.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 21 January 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 245 95
Rank change year-on-year -77 -150 +56
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 358 637 1,919
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.20% 3.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 1.30% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 328 479 1,833
10th Percentile £45,000 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £108,125 £90,000 £95,000
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 55,891 49,062 59,885
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.82% 92.63% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 34,637 25,329 46,560
10th Percentile £28,697 £33,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,097
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +8.90% -8.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -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 21 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 21 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 -62 329 £65,000 +13.04% 228
UK excluding London -79 262 £60,000 +14.29% 183
Work from Home -49 168 £65,000 +18.18% 197
South East +31 87 £70,000 +28.44% 62
North of England -33 82 £60,000 +9.09% 58
London 0 74 £77,500 -3.13% 62
North West -15 51 £60,000 +6.67% 39
Midlands -9 42 £50,000 -13.04% 24
South West -19 26 £53,750 -8.51% 13
Yorkshire -24 22 £60,000 +9.09% 11
West Midlands +4 21 £50,000 -13.04% 13
East Midlands -20 21 £52,500 - 11
East of England -38 15 £55,000 +10.00% 20
North East 0 9 £50,000 +11.11% 8
Wales +5 6 £45,000 -40.00% 3
Scotland -58 4 £55,000 +37.50% 5

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

For the 6 months to 21 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.

1 358 (100.00%) .NET
2 240 (67.04%) C#
3 206 (57.54%) Azure
4 168 (46.93%) Agile
5 141 (39.39%) Full-Stack Development
6 138 (38.55%) .NET Core
7 129 (36.03%) JavaScript
8 128 (35.75%) SQL
9 105 (29.33%) CI/CD
10 104 (29.05%) ASP.NET
11 99 (27.65%) React
12 95 (26.54%) SQL Server
13 93 (25.98%) Microservices
14 87 (24.30%) DevOps
14 87 (24.30%) TypeScript
15 85 (23.74%) AWS
15 85 (23.74%) Microsoft
15 85 (23.74%) MVC
16 78 (21.79%) .NET Framework
17 77 (21.51%) SaaS
18 69 (19.27%) AngularJS
18 69 (19.27%) Software Engineering
19 65 (18.16%) RESTful
20 62 (17.32%) HTML
21 57 (15.92%) CSS
22 55 (15.36%) ASP.NET Web API
23 54 (15.08%) ASP.NET MVC
24 53 (14.80%) Azure DevOps
24 53 (14.80%) Blazor
25 51 (14.25%) AI

.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 (1.40%) CMS
2 4 (1.12%) Confluence
2 4 (1.12%) IIS
3 1 (0.28%) Kentico
3 1 (0.28%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.28%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.56%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.28%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 206 (57.54%) Azure
2 85 (23.74%) AWS
3 77 (21.51%) SaaS
4 53 (14.80%) Azure DevOps
5 51 (14.25%) Serverless
6 39 (10.89%) GitHub
7 32 (8.94%) GitHub Actions
8 31 (8.66%) GCP
9 20 (5.59%) Azure App Service
9 20 (5.59%) Entra ID
10 17 (4.75%) PaaS
11 14 (3.91%) Azure Functions
11 14 (3.91%) Azure Service Bus
12 12 (3.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (3.35%) Amazon EventBridge
12 12 (3.35%) Amazon S3
12 12 (3.35%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (3.35%) AWS Step Functions
12 12 (3.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.40%) Internet
2 1 (0.28%) DNS
2 1 (0.28%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (26.54%) SQL Server
2 50 (13.97%) NoSQL
3 49 (13.69%) MongoDB
4 47 (13.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 17 (4.75%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (3.35%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.96%) MySQL
8 7 (1.96%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.40%) NonStop SQL
9 5 (1.40%) Power BI
10 2 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.28%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.28%) RavenDB
11 1 (0.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 51 (14.25%) Git
2 14 (3.91%) Visual Studio
3 5 (1.40%) JIRA
4 4 (1.12%) Postman
5 3 (0.84%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.84%) JMeter
5 3 (0.84%) Selenium
5 3 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.56%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.28%) GitLab
7 1 (0.28%) MSTest
7 1 (0.28%) NUnit
7 1 (0.28%) SpecFlow
General
1 67 (18.72%) Finance
2 61 (17.04%) Social Skills
3 9 (2.51%) Front Office
4 8 (2.23%) Banking
5 7 (1.96%) Games
5 7 (1.96%) Public Sector
6 6 (1.68%) Retail
7 5 (1.40%) Advertising
7 5 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.12%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.12%) Back Office
8 4 (1.12%) Electronics
8 4 (1.12%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.12%) Legal
8 4 (1.12%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.56%) Law
10 1 (0.28%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.28%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 358 (100.00%) .NET
2 138 (38.55%) .NET Core
3 104 (29.05%) ASP.NET
4 99 (27.65%) React
5 78 (21.79%) .NET Framework
6 69 (19.27%) AngularJS
7 65 (18.16%) RESTful
8 62 (17.32%) HTML
9 57 (15.92%) CSS
10 55 (15.36%) ASP.NET Web API
11 54 (15.08%) ASP.NET MVC
12 53 (14.80%) Blazor
13 51 (14.25%) Entity Framework
14 42 (11.73%) ASP.NET Core
15 37 (10.34%) Vue
16 36 (10.06%) REST
17 23 (6.42%) Razor View Engine
18 20 (5.59%) Node.js
19 19 (5.31%) ASP.NET Web Forms
20 18 (5.03%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.10%) Mobile App
2 25 (6.98%) Cloud Native
3 15 (4.19%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.68%) Digital TV
5 6 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (1.68%) PropTech
6 5 (1.40%) Clustering
7 4 (1.12%) Hedge funds
7 4 (1.12%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.84%) Fixed Income
8 3 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (0.84%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.56%) Derivative
9 2 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.56%) Online Games
9 2 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.56%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.96%) Android
2 6 (1.68%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.12%) Linux
4 1 (0.28%) VMS
4 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (46.93%) Agile
2 141 (39.39%) Full-Stack Development
3 105 (29.33%) CI/CD
4 93 (25.98%) Microservices
5 87 (24.30%) DevOps
6 85 (23.74%) MVC
7 69 (19.27%) Software Engineering
8 51 (14.25%) AI
8 51 (14.25%) Scrum
9 49 (13.69%) Roadmaps
10 46 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
11 44 (12.29%) TDD
12 42 (11.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 37 (10.34%) Clean Code
14 36 (10.06%) Kanban
15 32 (8.94%) Business Strategy
16 28 (7.82%) Front End Development
17 26 (7.26%) Mentoring
18 24 (6.70%) Containerisation
18 24 (6.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 240 (67.04%) C#
2 129 (36.03%) JavaScript
3 128 (35.75%) SQL
4 87 (24.30%) TypeScript
5 6 (1.68%) T-SQL
6 5 (1.40%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.12%) XAML
8 3 (0.84%) Erlang
8 3 (0.84%) VB
9 2 (0.56%) Bicep
10 1 (0.28%) Java
10 1 (0.28%) Python
10 1 (0.28%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 28 (7.82%) Degree
2 22 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.63%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.79%) AWS Certification
4 10 (2.79%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.70%) QA
2 8 (2.23%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.84%) WCAG
4 2 (0.56%) GDPR
5 1 (0.28%) IFRS
5 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 38 (10.61%) Docker
2 16 (4.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (5.31%) Terraform
2 11 (3.07%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 85 (23.74%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.23%) Xamarin
3 6 (1.68%) Facebook
4 5 (1.40%) YouTube
5 4 (1.12%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.12%) Oracle
5 4 (1.12%) Telerik
6 2 (0.56%) Google
6 2 (0.56%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.28%) Adobe
7 1 (0.28%) Apple
7 1 (0.28%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.28%) IBM
7 1 (0.28%) Infragistics
7 1 (0.28%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.28%) Okta
7 1 (0.28%) Perforce
7 1 (0.28%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.28%) Sony
7 1 (0.28%) Yahoo!