.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 April 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 281 100
Rank change year-on-year -40 -181 +91
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 478 443 2,546
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.06% 2.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 1.19% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 434 398 2,450
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,350 £39,975
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £83,300
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -

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 80,276 37,162 89,418
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 89.30% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 51,387 23,373 66,316
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 April 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 April 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 -20 441 £60,000 +4.35% 205
UK excluding London -23 374 £55,000 +4.76% 159
Work from Home -52 166 £55,000 +2.80% 185
North of England -27 130 £60,000 - 50
South East -4 107 £55,650 +6.00% 47
London -26 79 £83,000 -2.35% 58
North West -25 69 £60,000 +9.09% 31
Yorkshire -33 51 £60,000 - 13
Midlands -33 48 £52,500 - 19
South West -24 45 £50,000 -20.00% 13
East of England -49 31 £55,000 +3.77% 20
West Midlands -25 29 £50,000 -13.04% 10
East Midlands -44 19 £55,000 +4.76% 9
North East -28 10 £55,000 +22.22% 6
Scotland -46 7 £55,000 +69.23% 7
Wales -24 6 £45,000 -10.00% 5

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

For the 6 months to 18 April 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.

1 478 (100.00%) .NET
2 296 (61.92%) C#
3 175 (36.61%) Full-Stack Development
4 173 (36.19%) Azure
5 139 (29.08%) .NET Core
6 130 (27.20%) SQL
7 119 (24.90%) Agile
8 95 (19.87%) ASP.NET
9 87 (18.20%) CI/CD
10 84 (17.57%) SQL Server
11 80 (16.74%) React
12 79 (16.53%) SaaS
13 77 (16.11%) Microsoft
13 77 (16.11%) Software Engineering
14 72 (15.06%) JavaScript
14 72 (15.06%) Microservices
15 71 (14.85%) DevOps
16 67 (14.02%) HTML
17 64 (13.39%) CSS
18 62 (12.97%) RESTful
19 59 (12.34%) ASP.NET Core
20 58 (12.13%) .NET Framework
21 55 (11.51%) AWS
22 52 (10.88%) AngularJS
23 51 (10.67%) TypeScript
24 50 (10.46%) Blazor
25 48 (10.04%) MVC
26 47 (9.83%) Azure DevOps
27 45 (9.41%) Docker
28 44 (9.21%) Vue

.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 3 (0.63%) IIS
2 2 (0.42%) NServiceBus
2 2 (0.42%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.21%) CMS
3 1 (0.21%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 173 (36.19%) Azure
2 79 (16.53%) SaaS
3 55 (11.51%) AWS
4 47 (9.83%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (8.37%) GitHub
6 38 (7.95%) Serverless
7 29 (6.07%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (4.39%) Azure Logic Apps
9 17 (3.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 15 (3.14%) Azure App Service
10 15 (3.14%) Entra ID
10 15 (3.14%) PaaS
11 14 (2.93%) Azure AI
11 14 (2.93%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (2.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (2.72%) Amazon S3
12 13 (2.72%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (2.72%) Azure Functions
13 12 (2.51%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.84%) Internet
2 2 (0.42%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.21%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (17.57%) SQL Server
2 38 (7.95%) Azure SQL Database
3 35 (7.32%) NoSQL
4 30 (6.28%) MongoDB
5 14 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.51%) DynamoDB
7 10 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (1.46%) MySQL
9 4 (0.84%) Power BI
9 4 (0.84%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.42%) CouchDB
10 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.21%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.21%) NonStop SQL
11 1 (0.21%) Redis
11 1 (0.21%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (8.37%) Git
2 8 (1.67%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.21%) JIRA
3 1 (0.21%) MSTest
3 1 (0.21%) NUnit
3 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.21%) Postman
3 1 (0.21%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.21%) Vite
3 1 (0.21%) webpack
General
1 47 (9.83%) Finance
2 40 (8.37%) Social Skills
3 10 (2.09%) Games
3 10 (2.09%) Law
4 7 (1.46%) Banking
4 7 (1.46%) Manufacturing
5 5 (1.05%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (1.05%) Back Office
6 4 (0.84%) Advertising
6 4 (0.84%) Investment Banking
6 4 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (0.63%) Front Office
7 3 (0.63%) Marketing
8 2 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.42%) Legal
8 2 (0.42%) Retail
9 1 (0.21%) Electronics
9 1 (0.21%) iGaming
9 1 (0.21%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 478 (100.00%) .NET
2 139 (29.08%) .NET Core
3 95 (19.87%) ASP.NET
4 80 (16.74%) React
5 67 (14.02%) HTML
6 64 (13.39%) CSS
7 62 (12.97%) RESTful
8 59 (12.34%) ASP.NET Core
9 58 (12.13%) .NET Framework
10 52 (10.88%) AngularJS
11 50 (10.46%) Blazor
12 44 (9.21%) Vue
13 38 (7.95%) Entity Framework
14 28 (5.86%) ASP.NET Web API
15 27 (5.65%) REST
16 20 (4.18%) ASP.NET MVC
17 19 (3.97%) Razor View Engine
18 13 (2.72%) ASP.NET Web Forms
18 13 (2.72%) ML.NET
19 12 (2.51%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.16%) Mobile App
2 21 (4.39%) Cloud Native
3 13 (2.72%) PropTech
4 12 (2.51%) Hedge funds
5 8 (1.67%) Sports Betting
6 7 (1.46%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.26%) Legacy Code
8 5 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.84%) Social Network
10 3 (0.63%) Derivative
10 3 (0.63%) Digital TV
10 3 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.42%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.42%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.42%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.42%) IoT
11 2 (0.42%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.84%) Windows
2 3 (0.63%) Android
3 2 (0.42%) Linux
3 2 (0.42%) VMS
4 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (36.61%) Full-Stack Development
2 119 (24.90%) Agile
3 87 (18.20%) CI/CD
4 77 (16.11%) Software Engineering
5 72 (15.06%) Microservices
6 71 (14.85%) DevOps
7 48 (10.04%) MVC
8 43 (9.00%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (6.28%) AI
10 30 (6.28%) Clean Code
11 28 (5.86%) TDD
12 27 (5.65%) Scrum
13 26 (5.44%) SDLC
14 23 (4.81%) Containerisation
15 21 (4.39%) Mentoring
16 20 (4.18%) API Development
17 19 (3.97%) Kanban
17 19 (3.97%) Multithreading
17 19 (3.97%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 296 (61.92%) C#
2 130 (27.20%) SQL
3 72 (15.06%) JavaScript
4 51 (10.67%) TypeScript
5 10 (2.09%) VB
6 8 (1.67%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.63%) Bicep
7 3 (0.63%) VB.NET
8 2 (0.42%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.21%) C++
9 1 (0.21%) Java
9 1 (0.21%) Python
9 1 (0.21%) XAML
Qualifications
1 24 (5.02%) SC Cleared
1 24 (5.02%) Security Cleared
2 17 (3.56%) Degree
3 13 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (2.09%) AWS Certification
4 10 (2.09%) AWS Certified Developer
5 8 (1.67%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.21%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.77%) QA
2 5 (1.05%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 45 (9.41%) Docker
2 9 (1.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (3.77%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 77 (16.11%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.14%) Xamarin
3 5 (1.05%) Facebook
3 5 (1.05%) OpenAI
4 4 (0.84%) Google
4 4 (0.84%) Telerik
5 3 (0.63%) Sage
6 2 (0.42%) Apple
6 2 (0.42%) iManage
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle
6 2 (0.42%) Sony
6 2 (0.42%) Yahoo!
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe
7 1 (0.21%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.21%) Databricks
7 1 (0.21%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.21%) Foundry
7 1 (0.21%) SAP
7 1 (0.21%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.21%) YouTube