.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 3 October 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 391 131
Rank change year-on-year +165 -260 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 982 308 1,409
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.83% 0.62% 1.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 0.69% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 939 289 1,162
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £36,350
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £68,125 £82,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £118,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +3.64%

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 109,727 44,495 71,006
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 89.76% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 74,858 25,632 41,158
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £36,250 £40,554
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,349 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 3 October 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 3 October 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 +170 922 £55,000 -15.38% 387
UK excluding London +168 862 £55,000 -8.33% 275
Work from Home +133 601 £55,000 -15.38% 287
South East +133 297 £55,000 -29.03% 73
North of England +81 256 £55,000 -8.33% 75
London -52 112 £75,000 - 140
East of England +53 111 £60,000 +4.35% 36
North West +17 107 £55,000 -8.33% 36
Midlands +10 87 £55,000 +10.00% 45
North East +10 85 £55,000 -45.00% 13
Yorkshire +12 64 £50,000 -16.67% 27
South West -34 62 £53,750 +7.50% 18
West Midlands -14 48 £55,000 +10.00% 31
East Midlands -6 39 £52,500 +55.56% 14
Scotland +34 33 £60,000 +41.18% 16
Wales -56 19 £55,000 +20.22% 10

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

For the 6 months to 3 October 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.

1 982 (100.00%) .NET
2 794 (80.86%) C#
3 614 (62.53%) Azure
4 564 (57.43%) Full-Stack Development
5 555 (56.52%) ASP.NET
6 548 (55.80%) .NET Core
7 539 (54.89%) Microsoft
7 539 (54.89%) SQL
8 490 (49.90%) ASP.NET Core
9 437 (44.50%) Azure SQL Database
10 408 (41.55%) Agile
11 398 (40.53%) MongoDB
12 255 (25.97%) JavaScript
13 242 (24.64%) DevOps
14 231 (23.52%) CI/CD
15 222 (22.61%) Blazor
16 220 (22.40%) Entity Framework
17 219 (22.30%) React
18 218 (22.20%) Azure DevOps
19 215 (21.89%) CSS
20 213 (21.69%) HTML
21 202 (20.57%) AI
22 192 (19.55%) Microservices
23 188 (19.14%) RESTful
24 185 (18.84%) ASP.NET Web API
24 185 (18.84%) TypeScript
25 181 (18.43%) Vue
26 179 (18.23%) AngularJS
27 165 (16.80%) Docker
28 162 (16.50%) SQL Server

.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 23 (2.34%) IIS
2 6 (0.61%) CMS
2 6 (0.61%) Umbraco
3 4 (0.41%) Kentico
4 3 (0.31%) DNN
4 3 (0.31%) EPiServer
4 3 (0.31%) Immediacy CMS
4 3 (0.31%) NServiceBus
4 3 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.31%) Sitefinity
5 1 (0.10%) Apache
5 1 (0.10%) Confluence
5 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.71%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.51%) Elite 3E
2 3 (0.31%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.31%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.10%) Endur
3 1 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 614 (62.53%) Azure
2 218 (22.20%) Azure DevOps
3 150 (15.27%) Azure AI
4 147 (14.97%) GitHub
5 135 (13.75%) GitHub Copilot
6 131 (13.34%) AWS
7 67 (6.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 39 (3.97%) SaaS
9 25 (2.55%) Azure Service Bus
10 21 (2.14%) Serverless
11 20 (2.04%) Power Platform
12 17 (1.73%) Azure Monitor
12 17 (1.73%) Google Play
13 16 (1.63%) Azure Functions
14 13 (1.32%) Azure Key Vault
15 12 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
16 10 (1.02%) Power Automate
17 9 (0.92%) Anthropic Claude
17 9 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
17 9 (0.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 60 (6.11%) Internet
2 6 (0.61%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.10%) Broadband
3 1 (0.10%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 437 (44.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 398 (40.53%) MongoDB
3 162 (16.50%) SQL Server
4 157 (15.99%) Elasticsearch
5 39 (3.97%) Relational Database
6 29 (2.95%) MySQL
7 11 (1.12%) NonStop SQL
7 11 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (0.81%) Power BI
8 8 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.51%) SQLite
10 4 (0.41%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.31%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.20%) Redis
13 1 (0.10%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.10%) Apache Ignite
13 1 (0.10%) Couchbase
13 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 63 (6.42%) Git
2 16 (1.63%) Claude Code
3 14 (1.43%) Oracle Forms
3 14 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
4 8 (0.81%) JIRA
5 7 (0.71%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.20%) MSTest
6 2 (0.20%) NUnit
6 2 (0.20%) Postman
6 2 (0.20%) Selenium
6 2 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.10%) GitLab
7 1 (0.10%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.10%) JetBrains Rider
7 1 (0.10%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 123 (12.53%) Finance
2 79 (8.04%) Social Skills
3 54 (5.50%) Advertising
4 49 (4.99%) Games
5 43 (4.38%) Marketing
6 36 (3.67%) Retail
7 35 (3.56%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.43%) Aerospace
10 11 (1.12%) Law
10 11 (1.12%) Music Industry
11 8 (0.81%) Automotive
12 7 (0.71%) Billing
13 6 (0.61%) Public Sector
14 5 (0.51%) Back Office
14 5 (0.51%) Banking
15 4 (0.41%) Front Office
15 4 (0.41%) Legal
16 3 (0.31%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.31%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 982 (100.00%) .NET
2 555 (56.52%) ASP.NET
3 548 (55.80%) .NET Core
4 490 (49.90%) ASP.NET Core
5 222 (22.61%) Blazor
6 220 (22.40%) Entity Framework
7 219 (22.30%) React
8 215 (21.89%) CSS
9 213 (21.69%) HTML
10 188 (19.14%) RESTful
11 185 (18.84%) ASP.NET Web API
12 181 (18.43%) Vue
13 179 (18.23%) AngularJS
14 148 (15.07%) ML.NET
15 142 (14.46%) Node.js
16 135 (13.75%) .NET Framework
17 113 (11.51%) LINQ
18 69 (7.03%) REST
19 38 (3.87%) WinForms
20 30 (3.05%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 101 (10.29%) Greenfield Project
2 56 (5.70%) Enterprise Software
3 38 (3.87%) Mobile App
4 21 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (1.93%) Digital TV
6 17 (1.73%) iPhone
7 16 (1.63%) BBC
7 16 (1.63%) Social Media
8 15 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (1.43%) Legacy Code
10 13 (1.32%) Product Ownership
11 12 (1.22%) Social Network
12 11 (1.12%) Cloud Native
13 10 (1.02%) Data Structures
14 6 (0.61%) Hedge funds
14 6 (0.61%) IoT
15 5 (0.51%) Onboarding
15 5 (0.51%) Robotics
15 5 (0.51%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.05%) Windows
2 21 (2.14%) Android
3 4 (0.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 564 (57.43%) Full-Stack Development
2 408 (41.55%) Agile
3 242 (24.64%) DevOps
4 231 (23.52%) CI/CD
5 202 (20.57%) AI
6 192 (19.55%) Microservices
7 159 (16.19%) Multithreading
8 150 (15.27%) Machine Learning
9 108 (11.00%) Software Engineering
10 98 (9.98%) Scrum
11 94 (9.57%) OO
12 90 (9.16%) TDD
13 82 (8.35%) Problem-Solving
14 66 (6.72%) BDD
15 64 (6.52%) Kanban
16 62 (6.31%) SDLC
17 60 (6.11%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
17 60 (6.11%) MVC
18 51 (5.19%) Fintech
19 48 (4.89%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 794 (80.86%) C#
2 539 (54.89%) SQL
3 255 (25.97%) JavaScript
4 185 (18.84%) TypeScript
5 36 (3.67%) VB.NET
6 26 (2.65%) Python
7 24 (2.44%) T-SQL
8 18 (1.83%) VB
9 4 (0.41%) C++
9 4 (0.41%) Java
9 4 (0.41%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.41%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.41%) VBA
10 3 (0.31%) VBScript
11 2 (0.20%) C
11 2 (0.20%) Dart
11 2 (0.20%) XPath
12 1 (0.10%) Bicep
12 1 (0.10%) Delphi
12 1 (0.10%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (3.26%) Degree
2 27 (2.75%) Security Cleared
3 26 (2.65%) SC Cleared
4 16 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (0.51%) Azure Certification
5 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.31%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.10%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (2.75%) QA
2 8 (0.81%) GDPR
3 4 (0.41%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.41%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.20%) Basel III
System Software
1 165 (16.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 147 (14.97%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 539 (54.89%) Microsoft
2 58 (5.91%) Facebook
3 57 (5.80%) Google
4 21 (2.14%) Oracle
4 21 (2.14%) YouTube
5 16 (1.63%) Apple
5 16 (1.63%) Sony
5 16 (1.63%) Yahoo!
6 7 (0.71%) Xamarin
7 6 (0.61%) OpenAI
7 6 (0.61%) Sage
8 5 (0.51%) SAP
9 3 (0.31%) Alterian
9 3 (0.31%) DevExpress
9 3 (0.31%) Optimizely
9 3 (0.31%) Sitecore
10 2 (0.20%) iManage
10 2 (0.20%) OneLogin
10 2 (0.20%) Telerik
11 1 (0.10%) IBM