.NET Developer Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer salary in the UK is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 May 2026.

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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 337 98
Rank change year-on-year +74 -239 +91
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 682 359 2,664
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.73% 0.84% 2.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 0.95% 2.84%
Number of salaries quoted 639 321 2,549
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,900 £90,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -

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 86,844 37,958 93,943
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 89.30% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 57,790 21,252 68,852
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,058 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.07% +2.12% -6.54%

.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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +99 642 £57,500 -4.17% 182
UK excluding London +100 562 £55,000 +3.77% 153
Work from Home +83 308 £55,000 - 156
North of England +56 186 £55,000 -8.33% 53
South East +82 169 £55,000 +1.38% 46
London -13 103 £80,750 +0.94% 40
North West +24 97 £60,000 - 29
Midlands +5 72 £55,000 +4.76% 15
East of England +3 58 £60,000 +13.21% 22
Yorkshire +2 56 £60,000 -7.69% 11
South West -21 56 £52,500 +2.44% 8
West Midlands -16 43 £55,000 -4.35% 7
North East -11 33 £55,000 -48.84% 13
East Midlands -17 29 £55,000 +18.92% 8
Scotland -10 14 £60,000 +84.62% 6
Wales -35 7 £50,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 27 May 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.

1 682 (100.00%) .NET
2 453 (66.42%) C#
3 319 (46.77%) Full-Stack Development
4 305 (44.72%) Azure
5 265 (38.86%) .NET Core
6 258 (37.83%) SQL
7 218 (31.96%) ASP.NET
8 209 (30.65%) Microsoft
9 205 (30.06%) Agile
10 190 (27.86%) ASP.NET Core
11 165 (24.19%) Azure SQL Database
12 147 (21.55%) MongoDB
13 134 (19.65%) CI/CD
14 115 (16.86%) DevOps
14 115 (16.86%) React
15 114 (16.72%) CSS
16 113 (16.57%) HTML
17 110 (16.13%) JavaScript
18 104 (15.25%) Microservices
19 103 (15.10%) Software Engineering
20 100 (14.66%) Vue
21 99 (14.52%) RESTful
22 96 (14.08%) Blazor
23 92 (13.49%) AI
24 91 (13.34%) Azure DevOps
25 90 (13.20%) AngularJS
26 87 (12.76%) AWS
26 87 (12.76%) Entity Framework
27 84 (12.32%) SaaS
28 82 (12.02%) SQL Server

.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 (0.44%) NServiceBus
2 2 (0.29%) IIS
2 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.15%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 305 (44.72%) Azure
2 91 (13.34%) Azure DevOps
3 87 (12.76%) AWS
4 84 (12.32%) SaaS
5 73 (10.70%) GitHub
6 55 (8.06%) Azure AI
7 44 (6.45%) GitHub Copilot
8 36 (5.28%) Serverless
9 32 (4.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 26 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (2.93%) Azure Functions
11 20 (2.93%) Azure Logic Apps
12 16 (2.35%) Azure Service Bus
13 13 (1.91%) PaaS
14 10 (1.47%) Amazon S3
14 10 (1.47%) Azure App Service
14 10 (1.47%) Entra ID
15 9 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.93%) Internet
2 3 (0.44%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (24.19%) Azure SQL Database
2 147 (21.55%) MongoDB
3 82 (12.02%) SQL Server
4 48 (7.04%) Elasticsearch
5 22 (3.23%) NoSQL
6 14 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (1.76%) MySQL
8 9 (1.32%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.59%) NonStop SQL
9 4 (0.59%) Power BI
10 2 (0.29%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.29%) CouchDB
10 2 (0.29%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.15%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.15%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (3.96%) Git
2 3 (0.44%) JIRA
2 3 (0.44%) MSTest
2 3 (0.44%) NUnit
3 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.15%) Postman
4 1 (0.15%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.15%) Vite
4 1 (0.15%) webpack
General
1 67 (9.82%) Finance
2 29 (4.25%) Social Skills
3 27 (3.96%) Games
4 18 (2.64%) Advertising
5 12 (1.76%) Marketing
6 10 (1.47%) Law
7 9 (1.32%) Retail
8 8 (1.17%) Automotive
9 7 (1.03%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.88%) Banking
11 5 (0.73%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.59%) Analytical Skills
12 4 (0.59%) Back Office
12 4 (0.59%) Music Industry
13 3 (0.44%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.44%) Legal
14 2 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.15%) iGaming
15 1 (0.15%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 682 (100.00%) .NET
2 265 (38.86%) .NET Core
3 218 (31.96%) ASP.NET
4 190 (27.86%) ASP.NET Core
5 115 (16.86%) React
6 114 (16.72%) CSS
7 113 (16.57%) HTML
8 100 (14.66%) Vue
9 99 (14.52%) RESTful
10 96 (14.08%) Blazor
11 90 (13.20%) AngularJS
12 87 (12.76%) Entity Framework
13 70 (10.26%) ASP.NET Web API
14 58 (8.50%) .NET Framework
15 54 (7.92%) ML.NET
16 49 (7.18%) Node.js
17 45 (6.60%) LINQ
18 19 (2.79%) REST
19 15 (2.20%) WinForms
20 12 (1.76%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.18%) Mobile App
2 41 (6.01%) Greenfield Project
3 18 (2.64%) Cloud Native
4 17 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (2.05%) PropTech
6 13 (1.91%) Hedge funds
7 9 (1.32%) Digital TV
7 9 (1.32%) Social Network
7 9 (1.32%) Sports Betting
8 7 (1.03%) BBC
8 7 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.03%) iPhone
8 7 (1.03%) Legacy Code
8 7 (1.03%) Social Media
9 6 (0.88%) Product Ownership
10 5 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.29%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.29%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.29%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.29%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.17%) Android
2 6 (0.88%) Windows
3 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (46.77%) Full-Stack Development
2 205 (30.06%) Agile
3 134 (19.65%) CI/CD
4 115 (16.86%) DevOps
5 104 (15.25%) Microservices
6 103 (15.10%) Software Engineering
7 92 (13.49%) AI
8 64 (9.38%) Multithreading
9 59 (8.65%) Machine Learning
10 48 (7.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 43 (6.30%) Problem-Solving
11 43 (6.30%) SDLC
12 42 (6.16%) OO
13 40 (5.87%) TDD
14 37 (5.43%) Scrum
15 31 (4.55%) Kanban
16 30 (4.40%) MVC
17 29 (4.25%) Clean Code
18 28 (4.11%) Analytics
19 26 (3.81%) CQRS
Programming Languages
1 453 (66.42%) C#
2 258 (37.83%) SQL
3 110 (16.13%) JavaScript
4 82 (12.02%) TypeScript
5 15 (2.20%) VB
6 13 (1.91%) Python
7 10 (1.47%) VB.NET
8 7 (1.03%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.44%) Bicep
10 2 (0.29%) C++
11 1 (0.15%) Java
11 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 37 (5.43%) SC Cleared
1 37 (5.43%) Security Cleared
2 24 (3.52%) Degree
3 15 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (1.03%) AWS Certification
4 7 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
5 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (0.73%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.59%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (1.47%) QA
2 5 (0.73%) GDPR
3 1 (0.15%) Accessibility
System Software
1 80 (11.73%) Docker
2 5 (0.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 58 (8.50%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 209 (30.65%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.08%) Facebook
2 21 (3.08%) Google
3 16 (2.35%) Xamarin
4 7 (1.03%) Apple
4 7 (1.03%) Sony
4 7 (1.03%) Yahoo!
4 7 (1.03%) YouTube
5 6 (0.88%) OpenAI
6 5 (0.73%) Oracle
7 4 (0.59%) Sage
8 2 (0.29%) iManage
8 2 (0.29%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.15%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.15%) Databricks
9 1 (0.15%) DevExpress
9 1 (0.15%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.15%) Infragistics
9 1 (0.15%) Perforce
9 1 (0.15%) ServiceNow