.NET Developer Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 356 108
Rank change year-on-year +157 -248 +66
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 991 364 2,404
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.00% 0.74% 2.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 0.82% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 948 336 2,227
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 93,080 44,133 95,805
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 89.80% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 63,762 26,055 68,461
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.12%

.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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +158 927 £55,000 -8.33% 305
UK excluding London +184 860 £55,000 - 304
Work from Home +141 628 £55,000 -4.35% 322
South East +134 267 £55,000 - 77
North of England +100 261 £55,000 -8.33% 82
North West +45 117 £55,000 -4.35% 39
London -37 115 £80,000 +6.67% 61
East of England +57 107 £60,000 +13.21% 38
Midlands +33 97 £55,000 +10.00% 38
South West -10 81 £52,500 +5.00% 24
Yorkshire +24 72 £55,000 -8.33% 28
North East +3 72 £55,000 -45.00% 15
West Midlands +8 57 £55,000 +2.33% 21
East Midlands +5 40 £52,500 +16.67% 17
Scotland +36 31 £55,000 +69.23% 30
Wales -39 16 £50,000 - 14

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

For the 6 months to 15 July 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.

1 991 (100.00%) .NET
2 784 (79.11%) C#
3 614 (61.96%) Full-Stack Development
4 603 (60.85%) Azure
5 546 (55.10%) .NET Core
6 541 (54.59%) SQL
7 535 (53.99%) ASP.NET
8 517 (52.17%) Microsoft
9 491 (49.55%) ASP.NET Core
10 453 (45.71%) Azure SQL Database
11 422 (42.58%) Agile
12 410 (41.37%) MongoDB
13 232 (23.41%) JavaScript
14 225 (22.70%) CI/CD
15 219 (22.10%) DevOps
16 215 (21.70%) React
17 214 (21.59%) Blazor
18 211 (21.29%) CSS
19 210 (21.19%) HTML
20 203 (20.48%) Entity Framework
20 203 (20.48%) Microservices
21 201 (20.28%) AI
22 197 (19.88%) Azure DevOps
23 192 (19.37%) TypeScript
23 192 (19.37%) Vue
24 191 (19.27%) RESTful
25 185 (18.67%) AngularJS
26 179 (18.06%) ASP.NET Web API
27 167 (16.85%) Docker
27 167 (16.85%) Multithreading

.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 (0.40%) IIS
1 4 (0.40%) NServiceBus
2 3 (0.30%) CMS
2 3 (0.30%) DNN
2 3 (0.30%) EPiServer
2 3 (0.30%) Immediacy CMS
2 3 (0.30%) Kentico
2 3 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (0.30%) Sitefinity
2 3 (0.30%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.10%) Sage 200
1 1 (0.10%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 603 (60.85%) Azure
2 197 (19.88%) Azure DevOps
3 155 (15.64%) Azure AI
3 155 (15.64%) GitHub
4 139 (14.03%) AWS
5 136 (13.72%) GitHub Copilot
6 68 (6.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 67 (6.76%) SaaS
8 24 (2.42%) Serverless
9 20 (2.02%) Azure Logic Apps
10 19 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
11 17 (1.72%) Azure Functions
11 17 (1.72%) Google Play
12 16 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (1.11%) PaaS
14 10 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (0.81%) Power Platform
16 7 (0.71%) Azure App Service
16 7 (0.71%) Entra ID
17 6 (0.61%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 60 (6.05%) Internet
2 7 (0.71%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.10%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 453 (45.71%) Azure SQL Database
2 410 (41.37%) MongoDB
3 153 (15.44%) Elasticsearch
4 102 (10.29%) SQL Server
5 15 (1.51%) MySQL
6 11 (1.11%) NonStop SQL
7 7 (0.71%) NoSQL
8 6 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.40%) Power BI
10 4 (0.40%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.30%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.30%) SQLite
12 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.20%) CouchDB
13 1 (0.10%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.10%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.10%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (2.62%) Git
2 7 (0.71%) JIRA
3 5 (0.50%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.30%) MSTest
4 3 (0.30%) NUnit
5 2 (0.20%) Postman
6 1 (0.10%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.10%) GitLab
6 1 (0.10%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.10%) JetBrains Rider
6 1 (0.10%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.10%) Vite
6 1 (0.10%) webpack
General
1 115 (11.60%) Finance
2 56 (5.65%) Advertising
3 55 (5.55%) Games
4 44 (4.44%) Marketing
5 33 (3.33%) Social Skills
6 29 (2.93%) Retail
7 14 (1.41%) Aerospace
8 11 (1.11%) Music Industry
9 10 (1.01%) Law
10 8 (0.81%) Automotive
11 7 (0.71%) Banking
12 6 (0.61%) Analytical Skills
12 6 (0.61%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.50%) Back Office
13 5 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.40%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.30%) Legal
15 3 (0.30%) Public Sector
16 1 (0.10%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.10%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 991 (100.00%) .NET
2 546 (55.10%) .NET Core
3 535 (53.99%) ASP.NET
4 491 (49.55%) ASP.NET Core
5 215 (21.70%) React
6 214 (21.59%) Blazor
7 211 (21.29%) CSS
8 210 (21.19%) HTML
9 203 (20.48%) Entity Framework
10 192 (19.37%) Vue
11 191 (19.27%) RESTful
12 185 (18.67%) AngularJS
13 179 (18.06%) ASP.NET Web API
14 154 (15.54%) ML.NET
15 147 (14.83%) Node.js
16 114 (11.50%) LINQ
17 106 (10.70%) .NET Framework
18 31 (3.13%) REST
19 30 (3.03%) WinForms
20 24 (2.42%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 101 (10.19%) Greenfield Project
2 46 (4.64%) Mobile App
3 45 (4.54%) Enterprise Software
4 20 (2.02%) Digital TV
5 17 (1.72%) BBC
5 17 (1.72%) iPhone
5 17 (1.72%) Social Media
6 14 (1.41%) Social Network
7 11 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.11%) Hedge funds
8 10 (1.01%) Cloud Native
9 9 (0.91%) Legacy Code
10 8 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (0.81%) PropTech
10 8 (0.81%) Sports Betting
11 6 (0.61%) Product Ownership
12 5 (0.50%) Tandem
13 4 (0.40%) IoT
14 3 (0.30%) Data Structures
15 2 (0.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.12%) Android
2 11 (1.11%) Windows
3 1 (0.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 614 (61.96%) Full-Stack Development
2 422 (42.58%) Agile
3 225 (22.70%) CI/CD
4 219 (22.10%) DevOps
5 203 (20.48%) Microservices
6 201 (20.28%) AI
7 167 (16.85%) Multithreading
8 160 (16.15%) Machine Learning
9 114 (11.50%) Software Engineering
10 94 (9.49%) Scrum
11 91 (9.18%) OO
12 88 (8.88%) TDD
13 68 (6.86%) BDD
14 67 (6.76%) Kanban
15 61 (6.16%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
16 55 (5.55%) SDLC
17 48 (4.84%) Problem-Solving
18 47 (4.74%) Analytics
19 46 (4.64%) MVC
20 42 (4.24%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 784 (79.11%) C#
2 541 (54.59%) SQL
3 232 (23.41%) JavaScript
4 192 (19.37%) TypeScript
5 16 (1.61%) VB.NET
6 15 (1.51%) Python
6 15 (1.51%) VB
7 14 (1.41%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.40%) C++
8 4 (0.40%) Kotlin
8 4 (0.40%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.30%) Bicep
10 2 (0.20%) Java
11 1 (0.10%) ABAP
11 1 (0.10%) Delphi
11 1 (0.10%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (3.73%) SC Cleared
1 37 (3.73%) Security Cleared
2 28 (2.83%) Degree
3 15 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (0.50%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.20%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.10%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (1.61%) QA
2 5 (0.50%) GDPR
3 4 (0.40%) Accessibility
System Software
1 167 (16.85%) Docker
2 3 (0.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 151 (15.24%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 517 (52.17%) Microsoft
2 60 (6.05%) Facebook
3 57 (5.75%) Google
4 21 (2.12%) YouTube
5 17 (1.72%) Apple
5 17 (1.72%) Sony
5 17 (1.72%) Yahoo!
6 13 (1.31%) Xamarin
7 8 (0.81%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.61%) Oracle
9 4 (0.40%) Sage
10 3 (0.30%) Alterian
10 3 (0.30%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.30%) SAP
10 3 (0.30%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.20%) iManage
11 2 (0.20%) OneLogin
12 1 (0.10%) Databricks
12 1 (0.10%) DevExpress
12 1 (0.10%) Veracode