.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 May 2026.

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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 324 99
Rank change year-on-year +67 -225 +89
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 649 396 2,574
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.71% 0.90% 2.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 1.01% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 610 354 2,471
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,150 £39,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.27% -4.09% -

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 85,212 39,160 91,339
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 89.49% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,182 22,791 67,021
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,344 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.48% +4.69% -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 16 May 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 May 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 +75 604 £60,000 +4.35% 196
UK excluding London +72 531 £55,000 +4.27% 152
Work from Home +69 290 £55,000 - 179
North of England +43 173 £55,000 -8.33% 49
South East +65 156 £55,000 +4.76% 48
London -23 95 £85,000 +6.25% 55
North West +32 92 £60,000 - 26
Midlands +7 67 £55,000 +4.76% 18
East of England +6 57 £60,000 +13.21% 18
South West -14 56 £52,500 -4.55% 11
Yorkshire -15 54 £60,000 - 9
West Midlands -22 39 £55,000 -4.35% 10
East Midlands -13 28 £53,750 +13.16% 8
North East -20 27 £55,000 -38.89% 14
Scotland -15 14 £60,000 +84.62% 4
Wales -23 8 £47,500 -5.00% 4

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 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.

1 649 (100.00%) .NET
2 426 (65.64%) C#
3 292 (44.99%) Full-Stack Development
4 285 (43.91%) Azure
5 250 (38.52%) .NET Core
6 240 (36.98%) SQL
7 202 (31.12%) ASP.NET
8 192 (29.58%) Microsoft
9 187 (28.81%) Agile
10 173 (26.66%) ASP.NET Core
11 152 (23.42%) Azure SQL Database
12 130 (20.03%) MongoDB
13 124 (19.11%) CI/CD
14 109 (16.80%) React
15 108 (16.64%) DevOps
16 103 (15.87%) CSS
16 103 (15.87%) HTML
17 100 (15.41%) Microservices
18 97 (14.95%) JavaScript
18 97 (14.95%) RESTful
18 97 (14.95%) Software Engineering
19 88 (13.56%) Vue
20 87 (13.41%) Azure DevOps
21 86 (13.25%) Blazor
22 84 (12.94%) AngularJS
22 84 (12.94%) SaaS
23 80 (12.33%) Entity Framework
24 79 (12.17%) TypeScript
25 78 (12.02%) AI
25 78 (12.02%) AWS

.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 (0.46%) NServiceBus
2 2 (0.31%) IIS
2 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 285 (43.91%) Azure
2 87 (13.41%) Azure DevOps
3 84 (12.94%) SaaS
4 78 (12.02%) AWS
5 66 (10.17%) GitHub
6 51 (7.86%) Azure AI
7 39 (6.01%) GitHub Copilot
8 33 (5.08%) Serverless
9 32 (4.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 24 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (3.08%) Azure Logic Apps
12 16 (2.47%) Azure Functions
13 15 (2.31%) Azure Service Bus
14 13 (2.00%) PaaS
15 12 (1.85%) Azure App Service
15 12 (1.85%) Entra ID
16 10 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (1.54%) Amazon S3
16 10 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
17 9 (1.39%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.93%) Internet
2 3 (0.46%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.15%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (23.42%) Azure SQL Database
2 130 (20.03%) MongoDB
3 77 (11.86%) SQL Server
4 43 (6.63%) Elasticsearch
5 25 (3.85%) NoSQL
6 14 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (1.39%) DynamoDB
7 9 (1.39%) MySQL
8 4 (0.62%) NonStop SQL
8 4 (0.62%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.46%) Power BI
10 2 (0.31%) CouchDB
10 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.15%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.15%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.15%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (4.31%) Git
2 5 (0.77%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.46%) MSTest
3 3 (0.46%) NUnit
4 2 (0.31%) JIRA
5 1 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.15%) Postman
5 1 (0.15%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.15%) Vite
5 1 (0.15%) webpack
General
1 66 (10.17%) Finance
2 29 (4.47%) Social Skills
3 25 (3.85%) Games
4 15 (2.31%) Advertising
5 10 (1.54%) Law
6 9 (1.39%) Marketing
7 7 (1.08%) Manufacturing
7 7 (1.08%) Retail
8 6 (0.92%) Automotive
8 6 (0.92%) Banking
9 5 (0.77%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (0.77%) Back Office
10 4 (0.62%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.46%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.46%) Legal
11 3 (0.46%) Music Industry
12 2 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.15%) iGaming
13 1 (0.15%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 649 (100.00%) .NET
2 250 (38.52%) .NET Core
3 202 (31.12%) ASP.NET
4 173 (26.66%) ASP.NET Core
5 109 (16.80%) React
6 103 (15.87%) CSS
6 103 (15.87%) HTML
7 97 (14.95%) RESTful
8 88 (13.56%) Vue
9 86 (13.25%) Blazor
10 84 (12.94%) AngularJS
11 80 (12.33%) Entity Framework
12 64 (9.86%) ASP.NET Web API
13 55 (8.47%) .NET Framework
14 49 (7.55%) ML.NET
15 43 (6.63%) Node.js
16 40 (6.16%) LINQ
17 20 (3.08%) REST
18 13 (2.00%) Razor View Engine
19 12 (1.85%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.55%) Mobile App
2 37 (5.70%) Greenfield Project
3 19 (2.93%) Cloud Native
4 16 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (2.16%) Hedge funds
5 14 (2.16%) PropTech
6 9 (1.39%) Digital TV
6 9 (1.39%) Social Network
6 9 (1.39%) Sports Betting
7 8 (1.23%) Legacy Code
8 7 (1.08%) iPhone
9 6 (0.92%) BBC
9 6 (0.92%) Product Ownership
9 6 (0.92%) Social Media
10 5 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.31%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.31%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.31%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.31%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.23%) Android
2 6 (0.92%) Windows
3 2 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (44.99%) Full-Stack Development
2 187 (28.81%) Agile
3 124 (19.11%) CI/CD
4 108 (16.64%) DevOps
5 100 (15.41%) Microservices
6 97 (14.95%) Software Engineering
7 78 (12.02%) AI
8 58 (8.94%) Multithreading
9 54 (8.32%) Machine Learning
10 42 (6.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 40 (6.16%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (5.86%) OO
13 37 (5.70%) SDLC
13 37 (5.70%) TDD
14 35 (5.39%) Scrum
15 33 (5.08%) MVC
16 28 (4.31%) Kanban
17 25 (3.85%) Analytics
17 25 (3.85%) Clean Code
18 22 (3.39%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 426 (65.64%) C#
2 240 (36.98%) SQL
3 97 (14.95%) JavaScript
4 79 (12.17%) TypeScript
5 14 (2.16%) VB
6 10 (1.54%) Python
7 6 (0.92%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.62%) VB.NET
9 3 (0.46%) Bicep
10 1 (0.15%) C++
10 1 (0.15%) Java
10 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 37 (5.70%) SC Cleared
1 37 (5.70%) Security Cleared
2 22 (3.39%) Degree
3 15 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (1.08%) AWS Certification
4 7 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
5 5 (0.77%) Master's Degree
5 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.62%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.00%) QA
2 4 (0.62%) GDPR
3 1 (0.15%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 75 (11.56%) Docker
2 6 (0.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (8.01%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 192 (29.58%) Microsoft
2 18 (2.77%) Facebook
2 18 (2.77%) Google
3 16 (2.47%) Xamarin
4 6 (0.92%) Apple
4 6 (0.92%) OpenAI
4 6 (0.92%) Sony
4 6 (0.92%) Yahoo!
4 6 (0.92%) YouTube
5 4 (0.62%) Oracle
5 4 (0.62%) Sage
6 2 (0.31%) iManage
7 1 (0.15%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.15%) Databricks
7 1 (0.15%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.15%) IBM
7 1 (0.15%) Infragistics
7 1 (0.15%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.15%) SAP
7 1 (0.15%) ServiceNow