.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 7 April 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 270 99
Rank change year-on-year -53 -171 +88
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 457 461 2,508
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.12% 2.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 1.25% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 413 414 2,414
10th Percentile £43,750 £34,725 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +1.85%

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 76,056 36,861 85,999
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 89.84% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 48,922 23,343 64,499
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,501
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -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 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 7 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 -39 421 £60,000 +4.35% 221
UK excluding London -53 355 £55,000 +4.76% 169
Work from Home -54 170 £55,000 +6.80% 201
North of England -37 125 £60,000 +4.35% 54
South East -18 94 £55,650 +6.00% 48
London -33 76 £80,750 -5.00% 65
North West -41 62 £60,000 +9.09% 32
Yorkshire -25 51 £60,000 - 16
Midlands -33 49 £52,500 - 19
South West -25 43 £50,000 -20.00% 19
East of England -47 32 £55,000 +15.79% 21
West Midlands -11 29 £50,000 -13.04% 10
East Midlands -43 20 £55,000 +4.76% 9
North East -21 12 £55,000 +22.22% 8
Wales -23 6 £45,000 -10.00% 4
Scotland -50 6 £55,000 +69.23% 5

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 457 (100.00%) .NET
2 293 (64.11%) C#
3 181 (39.61%) Full-Stack Development
4 175 (38.29%) Azure
5 149 (32.60%) .NET Core
6 132 (28.88%) SQL
7 126 (27.57%) Agile
8 102 (22.32%) ASP.NET
9 92 (20.13%) CI/CD
10 87 (19.04%) React
10 87 (19.04%) SQL Server
11 85 (18.60%) JavaScript
12 83 (18.16%) Microsoft
13 76 (16.63%) DevOps
13 76 (16.63%) Microservices
14 74 (16.19%) Software Engineering
15 73 (15.97%) HTML
16 70 (15.32%) CSS
16 70 (15.32%) SaaS
17 67 (14.66%) RESTful
18 63 (13.79%) .NET Framework
19 60 (13.13%) ASP.NET Core
20 59 (12.91%) MVC
21 57 (12.47%) AngularJS
22 55 (12.04%) AWS
23 54 (11.82%) TypeScript
24 52 (11.38%) Blazor
25 46 (10.07%) Azure DevOps
25 46 (10.07%) Problem-Solving
26 45 (9.85%) Docker

.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 (0.66%) IIS
2 2 (0.44%) CMS
2 2 (0.44%) NServiceBus
2 2 (0.44%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.22%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 175 (38.29%) Azure
2 70 (15.32%) SaaS
3 55 (12.04%) AWS
4 46 (10.07%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (8.75%) GitHub
6 39 (8.53%) Serverless
7 29 (6.35%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (3.94%) Azure Logic Apps
9 17 (3.72%) Azure App Service
9 17 (3.72%) Entra ID
10 16 (3.50%) PaaS
11 15 (3.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 14 (3.06%) Azure AI
13 13 (2.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (2.84%) Amazon S3
13 13 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
14 12 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
14 12 (2.63%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.09%) Internet
2 2 (0.44%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (19.04%) SQL Server
2 43 (9.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 37 (8.10%) NoSQL
4 36 (7.88%) MongoDB
5 14 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (2.63%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.31%) MySQL
9 4 (0.88%) Power BI
10 3 (0.66%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.44%) CouchDB
11 2 (0.44%) NonStop SQL
12 1 (0.22%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.22%) Redis
12 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (8.75%) Git
2 9 (1.97%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.22%) MSTest
3 1 (0.22%) NUnit
3 1 (0.22%) Postman
3 1 (0.22%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.22%) Vite
3 1 (0.22%) webpack
General
1 50 (10.94%) Finance
2 43 (9.41%) Social Skills
3 10 (2.19%) Games
4 8 (1.75%) Banking
4 8 (1.75%) Law
5 7 (1.53%) Manufacturing
6 5 (1.09%) Advertising
6 5 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (0.88%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (0.88%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.66%) Back Office
8 3 (0.66%) Electronics
8 3 (0.66%) Front Office
8 3 (0.66%) Marketing
9 2 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.44%) Legal
9 2 (0.44%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.22%) iGaming
10 1 (0.22%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 457 (100.00%) .NET
2 149 (32.60%) .NET Core
3 102 (22.32%) ASP.NET
4 87 (19.04%) React
5 73 (15.97%) HTML
6 70 (15.32%) CSS
7 67 (14.66%) RESTful
8 63 (13.79%) .NET Framework
9 60 (13.13%) ASP.NET Core
10 57 (12.47%) AngularJS
11 52 (11.38%) Blazor
12 43 (9.41%) Vue
13 42 (9.19%) Entity Framework
14 33 (7.22%) ASP.NET Web API
15 28 (6.13%) REST
16 27 (5.91%) ASP.NET MVC
17 20 (4.38%) Razor View Engine
18 15 (3.28%) ASP.NET Web Forms
19 13 (2.84%) ML.NET
19 13 (2.84%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.44%) Mobile App
2 21 (4.60%) Cloud Native
3 12 (2.63%) Hedge funds
3 12 (2.63%) PropTech
4 8 (1.75%) Sports Betting
5 7 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.31%) Legacy Code
6 6 (1.31%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (0.88%) Digital TV
8 4 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (0.88%) Social Network
9 3 (0.66%) Derivative
10 2 (0.44%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.44%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.44%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.44%) IoT
10 2 (0.44%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.44%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.88%) Android
1 4 (0.88%) Windows
2 3 (0.66%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.44%) Linux
3 2 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (39.61%) Full-Stack Development
2 126 (27.57%) Agile
3 92 (20.13%) CI/CD
4 76 (16.63%) DevOps
4 76 (16.63%) Microservices
5 74 (16.19%) Software Engineering
6 59 (12.91%) MVC
7 46 (10.07%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (8.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (7.22%) Scrum
10 31 (6.78%) Clean Code
10 31 (6.78%) TDD
11 29 (6.35%) AI
12 27 (5.91%) SDLC
13 24 (5.25%) Containerisation
14 23 (5.03%) Kanban
15 22 (4.81%) Mentoring
16 21 (4.60%) Code Quality
16 21 (4.60%) Multithreading
17 20 (4.38%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 293 (64.11%) C#
2 132 (28.88%) SQL
3 85 (18.60%) JavaScript
4 54 (11.82%) TypeScript
5 6 (1.31%) T-SQL
5 6 (1.31%) VB
6 4 (0.88%) Bicep
7 3 (0.66%) XAML
8 2 (0.44%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.44%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.22%) C++
9 1 (0.22%) Erlang
9 1 (0.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 19 (4.16%) Degree
2 18 (3.94%) SC Cleared
2 18 (3.94%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (2.19%) AWS Certification
4 10 (2.19%) AWS Certified Developer
5 9 (1.97%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.94%) QA
2 5 (1.09%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 45 (9.85%) Docker
2 10 (2.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (3.94%) Kubernetes
2 16 (3.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 83 (18.16%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.84%) Xamarin
3 6 (1.31%) Facebook
4 4 (0.88%) Google
4 4 (0.88%) OpenAI
4 4 (0.88%) Telerik
5 3 (0.66%) Sage
6 2 (0.44%) Apple
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle
6 2 (0.44%) Sony
6 2 (0.44%) Yahoo!
6 2 (0.44%) YouTube
7 1 (0.22%) Adobe
7 1 (0.22%) Databricks
7 1 (0.22%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.22%) Foundry
7 1 (0.22%) IBM
7 1 (0.22%) Infragistics
7 1 (0.22%) Perforce
7 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow