.NET Developer Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer salary in the UK is £63,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 March 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 263 89
Rank change year-on-year -78 -174 +91
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 386 544 2,359
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.17% 3.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 1.29% 3.17%
Number of salaries quoted 356 428 2,277
10th Percentile £45,000 £32,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,125 £87,500
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 64,235 42,234 74,375
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.48% 91.16% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 40,554 22,789 57,603
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £39,085
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 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -5.66%

.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 2 March 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 2 March 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 -57 354 £60,000 +4.35% 258
UK excluding London -71 287 £60,000 +14.29% 216
Work from Home -60 166 £60,000 +20.00% 218
North of England -29 101 £60,000 +17.07% 66
South East -8 86 £67,500 +28.57% 66
London +4 74 £80,000 -4.48% 68
North West -24 56 £65,000 +23.81% 38
Midlands -24 42 £50,000 -13.04% 24
Yorkshire -27 33 £60,000 +9.09% 20
South West -24 28 £50,000 -27.27% 26
West Midlands -11 22 £50,000 -13.04% 14
East of England -40 21 £55,000 +10.00% 23
East Midlands -31 20 £52,500 - 10
North East -4 12 £55,000 +22.22% 9
Wales -12 5 £45,000 -28.00% 4
Scotland -57 4 £55,000 +69.23% 7

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

For the 6 months to 2 March 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.

1 386 (100.00%) .NET
2 245 (63.47%) C#
3 168 (43.52%) Azure
4 158 (40.93%) Full-Stack Development
5 146 (37.82%) Agile
6 133 (34.46%) .NET Core
7 107 (27.72%) JavaScript
8 105 (27.20%) SQL
9 92 (23.83%) CI/CD
10 91 (23.58%) SQL Server
11 87 (22.54%) React
12 86 (22.28%) ASP.NET
13 81 (20.98%) Microservices
14 76 (19.69%) Software Engineering
15 74 (19.17%) DevOps
15 74 (19.17%) TypeScript
16 72 (18.65%) AWS
16 72 (18.65%) SaaS
17 69 (17.88%) Microsoft
18 67 (17.36%) .NET Framework
19 66 (17.10%) MVC
20 63 (16.32%) HTML
21 60 (15.54%) AngularJS
21 60 (15.54%) CSS
22 54 (13.99%) RESTful
23 47 (12.18%) Blazor
23 47 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
24 43 (11.14%) Azure DevOps
24 43 (11.14%) Git
24 43 (11.14%) NoSQL

.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 (1.30%) CMS
1 5 (1.30%) IIS
2 2 (0.52%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.26%) Kentico
3 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.26%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 168 (43.52%) Azure
2 72 (18.65%) AWS
2 72 (18.65%) SaaS
3 43 (11.14%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (10.62%) Serverless
5 34 (8.81%) GitHub
6 31 (8.03%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (4.92%) Entra ID
8 18 (4.66%) GCP
9 17 (4.40%) Azure App Service
10 15 (3.89%) PaaS
11 13 (3.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (3.37%) Amazon S3
11 13 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (3.11%) Amazon EventBridge
12 12 (3.11%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (3.11%) AWS Step Functions
12 12 (3.11%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (2.85%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.30%) Internet
2 1 (0.26%) DNS
2 1 (0.26%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (23.58%) SQL Server
2 43 (11.14%) NoSQL
3 34 (8.81%) MongoDB
4 31 (8.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 13 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.11%) DynamoDB
7 11 (2.85%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.30%) MySQL
8 5 (1.30%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.04%) Power BI
10 3 (0.78%) NonStop SQL
11 2 (0.52%) CouchDB
12 1 (0.26%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.26%) RavenDB
12 1 (0.26%) Redis
12 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 43 (11.14%) Git
2 10 (2.59%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.26%) Postman
3 1 (0.26%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.26%) Vite
3 1 (0.26%) webpack
General
1 61 (15.80%) Finance
2 47 (12.18%) Social Skills
3 9 (2.33%) Banking
4 7 (1.81%) Games
4 7 (1.81%) Manufacturing
5 5 (1.30%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (1.30%) Front Office
5 5 (1.30%) Law
5 5 (1.30%) Legal
5 5 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (1.04%) Electronics
7 3 (0.78%) Advertising
7 3 (0.78%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.26%) Back Office
9 1 (0.26%) iGaming
9 1 (0.26%) Marketing
9 1 (0.26%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.26%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 386 (100.00%) .NET
2 133 (34.46%) .NET Core
3 87 (22.54%) React
4 86 (22.28%) ASP.NET
5 67 (17.36%) .NET Framework
6 63 (16.32%) HTML
7 60 (15.54%) AngularJS
7 60 (15.54%) CSS
8 54 (13.99%) RESTful
9 47 (12.18%) Blazor
10 40 (10.36%) ASP.NET Core
10 40 (10.36%) ASP.NET Web API
10 40 (10.36%) Entity Framework
11 35 (9.07%) ASP.NET MVC
12 33 (8.55%) REST
13 32 (8.29%) Vue
14 21 (5.44%) Razor View Engine
15 18 (4.66%) ASP.NET Web Forms
16 15 (3.89%) HTML5
17 12 (3.11%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.25%) Mobile App
2 20 (5.18%) Cloud Native
3 11 (2.85%) Hedge funds
3 11 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.07%) PropTech
5 6 (1.55%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.55%) Sports Betting
6 5 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.04%) Digital TV
7 4 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.78%) Clustering
8 3 (0.78%) Fixed Income
8 3 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.52%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.52%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.52%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.30%) Android
2 4 (1.04%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.52%) Linux
4 1 (0.26%) VMS
4 1 (0.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (40.93%) Full-Stack Development
2 146 (37.82%) Agile
3 92 (23.83%) CI/CD
4 81 (20.98%) Microservices
5 76 (19.69%) Software Engineering
6 74 (19.17%) DevOps
7 66 (17.10%) MVC
8 47 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (11.14%) Scrum
10 38 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 37 (9.59%) AI
12 35 (9.07%) Roadmaps
13 34 (8.81%) Clean Code
14 31 (8.03%) TDD
15 26 (6.74%) Kanban
16 24 (6.22%) Containerisation
16 24 (6.22%) Mentoring
17 22 (5.70%) SDLC
18 21 (5.44%) Code Quality
18 21 (5.44%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 245 (63.47%) C#
2 107 (27.72%) JavaScript
3 105 (27.20%) SQL
4 74 (19.17%) TypeScript
5 4 (1.04%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.04%) T-SQL
5 4 (1.04%) XAML
6 3 (0.78%) Erlang
6 3 (0.78%) VB
7 2 (0.52%) Bicep
7 2 (0.52%) Java
7 2 (0.52%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 22 (5.70%) Degree
2 17 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (2.85%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.59%) AWS Certification
4 10 (2.59%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (0.52%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.52%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.18%) QA
2 4 (1.04%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.26%) IFRS
3 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (9.33%) Docker
2 13 (3.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (4.66%) Terraform
2 7 (1.81%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 69 (17.88%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.33%) Xamarin
3 4 (1.04%) Facebook
3 4 (1.04%) Telerik
4 3 (0.78%) OpenAI
4 3 (0.78%) YouTube
5 2 (0.52%) Google
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe
6 1 (0.26%) Apple
6 1 (0.26%) Databricks
6 1 (0.26%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.26%) Foundry
6 1 (0.26%) IBM
6 1 (0.26%) Infragistics
6 1 (0.26%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.26%) Perforce
6 1 (0.26%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.26%) Sony
6 1 (0.26%) Yahoo!