.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 11 March 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 264 96
Rank change year-on-year -71 -168 +89
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 391 511 2,411
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.17% 2.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 1.28% 3.05%
Number of salaries quoted 351 425 2,323
10th Percentile £45,000 £32,500 £38,800
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.50% -6.36% +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 66,980 39,779 79,178
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.76% 90.72% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 42,499 22,997 60,965
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,750 £38,750
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 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -70 356 £60,000 +4.35% 242
UK excluding London -61 297 £60,000 +16.50% 187
Work from Home -62 151 £60,000 +20.00% 211
North of England -30 107 £60,000 +20.00% 56
South East -9 83 £65,000 +23.81% 56
London -37 67 £80,000 -7.25% 75
North West -30 57 £65,000 +23.81% 33
Midlands -25 42 £50,000 -13.04% 22
Yorkshire -20 39 £60,000 +9.09% 16
South West -12 34 £50,000 -28.57% 25
West Midlands -17 23 £50,000 -13.04% 13
East of England -41 21 £55,000 +12.82% 19
East Midlands -31 19 £53,750 +7.50% 9
North East -11 11 £55,000 +22.22% 8
Wales -9 5 £45,000 -10.00% 3
Scotland -48 5 £55,000 +69.23% 6

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

For the 6 months to 11 March 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.

1 391 (100.00%) .NET
2 247 (63.17%) C#
3 156 (39.90%) Full-Stack Development
4 152 (38.87%) Azure
5 129 (32.99%) .NET Core
6 126 (32.23%) Agile
7 102 (26.09%) SQL
8 91 (23.27%) CI/CD
9 88 (22.51%) SQL Server
10 87 (22.25%) JavaScript
11 82 (20.97%) React
12 80 (20.46%) ASP.NET
13 73 (18.67%) DevOps
13 73 (18.67%) Microservices
14 70 (17.90%) Software Engineering
15 68 (17.39%) Microsoft
16 65 (16.62%) SaaS
17 64 (16.37%) .NET Framework
18 61 (15.60%) MVC
19 60 (15.35%) HTML
20 59 (15.09%) CSS
21 56 (14.32%) TypeScript
22 55 (14.07%) RESTful
23 54 (13.81%) AWS
24 53 (13.55%) AngularJS
25 48 (12.28%) Blazor
26 47 (12.02%) Problem-Solving
27 43 (11.00%) Azure DevOps
28 42 (10.74%) ASP.NET Core
28 42 (10.74%) Git

.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 (1.02%) CMS
1 4 (1.02%) IIS
2 2 (0.51%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.26%) Kentico
3 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.26%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 152 (38.87%) Azure
2 65 (16.62%) SaaS
3 54 (13.81%) AWS
4 43 (11.00%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (10.49%) Serverless
6 33 (8.44%) GitHub
7 30 (7.67%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (5.12%) Entra ID
9 18 (4.60%) Azure App Service
10 16 (4.09%) PaaS
11 13 (3.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (3.32%) Amazon S3
11 13 (3.32%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (3.32%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (3.07%) Amazon EventBridge
12 12 (3.07%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (3.07%) AWS Step Functions
13 11 (2.81%) Azure Service Bus
14 10 (2.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.28%) Internet
2 1 (0.26%) DNS
2 1 (0.26%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (22.51%) SQL Server
2 41 (10.49%) NoSQL
3 28 (7.16%) MongoDB
4 26 (6.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 13 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.07%) DynamoDB
7 8 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.28%) MySQL
8 5 (1.28%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.02%) Power BI
10 2 (0.51%) CouchDB
10 2 (0.51%) NonStop SQL
11 1 (0.26%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.26%) RavenDB
11 1 (0.26%) Redis
11 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 42 (10.74%) Git
2 10 (2.56%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.26%) MSTest
3 1 (0.26%) NUnit
3 1 (0.26%) Postman
3 1 (0.26%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.26%) Vite
3 1 (0.26%) webpack
General
1 51 (13.04%) Finance
2 44 (11.25%) Social Skills
3 10 (2.56%) Banking
4 8 (2.05%) Games
4 8 (2.05%) Law
5 7 (1.79%) Manufacturing
6 5 (1.28%) Front Office
6 5 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.02%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.02%) Electronics
7 4 (1.02%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.77%) Legal
9 2 (0.51%) Advertising
9 2 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.26%) Back Office
10 1 (0.26%) iGaming
10 1 (0.26%) Marketing
10 1 (0.26%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.26%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 391 (100.00%) .NET
2 129 (32.99%) .NET Core
3 82 (20.97%) React
4 80 (20.46%) ASP.NET
5 64 (16.37%) .NET Framework
6 60 (15.35%) HTML
7 59 (15.09%) CSS
8 55 (14.07%) RESTful
9 53 (13.55%) AngularJS
10 48 (12.28%) Blazor
11 42 (10.74%) ASP.NET Core
12 37 (9.46%) Entity Framework
13 34 (8.70%) ASP.NET Web API
14 33 (8.44%) REST
15 29 (7.42%) Vue
16 28 (7.16%) ASP.NET MVC
17 21 (5.37%) Razor View Engine
18 17 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web Forms
19 12 (3.07%) AWS CDK
19 12 (3.07%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.42%) Mobile App
2 20 (5.12%) Cloud Native
3 11 (2.81%) Hedge funds
4 10 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.05%) PropTech
6 6 (1.53%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.53%) Sports Betting
7 5 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.02%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.77%) Derivative
9 3 (0.77%) Digital TV
9 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.51%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.51%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.51%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.51%) IoT
10 2 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.51%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.28%) Android
2 4 (1.02%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.51%) Linux
4 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (39.90%) Full-Stack Development
2 126 (32.23%) Agile
3 91 (23.27%) CI/CD
4 73 (18.67%) DevOps
4 73 (18.67%) Microservices
5 70 (17.90%) Software Engineering
6 61 (15.60%) MVC
7 47 (12.02%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (10.49%) Scrum
9 37 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (9.21%) Clean Code
11 27 (6.91%) TDD
12 25 (6.39%) AI
12 25 (6.39%) Containerisation
13 24 (6.14%) Mentoring
14 23 (5.88%) Code Quality
14 23 (5.88%) Kanban
15 21 (5.37%) Front End Development
15 21 (5.37%) Roadmaps
15 21 (5.37%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 247 (63.17%) C#
2 102 (26.09%) SQL
3 87 (22.25%) JavaScript
4 56 (14.32%) TypeScript
5 4 (1.02%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.02%) T-SQL
5 4 (1.02%) XAML
6 3 (0.77%) Bicep
6 3 (0.77%) Erlang
6 3 (0.77%) VB
7 2 (0.51%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.26%) C++
8 1 (0.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (5.37%) Degree
2 17 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (2.81%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.56%) AWS Certification
4 10 (2.56%) AWS Certified Developer
5 9 (2.30%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.30%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.12%) QA
2 4 (1.02%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.26%) IFRS
3 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 35 (8.95%) Docker
2 13 (3.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (4.60%) Terraform
2 8 (2.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 68 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.30%) Xamarin
3 4 (1.02%) Telerik
4 3 (0.77%) Facebook
4 3 (0.77%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.51%) Google
5 2 (0.51%) Oracle
5 2 (0.51%) YouTube
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe
6 1 (0.26%) Apple
6 1 (0.26%) Databricks
6 1 (0.26%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.26%) IBM
6 1 (0.26%) Infragistics
6 1 (0.26%) Okta
6 1 (0.26%) Perforce
6 1 (0.26%) Sage
6 1 (0.26%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.26%) Sony
6 1 (0.26%) Yahoo!