.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 8 October 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 379 138
Rank change year-on-year +155 -241 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 969 308 1,377
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.82% 0.62% 1.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 0.69% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 927 289 1,132
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +10.64% -2.08%
75th Percentile £68,750 £82,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £118,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

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 109,143 44,565 69,871
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 89.75% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 74,344 25,695 40,313
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,825 £35,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £54,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.34% -0.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -6.50% -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 8 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 8 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 +154 909 £55,000 -15.38% 394
UK excluding London +183 851 £55,000 -8.33% 267
Work from Home +125 600 £55,000 -15.38% 283
South East +125 293 £55,000 -29.03% 79
North of England +85 254 £55,000 -8.33% 79
London -62 110 £75,000 - 144
East of England +60 109 £60,000 +4.35% 34
North West +33 106 £55,000 -8.33% 37
Midlands +18 87 £55,000 +10.00% 45
North East +13 85 £55,000 -38.89% 13
Yorkshire +17 63 £50,000 -23.08% 30
South West -33 59 £52,500 +6.06% 11
West Midlands -14 47 £55,000 +7.32% 32
East Midlands +2 40 £52,500 +55.56% 13
Scotland +31 33 £60,000 +41.18% 10
Wales -57 19 £55,000 +32.53% 9

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 969 (100.00%) .NET
2 784 (80.91%) C#
3 605 (62.44%) Azure
4 560 (57.79%) Full-Stack Development
5 551 (56.86%) ASP.NET
6 545 (56.24%) .NET Core
7 537 (55.42%) Microsoft
7 537 (55.42%) SQL
8 489 (50.46%) ASP.NET Core
9 437 (45.10%) Azure SQL Database
10 409 (42.21%) Agile
11 398 (41.07%) MongoDB
12 256 (26.42%) JavaScript
13 243 (25.08%) DevOps
14 232 (23.94%) CI/CD
15 223 (23.01%) Blazor
16 220 (22.70%) Entity Framework
17 219 (22.60%) Azure DevOps
17 219 (22.60%) React
18 213 (21.98%) CSS
19 211 (21.78%) HTML
20 201 (20.74%) AI
21 190 (19.61%) Microservices
22 187 (19.30%) RESTful
23 186 (19.20%) ASP.NET Web API
24 185 (19.09%) TypeScript
25 178 (18.37%) AngularJS
25 178 (18.37%) Vue
26 164 (16.92%) Docker
27 163 (16.82%) 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 (2.37%) IIS
2 6 (0.62%) CMS
2 6 (0.62%) 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 2 (0.21%) Confluence
6 1 (0.10%) Apache
6 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.72%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.52%) 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
1 605 (62.44%) Azure
2 219 (22.60%) Azure DevOps
3 150 (15.48%) Azure AI
4 147 (15.17%) GitHub
5 135 (13.93%) GitHub Copilot
6 129 (13.31%) AWS
7 67 (6.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 34 (3.51%) SaaS
9 25 (2.58%) Azure Service Bus
10 21 (2.17%) Serverless
11 20 (2.06%) Power Platform
12 17 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
12 17 (1.75%) Google Play
13 16 (1.65%) Azure Functions
14 13 (1.34%) Azure Key Vault
15 10 (1.03%) Azure Logic Apps
15 10 (1.03%) Power Automate
16 9 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (0.93%) PowerApps
17 8 (0.83%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 60 (6.19%) Internet
2 6 (0.62%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.10%) Broadband
3 1 (0.10%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 437 (45.10%) Azure SQL Database
2 398 (41.07%) MongoDB
3 163 (16.82%) SQL Server
4 157 (16.20%) Elasticsearch
5 39 (4.02%) Relational Database
6 28 (2.89%) MySQL
7 11 (1.14%) NonStop SQL
7 11 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (0.83%) Power BI
8 8 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.52%) SQLite
10 4 (0.41%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.41%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.21%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.21%) Redis
12 1 (0.10%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Ignite
12 1 (0.10%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 64 (6.60%) Git
2 16 (1.65%) Claude Code
3 14 (1.44%) Oracle Forms
3 14 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
4 9 (0.93%) JIRA
5 7 (0.72%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.21%) MSTest
6 2 (0.21%) NUnit
6 2 (0.21%) Postman
6 2 (0.21%) Selenium
6 2 (0.21%) 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
1 128 (13.21%) Finance
2 81 (8.36%) Social Skills
3 54 (5.57%) Advertising
4 49 (5.06%) Games
5 43 (4.44%) Marketing
6 36 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (3.72%) Retail
7 19 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.44%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.14%) Law
9 11 (1.14%) Music Industry
10 8 (0.83%) Automotive
11 7 (0.72%) Billing
12 6 (0.62%) Banking
12 6 (0.62%) Public Sector
13 4 (0.41%) Front Office
13 4 (0.41%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.41%) Legal
14 3 (0.31%) Back Office
14 3 (0.31%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 969 (100.00%) .NET
2 551 (56.86%) ASP.NET
3 545 (56.24%) .NET Core
4 489 (50.46%) ASP.NET Core
5 223 (23.01%) Blazor
6 220 (22.70%) Entity Framework
7 219 (22.60%) React
8 213 (21.98%) CSS
9 211 (21.78%) HTML
10 187 (19.30%) RESTful
11 186 (19.20%) ASP.NET Web API
12 178 (18.37%) AngularJS
12 178 (18.37%) Vue
13 148 (15.27%) ML.NET
14 142 (14.65%) Node.js
15 134 (13.83%) .NET Framework
16 113 (11.66%) LINQ
17 69 (7.12%) REST
18 39 (4.02%) WinForms
19 30 (3.10%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 101 (10.42%) Greenfield Project
2 56 (5.78%) Enterprise Software
3 36 (3.72%) Mobile App
4 21 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (1.96%) Digital TV
6 17 (1.75%) iPhone
7 16 (1.65%) BBC
7 16 (1.65%) Social Media
8 15 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (1.44%) Legacy Code
9 14 (1.44%) Product Ownership
10 12 (1.24%) Social Network
11 11 (1.14%) Cloud Native
12 10 (1.03%) Data Structures
13 6 (0.62%) Hedge funds
13 6 (0.62%) IoT
14 5 (0.52%) Onboarding
14 5 (0.52%) Robotics
14 5 (0.52%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.10%) Windows
2 21 (2.17%) Android
3 4 (0.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 560 (57.79%) Full-Stack Development
2 409 (42.21%) Agile
3 243 (25.08%) DevOps
4 232 (23.94%) CI/CD
5 201 (20.74%) AI
6 190 (19.61%) Microservices
7 159 (16.41%) Multithreading
8 150 (15.48%) Machine Learning
9 104 (10.73%) Software Engineering
10 98 (10.11%) Scrum
11 94 (9.70%) OO
12 90 (9.29%) TDD
13 86 (8.88%) Problem-Solving
14 66 (6.81%) BDD
15 65 (6.71%) Kanban
16 61 (6.30%) SDLC
17 60 (6.19%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
17 60 (6.19%) MVC
18 51 (5.26%) Fintech
19 47 (4.85%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 784 (80.91%) C#
2 537 (55.42%) SQL
3 256 (26.42%) JavaScript
4 185 (19.09%) TypeScript
5 37 (3.82%) VB.NET
6 26 (2.68%) Python
7 25 (2.58%) T-SQL
8 17 (1.75%) 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 (0.21%) C
11 2 (0.21%) Dart
11 2 (0.21%) XPath
12 1 (0.10%) Bicep
12 1 (0.10%) Delphi
12 1 (0.10%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (3.30%) Degree
2 26 (2.68%) Security Cleared
3 25 (2.58%) SC Cleared
4 16 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (0.52%) Azure Certification
5 5 (0.52%) 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 28 (2.89%) QA
2 8 (0.83%) GDPR
3 4 (0.41%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.41%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.21%) Basel III
System Software
1 164 (16.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 146 (15.07%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 537 (55.42%) Microsoft
2 58 (5.99%) Facebook
3 57 (5.88%) Google
4 21 (2.17%) Oracle
4 21 (2.17%) YouTube
5 16 (1.65%) Apple
5 16 (1.65%) Sony
5 16 (1.65%) Yahoo!
6 6 (0.62%) Xamarin
7 5 (0.52%) OpenAI
7 5 (0.52%) Sage
7 5 (0.52%) SAP
8 3 (0.31%) Alterian
8 3 (0.31%) DevExpress
8 3 (0.31%) Optimizely
8 3 (0.31%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.21%) iManage
9 2 (0.21%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.21%) Telerik
10 1 (0.10%) IBM