.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 11 February 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 258 92
Rank change year-on-year -79 -166 +81
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 375 591 2,297
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.19% 3.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 1.30% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 348 442 2,212
10th Percentile £45,000 £32,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% - -
75th Percentile £81,938 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
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 60,248 45,561 70,284
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.14% 91.75% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 37,639 23,782 55,054
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,390
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 11 February 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 11 February 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 -62 345 £65,000 +13.04% 231
UK excluding London -86 268 £60,000 +14.29% 189
Work from Home -26 177 £68,750 +30.95% 193
South East +17 91 £70,000 +27.27% 52
London +3 84 £80,000 -11.11% 63
North of England -43 80 £60,000 +9.09% 66
North West -12 45 £60,000 +4.35% 39
Midlands -15 42 £50,000 -13.04% 22
South West -32 26 £53,750 -10.42% 20
Yorkshire -23 25 £60,000 +20.00% 15
West Midlands -1 22 £50,000 -13.04% 13
East Midlands -27 20 £52,500 - 9
East of England -33 19 £55,000 +10.00% 18
North East -10 10 £50,000 +11.11% 12
Wales +2 6 £45,000 -40.00% 4
Scotland -58 4 £55,000 +69.23% 7

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

For the 6 months to 11 February 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.

1 375 (100.00%) .NET
2 242 (64.53%) C#
3 198 (52.80%) Azure
4 170 (45.33%) Agile
5 152 (40.53%) Full-Stack Development
6 137 (36.53%) .NET Core
7 130 (34.67%) JavaScript
8 124 (33.07%) SQL
9 102 (27.20%) ASP.NET
10 96 (25.60%) React
11 94 (25.07%) CI/CD
12 92 (24.53%) Microservices
13 90 (24.00%) SQL Server
14 87 (23.20%) TypeScript
15 84 (22.40%) Microsoft
15 84 (22.40%) MVC
16 82 (21.87%) AWS
17 79 (21.07%) SaaS
18 78 (20.80%) DevOps
19 75 (20.00%) Software Engineering
20 73 (19.47%) .NET Framework
21 67 (17.87%) AngularJS
22 63 (16.80%) HTML
23 61 (16.27%) RESTful
24 58 (15.47%) CSS
25 53 (14.13%) ASP.NET MVC
25 53 (14.13%) ASP.NET Web API
26 50 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
27 49 (13.07%) AI
27 49 (13.07%) Blazor

.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 5 (1.33%) CMS
1 5 (1.33%) IIS
2 2 (0.53%) Confluence
3 1 (0.27%) Kentico
3 1 (0.27%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.27%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.27%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.27%) ION Anvil
1 1 (0.27%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 198 (52.80%) Azure
2 82 (21.87%) AWS
3 79 (21.07%) SaaS
4 48 (12.80%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (12.27%) Serverless
6 36 (9.60%) GitHub
7 32 (8.53%) GitHub Actions
8 31 (8.27%) GCP
9 20 (5.33%) Entra ID
10 19 (5.07%) Azure App Service
11 16 (4.27%) PaaS
12 13 (3.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (3.47%) Amazon S3
12 13 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (3.20%) Amazon EventBridge
13 12 (3.20%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (3.20%) AWS Step Functions
14 11 (2.93%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (2.93%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.33%) Internet
2 1 (0.27%) DNS
2 1 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (24.00%) SQL Server
2 46 (12.27%) MongoDB
3 44 (11.73%) Azure SQL Database
3 44 (11.73%) NoSQL
4 17 (4.53%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.20%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.87%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.33%) NonStop SQL
9 4 (1.07%) Power BI
10 3 (0.80%) MySQL
11 1 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.27%) CouchDB
11 1 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.27%) RavenDB
11 1 (0.27%) Redis
11 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 49 (13.07%) Git
2 12 (3.20%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.80%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.53%) JIRA
4 2 (0.53%) Postman
5 1 (0.27%) JMeter
5 1 (0.27%) Selenium
5 1 (0.27%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 73 (19.47%) Finance
2 57 (15.20%) Social Skills
3 8 (2.13%) Banking
3 8 (2.13%) Front Office
4 6 (1.60%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (1.60%) Manufacturing
5 5 (1.33%) Advertising
5 5 (1.33%) Games
5 5 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (1.07%) Electronics
6 4 (1.07%) Investment Banking
6 4 (1.07%) Legal
6 4 (1.07%) Public Sector
7 3 (0.80%) Back Office
7 3 (0.80%) Law
8 2 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.53%) Retail
9 1 (0.27%) iGaming
9 1 (0.27%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 375 (100.00%) .NET
2 137 (36.53%) .NET Core
3 102 (27.20%) ASP.NET
4 96 (25.60%) React
5 73 (19.47%) .NET Framework
6 67 (17.87%) AngularJS
7 63 (16.80%) HTML
8 61 (16.27%) RESTful
9 58 (15.47%) CSS
10 53 (14.13%) ASP.NET MVC
10 53 (14.13%) ASP.NET Web API
11 49 (13.07%) Blazor
12 47 (12.53%) Entity Framework
13 42 (11.20%) ASP.NET Core
14 35 (9.33%) Vue
15 32 (8.53%) REST
16 24 (6.40%) Razor View Engine
17 19 (5.07%) ASP.NET Web Forms
18 18 (4.80%) HTML5
18 18 (4.80%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.93%) Mobile App
2 20 (5.33%) Cloud Native
3 12 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.40%) Hedge funds
5 8 (2.13%) PropTech
6 6 (1.60%) Digital TV
6 6 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.07%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.07%) Sports Betting
9 3 (0.80%) Clustering
9 3 (0.80%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.53%) Derivative
10 2 (0.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.53%) IoT
10 2 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.53%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.33%) Android
2 4 (1.07%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.07%) Linux
3 1 (0.27%) VMS
3 1 (0.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (45.33%) Agile
2 152 (40.53%) Full-Stack Development
3 94 (25.07%) CI/CD
4 92 (24.53%) Microservices
5 84 (22.40%) MVC
6 78 (20.80%) DevOps
7 75 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 50 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
9 49 (13.07%) AI
9 49 (13.07%) Scrum
10 45 (12.00%) Roadmaps
11 40 (10.67%) TDD
12 38 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (9.33%) Clean Code
14 33 (8.80%) Kanban
15 32 (8.53%) Business Strategy
16 25 (6.67%) Front End Development
17 24 (6.40%) Containerisation
17 24 (6.40%) Mentoring
18 23 (6.13%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 242 (64.53%) C#
2 130 (34.67%) JavaScript
3 124 (33.07%) SQL
4 87 (23.20%) TypeScript
5 6 (1.60%) T-SQL
6 5 (1.33%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.07%) XAML
8 3 (0.80%) Erlang
8 3 (0.80%) VB
9 2 (0.53%) Bicep
9 2 (0.53%) Java
9 2 (0.53%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 25 (6.67%) Degree
2 19 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.47%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.67%) AWS Certification
4 10 (2.67%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.60%) QA
2 6 (1.60%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.27%) IFRS
3 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (9.60%) Docker
2 15 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (5.07%) Terraform
2 10 (2.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 84 (22.40%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.40%) Xamarin
3 6 (1.60%) Facebook
4 5 (1.33%) YouTube
5 4 (1.07%) Telerik
6 3 (0.80%) Oracle
7 2 (0.53%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.53%) Google
8 1 (0.27%) Adobe
8 1 (0.27%) Apple
8 1 (0.27%) Databricks
8 1 (0.27%) Foundry
8 1 (0.27%) IBM
8 1 (0.27%) Infragistics
8 1 (0.27%) Okta
8 1 (0.27%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.27%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.27%) Sony
8 1 (0.27%) Yahoo!