.NET Developer Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 May 2026.

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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 309 101
Rank change year-on-year -1 -208 +86
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 527 414 2,532
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.96% 2.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 1.08% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 487 374 2,428
10th Percentile £43,250 £37,875 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -

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 84,558 38,400 90,620
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.98% 89.39% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 54,560 23,425 66,674
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,425 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,375 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £52,900
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +11.53% -11.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 5 May 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 5 May 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 +14 483 £60,000 +4.35% 192
UK excluding London +2 413 £55,000 +3.77% 150
Work from Home -26 182 £55,000 - 173
North of England -20 143 £60,000 - 52
South East +17 118 £55,000 +7.32% 43
London -23 88 £84,500 +4.00% 51
North West -9 81 £60,000 - 29
Midlands -20 52 £52,500 - 16
Yorkshire -31 49 £60,000 - 10
South West -23 46 £50,000 -9.09% 11
East of England -22 35 £57,500 +8.49% 18
West Midlands -16 32 £50,000 -13.04% 10
East Midlands -35 20 £53,750 +13.16% 6
North East -27 13 £55,000 -31.25% 13
Scotland -31 12 £60,000 +84.62% 6
Wales -26 7 £45,000 -10.00% 4

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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.

1 527 (100.00%) .NET
2 310 (58.82%) C#
3 183 (34.72%) Full-Stack Development
4 180 (34.16%) Azure
5 148 (28.08%) .NET Core
6 136 (25.81%) SQL
7 116 (22.01%) Agile
8 100 (18.98%) ASP.NET
9 86 (16.32%) CI/CD
10 85 (16.13%) Microsoft
10 85 (16.13%) Software Engineering
11 84 (15.94%) SaaS
12 79 (14.99%) React
13 77 (14.61%) SQL Server
14 73 (13.85%) Microservices
15 72 (13.66%) DevOps
16 65 (12.33%) ASP.NET Core
16 65 (12.33%) JavaScript
17 64 (12.14%) RESTful
18 63 (11.95%) HTML
19 60 (11.39%) CSS
20 57 (10.82%) AWS
21 52 (9.87%) .NET Framework
22 51 (9.68%) AngularJS
22 51 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
22 51 (9.68%) Blazor
22 51 (9.68%) TypeScript
23 48 (9.11%) Azure SQL Database
23 48 (9.11%) Vue
24 45 (8.54%) Docker

.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 3 (0.57%) NServiceBus
2 2 (0.38%) IIS
2 2 (0.38%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.19%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 180 (34.16%) Azure
2 84 (15.94%) SaaS
3 57 (10.82%) AWS
4 51 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (7.02%) GitHub
6 34 (6.45%) Serverless
7 25 (4.74%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (3.80%) Azure Logic Apps
9 18 (3.42%) Azure AI
10 17 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 14 (2.66%) Azure App Service
11 14 (2.66%) Azure Service Bus
11 14 (2.66%) Entra ID
11 14 (2.66%) PaaS
12 13 (2.47%) Azure Functions
13 12 (2.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (2.28%) Amazon S3
13 12 (2.28%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (2.09%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (2.09%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.95%) Internet
2 2 (0.38%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.19%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (14.61%) SQL Server
2 48 (9.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 38 (7.21%) MongoDB
4 31 (5.88%) NoSQL
5 13 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.09%) DynamoDB
6 11 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (1.14%) MySQL
8 4 (0.76%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.57%) Power BI
10 2 (0.38%) CouchDB
10 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.19%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.19%) NonStop SQL
11 1 (0.19%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (6.07%) Git
2 6 (1.14%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.38%) JIRA
3 2 (0.38%) MSTest
3 2 (0.38%) NUnit
4 1 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.19%) Postman
4 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.19%) Vite
4 1 (0.19%) webpack
General
1 50 (9.49%) Finance
2 31 (5.88%) Social Skills
3 12 (2.28%) Games
4 10 (1.90%) Law
5 7 (1.33%) Manufacturing
6 6 (1.14%) Advertising
7 5 (0.95%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (0.95%) Back Office
7 5 (0.95%) Banking
8 4 (0.76%) Automotive
8 4 (0.76%) Marketing
9 3 (0.57%) Legal
10 2 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.38%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.38%) Retail
11 1 (0.19%) Front Office
11 1 (0.19%) iGaming
11 1 (0.19%) Music Industry
11 1 (0.19%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 527 (100.00%) .NET
2 148 (28.08%) .NET Core
3 100 (18.98%) ASP.NET
4 79 (14.99%) React
5 65 (12.33%) ASP.NET Core
6 64 (12.14%) RESTful
7 63 (11.95%) HTML
8 60 (11.39%) CSS
9 52 (9.87%) .NET Framework
10 51 (9.68%) AngularJS
10 51 (9.68%) Blazor
11 48 (9.11%) Vue
12 40 (7.59%) Entity Framework
13 29 (5.50%) ASP.NET Web API
14 22 (4.17%) REST
15 17 (3.23%) ASP.NET MVC
16 16 (3.04%) ML.NET
16 16 (3.04%) Razor View Engine
17 11 (2.09%) ASP.NET Web Forms
17 11 (2.09%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 42 (7.97%) Mobile App
2 20 (3.80%) Cloud Native
3 14 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (2.66%) PropTech
4 13 (2.47%) Hedge funds
5 9 (1.71%) Sports Betting
6 7 (1.33%) Legacy Code
6 7 (1.33%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (0.95%) Social Network
9 4 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.57%) BBC
10 3 (0.57%) Digital TV
10 3 (0.57%) Social Media
11 2 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.38%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.38%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.38%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.95%) Windows
2 2 (0.38%) Android
2 2 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (34.72%) Full-Stack Development
2 116 (22.01%) Agile
3 86 (16.32%) CI/CD
4 85 (16.13%) Software Engineering
5 73 (13.85%) Microservices
6 72 (13.66%) DevOps
7 43 (8.16%) MVC
8 41 (7.78%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (7.59%) AI
10 38 (7.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (5.31%) TDD
12 27 (5.12%) SDLC
13 26 (4.93%) Clean Code
14 24 (4.55%) Scrum
15 23 (4.36%) Containerisation
16 22 (4.17%) Multithreading
17 21 (3.98%) API Development
17 21 (3.98%) Machine Learning
18 20 (3.80%) Front End Development
18 20 (3.80%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 310 (58.82%) C#
2 136 (25.81%) SQL
3 65 (12.33%) JavaScript
4 51 (9.68%) TypeScript
5 12 (2.28%) VB
6 6 (1.14%) T-SQL
7 5 (0.95%) Python
8 3 (0.57%) Bicep
8 3 (0.57%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.19%) C++
9 1 (0.19%) Java
9 1 (0.19%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 37 (7.02%) SC Cleared
1 37 (7.02%) Security Cleared
2 18 (3.42%) Degree
3 14 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (1.71%) AWS Certification
4 9 (1.71%) AWS Certified Developer
5 7 (1.33%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.19%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.85%) QA
2 3 (0.57%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.19%) GDPR
3 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 45 (8.54%) Docker
2 8 (1.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (3.98%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 85 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.04%) Xamarin
3 7 (1.33%) Facebook
4 6 (1.14%) OpenAI
5 5 (0.95%) Google
6 4 (0.76%) Sage
7 3 (0.57%) Apple
7 3 (0.57%) Sony
7 3 (0.57%) Yahoo!
8 2 (0.38%) iManage
8 2 (0.38%) Oracle
8 2 (0.38%) Telerik
9 1 (0.19%) Databricks
9 1 (0.19%) DevExpress
9 1 (0.19%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.19%) IBM
9 1 (0.19%) Infragistics
9 1 (0.19%) Perforce
9 1 (0.19%) SAP
9 1 (0.19%) YouTube