.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 18 December 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 220 151
Rank change year-on-year -135 -69 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 321 751 1,076
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.32% 2.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 1.41% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 293 585 999
10th Percentile £43,750 £33,600 £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 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £117,750 £86,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -3.70% +2.86%

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 52,771 53,172 46,462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.24% 93.59% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 32,471 28,551 36,094
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,634 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.62% - -

.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 18 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 18 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 -102 293 £63,500 +10.43% 252
UK excluding London -106 214 £60,000 +15.38% 221
Work from Home -76 164 £70,000 +27.27% 234
London -2 84 £75,000 +0.67% 63
North of England -49 71 £60,000 +9.09% 54
South East +10 70 £70,000 +40.00% 81
North West -25 40 £60,000 +4.35% 32
South West -15 27 £51,500 -12.34% 20
Midlands -44 26 £52,500 -4.55% 27
Yorkshire -25 22 £60,000 +20.00% 13
West Midlands -5 13 £52,500 -6.67% 18
East Midlands -30 13 £52,000 -5.45% 8
East of England -34 10 £60,000 +20.00% 21
North East -8 9 £50,000 - 9
Wales -4 6 £45,000 -10.00% 9
Scotland -61 4 £55,000 +15.79% 8

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 321 (100.00%) .NET
2 228 (71.03%) C#
3 198 (61.68%) Azure
4 166 (51.71%) Agile
5 134 (41.74%) .NET Core
6 132 (41.12%) JavaScript
7 126 (39.25%) Full-Stack Development
8 125 (38.94%) SQL
9 107 (33.33%) CI/CD
10 102 (31.78%) SQL Server
11 99 (30.84%) Microservices
12 97 (30.22%) ASP.NET
13 92 (28.66%) AWS
14 91 (28.35%) TypeScript
15 90 (28.04%) DevOps
16 89 (27.73%) MVC
17 87 (27.10%) React
18 84 (26.17%) .NET Framework
18 84 (26.17%) Microsoft
19 69 (21.50%) RESTful
20 68 (21.18%) AngularJS
20 68 (21.18%) HTML
20 68 (21.18%) SaaS
21 67 (20.87%) Software Engineering
22 65 (20.25%) ASP.NET Web API
23 61 (19.00%) Scrum
24 60 (18.69%) ASP.NET MVC
24 60 (18.69%) CSS
24 60 (18.69%) Git
25 59 (18.38%) Entity Framework

.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 (2.80%) CMS
2 7 (2.18%) Confluence
3 5 (1.56%) IIS
4 1 (0.31%) Kentico
4 1 (0.31%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.31%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.93%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.31%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.31%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 198 (61.68%) Azure
2 92 (28.66%) AWS
3 68 (21.18%) SaaS
4 50 (15.58%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (14.64%) Serverless
6 35 (10.90%) GitHub
7 31 (9.66%) GCP
8 30 (9.35%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (5.92%) Azure App Service
10 18 (5.61%) Entra ID
11 17 (5.30%) PaaS
12 16 (4.98%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (3.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (3.74%) Amazon EventBridge
13 12 (3.74%) Amazon S3
13 12 (3.74%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (3.74%) AWS Step Functions
14 11 (3.43%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.25%) Internet
2 1 (0.31%) DNS
2 1 (0.31%) HTTP
2 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (31.78%) SQL Server
2 51 (15.89%) NoSQL
3 49 (15.26%) MongoDB
4 45 (14.02%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (5.61%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (3.74%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.49%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.18%) MySQL
10 6 (1.87%) NonStop SQL
11 5 (1.56%) 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 60 (18.69%) Git
2 13 (4.05%) Visual Studio
3 9 (2.80%) JIRA
4 4 (1.25%) Postman
5 3 (0.93%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.93%) JMeter
5 3 (0.93%) Selenium
5 3 (0.93%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.62%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.62%) NUnit
7 1 (0.31%) GitLab
7 1 (0.31%) MSTest
7 1 (0.31%) Sourcetree
General
1 66 (20.56%) Finance
2 65 (20.25%) Social Skills
3 10 (3.12%) Front Office
4 8 (2.49%) Public Sector
4 8 (2.49%) Retail
5 7 (2.18%) Banking
6 6 (1.87%) Advertising
6 6 (1.87%) Games
7 5 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.56%) Back Office
7 5 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.25%) Electronics
8 4 (1.25%) Law
8 4 (1.25%) Legal
9 3 (0.93%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.62%) 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
1 321 (100.00%) .NET
2 134 (41.74%) .NET Core
3 97 (30.22%) ASP.NET
4 87 (27.10%) React
5 84 (26.17%) .NET Framework
6 69 (21.50%) RESTful
7 68 (21.18%) AngularJS
7 68 (21.18%) HTML
8 65 (20.25%) ASP.NET Web API
9 60 (18.69%) ASP.NET MVC
9 60 (18.69%) CSS
10 59 (18.38%) Entity Framework
11 54 (16.82%) Blazor
12 39 (12.15%) Vue
13 34 (10.59%) REST
14 33 (10.28%) ASP.NET Core
15 23 (7.17%) Node.js
16 21 (6.54%) Razor View Engine
17 20 (6.23%) ASP.NET Web Forms
17 20 (6.23%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.10%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.61%) Mobile App
3 16 (4.98%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (1.87%) Clustering
6 6 (1.87%) Digital TV
7 5 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (1.56%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.25%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.93%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.93%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.62%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.62%) Online Games
10 2 (0.62%) PropTech
10 2 (0.62%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.62%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.87%) Android
1 6 (1.87%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.25%) Linux
3 1 (0.31%) VMS
3 1 (0.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (51.71%) Agile
2 126 (39.25%) Full-Stack Development
3 107 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 99 (30.84%) Microservices
5 90 (28.04%) DevOps
6 89 (27.73%) MVC
7 67 (20.87%) Software Engineering
8 61 (19.00%) Scrum
9 52 (16.20%) Roadmaps
10 49 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
11 48 (14.95%) AI
12 46 (14.33%) TDD
13 43 (13.40%) Continuous Improvement
14 42 (13.08%) Clean Code
15 40 (12.46%) Kanban
16 32 (9.97%) Business Strategy
17 30 (9.35%) Front End Development
18 28 (8.72%) Containerisation
18 28 (8.72%) Design Patterns
18 28 (8.72%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 228 (71.03%) C#
2 132 (41.12%) JavaScript
3 125 (38.94%) SQL
4 91 (28.35%) TypeScript
5 5 (1.56%) PowerShell
5 5 (1.56%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.25%) XAML
7 3 (0.93%) Erlang
8 2 (0.62%) Bicep
8 2 (0.62%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.31%) Java
9 1 (0.31%) Python
9 1 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 30 (9.35%) Degree
2 22 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (4.05%) Master's Degree
4 10 (3.12%) AWS Certification
4 10 (3.12%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.31%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.35%) QA
2 8 (2.49%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.93%) WCAG
4 2 (0.62%) GDPR
5 1 (0.31%) HL7
5 1 (0.31%) IFRS
5 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 39 (12.15%) Docker
2 15 (4.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (5.92%) Terraform
2 10 (3.12%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 84 (26.17%) Microsoft
2 6 (1.87%) Facebook
2 6 (1.87%) YouTube
3 4 (1.25%) Dynatrace
3 4 (1.25%) Oracle
3 4 (1.25%) Telerik
3 4 (1.25%) Xamarin
4 2 (0.62%) Adobe
4 2 (0.62%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.31%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.31%) Foundry
5 1 (0.31%) Infragistics
5 1 (0.31%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.31%) Okta
5 1 (0.31%) Perforce
5 1 (0.31%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow