.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 5 August 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 375 127
Rank change year-on-year +168 -248 +35
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 1,019 348 1,722
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.98% 0.70% 2.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 0.78% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 974 322 1,549
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £68,438 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -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 98,241 44,677 79,563
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.17% 90.06% 94.91%
Number of salaries quoted 67,184 26,547 53,755
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £90,793
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -6.54%

.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 5 August 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 5 August 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 +162 957 £55,000 -8.33% 198
UK excluding London +190 887 £55,000 - 147
Work from Home +150 634 £55,000 -8.33% 180
South East +141 283 £55,000 - 55
North of England +99 275 £55,000 -8.33% 43
London -46 118 £80,000 +6.67% 61
North West +42 115 £55,000 -8.33% 26
East of England +60 111 £60,000 +13.21% 18
Midlands +24 91 £55,000 +5.77% 17
Yorkshire +34 84 £55,000 -8.33% 10
South West -1 80 £52,500 +5.00% 8
North East +11 76 £55,000 -45.00% 9
West Midlands -2 53 £55,000 -4.35% 11
East Midlands +5 38 £52,500 +16.67% 6
Scotland +36 31 £55,000 +69.23% 2
Wales -37 16 £50,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 5 August 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 1,019 (100.00%) .NET
2 803 (78.80%) C#
3 616 (60.45%) Azure
4 611 (59.96%) Full-Stack Development
5 553 (54.27%) .NET Core
6 552 (54.17%) SQL
7 547 (53.68%) ASP.NET
8 535 (52.50%) Microsoft
9 494 (48.48%) ASP.NET Core
10 454 (44.55%) Azure SQL Database
11 424 (41.61%) Agile
12 413 (40.53%) MongoDB
13 235 (23.06%) JavaScript
14 232 (22.77%) DevOps
15 225 (22.08%) CI/CD
16 221 (21.69%) Blazor
17 217 (21.30%) CSS
18 216 (21.20%) HTML
18 216 (21.20%) React
19 210 (20.61%) Entity Framework
20 207 (20.31%) AI
21 206 (20.22%) Azure DevOps
22 205 (20.12%) Microservices
23 194 (19.04%) TypeScript
24 193 (18.94%) RESTful
25 191 (18.74%) Vue
26 184 (18.06%) AngularJS
27 182 (17.86%) ASP.NET Web API
28 174 (17.08%) Docker
29 169 (16.58%) 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 9 (0.88%) IIS
2 4 (0.39%) NServiceBus
3 3 (0.29%) CMS
3 3 (0.29%) DNN
3 3 (0.29%) EPiServer
3 3 (0.29%) Immediacy CMS
3 3 (0.29%) Kentico
3 3 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (0.29%) Sitefinity
3 3 (0.29%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.098%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.098%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.29%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.20%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.20%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.098%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.098%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 616 (60.45%) Azure
2 206 (20.22%) Azure DevOps
3 157 (15.41%) Azure AI
4 156 (15.31%) GitHub
5 145 (14.23%) AWS
6 140 (13.74%) GitHub Copilot
7 70 (6.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 64 (6.28%) SaaS
9 23 (2.26%) Serverless
10 22 (2.16%) Azure Service Bus
11 17 (1.67%) Azure Functions
11 17 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
11 17 (1.67%) Google Play
12 13 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
12 13 (1.28%) Power Platform
13 12 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (0.79%) Anthropic Claude
14 8 (0.79%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (0.79%) PaaS
15 5 (0.49%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 60 (5.89%) Internet
2 7 (0.69%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.098%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 454 (44.55%) Azure SQL Database
2 413 (40.53%) MongoDB
3 157 (15.41%) Elasticsearch
4 128 (12.56%) SQL Server
5 22 (2.16%) MySQL
6 17 (1.67%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.08%) NonStop SQL
8 8 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.59%) Power BI
9 6 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.39%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.39%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.39%) SQLite
11 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.098%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.098%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.098%) CouchDB
12 1 (0.098%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.098%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.098%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (4.12%) Git
2 7 (0.69%) Claude Code
2 7 (0.69%) JIRA
3 6 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
3 6 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (0.59%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.29%) MSTest
4 3 (0.29%) NUnit
5 2 (0.20%) Postman
5 2 (0.20%) Selenium
6 1 (0.098%) GitLab
6 1 (0.098%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.098%) JetBrains Rider
6 1 (0.098%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.098%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.098%) Vite
6 1 (0.098%) webpack
General
1 124 (12.17%) Finance
2 57 (5.59%) Advertising
3 54 (5.30%) Games
4 48 (4.71%) Social Skills
5 46 (4.51%) Marketing
6 33 (3.24%) Retail
7 15 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (1.37%) Aerospace
9 12 (1.18%) Law
10 11 (1.08%) Music Industry
11 9 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (0.79%) Automotive
13 7 (0.69%) Banking
14 5 (0.49%) Back Office
14 5 (0.49%) Public Sector
15 4 (0.39%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.39%) Legal
15 4 (0.39%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.20%) Billing
16 2 (0.20%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,019 (100.00%) .NET
2 553 (54.27%) .NET Core
3 547 (53.68%) ASP.NET
4 494 (48.48%) ASP.NET Core
5 221 (21.69%) Blazor
6 217 (21.30%) CSS
7 216 (21.20%) HTML
7 216 (21.20%) React
8 210 (20.61%) Entity Framework
9 193 (18.94%) RESTful
10 191 (18.74%) Vue
11 184 (18.06%) AngularJS
12 182 (17.86%) ASP.NET Web API
13 156 (15.31%) ML.NET
14 147 (14.43%) Node.js
15 114 (11.19%) .NET Framework
15 114 (11.19%) LINQ
16 43 (4.22%) REST
17 36 (3.53%) WinForms
18 26 (2.55%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 102 (10.01%) Greenfield Project
2 48 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
3 46 (4.51%) Mobile App
4 20 (1.96%) Digital TV
5 17 (1.67%) BBC
5 17 (1.67%) iPhone
5 17 (1.67%) Social Media
6 14 (1.37%) Legacy Code
6 14 (1.37%) Social Network
7 13 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (0.98%) Cloud Native
8 10 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (0.88%) Hedge funds
10 8 (0.79%) Product Ownership
11 7 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (0.59%) PropTech
12 6 (0.59%) Sports Betting
13 5 (0.49%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.49%) IoT
13 5 (0.49%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.06%) Android
2 18 (1.77%) Windows
3 1 (0.098%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 611 (59.96%) Full-Stack Development
2 424 (41.61%) Agile
3 232 (22.77%) DevOps
4 225 (22.08%) CI/CD
5 207 (20.31%) AI
6 205 (20.12%) Microservices
7 169 (16.58%) Multithreading
8 160 (15.70%) Machine Learning
9 118 (11.58%) Software Engineering
10 99 (9.72%) OO
11 98 (9.62%) Scrum
12 93 (9.13%) TDD
13 68 (6.67%) BDD
14 67 (6.58%) Kanban
15 62 (6.08%) SDLC
16 61 (5.99%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
17 57 (5.59%) Problem-Solving
18 54 (5.30%) MVC
19 48 (4.71%) Continuous Improvement
20 46 (4.51%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 803 (78.80%) C#
2 552 (54.17%) SQL
3 235 (23.06%) JavaScript
4 194 (19.04%) TypeScript
5 26 (2.55%) VB.NET
6 21 (2.06%) T-SQL
7 15 (1.47%) Python
7 15 (1.47%) VB
8 5 (0.49%) C++
9 4 (0.39%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.39%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.20%) Bicep
10 2 (0.20%) Java
11 1 (0.098%) ABAP
11 1 (0.098%) C
11 1 (0.098%) Dart
11 1 (0.098%) Delphi
11 1 (0.098%) R
11 1 (0.098%) XPath
Qualifications
1 40 (3.93%) SC Cleared
1 40 (3.93%) Security Cleared
2 31 (3.04%) Degree
3 16 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (0.49%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.29%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.098%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.098%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.098%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.098%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (1.96%) QA
2 7 (0.69%) GDPR
3 4 (0.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 174 (17.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 155 (15.21%) Kubernetes
2 8 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 535 (52.50%) Microsoft
2 61 (5.99%) Facebook
3 58 (5.69%) Google
4 21 (2.06%) YouTube
5 17 (1.67%) Apple
5 17 (1.67%) Sony
5 17 (1.67%) Yahoo!
6 11 (1.08%) Oracle
6 11 (1.08%) Xamarin
7 8 (0.79%) OpenAI
8 7 (0.69%) Sage
9 5 (0.49%) SAP
10 3 (0.29%) Alterian
10 3 (0.29%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.29%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.20%) DevExpress
11 2 (0.20%) iManage
11 2 (0.20%) OneLogin
12 1 (0.098%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.098%) Infor