.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 21 June 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 348 89
Rank change year-on-year +127 -259 +89
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 851 363 3,026
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.90% 0.81% 2.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 0.90% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 809 334 2,841
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,475 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £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 88,632 40,228 103,596
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 89.47% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 60,836 22,885 74,815
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,603
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 £98,474 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 21 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 21 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 +126 801 £55,000 -8.33% 171
UK excluding London +140 726 £55,000 +2.09% 135
Work from Home +141 476 £55,000 -4.35% 161
North of England +81 229 £55,000 -8.33% 42
South East +103 221 £55,000 - 45
North West +50 112 £55,000 - 23
London -16 109 £80,000 - 58
Midlands +34 89 £55,000 +10.00% 12
East of England +43 86 £60,000 +13.21% 17
South West -12 69 £52,500 +5.00% 8
Yorkshire +12 63 £56,250 -6.25% 8
North East 0 54 £55,000 -45.00% 11
West Midlands +7 51 £55,000 +2.33% 8
East Midlands +2 38 £52,500 +16.67% 4
Scotland +11 22 £55,000 +69.23% 4
Wales -42 10 £50,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 21 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.

1 851 (100.00%) .NET
2 638 (74.97%) C#
3 484 (56.87%) Full-Stack Development
4 473 (55.58%) Azure
5 426 (50.06%) .NET Core
6 420 (49.35%) SQL
7 389 (45.71%) ASP.NET
8 372 (43.71%) Microsoft
9 357 (41.95%) ASP.NET Core
10 325 (38.19%) Azure SQL Database
11 321 (37.72%) Agile
12 291 (34.20%) MongoDB
13 186 (21.86%) CI/CD
14 176 (20.68%) DevOps
15 172 (20.21%) JavaScript
16 170 (19.98%) CSS
17 169 (19.86%) HTML
17 169 (19.86%) React
18 157 (18.45%) Blazor
19 156 (18.33%) AI
20 152 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
21 150 (17.63%) Entity Framework
21 150 (17.63%) RESTful
21 150 (17.63%) Vue
22 148 (17.39%) AngularJS
22 148 (17.39%) Microservices
23 143 (16.80%) TypeScript
24 128 (15.04%) ASP.NET Web API
25 125 (14.69%) Multithreading
26 121 (14.22%) 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 (0.47%) NServiceBus
2 2 (0.24%) IIS
2 2 (0.24%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.12%) CMS
3 1 (0.12%) DNN
3 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
3 1 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
3 1 (0.12%) Kentico
3 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.12%) Sitefinity
3 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.12%) Sage 200
1 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 473 (55.58%) Azure
2 152 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
3 113 (13.28%) Azure AI
3 113 (13.28%) GitHub
4 106 (12.46%) AWS
5 93 (10.93%) GitHub Copilot
6 74 (8.70%) SaaS
7 56 (6.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 25 (2.94%) Serverless
9 20 (2.35%) Azure Logic Apps
10 19 (2.23%) Azure Functions
11 16 (1.88%) Azure Service Bus
11 16 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (1.53%) Google Play
13 11 (1.29%) PaaS
14 8 (0.94%) Azure App Service
14 8 (0.94%) Entra ID
14 8 (0.94%) Power Platform
15 7 (0.82%) Azure Monitor
16 6 (0.71%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 47 (5.52%) Internet
2 7 (0.82%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 325 (38.19%) Azure SQL Database
2 291 (34.20%) MongoDB
3 105 (12.34%) Elasticsearch
4 90 (10.58%) SQL Server
5 13 (1.53%) MySQL
6 8 (0.94%) NoSQL
7 7 (0.82%) NonStop SQL
8 6 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.47%) Power BI
10 3 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.24%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.24%) CouchDB
11 2 (0.24%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.24%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.24%) SQLite
12 1 (0.12%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.12%) SAP BW
12 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (2.35%) Git
2 7 (0.82%) JIRA
3 4 (0.47%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.35%) MSTest
4 3 (0.35%) NUnit
5 2 (0.24%) Postman
6 1 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.12%) Vite
6 1 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 84 (9.87%) Finance
2 44 (5.17%) Games
3 39 (4.58%) Advertising
4 30 (3.53%) Marketing
5 26 (3.06%) Social Skills
6 19 (2.23%) Retail
7 10 (1.18%) Aerospace
7 10 (1.18%) Law
8 8 (0.94%) Automotive
8 8 (0.94%) Banking
8 8 (0.94%) Manufacturing
9 6 (0.71%) Music Industry
10 5 (0.59%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (0.59%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.47%) Back Office
12 3 (0.35%) Legal
13 2 (0.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.24%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.12%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.12%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 851 (100.00%) .NET
2 426 (50.06%) .NET Core
3 389 (45.71%) ASP.NET
4 357 (41.95%) ASP.NET Core
5 170 (19.98%) CSS
6 169 (19.86%) HTML
6 169 (19.86%) React
7 157 (18.45%) Blazor
8 150 (17.63%) Entity Framework
8 150 (17.63%) RESTful
8 150 (17.63%) Vue
9 148 (17.39%) AngularJS
10 128 (15.04%) ASP.NET Web API
11 112 (13.16%) ML.NET
12 103 (12.10%) Node.js
13 84 (9.87%) LINQ
14 77 (9.05%) .NET Framework
15 25 (2.94%) WinForms
16 23 (2.70%) REST
17 20 (2.35%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 75 (8.81%) Greenfield Project
2 50 (5.88%) Mobile App
3 32 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (1.76%) Digital TV
5 14 (1.65%) Social Network
6 13 (1.53%) BBC
6 13 (1.53%) iPhone
6 13 (1.53%) Social Media
7 11 (1.29%) PropTech
8 10 (1.18%) Hedge funds
9 9 (1.06%) Legacy Code
10 8 (0.94%) Cloud Native
10 8 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (0.94%) Sports Betting
11 7 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (0.59%) Product Ownership
13 3 (0.35%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.35%) IoT
13 3 (0.35%) Tandem
14 2 (0.24%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.88%) Android
2 10 (1.18%) Windows
3 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 484 (56.87%) Full-Stack Development
2 321 (37.72%) Agile
3 186 (21.86%) CI/CD
4 176 (20.68%) DevOps
5 156 (18.33%) AI
6 148 (17.39%) Microservices
7 125 (14.69%) Multithreading
8 118 (13.87%) Machine Learning
9 105 (12.34%) Software Engineering
10 72 (8.46%) OO
11 63 (7.40%) TDD
12 62 (7.29%) Scrum
13 52 (6.11%) SDLC
14 47 (5.52%) Kanban
15 46 (5.41%) Problem-Solving
16 45 (5.29%) Continuous Improvement
17 44 (5.17%) BDD
18 43 (5.05%) Analytics
19 42 (4.94%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
20 31 (3.64%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 638 (74.97%) C#
2 420 (49.35%) SQL
3 172 (20.21%) JavaScript
4 143 (16.80%) TypeScript
5 15 (1.76%) Python
5 15 (1.76%) VB
6 14 (1.65%) VB.NET
7 13 (1.53%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.47%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.35%) Bicep
10 2 (0.24%) C++
10 2 (0.24%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.12%) ABAP
11 1 (0.12%) Delphi
11 1 (0.12%) Java
11 1 (0.12%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (4.35%) SC Cleared
1 37 (4.35%) Security Cleared
2 28 (3.29%) Degree
3 15 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (0.59%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.24%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.12%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.29%) QA
2 5 (0.59%) GDPR
3 2 (0.24%) Accessibility
System Software
1 121 (14.22%) Docker
2 3 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 107 (12.57%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 372 (43.71%) Microsoft
2 44 (5.17%) Facebook
3 37 (4.35%) Google
4 15 (1.76%) Xamarin
4 15 (1.76%) YouTube
5 13 (1.53%) Apple
5 13 (1.53%) Sony
5 13 (1.53%) Yahoo!
6 8 (0.94%) OpenAI
7 5 (0.59%) Oracle
8 4 (0.47%) Sage
9 3 (0.35%) SAP
10 2 (0.24%) IBM
10 2 (0.24%) iManage
10 2 (0.24%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.12%) Alterian
11 1 (0.12%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.12%) Databricks
11 1 (0.12%) Optimizely
11 1 (0.12%) Sitecore