.NET Developer Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer salary in the UK is £56,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 June 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 353 93
Rank change year-on-year +116 -260 +85
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 740 367 2,857
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.81% 0.83% 2.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.93% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 698 336 2,687
10th Percentile £42,125 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £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 86,220 39,579 100,813
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 89.52% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 58,944 22,377 72,921
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,878 £38,500
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 10 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 10 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 +108 698 £55,000 -8.33% 176
UK excluding London +129 619 £55,000 +3.77% 136
Work from Home +100 360 £55,000 -4.35% 163
North of England +65 203 £55,000 -8.33% 52
South East +89 189 £55,000 - 41
London -13 105 £80,000 - 51
North West +40 104 £60,000 +9.09% 30
Midlands +23 74 £55,000 +10.00% 10
East of England +28 70 £60,000 +13.21% 18
South West -12 59 £52,500 +5.00% 8
Yorkshire 0 58 £57,500 -11.54% 10
West Midlands +4 45 £55,000 +2.33% 5
North East -6 41 £55,000 -45.00% 12
East Midlands -5 29 £55,000 +22.22% 5
Scotland +16 17 £55,000 +69.23% 5
Wales -39 7 £50,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 740 (100.00%) .NET
2 519 (70.14%) C#
3 373 (50.41%) Full-Stack Development
4 357 (48.24%) Azure
5 311 (42.03%) .NET Core
6 310 (41.89%) SQL
7 271 (36.62%) ASP.NET
8 260 (35.14%) Microsoft
9 244 (32.97%) Agile
10 240 (32.43%) ASP.NET Core
11 215 (29.05%) Azure SQL Database
12 192 (25.95%) MongoDB
13 149 (20.14%) CI/CD
14 134 (18.11%) DevOps
15 133 (17.97%) CSS
16 132 (17.84%) HTML
17 131 (17.70%) React
18 128 (17.30%) JavaScript
19 117 (15.81%) AI
20 115 (15.54%) Vue
21 114 (15.41%) AngularJS
22 113 (15.27%) RESTful
23 111 (15.00%) Microservices
24 110 (14.86%) Azure DevOps
25 109 (14.73%) Blazor
26 108 (14.59%) Entity Framework
27 105 (14.19%) TypeScript
28 103 (13.92%) Software Engineering
29 89 (12.03%) AWS
29 89 (12.03%) 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 4 (0.54%) NServiceBus
2 2 (0.27%) IIS
2 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.14%) Sage 200
1 1 (0.14%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 357 (48.24%) Azure
2 110 (14.86%) Azure DevOps
3 89 (12.03%) AWS
4 80 (10.81%) GitHub
5 79 (10.68%) SaaS
6 75 (10.14%) Azure AI
7 59 (7.97%) GitHub Copilot
8 39 (5.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 27 (3.65%) Serverless
10 18 (2.43%) Azure Functions
10 18 (2.43%) Azure Logic Apps
10 18 (2.43%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
12 11 (1.49%) PaaS
13 9 (1.22%) Google Play
14 8 (1.08%) Azure App Service
14 8 (1.08%) Entra ID
15 7 (0.95%) Power Platform
16 6 (0.81%) Anthropic Claude
17 5 (0.68%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.46%) Internet
2 4 (0.54%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (29.05%) Azure SQL Database
2 192 (25.95%) MongoDB
3 89 (12.03%) SQL Server
4 65 (8.78%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (1.89%) MySQL
6 11 (1.49%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.54%) DynamoDB
8 4 (0.54%) NonStop SQL
8 4 (0.54%) Power BI
9 2 (0.27%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.27%) CouchDB
9 2 (0.27%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.27%) SQLite
10 1 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.14%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (2.43%) Git
2 7 (0.95%) JIRA
3 3 (0.41%) MSTest
3 3 (0.41%) NUnit
4 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.14%) Postman
5 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.14%) Vite
5 1 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 73 (9.86%) Finance
2 32 (4.32%) Games
3 26 (3.51%) Social Skills
4 25 (3.38%) Advertising
5 19 (2.57%) Marketing
6 13 (1.76%) Retail
7 10 (1.35%) Law
8 8 (1.08%) Automotive
9 7 (0.95%) Aerospace
9 7 (0.95%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.81%) Banking
11 5 (0.68%) Analytical Skills
12 4 (0.54%) Back Office
12 4 (0.54%) Music Industry
13 3 (0.41%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.41%) Legal
14 2 (0.27%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.14%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.14%) Local Government
15 1 (0.14%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 740 (100.00%) .NET
2 311 (42.03%) .NET Core
3 271 (36.62%) ASP.NET
4 240 (32.43%) ASP.NET Core
5 133 (17.97%) CSS
6 132 (17.84%) HTML
7 131 (17.70%) React
8 115 (15.54%) Vue
9 114 (15.41%) AngularJS
10 113 (15.27%) RESTful
11 109 (14.73%) Blazor
12 108 (14.59%) Entity Framework
13 85 (11.49%) ASP.NET Web API
14 74 (10.00%) ML.NET
15 65 (8.78%) Node.js
16 63 (8.51%) .NET Framework
17 55 (7.43%) LINQ
18 21 (2.84%) WinForms
19 18 (2.43%) REST
20 17 (2.30%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 55 (7.43%) Greenfield Project
2 51 (6.89%) Mobile App
3 21 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (1.89%) PropTech
5 12 (1.62%) Hedge funds
6 10 (1.35%) Cloud Native
6 10 (1.35%) Digital TV
6 10 (1.35%) Social Network
7 9 (1.22%) iPhone
8 8 (1.08%) BBC
8 8 (1.08%) Legacy Code
8 8 (1.08%) Social Media
8 8 (1.08%) Sports Betting
9 7 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.81%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.41%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.27%) Fixed Income
12 2 (0.27%) IoT
13 1 (0.14%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.62%) Android
2 8 (1.08%) Windows
3 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (50.41%) Full-Stack Development
2 244 (32.97%) Agile
3 149 (20.14%) CI/CD
4 134 (18.11%) DevOps
5 117 (15.81%) AI
6 111 (15.00%) Microservices
7 103 (13.92%) Software Engineering
8 85 (11.49%) Multithreading
9 80 (10.81%) Machine Learning
10 53 (7.16%) OO
11 48 (6.49%) TDD
12 46 (6.22%) SDLC
13 45 (6.08%) Continuous Improvement
14 44 (5.95%) Scrum
15 42 (5.68%) Problem-Solving
16 36 (4.86%) Analytics
17 33 (4.46%) Kanban
18 28 (3.78%) BDD
19 27 (3.65%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
19 27 (3.65%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 519 (70.14%) C#
2 310 (41.89%) SQL
3 128 (17.30%) JavaScript
4 105 (14.19%) TypeScript
5 15 (2.03%) VB
6 14 (1.89%) Python
6 14 (1.89%) VB.NET
7 9 (1.22%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.54%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.41%) Bicep
10 2 (0.27%) C++
11 1 (0.14%) ABAP
11 1 (0.14%) Delphi
11 1 (0.14%) Java
11 1 (0.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 37 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 37 (5.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (3.24%) Degree
3 14 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (0.68%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.27%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (0.27%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.08%) QA
2 5 (0.68%) GDPR
3 1 (0.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 87 (11.76%) Docker
2 3 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 73 (9.86%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 260 (35.14%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.65%) Facebook
3 25 (3.38%) Google
4 18 (2.43%) Xamarin
5 9 (1.22%) YouTube
6 8 (1.08%) Apple
6 8 (1.08%) Sony
6 8 (1.08%) Yahoo!
7 7 (0.95%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.68%) Oracle
9 4 (0.54%) Sage
10 3 (0.41%) SAP
11 2 (0.27%) iManage
11 2 (0.27%) OneLogin
12 1 (0.14%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.14%) Databricks
12 1 (0.14%) DevExpress
12 1 (0.14%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.14%) IBM
12 1 (0.14%) ServiceNow