.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 31 March 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 260 99
Rank change year-on-year -75 -161 +88
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 432 457 2,512
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.12% 2.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 1.24% 2.97%
Number of salaries quoted 390 408 2,420
10th Percentile £43,750 £33,375 £39,788
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,500 £95,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +1.85%

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 72,784 36,840 84,649
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 89.99% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 46,735 23,216 63,790
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,550
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -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 31 March 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 March 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 -44 395 £60,000 +4.35% 221
UK excluding London -41 333 £55,000 +4.76% 169
Work from Home -43 165 £55,000 +6.80% 201
North of England -35 116 £60,000 +9.09% 54
South East -13 88 £60,000 +14.29% 48
London -59 73 £80,000 -5.88% 65
North West -34 54 £65,000 +18.18% 32
Yorkshire -10 50 £60,000 - 16
Midlands -24 47 £51,250 -4.65% 19
South West -20 40 £50,000 -28.57% 19
East of England -52 30 £55,000 +15.79% 21
West Midlands -11 27 £50,000 -13.04% 10
East Midlands -41 20 £55,000 +4.76% 9
North East -13 12 £55,000 +22.22% 8
Wales -21 6 £45,000 -10.00% 4
Scotland -55 6 £55,000 +69.23% 5

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

For the 6 months to 31 March 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.

1 432 (100.00%) .NET
2 278 (64.35%) C#
3 183 (42.36%) Full-Stack Development
4 164 (37.96%) Azure
5 145 (33.56%) .NET Core
6 127 (29.40%) SQL
7 125 (28.94%) Agile
8 96 (22.22%) ASP.NET
9 90 (20.83%) CI/CD
9 90 (20.83%) React
10 87 (20.14%) JavaScript
11 84 (19.44%) SQL Server
12 79 (18.29%) Microsoft
13 77 (17.82%) DevOps
14 75 (17.36%) Microservices
15 74 (17.13%) HTML
16 72 (16.67%) CSS
17 71 (16.44%) Software Engineering
18 64 (14.81%) .NET Framework
18 64 (14.81%) RESTful
18 64 (14.81%) SaaS
19 60 (13.89%) MVC
20 59 (13.66%) ASP.NET Core
21 58 (13.43%) AngularJS
22 55 (12.73%) TypeScript
23 54 (12.50%) AWS
23 54 (12.50%) Blazor
24 46 (10.65%) Azure DevOps
25 45 (10.42%) Docker
25 45 (10.42%) Problem-Solving

.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 (0.69%) IIS
2 2 (0.46%) CMS
2 2 (0.46%) NServiceBus
2 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.23%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 164 (37.96%) Azure
2 64 (14.81%) SaaS
3 54 (12.50%) AWS
4 46 (10.65%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (9.26%) GitHub
6 38 (8.80%) Serverless
7 29 (6.71%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (3.94%) Azure App Service
8 17 (3.94%) Entra ID
9 16 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
9 16 (3.70%) PaaS
10 14 (3.24%) Azure AI
10 14 (3.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 13 (3.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (3.01%) Amazon S3
11 13 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (2.78%) Amazon EventBridge
12 12 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.16%) Internet
2 2 (0.46%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.23%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (19.44%) SQL Server
2 43 (9.95%) Azure SQL Database
3 38 (8.80%) NoSQL
4 36 (8.33%) MongoDB
5 14 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (2.78%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.16%) MySQL
9 4 (0.93%) Power BI
9 4 (0.93%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.46%) CouchDB
10 2 (0.46%) NonStop SQL
11 1 (0.23%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.23%) RavenDB
11 1 (0.23%) Redis
11 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (9.26%) Git
2 10 (2.31%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.23%) MSTest
3 1 (0.23%) NUnit
3 1 (0.23%) Postman
3 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.23%) Vite
3 1 (0.23%) webpack
General
1 51 (11.81%) Finance
2 43 (9.95%) Social Skills
3 10 (2.31%) Games
4 9 (2.08%) Banking
5 7 (1.62%) Law
5 7 (1.62%) Manufacturing
6 5 (1.16%) Advertising
6 5 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (0.93%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (0.93%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.69%) Electronics
8 3 (0.69%) Front Office
8 3 (0.69%) Marketing
9 2 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.46%) Legal
9 2 (0.46%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.23%) Back Office
10 1 (0.23%) iGaming
10 1 (0.23%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 432 (100.00%) .NET
2 145 (33.56%) .NET Core
3 96 (22.22%) ASP.NET
4 90 (20.83%) React
5 74 (17.13%) HTML
6 72 (16.67%) CSS
7 64 (14.81%) .NET Framework
7 64 (14.81%) RESTful
8 59 (13.66%) ASP.NET Core
9 58 (13.43%) AngularJS
10 54 (12.50%) Blazor
11 43 (9.95%) Entity Framework
12 42 (9.72%) Vue
13 34 (7.87%) ASP.NET Web API
14 29 (6.71%) REST
15 27 (6.25%) ASP.NET MVC
16 20 (4.63%) Razor View Engine
17 15 (3.47%) ASP.NET Web Forms
18 13 (3.01%) ML.NET
18 13 (3.01%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.94%) Mobile App
2 20 (4.63%) Cloud Native
3 12 (2.78%) Hedge funds
4 10 (2.31%) PropTech
5 8 (1.85%) Sports Betting
6 7 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.16%) Legacy Code
7 5 (1.16%) Product Ownership
8 4 (0.93%) Digital TV
8 4 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (0.93%) Social Network
9 3 (0.69%) Derivative
10 2 (0.46%) BBC
10 2 (0.46%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.46%) IoT
10 2 (0.46%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.46%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.93%) Android
2 3 (0.69%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.69%) Windows
3 2 (0.46%) Linux
3 2 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (42.36%) Full-Stack Development
2 125 (28.94%) Agile
3 90 (20.83%) CI/CD
4 77 (17.82%) DevOps
5 75 (17.36%) Microservices
6 71 (16.44%) Software Engineering
7 60 (13.89%) MVC
8 45 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (7.87%) Scrum
11 31 (7.18%) AI
11 31 (7.18%) TDD
12 30 (6.94%) Clean Code
13 27 (6.25%) SDLC
14 23 (5.32%) Containerisation
14 23 (5.32%) Kanban
15 21 (4.86%) Machine Learning
15 21 (4.86%) Mentoring
16 20 (4.63%) Code Quality
16 20 (4.63%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 278 (64.35%) C#
2 127 (29.40%) SQL
3 87 (20.14%) JavaScript
4 55 (12.73%) TypeScript
5 6 (1.39%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.93%) Bicep
7 3 (0.69%) VB
7 3 (0.69%) XAML
8 2 (0.46%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.46%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.23%) C++
9 1 (0.23%) Erlang
9 1 (0.23%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (4.86%) Degree
2 17 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (3.70%) SC Cleared
3 16 (3.70%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.31%) AWS Certification
4 10 (2.31%) AWS Certified Developer
5 9 (2.08%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.17%) QA
2 4 (0.93%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.23%) IFRS
3 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 45 (10.42%) Docker
2 10 (2.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (3.94%) Kubernetes
1 17 (3.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 79 (18.29%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.55%) Xamarin
3 6 (1.39%) Facebook
4 4 (0.93%) Google
4 4 (0.93%) Telerik
5 3 (0.69%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.46%) Apple
6 2 (0.46%) Oracle
6 2 (0.46%) Sage
6 2 (0.46%) Sony
6 2 (0.46%) Yahoo!
6 2 (0.46%) YouTube
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe
7 1 (0.23%) Databricks
7 1 (0.23%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.23%) Foundry
7 1 (0.23%) IBM
7 1 (0.23%) Infragistics
7 1 (0.23%) Perforce
7 1 (0.23%) ServiceNow