.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 12 January 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 244 100
Rank change year-on-year -91 -144 +48
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 350 655 1,659
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.22% 2.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 1.32% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 321 496 1,578
10th Percentile £45,000 £33,125 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £90,000 £97,500
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 53,744 49,685 53,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.63% 92.91% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 33,208 25,763 41,197
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -63 322 £65,000 +13.04% 263
UK excluding London -87 248 £60,000 +14.29% 228
Work from Home -56 167 £68,750 +25.00% 216
South East +34 86 £70,000 +27.27% 75
London +9 80 £75,000 -6.25% 59
North of England -39 79 £60,000 +9.09% 60
North West -1 49 £60,000 +9.09% 37
Midlands -22 36 £52,000 -9.57% 31
South West -21 23 £52,500 -10.64% 18
Yorkshire -22 22 £60,000 +14.29% 14
West Midlands -3 18 £50,000 -13.04% 14
East Midlands -23 18 £53,750 +2.38% 16
East of England -33 14 £57,500 +15.00% 29
North East -5 8 £50,000 +11.11% 9
Wales -2 6 £45,000 -40.00% 9
Scotland -60 4 £55,000 +29.41% 7

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

For the 6 months to 12 January 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.

1 350 (100.00%) .NET
2 236 (67.43%) C#
3 205 (58.57%) Azure
4 168 (48.00%) Agile
5 146 (41.71%) Full-Stack Development
6 140 (40.00%) .NET Core
7 131 (37.43%) JavaScript
8 130 (37.14%) SQL
9 106 (30.29%) ASP.NET
10 101 (28.86%) React
11 100 (28.57%) CI/CD
12 98 (28.00%) Microservices
13 93 (26.57%) SQL Server
14 90 (25.71%) TypeScript
15 88 (25.14%) Microsoft
16 87 (24.86%) AWS
17 86 (24.57%) MVC
18 84 (24.00%) DevOps
19 80 (22.86%) .NET Framework
20 75 (21.43%) SaaS
21 73 (20.86%) AngularJS
22 70 (20.00%) Software Engineering
23 66 (18.86%) RESTful
24 63 (18.00%) HTML
25 61 (17.43%) ASP.NET Web API
26 58 (16.57%) ASP.NET MVC
27 57 (16.29%) Scrum
28 56 (16.00%) CSS
29 55 (15.71%) Entity Framework
29 55 (15.71%) MongoDB

.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 (1.43%) CMS
2 4 (1.14%) Confluence
2 4 (1.14%) IIS
3 1 (0.29%) Kentico
3 1 (0.29%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.29%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.57%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.29%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.29%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.29%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 205 (58.57%) Azure
2 87 (24.86%) AWS
3 75 (21.43%) SaaS
4 50 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (13.14%) Serverless
6 37 (10.57%) GitHub
7 31 (8.86%) GCP
8 30 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (5.43%) Azure App Service
10 17 (4.86%) Entra ID
10 17 (4.86%) PaaS
11 12 (3.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (3.43%) Amazon EventBridge
11 12 (3.43%) Amazon S3
11 12 (3.43%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (3.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (3.43%) AWS Step Functions
11 12 (3.43%) Azure Service Bus
12 11 (3.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.14%) Internet
2 1 (0.29%) DNS
2 1 (0.29%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (26.57%) SQL Server
2 55 (15.71%) MongoDB
3 52 (14.86%) Azure SQL Database
4 51 (14.57%) NoSQL
5 20 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (3.43%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.29%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.00%) MySQL
10 6 (1.71%) NonStop SQL
11 5 (1.43%) Power BI
12 1 (0.29%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.29%) RavenDB
12 1 (0.29%) Redis
12 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 52 (14.86%) Git
2 13 (3.71%) Visual Studio
3 5 (1.43%) JIRA
4 4 (1.14%) Postman
5 3 (0.86%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.86%) JMeter
5 3 (0.86%) Selenium
5 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.57%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.29%) GitLab
7 1 (0.29%) MSTest
7 1 (0.29%) NUnit
7 1 (0.29%) Sourcetree
7 1 (0.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 70 (20.00%) Finance
2 62 (17.71%) Social Skills
3 8 (2.29%) Front Office
3 8 (2.29%) Public Sector
4 7 (2.00%) Banking
4 7 (2.00%) Retail
5 6 (1.71%) Advertising
5 6 (1.71%) Games
6 5 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.14%) Back Office
7 4 (1.14%) Electronics
7 4 (1.14%) Legal
8 3 (0.86%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.86%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.57%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.29%) Law
10 1 (0.29%) Marketing
10 1 (0.29%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 350 (100.00%) .NET
2 140 (40.00%) .NET Core
3 106 (30.29%) ASP.NET
4 101 (28.86%) React
5 80 (22.86%) .NET Framework
6 73 (20.86%) AngularJS
7 66 (18.86%) RESTful
8 63 (18.00%) HTML
9 61 (17.43%) ASP.NET Web API
10 58 (16.57%) ASP.NET MVC
11 56 (16.00%) CSS
12 55 (15.71%) Entity Framework
13 54 (15.43%) Blazor
14 40 (11.43%) ASP.NET Core
15 39 (11.14%) Vue
16 32 (9.14%) REST
17 23 (6.57%) Node.js
18 21 (6.00%) Razor View Engine
19 19 (5.43%) ASP.NET Web Forms
19 19 (5.43%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.71%) Mobile App
2 25 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 14 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.00%) Digital TV
6 6 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (1.71%) PropTech
7 5 (1.43%) Clustering
8 4 (1.14%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.14%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.86%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.86%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.57%) Derivative
10 2 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.57%) Online Games
10 2 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.57%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.00%) Android
2 6 (1.71%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.14%) Linux
4 1 (0.29%) VMS
4 1 (0.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (48.00%) Agile
2 146 (41.71%) Full-Stack Development
3 100 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 98 (28.00%) Microservices
5 86 (24.57%) MVC
6 84 (24.00%) DevOps
7 70 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 57 (16.29%) Scrum
9 51 (14.57%) AI
10 49 (14.00%) Roadmaps
11 48 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
12 45 (12.86%) TDD
13 41 (11.71%) Continuous Improvement
14 39 (11.14%) Kanban
15 38 (10.86%) Clean Code
16 32 (9.14%) Business Strategy
17 28 (8.00%) Front End Development
18 25 (7.14%) BDD
18 25 (7.14%) Mentoring
19 24 (6.86%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 236 (67.43%) C#
2 131 (37.43%) JavaScript
3 130 (37.14%) SQL
4 90 (25.71%) TypeScript
5 5 (1.43%) PowerShell
5 5 (1.43%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.14%) XAML
7 3 (0.86%) Erlang
8 2 (0.57%) Bicep
9 1 (0.29%) Java
9 1 (0.29%) Python
9 1 (0.29%) VB
9 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 28 (8.00%) Degree
2 22 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.71%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.86%) AWS Certification
4 10 (2.86%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.14%) QA
2 8 (2.29%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.86%) WCAG
4 2 (0.57%) GDPR
5 1 (0.29%) HL7
5 1 (0.29%) IFRS
5 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (10.57%) Docker
2 14 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (5.43%) Terraform
2 11 (3.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 88 (25.14%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.29%) Xamarin
3 7 (2.00%) Facebook
4 6 (1.71%) YouTube
5 4 (1.14%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.14%) Oracle
5 4 (1.14%) Telerik
6 2 (0.57%) Google
6 2 (0.57%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.29%) Adobe
7 1 (0.29%) Apple
7 1 (0.29%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.29%) Foundry
7 1 (0.29%) Infragistics
7 1 (0.29%) Okta
7 1 (0.29%) Perforce
7 1 (0.29%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.29%) Sony
7 1 (0.29%) Yahoo!