.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 10 April 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 272 97
Rank change year-on-year -57 -175 +90
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 458 447 2,543
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.09% 2.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 1.22% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 414 402 2,445
10th Percentile £43,750 £34,075 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -2.17% -1.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £84,500
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 77,009 36,647 87,118
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 89.57% 94.53%
Number of salaries quoted 49,567 23,302 65,285
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%
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 10 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 10 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 -41 423 £60,000 +4.35% 221
UK excluding London -52 360 £55,000 +4.76% 169
Work from Home -47 163 £55,000 +5.77% 201
North of England -44 129 £60,000 +4.35% 54
South East -8 95 £55,325 +5.38% 48
London -42 73 £85,000 -5.56% 65
North West -36 67 £60,000 +9.09% 32
Yorkshire -23 51 £60,000 - 16
Midlands -44 49 £52,500 - 19
South West -22 44 £50,000 -28.57% 19
East of England -57 31 £55,000 +10.00% 21
West Midlands -15 29 £50,000 -13.04% 10
East Midlands -48 20 £55,000 +4.76% 9
North East -26 11 £55,000 +22.22% 8
Wales -28 6 £45,000 -10.00% 4
Scotland -36 6 £55,000 +69.23% 5

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 458 (100.00%) .NET
2 292 (63.76%) C#
3 175 (38.21%) Full-Stack Development
4 171 (37.34%) Azure
5 142 (31.00%) .NET Core
6 126 (27.51%) SQL
7 121 (26.42%) Agile
8 97 (21.18%) ASP.NET
9 91 (19.87%) CI/CD
10 88 (19.21%) SQL Server
11 82 (17.90%) React
12 77 (16.81%) JavaScript
13 76 (16.59%) Microsoft
14 74 (16.16%) SaaS
14 74 (16.16%) Software Engineering
15 73 (15.94%) DevOps
16 70 (15.28%) HTML
16 70 (15.28%) Microservices
17 68 (14.85%) CSS
18 64 (13.97%) RESTful
19 59 (12.88%) ASP.NET Core
20 58 (12.66%) .NET Framework
21 53 (11.57%) AngularJS
21 53 (11.57%) AWS
22 51 (11.14%) MVC
23 50 (10.92%) Blazor
23 50 (10.92%) TypeScript
24 46 (10.04%) Azure DevOps
25 45 (9.83%) Problem-Solving
26 44 (9.61%) Docker

.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 (0.66%) IIS
2 2 (0.44%) CMS
2 2 (0.44%) NServiceBus
2 2 (0.44%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.22%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 171 (37.34%) Azure
2 74 (16.16%) SaaS
3 53 (11.57%) AWS
4 46 (10.04%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (8.52%) GitHub
5 39 (8.52%) Serverless
6 28 (6.11%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (4.59%) Azure Logic Apps
8 17 (3.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 15 (3.28%) Azure App Service
9 15 (3.28%) Entra ID
9 15 (3.28%) PaaS
10 14 (3.06%) Azure AI
10 14 (3.06%) Azure Service Bus
11 13 (2.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (2.84%) Amazon S3
11 13 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (2.84%) Azure Functions
12 12 (2.62%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.87%) Internet
2 2 (0.44%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (19.21%) SQL Server
2 37 (8.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 36 (7.86%) NoSQL
4 31 (6.77%) MongoDB
5 14 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.62%) DynamoDB
7 10 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (1.53%) MySQL
9 4 (0.87%) Power BI
9 4 (0.87%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.44%) CouchDB
11 1 (0.22%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.22%) NonStop SQL
11 1 (0.22%) Redis
11 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (8.52%) Git
2 9 (1.97%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.22%) MSTest
3 1 (0.22%) NUnit
3 1 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.22%) Postman
3 1 (0.22%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.22%) Vite
3 1 (0.22%) webpack
General
1 47 (10.26%) Finance
2 42 (9.17%) Social Skills
3 10 (2.18%) Games
4 8 (1.75%) Law
5 7 (1.53%) Banking
5 7 (1.53%) Manufacturing
6 5 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (0.87%) Advertising
7 4 (0.87%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (0.87%) Back Office
7 4 (0.87%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.66%) Front Office
8 3 (0.66%) Marketing
9 2 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.44%) Electronics
9 2 (0.44%) Legal
9 2 (0.44%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.22%) iGaming
10 1 (0.22%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 458 (100.00%) .NET
2 142 (31.00%) .NET Core
3 97 (21.18%) ASP.NET
4 82 (17.90%) React
5 70 (15.28%) HTML
6 68 (14.85%) CSS
7 64 (13.97%) RESTful
8 59 (12.88%) ASP.NET Core
9 58 (12.66%) .NET Framework
10 53 (11.57%) AngularJS
11 50 (10.92%) Blazor
12 42 (9.17%) Vue
13 37 (8.08%) Entity Framework
14 28 (6.11%) ASP.NET Web API
14 28 (6.11%) REST
15 21 (4.59%) ASP.NET MVC
16 19 (4.15%) Razor View Engine
17 14 (3.06%) ASP.NET Web Forms
18 13 (2.84%) ML.NET
19 12 (2.62%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.08%) Mobile App
2 21 (4.59%) Cloud Native
3 12 (2.62%) Hedge funds
3 12 (2.62%) PropTech
4 8 (1.75%) Sports Betting
5 7 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.31%) Legacy Code
6 6 (1.31%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (0.87%) Social Network
9 3 (0.66%) Derivative
9 3 (0.66%) Digital TV
9 3 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.44%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.44%) BBC
10 2 (0.44%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.44%) IoT
10 2 (0.44%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.87%) Windows
2 3 (0.66%) Android
3 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.44%) Linux
3 2 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (38.21%) Full-Stack Development
2 121 (26.42%) Agile
3 91 (19.87%) CI/CD
4 74 (16.16%) Software Engineering
5 73 (15.94%) DevOps
6 70 (15.28%) Microservices
7 51 (11.14%) MVC
8 45 (9.83%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (6.77%) Clean Code
11 30 (6.55%) AI
11 30 (6.55%) TDD
12 29 (6.33%) Scrum
13 27 (5.90%) SDLC
14 24 (5.24%) Containerisation
15 22 (4.80%) API Development
16 20 (4.37%) Code Quality
16 20 (4.37%) Mentoring
17 19 (4.15%) Kanban
17 19 (4.15%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 292 (63.76%) C#
2 126 (27.51%) SQL
3 77 (16.81%) JavaScript
4 50 (10.92%) TypeScript
5 7 (1.53%) VB
6 6 (1.31%) T-SQL
7 4 (0.87%) Bicep
8 2 (0.44%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.44%) VB.NET
8 2 (0.44%) XAML
9 1 (0.22%) C++
9 1 (0.22%) Erlang
9 1 (0.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (3.93%) SC Cleared
1 18 (3.93%) Security Cleared
2 16 (3.49%) Degree
3 13 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (2.18%) AWS Certification
4 10 (2.18%) AWS Certified Developer
5 8 (1.75%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.71%) QA
2 5 (1.09%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 44 (9.61%) Docker
2 9 (1.97%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (3.93%) Kubernetes
2 16 (3.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 76 (16.59%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.84%) Xamarin
3 5 (1.09%) Facebook
3 5 (1.09%) OpenAI
4 4 (0.87%) Google
4 4 (0.87%) Telerik
5 3 (0.66%) Sage
6 2 (0.44%) Apple
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle
6 2 (0.44%) Sony
6 2 (0.44%) Yahoo!
7 1 (0.22%) Adobe
7 1 (0.22%) Databricks
7 1 (0.22%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.22%) Foundry
7 1 (0.22%) IBM
7 1 (0.22%) Infragistics
7 1 (0.22%) Perforce
7 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.22%) YouTube