.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 30 September 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 398 134
Rank change year-on-year +174 -264 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 986 309 1,413
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.84% 0.63% 1.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 0.70% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 943 290 1,164
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,625 £37,325
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £82,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £118,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,250
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.80% +4.09%

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 109,655 44,258 71,074
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 89.76% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 74,828 25,506 41,262
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
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 30 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 30 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 +165 927 £55,000 -15.38% 204
UK excluding London +164 864 £55,000 -8.33% 148
Work from Home +129 605 £55,000 -15.38% 146
South East +133 296 £55,000 -26.67% 37
North of England +84 258 £55,000 -8.33% 42
London -56 113 £75,000 - 62
East of England +62 111 £60,000 +4.35% 21
North West +20 109 £55,000 -8.33% 17
Midlands +1 88 £55,000 +10.00% 28
North East +8 84 £55,000 -45.00% 9
Yorkshire +14 65 £50,000 -16.67% 17
South West -34 63 £55,000 +10.00% 6
West Midlands -19 49 £55,000 +10.00% 19
East Midlands -7 39 £52,500 +55.56% 9
Scotland +49 33 £60,000 +41.18% 8
Wales -58 18 £52,500 +14.75% 4

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 986 (100.00%) .NET
2 795 (80.63%) C#
3 617 (62.58%) Azure
4 565 (57.30%) Full-Stack Development
5 554 (56.19%) ASP.NET
6 548 (55.58%) .NET Core
7 541 (54.87%) Microsoft
8 539 (54.67%) SQL
9 489 (49.59%) ASP.NET Core
10 437 (44.32%) Azure SQL Database
11 407 (41.28%) Agile
12 398 (40.37%) MongoDB
13 254 (25.76%) JavaScript
14 242 (24.54%) DevOps
15 230 (23.33%) CI/CD
16 222 (22.52%) Blazor
17 219 (22.21%) Entity Framework
17 219 (22.21%) React
18 218 (22.11%) Azure DevOps
19 215 (21.81%) CSS
20 213 (21.60%) HTML
21 203 (20.59%) AI
22 195 (19.78%) Microservices
23 189 (19.17%) RESTful
24 184 (18.66%) TypeScript
25 183 (18.56%) ASP.NET Web API
25 183 (18.56%) Vue
26 179 (18.15%) AngularJS
27 165 (16.73%) Docker
28 160 (16.23%) 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 22 (2.23%) IIS
2 6 (0.61%) CMS
2 6 (0.61%) Umbraco
3 4 (0.41%) Kentico
4 3 (0.30%) DNN
4 3 (0.30%) EPiServer
4 3 (0.30%) Immediacy CMS
4 3 (0.30%) NServiceBus
4 3 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.30%) Sitefinity
5 1 (0.10%) Apache
5 1 (0.10%) Confluence
5 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.71%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.51%) Elite 3E
2 3 (0.30%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.30%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.10%) Endur
3 1 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 617 (62.58%) Azure
2 218 (22.11%) Azure DevOps
3 150 (15.21%) Azure AI
4 147 (14.91%) GitHub
5 135 (13.69%) GitHub Copilot
6 133 (13.49%) AWS
7 68 (6.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 44 (4.46%) SaaS
9 26 (2.64%) Azure Service Bus
10 22 (2.23%) Serverless
11 21 (2.13%) Power Platform
12 17 (1.72%) Azure Functions
12 17 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
12 17 (1.72%) Google Play
13 13 (1.32%) Azure Key Vault
13 13 (1.32%) Azure Logic Apps
14 10 (1.01%) Power Automate
15 9 (0.91%) Anthropic Claude
15 9 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (0.91%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 60 (6.09%) Internet
2 6 (0.61%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.10%) Broadband
3 1 (0.10%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 437 (44.32%) Azure SQL Database
2 398 (40.37%) MongoDB
3 160 (16.23%) SQL Server
4 157 (15.92%) Elasticsearch
5 38 (3.85%) Relational Database
6 28 (2.84%) MySQL
7 11 (1.12%) NonStop SQL
7 11 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (0.81%) Power BI
8 8 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.51%) SQLite
10 4 (0.41%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.20%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.20%) Redis
12 1 (0.10%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Ignite
12 1 (0.10%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 61 (6.19%) Git
2 15 (1.52%) Claude Code
3 13 (1.32%) Oracle Forms
3 13 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
4 8 (0.81%) JIRA
5 7 (0.71%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.20%) MSTest
6 2 (0.20%) NUnit
6 2 (0.20%) Postman
6 2 (0.20%) Selenium
6 2 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.10%) GitLab
7 1 (0.10%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.10%) JetBrains Rider
7 1 (0.10%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 124 (12.58%) Finance
2 77 (7.81%) Social Skills
3 54 (5.48%) Advertising
4 49 (4.97%) Games
5 43 (4.36%) Marketing
6 36 (3.65%) Retail
7 33 (3.35%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.42%) Aerospace
10 12 (1.22%) Law
11 11 (1.12%) Music Industry
12 8 (0.81%) Automotive
13 7 (0.71%) Billing
14 6 (0.61%) Public Sector
15 5 (0.51%) Back Office
15 5 (0.51%) Banking
16 4 (0.41%) Front Office
16 4 (0.41%) Legal
17 3 (0.30%) Investment Banking
17 3 (0.30%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 986 (100.00%) .NET
2 554 (56.19%) ASP.NET
3 548 (55.58%) .NET Core
4 489 (49.59%) ASP.NET Core
5 222 (22.52%) Blazor
6 219 (22.21%) Entity Framework
6 219 (22.21%) React
7 215 (21.81%) CSS
8 213 (21.60%) HTML
9 189 (19.17%) RESTful
10 183 (18.56%) ASP.NET Web API
10 183 (18.56%) Vue
11 179 (18.15%) AngularJS
12 148 (15.01%) ML.NET
13 142 (14.40%) Node.js
14 134 (13.59%) .NET Framework
15 113 (11.46%) LINQ
16 69 (7.00%) REST
17 38 (3.85%) WinForms
18 29 (2.94%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 101 (10.24%) Greenfield Project
2 56 (5.68%) Enterprise Software
3 40 (4.06%) Mobile App
4 19 (1.93%) Digital TV
4 19 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (1.72%) iPhone
6 16 (1.62%) BBC
6 16 (1.62%) Social Media
7 15 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.42%) Legacy Code
8 14 (1.42%) Product Ownership
9 12 (1.22%) Cloud Native
9 12 (1.22%) Social Network
10 10 (1.01%) Data Structures
11 6 (0.61%) Hedge funds
11 6 (0.61%) IoT
12 5 (0.51%) Onboarding
12 5 (0.51%) Robotics
12 5 (0.51%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.04%) Windows
2 21 (2.13%) Android
3 4 (0.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 565 (57.30%) Full-Stack Development
2 407 (41.28%) Agile
3 242 (24.54%) DevOps
4 230 (23.33%) CI/CD
5 203 (20.59%) AI
6 195 (19.78%) Microservices
7 160 (16.23%) Multithreading
8 150 (15.21%) Machine Learning
9 110 (11.16%) Software Engineering
10 98 (9.94%) Scrum
11 95 (9.63%) OO
12 91 (9.23%) TDD
13 81 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
14 66 (6.69%) BDD
15 63 (6.39%) Kanban
15 63 (6.39%) SDLC
16 60 (6.09%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
16 60 (6.09%) MVC
17 50 (5.07%) Continuous Improvement
17 50 (5.07%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 795 (80.63%) C#
2 539 (54.67%) SQL
3 254 (25.76%) JavaScript
4 184 (18.66%) TypeScript
5 35 (3.55%) VB.NET
6 26 (2.64%) Python
7 24 (2.43%) T-SQL
8 19 (1.93%) VB
9 4 (0.41%) C++
9 4 (0.41%) Java
9 4 (0.41%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.41%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.41%) VBA
10 3 (0.30%) VBScript
11 2 (0.20%) C
11 2 (0.20%) Dart
11 2 (0.20%) XPath
12 1 (0.10%) Bicep
12 1 (0.10%) Delphi
12 1 (0.10%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (3.14%) Degree
2 28 (2.84%) Security Cleared
3 27 (2.74%) SC Cleared
4 15 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (0.51%) 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 26 (2.64%) QA
2 8 (0.81%) GDPR
3 5 (0.51%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.41%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.20%) Basel III
System Software
1 165 (16.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 147 (14.91%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 541 (54.87%) Microsoft
2 58 (5.88%) Facebook
3 57 (5.78%) Google
4 21 (2.13%) YouTube
5 20 (2.03%) Oracle
6 16 (1.62%) Apple
6 16 (1.62%) Sony
6 16 (1.62%) Yahoo!
7 8 (0.81%) Xamarin
8 6 (0.61%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.61%) Sage
9 5 (0.51%) 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