.NET Developer Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 June 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 352 88
Rank change year-on-year +128 -264 +93
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 804 366 3,012
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.86% 0.82% 2.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 0.91% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 762 337 2,828
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% -

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 88,029 40,047 103,056
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 89.54% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 60,387 22,686 74,432
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £38,620
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 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

.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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +115 757 £55,000 -8.33% 179
UK excluding London +128 681 £55,000 +2.80% 140
Work from Home +108 426 £55,000 -4.35% 165
North of England +65 218 £55,000 -8.33% 43
South East +100 206 £55,000 - 47
North West +46 110 £55,000 - 23
London -24 107 £80,000 - 62
East of England +37 82 £60,000 +13.21% 17
Midlands +22 82 £55,000 +10.00% 12
South West -16 64 £52,500 +5.00% 9
Yorkshire +9 58 £57,500 -4.17% 8
North East -4 50 £55,000 -45.00% 12
West Midlands +8 48 £55,000 +2.33% 8
East Midlands -1 34 £52,500 +16.67% 4
Scotland +17 20 £55,000 +69.23% 4
Wales -38 9 £50,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 18 June 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.

1 804 (100.00%) .NET
2 585 (72.76%) C#
3 439 (54.60%) Full-Stack Development
4 422 (52.49%) Azure
5 377 (46.89%) .NET Core
6 373 (46.39%) SQL
7 339 (42.16%) ASP.NET
8 324 (40.30%) Microsoft
9 307 (38.18%) ASP.NET Core
10 288 (35.82%) Agile
11 280 (34.83%) Azure SQL Database
12 249 (30.97%) MongoDB
13 170 (21.14%) CI/CD
14 156 (19.40%) DevOps
15 155 (19.28%) React
16 154 (19.15%) CSS
17 153 (19.03%) HTML
17 153 (19.03%) JavaScript
18 140 (17.41%) AI
19 138 (17.16%) Blazor
20 135 (16.79%) Microservices
21 132 (16.42%) AngularJS
21 132 (16.42%) Azure DevOps
22 131 (16.29%) RESTful
22 131 (16.29%) Vue
23 130 (16.17%) Entity Framework
24 124 (15.42%) TypeScript
25 110 (13.68%) ASP.NET Web API
26 106 (13.18%) Docker
26 106 (13.18%) Multithreading

.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 4 (0.50%) NServiceBus
2 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.12%) CMS
3 1 (0.12%) DNN
3 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
3 1 (0.12%) IIS
3 1 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
3 1 (0.12%) Kentico
3 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.12%) Sitefinity
3 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.12%) Sage 200
1 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 422 (52.49%) Azure
2 132 (16.42%) Azure DevOps
3 99 (12.31%) AWS
4 98 (12.19%) GitHub
5 97 (12.06%) Azure AI
6 79 (9.83%) GitHub Copilot
7 75 (9.33%) SaaS
8 48 (5.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 25 (3.11%) Serverless
10 20 (2.49%) Azure Logic Apps
11 19 (2.36%) Azure Functions
12 16 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (1.87%) Azure Service Bus
14 11 (1.37%) Google Play
14 11 (1.37%) PaaS
15 8 (1.00%) Azure App Service
15 8 (1.00%) Entra ID
15 8 (1.00%) Power Platform
16 6 (0.75%) Anthropic Claude
16 6 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 38 (4.73%) Internet
2 6 (0.75%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 280 (34.83%) Azure SQL Database
2 249 (30.97%) MongoDB
3 90 (11.19%) Elasticsearch
4 88 (10.95%) SQL Server
5 13 (1.62%) MySQL
6 8 (1.00%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.75%) NonStop SQL
7 6 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.50%) Power BI
9 2 (0.25%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.25%) CouchDB
9 2 (0.25%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.25%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.25%) SQLite
10 1 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.12%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (2.11%) Git
2 7 (0.87%) JIRA
3 3 (0.37%) MSTest
3 3 (0.37%) NUnit
4 2 (0.25%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.12%) Postman
5 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.12%) Vite
5 1 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 84 (10.45%) Finance
2 37 (4.60%) Games
3 35 (4.35%) Advertising
4 26 (3.23%) Marketing
5 24 (2.99%) Social Skills
6 16 (1.99%) Retail
7 10 (1.24%) Law
8 8 (1.00%) Aerospace
8 8 (1.00%) Automotive
8 8 (1.00%) Banking
9 7 (0.87%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.75%) Music Industry
11 5 (0.62%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (0.62%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.50%) Back Office
13 3 (0.37%) Legal
14 2 (0.25%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.12%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.12%) iGaming
15 1 (0.12%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 804 (100.00%) .NET
2 377 (46.89%) .NET Core
3 339 (42.16%) ASP.NET
4 307 (38.18%) ASP.NET Core
5 155 (19.28%) React
6 154 (19.15%) CSS
7 153 (19.03%) HTML
8 138 (17.16%) Blazor
9 132 (16.42%) AngularJS
10 131 (16.29%) RESTful
10 131 (16.29%) Vue
11 130 (16.17%) Entity Framework
12 110 (13.68%) ASP.NET Web API
13 96 (11.94%) ML.NET
14 89 (11.07%) Node.js
15 72 (8.96%) .NET Framework
16 71 (8.83%) LINQ
17 22 (2.74%) REST
17 22 (2.74%) WinForms
18 17 (2.11%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 65 (8.08%) Greenfield Project
2 50 (6.22%) Mobile App
3 27 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (1.62%) Digital TV
4 13 (1.62%) Social Network
5 12 (1.49%) PropTech
6 11 (1.37%) BBC
6 11 (1.37%) iPhone
6 11 (1.37%) Social Media
7 10 (1.24%) Hedge funds
8 8 (1.00%) Cloud Native
8 8 (1.00%) Legacy Code
8 8 (1.00%) Sports Betting
9 7 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (0.62%) Product Ownership
12 3 (0.37%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.37%) Tandem
13 2 (0.25%) AI Agents
13 2 (0.25%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.74%) Android
2 8 (1.00%) Windows
3 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (54.60%) Full-Stack Development
2 288 (35.82%) Agile
3 170 (21.14%) CI/CD
4 156 (19.40%) DevOps
5 140 (17.41%) AI
6 135 (16.79%) Microservices
7 106 (13.18%) Multithreading
8 103 (12.81%) Software Engineering
9 102 (12.69%) Machine Learning
10 65 (8.08%) OO
11 58 (7.21%) TDD
12 56 (6.97%) Scrum
13 50 (6.22%) SDLC
14 45 (5.60%) Continuous Improvement
15 43 (5.35%) Problem-Solving
16 42 (5.22%) Kanban
17 39 (4.85%) Analytics
17 39 (4.85%) BDD
18 35 (4.35%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
19 28 (3.48%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 585 (72.76%) C#
2 373 (46.39%) SQL
3 153 (19.03%) JavaScript
4 124 (15.42%) TypeScript
5 15 (1.87%) VB
6 14 (1.74%) Python
6 14 (1.74%) VB.NET
7 10 (1.24%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.50%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.37%) Bicep
10 2 (0.25%) C++
11 1 (0.12%) ABAP
11 1 (0.12%) Delphi
11 1 (0.12%) Java
11 1 (0.12%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 37 (4.60%) SC Cleared
1 37 (4.60%) Security Cleared
2 27 (3.36%) Degree
3 15 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (0.62%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.25%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.12%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.12%) QA
2 5 (0.62%) GDPR
3 2 (0.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 106 (13.18%) Docker
2 3 (0.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 93 (11.57%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 324 (40.30%) Microsoft
2 38 (4.73%) Facebook
3 31 (3.86%) Google
4 16 (1.99%) Xamarin
5 13 (1.62%) YouTube
6 11 (1.37%) Apple
6 11 (1.37%) Sony
6 11 (1.37%) Yahoo!
7 8 (1.00%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.62%) Oracle
9 4 (0.50%) Sage
10 3 (0.37%) SAP
11 2 (0.25%) IBM
11 2 (0.25%) iManage
11 2 (0.25%) OneLogin
12 1 (0.12%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.12%) Databricks
12 1 (0.12%) DevExpress
12 1 (0.12%) Optimizely
12 1 (0.12%) Sitecore