.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 26 December 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 230 131
Rank change year-on-year -121 -99 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 335 717 1,250
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.28% 2.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 1.37% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 306 552 1,173
10th Percentile £44,375 £32,600 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £84,688 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £113,125 £85,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -5.45% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 54,223 52,219 48,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 93.42% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 33,503 27,758 37,761
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,174 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,000 £78,656
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,918
% change year-on-year -4.76% +3.11% -3.01%

.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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -91 307 £65,000 +13.04% 397
UK excluding London -107 228 £60,000 +15.38% 341
Work from Home -67 163 £70,000 +29.63% 311
London -4 84 £75,000 - 89
South East +15 80 £70,000 +40.00% 107
North of England -44 72 £60,000 +9.09% 86
North West -26 40 £60,000 +4.35% 49
Midlands -23 30 £50,000 -13.04% 52
South West -21 26 £50,750 -13.62% 31
Yorkshire -24 23 £60,000 +20.00% 26
West Midlands +4 17 £50,000 -13.04% 29
East Midlands -27 13 £52,000 -5.45% 21
East of England -41 10 £60,000 +20.00% 41
North East +3 9 £50,000 - 11
Wales +5 6 £45,000 -10.00% 11
Scotland -65 4 £55,000 +18.92% 15

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

For the 6 months to 26 December 2025, .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.

1 335 (100.00%) .NET
2 227 (67.76%) C#
3 196 (58.51%) Azure
4 164 (48.96%) Agile
5 132 (39.40%) Full-Stack Development
6 131 (39.10%) JavaScript
7 130 (38.81%) .NET Core
8 126 (37.61%) SQL
9 105 (31.34%) CI/CD
10 100 (29.85%) Microservices
11 98 (29.25%) ASP.NET
12 97 (28.96%) SQL Server
13 91 (27.16%) TypeScript
14 89 (26.57%) MVC
14 89 (26.57%) React
15 88 (26.27%) AWS
16 86 (25.67%) DevOps
17 84 (25.07%) Microsoft
18 83 (24.78%) .NET Framework
19 72 (21.49%) SaaS
20 71 (21.19%) AngularJS
21 68 (20.30%) RESTful
21 68 (20.30%) Software Engineering
22 67 (20.00%) HTML
23 63 (18.81%) ASP.NET Web API
24 60 (17.91%) ASP.NET MVC
24 60 (17.91%) Scrum
25 59 (17.61%) CSS
26 58 (17.31%) Entity Framework
26 58 (17.31%) 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 8 (2.39%) CMS
2 5 (1.49%) Confluence
2 5 (1.49%) IIS
3 1 (0.30%) Kentico
3 1 (0.30%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.30%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.60%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.30%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.30%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.30%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 196 (58.51%) Azure
2 88 (26.27%) AWS
3 72 (21.49%) SaaS
4 49 (14.63%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (14.03%) Serverless
6 35 (10.45%) GitHub
7 31 (9.25%) GCP
8 30 (8.96%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (5.67%) Azure App Service
10 18 (5.37%) Entra ID
11 17 (5.07%) PaaS
12 15 (4.48%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (3.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (3.58%) Amazon EventBridge
13 12 (3.58%) Amazon S3
13 12 (3.58%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (3.58%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (3.58%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (3.58%) AWS Step Functions
14 11 (3.28%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.90%) Internet
2 1 (0.30%) DNS
2 1 (0.30%) HTTP
2 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (28.96%) SQL Server
2 50 (14.93%) NoSQL
3 47 (14.03%) MongoDB
4 45 (13.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (5.37%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (3.58%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.39%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.09%) MySQL
10 6 (1.79%) NonStop SQL
11 5 (1.49%) Power BI
12 1 (0.30%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.30%) RavenDB
12 1 (0.30%) Redis
12 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 58 (17.31%) Git
2 13 (3.88%) Visual Studio
3 7 (2.09%) JIRA
4 3 (0.90%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.90%) JMeter
4 3 (0.90%) Postman
4 3 (0.90%) Selenium
4 3 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.60%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.60%) NUnit
5 2 (0.60%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.30%) GitLab
6 1 (0.30%) MSTest
6 1 (0.30%) Sourcetree
General
1 70 (20.90%) Finance
2 65 (19.40%) Social Skills
3 10 (2.99%) Front Office
4 8 (2.39%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.09%) Banking
5 7 (2.09%) Retail
6 6 (1.79%) Advertising
6 6 (1.79%) Games
7 5 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.19%) Back Office
8 4 (1.19%) Electronics
8 4 (1.19%) Legal
9 3 (0.90%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.90%) Law
10 2 (0.60%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.30%) Marketing
11 1 (0.30%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 335 (100.00%) .NET
2 130 (38.81%) .NET Core
3 98 (29.25%) ASP.NET
4 89 (26.57%) React
5 83 (24.78%) .NET Framework
6 71 (21.19%) AngularJS
7 68 (20.30%) RESTful
8 67 (20.00%) HTML
9 63 (18.81%) ASP.NET Web API
10 60 (17.91%) ASP.NET MVC
11 59 (17.61%) CSS
12 58 (17.31%) Entity Framework
13 51 (15.22%) Blazor
14 37 (11.04%) Vue
15 33 (9.85%) ASP.NET Core
15 33 (9.85%) REST
16 22 (6.57%) Node.js
17 21 (6.27%) Razor View Engine
18 20 (5.97%) ASP.NET Web Forms
18 20 (5.97%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.76%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.57%) Mobile App
3 15 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (1.79%) Digital TV
7 5 (1.49%) Clustering
7 5 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (1.49%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.49%) PropTech
8 4 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.19%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.90%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.90%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.60%) Derivative
10 2 (0.60%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.60%) Online Games
10 2 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.60%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.79%) Android
1 6 (1.79%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.19%) Linux
3 1 (0.30%) VMS
3 1 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (48.96%) Agile
2 132 (39.40%) Full-Stack Development
3 105 (31.34%) CI/CD
4 100 (29.85%) Microservices
5 89 (26.57%) MVC
6 86 (25.67%) DevOps
7 68 (20.30%) Software Engineering
8 60 (17.91%) Scrum
9 50 (14.93%) Roadmaps
10 49 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
11 47 (14.03%) AI
12 46 (13.73%) TDD
13 42 (12.54%) Clean Code
13 42 (12.54%) Continuous Improvement
14 39 (11.64%) Kanban
15 32 (9.55%) Business Strategy
16 30 (8.96%) Front End Development
17 27 (8.06%) Containerisation
17 27 (8.06%) Mentoring
18 25 (7.46%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 227 (67.76%) C#
2 131 (39.10%) JavaScript
3 126 (37.61%) SQL
4 91 (27.16%) TypeScript
5 5 (1.49%) PowerShell
5 5 (1.49%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.19%) XAML
7 3 (0.90%) Erlang
8 2 (0.60%) Bicep
9 1 (0.30%) Java
9 1 (0.30%) Python
9 1 (0.30%) VB
9 1 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 29 (8.66%) Degree
2 22 (6.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.88%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.99%) AWS Certification
4 10 (2.99%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.30%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.66%) QA
2 8 (2.39%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.90%) WCAG
4 2 (0.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.30%) HL7
5 1 (0.30%) IFRS
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 38 (11.34%) Docker
2 15 (4.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (5.67%) Terraform
2 10 (2.99%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 84 (25.07%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.09%) Xamarin
3 6 (1.79%) Facebook
3 6 (1.79%) YouTube
4 4 (1.19%) Dynatrace
4 4 (1.19%) Oracle
4 4 (1.19%) Telerik
5 2 (0.60%) Adobe
5 2 (0.60%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.30%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.30%) Foundry
6 1 (0.30%) Infragistics
6 1 (0.30%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.30%) Okta
6 1 (0.30%) Perforce
6 1 (0.30%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow