.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 20 May 2026.

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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 342 101
Rank change year-on-year +74 -241 +85
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 665 389 2,593
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.72% 0.88% 2.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.98% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 626 349 2,487
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,350 £39,900
25th Percentile £47,813 £46,250 £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 £88,750 £95,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -

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 86,118 39,518 92,024
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 89.61% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 56,984 22,887 67,462
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 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 20 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 20 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 +82 624 £60,000 - 192
UK excluding London +84 544 £55,000 +3.77% 158
Work from Home +73 293 £55,000 - 173
North of England +45 180 £55,000 -8.33% 54
South East +75 161 £55,000 +4.76% 50
London -15 102 £83,000 +3.75% 44
North West +33 94 £60,000 - 30
Midlands 0 67 £55,000 +4.76% 16
South West -25 58 £52,500 -4.55% 9
East of England +6 57 £60,000 +13.21% 23
Yorkshire -6 56 £60,000 - 10
West Midlands -16 40 £55,000 -4.35% 8
North East -17 30 £55,000 -38.89% 14
East Midlands -15 27 £55,000 +18.92% 8
Scotland -9 14 £60,000 +84.62% 3
Wales -23 7 £50,000 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 665 (100.00%) .NET
2 435 (65.41%) C#
3 301 (45.26%) Full-Stack Development
4 285 (42.86%) Azure
5 251 (37.74%) .NET Core
6 240 (36.09%) SQL
7 202 (30.38%) ASP.NET
8 192 (28.87%) Microsoft
9 187 (28.12%) Agile
10 174 (26.17%) ASP.NET Core
11 150 (22.56%) Azure SQL Database
12 130 (19.55%) MongoDB
13 125 (18.80%) CI/CD
14 109 (16.39%) React
15 108 (16.24%) Software Engineering
16 107 (16.09%) DevOps
17 105 (15.79%) CSS
17 105 (15.79%) HTML
18 102 (15.34%) Microservices
19 98 (14.74%) JavaScript
20 97 (14.59%) RESTful
21 94 (14.14%) Vue
22 87 (13.08%) Blazor
23 86 (12.93%) AngularJS
24 85 (12.78%) AWS
24 85 (12.78%) SaaS
25 84 (12.63%) Azure DevOps
26 82 (12.33%) AI
27 79 (11.88%) SQL Server
28 78 (11.73%) Entity Framework

.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 (0.45%) NServiceBus
2 2 (0.30%) IIS
2 2 (0.30%) 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 (42.86%) Azure
2 85 (12.78%) AWS
2 85 (12.78%) SaaS
3 84 (12.63%) Azure DevOps
4 66 (9.92%) GitHub
5 51 (7.67%) Azure AI
6 39 (5.86%) GitHub Copilot
7 34 (5.11%) Serverless
8 32 (4.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 24 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (3.01%) Azure Logic Apps
11 18 (2.71%) Azure Functions
12 16 (2.41%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (1.80%) PaaS
14 11 (1.65%) Azure App Service
14 11 (1.65%) Entra ID
15 10 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (1.50%) Amazon S3
15 10 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (1.35%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.86%) Internet
2 3 (0.45%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.15%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (22.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 130 (19.55%) MongoDB
3 79 (11.88%) SQL Server
4 43 (6.47%) Elasticsearch
5 24 (3.61%) NoSQL
6 15 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (1.65%) MySQL
8 9 (1.35%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.60%) NonStop SQL
10 3 (0.45%) Power BI
11 2 (0.30%) CouchDB
11 2 (0.30%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.15%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.15%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.15%) SAP BW
12 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (4.21%) Git
2 5 (0.75%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.45%) MSTest
3 3 (0.45%) NUnit
4 2 (0.30%) 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 70 (10.53%) Finance
2 29 (4.36%) Social Skills
3 25 (3.76%) Games
4 15 (2.26%) Advertising
5 10 (1.50%) Law
6 9 (1.35%) Marketing
7 7 (1.05%) Automotive
7 7 (1.05%) Manufacturing
7 7 (1.05%) Retail
8 6 (0.90%) Banking
9 5 (0.75%) Back Office
10 4 (0.60%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.60%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (0.45%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.45%) Legal
11 3 (0.45%) Music Industry
12 2 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.15%) iGaming
13 1 (0.15%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 665 (100.00%) .NET
2 251 (37.74%) .NET Core
3 202 (30.38%) ASP.NET
4 174 (26.17%) ASP.NET Core
5 109 (16.39%) React
6 105 (15.79%) CSS
6 105 (15.79%) HTML
7 97 (14.59%) RESTful
8 94 (14.14%) Vue
9 87 (13.08%) Blazor
10 86 (12.93%) AngularJS
11 78 (11.73%) Entity Framework
12 64 (9.62%) ASP.NET Web API
13 54 (8.12%) .NET Framework
14 49 (7.37%) ML.NET
15 43 (6.47%) Node.js
16 40 (6.02%) LINQ
17 20 (3.01%) REST
18 12 (1.80%) Razor View Engine
18 12 (1.80%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.37%) Mobile App
2 38 (5.71%) Greenfield Project
3 20 (3.01%) Cloud Native
4 16 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (2.11%) Hedge funds
5 14 (2.11%) PropTech
6 9 (1.35%) Digital TV
6 9 (1.35%) Social Network
6 9 (1.35%) Sports Betting
7 8 (1.20%) Legacy Code
8 7 (1.05%) iPhone
9 6 (0.90%) BBC
9 6 (0.90%) Product Ownership
9 6 (0.90%) Social Media
10 5 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.45%) Fixed Income
12 2 (0.30%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.30%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.30%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.20%) Android
2 6 (0.90%) Windows
3 2 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (45.26%) Full-Stack Development
2 187 (28.12%) Agile
3 125 (18.80%) CI/CD
4 108 (16.24%) Software Engineering
5 107 (16.09%) DevOps
6 102 (15.34%) Microservices
7 82 (12.33%) AI
8 58 (8.72%) Multithreading
9 54 (8.12%) Machine Learning
10 46 (6.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 41 (6.17%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (6.17%) SDLC
12 38 (5.71%) OO
13 37 (5.56%) TDD
14 34 (5.11%) Scrum
15 32 (4.81%) MVC
16 28 (4.21%) Kanban
17 26 (3.91%) Analytics
18 25 (3.76%) CQRS
18 25 (3.76%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 435 (65.41%) C#
2 240 (36.09%) SQL
3 98 (14.74%) JavaScript
4 78 (11.73%) TypeScript
5 15 (2.26%) VB
6 13 (1.95%) Python
7 6 (0.90%) T-SQL
7 6 (0.90%) VB.NET
8 3 (0.45%) Bicep
9 2 (0.30%) C++
10 1 (0.15%) Java
10 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 37 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 37 (5.56%) Security Cleared
2 23 (3.46%) Degree
3 15 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (1.05%) AWS Certification
4 7 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
5 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (0.75%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.60%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.65%) QA
2 5 (0.75%) GDPR
3 1 (0.15%) Accessibility
System Software
1 76 (11.43%) Docker
2 5 (0.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 53 (7.97%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 192 (28.87%) Microsoft
2 18 (2.71%) Facebook
2 18 (2.71%) Google
3 16 (2.41%) Xamarin
4 6 (0.90%) Apple
4 6 (0.90%) Sony
4 6 (0.90%) Yahoo!
4 6 (0.90%) YouTube
5 5 (0.75%) OpenAI
5 5 (0.75%) Oracle
6 4 (0.60%) Sage
7 2 (0.30%) iManage
8 1 (0.15%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.15%) Databricks
8 1 (0.15%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.15%) Infragistics
8 1 (0.15%) OneLogin
8 1 (0.15%) Perforce
8 1 (0.15%) SAP
8 1 (0.15%) ServiceNow