.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 1 January 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 242 131
Rank change year-on-year -101 -111 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 338 685 1,269
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.24% 2.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 1.33% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 309 523 1,192
10th Percentile £44,750 £33,800 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £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 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £112,750 £87,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +4.76%

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 53,514 51,440 48,883
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.46% 93.14% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 32,905 27,168 37,760
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,956 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 1 January 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 1 January 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 -69 310 £63,500 +10.43% 248
UK excluding London -95 232 £60,000 +14.29% 197
Work from Home -59 163 £70,000 +27.27% 228
London -24 83 £75,000 -3.23% 74
South East +22 79 £70,000 +29.63% 67
North of England -38 74 £60,000 +9.09% 54
North West -23 43 £60,000 +4.35% 37
Midlands -25 33 £50,000 -13.04% 23
South West -26 26 £50,750 -15.42% 17
Yorkshire -15 23 £60,000 +14.29% 11
West Midlands -8 19 £50,000 -13.04% 11
East Midlands -28 14 £52,250 -0.48% 12
East of England -38 10 £60,000 +20.00% 19
North East -2 8 £50,000 +5.26% 6
Wales +1 6 £45,000 -10.00% 6
Scotland -58 4 £55,000 +22.22% 10

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

For the 6 months to 1 January 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.

1 338 (100.00%) .NET
2 228 (67.46%) C#
3 196 (57.99%) Azure
4 166 (49.11%) Agile
5 133 (39.35%) Full-Stack Development
6 131 (38.76%) .NET Core
7 130 (38.46%) JavaScript
8 127 (37.57%) SQL
9 105 (31.07%) CI/CD
10 99 (29.29%) ASP.NET
10 99 (29.29%) Microservices
11 97 (28.70%) SQL Server
12 92 (27.22%) TypeScript
13 90 (26.63%) React
14 89 (26.33%) MVC
15 88 (26.04%) AWS
16 86 (25.44%) DevOps
17 84 (24.85%) .NET Framework
17 84 (24.85%) Microsoft
18 73 (21.60%) SaaS
19 71 (21.01%) AngularJS
20 68 (20.12%) Software Engineering
21 67 (19.82%) RESTful
22 66 (19.53%) HTML
23 62 (18.34%) ASP.NET Web API
24 60 (17.75%) ASP.NET MVC
25 59 (17.46%) Scrum
26 58 (17.16%) CSS
27 57 (16.86%) Entity Framework
27 57 (16.86%) 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 7 (2.07%) CMS
2 5 (1.48%) Confluence
2 5 (1.48%) IIS
3 1 (0.30%) Kentico
3 1 (0.30%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.30%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.59%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.30%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.30%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.30%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 196 (57.99%) Azure
2 88 (26.04%) AWS
3 73 (21.60%) SaaS
4 48 (14.20%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (13.91%) Serverless
6 35 (10.36%) GitHub
7 31 (9.17%) GCP
8 30 (8.88%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (5.62%) Azure App Service
10 18 (5.33%) Entra ID
11 17 (5.03%) PaaS
12 14 (4.14%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (3.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (3.55%) Amazon EventBridge
13 12 (3.55%) Amazon S3
13 12 (3.55%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (3.55%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (3.55%) AWS Step Functions
14 11 (3.25%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.89%) Internet
2 1 (0.30%) DNS
2 1 (0.30%) HTTP
2 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (28.70%) SQL Server
2 51 (15.09%) NoSQL
3 47 (13.91%) MongoDB
4 45 (13.31%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (5.33%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (3.55%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.37%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.07%) MySQL
10 6 (1.78%) NonStop SQL
11 5 (1.48%) 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 57 (16.86%) Git
2 13 (3.85%) Visual Studio
3 7 (2.07%) JIRA
4 3 (0.89%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.89%) JMeter
4 3 (0.89%) Postman
4 3 (0.89%) Selenium
4 3 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.59%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.59%) NUnit
6 1 (0.30%) GitLab
6 1 (0.30%) MSTest
6 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.30%) Sourcetree
6 1 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 69 (20.41%) Finance
2 64 (18.93%) Social Skills
3 9 (2.66%) Front Office
4 8 (2.37%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.07%) Banking
5 7 (2.07%) Retail
6 6 (1.78%) Advertising
6 6 (1.78%) Games
7 5 (1.48%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.18%) Back Office
8 4 (1.18%) Electronics
8 4 (1.18%) Legal
9 3 (0.89%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.89%) Law
10 2 (0.59%) 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
1 338 (100.00%) .NET
2 131 (38.76%) .NET Core
3 99 (29.29%) ASP.NET
4 90 (26.63%) React
5 84 (24.85%) .NET Framework
6 71 (21.01%) AngularJS
7 67 (19.82%) RESTful
8 66 (19.53%) HTML
9 62 (18.34%) ASP.NET Web API
10 60 (17.75%) ASP.NET MVC
11 58 (17.16%) CSS
12 57 (16.86%) Entity Framework
13 51 (15.09%) Blazor
14 37 (10.95%) Vue
15 34 (10.06%) REST
16 33 (9.76%) ASP.NET Core
17 22 (6.51%) Node.js
18 21 (6.21%) Razor View Engine
19 20 (5.92%) ASP.NET Web Forms
19 20 (5.92%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.10%) Mobile App
3 15 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (1.78%) Digital TV
6 6 (1.78%) PropTech
7 5 (1.48%) Clustering
8 4 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.18%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.18%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.89%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.89%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.59%) Derivative
10 2 (0.59%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.59%) Online Games
10 2 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.78%) Android
1 6 (1.78%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.18%) Linux
3 1 (0.30%) VMS
3 1 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (49.11%) Agile
2 133 (39.35%) Full-Stack Development
3 105 (31.07%) CI/CD
4 99 (29.29%) Microservices
5 89 (26.33%) MVC
6 86 (25.44%) DevOps
7 68 (20.12%) Software Engineering
8 59 (17.46%) Scrum
9 50 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
9 50 (14.79%) Roadmaps
10 47 (13.91%) AI
11 46 (13.61%) TDD
12 43 (12.72%) Continuous Improvement
13 42 (12.43%) Clean Code
14 39 (11.54%) Kanban
15 32 (9.47%) Business Strategy
16 30 (8.88%) Front End Development
17 27 (7.99%) Mentoring
18 26 (7.69%) Containerisation
19 25 (7.40%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 228 (67.46%) C#
2 130 (38.46%) JavaScript
3 127 (37.57%) SQL
4 92 (27.22%) TypeScript
5 5 (1.48%) PowerShell
5 5 (1.48%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.18%) XAML
7 3 (0.89%) Erlang
8 2 (0.59%) 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 (8.58%) Degree
2 22 (6.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.85%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.96%) AWS Certification
4 10 (2.96%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.30%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.28%) QA
2 8 (2.37%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.89%) WCAG
4 2 (0.59%) GDPR
5 1 (0.30%) HL7
5 1 (0.30%) IFRS
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (10.95%) Docker
2 15 (4.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (5.62%) Terraform
2 10 (2.96%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 84 (24.85%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.37%) Xamarin
3 6 (1.78%) Facebook
3 6 (1.78%) YouTube
4 4 (1.18%) Dynatrace
4 4 (1.18%) Oracle
4 4 (1.18%) Telerik
5 2 (0.59%) Adobe
5 2 (0.59%) 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