.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 February 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 263 91
Rank change year-on-year -80 -172 +87
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 370 584 2,287
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.19% 3.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 1.30% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 343 442 2,204
10th Percentile £45,000 £32,625 £39,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £44,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,219 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,250
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 62,593 44,758 70,993
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.28% 91.51% 94.81%
Number of salaries quoted 39,515 23,479 55,477
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,250
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 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 February 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 20 February 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 -59 339 £65,000 +13.04% 227
UK excluding London -86 270 £60,000 +14.29% 188
Work from Home -45 168 £66,250 +28.64% 186
North of England -34 89 £60,000 +4.35% 59
South East -10 87 £70,000 +33.33% 56
London -2 75 £80,000 -7.25% 61
North West -32 49 £60,000 - 36
Midlands -25 42 £50,000 -11.11% 17
Yorkshire -26 28 £60,000 +20.00% 14
South West -38 23 £55,000 -8.33% 23
West Midlands -1 22 £50,000 -13.04% 11
East Midlands -25 20 £52,500 - 6
East of England -36 20 £55,000 +10.00% 21
North East -11 12 £55,000 +22.22% 9
Wales -5 5 £45,000 -40.00% 5
Scotland -55 4 £55,000 +69.23% 8

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

For the 6 months to 20 February 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.

1 370 (100.00%) .NET
2 233 (62.97%) C#
3 176 (47.57%) Azure
4 152 (41.08%) Agile
5 148 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 129 (34.86%) .NET Core
7 112 (30.27%) JavaScript
8 107 (28.92%) SQL
9 94 (25.41%) CI/CD
10 90 (24.32%) React
10 90 (24.32%) SQL Server
11 87 (23.51%) ASP.NET
12 82 (22.16%) Microservices
13 78 (21.08%) DevOps
13 78 (21.08%) TypeScript
14 74 (20.00%) SaaS
15 73 (19.73%) AWS
16 72 (19.46%) Software Engineering
17 71 (19.19%) Microsoft
18 69 (18.65%) MVC
19 68 (18.38%) .NET Framework
20 59 (15.95%) HTML
21 58 (15.68%) AngularJS
22 57 (15.41%) CSS
22 57 (15.41%) RESTful
23 49 (13.24%) Git
24 48 (12.97%) Azure DevOps
25 47 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
26 46 (12.43%) Blazor
27 45 (12.16%) NoSQL

.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 5 (1.35%) CMS
1 5 (1.35%) IIS
2 1 (0.27%) Confluence
2 1 (0.27%) Kentico
2 1 (0.27%) NServiceBus
2 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.27%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 176 (47.57%) Azure
2 74 (20.00%) SaaS
3 73 (19.73%) AWS
4 48 (12.97%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (11.89%) Serverless
6 36 (9.73%) GitHub
7 32 (8.65%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (6.49%) GCP
9 20 (5.41%) Entra ID
10 19 (5.14%) Azure App Service
11 16 (4.32%) PaaS
12 13 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (3.51%) Amazon S3
12 13 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (3.24%) Amazon EventBridge
13 12 (3.24%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (3.24%) AWS Step Functions
14 11 (2.97%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (2.97%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.35%) Internet
2 1 (0.27%) DNS
2 1 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (24.32%) SQL Server
2 45 (12.16%) NoSQL
3 34 (9.19%) MongoDB
4 32 (8.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 15 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.24%) DynamoDB
7 11 (2.97%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.35%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.08%) MySQL
9 4 (1.08%) Power BI
10 3 (0.81%) NonStop SQL
11 2 (0.54%) CouchDB
12 1 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.27%) RavenDB
12 1 (0.27%) Redis
12 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 49 (13.24%) Git
2 11 (2.97%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.54%) Postman
4 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.27%) JIRA
4 1 (0.27%) JMeter
4 1 (0.27%) Selenium
4 1 (0.27%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.27%) Vite
4 1 (0.27%) webpack
General
1 64 (17.30%) Finance
2 52 (14.05%) Social Skills
3 8 (2.16%) Banking
4 7 (1.89%) Games
4 7 (1.89%) Manufacturing
5 6 (1.62%) Front Office
5 6 (1.62%) Legal
6 5 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (1.35%) Law
6 5 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.08%) Electronics
8 3 (0.81%) Advertising
8 3 (0.81%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.54%) Back Office
9 2 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.54%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.54%) Retail
10 1 (0.27%) iGaming
10 1 (0.27%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 370 (100.00%) .NET
2 129 (34.86%) .NET Core
3 90 (24.32%) React
4 87 (23.51%) ASP.NET
5 68 (18.38%) .NET Framework
6 59 (15.95%) HTML
7 58 (15.68%) AngularJS
8 57 (15.41%) CSS
8 57 (15.41%) RESTful
9 46 (12.43%) Blazor
10 43 (11.62%) ASP.NET Web API
11 42 (11.35%) ASP.NET Core
12 41 (11.08%) Entity Framework
13 38 (10.27%) ASP.NET MVC
14 32 (8.65%) REST
15 30 (8.11%) Vue
16 22 (5.95%) Razor View Engine
17 19 (5.14%) ASP.NET Web Forms
18 14 (3.78%) HTML5
19 12 (3.24%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.30%) Mobile App
2 20 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 11 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (2.70%) Hedge funds
5 8 (2.16%) PropTech
6 6 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.35%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.35%) Sports Betting
8 4 (1.08%) Digital TV
8 4 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.81%) Clustering
9 3 (0.81%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.54%) IoT
10 2 (0.54%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.54%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.54%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.35%) Android
2 4 (1.08%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.08%) Linux
3 1 (0.27%) VMS
3 1 (0.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (41.08%) Agile
2 148 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 94 (25.41%) CI/CD
4 82 (22.16%) Microservices
5 78 (21.08%) DevOps
6 72 (19.46%) Software Engineering
7 69 (18.65%) MVC
8 47 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
9 44 (11.89%) Scrum
10 43 (11.62%) AI
11 39 (10.54%) Roadmaps
12 38 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (9.46%) Clean Code
14 31 (8.38%) TDD
15 27 (7.30%) Kanban
16 26 (7.03%) Business Strategy
16 26 (7.03%) Mentoring
17 24 (6.49%) Containerisation
17 24 (6.49%) Front End Development
18 21 (5.68%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 233 (62.97%) C#
2 112 (30.27%) JavaScript
3 107 (28.92%) SQL
4 78 (21.08%) TypeScript
5 5 (1.35%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.08%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.08%) XAML
7 3 (0.81%) Erlang
7 3 (0.81%) VB
8 2 (0.54%) Bicep
8 2 (0.54%) Java
8 2 (0.54%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 24 (6.49%) Degree
2 19 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.51%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.70%) AWS Certification
4 10 (2.70%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.68%) QA
2 5 (1.35%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.27%) IFRS
3 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (10.27%) Docker
2 15 (4.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (5.14%) Terraform
2 9 (2.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 71 (19.19%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.43%) Xamarin
3 4 (1.08%) Facebook
3 4 (1.08%) Telerik
4 3 (0.81%) YouTube
5 2 (0.54%) Dynatrace
5 2 (0.54%) Google
5 2 (0.54%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.54%) Oracle
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe
6 1 (0.27%) Apple
6 1 (0.27%) Foundry
6 1 (0.27%) IBM
6 1 (0.27%) Infragistics
6 1 (0.27%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.27%) Okta
6 1 (0.27%) Perforce
6 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.27%) Sony
6 1 (0.27%) Yahoo!