.NET Developer Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2026.

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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 307 99
Rank change year-on-year +3 -208 +88
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 514 414 2,536
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.98% 2.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 1.10% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 471 374 2,431
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,875 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,438 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -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 83,677 37,745 90,639
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.92% 89.30% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 53,852 23,399 66,743
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,648 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.79% +12.54% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
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 2 May 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 2 May 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 +1 471 £60,000 +4.35% 181
UK excluding London -6 401 £55,000 +4.76% 135
Work from Home -32 174 £55,000 - 159
North of England -18 139 £60,000 - 44
South East +21 114 £55,325 +5.38% 42
London -28 88 £84,500 +5.63% 54
North West -10 80 £60,000 +9.09% 27
Midlands -18 51 £52,500 - 13
Yorkshire -31 49 £60,000 - 7
South West -27 45 £50,000 -9.09% 9
East of England -28 33 £55,000 +3.77% 18
West Midlands -15 30 £50,000 -13.04% 8
East Midlands -34 21 £53,750 +13.16% 5
Scotland -43 12 £60,000 +84.62% 6
North East -37 10 £55,000 -31.25% 10
Wales -24 7 £45,000 -10.00% 3

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 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.

1 514 (100.00%) .NET
2 303 (58.95%) C#
3 177 (34.44%) Full-Stack Development
4 174 (33.85%) Azure
5 143 (27.82%) .NET Core
6 130 (25.29%) SQL
7 113 (21.98%) Agile
8 95 (18.48%) ASP.NET
9 84 (16.34%) CI/CD
10 82 (15.95%) SaaS
11 81 (15.76%) Software Engineering
12 80 (15.56%) Microsoft
13 77 (14.98%) React
13 77 (14.98%) SQL Server
14 71 (13.81%) DevOps
15 70 (13.62%) Microservices
16 63 (12.26%) JavaScript
17 61 (11.87%) HTML
17 61 (11.87%) RESTful
18 60 (11.67%) ASP.NET Core
19 58 (11.28%) CSS
20 55 (10.70%) AWS
21 52 (10.12%) .NET Framework
22 50 (9.73%) AngularJS
23 49 (9.53%) Azure DevOps
23 49 (9.53%) Blazor
23 49 (9.53%) TypeScript
24 46 (8.95%) Vue
25 43 (8.37%) Azure SQL Database
25 43 (8.37%) 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 3 (0.58%) NServiceBus
2 2 (0.39%) IIS
2 2 (0.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.19%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 174 (33.85%) Azure
2 82 (15.95%) SaaS
3 55 (10.70%) AWS
4 49 (9.53%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (6.81%) GitHub
5 35 (6.81%) Serverless
6 25 (4.86%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (3.89%) Azure Logic Apps
8 16 (3.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 15 (2.92%) Azure AI
10 14 (2.72%) Azure App Service
10 14 (2.72%) Azure Service Bus
10 14 (2.72%) Entra ID
10 14 (2.72%) PaaS
11 13 (2.53%) Azure Functions
12 12 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (2.33%) Amazon S3
12 12 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (2.14%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (2.14%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.78%) Internet
2 2 (0.39%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.19%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (14.98%) SQL Server
2 43 (8.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 34 (6.61%) MongoDB
4 31 (6.03%) NoSQL
5 13 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.14%) DynamoDB
7 10 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.17%) MySQL
9 4 (0.78%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.39%) CouchDB
10 2 (0.39%) Power BI
10 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.19%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.19%) NonStop SQL
11 1 (0.19%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (6.23%) Git
2 6 (1.17%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.39%) JIRA
3 2 (0.39%) MSTest
3 2 (0.39%) NUnit
4 1 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.19%) Postman
4 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.19%) Vite
4 1 (0.19%) webpack
General
1 49 (9.53%) Finance
2 31 (6.03%) Social Skills
3 12 (2.33%) Games
4 10 (1.95%) Law
5 7 (1.36%) Manufacturing
6 5 (0.97%) Advertising
6 5 (0.97%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (0.97%) Back Office
6 5 (0.97%) Banking
7 3 (0.58%) Legal
7 3 (0.58%) Marketing
8 2 (0.39%) Automotive
8 2 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.39%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.39%) Retail
9 1 (0.19%) Front Office
9 1 (0.19%) iGaming
9 1 (0.19%) Music Industry
9 1 (0.19%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 514 (100.00%) .NET
2 143 (27.82%) .NET Core
3 95 (18.48%) ASP.NET
4 77 (14.98%) React
5 61 (11.87%) HTML
5 61 (11.87%) RESTful
6 60 (11.67%) ASP.NET Core
7 58 (11.28%) CSS
8 52 (10.12%) .NET Framework
9 50 (9.73%) AngularJS
10 49 (9.53%) Blazor
11 46 (8.95%) Vue
12 39 (7.59%) Entity Framework
13 28 (5.45%) ASP.NET Web API
14 22 (4.28%) REST
15 17 (3.31%) ASP.NET MVC
16 16 (3.11%) Razor View Engine
17 13 (2.53%) ML.NET
18 11 (2.14%) ASP.NET Web Forms
18 11 (2.14%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.98%) Mobile App
2 21 (4.09%) Cloud Native
3 14 (2.72%) PropTech
4 12 (2.33%) Hedge funds
5 10 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (1.56%) Sports Betting
7 7 (1.36%) Legacy Code
7 7 (1.36%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (0.97%) Social Network
10 4 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.58%) Digital TV
12 2 (0.39%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.39%) BBC
12 2 (0.39%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.39%) Fixed Income
12 2 (0.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.39%) IoT
12 2 (0.39%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.97%) Windows
2 2 (0.39%) Android
2 2 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (34.44%) Full-Stack Development
2 113 (21.98%) Agile
3 84 (16.34%) CI/CD
4 81 (15.76%) Software Engineering
5 71 (13.81%) DevOps
6 70 (13.62%) Microservices
7 43 (8.37%) MVC
8 41 (7.98%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (7.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (6.81%) AI
11 26 (5.06%) Clean Code
11 26 (5.06%) SDLC
11 26 (5.06%) TDD
12 23 (4.47%) Containerisation
12 23 (4.47%) Scrum
13 21 (4.09%) API Development
14 20 (3.89%) Front End Development
15 19 (3.70%) Mentoring
15 19 (3.70%) Multithreading
16 18 (3.50%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 303 (58.95%) C#
2 130 (25.29%) SQL
3 63 (12.26%) JavaScript
4 49 (9.53%) TypeScript
5 12 (2.33%) VB
6 6 (1.17%) T-SQL
7 5 (0.97%) Python
8 3 (0.58%) Bicep
8 3 (0.58%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.19%) C++
9 1 (0.19%) Java
9 1 (0.19%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 36 (7.00%) SC Cleared
1 36 (7.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (3.50%) Degree
3 14 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (1.75%) AWS Certification
4 9 (1.75%) AWS Certified Developer
5 7 (1.36%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.19%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.92%) QA
2 3 (0.58%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.19%) GDPR
3 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 43 (8.37%) Docker
2 8 (1.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 80 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.11%) Xamarin
3 6 (1.17%) Facebook
3 6 (1.17%) OpenAI
4 4 (0.78%) Google
4 4 (0.78%) Sage
5 2 (0.39%) Apple
5 2 (0.39%) iManage
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle
5 2 (0.39%) Sony
5 2 (0.39%) Telerik
5 2 (0.39%) Yahoo!
6 1 (0.19%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.19%) Databricks
6 1 (0.19%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.19%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.19%) Foundry
6 1 (0.19%) SAP
6 1 (0.19%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.19%) YouTube