.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 16 August 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 391 123
Rank change year-on-year +183 -268 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 1,017 334 1,683
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.95% 0.67% 2.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 0.74% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 972 309 1,507
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £69,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +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 100,469 44,986 78,750
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.01% 89.94% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 68,644 26,650 52,502
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,400 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -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 16 August 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 16 August 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 +162 957 £55,000 -8.33% 204
UK excluding London +186 886 £55,000 - 159
Work from Home +146 634 £55,000 -8.33% 179
South East +146 291 £55,000 - 55
North of England +74 266 £55,000 -8.33% 44
London -34 119 £79,000 +5.33% 62
East of England +58 112 £60,000 +4.35% 21
North West +31 109 £55,000 -8.33% 26
Midlands +29 89 £55,000 +5.77% 17
Yorkshire +35 83 £55,000 -8.33% 10
South West -22 81 £52,500 +5.00% 10
North East +2 74 £55,000 -45.00% 10
West Midlands -3 51 £55,000 -4.35% 10
East Midlands +6 38 £52,500 +23.53% 7
Scotland +30 31 £55,000 +41.94% 5
Wales -48 16 £50,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 16 August 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 1,017 (100.00%) .NET
2 806 (79.25%) C#
3 626 (61.55%) Azure
4 602 (59.19%) Full-Stack Development
5 558 (54.87%) .NET Core
6 557 (54.77%) SQL
7 554 (54.47%) ASP.NET
8 544 (53.49%) Microsoft
9 497 (48.87%) ASP.NET Core
10 454 (44.64%) Azure SQL Database
11 422 (41.49%) Agile
12 413 (40.61%) MongoDB
13 242 (23.80%) DevOps
14 235 (23.11%) JavaScript
15 230 (22.62%) CI/CD
16 225 (22.12%) Blazor
17 217 (21.34%) CSS
18 216 (21.24%) Azure DevOps
18 216 (21.24%) HTML
19 215 (21.14%) Entity Framework
20 214 (21.04%) React
21 210 (20.65%) AI
22 205 (20.16%) Microservices
23 192 (18.88%) RESTful
24 191 (18.78%) TypeScript
25 189 (18.58%) Vue
26 183 (17.99%) AngularJS
26 183 (17.99%) ASP.NET Web API
27 176 (17.31%) Docker
28 169 (16.62%) Multithreading

.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 11 (1.08%) IIS
2 4 (0.39%) NServiceBus
3 3 (0.29%) CMS
3 3 (0.29%) DNN
3 3 (0.29%) EPiServer
3 3 (0.29%) Immediacy CMS
3 3 (0.29%) Kentico
3 3 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (0.29%) Sitefinity
3 3 (0.29%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.098%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.098%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.59%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.39%) Elite 3E
2 3 (0.29%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.29%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.098%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.098%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 626 (61.55%) Azure
2 216 (21.24%) Azure DevOps
3 157 (15.44%) Azure AI
4 156 (15.34%) GitHub
5 142 (13.96%) AWS
6 140 (13.77%) GitHub Copilot
7 73 (7.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 62 (6.10%) SaaS
9 25 (2.46%) Azure Service Bus
10 22 (2.16%) Serverless
11 18 (1.77%) Azure Logic Apps
12 17 (1.67%) Azure Functions
12 17 (1.67%) Google Play
13 16 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
13 16 (1.57%) Power Platform
14 12 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (1.08%) Azure Key Vault
16 9 (0.88%) Anthropic Claude
17 8 (0.79%) PaaS
18 6 (0.59%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 60 (5.90%) Internet
2 7 (0.69%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.098%) Broadband
3 1 (0.098%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 454 (44.64%) Azure SQL Database
2 413 (40.61%) MongoDB
3 160 (15.73%) Elasticsearch
4 144 (14.16%) SQL Server
5 24 (2.36%) MySQL
6 22 (2.16%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.08%) NonStop SQL
8 9 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (0.69%) Power BI
9 7 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.49%) SQLite
11 4 (0.39%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.39%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.098%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.098%) Couchbase
13 1 (0.098%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.098%) SAP BW
13 1 (0.098%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 52 (5.11%) Git
2 8 (0.79%) Claude Code
3 7 (0.69%) JIRA
3 7 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
3 7 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (0.59%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.29%) MSTest
5 3 (0.29%) NUnit
6 2 (0.20%) Postman
6 2 (0.20%) Selenium
7 1 (0.098%) GitLab
7 1 (0.098%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.098%) JetBrains Rider
7 1 (0.098%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.098%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.098%) Vite
7 1 (0.098%) webpack
General
1 125 (12.29%) Finance
2 58 (5.70%) Social Skills
3 57 (5.60%) Advertising
4 51 (5.01%) Games
5 46 (4.52%) Marketing
6 34 (3.34%) Retail
7 21 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (1.38%) Aerospace
8 14 (1.38%) Law
9 12 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.08%) Music Industry
11 8 (0.79%) Automotive
12 7 (0.69%) Banking
12 7 (0.69%) Public Sector
13 5 (0.49%) Back Office
14 4 (0.39%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.39%) Legal
15 2 (0.20%) Billing
15 2 (0.20%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.20%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,017 (100.00%) .NET
2 558 (54.87%) .NET Core
3 554 (54.47%) ASP.NET
4 497 (48.87%) ASP.NET Core
5 225 (22.12%) Blazor
6 217 (21.34%) CSS
7 216 (21.24%) HTML
8 215 (21.14%) Entity Framework
9 214 (21.04%) React
10 192 (18.88%) RESTful
11 189 (18.58%) Vue
12 183 (17.99%) AngularJS
12 183 (17.99%) ASP.NET Web API
13 156 (15.34%) ML.NET
14 147 (14.45%) Node.js
15 118 (11.60%) .NET Framework
16 114 (11.21%) LINQ
17 50 (4.92%) REST
18 37 (3.64%) WinForms
19 27 (2.65%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 101 (9.93%) Greenfield Project
2 48 (4.72%) Enterprise Software
3 47 (4.62%) Mobile App
4 20 (1.97%) Digital TV
5 17 (1.67%) BBC
5 17 (1.67%) iPhone
5 17 (1.67%) Social Media
6 15 (1.47%) Legacy Code
7 14 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (1.38%) Social Network
8 12 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.08%) Product Ownership
9 11 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (0.98%) Cloud Native
11 7 (0.69%) Data Structures
11 7 (0.69%) Hedge funds
12 6 (0.59%) PropTech
13 5 (0.49%) IoT
13 5 (0.49%) Sports Betting
13 5 (0.49%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.16%) Windows
2 21 (2.06%) Android
3 1 (0.098%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 602 (59.19%) Full-Stack Development
2 422 (41.49%) Agile
3 242 (23.80%) DevOps
4 230 (22.62%) CI/CD
5 210 (20.65%) AI
6 205 (20.16%) Microservices
7 169 (16.62%) Multithreading
8 160 (15.73%) Machine Learning
9 118 (11.60%) Software Engineering
10 101 (9.93%) OO
11 100 (9.83%) Scrum
12 93 (9.14%) TDD
13 68 (6.69%) BDD
14 67 (6.59%) Kanban
15 65 (6.39%) SDLC
16 64 (6.29%) Problem-Solving
17 61 (6.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
18 59 (5.80%) MVC
19 55 (5.41%) Continuous Improvement
20 45 (4.42%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 806 (79.25%) C#
2 557 (54.77%) SQL
3 235 (23.11%) JavaScript
4 191 (18.78%) TypeScript
5 29 (2.85%) VB.NET
6 23 (2.26%) T-SQL
7 16 (1.57%) Python
8 15 (1.47%) VB
9 5 (0.49%) C++
10 4 (0.39%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.39%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.20%) Bicep
11 2 (0.20%) C
11 2 (0.20%) Dart
11 2 (0.20%) Java
11 2 (0.20%) VBA
11 2 (0.20%) VBScript
11 2 (0.20%) XPath
12 1 (0.098%) ABAP
12 1 (0.098%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 43 (4.23%) Security Cleared
2 42 (4.13%) SC Cleared
3 32 (3.15%) Degree
4 17 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (0.49%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.29%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.098%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.098%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.098%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.46%) QA
2 8 (0.79%) GDPR
3 5 (0.49%) Accessibility
System Software
1 176 (17.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 156 (15.34%) Kubernetes
2 8 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 544 (53.49%) Microsoft
2 61 (6.00%) Facebook
3 58 (5.70%) Google
4 21 (2.06%) YouTube
5 17 (1.67%) Apple
5 17 (1.67%) Sony
5 17 (1.67%) Yahoo!
6 13 (1.28%) Oracle
7 10 (0.98%) Xamarin
8 8 (0.79%) OpenAI
8 8 (0.79%) Sage
9 5 (0.49%) SAP
10 3 (0.29%) Alterian
10 3 (0.29%) DevExpress
10 3 (0.29%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.29%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.20%) iManage
11 2 (0.20%) OneLogin
11 2 (0.20%) Telerik
12 1 (0.098%) IBM