.NET Developer Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer salary in the UK is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 May 2026.

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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 330 95
Rank change year-on-year +78 -235 +91
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 701 377 2,708
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.87% 2.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.97% 2.84%
Number of salaries quoted 659 337 2,586
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,700 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% -

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 87,026 38,759 95,314
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 89.38% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 58,020 21,803 69,625
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £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 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +1.93% -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 30 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 30 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 +86 663 £57,500 -4.17% 172
UK excluding London +85 580 £55,000 +2.80% 143
Work from Home +84 323 £55,000 -4.35% 150
North of England +35 193 £55,000 -8.33% 54
South East +70 174 £55,000 +0.69% 42
London -28 104 £80,000 - 40
North West +35 102 £60,000 - 30
Midlands 0 71 £55,000 +4.76% 13
East of England +19 65 £60,000 +13.21% 19
South West -15 58 £50,000 - 8
Yorkshire -7 55 £60,000 -7.69% 13
West Midlands -15 42 £55,000 -4.35% 7
North East -14 36 £55,000 -45.00% 11
East Midlands -4 29 £52,500 +10.53% 6
Scotland -2 12 £60,000 +84.62% 4
Wales -30 7 £50,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 701 (100.00%) .NET
2 475 (67.76%) C#
3 336 (47.93%) Full-Stack Development
4 323 (46.08%) Azure
5 281 (40.09%) .NET Core
6 275 (39.23%) SQL
7 234 (33.38%) ASP.NET
8 225 (32.10%) Microsoft
9 219 (31.24%) Agile
10 205 (29.24%) ASP.NET Core
11 179 (25.53%) Azure SQL Database
12 157 (22.40%) MongoDB
13 141 (20.11%) CI/CD
14 123 (17.55%) DevOps
15 121 (17.26%) React
16 120 (17.12%) CSS
17 119 (16.98%) HTML
18 117 (16.69%) JavaScript
19 106 (15.12%) Microservices
20 105 (14.98%) Vue
21 104 (14.84%) RESTful
22 102 (14.55%) Software Engineering
23 99 (14.12%) AI
24 98 (13.98%) AngularJS
24 98 (13.98%) Azure DevOps
24 98 (13.98%) Blazor
25 95 (13.55%) Entity Framework
26 89 (12.70%) AWS
26 89 (12.70%) TypeScript
27 85 (12.13%) 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 3 (0.43%) NServiceBus
2 2 (0.29%) IIS
2 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.14%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 323 (46.08%) Azure
2 98 (13.98%) Azure DevOps
3 89 (12.70%) AWS
4 84 (11.98%) SaaS
5 74 (10.56%) GitHub
6 60 (8.56%) Azure AI
7 47 (6.70%) GitHub Copilot
8 37 (5.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 34 (4.85%) Serverless
10 24 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (2.85%) Azure Functions
11 20 (2.85%) Azure Logic Apps
12 16 (2.28%) Azure Service Bus
13 13 (1.85%) PaaS
14 10 (1.43%) Azure App Service
14 10 (1.43%) Entra ID
15 8 (1.14%) Amazon S3
15 8 (1.14%) Google Play
16 7 (1.00%) Amazon SQS
16 7 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.28%) Internet
2 3 (0.43%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (25.53%) Azure SQL Database
2 157 (22.40%) MongoDB
3 85 (12.13%) SQL Server
4 53 (7.56%) Elasticsearch
5 20 (2.85%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.85%) MySQL
7 12 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.00%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.57%) NonStop SQL
9 4 (0.57%) Power BI
10 2 (0.29%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.29%) CouchDB
10 2 (0.29%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.14%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.14%) SQLite
11 1 (0.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (3.57%) Git
2 4 (0.57%) JIRA
3 3 (0.43%) MSTest
3 3 (0.43%) NUnit
3 3 (0.43%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.14%) Postman
4 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.14%) Vite
4 1 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 69 (9.84%) Finance
2 30 (4.28%) Social Skills
3 29 (4.14%) Games
4 20 (2.85%) Advertising
5 13 (1.85%) Marketing
6 10 (1.43%) Law
6 10 (1.43%) Retail
7 8 (1.14%) Automotive
8 7 (1.00%) Manufacturing
9 6 (0.86%) Aerospace
9 6 (0.86%) Banking
10 5 (0.71%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (0.57%) Back Office
11 4 (0.57%) Music Industry
12 3 (0.43%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.43%) Legal
13 2 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.14%) iGaming
14 1 (0.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 701 (100.00%) .NET
2 281 (40.09%) .NET Core
3 234 (33.38%) ASP.NET
4 205 (29.24%) ASP.NET Core
5 121 (17.26%) React
6 120 (17.12%) CSS
7 119 (16.98%) HTML
8 105 (14.98%) Vue
9 104 (14.84%) RESTful
10 98 (13.98%) AngularJS
10 98 (13.98%) Blazor
11 95 (13.55%) Entity Framework
12 76 (10.84%) ASP.NET Web API
13 63 (8.99%) .NET Framework
14 59 (8.42%) ML.NET
15 54 (7.70%) Node.js
16 48 (6.85%) LINQ
17 20 (2.85%) REST
18 17 (2.43%) WinForms
19 13 (1.85%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 51 (7.28%) Mobile App
2 43 (6.13%) Greenfield Project
3 19 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (2.14%) Cloud Native
5 14 (2.00%) PropTech
6 12 (1.71%) Hedge funds
7 10 (1.43%) Social Network
8 9 (1.28%) Digital TV
8 9 (1.28%) Sports Betting
9 8 (1.14%) iPhone
9 8 (1.14%) Legacy Code
10 7 (1.00%) BBC
10 7 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.00%) Social Media
11 6 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.86%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.29%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.29%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.29%) Fixed Income
12 2 (0.29%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.43%) Android
2 7 (1.00%) Windows
3 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (47.93%) Full-Stack Development
2 219 (31.24%) Agile
3 141 (20.11%) CI/CD
4 123 (17.55%) DevOps
5 106 (15.12%) Microservices
6 102 (14.55%) Software Engineering
7 99 (14.12%) AI
8 70 (9.99%) Multithreading
9 65 (9.27%) Machine Learning
10 48 (6.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 46 (6.56%) SDLC
12 45 (6.42%) OO
12 45 (6.42%) Problem-Solving
13 43 (6.13%) TDD
14 40 (5.71%) Scrum
15 32 (4.56%) Kanban
16 31 (4.42%) MVC
17 29 (4.14%) Analytics
18 27 (3.85%) Clean Code
19 26 (3.71%) CQRS
Programming Languages
1 475 (67.76%) C#
2 275 (39.23%) SQL
3 117 (16.69%) JavaScript
4 89 (12.70%) TypeScript
5 15 (2.14%) VB
6 13 (1.85%) Python
7 11 (1.57%) VB.NET
8 9 (1.28%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.43%) Bicep
10 2 (0.29%) C++
11 1 (0.14%) Delphi
11 1 (0.14%) Java
11 1 (0.14%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 37 (5.28%) SC Cleared
1 37 (5.28%) Security Cleared
2 26 (3.71%) Degree
3 16 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (0.71%) AWS Certification
5 5 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
5 5 (0.71%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.57%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (1.43%) QA
2 5 (0.71%) GDPR
3 1 (0.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 82 (11.70%) Docker
2 5 (0.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (8.84%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 225 (32.10%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.14%) Facebook
2 22 (3.14%) Google
3 17 (2.43%) Xamarin
4 8 (1.14%) YouTube
5 7 (1.00%) Apple
5 7 (1.00%) Sony
5 7 (1.00%) Yahoo!
6 6 (0.86%) OpenAI
7 5 (0.71%) Oracle
8 4 (0.57%) Sage
9 2 (0.29%) iManage
9 2 (0.29%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.14%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.14%) Databricks
10 1 (0.14%) DevExpress
10 1 (0.14%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.14%) Infragistics
10 1 (0.14%) Perforce
10 1 (0.14%) ServiceNow