.NET Developer Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer salary in the UK is £63,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 February 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 267 90
Rank change year-on-year -76 -177 +91
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 377 550 2,290
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.16% 3.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 1.27% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 350 426 2,209
10th Percentile £45,000 £32,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,219 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,650
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -5.45% +4.76%

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 63,755 43,253 71,453
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.42% 91.31% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 40,200 23,124 55,563
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,674 £45,000 £39,302
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 27 February 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 27 February 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 -68 345 £60,000 +4.35% 61
UK excluding London -76 278 £60,000 +15.38% 50
Work from Home -37 165 £65,000 +30.00% 41
North of England -30 95 £60,000 +14.29% 22
South East -2 85 £67,500 +28.57% 10
London -4 73 £80,000 -7.25% 15
North West -31 53 £60,000 +6.67% 12
Midlands -21 42 £50,000 -13.04% 4
Yorkshire -26 30 £60,000 +20.00% 9
South West -17 27 £50,000 -25.93% 10
West Midlands -1 22 £50,000 -13.04% 3
East Midlands -30 20 £52,500 - 1
East of England -39 20 £55,000 +10.00% 2
North East -3 12 £55,000 +22.22% 2
Wales -9 5 £45,000 -40.00%
Scotland -54 4 £55,000 +69.23% 2

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

For the 6 months to 27 February 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.

1 377 (100.00%) .NET
2 240 (63.66%) C#
3 170 (45.09%) Azure
4 154 (40.85%) Full-Stack Development
5 148 (39.26%) Agile
6 132 (35.01%) .NET Core
7 107 (28.38%) SQL
8 106 (28.12%) JavaScript
9 94 (24.93%) CI/CD
10 93 (24.67%) SQL Server
11 88 (23.34%) React
12 87 (23.08%) ASP.NET
13 81 (21.49%) Microservices
14 76 (20.16%) DevOps
15 75 (19.89%) TypeScript
16 71 (18.83%) Microsoft
16 71 (18.83%) SaaS
16 71 (18.83%) Software Engineering
17 70 (18.57%) AWS
18 69 (18.30%) .NET Framework
19 68 (18.04%) MVC
20 61 (16.18%) AngularJS
20 61 (16.18%) HTML
21 58 (15.38%) CSS
22 55 (14.59%) RESTful
23 48 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
24 47 (12.47%) Blazor
25 45 (11.94%) Azure DevOps
25 45 (11.94%) Git
26 44 (11.67%) NoSQL

.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 5 (1.33%) CMS
1 5 (1.33%) IIS
2 2 (0.53%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.27%) Kentico
3 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.27%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 170 (45.09%) Azure
2 71 (18.83%) SaaS
3 70 (18.57%) AWS
4 45 (11.94%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (11.14%) Serverless
6 35 (9.28%) GitHub
7 32 (8.49%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (5.31%) Entra ID
9 18 (4.77%) Azure App Service
9 18 (4.77%) GCP
10 16 (4.24%) PaaS
11 13 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (3.45%) Amazon S3
11 13 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (3.18%) Amazon EventBridge
12 12 (3.18%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (3.18%) AWS Step Functions
12 12 (3.18%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (2.92%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.33%) Internet
2 1 (0.27%) DNS
2 1 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (24.67%) SQL Server
2 44 (11.67%) NoSQL
3 34 (9.02%) MongoDB
4 31 (8.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 14 (3.71%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.18%) DynamoDB
7 11 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.33%) MySQL
8 5 (1.33%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.06%) Power BI
10 3 (0.80%) NonStop SQL
11 2 (0.53%) CouchDB
12 1 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.27%) RavenDB
12 1 (0.27%) Redis
12 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 45 (11.94%) Git
2 10 (2.65%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.27%) Postman
3 1 (0.27%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.27%) Vite
3 1 (0.27%) webpack
General
1 59 (15.65%) Finance
2 48 (12.73%) Social Skills
3 9 (2.39%) Banking
4 7 (1.86%) Games
4 7 (1.86%) Manufacturing
5 5 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (1.33%) Front Office
5 5 (1.33%) Law
5 5 (1.33%) Legal
5 5 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (1.06%) Electronics
7 3 (0.80%) Advertising
7 3 (0.80%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.27%) Back Office
9 1 (0.27%) iGaming
9 1 (0.27%) Marketing
9 1 (0.27%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.27%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 377 (100.00%) .NET
2 132 (35.01%) .NET Core
3 88 (23.34%) React
4 87 (23.08%) ASP.NET
5 69 (18.30%) .NET Framework
6 61 (16.18%) AngularJS
6 61 (16.18%) HTML
7 58 (15.38%) CSS
8 55 (14.59%) RESTful
9 47 (12.47%) Blazor
10 42 (11.14%) ASP.NET Web API
10 42 (11.14%) Entity Framework
11 41 (10.88%) ASP.NET Core
12 36 (9.55%) ASP.NET MVC
13 34 (9.02%) REST
14 30 (7.96%) Vue
15 22 (5.84%) Razor View Engine
16 19 (5.04%) ASP.NET Web Forms
17 15 (3.98%) HTML5
18 12 (3.18%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.43%) Mobile App
2 20 (5.31%) Cloud Native
3 11 (2.92%) Hedge funds
3 11 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.12%) PropTech
5 6 (1.59%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.33%) Sports Betting
7 4 (1.06%) Digital TV
7 4 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.80%) Clustering
8 3 (0.80%) Fixed Income
8 3 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.53%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.53%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.53%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.53%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.33%) Android
2 4 (1.06%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.80%) Linux
4 1 (0.27%) VMS
4 1 (0.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (40.85%) Full-Stack Development
2 148 (39.26%) Agile
3 94 (24.93%) CI/CD
4 81 (21.49%) Microservices
5 76 (20.16%) DevOps
6 71 (18.83%) Software Engineering
7 68 (18.04%) MVC
8 48 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
9 44 (11.67%) Scrum
10 37 (9.81%) AI
10 37 (9.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (9.28%) Roadmaps
12 34 (9.02%) Clean Code
13 31 (8.22%) TDD
14 27 (7.16%) Kanban
15 25 (6.63%) Mentoring
16 24 (6.37%) Containerisation
17 22 (5.84%) Code Quality
17 22 (5.84%) Front End Development
18 21 (5.57%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 240 (63.66%) C#
2 107 (28.38%) SQL
3 106 (28.12%) JavaScript
4 75 (19.89%) TypeScript
5 4 (1.06%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.06%) T-SQL
5 4 (1.06%) XAML
6 3 (0.80%) Erlang
6 3 (0.80%) VB
7 2 (0.53%) Bicep
7 2 (0.53%) Java
7 2 (0.53%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 23 (6.10%) Degree
2 18 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (3.18%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.65%) AWS Certification
4 10 (2.65%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.57%) QA
2 4 (1.06%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.27%) IFRS
3 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (9.81%) Docker
2 14 (3.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (4.77%) Terraform
2 8 (2.12%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 71 (18.83%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.39%) Xamarin
3 4 (1.06%) Facebook
3 4 (1.06%) Telerik
4 3 (0.80%) OpenAI
4 3 (0.80%) YouTube
5 2 (0.53%) Google
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe
6 1 (0.27%) Apple
6 1 (0.27%) Databricks
6 1 (0.27%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.27%) Foundry
6 1 (0.27%) IBM
6 1 (0.27%) Infragistics
6 1 (0.27%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.27%) Perforce
6 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.27%) Sony
6 1 (0.27%) Yahoo!