.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 13 January 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 247 102
Rank change year-on-year -84 -145 +48
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 354 654 1,659
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.23% 2.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 1.32% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 325 495 1,578
10th Percentile £45,000 £33,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £90,000 £97,500
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 54,089 49,558 53,300
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.68% 92.89% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 33,489 25,634 41,126
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%

.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 13 January 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 13 January 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 -64 326 £65,000 +13.04% 232
UK excluding London -77 251 £60,000 +14.29% 191
Work from Home -45 169 £66,250 +20.45% 217
South East +30 86 £70,000 +27.27% 68
London +4 81 £75,000 -6.25% 63
North of England -25 81 £60,000 +9.09% 51
North West -5 51 £60,000 +9.09% 32
Midlands -16 36 £52,000 -9.57% 25
South West -23 24 £52,000 -11.49% 12
Yorkshire -19 22 £60,000 +14.29% 11
West Midlands -2 18 £50,000 -13.04% 13
East Midlands -24 18 £53,750 +2.38% 11
East of England -35 14 £57,500 +15.00% 23
North East -6 8 £50,000 +11.11% 8
Wales +1 6 £45,000 -40.00% 7
Scotland -60 4 £55,000 +33.33% 6

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

For the 6 months to 13 January 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.

1 354 (100.00%) .NET
2 239 (67.51%) C#
3 208 (58.76%) Azure
4 171 (48.31%) Agile
5 146 (41.24%) Full-Stack Development
6 141 (39.83%) .NET Core
7 132 (37.29%) SQL
8 131 (37.01%) JavaScript
9 106 (29.94%) ASP.NET
10 103 (29.10%) CI/CD
11 101 (28.53%) React
12 98 (27.68%) Microservices
13 94 (26.55%) SQL Server
14 90 (25.42%) TypeScript
15 88 (24.86%) AWS
15 88 (24.86%) Microsoft
16 86 (24.29%) MVC
17 85 (24.01%) DevOps
18 81 (22.88%) .NET Framework
19 77 (21.75%) SaaS
20 73 (20.62%) AngularJS
21 70 (19.77%) Software Engineering
22 66 (18.64%) RESTful
23 63 (17.80%) HTML
24 61 (17.23%) ASP.NET Web API
25 58 (16.38%) ASP.NET MVC
26 57 (16.10%) Scrum
27 56 (15.82%) CSS
28 55 (15.54%) Blazor
28 55 (15.54%) Entity Framework

.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 (1.41%) CMS
2 4 (1.13%) Confluence
2 4 (1.13%) IIS
3 1 (0.28%) Kentico
3 1 (0.28%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.28%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.56%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.28%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 208 (58.76%) Azure
2 88 (24.86%) AWS
3 77 (21.75%) SaaS
4 50 (14.12%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (13.84%) Serverless
6 37 (10.45%) GitHub
7 31 (8.76%) GCP
8 30 (8.47%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (5.65%) Azure App Service
10 18 (5.08%) Entra ID
11 17 (4.80%) PaaS
12 14 (3.95%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (3.39%) Amazon EventBridge
13 12 (3.39%) Amazon S3
13 12 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (3.39%) AWS Step Functions
13 12 (3.39%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.41%) Internet
2 1 (0.28%) DNS
2 1 (0.28%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (26.55%) SQL Server
2 55 (15.54%) MongoDB
3 52 (14.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 51 (14.41%) NoSQL
5 20 (5.65%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (3.39%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.26%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.98%) MySQL
10 6 (1.69%) NonStop SQL
11 5 (1.41%) Power BI
12 1 (0.28%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.28%) RavenDB
12 1 (0.28%) Redis
12 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 52 (14.69%) Git
2 13 (3.67%) Visual Studio
3 5 (1.41%) JIRA
4 4 (1.13%) Postman
5 3 (0.85%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.85%) JMeter
5 3 (0.85%) Selenium
5 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.56%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.28%) GitLab
7 1 (0.28%) MSTest
7 1 (0.28%) NUnit
7 1 (0.28%) Sourcetree
7 1 (0.28%) SpecFlow
General
1 70 (19.77%) Finance
2 62 (17.51%) Social Skills
3 9 (2.54%) Front Office
4 8 (2.26%) Banking
4 8 (2.26%) Public Sector
5 7 (1.98%) Retail
6 6 (1.69%) Advertising
6 6 (1.69%) Games
7 5 (1.41%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.13%) Back Office
8 4 (1.13%) Electronics
8 4 (1.13%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.13%) Legal
9 3 (0.85%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.56%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.28%) Law
11 1 (0.28%) Marketing
11 1 (0.28%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 354 (100.00%) .NET
2 141 (39.83%) .NET Core
3 106 (29.94%) ASP.NET
4 101 (28.53%) React
5 81 (22.88%) .NET Framework
6 73 (20.62%) AngularJS
7 66 (18.64%) RESTful
8 63 (17.80%) HTML
9 61 (17.23%) ASP.NET Web API
10 58 (16.38%) ASP.NET MVC
11 56 (15.82%) CSS
12 55 (15.54%) Blazor
12 55 (15.54%) Entity Framework
13 40 (11.30%) ASP.NET Core
14 39 (11.02%) Vue
15 34 (9.60%) REST
16 23 (6.50%) Node.js
17 21 (5.93%) Razor View Engine
18 19 (5.37%) ASP.NET Web Forms
18 19 (5.37%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.19%) Mobile App
2 25 (7.06%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (1.98%) Digital TV
6 6 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (1.69%) PropTech
7 5 (1.41%) Clustering
8 4 (1.13%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.13%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.85%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.85%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.56%) Derivative
10 2 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.56%) Online Games
10 2 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.56%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.98%) Android
2 6 (1.69%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.13%) Linux
4 1 (0.28%) VMS
4 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (48.31%) Agile
2 146 (41.24%) Full-Stack Development
3 103 (29.10%) CI/CD
4 98 (27.68%) Microservices
5 86 (24.29%) MVC
6 85 (24.01%) DevOps
7 70 (19.77%) Software Engineering
8 57 (16.10%) Scrum
9 51 (14.41%) AI
10 49 (13.84%) Roadmaps
11 48 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
12 47 (13.28%) TDD
13 43 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
14 39 (11.02%) Clean Code
14 39 (11.02%) Kanban
15 32 (9.04%) Business Strategy
16 28 (7.91%) Front End Development
17 25 (7.06%) BDD
17 25 (7.06%) Mentoring
18 24 (6.78%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 239 (67.51%) C#
2 132 (37.29%) SQL
3 131 (37.01%) JavaScript
4 90 (25.42%) TypeScript
5 5 (1.41%) PowerShell
5 5 (1.41%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.13%) XAML
7 3 (0.85%) Erlang
8 2 (0.56%) Bicep
9 1 (0.28%) Java
9 1 (0.28%) Python
9 1 (0.28%) VB
9 1 (0.28%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 28 (7.91%) Degree
2 22 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.67%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.82%) AWS Certification
4 10 (2.82%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.06%) QA
2 8 (2.26%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.85%) WCAG
4 2 (0.56%) GDPR
5 1 (0.28%) HL7
5 1 (0.28%) IFRS
5 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (10.45%) Docker
2 14 (3.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (5.37%) Terraform
2 11 (3.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 88 (24.86%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.26%) Xamarin
3 7 (1.98%) Facebook
4 6 (1.69%) YouTube
5 4 (1.13%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.13%) Oracle
5 4 (1.13%) Telerik
6 2 (0.56%) Google
6 2 (0.56%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.28%) Adobe
7 1 (0.28%) Apple
7 1 (0.28%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.28%) Foundry
7 1 (0.28%) IBM
7 1 (0.28%) Infragistics
7 1 (0.28%) Okta
7 1 (0.28%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.28%) Sony
7 1 (0.28%) Yahoo!