agile
3 228 (22.57%) DevOps
4 224 (22.18%) CI/CD
5 208 (20.59%) Microservices
6 205 (20.30%) AI
7 168 (16.63%) Multithreading
8 159 (15.74%) Machine Learning
9 118 (11.68%) Software Engineering
10 98 (9.70%) Scrum
11 96 (9.50%) OO
12 92 (9.11%) TDD
13 68 (6.73%) BDD
13 68 (6.73%) Kanban
14 61 (6.04%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
15 59 (5.84%) SDLC
16 52 (5.15%) MVC
16 52 (5.15%) Problem-Solving
17 47 (4.65%) Analytics
18 46 (4.55%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 799 (79.11%) C#
2 550 (54.46%) SQL
3 232 (22.97%) JavaScript
4 193 (19.11%) TypeScript
5 22 (2.18%) VB.NET
6 20 (1.98%) T-SQL
7 15 (1.49%) Python
8 14 (1.39%) VB
9 5 (0.50%) C++
10 4 (0.40%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.40%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.20%) Bicep
11 2 (0.20%) Java
12 1 (0.099%) ABAP
12 1 (0.099%) Delphi
12 1 (0.099%) R
12 1 (0.099%) XPath
Qualifications
1 39 (3.86%) SC Cleared
1 39 (3.86%) Security Cleared
2 30 (2.97%) Degree
3 16 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (0.50%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.20%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.099%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.099%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.099%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.099%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.08%) QA
2 7 (0.69%) GDPR
3 4 (0.40%) Accessibility
System Software
1 172 (17.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 154 (15.25%) Kubernetes
2 8 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 526 (52.08%) Microsoft
2 60 (5.94%) Facebook
3 58 (5.74%) Google
4 21 (2.08%) YouTube
5 17 (1.68%) Apple
5 17 (1.68%) Sony
5 17 (1.68%) Yahoo!
6 11 (1.09%) Xamarin
7 9 (0.89%) Oracle
8 8 (0.79%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.50%) Sage
10 4 (0.40%) SAP
11 3 (0.30%) Alterian
11 3 (0.30%) Optimizely
11 3 (0.30%) Sitecore
12 2 (0.20%) DevExpress
12 2 (0.20%) iManage
12 2 (0.20%) OneLogin
13 1 (0.099%) Infor
13 1 (0.099%) Telerik