.NET Developer Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 January 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 244 117
Rank change year-on-year -95 -127 +30
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 346 666 1,466
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.23% 2.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 1.32% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 317 505 1,386
10th Percentile £45,000 £33,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £46,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £81,750 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £86,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +4.76%

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 54,184 50,447 51,400
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.62% 92.94% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 33,461 26,369 39,567
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,200 £30,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,566
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 8 January 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 8 January 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 -69 318 £65,000 +13.04% 223
UK excluding London -99 241 £60,000 +14.29% 186
Work from Home -56 161 £70,000 +27.27% 216
South East +24 82 £70,000 +27.27% 63
London +11 82 £75,000 -6.25% 56
North of England -45 76 £60,000 +9.09% 48
North West -17 46 £60,000 +6.67% 34
Midlands -28 36 £52,500 -8.70% 26
South West -24 26 £50,750 -15.42% 12
Yorkshire -22 22 £60,000 +14.29% 8
West Midlands -5 19 £50,000 -13.04% 12
East Midlands -14 17 £55,000 +4.76% 13
East of England -36 11 £60,000 +20.00% 24
North East -7 8 £50,000 +11.11% 6
Wales +6 6 £45,000 -40.00% 7
Scotland -64 4 £55,000 +29.41% 6

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

For the 6 months to 8 January 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.

1 346 (100.00%) .NET
2 233 (67.34%) C#
3 201 (58.09%) Azure
4 166 (47.98%) Agile
5 138 (39.88%) Full-Stack Development
6 136 (39.31%) .NET Core
7 128 (36.99%) JavaScript
8 124 (35.84%) SQL
9 102 (29.48%) CI/CD
10 99 (28.61%) ASP.NET
10 99 (28.61%) Microservices
11 95 (27.46%) React
11 95 (27.46%) SQL Server
12 92 (26.59%) TypeScript
13 87 (25.14%) MVC
14 86 (24.86%) AWS
15 84 (24.28%) DevOps
15 84 (24.28%) Microsoft
16 83 (23.99%) .NET Framework
17 75 (21.68%) SaaS
18 71 (20.52%) AngularJS
19 68 (19.65%) Software Engineering
20 66 (19.08%) RESTful
21 64 (18.50%) HTML
22 62 (17.92%) ASP.NET Web API
23 59 (17.05%) Scrum
24 58 (16.76%) ASP.NET MVC
25 56 (16.18%) CSS
25 56 (16.18%) Entity Framework
26 55 (15.90%) Git

.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 6 (1.73%) CMS
2 5 (1.45%) Confluence
3 4 (1.16%) IIS
4 1 (0.29%) Kentico
4 1 (0.29%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.29%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.58%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.29%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.29%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.29%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 201 (58.09%) Azure
2 86 (24.86%) AWS
3 75 (21.68%) SaaS
4 48 (13.87%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (13.58%) Serverless
6 35 (10.12%) GitHub
7 31 (8.96%) GCP
8 30 (8.67%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (5.49%) Azure App Service
10 17 (4.91%) Entra ID
10 17 (4.91%) PaaS
11 14 (4.05%) Azure Service Bus
12 12 (3.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (3.47%) Amazon EventBridge
12 12 (3.47%) Amazon S3
12 12 (3.47%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (3.47%) AWS Step Functions
13 11 (3.18%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.87%) Internet
2 1 (0.29%) DNS
2 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (27.46%) SQL Server
2 51 (14.74%) NoSQL
3 47 (13.58%) MongoDB
4 45 (13.01%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (5.20%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (4.34%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (3.47%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.31%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.02%) MySQL
10 6 (1.73%) NonStop SQL
11 5 (1.45%) Power BI
12 1 (0.29%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.29%) RavenDB
12 1 (0.29%) Redis
12 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 55 (15.90%) Git
2 13 (3.76%) Visual Studio
3 7 (2.02%) JIRA
4 3 (0.87%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.87%) JMeter
4 3 (0.87%) Postman
4 3 (0.87%) Selenium
4 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.58%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.58%) NUnit
6 1 (0.29%) GitLab
6 1 (0.29%) MSTest
6 1 (0.29%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.29%) Sourcetree
6 1 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 70 (20.23%) Finance
2 63 (18.21%) Social Skills
3 9 (2.60%) Front Office
4 8 (2.31%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.02%) Banking
5 7 (2.02%) Retail
6 6 (1.73%) Advertising
6 6 (1.73%) Games
7 5 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.16%) Back Office
8 4 (1.16%) Electronics
8 4 (1.16%) Legal
9 3 (0.87%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.58%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.58%) Law
10 2 (0.58%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.29%) Marketing
11 1 (0.29%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 346 (100.00%) .NET
2 136 (39.31%) .NET Core
3 99 (28.61%) ASP.NET
4 95 (27.46%) React
5 83 (23.99%) .NET Framework
6 71 (20.52%) AngularJS
7 66 (19.08%) RESTful
8 64 (18.50%) HTML
9 62 (17.92%) ASP.NET Web API
10 58 (16.76%) ASP.NET MVC
11 56 (16.18%) CSS
11 56 (16.18%) Entity Framework
12 50 (14.45%) Blazor
13 38 (10.98%) Vue
14 33 (9.54%) ASP.NET Core
14 33 (9.54%) REST
15 22 (6.36%) Node.js
16 21 (6.07%) Razor View Engine
17 20 (5.78%) HTML5
18 19 (5.49%) ASP.NET Web Forms
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.51%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.23%) Mobile App
3 14 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (1.73%) Digital TV
6 6 (1.73%) PropTech
7 5 (1.45%) Clustering
8 4 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.16%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.16%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.87%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.87%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.58%) Derivative
10 2 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.58%) Online Games
10 2 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.58%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.73%) Android
1 6 (1.73%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.16%) Linux
3 1 (0.29%) VMS
3 1 (0.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (47.98%) Agile
2 138 (39.88%) Full-Stack Development
3 102 (29.48%) CI/CD
4 99 (28.61%) Microservices
5 87 (25.14%) MVC
6 84 (24.28%) DevOps
7 68 (19.65%) Software Engineering
8 59 (17.05%) Scrum
9 50 (14.45%) Roadmaps
10 49 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
11 47 (13.58%) AI
12 46 (13.29%) TDD
13 42 (12.14%) Continuous Improvement
14 40 (11.56%) Clean Code
15 39 (11.27%) Kanban
16 32 (9.25%) Business Strategy
17 30 (8.67%) Front End Development
18 26 (7.51%) Containerisation
19 25 (7.23%) Mentoring
20 24 (6.94%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 233 (67.34%) C#
2 128 (36.99%) JavaScript
3 124 (35.84%) SQL
4 92 (26.59%) TypeScript
5 5 (1.45%) PowerShell
5 5 (1.45%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.16%) XAML
7 3 (0.87%) Erlang
8 2 (0.58%) Bicep
9 1 (0.29%) Java
9 1 (0.29%) Python
9 1 (0.29%) VB
9 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 28 (8.09%) Degree
2 22 (6.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.76%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.89%) AWS Certification
4 10 (2.89%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.09%) QA
2 8 (2.31%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.87%) WCAG
4 2 (0.58%) GDPR
5 1 (0.29%) HL7
5 1 (0.29%) IFRS
5 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (10.40%) Docker
2 14 (4.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (5.49%) Terraform
2 10 (2.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 84 (24.28%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.31%) Xamarin
3 6 (1.73%) Facebook
3 6 (1.73%) YouTube
4 4 (1.16%) Dynatrace
4 4 (1.16%) Oracle
4 4 (1.16%) Telerik
5 2 (0.58%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.29%) Adobe
6 1 (0.29%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.29%) Foundry
6 1 (0.29%) Infragistics
6 1 (0.29%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.29%) Okta
6 1 (0.29%) Perforce
6 1 (0.29%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow