.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 1 July 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 363 95
Rank change year-on-year +153 -268 +80
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 936 363 2,819
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.97% 0.78% 2.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 0.87% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 893 335 2,634
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £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 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 90,787 41,821 99,953
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 89.76% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 62,361 24,209 72,015
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,673 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +7.95% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.00% - -5.87%

.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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +151 876 £55,000 -8.33% 221
UK excluding London +155 806 £55,000 - 179
Work from Home +138 566 £55,000 -4.35% 197
North of England +83 246 £55,000 -8.33% 65
South East +110 244 £55,000 - 58
North West +42 118 £55,000 -8.33% 28
London -31 113 £80,000 - 61
East of England +58 103 £60,000 +13.21% 20
Midlands +25 95 £55,000 +10.00% 16
South West -4 76 £52,500 +5.00% 9
Yorkshire +19 67 £55,000 -8.33% 18
North East +1 61 £55,000 -45.00% 19
West Midlands +1 53 £55,000 +2.33% 11
East Midlands +8 42 £52,500 +16.67% 5
Scotland +34 29 £55,000 +69.23% 3
Wales -37 13 £50,000 - 6

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

For the 6 months to 1 July 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.

1 936 (100.00%) .NET
2 727 (77.67%) C#
3 564 (60.26%) Azure
4 563 (60.15%) Full-Stack Development
5 510 (54.49%) .NET Core
6 501 (53.53%) SQL
7 478 (51.07%) ASP.NET
8 458 (48.93%) Microsoft
9 444 (47.44%) ASP.NET Core
10 408 (43.59%) Azure SQL Database
11 384 (41.03%) Agile
12 369 (39.42%) MongoDB
13 214 (22.86%) CI/CD
14 207 (22.12%) DevOps
14 207 (22.12%) JavaScript
15 203 (21.69%) React
16 196 (20.94%) CSS
17 195 (20.83%) HTML
18 194 (20.73%) Blazor
19 187 (19.98%) AI
20 183 (19.55%) Azure DevOps
21 182 (19.44%) Microservices
22 179 (19.12%) Entity Framework
22 179 (19.12%) RESTful
23 178 (19.02%) Vue
24 174 (18.59%) AngularJS
25 173 (18.48%) TypeScript
26 160 (17.09%) ASP.NET Web API
27 154 (16.45%) Multithreading
28 149 (15.92%) 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 (0.43%) NServiceBus
2 3 (0.32%) CMS
2 3 (0.32%) DNN
2 3 (0.32%) EPiServer
2 3 (0.32%) IIS
2 3 (0.32%) Immediacy CMS
2 3 (0.32%) Kentico
2 3 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (0.32%) Sitefinity
2 3 (0.32%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.21%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.11%) Sage 200
1 1 (0.11%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 564 (60.26%) Azure
2 183 (19.55%) Azure DevOps
3 142 (15.17%) Azure AI
4 139 (14.85%) GitHub
5 127 (13.57%) AWS
6 119 (12.71%) GitHub Copilot
7 70 (7.48%) SaaS
8 64 (6.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 27 (2.88%) Serverless
10 22 (2.35%) Azure Logic Apps
11 19 (2.03%) Azure Functions
12 18 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
13 17 (1.82%) Google Play
14 16 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (1.18%) PaaS
16 8 (0.85%) Azure App Service
16 8 (0.85%) Azure Monitor
16 8 (0.85%) Entra ID
16 8 (0.85%) Power Platform
17 6 (0.64%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 56 (5.98%) Internet
2 8 (0.85%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 408 (43.59%) Azure SQL Database
2 369 (39.42%) MongoDB
3 136 (14.53%) Elasticsearch
4 93 (9.94%) SQL Server
5 14 (1.50%) MySQL
6 9 (0.96%) NonStop SQL
7 7 (0.75%) NoSQL
8 6 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.43%) Power BI
11 3 (0.32%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.32%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.32%) SQLite
12 2 (0.21%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.21%) CouchDB
13 1 (0.11%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.11%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.11%) SAP BW
13 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (2.46%) Git
2 7 (0.75%) JIRA
3 5 (0.53%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.32%) MSTest
4 3 (0.32%) NUnit
4 3 (0.32%) Postman
5 1 (0.11%) GitLab
5 1 (0.11%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.11%) JetBrains Rider
5 1 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.11%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.11%) Vite
5 1 (0.11%) webpack
General
1 101 (10.79%) Finance
2 49 (5.24%) Advertising
2 49 (5.24%) Games
3 37 (3.95%) Marketing
4 29 (3.10%) Social Skills
5 24 (2.56%) Retail
6 12 (1.28%) Aerospace
7 10 (1.07%) Law
8 9 (0.96%) Music Industry
9 8 (0.85%) Automotive
9 8 (0.85%) Banking
9 8 (0.85%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.53%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (0.53%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.43%) Back Office
12 3 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.32%) Legal
12 3 (0.32%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.11%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.11%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 936 (100.00%) .NET
2 510 (54.49%) .NET Core
3 478 (51.07%) ASP.NET
4 444 (47.44%) ASP.NET Core
5 203 (21.69%) React
6 196 (20.94%) CSS
7 195 (20.83%) HTML
8 194 (20.73%) Blazor
9 179 (19.12%) Entity Framework
9 179 (19.12%) RESTful
10 178 (19.02%) Vue
11 174 (18.59%) AngularJS
12 160 (17.09%) ASP.NET Web API
13 141 (15.06%) ML.NET
14 132 (14.10%) Node.js
15 102 (10.90%) LINQ
16 90 (9.62%) .NET Framework
17 28 (2.99%) REST
18 27 (2.88%) WinForms
19 22 (2.35%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 91 (9.72%) Greenfield Project
2 50 (5.34%) Mobile App
3 41 (4.38%) Enterprise Software
4 20 (2.14%) Digital TV
5 17 (1.82%) iPhone
6 16 (1.71%) BBC
6 16 (1.71%) Social Media
6 16 (1.71%) Social Network
7 11 (1.18%) Hedge funds
8 9 (0.96%) Cloud Native
8 9 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (0.96%) Legacy Code
9 8 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (0.85%) PropTech
9 8 (0.85%) Sports Betting
10 6 (0.64%) Product Ownership
11 5 (0.53%) Tandem
12 3 (0.32%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.32%) IoT
13 2 (0.21%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.24%) Android
2 11 (1.18%) Windows
3 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 563 (60.15%) Full-Stack Development
2 384 (41.03%) Agile
3 214 (22.86%) CI/CD
4 207 (22.12%) DevOps
5 187 (19.98%) AI
6 182 (19.44%) Microservices
7 154 (16.45%) Multithreading
8 147 (15.71%) Machine Learning
9 110 (11.75%) Software Engineering
10 86 (9.19%) OO
11 83 (8.87%) Scrum
12 81 (8.65%) TDD
13 60 (6.41%) BDD
13 60 (6.41%) Kanban
14 55 (5.88%) SDLC
15 53 (5.66%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
16 47 (5.02%) Analytics
16 47 (5.02%) Problem-Solving
17 44 (4.70%) Continuous Improvement
18 34 (3.63%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 727 (77.67%) C#
2 501 (53.53%) SQL
3 207 (22.12%) JavaScript
4 173 (18.48%) TypeScript
5 15 (1.60%) Python
5 15 (1.60%) VB
5 15 (1.60%) VB.NET
6 14 (1.50%) T-SQL
7 4 (0.43%) Kotlin
7 4 (0.43%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.32%) Bicep
8 3 (0.32%) C++
9 2 (0.21%) Java
10 1 (0.11%) ABAP
10 1 (0.11%) Delphi
10 1 (0.11%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (3.95%) SC Cleared
1 37 (3.95%) Security Cleared
2 28 (2.99%) Degree
3 15 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (0.53%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.21%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.11%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (1.50%) QA
2 5 (0.53%) GDPR
3 4 (0.43%) Accessibility
System Software
1 149 (15.92%) Docker
2 3 (0.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 133 (14.21%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 458 (48.93%) Microsoft
2 54 (5.77%) Facebook
3 46 (4.91%) Google
4 19 (2.03%) YouTube
5 16 (1.71%) Apple
5 16 (1.71%) Sony
5 16 (1.71%) Yahoo!
6 13 (1.39%) Xamarin
7 8 (0.85%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.53%) Oracle
9 4 (0.43%) Sage
10 3 (0.32%) Alterian
10 3 (0.32%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.32%) SAP
10 3 (0.32%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.21%) IBM
11 2 (0.21%) iManage
11 2 (0.21%) OneLogin
12 1 (0.11%) DevExpress
12 1 (0.11%) Infor