.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 19 June 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 350 87
Rank change year-on-year +128 -263 +90
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 825 365 3,011
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.88% 0.81% 2.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.91% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 783 336 2,827
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,000 £95,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,875 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.09% -2.05% -

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 88,240 40,152 103,220
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 89.52% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 60,505 22,772 74,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,869 £38,620
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

.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 19 June 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 19 June 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 +117 777 £55,000 -8.33% 169
UK excluding London +143 702 £55,000 +2.09% 131
Work from Home +118 447 £55,000 -4.35% 161
North of England +79 224 £55,000 -8.33% 42
South East +97 212 £55,000 - 45
North West +45 111 £55,000 - 23
London -33 107 £80,000 - 56
Midlands +35 87 £55,000 +10.00% 12
East of England +36 83 £60,000 +13.21% 17
South West -10 66 £52,500 +5.00% 8
Yorkshire +9 62 £57,500 -4.17% 8
West Midlands +16 51 £55,000 +2.33% 8
North East +2 51 £55,000 -45.00% 11
East Midlands 0 36 £52,500 +16.67% 4
Scotland +17 21 £55,000 +69.23% 5
Wales -39 9 £50,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 19 June 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.

1 825 (100.00%) .NET
2 607 (73.58%) C#
3 458 (55.52%) Full-Stack Development
4 443 (53.70%) Azure
5 396 (48.00%) .NET Core
6 392 (47.52%) SQL
7 359 (43.52%) ASP.NET
8 344 (41.70%) Microsoft
9 328 (39.76%) ASP.NET Core
10 303 (36.73%) Agile
11 298 (36.12%) Azure SQL Database
12 268 (32.48%) MongoDB
13 178 (21.58%) CI/CD
14 166 (20.12%) DevOps
15 164 (19.88%) JavaScript
15 164 (19.88%) React
16 161 (19.52%) CSS
17 160 (19.39%) HTML
18 148 (17.94%) AI
18 148 (17.94%) Blazor
19 142 (17.21%) Azure DevOps
20 140 (16.97%) Microservices
21 139 (16.85%) Entity Framework
21 139 (16.85%) RESTful
22 137 (16.61%) AngularJS
22 137 (16.61%) Vue
23 130 (15.76%) TypeScript
24 118 (14.30%) ASP.NET Web API
25 114 (13.82%) Multithreading
26 110 (13.33%) Docker

.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 (0.48%) NServiceBus
2 2 (0.24%) IIS
2 2 (0.24%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.12%) CMS
3 1 (0.12%) DNN
3 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
3 1 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
3 1 (0.12%) Kentico
3 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.12%) Sitefinity
3 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.12%) Sage 200
1 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 443 (53.70%) Azure
2 142 (17.21%) Azure DevOps
3 105 (12.73%) Azure AI
4 103 (12.48%) GitHub
5 102 (12.36%) AWS
6 83 (10.06%) GitHub Copilot
7 76 (9.21%) SaaS
8 50 (6.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 25 (3.03%) Serverless
10 20 (2.42%) Azure Logic Apps
11 19 (2.30%) Azure Functions
12 16 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
14 13 (1.58%) Google Play
15 11 (1.33%) PaaS
16 8 (0.97%) Azure App Service
16 8 (0.97%) Entra ID
16 8 (0.97%) Power Platform
17 6 (0.73%) Anthropic Claude
17 6 (0.73%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 44 (5.33%) Internet
2 7 (0.85%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 298 (36.12%) Azure SQL Database
2 268 (32.48%) MongoDB
3 95 (11.52%) Elasticsearch
4 88 (10.67%) SQL Server
5 13 (1.58%) MySQL
6 8 (0.97%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.73%) NonStop SQL
7 6 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.48%) Power BI
9 3 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.24%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.24%) CouchDB
10 2 (0.24%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.24%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.24%) SQLite
11 1 (0.12%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (2.18%) Git
2 7 (0.85%) JIRA
3 3 (0.36%) MSTest
3 3 (0.36%) NUnit
3 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.24%) Postman
5 1 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.12%) Vite
5 1 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 83 (10.06%) Finance
2 38 (4.61%) Games
3 37 (4.48%) Advertising
4 27 (3.27%) Marketing
5 25 (3.03%) Social Skills
6 17 (2.06%) Retail
7 10 (1.21%) Law
8 9 (1.09%) Aerospace
9 8 (0.97%) Automotive
9 8 (0.97%) Banking
9 8 (0.97%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.73%) Music Industry
11 5 (0.61%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (0.61%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.48%) Back Office
13 3 (0.36%) Legal
14 2 (0.24%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.12%) iGaming
15 1 (0.12%) Local Government
15 1 (0.12%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 825 (100.00%) .NET
2 396 (48.00%) .NET Core
3 359 (43.52%) ASP.NET
4 328 (39.76%) ASP.NET Core
5 164 (19.88%) React
6 161 (19.52%) CSS
7 160 (19.39%) HTML
8 148 (17.94%) Blazor
9 139 (16.85%) Entity Framework
9 139 (16.85%) RESTful
10 137 (16.61%) AngularJS
10 137 (16.61%) Vue
11 118 (14.30%) ASP.NET Web API
12 104 (12.61%) ML.NET
13 94 (11.39%) Node.js
14 76 (9.21%) LINQ
15 74 (8.97%) .NET Framework
16 25 (3.03%) WinForms
17 22 (2.67%) REST
18 20 (2.42%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 71 (8.61%) Greenfield Project
2 52 (6.30%) Mobile App
3 29 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (1.70%) Digital TV
5 13 (1.58%) iPhone
5 13 (1.58%) Social Network
6 12 (1.45%) BBC
6 12 (1.45%) PropTech
6 12 (1.45%) Social Media
7 10 (1.21%) Hedge funds
8 9 (1.09%) Legacy Code
9 8 (0.97%) Cloud Native
9 8 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (0.97%) Sports Betting
10 7 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (0.61%) Product Ownership
12 3 (0.36%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.36%) IoT
12 3 (0.36%) Tandem
13 2 (0.24%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.94%) Android
2 10 (1.21%) Windows
3 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (55.52%) Full-Stack Development
2 303 (36.73%) Agile
3 178 (21.58%) CI/CD
4 166 (20.12%) DevOps
5 148 (17.94%) AI
6 140 (16.97%) Microservices
7 114 (13.82%) Multithreading
8 110 (13.33%) Machine Learning
9 104 (12.61%) Software Engineering
10 68 (8.24%) OO
11 60 (7.27%) TDD
12 58 (7.03%) Scrum
13 51 (6.18%) SDLC
14 46 (5.58%) Problem-Solving
15 45 (5.45%) Continuous Improvement
16 44 (5.33%) Kanban
17 41 (4.97%) Analytics
17 41 (4.97%) BDD
18 38 (4.61%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
19 29 (3.52%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 607 (73.58%) C#
2 392 (47.52%) SQL
3 164 (19.88%) JavaScript
4 130 (15.76%) TypeScript
5 15 (1.82%) Python
5 15 (1.82%) VB
6 14 (1.70%) VB.NET
7 12 (1.45%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.48%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.36%) Bicep
10 2 (0.24%) C++
10 2 (0.24%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.12%) ABAP
11 1 (0.12%) Delphi
11 1 (0.12%) Java
11 1 (0.12%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (4.48%) SC Cleared
1 37 (4.48%) Security Cleared
2 27 (3.27%) Degree
3 15 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (0.61%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.24%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.12%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (1.21%) QA
2 5 (0.61%) GDPR
3 2 (0.24%) Accessibility
System Software
1 110 (13.33%) Docker
2 3 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 97 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.73%) Terraform
Vendors
1 344 (41.70%) Microsoft
2 41 (4.97%) Facebook
3 34 (4.12%) Google
4 16 (1.94%) Xamarin
5 14 (1.70%) YouTube
6 12 (1.45%) Apple
6 12 (1.45%) Sony
6 12 (1.45%) Yahoo!
7 8 (0.97%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.61%) Oracle
9 4 (0.48%) Sage
10 3 (0.36%) SAP
11 2 (0.24%) IBM
11 2 (0.24%) iManage
11 2 (0.24%) OneLogin
12 1 (0.12%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.12%) Databricks
12 1 (0.12%) DevExpress
12 1 (0.12%) Optimizely
12 1 (0.12%) Sitecore