.NET Developer Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 February 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 259 89
Rank change year-on-year -85 -170 +82
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 368 599 2,290
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.17% 3.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 1.28% 3.29%
Number of salaries quoted 339 448 2,206
10th Percentile £45,000 £32,500 £39,894
25th Percentile £50,000 £44,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £101,750 £94,125 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +4.76%

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 58,749 46,938 69,506
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.97% 91.97% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 36,633 24,273 54,572
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £74,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -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 4 February 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 4 February 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 -58 339 £65,000 +13.04% 231
UK excluding London -81 266 £60,000 +14.29% 185
Work from Home -41 175 £68,750 +30.95% 197
South East +28 89 £70,000 +28.44% 52
London +6 80 £80,000 -5.88% 66
North of England -41 80 £60,000 +9.09% 68
North West -22 47 £60,000 +4.35% 40
Midlands -20 43 £50,000 -13.04% 23
South West -24 26 £53,750 -8.51% 15
West Midlands +13 23 £50,000 -13.04% 14
Yorkshire -16 23 £62,500 +25.00% 16
East Midlands -15 20 £52,500 - 9
East of England -31 18 £57,500 +15.00% 20
North East -10 10 £50,000 +11.11% 12
Wales -4 6 £45,000 -40.00% 3
Scotland -70 4 £55,000 +40.13% 5

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

For the 6 months to 4 February 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.

1 368 (100.00%) .NET
2 242 (65.76%) C#
3 202 (54.89%) Azure
4 169 (45.92%) Agile
5 147 (39.95%) Full-Stack Development
6 137 (37.23%) .NET Core
7 130 (35.33%) JavaScript
8 123 (33.42%) SQL
9 102 (27.72%) ASP.NET
10 97 (26.36%) CI/CD
10 97 (26.36%) React
11 92 (25.00%) Microservices
11 92 (25.00%) SQL Server
12 85 (23.10%) TypeScript
13 83 (22.55%) MVC
14 82 (22.28%) Microsoft
15 81 (22.01%) AWS
16 80 (21.74%) DevOps
16 80 (21.74%) SaaS
17 73 (19.84%) .NET Framework
17 73 (19.84%) Software Engineering
18 66 (17.93%) AngularJS
19 61 (16.58%) RESTful
20 60 (16.30%) HTML
21 55 (14.95%) CSS
22 54 (14.67%) ASP.NET Web API
23 53 (14.40%) ASP.NET MVC
24 51 (13.86%) Blazor
25 50 (13.59%) AI
26 49 (13.32%) Azure DevOps

.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 5 (1.36%) CMS
2 4 (1.09%) IIS
3 2 (0.54%) Confluence
4 1 (0.27%) Kentico
4 1 (0.27%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.27%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.27%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.27%) ION Anvil
1 1 (0.27%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 202 (54.89%) Azure
2 81 (22.01%) AWS
3 80 (21.74%) SaaS
4 49 (13.32%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (13.32%) Serverless
5 36 (9.78%) GitHub
6 32 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
7 31 (8.42%) GCP
8 20 (5.43%) Entra ID
9 19 (5.16%) Azure App Service
10 17 (4.62%) PaaS
11 12 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (3.26%) Amazon S3
11 12 (3.26%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (3.26%) AWS Step Functions
11 12 (3.26%) Azure Functions
11 12 (3.26%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (3.26%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.36%) Internet
2 1 (0.27%) DNS
2 1 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 48 (13.04%) MongoDB
3 45 (12.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 45 (12.23%) NoSQL
4 17 (4.62%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.26%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.90%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.36%) NonStop SQL
9 4 (1.09%) MySQL
9 4 (1.09%) Power BI
10 1 (0.27%) CouchDB
10 1 (0.27%) RavenDB
10 1 (0.27%) Redis
10 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 47 (12.77%) Git
2 12 (3.26%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.82%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.54%) JIRA
4 2 (0.54%) Postman
5 1 (0.27%) JMeter
5 1 (0.27%) Selenium
5 1 (0.27%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 70 (19.02%) Finance
2 59 (16.03%) Social Skills
3 9 (2.45%) Front Office
4 8 (2.17%) Banking
5 6 (1.63%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.36%) Advertising
6 5 (1.36%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (1.36%) Manufacturing
6 5 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.09%) Back Office
7 4 (1.09%) Electronics
7 4 (1.09%) Games
7 4 (1.09%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.09%) Legal
8 3 (0.82%) Law
8 3 (0.82%) Retail
9 2 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.27%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 368 (100.00%) .NET
2 137 (37.23%) .NET Core
3 102 (27.72%) ASP.NET
4 97 (26.36%) React
5 73 (19.84%) .NET Framework
6 66 (17.93%) AngularJS
7 61 (16.58%) RESTful
8 60 (16.30%) HTML
9 55 (14.95%) CSS
10 54 (14.67%) ASP.NET Web API
11 53 (14.40%) ASP.NET MVC
12 51 (13.86%) Blazor
13 48 (13.04%) Entity Framework
14 42 (11.41%) ASP.NET Core
15 35 (9.51%) Vue
16 33 (8.97%) REST
17 23 (6.25%) Razor View Engine
18 19 (5.16%) ASP.NET Web Forms
19 18 (4.89%) HTML5
19 18 (4.89%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.61%) Mobile App
2 20 (5.43%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.17%) PropTech
5 7 (1.90%) Hedge funds
6 6 (1.63%) Digital TV
6 6 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.09%) Clustering
8 4 (1.09%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.09%) Sports Betting
9 3 (0.82%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.82%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.54%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.54%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.63%) Android
2 5 (1.36%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.09%) Linux
4 1 (0.27%) VMS
4 1 (0.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (45.92%) Agile
2 147 (39.95%) Full-Stack Development
3 97 (26.36%) CI/CD
4 92 (25.00%) Microservices
5 83 (22.55%) MVC
6 80 (21.74%) DevOps
7 73 (19.84%) Software Engineering
8 50 (13.59%) AI
9 49 (13.32%) Problem-Solving
10 48 (13.04%) Scrum
11 47 (12.77%) Roadmaps
12 43 (11.68%) TDD
13 41 (11.14%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (8.97%) Clean Code
14 33 (8.97%) Kanban
15 32 (8.70%) Business Strategy
16 25 (6.79%) Front End Development
17 24 (6.52%) Containerisation
17 24 (6.52%) Mentoring
18 21 (5.71%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 242 (65.76%) C#
2 130 (35.33%) JavaScript
3 123 (33.42%) SQL
4 85 (23.10%) TypeScript
5 6 (1.63%) T-SQL
6 5 (1.36%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.09%) XAML
8 3 (0.82%) Erlang
8 3 (0.82%) VB
9 2 (0.54%) Bicep
10 1 (0.27%) Java
10 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 24 (6.52%) Degree
2 19 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (3.26%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.72%) AWS Certification
4 10 (2.72%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.71%) QA
2 6 (1.63%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.27%) GDPR
3 1 (0.27%) IFRS
3 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (9.78%) Docker
2 15 (4.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (5.16%) Terraform
2 10 (2.72%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 82 (22.28%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.45%) Xamarin
3 6 (1.63%) Facebook
4 5 (1.36%) YouTube
5 4 (1.09%) Telerik
6 3 (0.82%) Oracle
7 2 (0.54%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.54%) Google
7 2 (0.54%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.27%) Adobe
8 1 (0.27%) Apple
8 1 (0.27%) Foundry
8 1 (0.27%) IBM
8 1 (0.27%) Infragistics
8 1 (0.27%) Okta
8 1 (0.27%) Perforce
8 1 (0.27%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.27%) Sony
8 1 (0.27%) Yahoo!