.NET Developer Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 May 2026.

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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 321 101
Rank change year-on-year +56 -220 +87
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 648 399 2,560
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.72% 0.91% 2.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 1.01% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 609 358 2,456
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,025 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,438 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £95,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -

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 84,208 39,316 91,343
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.15% 89.55% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 55,431 23,382 67,108
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +10.37% -12.42%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%

.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 11 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 11 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 +84 602 £60,000 +4.35% 204
UK excluding London +59 532 £55,000 +4.76% 156
Work from Home +61 290 £55,000 - 182
North of England +24 171 £58,750 -2.08% 50
South East +63 159 £55,000 +4.76% 47
North West +19 92 £60,000 +4.35% 26
London -27 92 £85,000 +6.25% 60
Midlands -5 67 £55,000 +4.76% 19
East of England +4 57 £60,000 +13.21% 18
South West -14 55 £52,500 -4.55% 13
Yorkshire -12 53 £60,000 - 10
West Midlands -9 39 £55,000 -4.35% 10
East Midlands -12 28 £53,750 +13.16% 9
North East -26 26 £55,000 -31.25% 14
Scotland -15 14 £60,000 +84.62% 5
Wales -23 9 £45,000 -10.00% 4

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 648 (100.00%) .NET
2 425 (65.59%) C#
3 293 (45.22%) Full-Stack Development
4 287 (44.29%) Azure
5 250 (38.58%) .NET Core
6 242 (37.35%) SQL
7 203 (31.33%) ASP.NET
8 192 (29.63%) Microsoft
9 189 (29.17%) Agile
10 174 (26.85%) ASP.NET Core
11 152 (23.46%) Azure SQL Database
12 128 (19.75%) MongoDB
13 126 (19.44%) CI/CD
14 110 (16.98%) DevOps
14 110 (16.98%) React
15 102 (15.74%) HTML
16 101 (15.59%) CSS
16 101 (15.59%) Microservices
17 97 (14.97%) JavaScript
17 97 (14.97%) RESTful
18 95 (14.66%) Software Engineering
19 88 (13.58%) Azure DevOps
20 87 (13.43%) Blazor
21 86 (13.27%) Vue
22 84 (12.96%) AngularJS
22 84 (12.96%) SaaS
23 82 (12.65%) TypeScript
24 80 (12.35%) Entity Framework
25 79 (12.19%) SQL Server
26 78 (12.04%) AI

.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 (0.46%) NServiceBus
2 2 (0.31%) IIS
2 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 287 (44.29%) Azure
2 88 (13.58%) Azure DevOps
3 84 (12.96%) SaaS
4 77 (11.88%) AWS
5 66 (10.19%) GitHub
6 51 (7.87%) Azure AI
7 39 (6.02%) GitHub Copilot
8 34 (5.25%) Serverless
9 33 (5.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 24 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (3.09%) Azure Logic Apps
12 16 (2.47%) Azure Functions
13 14 (2.16%) Azure Service Bus
14 12 (1.85%) Azure App Service
14 12 (1.85%) Entra ID
14 12 (1.85%) PaaS
15 11 (1.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (1.70%) Amazon S3
15 11 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.93%) Internet
2 3 (0.46%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.15%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (23.46%) Azure SQL Database
2 128 (19.75%) MongoDB
3 79 (12.19%) SQL Server
4 43 (6.64%) Elasticsearch
5 28 (4.32%) NoSQL
6 15 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (1.54%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.23%) MySQL
9 4 (0.62%) NonStop SQL
9 4 (0.62%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.31%) CouchDB
10 2 (0.31%) Power BI
10 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.15%) Amazon Athena
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 31 (4.78%) Git
2 5 (0.77%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.46%) MSTest
3 3 (0.46%) NUnit
4 2 (0.31%) JIRA
5 1 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.15%) Postman
5 1 (0.15%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.15%) Vite
5 1 (0.15%) webpack
General
1 66 (10.19%) Finance
2 32 (4.94%) Social Skills
3 25 (3.86%) Games
4 15 (2.31%) Advertising
5 10 (1.54%) Law
6 9 (1.39%) Marketing
7 7 (1.08%) Manufacturing
7 7 (1.08%) Retail
8 6 (0.93%) Automotive
8 6 (0.93%) Banking
9 5 (0.77%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (0.77%) Back Office
10 4 (0.62%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.46%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.46%) Legal
11 3 (0.46%) Music Industry
12 2 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.15%) iGaming
13 1 (0.15%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 648 (100.00%) .NET
2 250 (38.58%) .NET Core
3 203 (31.33%) ASP.NET
4 174 (26.85%) ASP.NET Core
5 110 (16.98%) React
6 102 (15.74%) HTML
7 101 (15.59%) CSS
8 97 (14.97%) RESTful
9 87 (13.43%) Blazor
10 86 (13.27%) Vue
11 84 (12.96%) AngularJS
12 80 (12.35%) Entity Framework
13 65 (10.03%) ASP.NET Web API
14 56 (8.64%) .NET Framework
15 49 (7.56%) ML.NET
16 43 (6.64%) Node.js
17 39 (6.02%) LINQ
18 21 (3.24%) REST
19 13 (2.01%) Razor View Engine
20 12 (1.85%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.56%) Mobile App
2 37 (5.71%) Greenfield Project
3 22 (3.40%) Cloud Native
4 16 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (2.16%) Hedge funds
5 14 (2.16%) PropTech
6 9 (1.39%) Digital TV
6 9 (1.39%) Social Network
6 9 (1.39%) Sports Betting
7 7 (1.08%) iPhone
7 7 (1.08%) Legacy Code
7 7 (1.08%) Product Ownership
8 6 (0.93%) BBC
8 6 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (0.93%) Social Media
9 5 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.31%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.31%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.31%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.31%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.23%) Android
2 5 (0.77%) Windows
3 2 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (45.22%) Full-Stack Development
2 189 (29.17%) Agile
3 126 (19.44%) CI/CD
4 110 (16.98%) DevOps
5 101 (15.59%) Microservices
6 95 (14.66%) Software Engineering
7 78 (12.04%) AI
8 58 (8.95%) Multithreading
9 54 (8.33%) Machine Learning
10 42 (6.48%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (6.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 38 (5.86%) OO
12 38 (5.86%) TDD
13 35 (5.40%) Scrum
14 34 (5.25%) SDLC
15 33 (5.09%) MVC
16 28 (4.32%) Kanban
17 27 (4.17%) Clean Code
18 24 (3.70%) Analytics
19 23 (3.55%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 425 (65.59%) C#
2 242 (37.35%) SQL
3 97 (14.97%) JavaScript
4 82 (12.65%) TypeScript
5 13 (2.01%) VB
6 10 (1.54%) Python
7 6 (0.93%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.62%) VB.NET
9 3 (0.46%) Bicep
10 1 (0.15%) C++
10 1 (0.15%) Java
10 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 37 (5.71%) SC Cleared
1 37 (5.71%) Security Cleared
2 21 (3.24%) Degree
3 14 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (1.23%) AWS Certification
4 8 (1.23%) AWS Certified Developer
5 5 (0.77%) Master's Degree
5 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.62%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.01%) QA
2 4 (0.62%) GDPR
3 2 (0.31%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 77 (11.88%) Docker
2 6 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (8.02%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 192 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 18 (2.78%) Facebook
3 17 (2.62%) Google
4 16 (2.47%) Xamarin
5 6 (0.93%) Apple
5 6 (0.93%) OpenAI
5 6 (0.93%) Sony
5 6 (0.93%) Yahoo!
5 6 (0.93%) YouTube
6 5 (0.77%) Oracle
7 4 (0.62%) Sage
8 2 (0.31%) iManage
9 1 (0.15%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.15%) Databricks
9 1 (0.15%) DevExpress
9 1 (0.15%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.15%) Foundry
9 1 (0.15%) IBM
9 1 (0.15%) SAP
9 1 (0.15%) ServiceNow