.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 31 January 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 262 94
Rank change year-on-year -83 -168 +73
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 362 608 2,111
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.17% 3.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 1.27% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 332 454 2,027
10th Percentile £45,000 £32,875 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £44,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% - -
75th Percentile £81,938 £71,375 £71,250
90th Percentile £107,875 £92,625 £95,000
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 57,953 47,926 66,478
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.86% 92.23% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 36,028 24,691 52,048
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,535 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 31 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 31 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 -79 332 £65,000 +13.04% 229
UK excluding London -79 262 £60,000 +14.29% 184
Work from Home -44 171 £68,750 +27.91% 191
South East +34 89 £70,000 +27.27% 57
North of England -44 78 £60,000 +9.09% 58
London +2 77 £80,000 -3.03% 66
North West -17 47 £60,000 +4.35% 36
Midlands -18 42 £50,000 -13.04% 25
South West -23 26 £53,750 -8.51% 15
West Midlands +6 22 £50,000 -13.04% 14
Yorkshire -18 21 £62,500 +11.11% 15
East Midlands -19 20 £52,500 - 11
East of England -23 17 £55,000 +10.00% 21
North East -4 10 £50,000 +11.11% 7
Wales +1 6 £45,000 -40.00% 3
Scotland -57 4 £55,000 +38.36% 6

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

For the 6 months to 31 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.

1 362 (100.00%) .NET
2 237 (65.47%) C#
3 204 (56.35%) Azure
4 169 (46.69%) Agile
5 145 (40.06%) Full-Stack Development
6 137 (37.85%) .NET Core
7 128 (35.36%) JavaScript
8 125 (34.53%) SQL
9 102 (28.18%) ASP.NET
10 99 (27.35%) React
11 98 (27.07%) CI/CD
12 93 (25.69%) Microservices
12 93 (25.69%) SQL Server
13 86 (23.76%) TypeScript
14 84 (23.20%) Microsoft
14 84 (23.20%) MVC
15 82 (22.65%) DevOps
16 80 (22.10%) AWS
16 80 (22.10%) SaaS
17 74 (20.44%) .NET Framework
18 69 (19.06%) Software Engineering
19 65 (17.96%) AngularJS
20 63 (17.40%) RESTful
21 59 (16.30%) HTML
22 55 (15.19%) ASP.NET Web API
23 54 (14.92%) CSS
24 53 (14.64%) ASP.NET MVC
25 52 (14.36%) Azure DevOps
26 51 (14.09%) Blazor
26 51 (14.09%) Serverless

.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 (1.38%) CMS
2 4 (1.10%) IIS
3 3 (0.83%) Confluence
4 1 (0.28%) Kentico
4 1 (0.28%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.28%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.28%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.28%) ION Anvil
1 1 (0.28%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 204 (56.35%) Azure
2 80 (22.10%) AWS
2 80 (22.10%) SaaS
3 52 (14.36%) Azure DevOps
4 51 (14.09%) Serverless
5 38 (10.50%) GitHub
6 33 (9.12%) GitHub Actions
7 31 (8.56%) GCP
8 21 (5.80%) Azure App Service
8 21 (5.80%) Entra ID
9 19 (5.25%) PaaS
10 13 (3.59%) Azure Functions
10 13 (3.59%) Azure Service Bus
11 12 (3.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (3.31%) Amazon EventBridge
11 12 (3.31%) Amazon S3
11 12 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (3.31%) AWS Step Functions
11 12 (3.31%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.38%) Internet
2 1 (0.28%) DNS
2 1 (0.28%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (25.69%) SQL Server
2 48 (13.26%) MongoDB
3 47 (12.98%) Azure SQL Database
3 47 (12.98%) NoSQL
4 17 (4.70%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.31%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.93%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.38%) NonStop SQL
9 4 (1.10%) MySQL
9 4 (1.10%) Power BI
10 1 (0.28%) CouchDB
10 1 (0.28%) RavenDB
10 1 (0.28%) Redis
10 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 49 (13.54%) Git
2 13 (3.59%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.83%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.83%) JIRA
3 3 (0.83%) Postman
4 2 (0.55%) JMeter
4 2 (0.55%) Selenium
4 2 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.28%) SpecFlow
General
1 68 (18.78%) Finance
2 60 (16.57%) Social Skills
3 9 (2.49%) Front Office
4 8 (2.21%) Banking
5 6 (1.66%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.38%) Advertising
6 5 (1.38%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (1.38%) Manufacturing
6 5 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.10%) Back Office
7 4 (1.10%) Electronics
7 4 (1.10%) Games
7 4 (1.10%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.10%) Legal
7 4 (1.10%) Retail
8 3 (0.83%) Law
9 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.28%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 362 (100.00%) .NET
2 137 (37.85%) .NET Core
3 102 (28.18%) ASP.NET
4 99 (27.35%) React
5 74 (20.44%) .NET Framework
6 65 (17.96%) AngularJS
7 63 (17.40%) RESTful
8 59 (16.30%) HTML
9 55 (15.19%) ASP.NET Web API
10 54 (14.92%) CSS
11 53 (14.64%) ASP.NET MVC
12 51 (14.09%) Blazor
13 50 (13.81%) Entity Framework
14 42 (11.60%) ASP.NET Core
15 35 (9.67%) Vue
16 33 (9.12%) REST
17 24 (6.63%) Razor View Engine
18 20 (5.52%) ASP.NET Web Forms
19 19 (5.25%) Node.js
20 18 (4.97%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.29%) Mobile App
2 21 (5.80%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.21%) PropTech
5 6 (1.66%) Digital TV
5 6 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.66%) Hedge funds
6 4 (1.10%) Clustering
6 4 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.10%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.10%) Product Ownership
7 3 (0.83%) Fixed Income
7 3 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.83%) Sports Betting
8 2 (0.55%) Derivative
8 2 (0.55%) IoT
8 2 (0.55%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.55%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.93%) Android
2 6 (1.66%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.10%) Linux
4 1 (0.28%) VMS
4 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (46.69%) Agile
2 145 (40.06%) Full-Stack Development
3 98 (27.07%) CI/CD
4 93 (25.69%) Microservices
5 84 (23.20%) MVC
6 82 (22.65%) DevOps
7 69 (19.06%) Software Engineering
8 50 (13.81%) Scrum
9 49 (13.54%) AI
9 49 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
10 47 (12.98%) Roadmaps
11 43 (11.88%) TDD
12 41 (11.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (9.67%) Kanban
14 34 (9.39%) Clean Code
15 32 (8.84%) Business Strategy
16 27 (7.46%) Front End Development
17 26 (7.18%) Mentoring
18 24 (6.63%) Containerisation
19 22 (6.08%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 237 (65.47%) C#
2 128 (35.36%) JavaScript
3 125 (34.53%) SQL
4 86 (23.76%) TypeScript
5 6 (1.66%) T-SQL
6 5 (1.38%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.10%) XAML
8 3 (0.83%) Erlang
8 3 (0.83%) VB
9 2 (0.55%) Bicep
10 1 (0.28%) Java
10 1 (0.28%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 25 (6.91%) Degree
2 20 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.59%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.76%) AWS Certification
4 10 (2.76%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.35%) QA
2 7 (1.93%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.55%) GDPR
3 2 (0.55%) WCAG
4 1 (0.28%) IFRS
4 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (9.94%) Docker
2 16 (4.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (5.25%) Terraform
2 10 (2.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 84 (23.20%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.76%) Xamarin
3 6 (1.66%) Facebook
4 5 (1.38%) YouTube
5 4 (1.10%) Telerik
6 3 (0.83%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.83%) Oracle
7 2 (0.55%) Google
7 2 (0.55%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.28%) Adobe
8 1 (0.28%) Apple
8 1 (0.28%) Foundry
8 1 (0.28%) IBM
8 1 (0.28%) Infragistics
8 1 (0.28%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.28%) Okta
8 1 (0.28%) Perforce
8 1 (0.28%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.28%) Sony
8 1 (0.28%) Yahoo!