.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 18 March 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 265 98
Rank change year-on-year -84 -167 +85
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 404 488 2,432
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.14% 2.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 1.26% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 364 418 2,348
10th Percentile £43,750 £32,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £74,063 £71,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,650 £51,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.54% -5.91% +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 68,785 38,695 80,406
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 90.46% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 43,819 23,042 61,532
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,500 £38,750
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 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -51 367 £60,000 +4.35% 235
UK excluding London -53 312 £55,650 +7.54% 184
Work from Home -55 159 £60,000 +20.00% 203
North of England -31 112 £60,000 +14.29% 53
South East -1 84 £60,000 +14.29% 57
London -47 65 £80,000 -7.25% 73
North West -34 57 £65,000 +23.81% 28
Midlands -20 45 £50,000 -9.09% 26
Yorkshire -17 43 £60,000 - 17
South West -18 35 £50,000 -28.57% 20
West Midlands -7 24 £50,000 -13.04% 15
East of England -52 24 £57,500 +17.95% 23
East Midlands -30 21 £53,750 +2.38% 11
North East -12 12 £55,000 +22.22% 10
Wales -16 6 £45,000 -10.00% 3
Scotland -49 6 £55,000 +69.23% 5

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

For the 6 months to 18 March 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.

1 404 (100.00%) .NET
2 261 (64.60%) C#
3 169 (41.83%) Full-Stack Development
4 159 (39.36%) Azure
5 141 (34.90%) .NET Core
6 127 (31.44%) Agile
7 116 (28.71%) SQL
8 94 (23.27%) ASP.NET
8 94 (23.27%) CI/CD
9 88 (21.78%) React
10 87 (21.53%) SQL Server
11 86 (21.29%) JavaScript
12 80 (19.80%) Microsoft
13 77 (19.06%) DevOps
14 75 (18.56%) Microservices
15 66 (16.34%) HTML
16 65 (16.09%) CSS
17 64 (15.84%) Software Engineering
18 63 (15.59%) .NET Framework
19 61 (15.10%) MVC
19 61 (15.10%) RESTful
20 58 (14.36%) AngularJS
20 58 (14.36%) SaaS
21 56 (13.86%) ASP.NET Core
22 55 (13.61%) TypeScript
23 53 (13.12%) Blazor
24 49 (12.13%) AWS
25 46 (11.39%) Azure DevOps
25 46 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
26 43 (10.64%) 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 4 (0.99%) CMS
1 4 (0.99%) IIS
2 2 (0.50%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.25%) Kentico
3 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 159 (39.36%) Azure
2 58 (14.36%) SaaS
3 49 (12.13%) AWS
4 46 (11.39%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (9.65%) GitHub
5 39 (9.65%) Serverless
6 29 (7.18%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (4.46%) Entra ID
8 16 (3.96%) Azure App Service
9 15 (3.71%) PaaS
10 13 (3.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (3.22%) Amazon S3
10 13 (3.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (3.22%) Azure AI
10 13 (3.22%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (2.97%) Amazon EventBridge
11 12 (2.97%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (2.97%) AWS Step Functions
12 11 (2.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.24%) Internet
2 2 (0.50%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.25%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (21.53%) SQL Server
2 40 (9.90%) Azure SQL Database
2 40 (9.90%) MongoDB
3 39 (9.65%) NoSQL
4 14 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (2.97%) DynamoDB
5 12 (2.97%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.24%) MySQL
6 5 (1.24%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.99%) Power BI
8 2 (0.50%) CouchDB
8 2 (0.50%) NonStop SQL
9 1 (0.25%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.25%) RavenDB
9 1 (0.25%) Redis
9 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (10.15%) Git
2 10 (2.48%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.25%) MSTest
3 1 (0.25%) NUnit
3 1 (0.25%) Postman
3 1 (0.25%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.25%) Vite
3 1 (0.25%) webpack
General
1 49 (12.13%) Finance
2 43 (10.64%) Social Skills
3 10 (2.48%) Games
4 9 (2.23%) Banking
5 8 (1.98%) Law
6 7 (1.73%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.24%) Advertising
7 5 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (0.99%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (0.99%) Electronics
8 4 (0.99%) Front Office
8 4 (0.99%) Investment Banking
8 4 (0.99%) Marketing
9 3 (0.74%) Legal
10 2 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.25%) Back Office
11 1 (0.25%) iGaming
11 1 (0.25%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.25%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 404 (100.00%) .NET
2 141 (34.90%) .NET Core
3 94 (23.27%) ASP.NET
4 88 (21.78%) React
5 66 (16.34%) HTML
6 65 (16.09%) CSS
7 63 (15.59%) .NET Framework
8 61 (15.10%) RESTful
9 58 (14.36%) AngularJS
10 56 (13.86%) ASP.NET Core
11 53 (13.12%) Blazor
12 40 (9.90%) Entity Framework
13 37 (9.16%) ASP.NET Web API
14 35 (8.66%) Vue
15 31 (7.67%) REST
16 28 (6.93%) ASP.NET MVC
17 20 (4.95%) Razor View Engine
18 16 (3.96%) ASP.NET Web Forms
19 12 (2.97%) AWS CDK
19 12 (2.97%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.18%) Mobile App
2 20 (4.95%) Cloud Native
3 11 (2.72%) Hedge funds
4 9 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (1.98%) PropTech
6 6 (1.49%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.49%) Sports Betting
7 5 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (0.99%) Digital TV
8 4 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (0.99%) Social Network
9 3 (0.74%) Derivative
9 3 (0.74%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.50%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.50%) IoT
10 2 (0.50%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.24%) Android
2 4 (0.99%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.50%) Linux
4 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (41.83%) Full-Stack Development
2 127 (31.44%) Agile
3 94 (23.27%) CI/CD
4 77 (19.06%) DevOps
5 75 (18.56%) Microservices
6 64 (15.84%) Software Engineering
7 61 (15.10%) MVC
8 46 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (9.90%) Scrum
10 35 (8.66%) Clean Code
11 32 (7.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (6.93%) TDD
13 27 (6.68%) AI
14 26 (6.44%) Containerisation
15 23 (5.69%) Kanban
16 22 (5.45%) Mentoring
17 21 (5.20%) Code Quality
17 21 (5.20%) SDLC
18 20 (4.95%) Front End Development
18 20 (4.95%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 261 (64.60%) C#
2 116 (28.71%) SQL
3 86 (21.29%) JavaScript
4 55 (13.61%) TypeScript
5 4 (0.99%) T-SQL
5 4 (0.99%) XAML
6 3 (0.74%) Bicep
6 3 (0.74%) Erlang
6 3 (0.74%) PowerShell
6 3 (0.74%) VB
7 2 (0.50%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.25%) C++
8 1 (0.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (5.20%) Degree
2 17 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (2.97%) SC Cleared
3 12 (2.97%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.48%) AWS Certification
4 10 (2.48%) AWS Certified Developer
4 10 (2.48%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.70%) QA
2 4 (0.99%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.25%) IFRS
3 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 43 (10.64%) Docker
2 12 (2.97%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (4.46%) Terraform
2 15 (3.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 80 (19.80%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.23%) Xamarin
3 5 (1.24%) Facebook
4 4 (0.99%) Telerik
5 3 (0.74%) Google
5 3 (0.74%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle
6 2 (0.50%) Sage
6 2 (0.50%) YouTube
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe
7 1 (0.25%) Apple
7 1 (0.25%) Databricks
7 1 (0.25%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.25%) Foundry
7 1 (0.25%) IBM
7 1 (0.25%) Infragistics
7 1 (0.25%) Perforce
7 1 (0.25%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.25%) Sony
7 1 (0.25%) Yahoo!