.NET Developer Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 December 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 233 146
Rank change year-on-year -106 -87 0
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 335 725 1,085
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.29% 2.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 1.38% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 306 561 1,009
10th Percentile £44,375 £32,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £84,688 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £113,125 £87,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 53,955 52,420 47,748
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 93.44% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 33,322 27,935 36,851
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,125 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year -5.71% +2.94% -2.86%

.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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025. 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 -89 307 £65,000 +13.04% 362
UK excluding London -114 228 £60,000 +14.29% 306
Work from Home -55 164 £70,000 +27.27% 290
London +1 84 £75,000 - 89
South East +21 80 £70,000 +40.00% 101
North of England -53 72 £60,000 +9.09% 77
North West -33 40 £60,000 +4.35% 44
Midlands -25 30 £50,000 -13.04% 45
South West -24 26 £50,750 -15.42% 25
Yorkshire -19 23 £60,000 +14.29% 23
West Midlands -1 17 £50,000 -13.04% 24
East Midlands -29 13 £52,000 -5.45% 19
East of England -32 10 £60,000 +20.00% 35
North East +2 9 £50,000 - 10
Wales +4 6 £45,000 -10.00% 9
Scotland -65 4 £55,000 +18.92% 14

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

For the 6 months to 25 December 2025, .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.

1 335 (100.00%) .NET
2 228 (68.06%) C#
3 196 (58.51%) Azure
4 164 (48.96%) Agile
5 131 (39.10%) .NET Core
5 131 (39.10%) Full-Stack Development
5 131 (39.10%) JavaScript
6 127 (37.91%) SQL
7 105 (31.34%) CI/CD
8 99 (29.55%) Microservices
9 98 (29.25%) ASP.NET
9 98 (29.25%) SQL Server
10 91 (27.16%) TypeScript
11 89 (26.57%) MVC
12 88 (26.27%) AWS
12 88 (26.27%) React
13 87 (25.97%) DevOps
14 84 (25.07%) Microsoft
15 83 (24.78%) .NET Framework
16 72 (21.49%) SaaS
17 70 (20.90%) AngularJS
18 68 (20.30%) RESTful
18 68 (20.30%) Software Engineering
19 67 (20.00%) HTML
20 63 (18.81%) ASP.NET Web API
21 60 (17.91%) ASP.NET MVC
21 60 (17.91%) Scrum
22 59 (17.61%) CSS
23 58 (17.31%) Entity Framework
23 58 (17.31%) Git

.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 8 (2.39%) CMS
2 5 (1.49%) Confluence
2 5 (1.49%) IIS
3 1 (0.30%) Kentico
3 1 (0.30%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.30%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.60%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.30%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.30%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.30%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 196 (58.51%) Azure
2 88 (26.27%) AWS
3 72 (21.49%) SaaS
4 49 (14.63%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (14.03%) Serverless
6 35 (10.45%) GitHub
7 31 (9.25%) GCP
8 30 (8.96%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (5.67%) Azure App Service
10 18 (5.37%) Entra ID
11 17 (5.07%) PaaS
12 15 (4.48%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (3.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (3.58%) Amazon EventBridge
13 12 (3.58%) Amazon S3
13 12 (3.58%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (3.58%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (3.58%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (3.58%) AWS Step Functions
14 11 (3.28%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.90%) Internet
2 1 (0.30%) DNS
2 1 (0.30%) HTTP
2 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (29.25%) SQL Server
2 50 (14.93%) NoSQL
3 47 (14.03%) MongoDB
4 45 (13.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (5.37%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (3.58%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.39%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.09%) MySQL
10 6 (1.79%) NonStop SQL
11 5 (1.49%) Power BI
12 1 (0.30%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.30%) RavenDB
12 1 (0.30%) Redis
12 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 58 (17.31%) Git
2 13 (3.88%) Visual Studio
3 7 (2.09%) JIRA
4 4 (1.19%) Postman
5 3 (0.90%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.90%) JMeter
5 3 (0.90%) Selenium
5 3 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.60%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.60%) NUnit
6 2 (0.60%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.30%) GitLab
7 1 (0.30%) MSTest
7 1 (0.30%) Sourcetree
General
1 69 (20.60%) Finance
2 65 (19.40%) Social Skills
3 10 (2.99%) Front Office
4 8 (2.39%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.09%) Banking
5 7 (2.09%) Retail
6 6 (1.79%) Advertising
6 6 (1.79%) Games
7 5 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.19%) Back Office
8 4 (1.19%) Electronics
8 4 (1.19%) Legal
9 3 (0.90%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.90%) Law
10 2 (0.60%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.30%) Marketing
11 1 (0.30%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 335 (100.00%) .NET
2 131 (39.10%) .NET Core
3 98 (29.25%) ASP.NET
4 88 (26.27%) React
5 83 (24.78%) .NET Framework
6 70 (20.90%) AngularJS
7 68 (20.30%) RESTful
8 67 (20.00%) HTML
9 63 (18.81%) ASP.NET Web API
10 60 (17.91%) ASP.NET MVC
11 59 (17.61%) CSS
12 58 (17.31%) Entity Framework
13 51 (15.22%) Blazor
14 37 (11.04%) Vue
15 34 (10.15%) REST
16 33 (9.85%) ASP.NET Core
17 22 (6.57%) Node.js
18 21 (6.27%) Razor View Engine
19 20 (5.97%) ASP.NET Web Forms
19 20 (5.97%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.76%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.57%) Mobile App
3 15 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (1.79%) Digital TV
7 5 (1.49%) Clustering
7 5 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (1.49%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.49%) PropTech
8 4 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.19%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.90%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.90%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.60%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.60%) Online Games
10 2 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.60%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.79%) Android
1 6 (1.79%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.19%) Linux
3 1 (0.30%) VMS
3 1 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (48.96%) Agile
2 131 (39.10%) Full-Stack Development
3 105 (31.34%) CI/CD
4 99 (29.55%) Microservices
5 89 (26.57%) MVC
6 87 (25.97%) DevOps
7 68 (20.30%) Software Engineering
8 60 (17.91%) Scrum
9 50 (14.93%) Roadmaps
10 49 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
11 47 (14.03%) AI
12 46 (13.73%) TDD
13 42 (12.54%) Clean Code
13 42 (12.54%) Continuous Improvement
14 39 (11.64%) Kanban
15 32 (9.55%) Business Strategy
16 30 (8.96%) Front End Development
17 27 (8.06%) Containerisation
17 27 (8.06%) Mentoring
18 26 (7.76%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 228 (68.06%) C#
2 131 (39.10%) JavaScript
3 127 (37.91%) SQL
4 91 (27.16%) TypeScript
5 5 (1.49%) PowerShell
5 5 (1.49%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.19%) XAML
7 3 (0.90%) Erlang
8 2 (0.60%) Bicep
8 2 (0.60%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.30%) Java
9 1 (0.30%) Python
9 1 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 29 (8.66%) Degree
2 22 (6.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.88%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.99%) AWS Certification
4 10 (2.99%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.30%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.66%) QA
2 8 (2.39%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.90%) WCAG
4 2 (0.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.30%) HL7
5 1 (0.30%) IFRS
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 38 (11.34%) Docker
2 15 (4.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (5.67%) Terraform
2 10 (2.99%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 84 (25.07%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.09%) Xamarin
3 6 (1.79%) Facebook
3 6 (1.79%) YouTube
4 4 (1.19%) Dynatrace
4 4 (1.19%) Oracle
4 4 (1.19%) Telerik
5 2 (0.60%) Adobe
5 2 (0.60%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.30%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.30%) Foundry
6 1 (0.30%) Infragistics
6 1 (0.30%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.30%) Okta
6 1 (0.30%) Perforce
6 1 (0.30%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow