.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 14 September 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 375 129
Rank change year-on-year +154 -246 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 980 323 1,524
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.86% 0.65% 1.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 0.73% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 944 303 1,294
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £80,625 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,000 £118,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £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 106,119 44,341 74,255
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 89.67% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 73,014 26,036 45,320
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
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 14 September 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 14 September 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 +163 926 £55,000 -14.40% 327
UK excluding London +175 857 £55,000 -4.35% 197
Work from Home +126 609 £55,000 -15.38% 283
South East +143 297 £55,000 -24.14% 55
North of England +72 249 £55,000 -8.33% 64
London -44 115 £77,000 +2.67% 147
East of England +65 111 £60,000 +4.35% 30
North West +27 102 £55,000 -8.33% 31
Midlands +12 88 £55,000 +10.00% 26
North East +3 77 £55,000 -45.00% 14
Yorkshire +25 70 £50,000 -16.67% 20
South West -33 66 £55,000 +11.11% 15
West Midlands -7 51 £55,000 +10.00% 16
East Midlands 0 37 £53,750 +34.38% 9
Scotland +35 31 £55,000 +22.22% 5
Wales -59 15 £50,000 +9.29% 5

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

For the 6 months to 14 September 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.

1 980 (100.00%) .NET
2 790 (80.61%) C#
3 610 (62.24%) Azure
4 575 (58.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 549 (56.02%) ASP.NET
6 543 (55.41%) SQL
7 542 (55.31%) .NET Core
8 534 (54.49%) Microsoft
9 489 (49.90%) ASP.NET Core
10 440 (44.90%) Azure SQL Database
11 406 (41.43%) Agile
12 399 (40.71%) MongoDB
13 247 (25.20%) JavaScript
14 238 (24.29%) DevOps
15 221 (22.55%) Blazor
15 221 (22.55%) CI/CD
16 218 (22.24%) CSS
17 216 (22.04%) Azure DevOps
17 216 (22.04%) Entity Framework
17 216 (22.04%) HTML
18 214 (21.84%) React
19 204 (20.82%) AI
20 198 (20.20%) Microservices
21 188 (19.18%) RESTful
22 185 (18.88%) Vue
23 182 (18.57%) ASP.NET Web API
23 182 (18.57%) TypeScript
24 176 (17.96%) AngularJS
25 166 (16.94%) Docker
26 161 (16.43%) 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 19 (1.94%) IIS
2 3 (0.31%) CMS
2 3 (0.31%) DNN
2 3 (0.31%) EPiServer
2 3 (0.31%) Immediacy CMS
2 3 (0.31%) Kentico
2 3 (0.31%) NServiceBus
2 3 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (0.31%) Sitefinity
2 3 (0.31%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
4 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
1 610 (62.24%) Azure
2 216 (22.04%) Azure DevOps
3 151 (15.41%) Azure AI
4 148 (15.10%) GitHub
5 137 (13.98%) AWS
6 135 (13.78%) GitHub Copilot
7 70 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 49 (5.00%) SaaS
9 25 (2.55%) Azure Service Bus
10 22 (2.24%) Serverless
11 21 (2.14%) Power Platform
12 17 (1.73%) Azure Functions
12 17 (1.73%) Azure Monitor
12 17 (1.73%) Google Play
13 16 (1.63%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (1.22%) Azure Key Vault
15 10 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (0.92%) Anthropic Claude
16 9 (0.92%) Power Automate
16 9 (0.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 60 (6.12%) Internet
2 6 (0.61%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.10%) Broadband
3 1 (0.10%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 440 (44.90%) Azure SQL Database
2 399 (40.71%) MongoDB
3 157 (16.02%) Elasticsearch
4 152 (15.51%) SQL Server
5 32 (3.27%) Relational Database
6 26 (2.65%) MySQL
7 11 (1.12%) NonStop SQL
8 10 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (0.82%) Power BI
9 8 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.51%) SQLite
11 4 (0.41%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.31%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
14 1 (0.10%) Amazon RDS
14 1 (0.10%) Couchbase
14 1 (0.10%) RDBMS
14 1 (0.10%) SAP BW
14 1 (0.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 57 (5.82%) Git
2 13 (1.33%) Claude Code
3 11 (1.12%) Oracle Forms
3 11 (1.12%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (0.71%) JIRA
5 6 (0.61%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.20%) MSTest
6 2 (0.20%) NUnit
6 2 (0.20%) Postman
6 2 (0.20%) Selenium
7 1 (0.10%) GitLab
7 1 (0.10%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.10%) JetBrains Rider
7 1 (0.10%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 125 (12.76%) Finance
2 70 (7.14%) Social Skills
3 54 (5.51%) Advertising
4 49 (5.00%) Games
5 43 (4.39%) Marketing
6 36 (3.67%) Retail
7 28 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.43%) Aerospace
10 11 (1.12%) Law
10 11 (1.12%) Music Industry
11 8 (0.82%) Automotive
12 7 (0.71%) Billing
12 7 (0.71%) Public Sector
13 5 (0.51%) Back Office
14 4 (0.41%) Banking
14 4 (0.41%) Legal
15 3 (0.31%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.31%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.20%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 980 (100.00%) .NET
2 549 (56.02%) ASP.NET
3 542 (55.31%) .NET Core
4 489 (49.90%) ASP.NET Core
5 221 (22.55%) Blazor
6 218 (22.24%) CSS
7 216 (22.04%) Entity Framework
7 216 (22.04%) HTML
8 214 (21.84%) React
9 188 (19.18%) RESTful
10 185 (18.88%) Vue
11 182 (18.57%) ASP.NET Web API
12 176 (17.96%) AngularJS
13 149 (15.20%) ML.NET
14 143 (14.59%) Node.js
15 123 (12.55%) .NET Framework
16 112 (11.43%) LINQ
17 58 (5.92%) REST
18 35 (3.57%) WinForms
19 26 (2.65%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 101 (10.31%) Greenfield Project
2 48 (4.90%) Enterprise Software
3 42 (4.29%) Mobile App
4 19 (1.94%) Digital TV
5 17 (1.73%) BBC
5 17 (1.73%) iPhone
5 17 (1.73%) Social Media
6 16 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (1.53%) Legacy Code
8 13 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.22%) Social Network
10 11 (1.12%) Cloud Native
10 11 (1.12%) Product Ownership
11 10 (1.02%) Data Structures
12 7 (0.71%) Hedge funds
13 6 (0.61%) IoT
13 6 (0.61%) PropTech
14 5 (0.51%) Tandem
15 4 (0.41%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.65%) Windows
2 21 (2.14%) Android
3 3 (0.31%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.10%) Linux
4 1 (0.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 575 (58.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 406 (41.43%) Agile
3 238 (24.29%) DevOps
4 221 (22.55%) CI/CD
5 204 (20.82%) AI
6 198 (20.20%) Microservices
7 161 (16.43%) Multithreading
8 152 (15.51%) Machine Learning
9 108 (11.02%) Software Engineering
10 97 (9.90%) Scrum
11 95 (9.69%) OO
12 89 (9.08%) TDD
13 73 (7.45%) Problem-Solving
14 66 (6.73%) BDD
15 64 (6.53%) Kanban
16 62 (6.33%) SDLC
17 60 (6.12%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
18 58 (5.92%) MVC
19 52 (5.31%) Continuous Improvement
20 46 (4.69%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 790 (80.61%) C#
2 543 (55.41%) SQL
3 247 (25.20%) JavaScript
4 182 (18.57%) TypeScript
5 33 (3.37%) VB.NET
6 23 (2.35%) T-SQL
7 20 (2.04%) Python
8 15 (1.53%) VB
9 4 (0.41%) C++
9 4 (0.41%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.41%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.41%) VBA
10 3 (0.31%) Java
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 33 (3.37%) Security Cleared
2 32 (3.27%) SC Cleared
3 31 (3.16%) Degree
4 15 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (0.51%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.31%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.10%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.55%) QA
2 8 (0.82%) GDPR
3 5 (0.51%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.31%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.10%) Basel III
System Software
1 166 (16.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 147 (15.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 534 (54.49%) Microsoft
2 59 (6.02%) Facebook
3 57 (5.82%) Google
4 21 (2.14%) YouTube
5 18 (1.84%) Oracle
6 17 (1.73%) Apple
6 17 (1.73%) Sony
6 17 (1.73%) Yahoo!
7 10 (1.02%) Xamarin
8 6 (0.61%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.61%) Sage
9 5 (0.51%) SAP
10 3 (0.31%) Alterian
10 3 (0.31%) DevExpress
10 3 (0.31%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.31%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.20%) iManage
11 2 (0.20%) OneLogin
11 2 (0.20%) Telerik
12 1 (0.10%) IBM