.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 4 September 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 388 128
Rank change year-on-year +174 -260 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 1,000 318 1,578
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.91% 0.65% 1.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 0.72% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 960 296 1,370
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £80,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,200 £110,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%

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 103,497 43,997 75,693
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.82% 89.68% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 71,228 25,950 47,905
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,169 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £74,258 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,159
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 4 September 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 4 September 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 +171 942 £55,000 -12.00% 304
UK excluding London +191 877 £55,000 -4.35% 190
Work from Home +132 625 £55,000 -15.38% 266
South East +142 302 £55,000 -15.38% 58
North of England +81 254 £55,000 -8.33% 59
East of England +68 113 £60,000 +4.35% 27
London -46 113 £75,000 - 135
North West +24 103 £55,000 -8.33% 33
Midlands +24 90 £55,000 +10.00% 21
North East +2 78 £55,000 -45.00% 15
Yorkshire +17 73 £50,000 -16.67% 12
South West -25 70 £55,000 +10.00% 16
West Midlands +3 51 £55,000 +10.00% 12
East Midlands -1 39 £53,750 +3.37% 8
Scotland +36 32 £57,500 +27.78% 5
Wales -57 16 £50,000 +9.29% 4

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

For the 6 months to 4 September 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 1,000 (100.00%) .NET
2 801 (80.10%) C#
3 624 (62.40%) Azure
4 591 (59.10%) Full-Stack Development
5 562 (56.20%) ASP.NET
6 557 (55.70%) .NET Core
6 557 (55.70%) SQL
7 548 (54.80%) Microsoft
8 502 (50.20%) ASP.NET Core
9 455 (45.50%) Azure SQL Database
10 415 (41.50%) Agile
11 413 (41.30%) MongoDB
12 245 (24.50%) JavaScript
13 243 (24.30%) DevOps
14 227 (22.70%) Blazor
14 227 (22.70%) CI/CD
15 223 (22.30%) CSS
16 221 (22.10%) HTML
17 220 (22.00%) Azure DevOps
18 217 (21.70%) Entity Framework
19 216 (21.60%) React
20 210 (21.00%) AI
21 202 (20.20%) Microservices
22 195 (19.50%) RESTful
23 188 (18.80%) Vue
24 187 (18.70%) TypeScript
25 186 (18.60%) ASP.NET Web API
26 179 (17.90%) AngularJS
27 174 (17.40%) Docker
28 168 (16.80%) 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 18 (1.80%) IIS
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%) NServiceBus
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 7 (0.70%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Elite 3E
2 3 (0.30%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.30%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 624 (62.40%) Azure
2 220 (22.00%) Azure DevOps
3 158 (15.80%) Azure AI
4 154 (15.40%) GitHub
5 140 (14.00%) GitHub Copilot
6 137 (13.70%) AWS
7 71 (7.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 51 (5.10%) SaaS
9 25 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
10 22 (2.20%) Serverless
11 20 (2.00%) Power Platform
12 17 (1.70%) Azure Functions
12 17 (1.70%) Azure Monitor
12 17 (1.70%) Google Play
13 16 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (1.20%) Azure Key Vault
15 10 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (0.80%) Anthropic Claude
16 8 (0.80%) Power Automate
16 8 (0.80%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 61 (6.10%) Internet
2 7 (0.70%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.10%) Broadband
3 1 (0.10%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 455 (45.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 413 (41.30%) MongoDB
3 161 (16.10%) Elasticsearch
4 151 (15.10%) SQL Server
5 30 (3.00%) Relational Database
6 26 (2.60%) MySQL
7 11 (1.10%) NonStop SQL
8 10 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (0.80%) Power BI
9 8 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.50%) SQLite
11 4 (0.40%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.30%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
14 1 (0.10%) Amazon RDS
14 1 (0.10%) Couchbase
14 1 (0.10%) RDBMS
14 1 (0.10%) SAP BW
14 1 (0.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (5.60%) Git
2 12 (1.20%) Claude Code
3 11 (1.10%) Oracle Forms
3 11 (1.10%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (0.70%) JIRA
5 6 (0.60%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.30%) MSTest
6 3 (0.30%) NUnit
7 2 (0.20%) Postman
7 2 (0.20%) Selenium
8 1 (0.10%) GitLab
8 1 (0.10%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.10%) JetBrains Rider
8 1 (0.10%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 129 (12.90%) Finance
2 69 (6.90%) Social Skills
3 57 (5.70%) Advertising
4 52 (5.20%) Games
5 46 (4.60%) Marketing
6 36 (3.60%) Retail
7 28 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.40%) Aerospace
10 12 (1.20%) Law
11 11 (1.10%) Music Industry
12 8 (0.80%) Automotive
13 7 (0.70%) Public Sector
14 6 (0.60%) Billing
15 5 (0.50%) Back Office
15 5 (0.50%) Banking
16 4 (0.40%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.40%) Legal
17 3 (0.30%) Manufacturing
18 2 (0.20%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,000 (100.00%) .NET
2 562 (56.20%) ASP.NET
3 557 (55.70%) .NET Core
4 502 (50.20%) ASP.NET Core
5 227 (22.70%) Blazor
6 223 (22.30%) CSS
7 221 (22.10%) HTML
8 217 (21.70%) Entity Framework
9 216 (21.60%) React
10 195 (19.50%) RESTful
11 188 (18.80%) Vue
12 186 (18.60%) ASP.NET Web API
13 179 (17.90%) AngularJS
14 156 (15.60%) ML.NET
15 147 (14.70%) Node.js
16 121 (12.10%) .NET Framework
17 114 (11.40%) LINQ
18 56 (5.60%) REST
19 36 (3.60%) WinForms
20 26 (2.60%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 102 (10.20%) Greenfield Project
2 49 (4.90%) Enterprise Software
3 43 (4.30%) Mobile App
4 20 (2.00%) Digital TV
5 17 (1.70%) BBC
5 17 (1.70%) iPhone
5 17 (1.70%) Social Media
6 16 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (1.50%) Legacy Code
8 14 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (1.40%) Social Network
9 13 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.10%) Product Ownership
11 10 (1.00%) Cloud Native
12 9 (0.90%) Data Structures
13 7 (0.70%) Hedge funds
14 6 (0.60%) IoT
14 6 (0.60%) PropTech
15 5 (0.50%) Tandem
16 4 (0.40%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.50%) Windows
2 21 (2.10%) Android
3 2 (0.20%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 591 (59.10%) Full-Stack Development
2 415 (41.50%) Agile
3 243 (24.30%) DevOps
4 227 (22.70%) CI/CD
5 210 (21.00%) AI
6 202 (20.20%) Microservices
7 168 (16.80%) Multithreading
8 159 (15.90%) Machine Learning
9 109 (10.90%) Software Engineering
10 99 (9.90%) OO
11 98 (9.80%) Scrum
12 92 (9.20%) TDD
13 73 (7.30%) Problem-Solving
14 68 (6.80%) BDD
15 65 (6.50%) Kanban
16 64 (6.40%) SDLC
17 61 (6.10%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
17 61 (6.10%) MVC
18 52 (5.20%) Continuous Improvement
19 47 (4.70%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 801 (80.10%) C#
2 557 (55.70%) SQL
3 245 (24.50%) JavaScript
4 187 (18.70%) TypeScript
5 33 (3.30%) VB.NET
6 23 (2.30%) T-SQL
7 19 (1.90%) Python
8 15 (1.50%) VB
9 5 (0.50%) C++
10 4 (0.40%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.40%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.40%) VBA
11 3 (0.30%) Java
11 3 (0.30%) VBScript
12 2 (0.20%) C
12 2 (0.20%) Dart
12 2 (0.20%) XPath
13 1 (0.10%) ABAP
13 1 (0.10%) Delphi
13 1 (0.10%) R
Qualifications
1 38 (3.80%) Security Cleared
2 37 (3.70%) SC Cleared
3 31 (3.10%) Degree
4 16 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (0.50%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.30%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.10%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.50%) QA
2 8 (0.80%) GDPR
3 5 (0.50%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.20%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.10%) Basel III
System Software
1 174 (17.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 155 (15.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 548 (54.80%) Microsoft
2 61 (6.10%) Facebook
3 58 (5.80%) Google
4 21 (2.10%) YouTube
5 17 (1.70%) Apple
5 17 (1.70%) Oracle
5 17 (1.70%) Sony
5 17 (1.70%) Yahoo!
6 10 (1.00%) Xamarin
7 7 (0.70%) Sage
8 6 (0.60%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.50%) SAP
10 3 (0.30%) Alterian
10 3 (0.30%) DevExpress
10 3 (0.30%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.30%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.20%) iManage
11 2 (0.20%) OneLogin
11 2 (0.20%) Telerik
12 1 (0.10%) IBM