.NET Developer Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer salary in the UK is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 November 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 144 140
Rank change year-on-year -235 -4 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 307 1,266 1,254
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.61% 1.86% 2.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 1.96% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 281 1,031 1,167
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £41,750
25th Percentile £49,750 £45,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £65,625 £77,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £80,000 £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 45,700 64,689 50,755
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.10% 95.04% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 28,478 36,679 39,389
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,219 £42,631
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -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 7 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 7 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 -207 292 £60,000 +4.35% 422
UK excluding London -226 198 £60,000 +9.09% 337
Work from Home -117 189 £65,000 +20.37% 392
London -57 92 £75,000 +7.14% 139
North of England -133 67 £60,000 +9.09% 102
South East -87 65 £75,000 +25.00% 118
North West -70 44 £60,000 +4.35% 79
Midlands -83 27 £50,000 -9.09% 40
South West -20 24 £49,000 -14.78% 17
West Midlands -46 17 £52,500 -4.55% 22
Yorkshire -60 15 £60,000 +9.09% 17
East of England -32 12 £57,500 +15.00% 33
East Midlands -39 10 £26,500 -51.82% 17
North East -37 8 £50,000 -9.09% 7
Scotland -92 2 £42,500 -15.00% 7
Wales -13 1 £41,500 -30.83% 11

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 307 (100.00%) .NET
2 247 (80.46%) C#
3 202 (65.80%) Azure
4 173 (56.35%) Agile
5 148 (48.21%) JavaScript
6 131 (42.67%) SQL
7 121 (39.41%) Full-Stack Development
8 118 (38.44%) .NET Core
9 112 (36.48%) SQL Server
10 108 (35.18%) Microservices
11 101 (32.90%) ASP.NET
12 100 (32.57%) CI/CD
13 99 (32.25%) AWS
14 96 (31.27%) Microsoft
15 95 (30.94%) MVC
15 95 (30.94%) TypeScript
16 87 (28.34%) DevOps
17 86 (28.01%) .NET Framework
18 84 (27.36%) AngularJS
18 84 (27.36%) HTML
19 77 (25.08%) React
20 73 (23.78%) CSS
21 68 (22.15%) Git
22 66 (21.50%) ASP.NET Web API
23 65 (21.17%) MongoDB
23 65 (21.17%) RESTful
24 64 (20.85%) Scrum
25 63 (20.52%) Entity Framework
26 62 (20.20%) Software Engineering
27 60 (19.54%) ASP.NET MVC

.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 14 (4.56%) CMS
2 11 (3.58%) Confluence
2 11 (3.58%) IIS
3 1 (0.33%) Kentico
3 1 (0.33%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.33%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.98%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.33%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) Carpe Diem
2 1 (0.33%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.33%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.33%) Magento
2 1 (0.33%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (0.33%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 202 (65.80%) Azure
2 99 (32.25%) AWS
3 56 (18.24%) SaaS
4 38 (12.38%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (10.42%) GCP
5 32 (10.42%) Serverless
6 28 (9.12%) GitHub
7 16 (5.21%) Azure Service Bus
8 15 (4.89%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (4.56%) Azure App Service
10 13 (4.23%) Entra ID
11 12 (3.91%) Power Platform
12 11 (3.58%) Azure Functions
12 11 (3.58%) PaaS
13 7 (2.28%) Power Automate
14 6 (1.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 6 (1.95%) Cloudflare
14 6 (1.95%) PowerApps
15 5 (1.63%) Azure Logic Apps
16 3 (0.98%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.30%) Internet
2 1 (0.33%) HTTP
2 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (36.48%) SQL Server
2 65 (21.17%) MongoDB
3 48 (15.64%) Azure SQL Database
4 35 (11.40%) NoSQL
5 30 (9.77%) Elasticsearch
6 16 (5.21%) MySQL
7 11 (3.58%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.28%) NonStop SQL
8 7 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (1.95%) Power BI
10 4 (1.30%) Redis
11 2 (0.65%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.65%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.33%) RavenDB
12 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 68 (22.15%) Git
2 15 (4.89%) JIRA
3 10 (3.26%) NUnit
4 9 (2.93%) Visual Studio
5 7 (2.28%) TeamCity
6 5 (1.63%) Jasmine
6 5 (1.63%) Postman
7 4 (1.30%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.30%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.98%) JMeter
8 3 (0.98%) Selenium
8 3 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.65%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.65%) MSTest
9 2 (0.65%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.33%) GitLab
10 1 (0.33%) Sourcetree
10 1 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 69 (22.48%) Finance
2 57 (18.57%) Social Skills
3 18 (5.86%) Front Office
4 10 (3.26%) Banking
4 10 (3.26%) Retail
5 9 (2.93%) Games
6 8 (2.61%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.28%) Advertising
7 7 (2.28%) Back Office
8 6 (1.95%) Law
8 6 (1.95%) Legal
9 5 (1.63%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.30%) Electronics
10 4 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.98%) Automotive
11 3 (0.98%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.98%) Marketing
12 2 (0.65%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 307 (100.00%) .NET
2 118 (38.44%) .NET Core
3 101 (32.90%) ASP.NET
4 86 (28.01%) .NET Framework
5 84 (27.36%) AngularJS
5 84 (27.36%) HTML
6 77 (25.08%) React
7 73 (23.78%) CSS
8 66 (21.50%) ASP.NET Web API
9 65 (21.17%) RESTful
10 63 (20.52%) Entity Framework
11 60 (19.54%) ASP.NET MVC
12 47 (15.31%) Vue
13 44 (14.33%) Blazor
14 41 (13.36%) REST
15 35 (11.40%) HTML5
16 29 (9.45%) ASP.NET Core
16 29 (9.45%) Node.js
17 19 (6.19%) CSS3
17 19 (6.19%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.86%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.54%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (4.56%) Mobile App
4 9 (2.93%) Clustering
4 9 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.28%) Digital TV
6 7 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.28%) Online Games
7 6 (1.95%) BYOD
8 5 (1.63%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.63%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.98%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.98%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.65%) Derivative
11 2 (0.65%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.65%) IoT
11 2 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.28%) Android
1 7 (2.28%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.63%) Linux
3 4 (1.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (56.35%) Agile
2 121 (39.41%) Full-Stack Development
3 108 (35.18%) Microservices
4 100 (32.57%) CI/CD
5 95 (30.94%) MVC
6 87 (28.34%) DevOps
7 64 (20.85%) Scrum
8 62 (20.20%) Software Engineering
9 56 (18.24%) Roadmaps
10 50 (16.29%) TDD
11 46 (14.98%) AI
12 45 (14.66%) Kanban
13 44 (14.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 41 (13.36%) Design Patterns
15 39 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
16 38 (12.38%) Clean Code
17 31 (10.10%) Business Strategy
18 29 (9.45%) BDD
18 29 (9.45%) Mentoring
19 26 (8.47%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 247 (80.46%) C#
2 148 (48.21%) JavaScript
3 131 (42.67%) SQL
4 95 (30.94%) TypeScript
5 8 (2.61%) T-SQL
6 5 (1.63%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.30%) Python
7 4 (1.30%) VB.NET
7 4 (1.30%) XAML
8 3 (0.98%) Erlang
9 2 (0.65%) Bicep
10 1 (0.33%) Java
10 1 (0.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 27 (8.79%) Degree
2 19 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (2.93%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.65%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.14%) QA
2 7 (2.28%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.98%) WCAG
4 2 (0.65%) GDPR
5 1 (0.33%) HL7
5 1 (0.33%) IFRS
System Software
1 33 (10.75%) Docker
2 11 (3.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (5.86%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 96 (31.27%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.28%) Facebook
2 7 (2.28%) YouTube
3 6 (1.95%) Rollbar
3 6 (1.95%) Trayport
4 5 (1.63%) Oracle
4 5 (1.63%) Splunk
5 4 (1.30%) Xamarin
6 3 (0.98%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.98%) Telerik
7 2 (0.65%) Adobe
7 2 (0.65%) Sybase
8 1 (0.33%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.33%) Intapp
8 1 (0.33%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.33%) Okta
8 1 (0.33%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.33%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.33%) SAP