.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 20 June 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 353 88
Rank change year-on-year +129 -265 +88
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 839 366 3,015
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.89% 0.82% 2.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 0.91% 2.91%
Number of salaries quoted 797 337 2,831
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,700 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -

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 88,490 40,188 103,482
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.00% 89.54% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 60,699 22,814 74,733
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,620
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

.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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +111 791 £55,000 -8.33% 170
UK excluding London +144 715 £55,000 +1.38% 134
Work from Home +129 462 £55,000 -4.35% 160
North of England +84 226 £55,000 -8.33% 43
South East +106 219 £55,000 - 45
North West +44 112 £55,000 - 24
London -26 108 £80,000 - 56
Midlands +30 89 £55,000 +10.00% 12
East of England +42 83 £60,000 +13.21% 17
South West -15 68 £52,500 +5.00% 8
Yorkshire +10 62 £57,500 -4.17% 8
West Midlands +12 52 £55,000 +2.33% 8
North East -4 52 £55,000 -45.00% 11
East Midlands -6 37 £52,500 +16.67% 4
Scotland +18 21 £55,000 +69.23% 6
Wales -38 9 £50,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 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.

1 839 (100.00%) .NET
2 623 (74.26%) C#
3 472 (56.26%) Full-Stack Development
4 459 (54.71%) Azure
5 412 (49.11%) .NET Core
6 406 (48.39%) SQL
7 375 (44.70%) ASP.NET
8 359 (42.79%) Microsoft
9 343 (40.88%) ASP.NET Core
10 312 (37.19%) Agile
10 312 (37.19%) Azure SQL Database
11 281 (33.49%) MongoDB
12 180 (21.45%) CI/CD
13 170 (20.26%) DevOps
14 169 (20.14%) JavaScript
15 168 (20.02%) React
16 163 (19.43%) CSS
17 162 (19.31%) HTML
18 154 (18.36%) Blazor
19 151 (18.00%) AI
20 148 (17.64%) Microservices
21 146 (17.40%) Azure DevOps
22 145 (17.28%) Vue
23 144 (17.16%) AngularJS
23 144 (17.16%) RESTful
24 143 (17.04%) Entity Framework
25 138 (16.45%) TypeScript
26 124 (14.78%) ASP.NET Web API
27 119 (14.18%) Multithreading
28 117 (13.95%) 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 4 (0.48%) NServiceBus
2 2 (0.24%) IIS
2 2 (0.24%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.12%) CMS
3 1 (0.12%) DNN
3 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
3 1 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
3 1 (0.12%) Kentico
3 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.12%) Sitefinity
3 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.12%) Sage 200
1 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 459 (54.71%) Azure
2 146 (17.40%) Azure DevOps
3 109 (12.99%) GitHub
4 108 (12.87%) Azure AI
5 106 (12.63%) AWS
6 89 (10.61%) GitHub Copilot
7 76 (9.06%) SaaS
8 53 (6.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 25 (2.98%) Serverless
10 20 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
11 19 (2.26%) Azure Functions
12 16 (1.91%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (1.55%) Google Play
14 11 (1.31%) PaaS
15 8 (0.95%) Azure App Service
15 8 (0.95%) Entra ID
15 8 (0.95%) Power Platform
16 7 (0.83%) Azure Monitor
17 6 (0.72%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.48%) Internet
2 7 (0.83%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 312 (37.19%) Azure SQL Database
2 281 (33.49%) MongoDB
3 104 (12.40%) Elasticsearch
4 89 (10.61%) SQL Server
5 13 (1.55%) MySQL
6 8 (0.95%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.72%) NonStop SQL
7 6 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.48%) Power BI
9 3 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.24%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.24%) CouchDB
10 2 (0.24%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.24%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.24%) SQLite
11 1 (0.12%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (2.26%) Git
2 7 (0.83%) JIRA
3 3 (0.36%) MSTest
3 3 (0.36%) NUnit
3 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.24%) Postman
5 1 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.12%) Vite
5 1 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 84 (10.01%) Finance
2 42 (5.01%) Games
3 38 (4.53%) Advertising
4 28 (3.34%) Marketing
5 26 (3.10%) Social Skills
6 19 (2.26%) Retail
7 10 (1.19%) Law
8 9 (1.07%) Aerospace
9 8 (0.95%) Automotive
9 8 (0.95%) Banking
9 8 (0.95%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.72%) Music Industry
11 5 (0.60%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (0.60%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.48%) Back Office
13 3 (0.36%) Legal
14 2 (0.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.24%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.12%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.12%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 839 (100.00%) .NET
2 412 (49.11%) .NET Core
3 375 (44.70%) ASP.NET
4 343 (40.88%) ASP.NET Core
5 168 (20.02%) React
6 163 (19.43%) CSS
7 162 (19.31%) HTML
8 154 (18.36%) Blazor
9 145 (17.28%) Vue
10 144 (17.16%) AngularJS
10 144 (17.16%) RESTful
11 143 (17.04%) Entity Framework
12 124 (14.78%) ASP.NET Web API
13 107 (12.75%) ML.NET
14 102 (12.16%) Node.js
15 80 (9.54%) LINQ
16 77 (9.18%) .NET Framework
17 25 (2.98%) WinForms
18 23 (2.74%) REST
19 20 (2.38%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 74 (8.82%) Greenfield Project
2 52 (6.20%) Mobile App
3 30 (3.58%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (1.67%) Digital TV
4 14 (1.67%) Social Network
5 13 (1.55%) iPhone
6 12 (1.43%) BBC
6 12 (1.43%) PropTech
6 12 (1.43%) Social Media
7 10 (1.19%) Hedge funds
8 9 (1.07%) Legacy Code
9 8 (0.95%) Cloud Native
9 8 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (0.95%) Sports Betting
10 7 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (0.60%) Product Ownership
12 3 (0.36%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.36%) IoT
12 3 (0.36%) Tandem
13 2 (0.24%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.91%) Android
2 10 (1.19%) Windows
3 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (56.26%) Full-Stack Development
2 312 (37.19%) Agile
3 180 (21.45%) CI/CD
4 170 (20.26%) DevOps
5 151 (18.00%) AI
6 148 (17.64%) Microservices
7 119 (14.18%) Multithreading
8 113 (13.47%) Machine Learning
9 104 (12.40%) Software Engineering
10 69 (8.22%) OO
11 63 (7.51%) TDD
12 62 (7.39%) Scrum
13 52 (6.20%) SDLC
14 47 (5.60%) Kanban
15 46 (5.48%) Problem-Solving
16 45 (5.36%) Continuous Improvement
17 44 (5.24%) BDD
18 41 (4.89%) Analytics
19 39 (4.65%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
20 30 (3.58%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 623 (74.26%) C#
2 406 (48.39%) SQL
3 169 (20.14%) JavaScript
4 138 (16.45%) TypeScript
5 15 (1.79%) Python
5 15 (1.79%) VB
6 14 (1.67%) VB.NET
7 12 (1.43%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.48%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.36%) Bicep
10 2 (0.24%) C++
10 2 (0.24%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.12%) ABAP
11 1 (0.12%) Delphi
11 1 (0.12%) Java
11 1 (0.12%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (4.41%) SC Cleared
1 37 (4.41%) Security Cleared
2 28 (3.34%) Degree
3 15 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (0.60%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.24%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.12%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.31%) QA
2 5 (0.60%) GDPR
3 2 (0.24%) Accessibility
System Software
1 117 (13.95%) Docker
2 3 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 103 (12.28%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 359 (42.79%) Microsoft
2 42 (5.01%) Facebook
3 36 (4.29%) Google
4 16 (1.91%) Xamarin
5 15 (1.79%) YouTube
6 12 (1.43%) Apple
6 12 (1.43%) Sony
6 12 (1.43%) Yahoo!
7 8 (0.95%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.60%) Oracle
9 4 (0.48%) Sage
10 3 (0.36%) SAP
11 2 (0.24%) IBM
11 2 (0.24%) iManage
11 2 (0.24%) OneLogin
12 1 (0.12%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.12%) Databricks
12 1 (0.12%) DevExpress
12 1 (0.12%) Optimizely
12 1 (0.12%) Sitecore