.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 30 April 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 307 100
Rank change year-on-year -4 -207 +88
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 504 421 2,540
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.99% 2.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 1.12% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 460 380 2,435
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,450 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -1.71% -2.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -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 83,425 37,731 90,478
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.91% 89.01% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 53,614 23,379 66,680
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,860 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +9 462 £60,000 - 182
UK excluding London -10 393 £55,000 +4.76% 142
Work from Home -29 168 £55,000 - 162
North of England -35 133 £60,000 - 46
South East +15 114 £55,325 +5.38% 40
London -23 86 £83,000 +3.75% 53
North West -30 74 £60,000 +4.35% 26
Midlands -21 51 £52,500 - 15
Yorkshire -32 49 £60,000 - 9
South West -26 45 £50,000 -14.89% 11
East of England -34 32 £55,000 +3.77% 18
West Midlands -16 30 £50,000 -13.04% 8
East Midlands -40 21 £53,750 +7.50% 7
Scotland -34 12 £60,000 +84.62% 6
North East -30 10 £55,000 -12.00% 11
Wales -27 6 £45,000 -10.00% 3

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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.

1 504 (100.00%) .NET
2 298 (59.13%) C#
3 174 (34.52%) Full-Stack Development
4 171 (33.93%) Azure
5 140 (27.78%) .NET Core
6 127 (25.20%) SQL
7 112 (22.22%) Agile
8 92 (18.25%) ASP.NET
9 82 (16.27%) CI/CD
10 81 (16.07%) SaaS
11 79 (15.67%) Software Engineering
12 77 (15.28%) React
13 76 (15.08%) SQL Server
14 75 (14.88%) Microsoft
15 70 (13.89%) DevOps
15 70 (13.89%) Microservices
16 64 (12.70%) JavaScript
17 60 (11.90%) HTML
18 59 (11.71%) RESTful
19 57 (11.31%) ASP.NET Core
19 57 (11.31%) CSS
20 54 (10.71%) .NET Framework
20 54 (10.71%) AWS
21 49 (9.72%) AngularJS
22 48 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
22 48 (9.52%) Blazor
22 48 (9.52%) TypeScript
23 44 (8.73%) Docker
23 44 (8.73%) MVC
23 44 (8.73%) Vue

.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 2 (0.40%) IIS
1 2 (0.40%) NServiceBus
1 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.20%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 171 (33.93%) Azure
2 81 (16.07%) SaaS
3 54 (10.71%) AWS
4 48 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (7.14%) GitHub
6 34 (6.75%) Serverless
7 26 (5.16%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (3.97%) Azure Logic Apps
9 16 (3.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 15 (2.98%) Azure AI
11 14 (2.78%) Azure App Service
11 14 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
11 14 (2.78%) Entra ID
11 14 (2.78%) PaaS
12 12 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (2.38%) Amazon S3
12 12 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (2.38%) Azure Functions
13 11 (2.18%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (2.18%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.79%) Internet
2 2 (0.40%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.20%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (15.08%) SQL Server
2 39 (7.74%) Azure SQL Database
3 32 (6.35%) NoSQL
4 30 (5.95%) MongoDB
5 12 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.18%) DynamoDB
7 10 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.19%) MySQL
9 4 (0.79%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.40%) CouchDB
10 2 (0.40%) Power BI
10 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.20%) NonStop SQL
11 1 (0.20%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (6.55%) Git
2 6 (1.19%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.40%) JIRA
4 1 (0.20%) MSTest
4 1 (0.20%) NUnit
4 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.20%) Postman
4 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.20%) Vite
4 1 (0.20%) webpack
General
1 47 (9.33%) Finance
2 33 (6.55%) Social Skills
3 10 (1.98%) Games
3 10 (1.98%) Law
4 7 (1.39%) Manufacturing
5 6 (1.19%) Banking
6 5 (0.99%) Advertising
6 5 (0.99%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (0.99%) Back Office
7 3 (0.60%) Investment Banking
7 3 (0.60%) Legal
7 3 (0.60%) Marketing
8 2 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.40%) Front Office
8 2 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.40%) Retail
9 1 (0.20%) Automotive
9 1 (0.20%) iGaming
9 1 (0.20%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 504 (100.00%) .NET
2 140 (27.78%) .NET Core
3 92 (18.25%) ASP.NET
4 77 (15.28%) React
5 60 (11.90%) HTML
6 59 (11.71%) RESTful
7 57 (11.31%) ASP.NET Core
7 57 (11.31%) CSS
8 54 (10.71%) .NET Framework
9 49 (9.72%) AngularJS
10 48 (9.52%) Blazor
11 44 (8.73%) Vue
12 36 (7.14%) Entity Framework
13 26 (5.16%) ASP.NET Web API
14 24 (4.76%) REST
15 18 (3.57%) ASP.NET MVC
16 17 (3.37%) Razor View Engine
17 13 (2.58%) ML.NET
18 11 (2.18%) ASP.NET Web Forms
18 11 (2.18%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 40 (7.94%) Mobile App
2 19 (3.77%) Cloud Native
3 14 (2.78%) PropTech
4 12 (2.38%) Hedge funds
5 9 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (1.59%) Sports Betting
7 7 (1.39%) Legacy Code
7 7 (1.39%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.79%) Social Network
10 3 (0.60%) Digital TV
10 3 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.40%) BBC
11 2 (0.40%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.40%) Derivative
11 2 (0.40%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.40%) IoT
11 2 (0.40%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.99%) Windows
2 2 (0.40%) Android
2 2 (0.40%) VMS
3 1 (0.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (34.52%) Full-Stack Development
2 112 (22.22%) Agile
3 82 (16.27%) CI/CD
4 79 (15.67%) Software Engineering
5 70 (13.89%) DevOps
5 70 (13.89%) Microservices
6 44 (8.73%) MVC
7 41 (8.13%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (6.75%) AI
10 27 (5.36%) Clean Code
11 26 (5.16%) SDLC
12 25 (4.96%) TDD
13 23 (4.56%) Containerisation
13 23 (4.56%) Scrum
14 21 (4.17%) API Development
15 20 (3.97%) Front End Development
16 19 (3.77%) Mentoring
17 18 (3.57%) Machine Learning
17 18 (3.57%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 298 (59.13%) C#
2 127 (25.20%) SQL
3 64 (12.70%) JavaScript
4 48 (9.52%) TypeScript
5 11 (2.18%) VB
6 7 (1.39%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.60%) Bicep
7 3 (0.60%) Python
7 3 (0.60%) VB.NET
8 2 (0.40%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.20%) C++
9 1 (0.20%) Java
Qualifications
1 35 (6.94%) SC Cleared
1 35 (6.94%) Security Cleared
2 17 (3.37%) Degree
3 14 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (1.79%) AWS Certification
4 9 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
5 7 (1.39%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.20%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.17%) QA
2 4 (0.79%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 44 (8.73%) Docker
2 8 (1.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (3.77%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 75 (14.88%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.17%) Xamarin
3 6 (1.19%) OpenAI
4 5 (0.99%) Facebook
5 4 (0.79%) Google
5 4 (0.79%) Sage
6 3 (0.60%) Telerik
7 2 (0.40%) Apple
7 2 (0.40%) iManage
7 2 (0.40%) Sony
7 2 (0.40%) Yahoo!
8 1 (0.20%) Databricks
8 1 (0.20%) DevExpress
8 1 (0.20%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.20%) IBM
8 1 (0.20%) Infragistics
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle
8 1 (0.20%) Perforce
8 1 (0.20%) SAP
8 1 (0.20%) YouTube