.NET Developer Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer salary in the UK is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 June 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 326 94
Rank change year-on-year +70 -232 +88
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 697 380 2,754
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.87% 2.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.97% 2.84%
Number of salaries quoted 653 341 2,616
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year - -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,875 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.09% -2.05% -

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 87,037 39,088 96,954
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 89.36% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 58,034 21,982 70,659
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
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 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +1.93% -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 2 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 2 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 +86 660 £57,500 -4.17% 188
UK excluding London +80 577 £55,000 +2.09% 153
Work from Home +84 323 £55,000 -4.35% 168
North of England +50 196 £55,000 -8.33% 60
South East +75 173 £55,000 - 43
London -24 104 £80,000 - 45
North West +25 103 £60,000 - 32
Midlands +9 70 £55,000 +4.76% 13
East of England +25 64 £60,000 +13.21% 20
Yorkshire -2 57 £60,000 -7.69% 14
South West -25 55 £50,000 - 8
West Midlands -8 42 £55,000 -4.35% 7
North East -11 36 £55,000 -45.00% 14
East Midlands -14 28 £53,750 +16.22% 6
Scotland 0 12 £60,000 +84.62% 4
Wales -33 7 £50,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 697 (100.00%) .NET
2 474 (68.01%) C#
3 334 (47.92%) Full-Stack Development
4 320 (45.91%) Azure
5 280 (40.17%) .NET Core
6 273 (39.17%) SQL
7 235 (33.72%) ASP.NET
8 223 (31.99%) Microsoft
9 219 (31.42%) Agile
10 205 (29.41%) ASP.NET Core
11 179 (25.68%) Azure SQL Database
12 157 (22.53%) MongoDB
13 141 (20.23%) CI/CD
14 123 (17.65%) DevOps
15 120 (17.22%) React
16 119 (17.07%) CSS
17 118 (16.93%) HTML
18 115 (16.50%) JavaScript
19 106 (15.21%) Microservices
20 105 (15.06%) Vue
21 103 (14.78%) RESTful
21 103 (14.78%) Software Engineering
22 100 (14.35%) AngularJS
23 99 (14.20%) AI
24 98 (14.06%) Azure DevOps
25 96 (13.77%) Blazor
26 94 (13.49%) Entity Framework
27 90 (12.91%) TypeScript
28 89 (12.77%) AWS
29 86 (12.34%) SQL Server

.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 (0.43%) NServiceBus
2 2 (0.29%) IIS
2 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.14%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 320 (45.91%) Azure
2 98 (14.06%) Azure DevOps
3 89 (12.77%) AWS
4 83 (11.91%) SaaS
5 73 (10.47%) GitHub
6 60 (8.61%) Azure AI
7 47 (6.74%) GitHub Copilot
8 37 (5.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 33 (4.73%) Serverless
10 23 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (2.87%) Azure Functions
11 20 (2.87%) Azure Logic Apps
12 16 (2.30%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (1.72%) PaaS
14 9 (1.29%) Azure App Service
14 9 (1.29%) Entra ID
15 8 (1.15%) Amazon S3
15 8 (1.15%) Google Play
16 7 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.30%) Internet
2 3 (0.43%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (25.68%) Azure SQL Database
2 157 (22.53%) MongoDB
3 86 (12.34%) SQL Server
4 53 (7.60%) Elasticsearch
5 18 (2.58%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.87%) MySQL
7 12 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.00%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.57%) NonStop SQL
9 4 (0.57%) Power BI
10 2 (0.29%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.29%) CouchDB
10 2 (0.29%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.14%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.14%) SQLite
11 1 (0.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (3.30%) Git
2 5 (0.72%) JIRA
3 3 (0.43%) MSTest
3 3 (0.43%) NUnit
3 3 (0.43%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.14%) Postman
4 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.14%) Vite
4 1 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 70 (10.04%) Finance
2 29 (4.16%) Games
3 28 (4.02%) Social Skills
4 20 (2.87%) Advertising
5 13 (1.87%) Marketing
6 10 (1.43%) Law
6 10 (1.43%) Retail
7 8 (1.15%) Automotive
8 7 (1.00%) Manufacturing
9 6 (0.86%) Aerospace
9 6 (0.86%) Banking
10 5 (0.72%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (0.57%) Back Office
11 4 (0.57%) Music Industry
12 3 (0.43%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.43%) Legal
13 2 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.14%) iGaming
14 1 (0.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 697 (100.00%) .NET
2 280 (40.17%) .NET Core
3 235 (33.72%) ASP.NET
4 205 (29.41%) ASP.NET Core
5 120 (17.22%) React
6 119 (17.07%) CSS
7 118 (16.93%) HTML
8 105 (15.06%) Vue
9 103 (14.78%) RESTful
10 100 (14.35%) AngularJS
11 96 (13.77%) Blazor
12 94 (13.49%) Entity Framework
13 75 (10.76%) ASP.NET Web API
14 61 (8.75%) .NET Framework
15 59 (8.46%) ML.NET
16 54 (7.75%) Node.js
17 48 (6.89%) LINQ
18 20 (2.87%) REST
19 17 (2.44%) WinForms
20 14 (2.01%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 51 (7.32%) Mobile App
2 43 (6.17%) Greenfield Project
3 19 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (2.15%) Cloud Native
5 14 (2.01%) PropTech
6 12 (1.72%) Hedge funds
7 10 (1.43%) Social Network
8 9 (1.29%) Digital TV
9 8 (1.15%) iPhone
9 8 (1.15%) Legacy Code
9 8 (1.15%) Sports Betting
10 7 (1.00%) BBC
10 7 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.00%) Social Media
11 6 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.86%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.29%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.29%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.29%) Fixed Income
12 2 (0.29%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.43%) Android
2 7 (1.00%) Windows
3 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (47.92%) Full-Stack Development
2 219 (31.42%) Agile
3 141 (20.23%) CI/CD
4 123 (17.65%) DevOps
5 106 (15.21%) Microservices
6 103 (14.78%) Software Engineering
7 99 (14.20%) AI
8 70 (10.04%) Multithreading
9 65 (9.33%) Machine Learning
10 47 (6.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 46 (6.60%) SDLC
12 45 (6.46%) OO
13 44 (6.31%) Problem-Solving
14 43 (6.17%) TDD
15 39 (5.60%) Scrum
16 31 (4.45%) Kanban
17 30 (4.30%) Analytics
18 29 (4.16%) MVC
19 26 (3.73%) Clean Code
19 26 (3.73%) CQRS
Programming Languages
1 474 (68.01%) C#
2 273 (39.17%) SQL
3 115 (16.50%) JavaScript
4 90 (12.91%) TypeScript
5 15 (2.15%) VB
6 13 (1.87%) Python
7 11 (1.58%) VB.NET
8 9 (1.29%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.43%) Bicep
10 2 (0.29%) C++
10 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.14%) Delphi
11 1 (0.14%) Java
11 1 (0.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 37 (5.31%) SC Cleared
1 37 (5.31%) Security Cleared
2 25 (3.59%) Degree
3 15 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (0.72%) AWS Certification
5 5 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
5 5 (0.72%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.43%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.29%) QA
2 5 (0.72%) GDPR
3 1 (0.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 82 (11.76%) Docker
2 4 (0.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (8.90%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 223 (31.99%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.16%) Facebook
2 22 (3.16%) Google
3 17 (2.44%) Xamarin
4 8 (1.15%) YouTube
5 7 (1.00%) Apple
5 7 (1.00%) Sony
5 7 (1.00%) Yahoo!
6 6 (0.86%) OpenAI
7 5 (0.72%) Oracle
8 4 (0.57%) Sage
9 2 (0.29%) iManage
9 2 (0.29%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.14%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.14%) Databricks
10 1 (0.14%) DevExpress
10 1 (0.14%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.14%) Infragistics
10 1 (0.14%) Perforce
10 1 (0.14%) ServiceNow