.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 22 November 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 151 143
Rank change year-on-year -203 -8 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 312 1,202 1,196
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.75% 2.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 1.86% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 287 968 1,113
10th Percentile £43,750 £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £49,875 £45,000 £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 £82,125 £65,000 £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 48,061 64,786 49,849
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.17% 94.56% 95.40%
Number of salaries quoted 30,303 36,624 38,666
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.86% -2.86% -

.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 22 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 22 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 -190 290 £60,000 +4.35% 319
UK excluding London -199 202 £60,000 +9.09% 261
Work from Home -78 183 £65,000 +20.37% 308
London -40 89 £75,000 +3.45% 87
South East -63 68 £75,000 +25.00% 70
North of England -103 66 £60,000 +9.09% 77
North West -48 42 £60,000 +4.35% 51
Midlands -63 26 £52,500 -4.55% 34
South West -24 25 £50,000 -13.04% 25
Yorkshire -51 16 £60,000 +9.09% 18
West Midlands -33 14 £57,500 +4.55% 23
East Midlands -30 12 £33,750 -38.64% 11
East of England -50 11 £57,500 +15.00% 28
North East -28 8 £50,000 - 8
Wales -5 4 £45,000 -25.00% 14
Scotland -79 2 £42,500 -10.53% 12

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

For the 6 months to 22 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.

1 312 (100.00%) .NET
2 240 (76.92%) C#
3 203 (65.06%) Azure
4 174 (55.77%) Agile
5 148 (47.44%) JavaScript
6 132 (42.31%) SQL
7 125 (40.06%) .NET Core
7 125 (40.06%) Full-Stack Development
8 112 (35.90%) SQL Server
9 106 (33.97%) ASP.NET
9 106 (33.97%) Microservices
10 105 (33.65%) CI/CD
11 98 (31.41%) AWS
11 98 (31.41%) MVC
12 97 (31.09%) TypeScript
13 96 (30.77%) Microsoft
14 92 (29.49%) .NET Framework
15 88 (28.21%) DevOps
16 84 (26.92%) HTML
17 82 (26.28%) AngularJS
17 82 (26.28%) React
18 73 (23.40%) CSS
19 68 (21.79%) ASP.NET Web API
19 68 (21.79%) Git
19 68 (21.79%) RESTful
20 67 (21.47%) Scrum
21 65 (20.83%) Entity Framework
22 63 (20.19%) ASP.NET MVC
23 62 (19.87%) MongoDB
23 62 (19.87%) Software Engineering

.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 (4.17%) CMS
2 10 (3.21%) IIS
3 9 (2.88%) Confluence
4 2 (0.64%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.32%) Kentico
5 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.32%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.96%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.32%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.32%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.32%) Magento
2 1 (0.32%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (0.32%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 203 (65.06%) Azure
2 98 (31.41%) AWS
3 59 (18.91%) SaaS
4 42 (13.46%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (11.54%) Serverless
6 32 (10.26%) GCP
7 30 (9.62%) GitHub
8 19 (6.09%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (5.13%) Azure App Service
9 16 (5.13%) Azure Service Bus
10 15 (4.81%) Entra ID
11 14 (4.49%) PaaS
12 11 (3.53%) Azure Functions
12 11 (3.53%) Power Platform
13 7 (2.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 6 (1.92%) Power Automate
15 5 (1.60%) Cloudflare
15 5 (1.60%) PowerApps
16 4 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 4 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.96%) Internet
2 1 (0.32%) HTTP
2 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (35.90%) SQL Server
2 62 (19.87%) MongoDB
3 50 (16.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 41 (13.14%) NoSQL
5 29 (9.29%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (4.81%) MySQL
7 11 (3.53%) Relational Database
8 9 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (2.24%) NonStop SQL
10 5 (1.60%) Power BI
11 4 (1.28%) DynamoDB
11 4 (1.28%) Redis
12 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.32%) RavenDB
12 1 (0.32%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 68 (21.79%) Git
2 13 (4.17%) JIRA
3 12 (3.85%) Visual Studio
4 9 (2.88%) NUnit
5 6 (1.92%) TeamCity
6 5 (1.60%) Postman
7 4 (1.28%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.28%) Jasmine
7 4 (1.28%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.96%) JMeter
8 3 (0.96%) Selenium
8 3 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.64%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.64%) MSTest
9 2 (0.64%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.32%) GitLab
10 1 (0.32%) Sourcetree
10 1 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 66 (21.15%) Finance
2 62 (19.87%) Social Skills
3 15 (4.81%) Front Office
4 9 (2.88%) Banking
4 9 (2.88%) Retail
5 8 (2.56%) Games
5 8 (2.56%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.24%) Advertising
7 6 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (1.92%) Back Office
8 5 (1.60%) Legal
9 4 (1.28%) Electronics
9 4 (1.28%) Law
9 4 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.96%) Automotive
10 3 (0.96%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.96%) Marketing
11 2 (0.64%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.64%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 312 (100.00%) .NET
2 125 (40.06%) .NET Core
3 106 (33.97%) ASP.NET
4 92 (29.49%) .NET Framework
5 84 (26.92%) HTML
6 82 (26.28%) AngularJS
6 82 (26.28%) React
7 73 (23.40%) CSS
8 68 (21.79%) ASP.NET Web API
8 68 (21.79%) RESTful
9 65 (20.83%) Entity Framework
10 63 (20.19%) ASP.NET MVC
11 47 (15.06%) Blazor
12 45 (14.42%) Vue
13 40 (12.82%) REST
14 34 (10.90%) HTML5
15 33 (10.58%) ASP.NET Core
16 28 (8.97%) Node.js
17 20 (6.41%) ASP.NET Web Forms
17 20 (6.41%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.05%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (4.49%) Mobile App
4 8 (2.56%) Clustering
4 8 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.24%) Digital TV
6 6 (1.92%) Online Games
6 6 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.60%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.60%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.28%) BYOD
9 3 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.96%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.64%) Derivative
10 2 (0.64%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.64%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.64%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.24%) Android
1 7 (2.24%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.60%) Linux
3 3 (0.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (55.77%) Agile
2 125 (40.06%) Full-Stack Development
3 106 (33.97%) Microservices
4 105 (33.65%) CI/CD
5 98 (31.41%) MVC
6 88 (28.21%) DevOps
7 67 (21.47%) Scrum
8 62 (19.87%) Software Engineering
9 53 (16.99%) Roadmaps
10 49 (15.71%) TDD
11 47 (15.06%) AI
12 46 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 45 (14.42%) Kanban
14 43 (13.78%) Problem-Solving
15 41 (13.14%) Clean Code
16 36 (11.54%) Design Patterns
17 31 (9.94%) Business Strategy
18 29 (9.29%) BDD
19 28 (8.97%) Mentoring
20 26 (8.33%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 240 (76.92%) C#
2 148 (47.44%) JavaScript
3 132 (42.31%) SQL
4 97 (31.09%) TypeScript
5 7 (2.24%) T-SQL
6 5 (1.60%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.28%) XAML
8 3 (0.96%) Erlang
8 3 (0.96%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.64%) Bicep
9 2 (0.64%) Python
10 1 (0.32%) Java
10 1 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (8.97%) Degree
2 20 (6.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.53%) Master's Degree
4 4 (1.28%) AWS Certification
4 4 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.32%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.97%) QA
2 8 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.96%) WCAG
4 2 (0.64%) GDPR
5 1 (0.32%) HL7
5 1 (0.32%) IFRS
5 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 35 (11.22%) Docker
2 13 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (5.13%) Kubernetes
1 16 (5.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 96 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.24%) Facebook
2 7 (2.24%) YouTube
3 6 (1.92%) Oracle
4 5 (1.60%) Rollbar
5 4 (1.28%) Splunk
5 4 (1.28%) Telerik
5 4 (1.28%) Trayport
5 4 (1.28%) Xamarin
6 3 (0.96%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.64%) Adobe
7 2 (0.64%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.64%) Sybase
8 1 (0.32%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.32%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.32%) Okta
8 1 (0.32%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.32%) SAP