.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 1 September 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 378 130
Rank change year-on-year +163 -248 +22
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 1,004 330 1,610
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.91% 0.66% 1.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 0.73% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 963 305 1,400
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £80,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,600 £100,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%

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 103,099 44,902 77,500
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 89.81% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 70,871 26,693 49,456
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 September 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 September 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 +153 947 £55,000 -8.33% 305
UK excluding London +189 881 £55,000 -4.35% 197
Work from Home +141 626 £55,000 -9.84% 211
South East +145 303 £55,000 -8.33% 64
North of England +81 255 £55,000 -8.33% 58
London -49 113 £75,000 - 130
East of England +73 112 £60,000 +4.35% 28
North West +21 101 £55,000 -8.33% 34
Midlands +16 91 £55,000 +10.00% 23
North East +5 78 £55,000 -45.00% 14
Yorkshire +21 76 £50,000 -16.67% 10
South West -24 73 £53,750 +7.50% 14
West Midlands +5 52 £55,000 +10.00% 13
East Midlands +11 39 £53,750 +26.47% 9
Scotland +26 31 £55,000 +22.22% 5
Wales -52 16 £50,000 +9.29% 4

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

For the 6 months to 1 September 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 1,004 (100.00%) .NET
2 803 (79.98%) C#
3 625 (62.25%) Azure
4 590 (58.76%) Full-Stack Development
5 561 (55.88%) ASP.NET
6 556 (55.38%) SQL
7 555 (55.28%) .NET Core
8 548 (54.58%) Microsoft
9 503 (50.10%) ASP.NET Core
10 454 (45.22%) Azure SQL Database
11 415 (41.33%) Agile
12 413 (41.14%) MongoDB
13 242 (24.10%) DevOps
14 241 (24.00%) JavaScript
15 227 (22.61%) CI/CD
16 226 (22.51%) Blazor
17 219 (21.81%) Azure DevOps
17 219 (21.81%) CSS
18 217 (21.61%) HTML
19 216 (21.51%) Entity Framework
20 214 (21.31%) React
21 209 (20.82%) AI
22 202 (20.12%) Microservices
23 195 (19.42%) RESTful
24 186 (18.53%) Vue
25 185 (18.43%) ASP.NET Web API
25 185 (18.43%) TypeScript
26 177 (17.63%) AngularJS
27 175 (17.43%) Docker
28 169 (16.83%) Multithreading

.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 16 (1.59%) IIS
2 3 (0.30%) CMS
2 3 (0.30%) DNN
2 3 (0.30%) EPiServer
2 3 (0.30%) Immediacy CMS
2 3 (0.30%) Kentico
2 3 (0.30%) NServiceBus
2 3 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (0.30%) Sitefinity
2 3 (0.30%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.100%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.100%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.70%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Elite 3E
2 3 (0.30%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.30%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.100%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.100%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 625 (62.25%) Azure
2 219 (21.81%) Azure DevOps
3 157 (15.64%) Azure AI
4 154 (15.34%) GitHub
5 140 (13.94%) GitHub Copilot
6 137 (13.65%) AWS
7 71 (7.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 55 (5.48%) SaaS
9 25 (2.49%) Azure Service Bus
10 21 (2.09%) Serverless
11 18 (1.79%) Power Platform
12 17 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
12 17 (1.69%) Google Play
13 16 (1.59%) Azure Functions
13 16 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (1.20%) Azure Key Vault
15 10 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (0.80%) Anthropic Claude
17 7 (0.70%) Power Automate
17 7 (0.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 61 (6.08%) Internet
2 7 (0.70%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.100%) Broadband
3 1 (0.100%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 454 (45.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 413 (41.14%) MongoDB
3 161 (16.04%) Elasticsearch
4 148 (14.74%) SQL Server
5 27 (2.69%) Relational Database
6 25 (2.49%) MySQL
7 11 (1.10%) NonStop SQL
8 10 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (0.70%) Power BI
9 7 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.50%) SQLite
11 4 (0.40%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.30%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
14 1 (0.100%) Amazon RDS
14 1 (0.100%) Couchbase
14 1 (0.100%) RDBMS
14 1 (0.100%) SAP BW
14 1 (0.100%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 55 (5.48%) Git
2 11 (1.10%) Claude Code
3 10 (1.00%) Oracle Forms
3 10 (1.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (0.70%) JIRA
5 6 (0.60%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.30%) MSTest
6 3 (0.30%) NUnit
7 2 (0.20%) Postman
7 2 (0.20%) Selenium
8 1 (0.100%) GitLab
8 1 (0.100%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.100%) JetBrains Rider
8 1 (0.100%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.100%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 130 (12.95%) Finance
2 66 (6.57%) Social Skills
3 57 (5.68%) Advertising
4 52 (5.18%) Games
5 46 (4.58%) Marketing
6 36 (3.59%) Retail
7 26 (2.59%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.39%) Aerospace
10 12 (1.20%) Law
11 11 (1.10%) Music Industry
12 8 (0.80%) Automotive
13 7 (0.70%) Public Sector
14 5 (0.50%) Back Office
14 5 (0.50%) Banking
14 5 (0.50%) Billing
15 4 (0.40%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.30%) Legal
16 3 (0.30%) Manufacturing
17 2 (0.20%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,004 (100.00%) .NET
2 561 (55.88%) ASP.NET
3 555 (55.28%) .NET Core
4 503 (50.10%) ASP.NET Core
5 226 (22.51%) Blazor
6 219 (21.81%) CSS
7 217 (21.61%) HTML
8 216 (21.51%) Entity Framework
9 214 (21.31%) React
10 195 (19.42%) RESTful
11 186 (18.53%) Vue
12 185 (18.43%) ASP.NET Web API
13 177 (17.63%) AngularJS
14 156 (15.54%) ML.NET
15 147 (14.64%) Node.js
16 119 (11.85%) .NET Framework
17 114 (11.35%) LINQ
18 55 (5.48%) REST
19 37 (3.69%) WinForms
20 27 (2.69%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 101 (10.06%) Greenfield Project
2 49 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
3 44 (4.38%) Mobile App
4 20 (1.99%) Digital TV
5 17 (1.69%) BBC
5 17 (1.69%) iPhone
5 17 (1.69%) Social Media
6 15 (1.49%) Legacy Code
6 15 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (1.39%) Social Network
8 13 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.10%) Product Ownership
10 10 (1.00%) Cloud Native
11 9 (0.90%) Data Structures
12 7 (0.70%) Hedge funds
13 6 (0.60%) IoT
13 6 (0.60%) PropTech
14 5 (0.50%) Tandem
15 4 (0.40%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.39%) Windows
2 21 (2.09%) Android
3 1 (0.100%) VMS
3 1 (0.100%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 590 (58.76%) Full-Stack Development
2 415 (41.33%) Agile
3 242 (24.10%) DevOps
4 227 (22.61%) CI/CD
5 209 (20.82%) AI
6 202 (20.12%) Microservices
7 169 (16.83%) Multithreading
8 159 (15.84%) Machine Learning
9 111 (11.06%) Software Engineering
10 99 (9.86%) OO
11 98 (9.76%) Scrum
12 92 (9.16%) TDD
13 71 (7.07%) Problem-Solving
14 68 (6.77%) BDD
15 65 (6.47%) Kanban
16 64 (6.37%) SDLC
17 61 (6.08%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
17 61 (6.08%) MVC
18 52 (5.18%) Continuous Improvement
19 46 (4.58%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 803 (79.98%) C#
2 556 (55.38%) SQL
3 241 (24.00%) JavaScript
4 185 (18.43%) TypeScript
5 32 (3.19%) VB.NET
6 23 (2.29%) T-SQL
7 18 (1.79%) Python
8 15 (1.49%) VB
9 5 (0.50%) C++
10 4 (0.40%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.40%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.30%) VBA
11 3 (0.30%) VBScript
12 2 (0.20%) C
12 2 (0.20%) Dart
12 2 (0.20%) Java
12 2 (0.20%) XPath
13 1 (0.100%) Bicep
13 1 (0.100%) Delphi
13 1 (0.100%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (3.88%) Security Cleared
2 38 (3.78%) SC Cleared
3 31 (3.09%) Degree
4 17 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (0.50%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.30%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.100%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.100%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.100%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.49%) QA
2 8 (0.80%) GDPR
3 5 (0.50%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.100%) Basel III
4 1 (0.100%) Data Quality
System Software
1 175 (17.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 156 (15.54%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 548 (54.58%) Microsoft
2 61 (6.08%) Facebook
3 58 (5.78%) Google
4 21 (2.09%) YouTube
5 17 (1.69%) Apple
5 17 (1.69%) Sony
5 17 (1.69%) Yahoo!
6 16 (1.59%) Oracle
7 10 (1.00%) Xamarin
8 8 (0.80%) Sage
9 6 (0.60%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.50%) SAP
11 3 (0.30%) Alterian
11 3 (0.30%) DevExpress
11 3 (0.30%) Optimizely
11 3 (0.30%) Sitecore
12 2 (0.20%) iManage
12 2 (0.20%) OneLogin
12 2 (0.20%) Telerik
13 1 (0.100%) IBM