.NET Developer Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer salary in the UK is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 June 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 347 94
Rank change year-on-year +96 -253 +89
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 693 368 2,775
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.84% 2.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.94% 2.84%
Number of salaries quoted 650 332 2,630
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,188 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £94,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -

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 86,877 39,175 97,799
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.74% 89.43% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 58,375 22,028 71,043
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,890 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.75% +1.78% -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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +102 654 £57,500 -4.17% 195
UK excluding London +89 573 £55,000 +3.77% 151
Work from Home +79 321 £55,000 -4.35% 169
North of England +38 194 £55,000 -8.33% 60
South East +60 171 £55,000 +0.69% 45
London -14 103 £80,000 - 54
North West +26 100 £60,000 - 32
Midlands +4 69 £55,000 +10.00% 13
East of England +13 64 £60,000 +13.21% 17
Yorkshire 0 57 £60,000 -7.69% 13
South West -16 55 £50,000 - 8
West Midlands -14 42 £55,000 -4.35% 7
North East -17 37 £55,000 -45.00% 15
East Midlands -10 27 £53,750 +19.44% 6
Scotland +2 13 £60,000 +84.62% 5
Wales -37 7 £50,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 5 June 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.

1 693 (100.00%) .NET
2 470 (67.82%) C#
3 334 (48.20%) Full-Stack Development
4 317 (45.74%) Azure
5 275 (39.68%) .NET Core
6 272 (39.25%) SQL
7 233 (33.62%) ASP.NET
8 221 (31.89%) Microsoft
9 213 (30.74%) Agile
10 203 (29.29%) ASP.NET Core
11 179 (25.83%) Azure SQL Database
12 157 (22.66%) MongoDB
13 137 (19.77%) CI/CD
14 122 (17.60%) DevOps
15 119 (17.17%) React
16 118 (17.03%) CSS
17 117 (16.88%) HTML
18 114 (16.45%) JavaScript
19 105 (15.15%) Vue
20 103 (14.86%) Microservices
20 103 (14.86%) Software Engineering
21 101 (14.57%) RESTful
22 100 (14.43%) AI
22 100 (14.43%) AngularJS
23 98 (14.14%) Azure DevOps
24 95 (13.71%) Blazor
25 93 (13.42%) Entity Framework
26 90 (12.99%) TypeScript
27 88 (12.70%) AWS
28 85 (12.27%) SQL Server

.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 (0.43%) NServiceBus
2 2 (0.29%) IIS
2 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.14%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 317 (45.74%) Azure
2 98 (14.14%) Azure DevOps
3 88 (12.70%) AWS
4 81 (11.69%) SaaS
5 72 (10.39%) GitHub
6 60 (8.66%) Azure AI
7 47 (6.78%) GitHub Copilot
8 35 (5.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 30 (4.33%) Serverless
10 22 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (2.60%) Azure Functions
11 18 (2.60%) Azure Logic Apps
12 14 (2.02%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (1.73%) PaaS
14 9 (1.30%) Azure App Service
14 9 (1.30%) Entra ID
15 8 (1.15%) Google Play
16 7 (1.01%) Amazon S3
16 7 (1.01%) Power Platform
17 6 (0.87%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.32%) Internet
2 3 (0.43%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (25.83%) Azure SQL Database
2 157 (22.66%) MongoDB
3 85 (12.27%) SQL Server
4 53 (7.65%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (2.16%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.88%) MySQL
7 11 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.87%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.58%) NonStop SQL
9 4 (0.58%) Power BI
10 2 (0.29%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.29%) CouchDB
10 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.14%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.14%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.14%) SQLite
11 1 (0.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (3.03%) Git
2 5 (0.72%) JIRA
3 3 (0.43%) MSTest
3 3 (0.43%) NUnit
4 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.14%) Postman
5 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.14%) Vite
5 1 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 71 (10.25%) Finance
2 29 (4.18%) Games
3 28 (4.04%) Social Skills
4 20 (2.89%) Advertising
5 13 (1.88%) Marketing
6 10 (1.44%) Law
7 9 (1.30%) Retail
8 8 (1.15%) Automotive
9 7 (1.01%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.87%) Aerospace
10 6 (0.87%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (0.87%) Banking
11 4 (0.58%) Back Office
11 4 (0.58%) Music Industry
12 3 (0.43%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.43%) Legal
13 2 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.14%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.14%) iGaming
14 1 (0.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 693 (100.00%) .NET
2 275 (39.68%) .NET Core
3 233 (33.62%) ASP.NET
4 203 (29.29%) ASP.NET Core
5 119 (17.17%) React
6 118 (17.03%) CSS
7 117 (16.88%) HTML
8 105 (15.15%) Vue
9 101 (14.57%) RESTful
10 100 (14.43%) AngularJS
11 95 (13.71%) Blazor
12 93 (13.42%) Entity Framework
13 74 (10.68%) ASP.NET Web API
14 60 (8.66%) .NET Framework
15 59 (8.51%) ML.NET
16 54 (7.79%) Node.js
17 48 (6.93%) LINQ
18 17 (2.45%) REST
18 17 (2.45%) WinForms
19 14 (2.02%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.07%) Mobile App
2 43 (6.20%) Greenfield Project
3 18 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (2.02%) PropTech
5 13 (1.88%) Cloud Native
6 12 (1.73%) Hedge funds
7 10 (1.44%) Social Network
8 9 (1.30%) Digital TV
9 8 (1.15%) iPhone
9 8 (1.15%) Legacy Code
9 8 (1.15%) Sports Betting
10 7 (1.01%) BBC
10 7 (1.01%) Social Media
11 6 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.87%) Product Ownership
12 3 (0.43%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.29%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.29%) Fixed Income
13 2 (0.29%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.44%) Android
2 7 (1.01%) Windows
3 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (48.20%) Full-Stack Development
2 213 (30.74%) Agile
3 137 (19.77%) CI/CD
4 122 (17.60%) DevOps
5 103 (14.86%) Microservices
5 103 (14.86%) Software Engineering
6 100 (14.43%) AI
7 70 (10.10%) Multithreading
8 65 (9.38%) Machine Learning
9 46 (6.64%) SDLC
10 45 (6.49%) Continuous Improvement
10 45 (6.49%) OO
11 43 (6.20%) Problem-Solving
12 40 (5.77%) TDD
13 39 (5.63%) Scrum
14 31 (4.47%) Analytics
15 30 (4.33%) Kanban
16 28 (4.04%) MVC
17 25 (3.61%) CQRS
17 25 (3.61%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 470 (67.82%) C#
2 272 (39.25%) SQL
3 114 (16.45%) JavaScript
4 90 (12.99%) TypeScript
5 15 (2.16%) VB
6 14 (2.02%) Python
7 11 (1.59%) VB.NET
8 9 (1.30%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.43%) Bicep
10 2 (0.29%) C++
10 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.14%) ABAP
11 1 (0.14%) Delphi
11 1 (0.14%) Java
11 1 (0.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 37 (5.34%) SC Cleared
1 37 (5.34%) Security Cleared
2 25 (3.61%) Degree
3 15 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (0.72%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.58%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (0.43%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.30%) QA
2 5 (0.72%) GDPR
3 1 (0.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 79 (11.40%) Docker
2 4 (0.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 61 (8.80%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 221 (31.89%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.17%) Facebook
2 22 (3.17%) Google
3 17 (2.45%) Xamarin
4 8 (1.15%) YouTube
5 7 (1.01%) Apple
5 7 (1.01%) Sony
5 7 (1.01%) Yahoo!
6 6 (0.87%) OpenAI
7 5 (0.72%) Oracle
8 4 (0.58%) Sage
9 2 (0.29%) iManage
9 2 (0.29%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.29%) SAP
10 1 (0.14%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.14%) Databricks
10 1 (0.14%) DevExpress
10 1 (0.14%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.14%) IBM
10 1 (0.14%) ServiceNow