.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 19 August 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 381 125
Rank change year-on-year +171 -256 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 1,013 336 1,682
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.94% 0.67% 2.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 0.75% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 969 310 1,505
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,750 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +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 100,959 44,891 79,128
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 89.94% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 69,008 26,549 52,423
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,679 £47,863 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.06% -4.27% -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 19 August 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 19 August 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 +165 954 £55,000 -8.33% 288
UK excluding London +191 888 £55,000 - 192
Work from Home +145 629 £55,000 -8.33% 196
South East +149 294 £55,000 -4.35% 67
North of England +87 266 £55,000 -8.33% 62
London -32 114 £75,000 - 117
East of England +66 112 £60,000 +4.35% 23
North West +27 109 £55,000 -4.35% 29
Midlands +16 89 £55,000 +5.77% 17
Yorkshire +43 83 £55,000 -8.33% 13
South West -8 80 £52,500 +5.00% 15
North East +4 74 £55,000 -45.00% 22
West Midlands -3 51 £55,000 -4.35% 8
East Midlands +11 38 £52,500 +23.53% 9
Scotland +24 31 £55,000 +41.94% 6
Wales -45 16 £50,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 19 August 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 1,013 (100.00%) .NET
2 802 (79.17%) C#
3 625 (61.70%) Azure
4 599 (59.13%) Full-Stack Development
5 556 (54.89%) ASP.NET
5 556 (54.89%) SQL
6 553 (54.59%) .NET Core
7 543 (53.60%) Microsoft
8 499 (49.26%) ASP.NET Core
9 454 (44.82%) Azure SQL Database
10 419 (41.36%) Agile
11 413 (40.77%) MongoDB
12 241 (23.79%) DevOps
13 237 (23.40%) JavaScript
14 228 (22.51%) CI/CD
15 225 (22.21%) Blazor
16 217 (21.42%) Azure DevOps
16 217 (21.42%) CSS
17 216 (21.32%) HTML
18 214 (21.13%) Entity Framework
19 213 (21.03%) React
20 209 (20.63%) AI
21 205 (20.24%) Microservices
22 191 (18.85%) RESTful
23 189 (18.66%) TypeScript
24 187 (18.46%) Vue
25 184 (18.16%) ASP.NET Web API
26 180 (17.77%) AngularJS
27 176 (17.37%) Docker
28 169 (16.68%) Multithreading

.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 12 (1.18%) IIS
2 4 (0.39%) NServiceBus
3 3 (0.30%) CMS
3 3 (0.30%) DNN
3 3 (0.30%) EPiServer
3 3 (0.30%) Immediacy CMS
3 3 (0.30%) Kentico
3 3 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (0.30%) Sitefinity
3 3 (0.30%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.099%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.099%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.59%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.39%) Elite 3E
2 3 (0.30%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.30%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.099%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.099%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 625 (61.70%) Azure
2 217 (21.42%) Azure DevOps
3 157 (15.50%) Azure AI
4 156 (15.40%) GitHub
5 140 (13.82%) GitHub Copilot
6 139 (13.72%) AWS
7 73 (7.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 62 (6.12%) SaaS
9 25 (2.47%) Azure Service Bus
10 22 (2.17%) Serverless
11 18 (1.78%) Azure Logic Apps
12 17 (1.68%) Azure Functions
12 17 (1.68%) Google Play
13 16 (1.58%) Azure Monitor
13 16 (1.58%) Power Platform
14 12 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (1.09%) Azure Key Vault
16 8 (0.79%) Anthropic Claude
16 8 (0.79%) PaaS
17 6 (0.59%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 60 (5.92%) Internet
2 7 (0.69%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.099%) Broadband
3 1 (0.099%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 454 (44.82%) Azure SQL Database
2 413 (40.77%) MongoDB
3 160 (15.79%) Elasticsearch
4 142 (14.02%) SQL Server
5 24 (2.37%) MySQL
6 23 (2.27%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.09%) NonStop SQL
8 9 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (0.69%) Power BI
9 7 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.49%) SQLite
11 4 (0.39%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.39%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.099%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.099%) Couchbase
13 1 (0.099%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.099%) SAP BW
13 1 (0.099%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 51 (5.03%) Git
2 9 (0.89%) Claude Code
3 8 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
3 8 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (0.69%) JIRA
5 6 (0.59%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.30%) MSTest
6 3 (0.30%) NUnit
7 2 (0.20%) Postman
7 2 (0.20%) Selenium
8 1 (0.099%) GitLab
8 1 (0.099%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.099%) JetBrains Rider
8 1 (0.099%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.099%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 126 (12.44%) Finance
2 59 (5.82%) Social Skills
3 57 (5.63%) Advertising
4 51 (5.03%) Games
5 46 (4.54%) Marketing
6 35 (3.46%) Retail
7 22 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (1.38%) Aerospace
9 13 (1.28%) Law
10 12 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.09%) Music Industry
12 8 (0.79%) Automotive
13 7 (0.69%) Public Sector
14 6 (0.59%) Banking
15 5 (0.49%) Back Office
16 4 (0.39%) Investment Banking
17 3 (0.30%) Billing
17 3 (0.30%) Legal
18 2 (0.20%) Manufacturing
18 2 (0.20%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,013 (100.00%) .NET
2 556 (54.89%) ASP.NET
3 553 (54.59%) .NET Core
4 499 (49.26%) ASP.NET Core
5 225 (22.21%) Blazor
6 217 (21.42%) CSS
7 216 (21.32%) HTML
8 214 (21.13%) Entity Framework
9 213 (21.03%) React
10 191 (18.85%) RESTful
11 187 (18.46%) Vue
12 184 (18.16%) ASP.NET Web API
13 180 (17.77%) AngularJS
14 156 (15.40%) ML.NET
15 147 (14.51%) Node.js
16 117 (11.55%) .NET Framework
17 114 (11.25%) LINQ
18 52 (5.13%) REST
19 37 (3.65%) WinForms
20 27 (2.67%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 101 (9.97%) Greenfield Project
2 48 (4.74%) Enterprise Software
3 46 (4.54%) Mobile App
4 20 (1.97%) Digital TV
5 17 (1.68%) BBC
5 17 (1.68%) iPhone
5 17 (1.68%) Social Media
6 15 (1.48%) Legacy Code
7 14 (1.38%) Social Network
8 13 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (0.99%) Cloud Native
10 10 (0.99%) Product Ownership
11 7 (0.69%) Data Structures
11 7 (0.69%) Hedge funds
12 6 (0.59%) PropTech
13 5 (0.49%) IoT
13 5 (0.49%) Sports Betting
13 5 (0.49%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.17%) Windows
2 21 (2.07%) Android
3 1 (0.099%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 599 (59.13%) Full-Stack Development
2 419 (41.36%) Agile
3 241 (23.79%) DevOps
4 228 (22.51%) CI/CD
5 209 (20.63%) AI
6 205 (20.24%) Microservices
7 169 (16.68%) Multithreading
8 160 (15.79%) Machine Learning
9 115 (11.35%) Software Engineering
10 100 (9.87%) Scrum
11 99 (9.77%) OO
12 93 (9.18%) TDD
13 68 (6.71%) BDD
14 67 (6.61%) Kanban
15 65 (6.42%) Problem-Solving
15 65 (6.42%) SDLC
16 61 (6.02%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
17 60 (5.92%) MVC
18 54 (5.33%) Continuous Improvement
19 44 (4.34%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 802 (79.17%) C#
2 556 (54.89%) SQL
3 237 (23.40%) JavaScript
4 189 (18.66%) TypeScript
5 30 (2.96%) VB.NET
6 23 (2.27%) T-SQL
7 16 (1.58%) Python
8 15 (1.48%) VB
9 5 (0.49%) C++
10 4 (0.39%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.39%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.20%) Bicep
11 2 (0.20%) C
11 2 (0.20%) Dart
11 2 (0.20%) Java
11 2 (0.20%) VBA
11 2 (0.20%) VBScript
11 2 (0.20%) XPath
12 1 (0.099%) Delphi
12 1 (0.099%) R
Qualifications
1 43 (4.24%) Security Cleared
2 42 (4.15%) SC Cleared
3 31 (3.06%) Degree
4 17 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (0.49%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.30%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.099%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.099%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.099%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.47%) QA
2 8 (0.79%) GDPR
3 5 (0.49%) Accessibility
System Software
1 176 (17.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 156 (15.40%) Kubernetes
2 8 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 543 (53.60%) Microsoft
2 61 (6.02%) Facebook
3 58 (5.73%) Google
4 21 (2.07%) YouTube
5 17 (1.68%) Apple
5 17 (1.68%) Sony
5 17 (1.68%) Yahoo!
6 14 (1.38%) Oracle
7 10 (0.99%) Xamarin
8 8 (0.79%) Sage
9 7 (0.69%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.49%) SAP
11 3 (0.30%) Alterian
11 3 (0.30%) DevExpress
11 3 (0.30%) Optimizely
11 3 (0.30%) Sitecore
12 2 (0.20%) iManage
12 2 (0.20%) OneLogin
12 2 (0.20%) Telerik
13 1 (0.099%) IBM