.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 16 October 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 394 136
Rank change year-on-year +165 -258 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 980 298 1,318
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.82% 0.61% 1.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 0.68% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 916 279 1,077
10th Percentile £41,000 £43,500 £36,150
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £67,813 £82,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £118,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

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 110,105 43,964 67,208
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 89.90% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 74,779 25,831 38,509
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,396 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.15% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -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 16 October 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Developer in the UK

.NET Developer
Top 17 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 16 October 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 +143 917 £55,000 -15.38% 162
UK excluding London +177 860 £55,000 -8.33% 116
Work from Home +129 616 £55,000 -15.38% 114
South East +121 288 £55,000 -29.03% 31
North of England +80 252 £55,000 -8.33% 34
East of England +51 115 £60,000 +4.35% 14
London -59 111 £70,000 -6.67% 51
North West +17 102 £55,000 -8.33% 16
Midlands +25 98 £55,000 +10.00% 20
North East 0 86 £55,000 -31.25% 5
Yorkshire +16 64 £50,000 -23.08% 13
South West -36 55 £52,500 +8.81% 5
West Midlands -8 54 £55,000 +4.76% 16
East Midlands -1 44 £52,500 +90.91% 4
Scotland +35 33 £57,500 +35.29% 8
Wales -56 21 £55,000 +32.53% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 16 October 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.

1 980 (100.00%) .NET
2 802 (81.84%) C#
3 621 (63.37%) Azure
4 579 (59.08%) Full-Stack Development
5 567 (57.86%) ASP.NET
6 559 (57.04%) .NET Core
6 559 (57.04%) Microsoft
7 557 (56.84%) SQL
8 508 (51.84%) ASP.NET Core
9 452 (46.12%) Azure SQL Database
10 424 (43.27%) Agile
11 412 (42.04%) MongoDB
12 260 (26.53%) JavaScript
13 253 (25.82%) DevOps
14 245 (25.00%) CI/CD
15 227 (23.16%) Entity Framework
16 226 (23.06%) Azure DevOps
17 225 (22.96%) Blazor
18 224 (22.86%) React
19 223 (22.76%) CSS
20 221 (22.55%) HTML
21 205 (20.92%) AI
22 197 (20.10%) Microservices
23 192 (19.59%) TypeScript
24 190 (19.39%) ASP.NET Web API
25 187 (19.08%) RESTful
26 185 (18.88%) AngularJS
27 181 (18.47%) Vue
28 173 (17.65%) Docker
29 168 (17.14%) SQL Server

.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 23 (2.35%) IIS
2 7 (0.71%) CMS
2 7 (0.71%) Umbraco
3 4 (0.41%) Kentico
4 3 (0.31%) Confluence
4 3 (0.31%) DNN
4 3 (0.31%) EPiServer
4 3 (0.31%) Immediacy CMS
4 3 (0.31%) NServiceBus
4 3 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.31%) Sitefinity
5 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.10%) Apache
6 1 (0.10%) govService
6 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.82%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.51%) Elite 3E
2 3 (0.31%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.31%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.10%) Endur
3 1 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 621 (63.37%) Azure
2 226 (23.06%) Azure DevOps
3 157 (16.02%) GitHub
4 156 (15.92%) Azure AI
5 144 (14.69%) GitHub Copilot
6 133 (13.57%) AWS
7 67 (6.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 30 (3.06%) SaaS
9 24 (2.45%) Azure Service Bus
10 20 (2.04%) Power Platform
11 19 (1.94%) Serverless
12 17 (1.73%) Azure Monitor
12 17 (1.73%) Google Play
13 14 (1.43%) Azure Functions
14 13 (1.33%) Azure Key Vault
15 10 (1.02%) Power Automate
16 9 (0.92%) PowerApps
17 8 (0.82%) Azure Logic Apps
17 8 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
18 7 (0.71%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 64 (6.53%) Internet
2 7 (0.71%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.10%) Broadband
3 1 (0.10%) HTTP
3 1 (0.10%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.10%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 452 (46.12%) Azure SQL Database
2 412 (42.04%) MongoDB
3 168 (17.14%) SQL Server
4 164 (16.73%) Elasticsearch
5 39 (3.98%) Relational Database
6 27 (2.76%) MySQL
7 12 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (1.12%) NonStop SQL
9 9 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (0.82%) Power BI
11 5 (0.51%) SQLite
12 4 (0.41%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.41%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.31%) Redis
14 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
15 1 (0.10%) Amazon RDS
15 1 (0.10%) Apache Ignite
15 1 (0.10%) Couchbase
15 1 (0.10%) Data Lake
15 1 (0.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 67 (6.84%) Git
2 17 (1.73%) Claude Code
3 15 (1.53%) Oracle Forms
3 15 (1.53%) Team Foundation Server
4 9 (0.92%) JIRA
5 8 (0.82%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.20%) MSTest
6 2 (0.20%) NUnit
6 2 (0.20%) Postman
6 2 (0.20%) Selenium
6 2 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.10%) git-flow
7 1 (0.10%) GitLab
7 1 (0.10%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.10%) JetBrains Rider
7 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 132 (13.47%) Finance
2 86 (8.78%) Social Skills
3 56 (5.71%) Advertising
4 50 (5.10%) Games
5 43 (4.39%) Marketing
6 36 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (3.67%) Retail
7 20 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.43%) Aerospace
8 14 (1.43%) Law
9 12 (1.22%) Music Industry
10 9 (0.92%) Public Sector
11 8 (0.82%) Automotive
12 7 (0.71%) Banking
12 7 (0.71%) Billing
13 4 (0.41%) Front Office
13 4 (0.41%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.41%) Legal
14 3 (0.31%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.20%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 980 (100.00%) .NET
2 567 (57.86%) ASP.NET
3 559 (57.04%) .NET Core
4 508 (51.84%) ASP.NET Core
5 227 (23.16%) Entity Framework
6 225 (22.96%) Blazor
7 224 (22.86%) React
8 223 (22.76%) CSS
9 221 (22.55%) HTML
10 190 (19.39%) ASP.NET Web API
11 187 (19.08%) RESTful
12 185 (18.88%) AngularJS
13 181 (18.47%) Vue
14 154 (15.71%) ML.NET
15 149 (15.20%) Node.js
16 138 (14.08%) .NET Framework
17 117 (11.94%) LINQ
18 73 (7.45%) REST
19 39 (3.98%) WinForms
20 32 (3.27%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 103 (10.51%) Greenfield Project
2 59 (6.02%) Enterprise Software
3 30 (3.06%) Mobile App
4 21 (2.14%) Digital TV
4 21 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (1.73%) iPhone
6 16 (1.63%) BBC
6 16 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (1.63%) Product Ownership
6 16 (1.63%) Social Media
7 15 (1.53%) Legacy Code
7 15 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.22%) Cloud Native
8 12 (1.22%) Social Network
9 11 (1.12%) Data Structures
10 7 (0.71%) IoT
11 6 (0.61%) Hedge funds
12 5 (0.51%) Onboarding
12 5 (0.51%) Robotics
12 5 (0.51%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 31 (3.16%) Windows
2 20 (2.04%) Android
3 4 (0.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 579 (59.08%) Full-Stack Development
2 424 (43.27%) Agile
3 253 (25.82%) DevOps
4 245 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 205 (20.92%) AI
6 197 (20.10%) Microservices
7 161 (16.43%) Multithreading
8 156 (15.92%) Machine Learning
9 108 (11.02%) Software Engineering
10 100 (10.20%) Scrum
11 95 (9.69%) OO
12 92 (9.39%) TDD
13 88 (8.98%) Problem-Solving
14 69 (7.04%) BDD
15 67 (6.84%) Kanban
16 62 (6.33%) MVC
16 62 (6.33%) SDLC
17 61 (6.22%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
18 55 (5.61%) Fintech
19 47 (4.80%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 802 (81.84%) C#
2 557 (56.84%) SQL
3 260 (26.53%) JavaScript
4 192 (19.59%) TypeScript
5 36 (3.67%) VB.NET
6 27 (2.76%) Python
7 25 (2.55%) T-SQL
8 14 (1.43%) VB
9 4 (0.41%) C++
9 4 (0.41%) Java
9 4 (0.41%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.41%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.41%) VBA
10 3 (0.31%) Ruby
10 3 (0.31%) VBScript
11 2 (0.20%) C
11 2 (0.20%) Dart
11 2 (0.20%) XPath
12 1 (0.10%) ABAP
12 1 (0.10%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (3.06%) Degree
2 22 (2.24%) Security Cleared
3 21 (2.14%) SC Cleared
4 15 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (0.61%) Azure Certification
6 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.31%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.10%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (2.86%) QA
2 8 (0.82%) GDPR
3 4 (0.41%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.41%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.20%) Basel III
5 1 (0.10%) GRC
System Software
1 173 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 155 (15.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 559 (57.04%) Microsoft
2 60 (6.12%) Google
3 59 (6.02%) Facebook
4 22 (2.24%) Oracle
4 22 (2.24%) YouTube
5 16 (1.63%) Apple
5 16 (1.63%) Sony
5 16 (1.63%) Yahoo!
6 5 (0.51%) Sage
6 5 (0.51%) SAP
7 4 (0.41%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.41%) Xamarin
8 3 (0.31%) Alterian
8 3 (0.31%) Blue Prism
8 3 (0.31%) DevExpress
8 3 (0.31%) Optimizely
8 3 (0.31%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.20%) iManage
9 2 (0.20%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.20%) Telerik