.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 26 June 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 349 92
Rank change year-on-year +129 -257 +85
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 862 365 2,830
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.91% 0.80% 2.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 0.90% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 820 337 2,647
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,300 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,125 £95,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -

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 89,332 40,653 100,647
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 89.51% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 61,290 23,209 72,638
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,622 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,042 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.08% - -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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +129 808 £55,000 -8.33% 181
UK excluding London +157 736 £55,000 +1.38% 141
Work from Home +131 491 £55,000 -4.35% 165
North of England +85 233 £55,000 -8.33% 41
South East +93 219 £55,000 - 53
North West +46 115 £55,000 -8.33% 20
London -30 110 £80,000 - 58
East of England +45 93 £60,000 +13.21% 19
Midlands +32 86 £55,000 +10.00% 14
South West -13 69 £52,500 +5.00% 9
Yorkshire +11 62 £55,000 -8.33% 10
North East +6 56 £55,000 -45.00% 11
West Midlands +8 48 £55,000 +2.33% 9
East Midlands +6 38 £52,500 +16.67% 5
Scotland +19 26 £55,000 +69.23% 5
Wales -40 10 £50,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 26 June 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.

1 862 (100.00%) .NET
2 653 (75.75%) C#
3 494 (57.31%) Full-Stack Development
4 490 (56.84%) Azure
5 442 (51.28%) .NET Core
6 436 (50.58%) SQL
7 407 (47.22%) ASP.NET
8 388 (45.01%) Microsoft
9 374 (43.39%) ASP.NET Core
10 340 (39.44%) Azure SQL Database
11 333 (38.63%) Agile
12 305 (35.38%) MongoDB
13 192 (22.27%) CI/CD
14 182 (21.11%) DevOps
15 179 (20.77%) JavaScript
16 175 (20.30%) CSS
17 174 (20.19%) HTML
17 174 (20.19%) React
18 163 (18.91%) Blazor
19 162 (18.79%) AI
20 157 (18.21%) Azure DevOps
21 155 (17.98%) Entity Framework
21 155 (17.98%) RESTful
21 155 (17.98%) Vue
22 154 (17.87%) Microservices
23 150 (17.40%) AngularJS
24 149 (17.29%) TypeScript
25 134 (15.55%) ASP.NET Web API
26 129 (14.97%) Multithreading
27 127 (14.73%) Docker

.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 4 (0.46%) NServiceBus
2 3 (0.35%) IIS
3 2 (0.23%) CMS
3 2 (0.23%) DNN
3 2 (0.23%) EPiServer
3 2 (0.23%) Immediacy CMS
3 2 (0.23%) Kentico
3 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (0.23%) Sitefinity
3 2 (0.23%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.12%) Sage 200
1 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 490 (56.84%) Azure
2 157 (18.21%) Azure DevOps
3 119 (13.81%) GitHub
4 118 (13.69%) Azure AI
5 113 (13.11%) AWS
6 99 (11.48%) GitHub Copilot
7 72 (8.35%) SaaS
8 57 (6.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 27 (3.13%) Serverless
10 21 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
11 19 (2.20%) Azure Functions
12 16 (1.86%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (1.62%) Google Play
14 11 (1.28%) PaaS
15 8 (0.93%) Azure App Service
15 8 (0.93%) Entra ID
15 8 (0.93%) Power Platform
16 7 (0.81%) Azure Monitor
17 6 (0.70%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 49 (5.68%) Internet
2 8 (0.93%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.12%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 340 (39.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 305 (35.38%) MongoDB
3 112 (12.99%) Elasticsearch
4 91 (10.56%) SQL Server
5 14 (1.62%) MySQL
6 8 (0.93%) NoSQL
7 7 (0.81%) NonStop SQL
8 6 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.46%) Power BI
11 3 (0.35%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.35%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.35%) SQLite
12 2 (0.23%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.23%) CouchDB
13 1 (0.12%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (2.55%) Git
2 7 (0.81%) JIRA
3 5 (0.58%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.35%) MSTest
4 3 (0.35%) NUnit
4 3 (0.35%) Postman
5 1 (0.12%) GitLab
5 1 (0.12%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.12%) JetBrains Rider
5 1 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.12%) Vite
5 1 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 89 (10.32%) Finance
2 44 (5.10%) Games
3 41 (4.76%) Advertising
4 30 (3.48%) Marketing
5 27 (3.13%) Social Skills
6 19 (2.20%) Retail
7 10 (1.16%) Aerospace
7 10 (1.16%) Law
8 8 (0.93%) Automotive
8 8 (0.93%) Banking
8 8 (0.93%) Manufacturing
9 7 (0.81%) Music Industry
10 5 (0.58%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (0.58%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.46%) Back Office
12 3 (0.35%) Legal
13 2 (0.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.23%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.12%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.12%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 862 (100.00%) .NET
2 442 (51.28%) .NET Core
3 407 (47.22%) ASP.NET
4 374 (43.39%) ASP.NET Core
5 175 (20.30%) CSS
6 174 (20.19%) HTML
6 174 (20.19%) React
7 163 (18.91%) Blazor
8 155 (17.98%) Entity Framework
8 155 (17.98%) RESTful
8 155 (17.98%) Vue
9 150 (17.40%) AngularJS
10 134 (15.55%) ASP.NET Web API
11 117 (13.57%) ML.NET
12 109 (12.65%) Node.js
13 86 (9.98%) LINQ
14 82 (9.51%) .NET Framework
15 25 (2.90%) REST
15 25 (2.90%) WinForms
16 20 (2.32%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 77 (8.93%) Greenfield Project
2 49 (5.68%) Mobile App
3 34 (3.94%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (1.97%) Digital TV
5 15 (1.74%) Social Network
6 14 (1.62%) iPhone
7 13 (1.51%) BBC
7 13 (1.51%) Social Media
8 11 (1.28%) Hedge funds
9 9 (1.04%) Cloud Native
9 9 (1.04%) Legacy Code
9 9 (1.04%) PropTech
10 8 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (0.93%) Sports Betting
11 6 (0.70%) Product Ownership
12 4 (0.46%) Tandem
13 3 (0.35%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.35%) IoT
14 2 (0.23%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.09%) Android
2 11 (1.28%) Windows
3 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (57.31%) Full-Stack Development
2 333 (38.63%) Agile
3 192 (22.27%) CI/CD
4 182 (21.11%) DevOps
5 162 (18.79%) AI
6 154 (17.87%) Microservices
7 129 (14.97%) Multithreading
8 123 (14.27%) Machine Learning
9 108 (12.53%) Software Engineering
10 74 (8.58%) OO
11 69 (8.00%) Scrum
12 68 (7.89%) TDD
13 55 (6.38%) SDLC
14 50 (5.80%) Kanban
15 48 (5.57%) BDD
15 48 (5.57%) Problem-Solving
16 45 (5.22%) Continuous Improvement
17 44 (5.10%) Analytics
18 43 (4.99%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
19 32 (3.71%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 653 (75.75%) C#
2 436 (50.58%) SQL
3 179 (20.77%) JavaScript
4 149 (17.29%) TypeScript
5 15 (1.74%) Python
5 15 (1.74%) VB
5 15 (1.74%) VB.NET
6 14 (1.62%) T-SQL
7 4 (0.46%) Kotlin
7 4 (0.46%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.35%) Bicep
8 3 (0.35%) C++
9 2 (0.23%) Java
10 1 (0.12%) ABAP
10 1 (0.12%) Delphi
10 1 (0.12%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (4.29%) SC Cleared
1 37 (4.29%) Security Cleared
2 28 (3.25%) Degree
3 15 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (0.58%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.23%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.12%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (1.51%) QA
2 5 (0.58%) GDPR
3 3 (0.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 127 (14.73%) Docker
2 3 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 113 (13.11%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 388 (45.01%) Microsoft
2 45 (5.22%) Facebook
3 38 (4.41%) Google
4 16 (1.86%) YouTube
5 14 (1.62%) Xamarin
6 13 (1.51%) Apple
6 13 (1.51%) Sony
6 13 (1.51%) Yahoo!
7 8 (0.93%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.58%) Oracle
9 4 (0.46%) Sage
10 3 (0.35%) SAP
11 2 (0.23%) Alterian
11 2 (0.23%) IBM
11 2 (0.23%) iManage
11 2 (0.23%) OneLogin
11 2 (0.23%) Optimizely
11 2 (0.23%) Sitecore
12 1 (0.12%) Databricks
12 1 (0.12%) DevExpress