.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 4 May 2026.

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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 309 101
Rank change year-on-year +3 -208 +86
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 521 414 2,532
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.96% 2.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 1.08% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 481 374 2,428
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 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,325 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.39% -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 83,957 38,400 90,620
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.97% 89.39% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 54,111 23,425 66,674
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,425 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,375 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £52,900
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +11.53% -11.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £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% -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 4 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 4 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 +18 477 £60,000 +4.35% 186
UK excluding London +7 407 £55,325 +4.39% 145
Work from Home -28 180 £55,000 - 170
North of England -20 141 £60,000 - 49
South East +16 116 £55,000 +7.32% 43
London -12 88 £84,500 +4.00% 50
North West -17 80 £60,000 - 28
Midlands -21 51 £52,500 - 15
Yorkshire -27 49 £60,000 - 9
South West -25 45 £50,000 -9.09% 10
East of England -25 35 £57,500 +8.49% 18
West Midlands -6 31 £50,000 -13.04% 9
East Midlands -37 20 £53,750 +13.16% 6
North East -33 12 £55,000 -31.25% 12
Scotland -36 12 £60,000 +84.62% 6
Wales -27 7 £45,000 -10.00% 4

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 521 (100.00%) .NET
2 307 (58.93%) C#
3 180 (34.55%) Full-Stack Development
4 178 (34.17%) Azure
5 147 (28.21%) .NET Core
6 134 (25.72%) SQL
7 116 (22.26%) Agile
8 99 (19.00%) ASP.NET
9 85 (16.31%) CI/CD
10 84 (16.12%) Microsoft
11 83 (15.93%) SaaS
11 83 (15.93%) Software Engineering
12 78 (14.97%) React
13 77 (14.78%) SQL Server
14 72 (13.82%) DevOps
15 71 (13.63%) Microservices
16 65 (12.48%) JavaScript
17 64 (12.28%) ASP.NET Core
18 63 (12.09%) RESTful
19 62 (11.90%) HTML
20 59 (11.32%) CSS
21 55 (10.56%) AWS
22 52 (9.98%) .NET Framework
23 51 (9.79%) Azure DevOps
23 51 (9.79%) Blazor
24 50 (9.60%) AngularJS
24 50 (9.60%) TypeScript
25 47 (9.02%) Azure SQL Database
26 46 (8.83%) Vue
27 45 (8.64%) 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 (0.38%) IIS
2 2 (0.38%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.19%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 178 (34.17%) Azure
2 83 (15.93%) SaaS
3 55 (10.56%) AWS
4 51 (9.79%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (7.10%) GitHub
6 34 (6.53%) Serverless
7 25 (4.80%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (3.84%) Azure Logic Apps
9 18 (3.45%) Azure AI
10 17 (3.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 14 (2.69%) Azure App Service
11 14 (2.69%) Azure Service Bus
11 14 (2.69%) Entra ID
11 14 (2.69%) PaaS
12 13 (2.50%) Azure Functions
13 12 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (2.30%) Amazon S3
13 12 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (2.11%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (2.11%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.77%) Internet
2 2 (0.38%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.19%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (14.78%) SQL Server
2 47 (9.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 37 (7.10%) MongoDB
4 31 (5.95%) NoSQL
5 13 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.11%) DynamoDB
6 11 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (1.15%) MySQL
8 4 (0.77%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.38%) CouchDB
9 2 (0.38%) Power BI
9 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.19%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.19%) NonStop SQL
10 1 (0.19%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (6.14%) Git
2 6 (1.15%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.38%) JIRA
3 2 (0.38%) MSTest
3 2 (0.38%) 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 50 (9.60%) Finance
2 31 (5.95%) Social Skills
3 12 (2.30%) Games
4 10 (1.92%) Law
5 7 (1.34%) Manufacturing
6 6 (1.15%) Advertising
7 5 (0.96%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (0.96%) Back Office
7 5 (0.96%) Banking
8 4 (0.77%) Marketing
9 3 (0.58%) Automotive
9 3 (0.58%) Legal
10 2 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.38%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.38%) Retail
11 1 (0.19%) Front Office
11 1 (0.19%) iGaming
11 1 (0.19%) Music Industry
11 1 (0.19%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 521 (100.00%) .NET
2 147 (28.21%) .NET Core
3 99 (19.00%) ASP.NET
4 78 (14.97%) React
5 64 (12.28%) ASP.NET Core
6 63 (12.09%) RESTful
7 62 (11.90%) HTML
8 59 (11.32%) CSS
9 52 (9.98%) .NET Framework
10 51 (9.79%) Blazor
11 50 (9.60%) AngularJS
12 46 (8.83%) Vue
13 39 (7.49%) Entity Framework
14 28 (5.37%) ASP.NET Web API
15 22 (4.22%) REST
16 17 (3.26%) ASP.NET MVC
17 16 (3.07%) ML.NET
17 16 (3.07%) Razor View Engine
18 11 (2.11%) AWS CDK
18 11 (2.11%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.06%) Mobile App
2 20 (3.84%) Cloud Native
3 14 (2.69%) PropTech
4 13 (2.50%) Hedge funds
5 11 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (1.73%) Sports Betting
7 7 (1.34%) Legacy Code
7 7 (1.34%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (0.96%) Social Network
10 4 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.58%) BBC
11 3 (0.58%) Digital TV
11 3 (0.58%) Social Media
12 2 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.38%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.38%) Fixed Income
12 2 (0.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.38%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.96%) Windows
2 2 (0.38%) Android
2 2 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (34.55%) Full-Stack Development
2 116 (22.26%) Agile
3 85 (16.31%) CI/CD
4 83 (15.93%) Software Engineering
5 72 (13.82%) DevOps
6 71 (13.63%) Microservices
7 43 (8.25%) MVC
8 41 (7.87%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (7.49%) AI
10 37 (7.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (5.37%) TDD
12 26 (4.99%) Clean Code
12 26 (4.99%) SDLC
13 24 (4.61%) Scrum
14 23 (4.41%) Containerisation
15 21 (4.03%) API Development
15 21 (4.03%) Machine Learning
15 21 (4.03%) Multithreading
16 20 (3.84%) Front End Development
16 20 (3.84%) OO
Programming Languages
1 307 (58.93%) C#
2 134 (25.72%) SQL
3 65 (12.48%) JavaScript
4 50 (9.60%) TypeScript
5 12 (2.30%) VB
6 6 (1.15%) T-SQL
7 5 (0.96%) 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 37 (7.10%) SC Cleared
1 37 (7.10%) Security Cleared
2 18 (3.45%) Degree
3 14 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (1.73%) AWS Certification
4 9 (1.73%) AWS Certified Developer
5 7 (1.34%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.19%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.88%) QA
2 3 (0.58%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.19%) GDPR
3 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 45 (8.64%) Docker
2 8 (1.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (4.03%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 84 (16.12%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.07%) Xamarin
3 7 (1.34%) Facebook
4 6 (1.15%) OpenAI
5 5 (0.96%) Google
6 4 (0.77%) Sage
7 3 (0.58%) Apple
7 3 (0.58%) Sony
7 3 (0.58%) Yahoo!
8 2 (0.38%) iManage
8 2 (0.38%) Oracle
8 2 (0.38%) Telerik
9 1 (0.19%) Databricks
9 1 (0.19%) DevExpress
9 1 (0.19%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.19%) IBM
9 1 (0.19%) Infragistics
9 1 (0.19%) Perforce
9 1 (0.19%) SAP
9 1 (0.19%) YouTube