.NET Developer Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer salary in the UK is £64,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 202 146
Rank change year-on-year -156 -56 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 316 859 1,093
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.47% 2.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 1.57% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 290 692 1,014
10th Percentile £43,750 £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,250 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.74% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £83,625 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% +2.86%

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 52,344 54,757 47,045
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.08% 93.89% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 32,163 29,820 36,466
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,725 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,430 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £96,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.62% - -

.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 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 14 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 -136 289 £62,500 +8.70% 280
UK excluding London -160 207 £60,000 +9.09% 242
Work from Home -70 167 £70,000 +27.27% 210
London +1 86 £75,000 +3.45% 70
South East -15 68 £70,000 +33.33% 85
North of England -82 67 £60,000 +9.09% 62
North West -36 40 £60,000 +4.35% 37
South West -27 27 £51,500 -10.43% 23
Midlands -44 26 £52,500 -8.70% 26
Yorkshire -36 19 £60,000 +9.09% 16
West Midlands -18 13 £52,500 -8.70% 16
East Midlands -26 13 £52,000 -9.57% 10
East of England -54 10 £60,000 +20.00% 25
North East -18 8 £50,000 -4.76% 9
Wales -4 5 £45,000 -21.74% 9
Scotland -59 4 £55,000 +15.79% 11

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 316 (100.00%) .NET
2 227 (71.84%) C#
3 198 (62.66%) Azure
4 166 (52.53%) Agile
5 133 (42.09%) .NET Core
5 133 (42.09%) JavaScript
6 124 (39.24%) Full-Stack Development
7 123 (38.92%) SQL
8 107 (33.86%) CI/CD
9 103 (32.59%) SQL Server
10 98 (31.01%) Microservices
11 96 (30.38%) ASP.NET
12 90 (28.48%) DevOps
13 89 (28.16%) AWS
13 89 (28.16%) MVC
13 89 (28.16%) TypeScript
14 85 (26.90%) Microsoft
15 84 (26.58%) React
16 83 (26.27%) .NET Framework
17 68 (21.52%) AngularJS
17 68 (21.52%) HTML
18 67 (21.20%) RESTful
19 66 (20.89%) ASP.NET Web API
19 66 (20.89%) SaaS
20 65 (20.57%) Software Engineering
21 61 (19.30%) Scrum
22 60 (18.99%) ASP.NET MVC
22 60 (18.99%) CSS
22 60 (18.99%) Git
23 59 (18.67%) Entity Framework

.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 11 (3.48%) CMS
2 7 (2.22%) Confluence
3 4 (1.27%) 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
1 198 (62.66%) Azure
2 89 (28.16%) AWS
3 66 (20.89%) SaaS
4 49 (15.51%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (14.24%) Serverless
6 34 (10.76%) GitHub
7 31 (9.81%) GCP
8 28 (8.86%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (6.01%) Azure App Service
10 18 (5.70%) Azure Service Bus
10 18 (5.70%) Entra ID
11 17 (5.38%) PaaS
12 12 (3.80%) Azure Functions
13 11 (3.48%) Power Platform
14 10 (3.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (3.16%) Amazon EventBridge
14 10 (3.16%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (3.16%) AWS Step Functions
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
1 103 (32.59%) SQL Server
2 50 (15.82%) MongoDB
3 48 (15.19%) NoSQL
4 45 (14.24%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (5.70%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (3.16%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.53%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.90%) MySQL
9 6 (1.90%) NonStop SQL
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 60 (18.99%) Git
2 13 (4.11%) Visual Studio
3 9 (2.85%) JIRA
4 4 (1.27%) Postman
4 4 (1.27%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (0.95%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.95%) JMeter
5 3 (0.95%) Selenium
5 3 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.63%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.63%) NUnit
7 1 (0.32%) GitLab
7 1 (0.32%) MSTest
7 1 (0.32%) Sourcetree
General
1 65 (20.57%) Finance
2 62 (19.62%) Social Skills
3 11 (3.48%) Front Office
4 8 (2.53%) Public Sector
4 8 (2.53%) Retail
5 7 (2.22%) Banking
6 6 (1.90%) Advertising
7 5 (1.58%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.58%) Back Office
7 5 (1.58%) Games
7 5 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.27%) Electronics
8 4 (1.27%) Law
8 4 (1.27%) Legal
9 3 (0.95%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.63%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.63%) Marketing
11 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.32%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 316 (100.00%) .NET
2 133 (42.09%) .NET Core
3 96 (30.38%) ASP.NET
4 84 (26.58%) React
5 83 (26.27%) .NET Framework
6 68 (21.52%) AngularJS
6 68 (21.52%) HTML
7 67 (21.20%) RESTful
8 66 (20.89%) ASP.NET Web API
9 60 (18.99%) ASP.NET MVC
9 60 (18.99%) CSS
10 59 (18.67%) Entity Framework
11 52 (16.46%) Blazor
12 37 (11.71%) Vue
13 35 (11.08%) REST
14 31 (9.81%) ASP.NET Core
15 23 (7.28%) Node.js
16 21 (6.65%) Razor View Engine
17 20 (6.33%) ASP.NET Web Forms
17 20 (6.33%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.91%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.38%) Mobile App
3 16 (5.06%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.90%) Clustering
5 6 (1.90%) Digital TV
5 6 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.27%) Hedge funds
7 4 (1.27%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.95%) Fixed Income
8 3 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.63%) Derivative
9 2 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.63%) Online Games
9 2 (0.63%) PropTech
9 2 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.63%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.90%) Android
1 6 (1.90%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.27%) Linux
3 1 (0.32%) VMS
3 1 (0.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (52.53%) Agile
2 124 (39.24%) Full-Stack Development
3 107 (33.86%) CI/CD
4 98 (31.01%) Microservices
5 90 (28.48%) DevOps
6 89 (28.16%) MVC
7 65 (20.57%) Software Engineering
8 61 (19.30%) Scrum
9 52 (16.46%) Roadmaps
10 48 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
11 47 (14.87%) AI
12 45 (14.24%) TDD
13 44 (13.92%) Continuous Improvement
14 42 (13.29%) Clean Code
15 41 (12.97%) Kanban
16 32 (10.13%) Business Strategy
17 29 (9.18%) Front End Development
18 28 (8.86%) Design Patterns
19 27 (8.54%) Containerisation
19 27 (8.54%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 227 (71.84%) C#
2 133 (42.09%) JavaScript
3 123 (38.92%) SQL
4 89 (28.16%) TypeScript
5 5 (1.58%) PowerShell
5 5 (1.58%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.27%) XAML
7 3 (0.95%) Erlang
8 2 (0.63%) Bicep
8 2 (0.63%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.32%) Java
9 1 (0.32%) Python
9 1 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 30 (9.49%) Degree
2 22 (6.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (4.11%) Master's Degree
4 9 (2.85%) AWS Certification
4 9 (2.85%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.32%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.49%) QA
2 8 (2.53%) 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 39 (12.34%) Docker
2 15 (4.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (5.38%) Terraform
2 11 (3.48%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 85 (26.90%) Microsoft
2 6 (1.90%) Facebook
2 6 (1.90%) YouTube
3 4 (1.27%) Oracle
3 4 (1.27%) Telerik
3 4 (1.27%) Xamarin
4 3 (0.95%) Dynatrace
5 2 (0.63%) Adobe
5 2 (0.63%) OpenAI
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%) Splunk
6 1 (0.32%) Trayport