.NET Developer Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer salary in the UK is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 November 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 145 142
Rank change year-on-year -229 -3 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 311 1,226 1,224
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.80% 2.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 1.90% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 286 991 1,137
10th Percentile £43,125 £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,313 £65,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £80,000 £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 47,621 64,483 50,300
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.89% 94.87% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 29,449 36,300 38,919
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,500 £50,055 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.10% -4.66% -

.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 14 November 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 14 November 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 -197 294 £60,000 +4.35% 332
UK excluding London -204 202 £60,000 +9.09% 263
Work from Home -98 189 £65,000 +23.81% 303
London -47 91 £75,000 +7.14% 92
South East -78 69 £70,000 +16.67% 78
North of England -111 69 £60,000 +9.09% 73
North West -45 45 £60,000 +4.35% 49
Midlands -74 25 £49,750 -9.55% 38
South West -21 23 £50,000 -13.04% 25
Yorkshire -61 16 £60,000 +9.09% 16
West Midlands -45 15 £55,000 - 24
East of England -40 12 £57,500 +15.00% 28
East Midlands -41 10 £26,500 -51.82% 14
North East -37 8 £50,000 -2.44% 8
Wales -13 2 £43,250 -27.92% 13
Scotland -90 2 £42,500 -15.00% 6

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

For the 6 months to 14 November 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.

1 311 (100.00%) .NET
2 247 (79.42%) C#
3 203 (65.27%) Azure
4 178 (57.23%) Agile
5 148 (47.59%) JavaScript
6 132 (42.44%) SQL
7 125 (40.19%) Full-Stack Development
8 120 (38.59%) .NET Core
9 116 (37.30%) SQL Server
10 111 (35.69%) Microservices
11 105 (33.76%) CI/CD
12 104 (33.44%) ASP.NET
13 100 (32.15%) AWS
14 98 (31.51%) TypeScript
15 96 (30.87%) MVC
16 94 (30.23%) Microsoft
17 89 (28.62%) .NET Framework
17 89 (28.62%) DevOps
18 85 (27.33%) AngularJS
19 84 (27.01%) HTML
20 80 (25.72%) React
21 73 (23.47%) CSS
22 70 (22.51%) Git
23 68 (21.86%) ASP.NET Web API
24 67 (21.54%) RESTful
25 66 (21.22%) Scrum
26 65 (20.90%) MongoDB
27 63 (20.26%) Entity Framework
28 62 (19.94%) Software Engineering
29 61 (19.61%) ASP.NET MVC

.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 13 (4.18%) CMS
2 11 (3.54%) IIS
3 10 (3.22%) Confluence
4 2 (0.64%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.32%) Kentico
5 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.96%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.32%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.32%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.32%) Magento
2 1 (0.32%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (0.32%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 203 (65.27%) Azure
2 100 (32.15%) AWS
3 57 (18.33%) SaaS
4 40 (12.86%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (10.93%) Serverless
6 32 (10.29%) GCP
7 30 (9.65%) GitHub
8 17 (5.47%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (4.82%) Azure App Service
9 15 (4.82%) Azure Service Bus
10 14 (4.50%) Entra ID
11 12 (3.86%) PaaS
12 11 (3.54%) Azure Functions
12 11 (3.54%) Power Platform
13 7 (2.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 6 (1.93%) Cloudflare
14 6 (1.93%) Power Automate
15 5 (1.61%) PowerApps
16 4 (1.29%) Azure Logic Apps
17 3 (0.96%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.29%) Internet
2 1 (0.32%) HTTP
2 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (37.30%) SQL Server
2 65 (20.90%) MongoDB
3 48 (15.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 38 (12.22%) NoSQL
5 30 (9.65%) Elasticsearch
6 16 (5.14%) MySQL
7 10 (3.22%) Relational Database
8 8 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (2.25%) NonStop SQL
10 5 (1.61%) Power BI
11 4 (1.29%) Redis
12 3 (0.96%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.64%) RDBMS
14 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
14 1 (0.32%) RavenDB
14 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 1 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 70 (22.51%) Git
2 14 (4.50%) JIRA
3 10 (3.22%) NUnit
3 10 (3.22%) Visual Studio
4 7 (2.25%) TeamCity
5 5 (1.61%) Jasmine
5 5 (1.61%) Postman
6 4 (1.29%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.29%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.29%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.96%) JMeter
7 3 (0.96%) Selenium
7 3 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.64%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.64%) MSTest
8 2 (0.64%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.32%) GitLab
9 1 (0.32%) Sourcetree
9 1 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 67 (21.54%) Finance
2 59 (18.97%) Social Skills
3 18 (5.79%) Front Office
4 10 (3.22%) Banking
4 10 (3.22%) Retail
5 9 (2.89%) Games
6 8 (2.57%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.25%) Advertising
7 7 (2.25%) Back Office
8 5 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.61%) Legal
9 4 (1.29%) Electronics
9 4 (1.29%) Law
9 4 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.96%) Automotive
10 3 (0.96%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.96%) Marketing
11 2 (0.64%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.64%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 311 (100.00%) .NET
2 120 (38.59%) .NET Core
3 104 (33.44%) ASP.NET
4 89 (28.62%) .NET Framework
5 85 (27.33%) AngularJS
6 84 (27.01%) HTML
7 80 (25.72%) React
8 73 (23.47%) CSS
9 68 (21.86%) ASP.NET Web API
10 67 (21.54%) RESTful
11 63 (20.26%) Entity Framework
12 61 (19.61%) ASP.NET MVC
13 47 (15.11%) Vue
14 46 (14.79%) Blazor
15 42 (13.50%) REST
16 35 (11.25%) HTML5
17 32 (10.29%) ASP.NET Core
18 28 (9.00%) Node.js
19 19 (6.11%) CSS3
19 19 (6.11%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.43%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.47%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (4.50%) Mobile App
4 9 (2.89%) Clustering
5 8 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.25%) Digital TV
6 7 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.25%) Online Games
7 6 (1.93%) BYOD
7 6 (1.93%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.61%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.96%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.96%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.64%) Derivative
11 2 (0.64%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.64%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.25%) Android
1 7 (2.25%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.61%) Linux
3 4 (1.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (57.23%) Agile
2 125 (40.19%) Full-Stack Development
3 111 (35.69%) Microservices
4 105 (33.76%) CI/CD
5 96 (30.87%) MVC
6 89 (28.62%) DevOps
7 66 (21.22%) Scrum
8 62 (19.94%) Software Engineering
9 56 (18.01%) Roadmaps
10 51 (16.40%) TDD
11 46 (14.79%) AI
11 46 (14.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 46 (14.79%) Kanban
12 41 (13.18%) Design Patterns
13 40 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
14 39 (12.54%) Clean Code
15 31 (9.97%) Business Strategy
16 29 (9.32%) BDD
16 29 (9.32%) Mentoring
17 27 (8.68%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 247 (79.42%) C#
2 148 (47.59%) JavaScript
3 132 (42.44%) SQL
4 98 (31.51%) TypeScript
5 8 (2.57%) T-SQL
6 5 (1.61%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.29%) Python
7 4 (1.29%) XAML
8 3 (0.96%) Erlang
8 3 (0.96%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.64%) Bicep
10 1 (0.32%) Java
10 1 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (9.00%) Degree
2 20 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (3.22%) Master's Degree
4 3 (0.96%) AWS Certification
4 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.32%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.36%) QA
2 8 (2.57%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.96%) WCAG
4 2 (0.64%) GDPR
5 1 (0.32%) HL7
5 1 (0.32%) IFRS
System Software
1 35 (11.25%) Docker
2 12 (3.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (5.79%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 94 (30.23%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.25%) Facebook
2 7 (2.25%) YouTube
3 6 (1.93%) Oracle
3 6 (1.93%) Rollbar
3 6 (1.93%) Trayport
4 5 (1.61%) Splunk
5 4 (1.29%) Telerik
5 4 (1.29%) Xamarin
6 3 (0.96%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.64%) Adobe
7 2 (0.64%) Sybase
8 1 (0.32%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.32%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.32%) Okta
8 1 (0.32%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.32%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.32%) SAP