.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 13 October 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 387 136
Rank change year-on-year +160 -251 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 970 303 1,329
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.82% 0.62% 1.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 0.69% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 921 284 1,087
10th Percentile £41,000 £43,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,938 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £118,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

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 109,503 44,040 68,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 89.76% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 74,366 25,685 38,800
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.81% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -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 13 October 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 13 October 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 +141 908 £55,000 -15.38% 215
UK excluding London +174 851 £55,000 -8.33% 134
Work from Home +115 604 £55,000 -15.38% 125
South East +133 288 £55,000 -29.03% 36
North of England +84 250 £55,000 -8.33% 45
East of England +57 111 £60,000 +4.35% 13
London -46 110 £72,500 -3.33% 83
North West +17 100 £55,000 -8.33% 17
Midlands +16 94 £55,000 +10.00% 24
North East +3 86 £55,000 -31.25% 10
Yorkshire +18 64 £50,000 -23.08% 19
South West -39 57 £52,500 +6.06% 5
West Midlands -7 52 £55,000 +4.76% 20
East Midlands +3 42 £52,500 +55.56% 4
Scotland +35 33 £60,000 +41.18% 7
Wales -52 21 £55,000 +32.53% 5

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

For the 6 months to 13 October 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.

1 970 (100.00%) .NET
2 788 (81.24%) C#
3 606 (62.47%) Azure
4 564 (58.14%) Full-Stack Development
5 554 (57.11%) ASP.NET
6 547 (56.39%) .NET Core
7 545 (56.19%) SQL
8 544 (56.08%) Microsoft
9 495 (51.03%) ASP.NET Core
10 440 (45.36%) Azure SQL Database
11 416 (42.89%) Agile
12 400 (41.24%) MongoDB
13 260 (26.80%) JavaScript
14 246 (25.36%) DevOps
15 235 (24.23%) CI/CD
16 225 (23.20%) Blazor
17 223 (22.99%) React
18 221 (22.78%) Entity Framework
19 220 (22.68%) Azure DevOps
20 215 (22.16%) CSS
21 213 (21.96%) HTML
22 200 (20.62%) AI
23 194 (20.00%) Microservices
24 188 (19.38%) ASP.NET Web API
25 187 (19.28%) RESTful
26 185 (19.07%) TypeScript
27 179 (18.45%) AngularJS
28 176 (18.14%) Vue
29 166 (17.11%) Docker
29 166 (17.11%) 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 23 (2.37%) IIS
2 6 (0.62%) CMS
2 6 (0.62%) Umbraco
3 4 (0.41%) Kentico
4 3 (0.31%) Confluence
4 3 (0.31%) DNN
4 3 (0.31%) EPiServer
4 3 (0.31%) Immediacy CMS
4 3 (0.31%) NServiceBus
4 3 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.31%) Sitefinity
5 2 (0.21%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.10%) Apache
6 1 (0.10%) govService
6 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.82%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.52%) Elite 3E
2 3 (0.31%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.31%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.10%) Endur
3 1 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 606 (62.47%) Azure
2 220 (22.68%) Azure DevOps
3 151 (15.57%) Azure AI
4 149 (15.36%) GitHub
5 136 (14.02%) GitHub Copilot
6 129 (13.30%) AWS
7 66 (6.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 31 (3.20%) SaaS
9 24 (2.47%) Azure Service Bus
10 20 (2.06%) Power Platform
11 19 (1.96%) Serverless
12 17 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
12 17 (1.75%) Google Play
13 14 (1.44%) Azure Functions
14 13 (1.34%) Azure Key Vault
15 10 (1.03%) Power Automate
16 9 (0.93%) PowerApps
17 8 (0.82%) Azure Logic Apps
17 8 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
18 7 (0.72%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 62 (6.39%) Internet
2 7 (0.72%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.10%) Broadband
3 1 (0.10%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 440 (45.36%) Azure SQL Database
2 400 (41.24%) MongoDB
3 166 (17.11%) SQL Server
4 159 (16.39%) Elasticsearch
5 39 (4.02%) Relational Database
6 27 (2.78%) MySQL
7 12 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (1.13%) NonStop SQL
9 9 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (0.82%) Power BI
11 5 (0.52%) SQLite
12 4 (0.41%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.41%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.31%) Redis
14 2 (0.21%) BigQuery
15 1 (0.10%) Amazon RDS
15 1 (0.10%) Apache Ignite
15 1 (0.10%) Couchbase
15 1 (0.10%) Data Lake
15 1 (0.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 68 (7.01%) Git
2 17 (1.75%) Claude Code
3 15 (1.55%) Oracle Forms
3 15 (1.55%) Team Foundation Server
4 9 (0.93%) JIRA
5 8 (0.82%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.21%) MSTest
6 2 (0.21%) NUnit
6 2 (0.21%) Postman
6 2 (0.21%) Selenium
6 2 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.10%) git-flow
7 1 (0.10%) GitLab
7 1 (0.10%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.10%) JetBrains Rider
General
1 130 (13.40%) Finance
2 86 (8.87%) Social Skills
3 54 (5.57%) Advertising
4 49 (5.05%) Games
5 43 (4.43%) Marketing
6 36 (3.71%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (3.71%) Retail
7 20 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.44%) Aerospace
9 12 (1.24%) Law
10 11 (1.13%) Music Industry
11 9 (0.93%) Public Sector
12 8 (0.82%) Automotive
13 7 (0.72%) Banking
13 7 (0.72%) Billing
14 4 (0.41%) Front Office
14 4 (0.41%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.41%) Legal
15 3 (0.31%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.21%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 970 (100.00%) .NET
2 554 (57.11%) ASP.NET
3 547 (56.39%) .NET Core
4 495 (51.03%) ASP.NET Core
5 225 (23.20%) Blazor
6 223 (22.99%) React
7 221 (22.78%) Entity Framework
8 215 (22.16%) CSS
9 213 (21.96%) HTML
10 188 (19.38%) ASP.NET Web API
11 187 (19.28%) RESTful
12 179 (18.45%) AngularJS
13 176 (18.14%) Vue
14 149 (15.36%) ML.NET
15 144 (14.85%) Node.js
16 136 (14.02%) .NET Framework
17 114 (11.75%) LINQ
18 72 (7.42%) REST
19 39 (4.02%) WinForms
20 32 (3.30%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 102 (10.52%) Greenfield Project
2 57 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
3 32 (3.30%) Mobile App
4 21 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (1.96%) Digital TV
6 17 (1.75%) iPhone
7 16 (1.65%) BBC
7 16 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (1.65%) Product Ownership
7 16 (1.65%) Social Media
8 15 (1.55%) Legacy Code
8 15 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.24%) Social Network
10 11 (1.13%) Cloud Native
10 11 (1.13%) Data Structures
11 6 (0.62%) Hedge funds
11 6 (0.62%) IoT
12 5 (0.52%) Onboarding
12 5 (0.52%) Robotics
12 5 (0.52%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 31 (3.20%) Windows
2 21 (2.16%) Android
3 4 (0.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 564 (58.14%) Full-Stack Development
2 416 (42.89%) Agile
3 246 (25.36%) DevOps
4 235 (24.23%) CI/CD
5 200 (20.62%) AI
6 194 (20.00%) Microservices
7 159 (16.39%) Multithreading
8 151 (15.57%) Machine Learning
9 107 (11.03%) Software Engineering
10 98 (10.10%) Scrum
11 94 (9.69%) OO
12 88 (9.07%) Problem-Solving
12 88 (9.07%) TDD
13 66 (6.80%) BDD
14 65 (6.70%) Kanban
15 62 (6.39%) MVC
16 61 (6.29%) SDLC
17 60 (6.19%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
18 54 (5.57%) Fintech
19 46 (4.74%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 788 (81.24%) C#
2 545 (56.19%) SQL
3 260 (26.80%) JavaScript
4 185 (19.07%) TypeScript
5 36 (3.71%) VB.NET
6 27 (2.78%) Python
7 25 (2.58%) T-SQL
8 14 (1.44%) VB
9 4 (0.41%) C++
9 4 (0.41%) Java
9 4 (0.41%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.41%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.41%) VBA
10 3 (0.31%) Ruby
10 3 (0.31%) VBScript
11 2 (0.21%) C
11 2 (0.21%) Dart
11 2 (0.21%) XPath
12 1 (0.10%) PHP
12 1 (0.10%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (3.20%) Degree
2 25 (2.58%) Security Cleared
3 24 (2.47%) SC Cleared
4 16 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (0.62%) Azure Certification
6 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.31%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.10%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (2.78%) QA
2 8 (0.82%) GDPR
3 4 (0.41%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.41%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.21%) Basel III
System Software
1 166 (17.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 148 (15.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 544 (56.08%) Microsoft
2 59 (6.08%) Google
3 58 (5.98%) Facebook
4 22 (2.27%) Oracle
5 21 (2.16%) YouTube
6 16 (1.65%) Apple
6 16 (1.65%) Sony
6 16 (1.65%) Yahoo!
7 6 (0.62%) Xamarin
8 5 (0.52%) Sage
8 5 (0.52%) SAP
9 4 (0.41%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.31%) Alterian
10 3 (0.31%) DevExpress
10 3 (0.31%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.31%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.21%) Blue Prism
11 2 (0.21%) iManage
11 2 (0.21%) OneLogin
11 2 (0.21%) Telerik