.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 26 August 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 361 130
Rank change year-on-year +149 -231 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 1,008 342 1,666
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.93% 0.68% 2.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 0.76% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 965 317 1,472
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £48,250
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 £80,000 £100,000 £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 102,340 44,909 79,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 89.86% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 70,155 26,648 51,912
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £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 £74,775 £72,429
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 26 August 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 26 August 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 +152 951 £55,000 -8.33% 69
UK excluding London +185 888 £55,000 - 50
Work from Home +143 625 £55,000 -8.33% 52
South East +140 302 £55,000 -8.33% 18
North of England +81 261 £55,000 -8.33% 14
East of England +65 112 £60,000 +4.35% 7
London -57 111 £75,000 - 19
North West +33 105 £55,000 -8.33% 3
Midlands +22 91 £55,000 +10.00% 8
Yorkshire +27 81 £50,000 -16.67% 7
North East +1 75 £55,000 -45.00% 6
South West -21 75 £52,500 +5.00% 1
West Midlands -3 52 £55,000 +2.33% 4
East Midlands +11 39 £53,750 +26.47% 3
Scotland +33 31 £55,000 +22.22% 2
Wales -46 16 £50,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 26 August 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 1,008 (100.00%) .NET
2 797 (79.07%) C#
3 622 (61.71%) Azure
4 594 (58.93%) Full-Stack Development
5 559 (55.46%) ASP.NET
6 552 (54.76%) SQL
7 549 (54.46%) .NET Core
8 543 (53.87%) Microsoft
9 501 (49.70%) ASP.NET Core
10 454 (45.04%) Azure SQL Database
11 413 (40.97%) Agile
11 413 (40.97%) MongoDB
12 240 (23.81%) DevOps
13 238 (23.61%) JavaScript
14 225 (22.32%) Blazor
15 224 (22.22%) CI/CD
16 218 (21.63%) Azure DevOps
17 217 (21.53%) CSS
18 215 (21.33%) HTML
19 213 (21.13%) React
20 212 (21.03%) Entity Framework
21 209 (20.73%) AI
22 204 (20.24%) Microservices
23 192 (19.05%) RESTful
24 188 (18.65%) Vue
25 184 (18.25%) ASP.NET Web API
25 184 (18.25%) TypeScript
26 177 (17.56%) AngularJS
27 175 (17.36%) Docker
28 169 (16.77%) 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 13 (1.29%) 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 (0.099%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.099%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.60%) 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 (0.099%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.099%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 622 (61.71%) Azure
2 218 (21.63%) Azure DevOps
3 157 (15.58%) Azure AI
4 154 (15.28%) GitHub
5 140 (13.89%) GitHub Copilot
6 137 (13.59%) AWS
7 72 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 58 (5.75%) SaaS
9 25 (2.48%) Azure Service Bus
10 21 (2.08%) Serverless
11 17 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
11 17 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
11 17 (1.69%) Google Play
11 17 (1.69%) Power Platform
12 16 (1.59%) Azure Functions
13 12 (1.19%) Azure Key Vault
14 10 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (0.79%) Anthropic Claude
16 7 (0.69%) PaaS
17 6 (0.60%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 61 (6.05%) Internet
2 7 (0.69%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.099%) Broadband
3 1 (0.099%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 454 (45.04%) Azure SQL Database
2 413 (40.97%) MongoDB
3 161 (15.97%) Elasticsearch
4 141 (13.99%) SQL Server
5 25 (2.48%) MySQL
5 25 (2.48%) Relational Database
6 11 (1.09%) NonStop SQL
7 9 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (0.69%) Power BI
8 7 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.50%) SQLite
10 4 (0.40%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.30%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.099%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.099%) Couchbase
13 1 (0.099%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.099%) SAP BW
13 1 (0.099%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 54 (5.36%) Git
2 10 (0.99%) Claude Code
3 9 (0.89%) Oracle Forms
3 9 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (0.69%) 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 (0.099%) 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
General
1 127 (12.60%) Finance
2 63 (6.25%) Social Skills
3 57 (5.65%) Advertising
4 52 (5.16%) Games
5 46 (4.56%) Marketing
6 36 (3.57%) Retail
7 23 (2.28%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (1.39%) Aerospace
9 13 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.29%) Law
10 11 (1.09%) Music Industry
11 8 (0.79%) Automotive
12 7 (0.69%) Public Sector
13 5 (0.50%) Back Office
13 5 (0.50%) Banking
13 5 (0.50%) Billing
14 4 (0.40%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.30%) Legal
15 3 (0.30%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.20%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,008 (100.00%) .NET
2 559 (55.46%) ASP.NET
3 549 (54.46%) .NET Core
4 501 (49.70%) ASP.NET Core
5 225 (22.32%) Blazor
6 217 (21.53%) CSS
7 215 (21.33%) HTML
8 213 (21.13%) React
9 212 (21.03%) Entity Framework
10 192 (19.05%) RESTful
11 188 (18.65%) Vue
12 184 (18.25%) ASP.NET Web API
13 177 (17.56%) AngularJS
14 156 (15.48%) ML.NET
15 147 (14.58%) Node.js
16 116 (11.51%) .NET Framework
17 114 (11.31%) LINQ
18 50 (4.96%) REST
19 37 (3.67%) WinForms
20 27 (2.68%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 101 (10.02%) Greenfield Project
2 48 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 45 (4.46%) Mobile App
4 20 (1.98%) Digital TV
5 17 (1.69%) BBC
5 17 (1.69%) iPhone
5 17 (1.69%) Social Media
6 15 (1.49%) Legacy Code
7 14 (1.39%) Social Network
8 13 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (0.99%) Product Ownership
11 9 (0.89%) Cloud Native
12 7 (0.69%) Data Structures
13 6 (0.60%) Hedge funds
13 6 (0.60%) IoT
13 6 (0.60%) PropTech
14 5 (0.50%) Sports Betting
14 5 (0.50%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.18%) Windows
2 21 (2.08%) Android
3 1 (0.099%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 594 (58.93%) Full-Stack Development
2 413 (40.97%) Agile
3 240 (23.81%) DevOps
4 224 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 209 (20.73%) AI
6 204 (20.24%) Microservices
7 169 (16.77%) Multithreading
8 160 (15.87%) Machine Learning
9 110 (10.91%) Software Engineering
10 98 (9.72%) Scrum
11 97 (9.62%) OO
12 92 (9.13%) TDD
13 68 (6.75%) BDD
14 66 (6.55%) Problem-Solving
15 65 (6.45%) Kanban
15 65 (6.45%) SDLC
16 61 (6.05%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
17 60 (5.95%) MVC
18 53 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
19 44 (4.37%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 797 (79.07%) C#
2 552 (54.76%) SQL
3 238 (23.61%) JavaScript
4 184 (18.25%) TypeScript
5 31 (3.08%) VB.NET
6 23 (2.28%) T-SQL
7 16 (1.59%) Python
8 15 (1.49%) VB
9 5 (0.50%) C++
10 4 (0.40%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.40%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.20%) Bicep
11 2 (0.20%) C
11 2 (0.20%) Dart
11 2 (0.20%) Java
11 2 (0.20%) VBA
11 2 (0.20%) VBScript
11 2 (0.20%) XPath
12 1 (0.099%) ABAP
12 1 (0.099%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 43 (4.27%) Security Cleared
2 42 (4.17%) SC Cleared
3 31 (3.08%) 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 (0.099%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.099%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.099%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.48%) QA
2 8 (0.79%) GDPR
3 5 (0.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 175 (17.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 156 (15.48%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 543 (53.87%) Microsoft
2 61 (6.05%) Facebook
3 58 (5.75%) Google
4 21 (2.08%) YouTube
5 17 (1.69%) Apple
5 17 (1.69%) Sony
5 17 (1.69%) Yahoo!
6 15 (1.49%) Oracle
7 10 (0.99%) Xamarin
8 8 (0.79%) Sage
9 7 (0.69%) 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 (0.099%) IBM