.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 12 June 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 338 90
Rank change year-on-year +111 -248 +89
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 777 366 2,865
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.84% 0.83% 2.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 0.92% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 734 334 2,694
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -3.18% -

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 87,018 39,622 101,237
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 89.50% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,614 22,403 73,185
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £38,569
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 £98,750 £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 12 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 12 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 +121 731 £55,000 -8.33% 165
UK excluding London +124 651 £55,000 +3.29% 129
Work from Home +100 395 £55,000 -4.35% 150
North of England +68 209 £55,000 -8.33% 43
South East +89 200 £55,000 - 43
London -24 110 £80,000 - 51
North West +51 107 £60,000 +9.09% 23
Midlands +24 79 £55,000 +10.00% 10
East of England +28 74 £58,750 +10.85% 16
South West -21 61 £52,500 +5.00% 9
Yorkshire +8 59 £57,500 -11.54% 8
West Midlands +1 48 £55,000 -4.35% 5
North East -3 43 £55,000 -45.00% 12
East Midlands -12 31 £53,750 +19.44% 5
Scotland +13 19 £55,000 +69.23% 5
Wales -33 9 £50,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 777 (100.00%) .NET
2 556 (71.56%) C#
3 407 (52.38%) Full-Stack Development
4 392 (50.45%) Azure
5 347 (44.66%) .NET Core
6 344 (44.27%) SQL
7 307 (39.51%) ASP.NET
8 293 (37.71%) Microsoft
9 276 (35.52%) ASP.NET Core
10 269 (34.62%) Agile
11 248 (31.92%) Azure SQL Database
12 222 (28.57%) MongoDB
13 158 (20.33%) CI/CD
14 145 (18.66%) DevOps
14 145 (18.66%) React
15 143 (18.40%) JavaScript
16 140 (18.02%) CSS
17 139 (17.89%) HTML
18 130 (16.73%) Vue
19 129 (16.60%) AngularJS
20 127 (16.34%) Microservices
21 126 (16.22%) RESTful
22 125 (16.09%) AI
23 124 (15.96%) Blazor
24 123 (15.83%) Entity Framework
25 121 (15.57%) Azure DevOps
26 120 (15.44%) TypeScript
27 103 (13.26%) Software Engineering
28 102 (13.13%) ASP.NET Web API
29 98 (12.61%) 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 4 (0.51%) NServiceBus
2 2 (0.26%) IIS
2 2 (0.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.13%) CMS
3 1 (0.13%) DNN
3 1 (0.13%) EPiServer
3 1 (0.13%) Immediacy CMS
3 1 (0.13%) Kentico
3 1 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.13%) Sitefinity
3 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.13%) Sage 200
1 1 (0.13%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 392 (50.45%) Azure
2 121 (15.57%) Azure DevOps
3 97 (12.48%) AWS
4 87 (11.20%) GitHub
5 82 (10.55%) Azure AI
6 79 (10.17%) SaaS
7 66 (8.49%) GitHub Copilot
8 43 (5.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 28 (3.60%) Serverless
10 20 (2.57%) Azure Logic Apps
11 19 (2.45%) Azure Functions
12 18 (2.32%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (1.80%) Azure Service Bus
14 11 (1.42%) PaaS
15 10 (1.29%) Google Play
16 8 (1.03%) Azure App Service
16 8 (1.03%) Entra ID
16 8 (1.03%) Power Platform
17 6 (0.77%) Anthropic Claude
18 5 (0.64%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.50%) Internet
2 5 (0.64%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 248 (31.92%) Azure SQL Database
2 222 (28.57%) MongoDB
3 89 (11.45%) SQL Server
4 79 (10.17%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (1.80%) MySQL
6 11 (1.42%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.64%) NonStop SQL
9 4 (0.51%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.51%) Power BI
10 2 (0.26%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.26%) CouchDB
10 2 (0.26%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.26%) SQLite
11 1 (0.13%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.13%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (2.32%) Git
2 7 (0.90%) JIRA
3 3 (0.39%) MSTest
3 3 (0.39%) NUnit
4 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.13%) Postman
5 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.13%) Vite
5 1 (0.13%) webpack
General
1 79 (10.17%) Finance
2 36 (4.63%) Games
3 28 (3.60%) Advertising
4 26 (3.35%) Social Skills
5 21 (2.70%) Marketing
6 15 (1.93%) Retail
7 10 (1.29%) Law
8 8 (1.03%) Aerospace
8 8 (1.03%) Automotive
9 7 (0.90%) Banking
9 7 (0.90%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.77%) Music Industry
11 5 (0.64%) Analytical Skills
12 4 (0.51%) Back Office
12 4 (0.51%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.39%) Legal
14 2 (0.26%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.13%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.13%) iGaming
15 1 (0.13%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 777 (100.00%) .NET
2 347 (44.66%) .NET Core
3 307 (39.51%) ASP.NET
4 276 (35.52%) ASP.NET Core
5 145 (18.66%) React
6 140 (18.02%) CSS
7 139 (17.89%) HTML
8 130 (16.73%) Vue
9 129 (16.60%) AngularJS
10 126 (16.22%) RESTful
11 124 (15.96%) Blazor
12 123 (15.83%) Entity Framework
13 102 (13.13%) ASP.NET Web API
14 81 (10.42%) ML.NET
15 79 (10.17%) Node.js
16 69 (8.88%) .NET Framework
17 66 (8.49%) LINQ
18 23 (2.96%) WinForms
19 20 (2.57%) REST
20 18 (2.32%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 59 (7.59%) Greenfield Project
2 52 (6.69%) Mobile App
3 25 (3.22%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (1.80%) PropTech
5 12 (1.54%) Hedge funds
6 11 (1.42%) Digital TV
6 11 (1.42%) Social Network
7 10 (1.29%) BBC
7 10 (1.29%) Cloud Native
7 10 (1.29%) iPhone
7 10 (1.29%) Social Media
8 8 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.03%) Legacy Code
8 8 (1.03%) Sports Betting
9 6 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (0.77%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.39%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.39%) Tandem
11 2 (0.26%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.26%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.67%) Android
2 8 (1.03%) Windows
3 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 407 (52.38%) Full-Stack Development
2 269 (34.62%) Agile
3 158 (20.33%) CI/CD
4 145 (18.66%) DevOps
5 127 (16.34%) Microservices
6 125 (16.09%) AI
7 103 (13.26%) Software Engineering
8 98 (12.61%) Multithreading
9 87 (11.20%) Machine Learning
10 58 (7.46%) OO
11 53 (6.82%) TDD
12 51 (6.56%) Scrum
13 47 (6.05%) SDLC
14 45 (5.79%) Continuous Improvement
15 43 (5.53%) Problem-Solving
16 38 (4.89%) Analytics
16 38 (4.89%) Kanban
17 33 (4.25%) BDD
18 32 (4.12%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
19 27 (3.47%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 556 (71.56%) C#
2 344 (44.27%) SQL
3 143 (18.40%) JavaScript
4 120 (15.44%) TypeScript
5 15 (1.93%) VB
6 14 (1.80%) Python
6 14 (1.80%) VB.NET
7 10 (1.29%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.51%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.39%) Bicep
10 2 (0.26%) C++
11 1 (0.13%) ABAP
11 1 (0.13%) Delphi
11 1 (0.13%) Java
11 1 (0.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 37 (4.76%) SC Cleared
1 37 (4.76%) Security Cleared
2 26 (3.35%) Degree
3 15 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (0.64%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.26%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (0.26%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.03%) QA
2 5 (0.64%) GDPR
3 2 (0.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 94 (12.10%) Docker
2 3 (0.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 80 (10.30%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 293 (37.71%) Microsoft
2 32 (4.12%) Facebook
3 29 (3.73%) Google
4 18 (2.32%) Xamarin
5 11 (1.42%) YouTube
6 10 (1.29%) Apple
6 10 (1.29%) Sony
6 10 (1.29%) Yahoo!
7 8 (1.03%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.64%) Oracle
9 4 (0.51%) Sage
10 3 (0.39%) SAP
11 2 (0.26%) iManage
11 2 (0.26%) OneLogin
12 1 (0.13%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.13%) Databricks
12 1 (0.13%) DevExpress
12 1 (0.13%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.13%) Optimizely
12 1 (0.13%) Sitecore