.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 23 April 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 295 99
Rank change year-on-year -28 -196 +94
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 483 437 2,539
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.04% 2.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 1.17% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 439 394 2,438
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,150 £39,504
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £82,500
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 81,705 37,434 89,731
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 89.27% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 52,263 23,569 66,364
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £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 23 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 23 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 -15 445 £60,000 +4.35% 202
UK excluding London -20 377 £55,000 +4.76% 160
Work from Home -32 166 £55,000 - 184
North of England -30 130 £60,000 - 50
South East +5 108 £57,500 +9.52% 48
London -36 81 £83,000 +2.15% 60
North West -26 70 £60,000 +4.35% 32
Yorkshire -20 50 £60,000 - 12
Midlands -32 48 £52,500 - 18
South West -25 45 £50,000 -14.89% 11
East of England -50 32 £55,000 +3.77% 20
West Midlands -25 29 £50,000 -13.04% 8
East Midlands -44 19 £55,000 +4.76% 10
North East -41 10 £55,000 +22.22% 6
Scotland -42 8 £55,000 +69.23% 7
Wales -20 6 £45,000 -10.00% 4

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 483 (100.00%) .NET
2 294 (60.87%) C#
3 172 (35.61%) Azure
3 172 (35.61%) Full-Stack Development
4 141 (29.19%) .NET Core
5 130 (26.92%) SQL
6 118 (24.43%) Agile
7 94 (19.46%) ASP.NET
8 86 (17.81%) CI/CD
9 83 (17.18%) SQL Server
10 80 (16.56%) React
11 79 (16.36%) SaaS
12 77 (15.94%) Microsoft
13 76 (15.73%) Software Engineering
14 72 (14.91%) DevOps
14 72 (14.91%) Microservices
15 69 (14.29%) JavaScript
16 63 (13.04%) HTML
17 61 (12.63%) RESTful
18 60 (12.42%) CSS
19 58 (12.01%) .NET Framework
19 58 (12.01%) ASP.NET Core
20 55 (11.39%) AWS
21 51 (10.56%) AngularJS
22 50 (10.35%) TypeScript
23 48 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
23 48 (9.94%) Blazor
24 46 (9.52%) Docker
24 46 (9.52%) MVC
25 44 (9.11%) 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 3 (0.62%) IIS
2 2 (0.41%) NServiceBus
2 2 (0.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.21%) CMS
3 1 (0.21%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 172 (35.61%) Azure
2 79 (16.36%) SaaS
3 55 (11.39%) AWS
4 48 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (8.07%) GitHub
6 36 (7.45%) Serverless
7 29 (6.00%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (4.14%) Azure Logic Apps
9 16 (3.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 15 (3.11%) Azure App Service
10 15 (3.11%) Entra ID
10 15 (3.11%) PaaS
11 14 (2.90%) Azure AI
11 14 (2.90%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (2.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (2.69%) Amazon S3
12 13 (2.69%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (2.48%) Amazon EventBridge
13 12 (2.48%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (2.48%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.83%) Internet
2 2 (0.41%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.21%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (17.18%) SQL Server
2 39 (8.07%) Azure SQL Database
3 35 (7.25%) NoSQL
4 30 (6.21%) MongoDB
5 13 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.48%) DynamoDB
7 10 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.24%) MySQL
9 4 (0.83%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.62%) Power BI
11 2 (0.41%) CouchDB
11 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.21%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.21%) NonStop SQL
12 1 (0.21%) Redis
12 1 (0.21%) SAP BW
12 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (8.07%) Git
2 7 (1.45%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.41%) JIRA
4 1 (0.21%) MSTest
4 1 (0.21%) NUnit
4 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.21%) Postman
4 1 (0.21%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.21%) Vite
4 1 (0.21%) webpack
General
1 48 (9.94%) Finance
2 39 (8.07%) Social Skills
3 10 (2.07%) Games
3 10 (2.07%) Law
4 7 (1.45%) Banking
4 7 (1.45%) Manufacturing
5 5 (1.04%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (1.04%) Back Office
6 4 (0.83%) Advertising
6 4 (0.83%) Investment Banking
7 3 (0.62%) Front Office
7 3 (0.62%) Marketing
7 3 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.41%) Legal
8 2 (0.41%) Retail
9 1 (0.21%) Electronics
9 1 (0.21%) iGaming
9 1 (0.21%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 483 (100.00%) .NET
2 141 (29.19%) .NET Core
3 94 (19.46%) ASP.NET
4 80 (16.56%) React
5 63 (13.04%) HTML
6 61 (12.63%) RESTful
7 60 (12.42%) CSS
8 58 (12.01%) .NET Framework
8 58 (12.01%) ASP.NET Core
9 51 (10.56%) AngularJS
10 48 (9.94%) Blazor
11 44 (9.11%) Vue
12 38 (7.87%) Entity Framework
13 28 (5.80%) ASP.NET Web API
14 26 (5.38%) REST
15 20 (4.14%) ASP.NET MVC
16 19 (3.93%) Razor View Engine
17 13 (2.69%) ASP.NET Web Forms
17 13 (2.69%) ML.NET
18 12 (2.48%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.07%) Mobile App
2 20 (4.14%) Cloud Native
3 13 (2.69%) PropTech
4 12 (2.48%) Hedge funds
5 8 (1.66%) Sports Betting
6 7 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (1.45%) Legacy Code
6 7 (1.45%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (0.83%) Social Network
9 3 (0.62%) Derivative
9 3 (0.62%) Digital TV
9 3 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.41%) BBC
10 2 (0.41%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.41%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.41%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.41%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.04%) Windows
2 3 (0.62%) Android
3 2 (0.41%) Linux
3 2 (0.41%) VMS
4 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (35.61%) Full-Stack Development
2 118 (24.43%) Agile
3 86 (17.81%) CI/CD
4 76 (15.73%) Software Engineering
5 72 (14.91%) DevOps
5 72 (14.91%) Microservices
6 46 (9.52%) MVC
7 43 (8.90%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (7.66%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (6.42%) AI
10 29 (6.00%) Clean Code
11 26 (5.38%) Scrum
11 26 (5.38%) TDD
12 25 (5.18%) SDLC
13 23 (4.76%) Containerisation
14 21 (4.35%) API Development
14 21 (4.35%) Mentoring
15 19 (3.93%) Code Quality
15 19 (3.93%) Multithreading
16 18 (3.73%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 294 (60.87%) C#
2 130 (26.92%) SQL
3 69 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 50 (10.35%) TypeScript
5 10 (2.07%) VB
6 8 (1.66%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.62%) Bicep
8 2 (0.41%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.41%) Python
8 2 (0.41%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.21%) C++
9 1 (0.21%) Java
9 1 (0.21%) XAML
Qualifications
1 28 (5.80%) SC Cleared
1 28 (5.80%) Security Cleared
2 18 (3.73%) Degree
3 14 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (2.07%) AWS Certification
4 10 (2.07%) AWS Certified Developer
5 8 (1.66%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.21%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.73%) QA
2 5 (1.04%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 46 (9.52%) Docker
2 9 (1.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (3.93%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 77 (15.94%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.11%) Xamarin
3 5 (1.04%) Facebook
3 5 (1.04%) OpenAI
4 4 (0.83%) Google
4 4 (0.83%) Telerik
5 3 (0.62%) Sage
6 2 (0.41%) Apple
6 2 (0.41%) iManage
6 2 (0.41%) Oracle
6 2 (0.41%) Sony
6 2 (0.41%) Yahoo!
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe
7 1 (0.21%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.21%) Databricks
7 1 (0.21%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.21%) Foundry
7 1 (0.21%) SAP
7 1 (0.21%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.21%) YouTube