.NET Developer Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 April 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 264 98
Rank change year-on-year -71 -166 +91
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 452 457 2,509
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.12% 2.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 1.24% 2.91%
Number of salaries quoted 408 410 2,415
10th Percentile £43,750 £33,625 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -1.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -

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 76,515 36,725 86,098
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 89.80% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 49,212 23,272 64,527
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,501
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -38 416 £60,000 +4.35% 221
UK excluding London -40 355 £55,000 +4.76% 169
Work from Home -59 165 £55,000 +6.80% 201
North of England -37 125 £60,000 +4.35% 54
South East -15 94 £55,650 +6.00% 48
London -44 71 £85,000 - 65
North West -47 62 £60,000 +9.09% 32
Yorkshire -21 51 £60,000 - 16
Midlands -36 49 £52,500 - 19
South West -18 43 £50,000 -20.00% 19
East of England -57 32 £55,000 +15.79% 21
West Midlands -3 29 £50,000 -13.04% 10
East Midlands -51 20 £55,000 +4.76% 9
North East -21 12 £55,000 +22.22% 8
Wales -24 6 £45,000 -10.00% 4
Scotland -48 6 £55,000 +69.23% 5

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

For the 6 months to 8 April 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.

1 452 (100.00%) .NET
2 288 (63.72%) C#
3 177 (39.16%) Full-Stack Development
4 170 (37.61%) Azure
5 143 (31.64%) .NET Core
6 127 (28.10%) SQL
7 120 (26.55%) Agile
8 96 (21.24%) ASP.NET
9 91 (20.13%) CI/CD
10 87 (19.25%) SQL Server
11 84 (18.58%) React
12 79 (17.48%) JavaScript
13 77 (17.04%) Microsoft
14 75 (16.59%) DevOps
15 74 (16.37%) Software Engineering
16 71 (15.71%) HTML
16 71 (15.71%) Microservices
16 71 (15.71%) SaaS
17 70 (15.49%) CSS
18 65 (14.38%) RESTful
19 60 (13.27%) .NET Framework
19 60 (13.27%) ASP.NET Core
20 53 (11.73%) AWS
20 53 (11.73%) MVC
21 52 (11.50%) AngularJS
22 51 (11.28%) TypeScript
23 50 (11.06%) Blazor
24 46 (10.18%) Azure DevOps
24 46 (10.18%) Problem-Solving
25 44 (9.73%) 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 3 (0.66%) IIS
2 2 (0.44%) CMS
2 2 (0.44%) NServiceBus
2 2 (0.44%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.22%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 170 (37.61%) Azure
2 71 (15.71%) SaaS
3 53 (11.73%) AWS
4 46 (10.18%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (8.85%) GitHub
6 39 (8.63%) Serverless
7 29 (6.42%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (4.20%) Azure Logic Apps
9 17 (3.76%) Azure App Service
9 17 (3.76%) Entra ID
10 16 (3.54%) PaaS
11 15 (3.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 14 (3.10%) Azure AI
13 13 (2.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (2.88%) Amazon S3
13 13 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (2.65%) Amazon EventBridge
14 12 (2.65%) Amazon SQS
14 12 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (2.65%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.11%) Internet
2 2 (0.44%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (19.25%) SQL Server
2 37 (8.19%) Azure SQL Database
2 37 (8.19%) NoSQL
3 30 (6.64%) MongoDB
4 14 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (2.65%) DynamoDB
6 10 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (1.33%) MySQL
8 4 (0.88%) Power BI
9 3 (0.66%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.44%) CouchDB
11 1 (0.22%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.22%) NonStop SQL
11 1 (0.22%) Redis
11 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (8.85%) Git
2 9 (1.99%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.22%) MSTest
3 1 (0.22%) NUnit
3 1 (0.22%) Postman
3 1 (0.22%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.22%) Vite
3 1 (0.22%) webpack
General
1 47 (10.40%) Finance
2 43 (9.51%) Social Skills
3 10 (2.21%) Games
4 8 (1.77%) Law
5 7 (1.55%) Banking
5 7 (1.55%) Manufacturing
6 5 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (0.88%) Advertising
7 4 (0.88%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (0.88%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.66%) Back Office
8 3 (0.66%) Electronics
8 3 (0.66%) Front Office
8 3 (0.66%) Marketing
9 2 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.44%) Legal
9 2 (0.44%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.22%) iGaming
10 1 (0.22%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 452 (100.00%) .NET
2 143 (31.64%) .NET Core
3 96 (21.24%) ASP.NET
4 84 (18.58%) React
5 71 (15.71%) HTML
6 70 (15.49%) CSS
7 65 (14.38%) RESTful
8 60 (13.27%) .NET Framework
8 60 (13.27%) ASP.NET Core
9 52 (11.50%) AngularJS
10 50 (11.06%) Blazor
11 41 (9.07%) Vue
12 38 (8.41%) Entity Framework
13 28 (6.19%) ASP.NET Web API
14 27 (5.97%) REST
15 21 (4.65%) ASP.NET MVC
16 20 (4.42%) Razor View Engine
17 15 (3.32%) ASP.NET Web Forms
18 13 (2.88%) ML.NET
19 12 (2.65%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.52%) Mobile App
2 21 (4.65%) Cloud Native
3 12 (2.65%) Hedge funds
3 12 (2.65%) PropTech
4 8 (1.77%) Sports Betting
5 7 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.33%) Legacy Code
6 6 (1.33%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (0.88%) Social Network
9 3 (0.66%) Derivative
9 3 (0.66%) Digital TV
9 3 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.44%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.44%) BBC
10 2 (0.44%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.44%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.44%) IoT
10 2 (0.44%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.88%) Android
1 4 (0.88%) Windows
2 3 (0.66%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.44%) Linux
3 2 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (39.16%) Full-Stack Development
2 120 (26.55%) Agile
3 91 (20.13%) CI/CD
4 75 (16.59%) DevOps
5 74 (16.37%) Software Engineering
6 71 (15.71%) Microservices
7 53 (11.73%) MVC
8 46 (10.18%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (8.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (6.86%) Clean Code
11 30 (6.64%) Scrum
12 28 (6.19%) AI
12 28 (6.19%) SDLC
13 27 (5.97%) TDD
14 24 (5.31%) Containerisation
15 22 (4.87%) Mentoring
16 21 (4.65%) Code Quality
17 20 (4.42%) API Development
17 20 (4.42%) Kanban
18 19 (4.20%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 288 (63.72%) C#
2 127 (28.10%) SQL
3 79 (17.48%) JavaScript
4 51 (11.28%) TypeScript
5 6 (1.33%) T-SQL
5 6 (1.33%) VB
6 4 (0.88%) Bicep
7 3 (0.66%) XAML
8 2 (0.44%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.44%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.22%) C++
9 1 (0.22%) Erlang
9 1 (0.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (3.98%) Degree
1 18 (3.98%) SC Cleared
1 18 (3.98%) Security Cleared
2 15 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (2.21%) AWS Certification
3 10 (2.21%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (1.99%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.98%) QA
2 5 (1.11%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 44 (9.73%) Docker
2 10 (2.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (3.98%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 77 (17.04%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.88%) Xamarin
3 5 (1.11%) Facebook
4 4 (0.88%) Google
4 4 (0.88%) OpenAI
4 4 (0.88%) Telerik
5 3 (0.66%) Sage
6 2 (0.44%) Apple
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle
6 2 (0.44%) Sony
6 2 (0.44%) Yahoo!
7 1 (0.22%) Adobe
7 1 (0.22%) Databricks
7 1 (0.22%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.22%) Foundry
7 1 (0.22%) IBM
7 1 (0.22%) Infragistics
7 1 (0.22%) Perforce
7 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.22%) YouTube