.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 16 September 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 381 132
Rank change year-on-year +163 -249 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 991 324 1,509
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.87% 0.66% 1.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.73% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 952 305 1,272
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £82,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,800 £118,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%

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 106,506 44,266 74,164
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.35% 89.67% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 73,200 26,014 44,625
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +156 935 £55,000 -15.38% 390
UK excluding London +177 864 £55,000 -8.33% 244
Work from Home +131 611 £55,000 -15.38% 259
South East +130 296 £55,000 -26.67% 65
North of England +66 252 £55,000 -8.33% 82
London -39 119 £75,000 - 160
East of England +64 112 £58,750 +2.17% 34
North West +28 105 £55,000 -8.33% 41
Midlands +31 90 £55,000 +10.00% 35
North East +2 79 £55,000 -45.00% 20
Yorkshire +20 68 £50,000 -16.67% 22
South West -28 66 £55,000 +10.00% 17
West Midlands -10 52 £55,000 +10.00% 24
East Midlands +1 38 £52,500 +31.25% 11
Scotland +36 32 £57,500 +27.78% 7
Wales -62 16 £50,000 +9.29% 5

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 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.

1 991 (100.00%) .NET
2 801 (80.83%) C#
3 619 (62.46%) Azure
4 578 (58.32%) Full-Stack Development
5 552 (55.70%) ASP.NET
6 549 (55.40%) .NET Core
7 548 (55.30%) SQL
8 538 (54.29%) Microsoft
9 491 (49.55%) ASP.NET Core
10 441 (44.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 409 (41.27%) Agile
12 399 (40.26%) MongoDB
13 254 (25.63%) JavaScript
14 241 (24.32%) DevOps
15 228 (23.01%) CI/CD
16 222 (22.40%) Blazor
17 221 (22.30%) CSS
17 221 (22.30%) React
18 219 (22.10%) HTML
19 218 (22.00%) Azure DevOps
19 218 (22.00%) Entity Framework
20 207 (20.89%) AI
21 200 (20.18%) Microservices
22 192 (19.37%) RESTful
23 187 (18.87%) Vue
24 185 (18.67%) TypeScript
25 183 (18.47%) ASP.NET Web API
26 178 (17.96%) AngularJS
27 166 (16.75%) Docker
28 162 (16.35%) 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 20 (2.02%) IIS
2 5 (0.50%) CMS
2 5 (0.50%) Umbraco
3 4 (0.40%) Kentico
4 3 (0.30%) DNN
4 3 (0.30%) EPiServer
4 3 (0.30%) Immediacy CMS
4 3 (0.30%) NServiceBus
4 3 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.30%) Sitefinity
5 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.10%) Apache
6 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.71%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Elite 3E
2 3 (0.30%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.30%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.10%) Endur
3 1 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 619 (62.46%) Azure
2 218 (22.00%) Azure DevOps
3 151 (15.24%) Azure AI
4 149 (15.04%) GitHub
5 138 (13.93%) AWS
6 135 (13.62%) GitHub Copilot
7 71 (7.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 50 (5.05%) SaaS
9 26 (2.62%) Azure Service Bus
10 23 (2.32%) Serverless
11 21 (2.12%) Power Platform
12 18 (1.82%) Azure Functions
13 17 (1.72%) Azure Logic Apps
13 17 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
13 17 (1.72%) Google Play
14 13 (1.31%) Azure Key Vault
15 10 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (1.01%) Power Automate
16 9 (0.91%) Anthropic Claude
16 9 (0.91%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 60 (6.05%) Internet
2 6 (0.61%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.10%) Broadband
3 1 (0.10%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 441 (44.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 399 (40.26%) MongoDB
3 159 (16.04%) SQL Server
4 158 (15.94%) Elasticsearch
5 35 (3.53%) Relational Database
6 26 (2.62%) MySQL
7 11 (1.11%) NonStop SQL
8 10 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (0.81%) Power BI
9 8 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.50%) SQLite
11 4 (0.40%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.30%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
14 1 (0.10%) Amazon RDS
14 1 (0.10%) Apache Ignite
14 1 (0.10%) Couchbase
14 1 (0.10%) Redis
14 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 1 (0.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 59 (5.95%) Git
2 13 (1.31%) Claude Code
3 11 (1.11%) Oracle Forms
3 11 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (0.71%) JIRA
4 7 (0.71%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.20%) MSTest
5 2 (0.20%) NUnit
5 2 (0.20%) Postman
5 2 (0.20%) Selenium
5 2 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.10%) GitLab
6 1 (0.10%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.10%) JetBrains Rider
6 1 (0.10%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 129 (13.02%) Finance
2 72 (7.27%) Social Skills
3 54 (5.45%) Advertising
4 49 (4.94%) Games
5 43 (4.34%) Marketing
6 36 (3.63%) Retail
7 29 (2.93%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.41%) Aerospace
10 11 (1.11%) Law
10 11 (1.11%) Music Industry
11 8 (0.81%) Automotive
12 7 (0.71%) Billing
12 7 (0.71%) Public Sector
13 6 (0.61%) Banking
14 5 (0.50%) Back Office
15 4 (0.40%) Legal
16 3 (0.30%) Front Office
16 3 (0.30%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.30%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 991 (100.00%) .NET
2 552 (55.70%) ASP.NET
3 549 (55.40%) .NET Core
4 491 (49.55%) ASP.NET Core
5 222 (22.40%) Blazor
6 221 (22.30%) CSS
6 221 (22.30%) React
7 219 (22.10%) HTML
8 218 (22.00%) Entity Framework
9 192 (19.37%) RESTful
10 187 (18.87%) Vue
11 183 (18.47%) ASP.NET Web API
12 178 (17.96%) AngularJS
13 149 (15.04%) ML.NET
14 143 (14.43%) Node.js
15 129 (13.02%) .NET Framework
16 112 (11.30%) LINQ
17 64 (6.46%) REST
18 38 (3.83%) WinForms
19 28 (2.83%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 101 (10.19%) Greenfield Project
2 52 (5.25%) Enterprise Software
3 42 (4.24%) Mobile App
4 19 (1.92%) Digital TV
5 17 (1.72%) BBC
5 17 (1.72%) iPhone
5 17 (1.72%) Social Media
6 16 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (1.51%) Legacy Code
8 14 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.21%) Cloud Native
9 12 (1.21%) Product Ownership
9 12 (1.21%) Social Network
10 10 (1.01%) Data Structures
11 7 (0.71%) Hedge funds
12 6 (0.61%) IoT
12 6 (0.61%) PropTech
13 5 (0.50%) Tandem
14 4 (0.40%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.03%) Windows
2 21 (2.12%) Android
3 4 (0.40%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.10%) Linux
4 1 (0.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 578 (58.32%) Full-Stack Development
2 409 (41.27%) Agile
3 241 (24.32%) DevOps
4 228 (23.01%) CI/CD
5 207 (20.89%) AI
6 200 (20.18%) Microservices
7 162 (16.35%) Multithreading
8 152 (15.34%) Machine Learning
9 112 (11.30%) Software Engineering
10 99 (9.99%) Scrum
11 97 (9.79%) OO
12 93 (9.38%) TDD
13 74 (7.47%) Problem-Solving
14 66 (6.66%) BDD
15 64 (6.46%) Kanban
16 63 (6.36%) SDLC
17 60 (6.05%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
17 60 (6.05%) MVC
18 52 (5.25%) Continuous Improvement
19 47 (4.74%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 801 (80.83%) C#
2 548 (55.30%) SQL
3 254 (25.63%) JavaScript
4 185 (18.67%) TypeScript
5 33 (3.33%) VB.NET
6 24 (2.42%) Python
6 24 (2.42%) T-SQL
7 15 (1.51%) VB
8 4 (0.40%) C++
8 4 (0.40%) Java
8 4 (0.40%) Kotlin
8 4 (0.40%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.40%) VBA
9 3 (0.30%) VBScript
10 2 (0.20%) Bicep
10 2 (0.20%) C
10 2 (0.20%) Dart
10 2 (0.20%) XPath
11 1 (0.10%) ABAP
11 1 (0.10%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (3.23%) Degree
2 31 (3.13%) Security Cleared
3 30 (3.03%) SC Cleared
4 16 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (0.50%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.30%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.10%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.52%) QA
2 8 (0.81%) GDPR
3 5 (0.50%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.40%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.20%) Basel III
System Software
1 166 (16.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 148 (14.93%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 538 (54.29%) Microsoft
2 59 (5.95%) Facebook
3 57 (5.75%) Google
4 21 (2.12%) YouTube
5 18 (1.82%) Oracle
6 17 (1.72%) Apple
6 17 (1.72%) Sony
6 17 (1.72%) Yahoo!
7 10 (1.01%) Xamarin
8 6 (0.61%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.61%) Sage
9 5 (0.50%) SAP
10 3 (0.30%) Alterian
10 3 (0.30%) DevExpress
10 3 (0.30%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.30%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.20%) iManage
11 2 (0.20%) OneLogin
11 2 (0.20%) Telerik
12 1 (0.10%) IBM