.NET Developer Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 February 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 263 90
Rank change year-on-year -72 -173 +78
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 364 606 2,249
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.17% 3.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 1.27% 3.33%
Number of salaries quoted 334 452 2,166
10th Percentile £45,000 £32,625 £39,894
25th Percentile £50,000 £44,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% - -
75th Percentile £82,313 £71,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £106,125 £93,375 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +4.76%

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 58,000 47,786 67,491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.88% 92.14% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 36,092 24,542 52,929
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,439 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.15% +8.88% -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 1 February 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 1 February 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 -54 335 £65,000 +13.04% 242
UK excluding London -82 265 £60,000 +14.29% 193
Work from Home -38 172 £67,500 +26.17% 204
South East +38 89 £70,000 +27.27% 58
North of England -42 79 £60,000 +9.09% 60
London +10 77 £80,000 -4.48% 69
North West -9 48 £60,000 +4.35% 36
Midlands -18 43 £50,000 -13.04% 29
South West -24 26 £53,750 -8.51% 16
West Midlands +14 23 £50,000 -13.04% 16
Yorkshire -20 21 £62,500 +11.11% 16
East Midlands -22 20 £52,500 - 13
East of England -27 18 £57,500 +15.00% 22
North East -5 10 £50,000 +11.11% 8
Wales 0 6 £45,000 -40.00% 3
Scotland -54 4 £55,000 +38.36% 6

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

For the 6 months to 1 February 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.

1 364 (100.00%) .NET
2 239 (65.66%) C#
3 203 (55.77%) Azure
4 169 (46.43%) Agile
5 147 (40.38%) Full-Stack Development
6 138 (37.91%) .NET Core
7 129 (35.44%) JavaScript
8 124 (34.07%) SQL
9 102 (28.02%) ASP.NET
10 98 (26.92%) React
11 97 (26.65%) CI/CD
12 92 (25.27%) Microservices
12 92 (25.27%) SQL Server
13 86 (23.63%) TypeScript
14 83 (22.80%) Microsoft
14 83 (22.80%) MVC
15 81 (22.25%) DevOps
16 80 (21.98%) AWS
17 79 (21.70%) SaaS
18 73 (20.05%) .NET Framework
19 70 (19.23%) Software Engineering
20 66 (18.13%) AngularJS
21 62 (17.03%) RESTful
22 59 (16.21%) HTML
23 54 (14.84%) ASP.NET Web API
23 54 (14.84%) CSS
24 53 (14.56%) ASP.NET MVC
25 51 (14.01%) Azure DevOps
25 51 (14.01%) Blazor
26 50 (13.74%) Serverless

.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 5 (1.37%) CMS
2 4 (1.10%) IIS
3 3 (0.82%) Confluence
4 1 (0.27%) Kentico
4 1 (0.27%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.27%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.27%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.27%) ION Anvil
1 1 (0.27%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 203 (55.77%) Azure
2 80 (21.98%) AWS
3 79 (21.70%) SaaS
4 51 (14.01%) Azure DevOps
5 50 (13.74%) Serverless
6 37 (10.16%) GitHub
7 32 (8.79%) GitHub Actions
8 31 (8.52%) GCP
9 20 (5.49%) Azure App Service
9 20 (5.49%) Entra ID
10 18 (4.95%) PaaS
11 13 (3.57%) Azure Functions
11 13 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
12 12 (3.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (3.30%) Amazon EventBridge
12 12 (3.30%) Amazon S3
12 12 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (3.30%) AWS Step Functions
12 12 (3.30%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.37%) Internet
2 1 (0.27%) DNS
2 1 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (25.27%) SQL Server
2 48 (13.19%) MongoDB
3 47 (12.91%) Azure SQL Database
4 46 (12.64%) NoSQL
5 17 (4.67%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (3.30%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.92%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.37%) NonStop SQL
10 4 (1.10%) MySQL
10 4 (1.10%) Power BI
11 1 (0.27%) CouchDB
11 1 (0.27%) RavenDB
11 1 (0.27%) Redis
11 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 48 (13.19%) Git
2 13 (3.57%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.82%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.82%) JIRA
3 3 (0.82%) Postman
4 2 (0.55%) JMeter
4 2 (0.55%) Selenium
4 2 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.27%) SpecFlow
General
1 69 (18.96%) Finance
2 59 (16.21%) Social Skills
3 9 (2.47%) Front Office
4 8 (2.20%) Banking
5 6 (1.65%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.37%) Advertising
6 5 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (1.37%) Manufacturing
6 5 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.10%) Back Office
7 4 (1.10%) Electronics
7 4 (1.10%) Games
7 4 (1.10%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.10%) Legal
7 4 (1.10%) Retail
8 3 (0.82%) Law
9 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.27%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 364 (100.00%) .NET
2 138 (37.91%) .NET Core
3 102 (28.02%) ASP.NET
4 98 (26.92%) React
5 73 (20.05%) .NET Framework
6 66 (18.13%) AngularJS
7 62 (17.03%) RESTful
8 59 (16.21%) HTML
9 54 (14.84%) ASP.NET Web API
9 54 (14.84%) CSS
10 53 (14.56%) ASP.NET MVC
11 51 (14.01%) Blazor
12 49 (13.46%) Entity Framework
13 42 (11.54%) ASP.NET Core
14 35 (9.62%) Vue
15 33 (9.07%) REST
16 23 (6.32%) Razor View Engine
17 19 (5.22%) ASP.NET Web Forms
17 19 (5.22%) Node.js
18 18 (4.95%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.24%) Mobile App
2 21 (5.77%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.20%) PropTech
5 6 (1.65%) Digital TV
5 6 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.65%) Hedge funds
6 4 (1.10%) Clustering
6 4 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.10%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.10%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.10%) Sports Betting
7 3 (0.82%) Fixed Income
7 3 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.55%) Derivative
8 2 (0.55%) IoT
8 2 (0.55%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.55%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.92%) Android
2 6 (1.65%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.10%) Linux
4 1 (0.27%) VMS
4 1 (0.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (46.43%) Agile
2 147 (40.38%) Full-Stack Development
3 97 (26.65%) CI/CD
4 92 (25.27%) Microservices
5 83 (22.80%) MVC
6 81 (22.25%) DevOps
7 70 (19.23%) Software Engineering
8 49 (13.46%) AI
8 49 (13.46%) Scrum
9 48 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
10 47 (12.91%) Roadmaps
11 43 (11.81%) TDD
12 40 (10.99%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (9.34%) Clean Code
13 34 (9.34%) Kanban
14 32 (8.79%) Business Strategy
15 26 (7.14%) Front End Development
16 25 (6.87%) Mentoring
17 24 (6.59%) Containerisation
18 21 (5.77%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 239 (65.66%) C#
2 129 (35.44%) JavaScript
3 124 (34.07%) SQL
4 86 (23.63%) TypeScript
5 6 (1.65%) T-SQL
6 5 (1.37%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.10%) XAML
8 3 (0.82%) Erlang
8 3 (0.82%) VB
9 2 (0.55%) Bicep
10 1 (0.27%) Java
10 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 24 (6.59%) Degree
2 19 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (3.30%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.75%) AWS Certification
4 10 (2.75%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.04%) QA
2 7 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.55%) GDPR
3 2 (0.55%) WCAG
4 1 (0.27%) IFRS
4 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (9.89%) Docker
2 15 (4.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (5.22%) Terraform
2 10 (2.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 83 (22.80%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.75%) Xamarin
3 6 (1.65%) Facebook
4 5 (1.37%) YouTube
5 4 (1.10%) Telerik
6 3 (0.82%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.82%) Oracle
7 2 (0.55%) Google
7 2 (0.55%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.27%) Adobe
8 1 (0.27%) Apple
8 1 (0.27%) Foundry
8 1 (0.27%) IBM
8 1 (0.27%) Infragistics
8 1 (0.27%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.27%) Okta
8 1 (0.27%) Perforce
8 1 (0.27%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.27%) Sony
8 1 (0.27%) Yahoo!