.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 16 April 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 271 100
Rank change year-on-year -61 -171 +90
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 474 450 2,546
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.09% 2.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 1.21% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 429 404 2,448
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,150 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £82,725
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 79,387 37,056 88,958
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 89.35% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 50,792 23,295 66,136
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,795
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.53% -10.34%
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 16 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 16 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 -42 438 £60,000 +4.35% 209
UK excluding London -26 374 £55,000 +4.76% 162
Work from Home -54 165 £55,000 +4.76% 195
North of England -28 129 £60,000 +4.35% 55
South East -10 106 £55,650 +8.59% 46
London -36 76 £85,000 +1.49% 59
North West -29 68 £60,000 +9.09% 34
Yorkshire -19 51 £60,000 - 13
Midlands -38 49 £52,500 - 18
South West -33 45 £50,000 -24.53% 12
East of England -45 32 £55,000 +4.27% 20
West Midlands -14 30 £50,000 -13.04% 11
East Midlands -47 19 £55,000 +4.76% 7
North East -30 10 £55,000 +22.22% 8
Scotland -46 7 £55,000 +69.23% 10
Wales -26 6 £45,000 -10.00% 4

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 474 (100.00%) .NET
2 296 (62.45%) C#
3 175 (36.92%) Azure
3 175 (36.92%) Full-Stack Development
4 140 (29.54%) .NET Core
5 126 (26.58%) SQL
6 120 (25.32%) Agile
7 96 (20.25%) ASP.NET
8 89 (18.78%) CI/CD
9 84 (17.72%) SQL Server
10 81 (17.09%) React
11 77 (16.24%) Microsoft
12 76 (16.03%) SaaS
12 76 (16.03%) Software Engineering
13 74 (15.61%) JavaScript
14 73 (15.40%) DevOps
15 71 (14.98%) Microservices
16 67 (14.14%) HTML
17 65 (13.71%) CSS
18 62 (13.08%) RESTful
19 60 (12.66%) ASP.NET Core
20 58 (12.24%) .NET Framework
21 54 (11.39%) AWS
22 52 (10.97%) AngularJS
23 51 (10.76%) TypeScript
24 49 (10.34%) Blazor
24 49 (10.34%) MVC
25 47 (9.92%) Azure DevOps
26 45 (9.49%) Docker
27 43 (9.07%) 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 (0.63%) IIS
2 2 (0.42%) NServiceBus
2 2 (0.42%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.21%) CMS
3 1 (0.21%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 175 (36.92%) Azure
2 76 (16.03%) SaaS
3 54 (11.39%) AWS
4 47 (9.92%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (8.44%) GitHub
6 39 (8.23%) Serverless
7 29 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (4.43%) Azure Logic Apps
9 17 (3.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 15 (3.16%) Azure App Service
10 15 (3.16%) Entra ID
10 15 (3.16%) PaaS
11 14 (2.95%) Azure AI
11 14 (2.95%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (2.74%) Amazon S3
12 13 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (2.74%) Azure Functions
13 12 (2.53%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.84%) Internet
2 2 (0.42%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.21%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (17.72%) SQL Server
2 38 (8.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 35 (7.38%) NoSQL
4 30 (6.33%) MongoDB
5 14 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.53%) DynamoDB
7 10 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (1.48%) MySQL
9 4 (0.84%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.63%) Power BI
11 2 (0.42%) CouchDB
12 1 (0.21%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.21%) NonStop SQL
12 1 (0.21%) Redis
12 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (8.44%) Git
2 8 (1.69%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.21%) JIRA
3 1 (0.21%) MSTest
3 1 (0.21%) NUnit
3 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.21%) Postman
3 1 (0.21%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.21%) Vite
3 1 (0.21%) webpack
General
1 47 (9.92%) Finance
2 40 (8.44%) Social Skills
3 10 (2.11%) Games
4 8 (1.69%) Law
5 7 (1.48%) Banking
5 7 (1.48%) Manufacturing
6 5 (1.05%) Back Office
7 4 (0.84%) Advertising
7 4 (0.84%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (0.84%) Investment Banking
7 4 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (0.63%) Front Office
8 3 (0.63%) Marketing
9 2 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.42%) Electronics
9 2 (0.42%) Legal
9 2 (0.42%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.42%) Retail
10 1 (0.21%) iGaming
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 474 (100.00%) .NET
2 140 (29.54%) .NET Core
3 96 (20.25%) ASP.NET
4 81 (17.09%) React
5 67 (14.14%) HTML
6 65 (13.71%) CSS
7 62 (13.08%) RESTful
8 60 (12.66%) ASP.NET Core
9 58 (12.24%) .NET Framework
10 52 (10.97%) AngularJS
11 49 (10.34%) Blazor
12 43 (9.07%) Vue
13 38 (8.02%) Entity Framework
14 28 (5.91%) ASP.NET Web API
14 28 (5.91%) REST
15 20 (4.22%) ASP.NET MVC
16 19 (4.01%) Razor View Engine
17 13 (2.74%) ASP.NET Web Forms
17 13 (2.74%) ML.NET
18 12 (2.53%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.23%) Mobile App
2 21 (4.43%) Cloud Native
3 13 (2.74%) PropTech
4 12 (2.53%) Hedge funds
5 8 (1.69%) Sports Betting
6 7 (1.48%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.27%) Legacy Code
8 5 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.84%) Social Network
10 3 (0.63%) Derivative
10 3 (0.63%) Digital TV
10 3 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.42%) BBC
11 2 (0.42%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.42%) IoT
11 2 (0.42%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.84%) Android
1 4 (0.84%) Windows
2 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.42%) Linux
2 2 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (36.92%) Full-Stack Development
2 120 (25.32%) Agile
3 89 (18.78%) CI/CD
4 76 (16.03%) Software Engineering
5 73 (15.40%) DevOps
6 71 (14.98%) Microservices
7 49 (10.34%) MVC
8 43 (9.07%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (8.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (6.33%) AI
10 30 (6.33%) Clean Code
11 29 (6.12%) TDD
12 27 (5.70%) Scrum
13 25 (5.27%) SDLC
14 23 (4.85%) Containerisation
15 22 (4.64%) Mentoring
16 20 (4.22%) API Development
16 20 (4.22%) Code Quality
17 19 (4.01%) Multithreading
17 19 (4.01%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 296 (62.45%) C#
2 126 (26.58%) SQL
3 74 (15.61%) JavaScript
4 51 (10.76%) TypeScript
5 10 (2.11%) VB
6 6 (1.27%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.63%) Bicep
7 3 (0.63%) VB.NET
8 2 (0.42%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.42%) XAML
9 1 (0.21%) C++
9 1 (0.21%) Java
Qualifications
1 24 (5.06%) SC Cleared
1 24 (5.06%) Security Cleared
2 18 (3.80%) Degree
3 14 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (2.11%) AWS Certification
4 10 (2.11%) AWS Certified Developer
5 8 (1.69%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.21%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.80%) QA
2 5 (1.05%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 45 (9.49%) Docker
2 9 (1.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (3.80%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 77 (16.24%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.16%) Xamarin
3 5 (1.05%) Facebook
3 5 (1.05%) OpenAI
4 4 (0.84%) Google
4 4 (0.84%) Telerik
5 3 (0.63%) Sage
6 2 (0.42%) Apple
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle
6 2 (0.42%) Sony
6 2 (0.42%) Yahoo!
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe
7 1 (0.21%) Databricks
7 1 (0.21%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.21%) Foundry
7 1 (0.21%) IBM
7 1 (0.21%) Infragistics
7 1 (0.21%) Perforce
7 1 (0.21%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.21%) YouTube