.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 22 July 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 371 115
Rank change year-on-year +171 -256 +57
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 994 360 2,103
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.99% 0.73% 2.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 0.81% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 952 332 1,933
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,375 £90,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year - -3.51% +3.64%

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 94,464 44,263 88,687
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 90.01% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 64,822 26,191 62,318
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,183
90th Percentile £96,000 £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 22 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 22 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 +157 931 £55,000 -8.33% 115
UK excluding London +179 862 £55,000 - 84
Work from Home +152 629 £55,000 -4.35% 80
South East +135 273 £55,000 - 24
North of England +94 262 £55,000 -8.33% 30
North West +44 116 £55,000 -8.33% 9
London -26 116 £80,000 +6.67% 36
East of England +72 109 £60,000 +13.21% 14
Midlands +34 92 £55,000 +10.00% 11
South West -14 79 £52,500 +5.00% 6
Yorkshire +19 73 £55,000 -8.33% 13
North East +8 73 £55,000 -45.00% 10
West Midlands +16 54 £55,000 -4.35% 8
East Midlands +2 38 £52,500 +16.67% 3
Scotland +37 31 £55,000 +69.23%
Wales -43 16 £50,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 22 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.

1 994 (100.00%) .NET
2 789 (79.38%) C#
3 617 (62.07%) Full-Stack Development
4 605 (60.87%) Azure
5 545 (54.83%) .NET Core
6 544 (54.73%) SQL
7 535 (53.82%) ASP.NET
8 518 (52.11%) Microsoft
9 490 (49.30%) ASP.NET Core
10 453 (45.57%) Azure SQL Database
11 421 (42.35%) Agile
12 411 (41.35%) MongoDB
13 232 (23.34%) JavaScript
14 224 (22.54%) CI/CD
15 221 (22.23%) DevOps
16 217 (21.83%) Blazor
17 214 (21.53%) React
18 211 (21.23%) CSS
19 210 (21.13%) HTML
20 205 (20.62%) Microservices
21 204 (20.52%) AI
22 203 (20.42%) Entity Framework
23 196 (19.72%) Azure DevOps
24 192 (19.32%) TypeScript
25 191 (19.22%) RESTful
25 191 (19.22%) Vue
26 183 (18.41%) AngularJS
27 179 (18.01%) ASP.NET Web API
28 169 (17.00%) Docker
29 168 (16.90%) 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 5 (0.50%) 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 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.20%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.10%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 605 (60.87%) Azure
2 196 (19.72%) Azure DevOps
3 155 (15.59%) Azure AI
4 153 (15.39%) GitHub
5 142 (14.29%) AWS
6 137 (13.78%) GitHub Copilot
7 69 (6.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 67 (6.74%) SaaS
9 22 (2.21%) Serverless
10 21 (2.11%) Azure Service Bus
11 18 (1.81%) Azure Logic Apps
12 17 (1.71%) Google Play
13 15 (1.51%) Azure Functions
14 13 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (1.11%) Azure Monitor
16 10 (1.01%) PaaS
17 7 (0.70%) Anthropic Claude
17 7 (0.70%) Power Platform
18 6 (0.60%) Azure App Service
18 6 (0.60%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 60 (6.04%) Internet
2 7 (0.70%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.10%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 453 (45.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 411 (41.35%) MongoDB
3 155 (15.59%) Elasticsearch
4 106 (10.66%) SQL Server
5 16 (1.61%) MySQL
6 11 (1.11%) NonStop SQL
7 6 (0.60%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.60%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.40%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.40%) Power BI
10 3 (0.30%) SQLite
11 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.20%) CouchDB
12 1 (0.10%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.10%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.10%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.10%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (2.92%) Git
2 7 (0.70%) JIRA
3 5 (0.50%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.30%) Claude Code
4 3 (0.30%) MSTest
4 3 (0.30%) NUnit
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.20%) Postman
5 2 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.10%) GitLab
6 1 (0.10%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.10%) JetBrains Rider
6 1 (0.10%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.10%) Selenium
6 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.10%) Vite
6 1 (0.10%) webpack
General
1 119 (11.97%) Finance
2 56 (5.63%) Advertising
3 54 (5.43%) Games
4 44 (4.43%) Marketing
5 36 (3.62%) Social Skills
6 31 (3.12%) Retail
7 14 (1.41%) Aerospace
8 11 (1.11%) Music Industry
9 9 (0.91%) Law
10 8 (0.80%) Automotive
11 7 (0.70%) Analytical Skills
11 7 (0.70%) Banking
12 6 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.50%) Back Office
13 5 (0.50%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.40%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.30%) Legal
15 3 (0.30%) Public Sector
16 1 (0.10%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.10%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 994 (100.00%) .NET
2 545 (54.83%) .NET Core
3 535 (53.82%) ASP.NET
4 490 (49.30%) ASP.NET Core
5 217 (21.83%) Blazor
6 214 (21.53%) React
7 211 (21.23%) CSS
8 210 (21.13%) HTML
9 203 (20.42%) Entity Framework
10 191 (19.22%) RESTful
10 191 (19.22%) Vue
11 183 (18.41%) AngularJS
12 179 (18.01%) ASP.NET Web API
13 154 (15.49%) ML.NET
14 147 (14.79%) Node.js
15 114 (11.47%) LINQ
16 107 (10.76%) .NET Framework
17 33 (3.32%) REST
17 33 (3.32%) WinForms
18 24 (2.41%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 102 (10.26%) Greenfield Project
2 46 (4.63%) Enterprise Software
2 46 (4.63%) Mobile App
3 20 (2.01%) Digital TV
4 17 (1.71%) BBC
4 17 (1.71%) iPhone
4 17 (1.71%) Social Media
5 14 (1.41%) Social Network
6 11 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (1.11%) Hedge funds
6 11 (1.11%) Legacy Code
7 10 (1.01%) Cloud Native
8 8 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (0.80%) PropTech
8 8 (0.80%) Sports Betting
9 6 (0.60%) IoT
9 6 (0.60%) Product Ownership
10 5 (0.50%) Tandem
11 3 (0.30%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.20%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.11%) Android
2 14 (1.41%) Windows
3 1 (0.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 617 (62.07%) Full-Stack Development
2 421 (42.35%) Agile
3 224 (22.54%) CI/CD
4 221 (22.23%) DevOps
5 205 (20.62%) Microservices
6 204 (20.52%) AI
7 168 (16.90%) Multithreading
8 160 (16.10%) Machine Learning
9 115 (11.57%) Software Engineering
10 95 (9.56%) Scrum
11 92 (9.26%) OO
12 90 (9.05%) TDD
13 68 (6.84%) BDD
14 67 (6.74%) Kanban
15 61 (6.14%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
16 55 (5.53%) SDLC
17 49 (4.93%) Problem-Solving
18 47 (4.73%) Analytics
19 45 (4.53%) MVC
20 42 (4.23%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 789 (79.38%) C#
2 544 (54.73%) SQL
3 232 (23.34%) JavaScript
4 192 (19.32%) TypeScript
5 18 (1.81%) VB.NET
6 15 (1.51%) Python
6 15 (1.51%) T-SQL
7 14 (1.41%) VB
8 5 (0.50%) C++
9 4 (0.40%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.40%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.30%) Bicep
11 2 (0.20%) Java
12 1 (0.10%) ABAP
12 1 (0.10%) Delphi
12 1 (0.10%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (3.72%) SC Cleared
1 37 (3.72%) Security Cleared
2 28 (2.82%) Degree
3 15 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (0.50%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.10%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.10%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (1.61%) QA
2 6 (0.60%) GDPR
3 4 (0.40%) Accessibility
System Software
1 169 (17.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 153 (15.39%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 518 (52.11%) Microsoft
2 60 (6.04%) Facebook
3 58 (5.84%) Google
4 21 (2.11%) YouTube
5 17 (1.71%) Apple
5 17 (1.71%) Sony
5 17 (1.71%) Yahoo!
6 13 (1.31%) Xamarin
7 8 (0.80%) OpenAI
8 7 (0.70%) Oracle
9 4 (0.40%) Sage
9 4 (0.40%) SAP
10 3 (0.30%) Alterian
10 3 (0.30%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.30%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.20%) iManage
11 2 (0.20%) OneLogin
12 1 (0.10%) Databricks
12 1 (0.10%) DevExpress
12 1 (0.10%) Veracode