.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 31 July 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 364 117
Rank change year-on-year +163 -247 +52
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 1,015 355 1,927
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.99% 0.72% 2.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 0.80% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 971 329 1,755
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,400 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £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 96,998 44,483 82,509
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 90.02% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 66,411 26,428 56,723
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +161 953 £55,000 -8.33% 189
UK excluding London +178 879 £55,000 - 143
Work from Home +154 638 £55,000 -4.35% 165
South East +136 279 £55,000 - 49
North of England +96 271 £55,000 -8.33% 44
London -25 122 £80,000 +6.67% 57
North West +47 116 £55,000 -8.33% 24
East of England +61 111 £60,000 +13.21% 24
Midlands +15 91 £55,000 +7.84% 17
Yorkshire +32 81 £55,000 -8.33% 13
South West -6 80 £52,500 +5.00% 8
North East +11 74 £55,000 -45.00% 9
West Midlands +8 53 £55,000 -4.35% 11
East Midlands +4 38 £52,500 +16.67% 6
Scotland +33 31 £55,000 +69.23% 2
Wales -44 16 £50,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 31 July 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 1,015 (100.00%) .NET
2 804 (79.21%) C#
3 615 (60.59%) Full-Stack Development
4 614 (60.49%) Azure
5 554 (54.58%) SQL
6 551 (54.29%) .NET Core
7 543 (53.50%) ASP.NET
8 529 (52.12%) Microsoft
9 493 (48.57%) ASP.NET Core
10 454 (44.73%) Azure SQL Database
11 423 (41.67%) Agile
12 413 (40.69%) MongoDB
13 234 (23.05%) JavaScript
14 231 (22.76%) DevOps
15 226 (22.27%) CI/CD
16 220 (21.67%) Blazor
17 214 (21.08%) CSS
17 214 (21.08%) React
18 213 (20.99%) HTML
19 207 (20.39%) AI
19 207 (20.39%) Entity Framework
20 206 (20.30%) Microservices
21 204 (20.10%) Azure DevOps
22 193 (19.01%) RESTful
23 192 (18.92%) TypeScript
24 191 (18.82%) Vue
25 184 (18.13%) AngularJS
26 180 (17.73%) ASP.NET Web API
27 174 (17.14%) Docker
28 169 (16.65%) 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 7 (0.69%) IIS
2 4 (0.39%) NServiceBus
3 3 (0.30%) CMS
3 3 (0.30%) DNN
3 3 (0.30%) EPiServer
3 3 (0.30%) Immediacy CMS
3 3 (0.30%) Kentico
3 3 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (0.30%) Sitefinity
3 3 (0.30%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.099%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.099%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.30%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.20%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.20%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.099%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.099%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 614 (60.49%) Azure
2 204 (20.10%) Azure DevOps
3 157 (15.47%) Azure AI
4 154 (15.17%) GitHub
5 146 (14.38%) AWS
6 139 (13.69%) GitHub Copilot
7 70 (6.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 66 (6.50%) SaaS
9 22 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
9 22 (2.17%) Serverless
10 17 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
10 17 (1.67%) Google Play
11 16 (1.58%) Azure Functions
12 13 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (0.99%) Power Platform
15 8 (0.79%) Anthropic Claude
15 8 (0.79%) Azure Key Vault
15 8 (0.79%) PaaS
16 5 (0.49%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 60 (5.91%) Internet
2 7 (0.69%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.099%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 454 (44.73%) Azure SQL Database
2 413 (40.69%) MongoDB
3 157 (15.47%) Elasticsearch
4 120 (11.82%) SQL Server
5 19 (1.87%) MySQL
6 14 (1.38%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.08%) NonStop SQL
8 7 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.49%) Power BI
11 4 (0.39%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.39%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.39%) SQLite
12 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.099%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.099%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.099%) CouchDB
13 1 (0.099%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.099%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.099%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (3.94%) Git
2 7 (0.69%) JIRA
3 6 (0.59%) Visual Studio
4 5 (0.49%) Claude Code
5 4 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.30%) MSTest
6 3 (0.30%) NUnit
7 2 (0.20%) Postman
7 2 (0.20%) Selenium
8 1 (0.099%) GitLab
8 1 (0.099%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.099%) JetBrains Rider
8 1 (0.099%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.099%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.099%) Vite
8 1 (0.099%) webpack
General
1 125 (12.32%) Finance
2 57 (5.62%) Advertising
3 54 (5.32%) Games
4 46 (4.53%) Marketing
5 45 (4.43%) Social Skills
6 32 (3.15%) Retail
7 14 (1.38%) Aerospace
8 12 (1.18%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (1.08%) Law
9 11 (1.08%) Music Industry
10 8 (0.79%) Automotive
10 8 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (0.69%) Banking
12 5 (0.49%) Back Office
13 4 (0.39%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.39%) Legal
13 4 (0.39%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.39%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.20%) Billing
15 1 (0.099%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,015 (100.00%) .NET
2 551 (54.29%) .NET Core
3 543 (53.50%) ASP.NET
4 493 (48.57%) ASP.NET Core
5 220 (21.67%) Blazor
6 214 (21.08%) CSS
6 214 (21.08%) React
7 213 (20.99%) HTML
8 207 (20.39%) Entity Framework
9 193 (19.01%) RESTful
10 191 (18.82%) Vue
11 184 (18.13%) AngularJS
12 180 (17.73%) ASP.NET Web API
13 156 (15.37%) ML.NET
14 147 (14.48%) Node.js
15 114 (11.23%) LINQ
16 112 (11.03%) .NET Framework
17 40 (3.94%) REST
18 36 (3.55%) WinForms
19 26 (2.56%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 101 (9.95%) Greenfield Project
2 48 (4.73%) Enterprise Software
3 45 (4.43%) Mobile App
4 20 (1.97%) Digital TV
5 17 (1.67%) BBC
5 17 (1.67%) iPhone
5 17 (1.67%) Social Media
6 14 (1.38%) Legacy Code
6 14 (1.38%) Social Network
7 12 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (0.99%) Cloud Native
8 10 (0.99%) Hedge funds
8 10 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (0.79%) Product Ownership
10 7 (0.69%) Sports Betting
11 6 (0.59%) PropTech
12 5 (0.49%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.49%) IoT
12 5 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.49%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.07%) Android
2 18 (1.77%) Windows
3 1 (0.099%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 615 (60.59%) Full-Stack Development
2 423 (41.67%) Agile
3 231 (22.76%) DevOps
4 226 (22.27%) CI/CD
5 207 (20.39%) AI
6 206 (20.30%) Microservices
7 169 (16.65%) Multithreading
8 161 (15.86%) Machine Learning
9 119 (11.72%) Software Engineering
10 97 (9.56%) OO
10 97 (9.56%) Scrum
11 92 (9.06%) TDD
12 68 (6.70%) BDD
13 67 (6.60%) Kanban
14 61 (6.01%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
15 60 (5.91%) SDLC
16 53 (5.22%) Problem-Solving
17 51 (5.02%) MVC
18 47 (4.63%) Analytics
19 46 (4.53%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 804 (79.21%) C#
2 554 (54.58%) SQL
3 234 (23.05%) JavaScript
4 192 (18.92%) TypeScript
5 24 (2.36%) VB.NET
6 20 (1.97%) T-SQL
7 15 (1.48%) Python
7 15 (1.48%) VB
8 5 (0.49%) C++
9 4 (0.39%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.39%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.20%) Bicep
10 2 (0.20%) Java
11 1 (0.099%) ABAP
11 1 (0.099%) C
11 1 (0.099%) Dart
11 1 (0.099%) Delphi
11 1 (0.099%) R
11 1 (0.099%) XPath
Qualifications
1 39 (3.84%) SC Cleared
1 39 (3.84%) Security Cleared
2 30 (2.96%) Degree
3 16 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (0.49%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.20%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.099%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.099%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.099%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.099%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (1.97%) QA
2 7 (0.69%) GDPR
3 4 (0.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 174 (17.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 155 (15.27%) Kubernetes
2 8 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 529 (52.12%) Microsoft
2 61 (6.01%) Facebook
3 58 (5.71%) Google
4 21 (2.07%) YouTube
5 17 (1.67%) Apple
5 17 (1.67%) Sony
5 17 (1.67%) Yahoo!
6 11 (1.08%) Xamarin
7 9 (0.89%) Oracle
8 8 (0.79%) OpenAI
9 7 (0.69%) Sage
10 5 (0.49%) SAP
11 3 (0.30%) Alterian
11 3 (0.30%) Optimizely
11 3 (0.30%) Sitecore
12 2 (0.20%) DevExpress
12 2 (0.20%) iManage
12 2 (0.20%) OneLogin
13 1 (0.099%) Alteryx
13 1 (0.099%) Infor