.NET Developer Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer salary in the UK is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 November 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 150 141
Rank change year-on-year -211 -9 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 311 1,183 1,212
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.77% 2.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 1.87% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 286 951 1,126
10th Percentile £43,125 £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £65,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £80,000 £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 47,385 63,314 50,189
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.02% 94.54% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 29,598 35,369 38,895
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,561 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,343 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £51,197 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.22% -2.48% -

.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 18 November 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 18 November 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 -192 291 £62,500 +8.70% 338
UK excluding London -204 200 £60,000 +9.09% 267
Work from Home -86 188 £65,000 +23.81% 304
London -55 92 £75,000 +3.45% 96
South East -62 68 £72,500 +20.83% 72
North of England -101 67 £60,000 +9.09% 78
North West -52 43 £60,000 +6.67% 52
Midlands -80 25 £49,750 -9.55% 41
South West -19 23 £50,000 -11.11% 25
Yorkshire -50 16 £60,000 +9.09% 18
West Midlands -35 15 £55,000 +2.33% 24
East of England -52 11 £57,500 +15.00% 26
East Midlands -38 10 £26,500 -51.82% 17
North East -35 8 £50,000 - 8
Wales -5 4 £45,000 -25.00% 13
Scotland -87 2 £42,500 -10.53% 9

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

For the 6 months to 18 November 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
2 245 (78.78%) C#
3 202 (64.95%) Azure
4 176 (56.59%) Agile
5 148 (47.59%) JavaScript
6 132 (42.44%) SQL
7 126 (40.51%) Full-Stack Development
8 120 (38.59%) .NET Core
9 114 (36.66%) SQL Server
10 108 (34.73%) Microservices
11 105 (33.76%) CI/CD
12 104 (33.44%) ASP.NET
13 98 (31.51%) AWS
13 98 (31.51%) TypeScript
14 96 (30.87%) MVC
15 93 (29.90%) Microsoft
16 91 (29.26%) .NET Framework
17 90 (28.94%) DevOps
18 85 (27.33%) AngularJS
19 84 (27.01%) HTML
20 81 (26.05%) React
21 73 (23.47%) CSS
22 71 (22.83%) Git
23 67 (21.54%) ASP.NET Web API
23 67 (21.54%) RESTful
24 66 (21.22%) Scrum
25 63 (20.26%) Entity Framework
25 63 (20.26%) MongoDB
26 61 (19.61%) ASP.NET MVC
26 61 (19.61%) Software Engineering

.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 13 (4.18%) CMS
2 11 (3.54%) IIS
3 10 (3.22%) Confluence
4 2 (0.64%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.32%) Kentico
5 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
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%) Magento
2 1 (0.32%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (0.32%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 202 (64.95%) Azure
2 98 (31.51%) AWS
3 59 (18.97%) SaaS
4 41 (13.18%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (10.93%) Serverless
6 32 (10.29%) GCP
7 30 (9.65%) GitHub
8 17 (5.47%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (5.14%) Azure Service Bus
10 15 (4.82%) Azure App Service
11 14 (4.50%) Entra ID
12 13 (4.18%) PaaS
13 11 (3.54%) Azure Functions
13 11 (3.54%) Power Platform
14 7 (2.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 6 (1.93%) Cloudflare
15 6 (1.93%) Power Automate
16 5 (1.61%) PowerApps
17 4 (1.29%) Azure Logic Apps
18 3 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.29%) Internet
2 1 (0.32%) HTTP
2 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (36.66%) SQL Server
2 63 (20.26%) MongoDB
3 49 (15.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 38 (12.22%) NoSQL
5 30 (9.65%) Elasticsearch
6 16 (5.14%) MySQL
7 11 (3.54%) Relational Database
8 8 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (2.25%) NonStop SQL
10 5 (1.61%) Power BI
11 4 (1.29%) Redis
12 3 (0.96%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.64%) RDBMS
14 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
14 1 (0.32%) RavenDB
14 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 1 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 71 (22.83%) Git
2 14 (4.50%) JIRA
3 10 (3.22%) NUnit
3 10 (3.22%) Visual Studio
4 7 (2.25%) TeamCity
5 5 (1.61%) Jasmine
5 5 (1.61%) Postman
6 4 (1.29%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.29%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.29%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.96%) JMeter
7 3 (0.96%) Selenium
7 3 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.64%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.64%) MSTest
8 2 (0.64%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.32%) GitLab
9 1 (0.32%) Sourcetree
9 1 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 67 (21.54%) Finance
2 61 (19.61%) Social Skills
3 18 (5.79%) Front Office
4 10 (3.22%) Banking
5 9 (2.89%) Games
5 9 (2.89%) Retail
6 8 (2.57%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.25%) Advertising
8 6 (1.93%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (1.93%) Back Office
9 5 (1.61%) Legal
10 4 (1.29%) Electronics
10 4 (1.29%) Law
10 4 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.96%) Automotive
11 3 (0.96%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.96%) Marketing
12 2 (0.64%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.64%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 311 (100.00%) .NET
2 120 (38.59%) .NET Core
3 104 (33.44%) ASP.NET
4 91 (29.26%) .NET Framework
5 85 (27.33%) AngularJS
6 84 (27.01%) HTML
7 81 (26.05%) React
8 73 (23.47%) CSS
9 67 (21.54%) ASP.NET Web API
9 67 (21.54%) RESTful
10 63 (20.26%) Entity Framework
11 61 (19.61%) ASP.NET MVC
12 47 (15.11%) Vue
13 44 (14.15%) Blazor
14 43 (13.83%) REST
15 35 (11.25%) HTML5
16 32 (10.29%) ASP.NET Core
17 28 (9.00%) Node.js
18 20 (6.43%) LINQ
19 19 (6.11%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.43%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.14%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (4.50%) Mobile App
4 8 (2.57%) Clustering
4 8 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.25%) Digital TV
5 7 (2.25%) Online Games
6 6 (1.93%) BYOD
6 6 (1.93%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.61%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.96%) Hedge funds
9 3 (0.96%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.64%) Derivative
10 2 (0.64%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.64%) IoT
10 2 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.25%) Android
1 7 (2.25%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.61%) Linux
3 4 (1.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (56.59%) Agile
2 126 (40.51%) Full-Stack Development
3 108 (34.73%) Microservices
4 105 (33.76%) CI/CD
5 96 (30.87%) MVC
6 90 (28.94%) DevOps
7 66 (21.22%) Scrum
8 61 (19.61%) Software Engineering
9 54 (17.36%) Roadmaps
10 51 (16.40%) TDD
11 47 (15.11%) AI
12 45 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
12 45 (14.47%) Kanban
13 41 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (12.86%) Clean Code
14 40 (12.86%) Design Patterns
15 31 (9.97%) Business Strategy
16 29 (9.32%) BDD
17 27 (8.68%) Mentoring
17 27 (8.68%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 245 (78.78%) C#
2 148 (47.59%) JavaScript
3 132 (42.44%) SQL
4 98 (31.51%) TypeScript
5 8 (2.57%) T-SQL
6 5 (1.61%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.29%) XAML
8 3 (0.96%) Erlang
8 3 (0.96%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.64%) Bicep
9 2 (0.64%) Python
10 1 (0.32%) Java
10 1 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (9.00%) Degree
2 20 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (3.22%) Master's Degree
4 3 (0.96%) AWS Certification
4 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.32%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.36%) 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 36 (11.58%) Docker
2 12 (3.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (5.79%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 93 (29.90%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.25%) Facebook
2 7 (2.25%) YouTube
3 6 (1.93%) Oracle
3 6 (1.93%) Rollbar
3 6 (1.93%) Trayport
4 5 (1.61%) Splunk
5 4 (1.29%) Telerik
5 4 (1.29%) Xamarin
6 3 (0.96%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.64%) Adobe
7 2 (0.64%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.64%) Sybase
8 1 (0.32%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.32%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.32%) Okta
8 1 (0.32%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.32%) SAP