.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 16 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 129 147
Rank change year-on-year -251 +18 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 324 1,506 1,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 1.94% 2.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 2.03% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 305 1,269 1,273
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,600 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £81,750 £68,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £80,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +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 44,155 74,074 57,839
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.61% 95.25% 94.01%
Number of salaries quoted 25,862 44,536 44,785
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

.NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured .NET Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Developer 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -222 313 £65,000 +8.33% 298
UK excluding London -252 208 £57,500 - 243
Work from Home -109 205 £65,000 +18.18% 288
London -59 105 £75,000 +7.14% 83
North of England -134 84 £60,000 +9.09% 72
North West -78 60 £60,000 +6.67% 45
South East -115 56 £75,000 +25.00% 77
Midlands -81 28 £50,000 -9.09% 36
South West -15 22 £49,500 -17.50% 15
West Midlands -30 22 £50,000 -9.09% 16
Yorkshire -83 15 £60,000 +9.09% 16
East of England -70 13 £57,500 -11.54% 30
North East -45 9 £100,000 +66.67% 12
East Midlands -55 6 £40,000 -20.00% 19
Scotland -44 3 £45,000 -14.69% 4
Wales -10 2 £45,750 -23.75% 10

.NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 September 2025, .NET Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring .NET Developer in the job title.

1 324 (100.00%) .NET
2 267 (82.41%) C#
3 200 (61.73%) Azure
4 175 (54.01%) Agile
5 140 (43.21%) JavaScript
6 135 (41.67%) SQL
7 126 (38.89%) .NET Core
8 113 (34.88%) Microservices
9 112 (34.57%) SQL Server
10 108 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
11 107 (33.02%) AWS
12 102 (31.48%) ASP.NET
13 99 (30.56%) Microsoft
14 90 (27.78%) TypeScript
15 89 (27.47%) DevOps
16 86 (26.54%) MVC
17 83 (25.62%) CI/CD
18 81 (25.00%) AngularJS
19 80 (24.69%) .NET Framework
20 77 (23.77%) HTML
21 72 (22.22%) Finance
22 70 (21.60%) ASP.NET Web API
22 70 (21.60%) React
23 69 (21.30%) Software Engineering
24 68 (20.99%) MongoDB
25 65 (20.06%) Git
26 61 (18.83%) CSS
27 59 (18.21%) SaaS
28 58 (17.90%) Entity Framework
29 57 (17.59%) ASP.NET MVC

.NET Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (4.63%) Confluence
2 14 (4.32%) IIS
3 12 (3.70%) CMS
4 4 (1.23%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.62%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.31%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.93%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.62%) Carpe Diem
2 2 (0.62%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.31%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.31%) Magento
3 1 (0.31%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.31%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 200 (61.73%) Azure
2 107 (33.02%) AWS
3 59 (18.21%) SaaS
4 38 (11.73%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (9.57%) GCP
6 24 (7.41%) Serverless
7 21 (6.48%) GitHub
8 19 (5.86%) Azure Service Bus
9 11 (3.40%) Azure Functions
9 11 (3.40%) Power Platform
10 9 (2.78%) Power Automate
11 8 (2.47%) Azure App Service
11 8 (2.47%) PowerApps
12 7 (2.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (1.85%) Cloudflare
13 6 (1.85%) Entra ID
13 6 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.85%) PaaS
14 5 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
15 4 (1.23%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.54%) Internet
2 1 (0.31%) HTTP
2 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (34.57%) SQL Server
2 68 (20.99%) MongoDB
3 48 (14.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 31 (9.57%) Elasticsearch
5 30 (9.26%) NoSQL
6 16 (4.94%) MySQL
7 13 (4.01%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.16%) NonStop SQL
9 6 (1.85%) Redis
10 5 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (1.54%) Power BI
11 4 (1.23%) Tableau
12 3 (0.93%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.31%) Event Store
13 1 (0.31%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 65 (20.06%) Git
2 19 (5.86%) JIRA
3 11 (3.40%) NUnit
4 9 (2.78%) Visual Studio
5 7 (2.16%) TeamCity
6 6 (1.85%) JMeter
7 5 (1.54%) Jasmine
7 5 (1.54%) Postman
7 5 (1.54%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (1.23%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.23%) Jenkins
8 4 (1.23%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.93%) Selenium
9 3 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.62%) MSTest
10 2 (0.62%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.31%) GitLab
11 1 (0.31%) Sourcetree
11 1 (0.31%) Subversion
General
1 72 (22.22%) Finance
2 46 (14.20%) Social Skills
3 19 (5.86%) Front Office
4 17 (5.25%) Retail
5 11 (3.40%) Games
6 10 (3.09%) Back Office
7 8 (2.47%) Law
7 8 (2.47%) Legal
8 7 (2.16%) Advertising
8 7 (2.16%) Banking
8 7 (2.16%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.23%) Marketing
11 3 (0.93%) Automotive
11 3 (0.93%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.62%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.62%) Publishing
13 1 (0.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.31%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.31%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 324 (100.00%) .NET
2 126 (38.89%) .NET Core
3 102 (31.48%) ASP.NET
4 81 (25.00%) AngularJS
5 80 (24.69%) .NET Framework
6 77 (23.77%) HTML
7 70 (21.60%) ASP.NET Web API
7 70 (21.60%) React
8 61 (18.83%) CSS
9 58 (17.90%) Entity Framework
10 57 (17.59%) ASP.NET MVC
10 57 (17.59%) RESTful
11 43 (13.27%) Vue
12 40 (12.35%) HTML5
13 39 (12.04%) Blazor
14 33 (10.19%) Node.js
14 33 (10.19%) REST
15 27 (8.33%) Web Services
16 23 (7.10%) CSS3
17 19 (5.86%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.17%) Cloud Native
2 14 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (4.01%) Mobile App
4 12 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (3.09%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.78%) Clustering
7 8 (2.47%) Hedge funds
7 8 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.16%) Digital TV
8 7 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (2.16%) Online Games
9 6 (1.85%) BYOD
10 4 (1.23%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.23%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.23%) IoT
10 4 (1.23%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.93%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.93%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.85%) Windows
2 3 (0.93%) Android
2 3 (0.93%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.93%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (54.01%) Agile
2 113 (34.88%) Microservices
3 108 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 89 (27.47%) DevOps
5 86 (26.54%) MVC
6 83 (25.62%) CI/CD
7 69 (21.30%) Software Engineering
8 55 (16.98%) Roadmaps
9 54 (16.67%) Design Patterns
10 53 (16.36%) TDD
11 47 (14.51%) Kanban
12 45 (13.89%) Scrum
13 41 (12.65%) Artificial Intelligence
14 37 (11.42%) Problem-Solving
15 34 (10.49%) Continuous Improvement
16 32 (9.88%) Business Strategy
17 30 (9.26%) Clean Code
17 30 (9.26%) Mentoring
18 29 (8.95%) BDD
18 29 (8.95%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 267 (82.41%) C#
2 140 (43.21%) JavaScript
3 135 (41.67%) SQL
4 90 (27.78%) TypeScript
5 11 (3.40%) Python
6 10 (3.09%) VB.NET
7 7 (2.16%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.23%) Java
9 3 (0.93%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.31%) Bicep
10 1 (0.31%) PHP
10 1 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 23 (7.10%) Degree
2 13 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.23%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.31%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.17%) QA
2 5 (1.54%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.93%) WCAG
4 2 (0.62%) GDPR
4 2 (0.62%) HL7
System Software
1 36 (11.11%) Docker
2 5 (1.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (7.10%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.40%) Terraform
Vendors
1 99 (30.56%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.16%) Facebook
2 7 (2.16%) Splunk
2 7 (2.16%) Trayport
2 7 (2.16%) YouTube
3 6 (1.85%) Rollbar
4 5 (1.54%) Oracle
5 4 (1.23%) Xamarin
6 3 (0.93%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.62%) Intapp
7 2 (0.62%) Sybase
8 1 (0.31%) Adobe
8 1 (0.31%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.31%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.31%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.31%) New Relic
8 1 (0.31%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.31%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.31%) SAP
8 1 (0.31%) Telerik