.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 7 December 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 177 147
Rank change year-on-year -184 -30 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 317 989 1,132
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.59% 2.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 1.69% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 290 798 1,052
10th Percentile £43,750 £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £84,688 £66,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £82,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +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 50,704 58,391 48,070
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.90% 94.00% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 31,404 32,367 37,457
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

.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 7 December 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 7 December 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 -156 292 £62,500 +8.70% 282
UK excluding London -164 203 £60,000 +9.09% 252
Work from Home -84 175 £70,000 +30.84% 199
London -9 91 £75,000 +3.45% 59
South East -32 68 £70,000 +27.27% 82
North of England -90 64 £60,000 +9.09% 66
North West -32 40 £60,000 +4.35% 38
South West -14 27 £51,500 -10.43% 22
Midlands -65 26 £52,500 -4.55% 36
Yorkshire -56 17 £60,000 +20.00% 22
East Midlands -24 13 £52,000 -3.26% 15
West Midlands -35 13 £55,000 - 21
East of England -53 10 £60,000 +20.00% 24
North East -24 7 £50,000 - 6
Wales -5 4 £45,000 -25.00% 10
Scotland -81 4 £55,000 +15.79% 13

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

For the 6 months to 7 December 2025, .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.

1 317 (100.00%) .NET
2 235 (74.13%) C#
3 205 (64.67%) Azure
4 173 (54.57%) Agile
5 141 (44.48%) JavaScript
6 135 (42.59%) .NET Core
7 126 (39.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 126 (39.75%) SQL
8 106 (33.44%) CI/CD
9 105 (33.12%) SQL Server
10 104 (32.81%) Microservices
11 100 (31.55%) ASP.NET
12 94 (29.65%) MVC
13 93 (29.34%) TypeScript
14 91 (28.71%) Microsoft
15 90 (28.39%) AWS
16 89 (28.08%) DevOps
17 87 (27.44%) .NET Framework
18 82 (25.87%) React
19 74 (23.34%) AngularJS
20 73 (23.03%) HTML
21 70 (22.08%) ASP.NET Web API
22 66 (20.82%) ASP.NET MVC
23 65 (20.50%) RESTful
24 64 (20.19%) Entity Framework
24 64 (20.19%) Scrum
24 64 (20.19%) Software Engineering
25 63 (19.87%) CSS
26 62 (19.56%) SaaS
27 59 (18.61%) MongoDB

.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 12 (3.79%) CMS
2 8 (2.52%) Confluence
3 4 (1.26%) IIS
4 1 (0.32%) Kentico
4 1 (0.32%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.32%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.95%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.32%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.32%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.32%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 205 (64.67%) Azure
2 90 (28.39%) AWS
3 62 (19.56%) SaaS
4 46 (14.51%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (13.25%) Serverless
6 32 (10.09%) GitHub
7 31 (9.78%) GCP
8 24 (7.57%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (6.62%) Azure Service Bus
10 18 (5.68%) Azure App Service
11 17 (5.36%) Entra ID
12 16 (5.05%) PaaS
13 13 (4.10%) Azure Functions
14 11 (3.47%) Power Platform
15 9 (2.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 7 (2.21%) Amazon EventBridge
16 7 (2.21%) Amazon SQS
16 7 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (2.21%) AWS Step Functions
16 7 (2.21%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.95%) Internet
2 1 (0.32%) DNS
2 1 (0.32%) HTTP
2 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (33.12%) SQL Server
2 59 (18.61%) MongoDB
3 51 (16.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 46 (14.51%) NoSQL
5 21 (6.62%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (2.52%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.21%) DynamoDB
8 7 (2.21%) NonStop SQL
9 6 (1.89%) MySQL
10 5 (1.58%) Power BI
11 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.32%) RavenDB
11 1 (0.32%) Redis
11 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 58 (18.30%) Git
2 13 (4.10%) Visual Studio
3 10 (3.15%) JIRA
4 5 (1.58%) Postman
5 4 (1.26%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.26%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.95%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.95%) JMeter
6 3 (0.95%) NUnit
6 3 (0.95%) Selenium
6 3 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.63%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.63%) MSTest
8 1 (0.32%) GitLab
8 1 (0.32%) Sourcetree
8 1 (0.32%) SpecFlow
General
1 68 (21.45%) Finance
2 60 (18.93%) Social Skills
3 12 (3.79%) Front Office
4 9 (2.84%) Retail
5 8 (2.52%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.21%) Advertising
6 7 (2.21%) Banking
7 6 (1.89%) Back Office
8 4 (1.26%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.26%) Electronics
8 4 (1.26%) Games
8 4 (1.26%) Law
8 4 (1.26%) Legal
8 4 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.95%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.63%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.63%) Marketing
11 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 317 (100.00%) .NET
2 135 (42.59%) .NET Core
3 100 (31.55%) ASP.NET
4 87 (27.44%) .NET Framework
5 82 (25.87%) React
6 74 (23.34%) AngularJS
7 73 (23.03%) HTML
8 70 (22.08%) ASP.NET Web API
9 66 (20.82%) ASP.NET MVC
10 65 (20.50%) RESTful
11 64 (20.19%) Entity Framework
12 63 (19.87%) CSS
13 50 (15.77%) Blazor
14 38 (11.99%) REST
14 38 (11.99%) Vue
15 28 (8.83%) ASP.NET Core
16 27 (8.52%) Node.js
17 24 (7.57%) HTML5
18 20 (6.31%) ASP.NET Web Forms
18 20 (6.31%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.26%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (4.73%) Mobile App
4 9 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.21%) Clustering
5 7 (2.21%) Digital TV
6 6 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.26%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.95%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.95%) Hedge funds
9 3 (0.95%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.63%) BYOD
10 2 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.63%) Online Games
10 2 (0.63%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.63%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.89%) Android
1 6 (1.89%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.26%) Linux
3 1 (0.32%) VMS
3 1 (0.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (54.57%) Agile
2 126 (39.75%) Full-Stack Development
3 106 (33.44%) CI/CD
4 104 (32.81%) Microservices
5 94 (29.65%) MVC
6 89 (28.08%) DevOps
7 64 (20.19%) Scrum
7 64 (20.19%) Software Engineering
8 52 (16.40%) Roadmaps
9 50 (15.77%) TDD
10 47 (14.83%) AI
11 46 (14.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 45 (14.20%) Kanban
13 44 (13.88%) Clean Code
13 44 (13.88%) Problem-Solving
14 32 (10.09%) Business Strategy
15 30 (9.46%) Design Patterns
16 28 (8.83%) BDD
16 28 (8.83%) Front End Development
17 27 (8.52%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 235 (74.13%) C#
2 141 (44.48%) JavaScript
3 126 (39.75%) SQL
4 93 (29.34%) TypeScript
5 6 (1.89%) T-SQL
6 5 (1.58%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.26%) XAML
8 3 (0.95%) Erlang
9 2 (0.63%) Bicep
9 2 (0.63%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.32%) Java
10 1 (0.32%) Python
Qualifications
1 29 (9.15%) Degree
2 21 (6.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (3.79%) Master's Degree
4 7 (2.21%) AWS Certification
4 7 (2.21%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.32%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.15%) QA
2 8 (2.52%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.95%) WCAG
4 2 (0.63%) GDPR
5 1 (0.32%) HL7
5 1 (0.32%) IFRS
5 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (11.36%) Docker
2 14 (4.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (4.42%) Terraform
2 13 (4.10%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 91 (28.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.21%) Facebook
2 7 (2.21%) YouTube
3 4 (1.26%) Oracle
3 4 (1.26%) Telerik
4 3 (0.95%) Dynatrace
5 2 (0.63%) Adobe
5 2 (0.63%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.63%) Splunk
5 2 (0.63%) Trayport
5 2 (0.63%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.32%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.32%) Foundry
6 1 (0.32%) Infragistics
6 1 (0.32%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.32%) Okta
6 1 (0.32%) Perforce
6 1 (0.32%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.32%) Sybase