.NET Developer Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 July 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 366 96
Rank change year-on-year +166 -270 +74
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 975 365 2,680
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.00% 0.76% 2.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 0.85% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 932 337 2,497
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,125 £95,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 91,659 43,150 98,619
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.16% 89.93% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 62,930 25,242 71,006
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,360 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,130 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.26% - -5.66%

.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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +149 915 £55,000 -8.33% 210
UK excluding London +175 845 £55,000 - 169
Work from Home +143 606 £55,000 -4.35% 186
South East +126 261 £55,000 - 57
North of England +88 258 £55,000 -8.33% 61
North West +35 122 £55,000 -8.33% 25
London -22 113 £80,000 - 60
East of England +60 111 £60,000 +13.21% 21
Midlands +37 95 £55,000 +10.00% 16
South West -6 78 £52,500 +5.00% 9
Yorkshire +28 69 £56,250 -6.25% 20
North East +10 67 £55,000 -45.00% 16
West Midlands +10 53 £55,000 +10.00% 11
East Midlands +8 42 £52,500 +16.67% 5
Scotland +32 29 £55,000 +69.23% 3
Wales -40 13 £50,000 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 6 July 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.

1 975 (100.00%) .NET
2 767 (78.67%) C#
3 600 (61.54%) Azure
4 595 (61.03%) Full-Stack Development
5 542 (55.59%) .NET Core
6 534 (54.77%) SQL
7 516 (52.92%) ASP.NET
8 496 (50.87%) Microsoft
9 479 (49.13%) ASP.NET Core
10 441 (45.23%) Azure SQL Database
11 414 (42.46%) Agile
12 399 (40.92%) MongoDB
13 225 (23.08%) CI/CD
14 224 (22.97%) JavaScript
15 219 (22.46%) DevOps
16 216 (22.15%) React
17 211 (21.64%) Blazor
18 207 (21.23%) CSS
19 206 (21.13%) HTML
20 200 (20.51%) AI
21 197 (20.21%) Microservices
22 195 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
23 192 (19.69%) Entity Framework
24 189 (19.38%) RESTful
25 188 (19.28%) Vue
26 184 (18.87%) TypeScript
27 182 (18.67%) AngularJS
28 173 (17.74%) ASP.NET Web API
29 165 (16.92%) Multithreading
30 161 (16.51%) 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 (0.41%) NServiceBus
2 3 (0.31%) CMS
2 3 (0.31%) DNN
2 3 (0.31%) EPiServer
2 3 (0.31%) IIS
2 3 (0.31%) Immediacy CMS
2 3 (0.31%) Kentico
2 3 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (0.31%) Sitefinity
2 3 (0.31%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.21%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.10%) Sage 200
1 1 (0.10%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 600 (61.54%) Azure
2 195 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 154 (15.79%) Azure AI
4 150 (15.38%) GitHub
5 136 (13.95%) AWS
6 130 (13.33%) GitHub Copilot
7 71 (7.28%) SaaS
8 69 (7.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 27 (2.77%) Serverless
10 22 (2.26%) Azure Logic Apps
11 20 (2.05%) Azure Service Bus
12 19 (1.95%) Azure Functions
13 17 (1.74%) Google Play
14 16 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (1.13%) PaaS
16 9 (0.92%) Azure Monitor
17 8 (0.82%) Azure App Service
17 8 (0.82%) Entra ID
17 8 (0.82%) Power Platform
18 6 (0.62%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 59 (6.05%) Internet
2 8 (0.82%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.10%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 441 (45.23%) Azure SQL Database
2 399 (40.92%) MongoDB
3 149 (15.28%) Elasticsearch
4 96 (9.85%) SQL Server
5 14 (1.44%) MySQL
6 11 (1.13%) NonStop SQL
7 7 (0.72%) NoSQL
8 6 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.41%) Power BI
11 3 (0.31%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.31%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.31%) SQLite
12 2 (0.21%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.21%) CouchDB
13 1 (0.10%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.10%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.10%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (2.46%) Git
2 7 (0.72%) JIRA
3 5 (0.51%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.31%) MSTest
4 3 (0.31%) NUnit
4 3 (0.31%) Postman
5 1 (0.10%) GitLab
5 1 (0.10%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.10%) JetBrains Rider
5 1 (0.10%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.10%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.10%) Vite
5 1 (0.10%) webpack
General
1 109 (11.18%) Finance
2 54 (5.54%) Advertising
3 52 (5.33%) Games
4 42 (4.31%) Marketing
5 30 (3.08%) Social Skills
6 27 (2.77%) Retail
7 13 (1.33%) Aerospace
8 10 (1.03%) Law
8 10 (1.03%) Music Industry
9 8 (0.82%) Automotive
9 8 (0.82%) Banking
9 8 (0.82%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.51%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (0.51%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.41%) Back Office
11 4 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.31%) Legal
12 3 (0.31%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.10%) Local Government
13 1 (0.10%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 975 (100.00%) .NET
2 542 (55.59%) .NET Core
3 516 (52.92%) ASP.NET
4 479 (49.13%) ASP.NET Core
5 216 (22.15%) React
6 211 (21.64%) Blazor
7 207 (21.23%) CSS
8 206 (21.13%) HTML
9 192 (19.69%) Entity Framework
10 189 (19.38%) RESTful
11 188 (19.28%) Vue
12 182 (18.67%) AngularJS
13 173 (17.74%) ASP.NET Web API
14 153 (15.69%) ML.NET
15 144 (14.77%) Node.js
16 110 (11.28%) LINQ
17 98 (10.05%) .NET Framework
18 30 (3.08%) WinForms
19 29 (2.97%) REST
20 24 (2.46%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 97 (9.95%) Greenfield Project
2 50 (5.13%) Mobile App
3 43 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
4 21 (2.15%) Digital TV
5 17 (1.74%) BBC
5 17 (1.74%) iPhone
5 17 (1.74%) Social Media
6 16 (1.64%) Social Network
7 11 (1.13%) Hedge funds
8 10 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (0.92%) Cloud Native
9 9 (0.92%) Legacy Code
10 8 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (0.82%) PropTech
10 8 (0.82%) Sports Betting
11 6 (0.62%) Product Ownership
12 5 (0.51%) Tandem
13 3 (0.31%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.31%) IoT
14 2 (0.21%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.15%) Android
2 11 (1.13%) Windows
3 1 (0.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 595 (61.03%) Full-Stack Development
2 414 (42.46%) Agile
3 225 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 219 (22.46%) DevOps
5 200 (20.51%) AI
6 197 (20.21%) Microservices
7 165 (16.92%) Multithreading
8 159 (16.31%) Machine Learning
9 113 (11.59%) Software Engineering
10 94 (9.64%) OO
11 91 (9.33%) Scrum
12 90 (9.23%) TDD
13 68 (6.97%) BDD
14 66 (6.77%) Kanban
15 59 (6.05%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
16 55 (5.64%) SDLC
17 47 (4.82%) Problem-Solving
18 45 (4.62%) Analytics
19 44 (4.51%) Continuous Improvement
20 39 (4.00%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 767 (78.67%) C#
2 534 (54.77%) SQL
3 224 (22.97%) JavaScript
4 184 (18.87%) TypeScript
5 15 (1.54%) Python
5 15 (1.54%) VB
5 15 (1.54%) VB.NET
6 14 (1.44%) T-SQL
7 4 (0.41%) Kotlin
7 4 (0.41%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.31%) Bicep
8 3 (0.31%) C++
9 2 (0.21%) Java
10 1 (0.10%) ABAP
10 1 (0.10%) Delphi
10 1 (0.10%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (3.79%) SC Cleared
1 37 (3.79%) Security Cleared
2 28 (2.87%) Degree
3 15 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (0.51%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.21%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.10%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (1.54%) QA
2 5 (0.51%) GDPR
3 4 (0.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 161 (16.51%) Docker
2 3 (0.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 144 (14.77%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.62%) Terraform
Vendors
1 496 (50.87%) Microsoft
2 58 (5.95%) Facebook
3 49 (5.03%) Google
4 20 (2.05%) YouTube
5 17 (1.74%) Apple
5 17 (1.74%) Sony
5 17 (1.74%) Yahoo!
6 13 (1.33%) Xamarin
7 8 (0.82%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.51%) Oracle
9 4 (0.41%) Sage
10 3 (0.31%) Alterian
10 3 (0.31%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.31%) SAP
10 3 (0.31%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.21%) IBM
11 2 (0.21%) iManage
11 2 (0.21%) OneLogin
12 1 (0.10%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.10%) DevExpress