.NET Developer Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 July 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 357 105
Rank change year-on-year +154 -252 +72
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 993 361 2,312
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.00% 0.73% 2.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 0.82% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 951 333 2,138
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,100 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 93,983 44,278 92,243
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.25% 89.92% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 64,514 26,221 65,394
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £39,596
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%

.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 19 July 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 19 July 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 +159 929 £55,000 -8.33% 94
UK excluding London +186 860 £55,000 - 64
Work from Home +150 629 £55,000 -4.35% 61
South East +131 271 £55,000 - 18
North of England +97 262 £55,000 -8.33% 21
North West +41 117 £55,000 -4.35% 5
London -40 116 £80,000 +6.67% 37
East of England +60 109 £60,000 +13.21% 8
Midlands +29 92 £55,000 +10.00% 8
South West -9 79 £52,500 +5.00% 10
Yorkshire +25 73 £55,000 -8.33% 10
North East +13 72 £55,000 -45.00% 7
West Midlands +15 54 £55,000 +2.33% 7
East Midlands +12 38 £52,500 +16.67% 1
Scotland +40 31 £55,000 +69.23%
Wales -40 16 £50,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 19 July 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.

1 993 (100.00%) .NET
2 786 (79.15%) C#
3 618 (62.24%) Full-Stack Development
4 605 (60.93%) Azure
5 546 (54.98%) .NET Core
6 544 (54.78%) SQL
7 533 (53.68%) ASP.NET
8 518 (52.17%) Microsoft
9 490 (49.35%) ASP.NET Core
10 453 (45.62%) Azure SQL Database
11 424 (42.70%) Agile
12 410 (41.29%) MongoDB
13 232 (23.36%) JavaScript
14 224 (22.56%) CI/CD
15 219 (22.05%) DevOps
16 216 (21.75%) Blazor
16 216 (21.75%) React
17 210 (21.15%) CSS
18 209 (21.05%) HTML
19 206 (20.75%) Microservices
20 204 (20.54%) AI
20 204 (20.54%) Entity Framework
21 195 (19.64%) Azure DevOps
22 193 (19.44%) TypeScript
23 192 (19.34%) Vue
24 191 (19.23%) RESTful
25 184 (18.53%) AngularJS
26 179 (18.03%) ASP.NET Web API
27 168 (16.92%) Docker
27 168 (16.92%) Multithreading

.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 4 (0.40%) IIS
1 4 (0.40%) NServiceBus
2 3 (0.30%) CMS
2 3 (0.30%) DNN
2 3 (0.30%) EPiServer
2 3 (0.30%) Immediacy CMS
2 3 (0.30%) Kentico
2 3 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (0.30%) Sitefinity
2 3 (0.30%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.10%) Sage 200
1 1 (0.10%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 605 (60.93%) Azure
2 195 (19.64%) Azure DevOps
3 155 (15.61%) Azure AI
4 154 (15.51%) GitHub
5 141 (14.20%) AWS
6 137 (13.80%) GitHub Copilot
7 68 (6.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 68 (6.85%) SaaS
8 23 (2.32%) Serverless
9 20 (2.01%) Azure Service Bus
10 18 (1.81%) Azure Logic Apps
11 17 (1.71%) Google Play
12 15 (1.51%) Azure Functions
13 14 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (1.11%) PaaS
15 10 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
16 7 (0.70%) Anthropic Claude
16 7 (0.70%) Azure App Service
16 7 (0.70%) Power Platform
17 5 (0.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 60 (6.04%) Internet
2 7 (0.70%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.10%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 453 (45.62%) Azure SQL Database
2 410 (41.29%) MongoDB
3 154 (15.51%) Elasticsearch
4 103 (10.37%) SQL Server
5 15 (1.51%) MySQL
6 11 (1.11%) NonStop SQL
7 7 (0.70%) NoSQL
8 6 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.50%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.40%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.40%) Power BI
11 3 (0.30%) SQLite
12 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.20%) CouchDB
13 1 (0.10%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.10%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.10%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.10%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (2.72%) Git
2 7 (0.70%) JIRA
3 5 (0.50%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.30%) MSTest
4 3 (0.30%) NUnit
5 2 (0.20%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.20%) Postman
6 1 (0.10%) GitLab
6 1 (0.10%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.10%) JetBrains Rider
6 1 (0.10%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.10%) Selenium
6 1 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.10%) Vite
6 1 (0.10%) webpack
General
1 117 (11.78%) Finance
2 56 (5.64%) Advertising
3 54 (5.44%) Games
4 44 (4.43%) Marketing
5 35 (3.52%) Social Skills
6 30 (3.02%) Retail
7 14 (1.41%) Aerospace
8 11 (1.11%) Music Industry
9 9 (0.91%) Law
10 8 (0.81%) Automotive
11 7 (0.70%) Banking
12 6 (0.60%) Analytical Skills
12 6 (0.60%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.50%) Back Office
13 5 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.40%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.30%) Legal
15 3 (0.30%) Public Sector
16 1 (0.10%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.10%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 993 (100.00%) .NET
2 546 (54.98%) .NET Core
3 533 (53.68%) ASP.NET
4 490 (49.35%) ASP.NET Core
5 216 (21.75%) Blazor
5 216 (21.75%) React
6 210 (21.15%) CSS
7 209 (21.05%) HTML
8 204 (20.54%) Entity Framework
9 192 (19.34%) Vue
10 191 (19.23%) RESTful
11 184 (18.53%) AngularJS
12 179 (18.03%) ASP.NET Web API
13 154 (15.51%) ML.NET
14 147 (14.80%) Node.js
15 114 (11.48%) LINQ
16 107 (10.78%) .NET Framework
17 32 (3.22%) WinForms
18 31 (3.12%) REST
19 24 (2.42%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 101 (10.17%) Greenfield Project
2 46 (4.63%) Enterprise Software
2 46 (4.63%) Mobile App
3 20 (2.01%) Digital TV
4 17 (1.71%) BBC
4 17 (1.71%) iPhone
4 17 (1.71%) Social Media
5 14 (1.41%) Social Network
6 12 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.11%) Hedge funds
8 10 (1.01%) Cloud Native
9 9 (0.91%) Legacy Code
10 8 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (0.81%) PropTech
10 8 (0.81%) Sports Betting
11 7 (0.70%) Product Ownership
12 6 (0.60%) IoT
13 5 (0.50%) Tandem
14 3 (0.30%) Data Structures
15 2 (0.20%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.11%) Android
2 12 (1.21%) Windows
3 1 (0.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 618 (62.24%) Full-Stack Development
2 424 (42.70%) Agile
3 224 (22.56%) CI/CD
4 219 (22.05%) DevOps
5 206 (20.75%) Microservices
6 204 (20.54%) AI
7 168 (16.92%) Multithreading
8 160 (16.11%) Machine Learning
9 115 (11.58%) Software Engineering
10 96 (9.67%) Scrum
11 92 (9.26%) OO
12 90 (9.06%) TDD
13 68 (6.85%) BDD
13 68 (6.85%) Kanban
14 61 (6.14%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
15 54 (5.44%) SDLC
16 49 (4.93%) Problem-Solving
17 47 (4.73%) Analytics
18 44 (4.43%) MVC
19 43 (4.33%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 786 (79.15%) C#
2 544 (54.78%) SQL
3 232 (23.36%) JavaScript
4 193 (19.44%) TypeScript
5 16 (1.61%) VB.NET
6 15 (1.51%) Python
6 15 (1.51%) T-SQL
7 13 (1.31%) VB
8 5 (0.50%) C++
9 4 (0.40%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.40%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.30%) Bicep
11 2 (0.20%) Java
12 1 (0.10%) ABAP
12 1 (0.10%) Delphi
12 1 (0.10%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (3.73%) SC Cleared
1 37 (3.73%) Security Cleared
2 29 (2.92%) Degree
3 16 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (0.50%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.20%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.10%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (1.61%) QA
2 6 (0.60%) GDPR
3 4 (0.40%) Accessibility
System Software
1 168 (16.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 153 (15.41%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 518 (52.17%) Microsoft
2 60 (6.04%) Facebook
3 58 (5.84%) Google
4 21 (2.11%) YouTube
5 17 (1.71%) Apple
5 17 (1.71%) Sony
5 17 (1.71%) Yahoo!
6 13 (1.31%) Xamarin
7 8 (0.81%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.60%) Oracle
9 4 (0.40%) Sage
10 3 (0.30%) Alterian
10 3 (0.30%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.30%) SAP
10 3 (0.30%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.20%) iManage
11 2 (0.20%) OneLogin
12 1 (0.10%) Databricks
12 1 (0.10%) DevExpress
12 1 (0.10%) Veracode