.NET Developer Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 March 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 261 94
Rank change year-on-year -77 -167 +88
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 402 529 2,386
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.17% 2.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 1.28% 3.05%
Number of salaries quoted 366 429 2,301
10th Percentile £45,000 £32,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,938 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,750 £87,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.50% -6.36% +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 66,107 41,309 78,203
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.65% 91.04% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 41,939 23,195 60,371
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.26% +9.00% -5.66%

.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 8 March 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 8 March 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 -65 367 £60,000 +4.35% 245
UK excluding London -51 300 £60,000 +16.50% 198
Work from Home -49 163 £60,000 +20.00% 205
North of England -31 109 £60,000 +20.00% 59
South East -7 85 £65,000 +23.81% 61
London -24 75 £80,000 -3.03% 74
North West -24 58 £65,000 +23.81% 33
Midlands -23 42 £50,000 -13.04% 22
Yorkshire -16 39 £60,000 +20.00% 17
South West -16 33 £50,000 -28.57% 27
West Midlands -9 23 £50,000 -13.04% 13
East of England -33 21 £55,000 +12.82% 19
East Midlands -22 19 £53,750 +2.38% 9
North East -8 12 £55,000 +22.22% 10
Wales -7 5 £45,000 -10.00% 4
Scotland -45 5 £55,000 +69.23% 6

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

For the 6 months to 8 March 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.

1 402 (100.00%) .NET
2 255 (63.43%) C#
3 166 (41.29%) Azure
4 161 (40.05%) Full-Stack Development
5 140 (34.83%) Agile
6 134 (33.33%) .NET Core
7 107 (26.62%) SQL
8 100 (24.88%) JavaScript
9 94 (23.38%) CI/CD
10 91 (22.64%) SQL Server
11 86 (21.39%) ASP.NET
11 86 (21.39%) React
12 81 (20.15%) Microservices
13 75 (18.66%) DevOps
14 74 (18.41%) Software Engineering
15 73 (18.16%) Microsoft
16 71 (17.66%) SaaS
17 68 (16.92%) .NET Framework
18 66 (16.42%) MVC
18 66 (16.42%) TypeScript
19 65 (16.17%) AWS
20 62 (15.42%) HTML
21 60 (14.93%) AngularJS
22 59 (14.68%) CSS
23 56 (13.93%) RESTful
24 50 (12.44%) Blazor
25 48 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
26 44 (10.95%) Azure DevOps
26 44 (10.95%) Git
26 44 (10.95%) Scrum

.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 (1.00%) CMS
1 4 (1.00%) IIS
2 2 (0.50%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.25%) Kentico
3 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 166 (41.29%) Azure
2 71 (17.66%) SaaS
3 65 (16.17%) AWS
4 44 (10.95%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (10.20%) Serverless
6 34 (8.46%) GitHub
7 31 (7.71%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (4.98%) Entra ID
9 18 (4.48%) Azure App Service
10 16 (3.98%) PaaS
11 13 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (3.23%) Amazon S3
11 13 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (2.99%) Amazon EventBridge
12 12 (2.99%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (2.99%) AWS Step Functions
13 11 (2.74%) Azure Service Bus
13 11 (2.74%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.24%) Internet
2 1 (0.25%) DNS
2 1 (0.25%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (22.64%) SQL Server
2 43 (10.70%) NoSQL
3 34 (8.46%) MongoDB
4 31 (7.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 13 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.99%) DynamoDB
7 11 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.24%) MySQL
8 5 (1.24%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.00%) Power BI
10 3 (0.75%) NonStop SQL
11 2 (0.50%) CouchDB
12 1 (0.25%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.25%) RavenDB
12 1 (0.25%) Redis
12 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 44 (10.95%) Git
2 10 (2.49%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.25%) Postman
3 1 (0.25%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.25%) Vite
3 1 (0.25%) webpack
General
1 57 (14.18%) Finance
2 47 (11.69%) Social Skills
3 9 (2.24%) Banking
4 7 (1.74%) Games
4 7 (1.74%) Law
4 7 (1.74%) Manufacturing
5 5 (1.24%) Front Office
5 5 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (1.00%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.00%) Electronics
6 4 (1.00%) Legal
7 3 (0.75%) Advertising
7 3 (0.75%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.25%) Back Office
9 1 (0.25%) iGaming
9 1 (0.25%) Marketing
9 1 (0.25%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.25%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 402 (100.00%) .NET
2 134 (33.33%) .NET Core
3 86 (21.39%) ASP.NET
3 86 (21.39%) React
4 68 (16.92%) .NET Framework
5 62 (15.42%) HTML
6 60 (14.93%) AngularJS
7 59 (14.68%) CSS
8 56 (13.93%) RESTful
9 50 (12.44%) Blazor
10 41 (10.20%) ASP.NET Core
11 40 (9.95%) ASP.NET Web API
11 40 (9.95%) Entity Framework
12 34 (8.46%) ASP.NET MVC
13 33 (8.21%) REST
14 32 (7.96%) Vue
15 21 (5.22%) Razor View Engine
16 17 (4.23%) ASP.NET Web Forms
17 15 (3.73%) HTML5
18 12 (2.99%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.21%) Mobile App
2 20 (4.98%) Cloud Native
3 11 (2.74%) Hedge funds
3 11 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (1.99%) PropTech
5 6 (1.49%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.49%) Sports Betting
6 5 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.00%) Digital TV
7 4 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.75%) Clustering
8 3 (0.75%) Fixed Income
8 3 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.50%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.50%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.50%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.50%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.24%) Android
2 4 (1.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.50%) Linux
4 1 (0.25%) VMS
4 1 (0.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (40.05%) Full-Stack Development
2 140 (34.83%) Agile
3 94 (23.38%) CI/CD
4 81 (20.15%) Microservices
5 75 (18.66%) DevOps
6 74 (18.41%) Software Engineering
7 66 (16.42%) MVC
8 48 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
9 44 (10.95%) Scrum
10 38 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (8.71%) Clean Code
12 31 (7.71%) AI
12 31 (7.71%) TDD
13 27 (6.72%) Roadmaps
14 26 (6.47%) Kanban
15 25 (6.22%) Containerisation
15 25 (6.22%) Mentoring
16 22 (5.47%) Code Quality
17 21 (5.22%) SDLC
18 20 (4.98%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 255 (63.43%) C#
2 107 (26.62%) SQL
3 100 (24.88%) JavaScript
4 66 (16.42%) TypeScript
5 4 (1.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.00%) T-SQL
5 4 (1.00%) XAML
6 3 (0.75%) Bicep
6 3 (0.75%) Erlang
6 3 (0.75%) VB
7 2 (0.50%) Java
7 2 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 23 (5.72%) Degree
2 18 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (2.74%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.49%) AWS Certification
4 10 (2.49%) AWS Certified Developer
5 6 (1.49%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.49%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.98%) QA
2 4 (1.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.25%) IFRS
3 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (9.20%) Docker
2 13 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (4.48%) Terraform
2 8 (1.99%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 73 (18.16%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.24%) Xamarin
3 4 (1.00%) Facebook
3 4 (1.00%) Telerik
4 3 (0.75%) OpenAI
4 3 (0.75%) YouTube
5 2 (0.50%) Google
5 2 (0.50%) Oracle
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe
6 1 (0.25%) Apple
6 1 (0.25%) Foundry
6 1 (0.25%) IBM
6 1 (0.25%) Infragistics
6 1 (0.25%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.25%) Okta
6 1 (0.25%) Perforce
6 1 (0.25%) Sage
6 1 (0.25%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.25%) Sony
6 1 (0.25%) Yahoo!