.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 29 November 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 163 149
Rank change year-on-year -197 -14 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 319 1,096 1,166
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.65% 2.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 1.75% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 293 871 1,084
10th Percentile £43,750 £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -5.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £65,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £82,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +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 48,849 62,485 48,786
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.27% 94.31% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 30,833 34,885 37,936
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.65% -0.95% -

.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 29 November 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 29 November 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 -164 293 £63,500 +10.43% 197
UK excluding London -189 205 £60,000 +9.09% 172
Work from Home -76 187 £65,000 +23.81% 184
London -27 91 £75,000 +3.45% 53
South East -47 68 £75,000 +30.43% 61
North of England -89 64 £60,000 +9.09% 41
North West -31 41 £60,000 +4.35% 25
South West -23 26 £50,000 -13.04% 13
Midlands -58 25 £52,500 -4.55% 19
Yorkshire -55 16 £60,000 +9.09% 11
West Midlands -23 14 £57,500 +4.55% 11
East of England -41 13 £57,500 +15.00% 18
East Midlands -25 11 £33,750 -38.64% 8
North East -27 7 £50,000 - 5
Scotland -80 5 £55,000 +15.79% 10
Wales -5 4 £45,000 -25.00% 10

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

For the 6 months to 29 November 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.

1 319 (100.00%) .NET
2 245 (76.80%) C#
3 208 (65.20%) Azure
4 174 (54.55%) Agile
5 148 (46.39%) JavaScript
6 133 (41.69%) .NET Core
7 128 (40.13%) Full-Stack Development
7 128 (40.13%) SQL
8 114 (35.74%) SQL Server
9 109 (34.17%) Microservices
10 108 (33.86%) CI/CD
11 105 (32.92%) ASP.NET
12 99 (31.03%) AWS
12 99 (31.03%) TypeScript
13 98 (30.72%) MVC
14 95 (29.78%) Microsoft
15 92 (28.84%) .NET Framework
16 90 (28.21%) DevOps
17 87 (27.27%) React
18 83 (26.02%) HTML
19 81 (25.39%) AngularJS
20 72 (22.57%) CSS
21 71 (22.26%) RESTful
22 70 (21.94%) ASP.NET Web API
23 68 (21.32%) Git
24 67 (21.00%) Scrum
25 65 (20.38%) Entity Framework
26 64 (20.06%) Software Engineering
27 63 (19.75%) ASP.NET MVC
28 61 (19.12%) MongoDB

.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 13 (4.08%) CMS
2 9 (2.82%) Confluence
2 9 (2.82%) IIS
3 2 (0.63%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.31%) Kentico
4 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.31%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.94%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.31%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.31%) Magento
2 1 (0.31%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 208 (65.20%) Azure
2 99 (31.03%) AWS
3 59 (18.50%) SaaS
4 44 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (11.91%) Serverless
6 32 (10.03%) GCP
6 32 (10.03%) GitHub
7 22 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (5.96%) Azure Service Bus
9 17 (5.33%) Azure App Service
10 16 (5.02%) Entra ID
11 15 (4.70%) PaaS
12 11 (3.45%) Azure Functions
12 11 (3.45%) Power Platform
13 7 (2.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 6 (1.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.88%) Amazon S3
14 6 (1.88%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (1.88%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.94%) Internet
2 1 (0.31%) DNS
2 1 (0.31%) HTTP
2 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (35.74%) SQL Server
2 61 (19.12%) MongoDB
3 51 (15.99%) Azure SQL Database
4 44 (13.79%) NoSQL
5 28 (8.78%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (4.08%) MySQL
7 11 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (3.13%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.19%) NonStop SQL
10 6 (1.88%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.57%) Power BI
12 4 (1.25%) Redis
13 1 (0.31%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.31%) RavenDB
13 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 68 (21.32%) Git
2 13 (4.08%) Visual Studio
3 12 (3.76%) JIRA
4 8 (2.51%) NUnit
5 5 (1.57%) Postman
5 5 (1.57%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.25%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.25%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.25%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.94%) Jasmine
7 3 (0.94%) JMeter
7 3 (0.94%) Selenium
7 3 (0.94%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.63%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.63%) MSTest
8 2 (0.63%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.31%) GitLab
9 1 (0.31%) Sourcetree
9 1 (0.31%) Subversion
General
1 70 (21.94%) Finance
2 61 (19.12%) Social Skills
3 14 (4.39%) Front Office
4 8 (2.51%) Banking
4 8 (2.51%) Games
4 8 (2.51%) Public Sector
4 8 (2.51%) Retail
5 7 (2.19%) Advertising
5 7 (2.19%) Back Office
6 5 (1.57%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (1.57%) Legal
7 4 (1.25%) Electronics
7 4 (1.25%) Law
7 4 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (0.94%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.63%) Automotive
9 2 (0.63%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.63%) Marketing
10 1 (0.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 319 (100.00%) .NET
2 133 (41.69%) .NET Core
3 105 (32.92%) ASP.NET
4 92 (28.84%) .NET Framework
5 87 (27.27%) React
6 83 (26.02%) HTML
7 81 (25.39%) AngularJS
8 72 (22.57%) CSS
9 71 (22.26%) RESTful
10 70 (21.94%) ASP.NET Web API
11 65 (20.38%) Entity Framework
12 63 (19.75%) ASP.NET MVC
13 51 (15.99%) Blazor
14 44 (13.79%) Vue
15 39 (12.23%) REST
16 35 (10.97%) ASP.NET Core
17 33 (10.34%) HTML5
18 28 (8.78%) Node.js
19 21 (6.58%) LINQ
20 20 (6.27%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.52%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.33%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (4.70%) Mobile App
4 8 (2.51%) Clustering
4 8 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.19%) Digital TV
6 6 (1.88%) Online Games
7 5 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.57%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.94%) BYOD
9 3 (0.94%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.94%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.94%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.63%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.19%) Android
1 7 (2.19%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.57%) Linux
3 2 (0.63%) Windows
4 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (54.55%) Agile
2 128 (40.13%) Full-Stack Development
3 109 (34.17%) Microservices
4 108 (33.86%) CI/CD
5 98 (30.72%) MVC
6 90 (28.21%) DevOps
7 67 (21.00%) Scrum
8 64 (20.06%) Software Engineering
9 53 (16.61%) Roadmaps
10 49 (15.36%) TDD
11 48 (15.05%) AI
12 45 (14.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 45 (14.11%) Kanban
13 44 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (12.54%) Clean Code
15 34 (10.66%) Design Patterns
16 31 (9.72%) Business Strategy
17 28 (8.78%) BDD
17 28 (8.78%) Front End Development
18 27 (8.46%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 245 (76.80%) C#
2 148 (46.39%) JavaScript
3 128 (40.13%) SQL
4 99 (31.03%) TypeScript
5 8 (2.51%) T-SQL
6 5 (1.57%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.25%) XAML
8 3 (0.94%) Erlang
9 2 (0.63%) Bicep
9 2 (0.63%) Python
9 2 (0.63%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.31%) Java
10 1 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (8.78%) Degree
2 20 (6.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.45%) Master's Degree
4 6 (1.88%) AWS Certification
4 6 (1.88%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.31%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.09%) QA
2 8 (2.51%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.94%) WCAG
4 2 (0.63%) GDPR
5 1 (0.31%) HL7
5 1 (0.31%) IFRS
5 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (11.60%) Docker
2 13 (4.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (5.64%) Terraform
2 15 (4.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 95 (29.78%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.19%) Facebook
2 7 (2.19%) YouTube
3 5 (1.57%) Oracle
4 4 (1.25%) Rollbar
4 4 (1.25%) Telerik
4 4 (1.25%) Xamarin
5 3 (0.94%) Dynatrace
5 3 (0.94%) Splunk
5 3 (0.94%) Trayport
6 2 (0.63%) Adobe
6 2 (0.63%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.63%) Sybase
7 1 (0.31%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.31%) Foundry
7 1 (0.31%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.31%) Okta
7 1 (0.31%) Salesforce