.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 20 October 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 136 144
Rank change year-on-year -257 +8 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 294 1,307 1,289
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.60% 1.89% 2.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 1.98% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 274 1,070 1,195
10th Percentile £43,750 £36,225 £42,050
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £80,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +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 43,834 65,924 53,780
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.78% 95.35% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 25,839 37,667 41,567
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,254 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -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 20 October 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 20 October 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 -221 281 £65,000 +13.04% 398
Work from Home -123 194 £65,000 +18.18% 352
UK excluding London -243 186 £60,000 +9.09% 315
London -41 93 £75,000 +7.14% 115
North of England -147 68 £60,000 +9.09% 86
South East -101 55 £77,500 +29.17% 121
North West -79 46 £60,000 +4.35% 59
Midlands -103 26 £50,000 -9.09% 36
South West -21 21 £49,500 -13.91% 19
West Midlands -36 18 £52,500 -4.55% 20
East of England -52 13 £57,500 +15.00% 44
Yorkshire -61 13 £70,000 +27.27% 17
North East -37 9 £65,000 +8.33% 12
East Midlands -48 8 £27,500 -50.00% 15
Scotland -97 2 £42,500 -17.48% 6
Wales -8 1 £41,500 -30.83% 4

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

For the 6 months to 20 October 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.

1 294 (100.00%) .NET
2 239 (81.29%) C#
3 191 (64.97%) Azure
4 163 (55.44%) Agile
5 140 (47.62%) JavaScript
6 125 (42.52%) SQL
7 116 (39.46%) .NET Core
8 108 (36.73%) Full-Stack Development
9 107 (36.39%) Microservices
10 99 (33.67%) SQL Server
11 96 (32.65%) ASP.NET
12 95 (32.31%) AWS
13 94 (31.97%) Microsoft
14 90 (30.61%) TypeScript
15 87 (29.59%) CI/CD
16 86 (29.25%) MVC
17 79 (26.87%) HTML
18 78 (26.53%) .NET Framework
18 78 (26.53%) DevOps
19 77 (26.19%) AngularJS
20 69 (23.47%) React
21 68 (23.13%) CSS
22 66 (22.45%) ASP.NET Web API
22 66 (22.45%) MongoDB
23 61 (20.75%) Software Engineering
24 59 (20.07%) Entity Framework
24 59 (20.07%) Git
25 58 (19.73%) RESTful
26 56 (19.05%) ASP.NET MVC
26 56 (19.05%) Roadmaps

.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 13 (4.42%) CMS
2 12 (4.08%) Confluence
2 12 (4.08%) IIS
3 1 (0.34%) Kentico
3 1 (0.34%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.34%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (1.02%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Carpe Diem
1 2 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.68%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.34%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.34%) Magento
2 1 (0.34%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (0.34%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 191 (64.97%) Azure
2 95 (32.31%) AWS
3 55 (18.71%) SaaS
4 34 (11.56%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (10.88%) GCP
6 25 (8.50%) Serverless
7 21 (7.14%) GitHub
8 16 (5.44%) Azure Service Bus
9 12 (4.08%) Azure App Service
10 11 (3.74%) Entra ID
11 10 (3.40%) Azure Functions
11 10 (3.40%) Power Platform
12 9 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (3.06%) PaaS
13 8 (2.72%) Power Automate
14 7 (2.38%) PowerApps
15 6 (2.04%) Cloudflare
16 5 (1.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 5 (1.70%) Azure Logic Apps
17 3 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.36%) Internet
2 1 (0.34%) HTTP
2 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (33.67%) SQL Server
2 66 (22.45%) MongoDB
3 48 (16.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 30 (10.20%) Elasticsearch
4 30 (10.20%) NoSQL
5 16 (5.44%) MySQL
6 12 (4.08%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.38%) NonStop SQL
8 4 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.36%) Power BI
9 3 (1.02%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.02%) Redis
10 1 (0.34%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.34%) RavenDB
10 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 59 (20.07%) Git
2 16 (5.44%) JIRA
3 10 (3.40%) NUnit
4 7 (2.38%) TeamCity
4 7 (2.38%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.70%) Jasmine
5 5 (1.70%) Postman
6 4 (1.36%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.36%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.36%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (1.02%) JMeter
7 3 (1.02%) Selenium
7 3 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.68%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.68%) MSTest
8 2 (0.68%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.34%) Crucible
9 1 (0.34%) GitLab
9 1 (0.34%) Sourcetree
9 1 (0.34%) Subversion
General
1 69 (23.47%) Finance
2 44 (14.97%) Social Skills
3 16 (5.44%) Front Office
4 11 (3.74%) Games
4 11 (3.74%) Retail
5 8 (2.72%) Back Office
5 8 (2.72%) Banking
5 8 (2.72%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.38%) Advertising
6 7 (2.38%) Law
6 7 (2.38%) Legal
7 5 (1.70%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.70%) Marketing
8 3 (1.02%) Automotive
8 3 (1.02%) Electronics
9 2 (0.68%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.34%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 294 (100.00%) .NET
2 116 (39.46%) .NET Core
3 96 (32.65%) ASP.NET
4 79 (26.87%) HTML
5 78 (26.53%) .NET Framework
6 77 (26.19%) AngularJS
7 69 (23.47%) React
8 68 (23.13%) CSS
9 66 (22.45%) ASP.NET Web API
10 59 (20.07%) Entity Framework
11 58 (19.73%) RESTful
12 56 (19.05%) ASP.NET MVC
13 43 (14.63%) Vue
14 40 (13.61%) Blazor
15 37 (12.59%) REST
16 35 (11.90%) HTML5
17 29 (9.86%) Node.js
18 23 (7.82%) Web Services
19 22 (7.48%) ASP.NET Core
20 19 (6.46%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.44%) Legacy Systems
2 15 (5.10%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.08%) Mobile App
4 11 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.06%) Clustering
6 8 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.38%) Digital TV
7 7 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.38%) Online Games
8 6 (2.04%) BYOD
8 6 (2.04%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.70%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.36%) Hedge funds
11 3 (1.02%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.68%) Fixed Income
12 2 (0.68%) IoT
12 2 (0.68%) NHS
12 2 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.04%) Android
1 6 (2.04%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.70%) Windows
3 3 (1.02%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (55.44%) Agile
2 108 (36.73%) Full-Stack Development
3 107 (36.39%) Microservices
4 87 (29.59%) CI/CD
5 86 (29.25%) MVC
6 78 (26.53%) DevOps
7 61 (20.75%) Software Engineering
8 56 (19.05%) Roadmaps
8 56 (19.05%) Scrum
9 50 (17.01%) TDD
10 46 (15.65%) AI
11 43 (14.63%) Kanban
12 42 (14.29%) Design Patterns
13 40 (13.61%) Continuous Improvement
14 35 (11.90%) Clean Code
15 31 (10.54%) Problem-Solving
16 30 (10.20%) Business Strategy
17 29 (9.86%) BDD
18 27 (9.18%) Mentoring
19 21 (7.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 239 (81.29%) C#
2 140 (47.62%) JavaScript
3 125 (42.52%) SQL
4 90 (30.61%) TypeScript
5 6 (2.04%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.36%) Python
6 4 (1.36%) VB.NET
7 3 (1.02%) Erlang
7 3 (1.02%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.02%) XAML
8 2 (0.68%) Bicep
9 1 (0.34%) Java
9 1 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 24 (8.16%) Degree
2 17 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.38%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.34%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.14%) QA
2 4 (1.36%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.02%) WCAG
4 2 (0.68%) GDPR
5 1 (0.34%) HL7
5 1 (0.34%) IFRS
System Software
1 27 (9.18%) Docker
2 9 (3.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (5.78%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 94 (31.97%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.38%) Facebook
2 7 (2.38%) Trayport
2 7 (2.38%) YouTube
3 6 (2.04%) Rollbar
4 5 (1.70%) Splunk
5 4 (1.36%) Oracle
5 4 (1.36%) Xamarin
6 3 (1.02%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.68%) Intapp
7 2 (0.68%) Sybase
8 1 (0.34%) Adobe
8 1 (0.34%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.34%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.34%) Okta
8 1 (0.34%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.34%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.34%) SAP