.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 26 May 2026.

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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 337 98
Rank change year-on-year +72 -239 +86
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 664 365 2,653
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.72% 0.86% 2.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.96% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 621 326 2,540
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,625 £39,648
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,563 £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 £87,500 £92,500 £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 86,685 38,020 93,740
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.40% 89.33% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 57,629 21,313 68,696
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,620 £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 £70,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -6.43%

.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 26 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 26 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 +93 624 £57,500 -4.17% 184
UK excluding London +93 546 £55,000 +3.77% 149
Work from Home +67 293 £55,000 - 160
North of England +51 183 £55,000 -8.33% 51
South East +78 161 £55,000 +1.38% 47
London -17 101 £80,750 +0.94% 44
North West +27 97 £60,000 - 29
Midlands -6 69 £55,000 +4.76% 15
East of England +3 57 £60,000 +13.21% 21
Yorkshire -9 56 £60,000 -7.69% 11
South West -26 55 £52,500 +2.44% 8
West Midlands -25 42 £55,000 -4.35% 7
North East -17 30 £55,000 -48.84% 11
East Midlands -17 27 £52,500 +13.51% 8
Scotland -9 14 £60,000 +84.62% 4
Wales -29 7 £50,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 26 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.

1 664 (100.00%) .NET
2 435 (65.51%) C#
3 302 (45.48%) Full-Stack Development
4 287 (43.22%) Azure
5 248 (37.35%) .NET Core
6 240 (36.14%) SQL
7 202 (30.42%) ASP.NET
8 191 (28.77%) Microsoft
9 190 (28.61%) Agile
10 174 (26.20%) ASP.NET Core
11 149 (22.44%) Azure SQL Database
12 131 (19.73%) MongoDB
13 127 (19.13%) CI/CD
14 108 (16.27%) CSS
14 108 (16.27%) DevOps
15 107 (16.11%) HTML
15 107 (16.11%) React
16 103 (15.51%) JavaScript
16 103 (15.51%) Software Engineering
17 99 (14.91%) Microservices
18 95 (14.31%) RESTful
18 95 (14.31%) Vue
19 87 (13.10%) Blazor
20 86 (12.95%) AngularJS
21 85 (12.80%) AWS
22 84 (12.65%) AI
22 84 (12.65%) Azure DevOps
22 84 (12.65%) SaaS
23 81 (12.20%) SQL Server
24 80 (12.05%) Entity Framework

.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 (0.45%) NServiceBus
2 2 (0.30%) IIS
2 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.15%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 287 (43.22%) Azure
2 85 (12.80%) AWS
3 84 (12.65%) Azure DevOps
3 84 (12.65%) SaaS
4 68 (10.24%) GitHub
5 50 (7.53%) Azure AI
6 40 (6.02%) GitHub Copilot
7 36 (5.42%) Serverless
8 32 (4.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 25 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (3.01%) Azure Functions
10 20 (3.01%) Azure Logic Apps
11 15 (2.26%) Azure Service Bus
12 12 (1.81%) PaaS
13 10 (1.51%) Amazon S3
13 10 (1.51%) Azure App Service
13 10 (1.51%) Entra ID
14 9 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.86%) Internet
2 3 (0.45%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (22.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 131 (19.73%) MongoDB
3 81 (12.20%) SQL Server
4 43 (6.48%) Elasticsearch
5 23 (3.46%) NoSQL
6 14 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (1.81%) MySQL
8 9 (1.36%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.60%) NonStop SQL
9 4 (0.60%) Power BI
10 2 (0.30%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.30%) CouchDB
10 2 (0.30%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.15%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.15%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (4.22%) Git
2 3 (0.45%) JIRA
2 3 (0.45%) MSTest
2 3 (0.45%) NUnit
3 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.15%) Postman
4 1 (0.15%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.15%) Vite
4 1 (0.15%) webpack
General
1 67 (10.09%) Finance
2 28 (4.22%) Social Skills
3 25 (3.77%) Games
4 15 (2.26%) Advertising
5 10 (1.51%) Law
6 9 (1.36%) Marketing
7 8 (1.20%) Retail
8 7 (1.05%) Automotive
8 7 (1.05%) Manufacturing
9 6 (0.90%) Banking
10 4 (0.60%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.60%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (0.60%) Back Office
11 3 (0.45%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.45%) Legal
11 3 (0.45%) Music Industry
12 2 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.15%) iGaming
13 1 (0.15%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 664 (100.00%) .NET
2 248 (37.35%) .NET Core
3 202 (30.42%) ASP.NET
4 174 (26.20%) ASP.NET Core
5 108 (16.27%) CSS
6 107 (16.11%) HTML
6 107 (16.11%) React
7 95 (14.31%) RESTful
7 95 (14.31%) Vue
8 87 (13.10%) Blazor
9 86 (12.95%) AngularJS
10 80 (12.05%) Entity Framework
11 65 (9.79%) ASP.NET Web API
12 56 (8.43%) .NET Framework
13 49 (7.38%) ML.NET
14 44 (6.63%) Node.js
15 40 (6.02%) LINQ
16 19 (2.86%) REST
17 14 (2.11%) WinForms
18 13 (1.96%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.38%) Mobile App
2 38 (5.72%) Greenfield Project
3 18 (2.71%) Cloud Native
4 16 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (2.11%) PropTech
6 13 (1.96%) Hedge funds
7 9 (1.36%) Digital TV
7 9 (1.36%) Social Network
7 9 (1.36%) Sports Betting
8 7 (1.05%) iPhone
8 7 (1.05%) Legacy Code
9 6 (0.90%) BBC
9 6 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (0.90%) Product Ownership
9 6 (0.90%) Social Media
10 5 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.30%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.30%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.30%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.30%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.20%) Android
2 6 (0.90%) Windows
3 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (45.48%) Full-Stack Development
2 190 (28.61%) Agile
3 127 (19.13%) CI/CD
4 108 (16.27%) DevOps
5 103 (15.51%) Software Engineering
6 99 (14.91%) Microservices
7 84 (12.65%) AI
8 58 (8.73%) Multithreading
9 54 (8.13%) Machine Learning
10 47 (7.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 43 (6.48%) Problem-Solving
12 42 (6.33%) SDLC
13 38 (5.72%) OO
14 35 (5.27%) TDD
15 34 (5.12%) Scrum
16 31 (4.67%) MVC
17 28 (4.22%) Kanban
18 26 (3.92%) Analytics
18 26 (3.92%) Clean Code
18 26 (3.92%) CQRS
Programming Languages
1 435 (65.51%) C#
2 240 (36.14%) SQL
3 103 (15.51%) JavaScript
4 78 (11.75%) TypeScript
5 15 (2.26%) VB
6 13 (1.96%) Python
7 10 (1.51%) VB.NET
8 6 (0.90%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.45%) Bicep
10 2 (0.30%) C++
11 1 (0.15%) Java
11 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 37 (5.57%) SC Cleared
1 37 (5.57%) Security Cleared
2 24 (3.61%) Degree
3 15 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (1.05%) AWS Certification
4 7 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
5 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (0.75%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.60%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (1.51%) QA
2 5 (0.75%) GDPR
3 1 (0.15%) Accessibility
System Software
1 76 (11.45%) Docker
2 5 (0.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 53 (7.98%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 191 (28.77%) Microsoft
2 19 (2.86%) Google
3 18 (2.71%) Facebook
4 16 (2.41%) Xamarin
5 6 (0.90%) Apple
5 6 (0.90%) OpenAI
5 6 (0.90%) Sony
5 6 (0.90%) Yahoo!
5 6 (0.90%) YouTube
6 5 (0.75%) Oracle
7 4 (0.60%) Sage
8 2 (0.30%) iManage
8 2 (0.30%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.15%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.15%) Databricks
9 1 (0.15%) DevExpress
9 1 (0.15%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.15%) Infragistics
9 1 (0.15%) Perforce
9 1 (0.15%) ServiceNow