.NET Developer Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 December 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 178 142
Rank change year-on-year -176 -36 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 311 1,026 1,130
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.62% 2.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 1.72% 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 286 822 1,050
10th Percentile £43,750 £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £84,688 £67,188 £77,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £82,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 49,330 59,759 47,838
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.32% 94.19% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 31,185 33,142 37,246
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

.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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025. 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 -153 286 £63,500 +10.43% 226
UK excluding London -180 197 £60,000 +9.09% 197
Work from Home -80 176 £70,000 +30.84% 200
London -27 91 £75,000 +3.45% 57
South East -35 65 £75,000 +36.36% 62
North of England -103 61 £60,000 +9.09% 58
North West -37 38 £60,000 +4.35% 39
South West -24 27 £51,500 -10.43% 18
Midlands -51 25 £52,500 -4.55% 23
Yorkshire -49 16 £60,000 +14.29% 12
West Midlands -27 13 £55,000 - 13
East Midlands -27 12 £52,000 -5.45% 10
East of England -34 11 £60,000 +20.00% 17
North East -22 7 £50,000 - 8
Wales -4 4 £45,000 -25.00% 10
Scotland -67 4 £55,000 +15.79% 9

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

For the 6 months to 3 December 2025, .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.

1 311 (100.00%) .NET
2 230 (73.95%) C#
3 203 (65.27%) Azure
4 168 (54.02%) Agile
5 139 (44.69%) JavaScript
6 131 (42.12%) .NET Core
7 126 (40.51%) Full-Stack Development
8 124 (39.87%) SQL
9 105 (33.76%) SQL Server
10 103 (33.12%) CI/CD
10 103 (33.12%) Microservices
11 97 (31.19%) ASP.NET
12 94 (30.23%) TypeScript
13 92 (29.58%) MVC
14 90 (28.94%) AWS
14 90 (28.94%) Microsoft
15 89 (28.62%) DevOps
16 86 (27.65%) .NET Framework
17 82 (26.37%) React
18 74 (23.79%) AngularJS
19 72 (23.15%) HTML
20 69 (22.19%) ASP.NET Web API
21 65 (20.90%) ASP.NET MVC
21 65 (20.90%) Software Engineering
22 64 (20.58%) Scrum
23 63 (20.26%) Entity Framework
23 63 (20.26%) RESTful
24 62 (19.94%) CSS
25 60 (19.29%) MongoDB
25 60 (19.29%) SaaS

.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 12 (3.86%) CMS
2 8 (2.57%) Confluence
3 4 (1.29%) IIS
4 1 (0.32%) Kentico
4 1 (0.32%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.32%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.96%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.32%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.32%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.32%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 203 (65.27%) Azure
2 90 (28.94%) AWS
3 60 (19.29%) SaaS
4 45 (14.47%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (12.54%) Serverless
6 32 (10.29%) GitHub
7 31 (9.97%) GCP
8 23 (7.40%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (6.11%) Azure Service Bus
10 18 (5.79%) Azure App Service
11 17 (5.47%) Entra ID
12 16 (5.14%) PaaS
13 11 (3.54%) Azure Functions
13 11 (3.54%) Power Platform
14 7 (2.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 6 (1.93%) Amazon EventBridge
15 6 (1.93%) Amazon SQS
15 6 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (1.93%) AWS Step Functions
15 6 (1.93%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.96%) Internet
2 1 (0.32%) DNS
2 1 (0.32%) HTTP
2 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (33.76%) SQL Server
2 60 (19.29%) MongoDB
3 51 (16.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 43 (13.83%) NoSQL
5 21 (6.75%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (2.25%) NonStop SQL
7 7 (2.25%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.93%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.93%) MySQL
9 5 (1.61%) Power BI
10 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.32%) RavenDB
10 1 (0.32%) Redis
10 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 57 (18.33%) Git
2 12 (3.86%) Visual Studio
3 10 (3.22%) JIRA
4 5 (1.61%) Postman
5 4 (1.29%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.29%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.96%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.96%) JMeter
6 3 (0.96%) NUnit
6 3 (0.96%) Selenium
6 3 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.64%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.64%) MSTest
8 1 (0.32%) GitLab
8 1 (0.32%) Sourcetree
8 1 (0.32%) SpecFlow
General
1 68 (21.86%) Finance
2 59 (18.97%) Social Skills
3 13 (4.18%) Front Office
4 8 (2.57%) Public Sector
4 8 (2.57%) Retail
5 7 (2.25%) Advertising
5 7 (2.25%) Banking
6 6 (1.93%) Back Office
7 4 (1.29%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.29%) Electronics
7 4 (1.29%) Games
7 4 (1.29%) Law
7 4 (1.29%) Legal
7 4 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (0.96%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.64%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.64%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.64%) Marketing
10 1 (0.32%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 311 (100.00%) .NET
2 131 (42.12%) .NET Core
3 97 (31.19%) ASP.NET
4 86 (27.65%) .NET Framework
5 82 (26.37%) React
6 74 (23.79%) AngularJS
7 72 (23.15%) HTML
8 69 (22.19%) ASP.NET Web API
9 65 (20.90%) ASP.NET MVC
10 63 (20.26%) Entity Framework
10 63 (20.26%) RESTful
11 62 (19.94%) CSS
12 49 (15.76%) Blazor
13 38 (12.22%) Vue
14 36 (11.58%) REST
15 28 (9.00%) Node.js
16 26 (8.36%) ASP.NET Core
17 24 (7.72%) HTML5
18 20 (6.43%) ASP.NET Web Forms
19 19 (6.11%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.07%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.47%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (4.18%) Mobile App
4 8 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.25%) Clustering
5 7 (2.25%) Digital TV
6 5 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.29%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.96%) BYOD
8 3 (0.96%) Fixed Income
8 3 (0.96%) Hedge funds
8 3 (0.96%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.64%) Derivative
9 2 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.64%) Online Games
9 2 (0.64%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.93%) Android
1 6 (1.93%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.29%) Linux
3 1 (0.32%) VMS
3 1 (0.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (54.02%) Agile
2 126 (40.51%) Full-Stack Development
3 103 (33.12%) CI/CD
3 103 (33.12%) Microservices
4 92 (29.58%) MVC
5 89 (28.62%) DevOps
6 65 (20.90%) Software Engineering
7 64 (20.58%) Scrum
8 52 (16.72%) Roadmaps
9 48 (15.43%) TDD
10 47 (15.11%) AI
11 45 (14.47%) Kanban
12 44 (14.15%) Continuous Improvement
13 42 (13.50%) Clean Code
13 42 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (9.97%) Business Strategy
14 31 (9.97%) Design Patterns
15 28 (9.00%) BDD
15 28 (9.00%) Front End Development
16 27 (8.68%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 230 (73.95%) C#
2 139 (44.69%) JavaScript
3 124 (39.87%) SQL
4 94 (30.23%) TypeScript
5 6 (1.93%) T-SQL
6 5 (1.61%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.29%) XAML
8 3 (0.96%) Erlang
9 2 (0.64%) Bicep
9 2 (0.64%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.32%) Java
10 1 (0.32%) Python
Qualifications
1 29 (9.32%) Degree
2 21 (6.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (3.86%) Master's Degree
4 6 (1.93%) AWS Certification
4 6 (1.93%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.32%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.32%) QA
2 8 (2.57%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.96%) WCAG
4 2 (0.64%) GDPR
5 1 (0.32%) HL7
5 1 (0.32%) IFRS
5 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 35 (11.25%) Docker
2 14 (4.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (4.50%) Terraform
2 13 (4.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 90 (28.94%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.25%) Facebook
2 7 (2.25%) YouTube
3 4 (1.29%) Oracle
3 4 (1.29%) Telerik
4 3 (0.96%) Dynatrace
4 3 (0.96%) Splunk
4 3 (0.96%) Trayport
5 2 (0.64%) Adobe
5 2 (0.64%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.64%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.32%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.32%) Foundry
6 1 (0.32%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.32%) Okta
6 1 (0.32%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.32%) Sybase