.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer salary in the UK is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 197 162
Rank change year-on-year +95 -35 -84
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 2,539 2,057 3,946
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.61% 1.93% 2.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.76% 2.11% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,438 1,849 3,099
10th Percentile £39,741 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 91,989 97,583 147,027
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.61% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 66,379 61,119 85,881
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

.NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured .NET Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Developer in the UK

.NET Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing .NET Developer.

Salary trend for .NET Developer in the UK

.NET Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Developer over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for .NET Developer in the UK

.NET Developer
Top 18 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 19 April 2024. 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 +103 2,384 £60,000 - 413
UK excluding London +81 2,001 £55,000 - 322
Work from Home +49 1,434 £55,000 -4.35% 375
North of England +105 585 £55,000 +4.76% 98
South East +60 566 £57,500 +4.55% 88
London +40 494 £70,000 -3.45% 115
North West +75 322 £52,500 -4.55% 58
Midlands +114 266 £50,000 -6.54% 49
South West +30 249 £55,000 +10.00% 32
East of England +92 221 £60,000 +11.63% 34
Yorkshire +94 172 £55,000 +4.76% 29
West Midlands +100 144 £52,500 -6.25% 30
East Midlands +47 125 £50,000 -4.76% 19
North East +57 91 £60,000 +32.60% 15
Scotland -67 55 £55,000 +2.33% 12
Wales +12 35 £55,000 +22.22% 21
Northern Ireland +13 26 £45,000 +5.88% 4
Channel Islands - 1 £57,500 -

.NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, .NET Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring .NET Developer in the job title.

1 2,539 (100.00%) .NET
2 2,205 (86.85%) C#
3 1,745 (68.73%) Azure
4 1,511 (59.51%) JavaScript
5 1,403 (55.26%) Agile
6 1,385 (54.55%) Full Stack Development
7 1,234 (48.60%) ASP.NET
8 1,180 (46.47%) SQL Server
9 1,179 (46.44%) .NET Core
10 1,058 (41.67%) MVC
11 1,048 (41.28%) AngularJS
12 976 (38.44%) Microsoft
13 877 (34.54%) ASP.NET Web API
14 852 (33.56%) .NET Framework
15 842 (33.16%) Microservices
16 799 (31.47%) ASP.NET MVC
17 758 (29.85%) Entity Framework
18 757 (29.81%) HTML
19 732 (28.83%) SQL
20 676 (26.62%) React
21 578 (22.76%) TDD
22 548 (21.58%) CSS
23 525 (20.68%) AWS
24 522 (20.56%) TypeScript
25 497 (19.57%) Vue
26 467 (18.39%) HTML5
27 413 (16.27%) DevOps
28 390 (15.36%) BDD
29 385 (15.16%) RESTful
30 369 (14.53%) Scrum

.NET Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 104 (4.10%) CMS
2 74 (2.91%) Umbraco
3 69 (2.72%) IIS
4 50 (1.97%) Kentico
5 45 (1.77%) Sitecore CMS
6 40 (1.58%) Headless CMS
7 22 (0.87%) SharePoint
8 12 (0.47%) EPiServer
9 7 (0.28%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.24%) Confluence
10 6 (0.24%) DNN
10 6 (0.24%) Immediacy CMS
10 6 (0.24%) Sitefinity
11 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.12%) SharePoint 2010
12 3 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
13 2 (0.079%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.079%) WordPress
14 1 (0.039%) Apache Airflow
14 1 (0.039%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 31 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.079%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.039%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.039%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.039%) Mathematica
5 1 (0.039%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
2 7 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.24%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.12%) Maximo
5 2 (0.079%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.039%) Endur
6 1 (0.039%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.039%) Sage 50
6 1 (0.039%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,745 (68.73%) Azure
2 525 (20.68%) AWS
3 242 (9.53%) Azure DevOps
4 122 (4.81%) GCP
5 65 (2.56%) SaaS
6 61 (2.40%) GitHub
7 53 (2.09%) Serverless
8 37 (1.46%) Google Play
9 35 (1.38%) Kontent
10 33 (1.30%) Azure Service Bus
11 26 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (0.87%) Power Platform
13 17 (0.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 14 (0.55%) Azure Functions
14 14 (0.55%) Dynamics 365
14 14 (0.55%) PaaS
15 13 (0.51%) WhatsApp
16 11 (0.43%) Entra ID
17 9 (0.35%) Azure App Service
17 9 (0.35%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 152 (5.99%) Internet
2 16 (0.63%) Hyperconnected
3 11 (0.43%) Broadband
3 11 (0.43%) Mobile Broadband
4 10 (0.39%) DNS
5 7 (0.28%) Network Security
6 5 (0.20%) HTTP
7 4 (0.16%) SSL
8 3 (0.12%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.079%) LAN
9 2 (0.079%) VPN
9 2 (0.079%) WAN
10 1 (0.039%) CTI
10 1 (0.039%) FTP
10 1 (0.039%) Intranet
10 1 (0.039%) MQTT
10 1 (0.039%) SMTP
10 1 (0.039%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,180 (46.47%) SQL Server
2 265 (10.44%) MongoDB
3 227 (8.94%) Elasticsearch
4 175 (6.89%) Azure SQL Database
5 76 (2.99%) NoSQL
6 70 (2.76%) Redis
7 47 (1.85%) MySQL
8 45 (1.77%) Relational Database
9 27 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.79%) NonStop SQL
11 17 (0.67%) DynamoDB
12 13 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 12 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (0.28%) Big Data
15 6 (0.24%) Crystal Reports
16 5 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
17 4 (0.16%) DocumentDB
18 3 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
18 3 (0.12%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 178 (7.01%) Visual Studio
2 158 (6.22%) Git
3 49 (1.93%) NUnit
4 43 (1.69%) JIRA
5 35 (1.38%) Team Foundation Server
6 29 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
6 29 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
7 28 (1.10%) Postman
8 23 (0.91%) TeamCity
9 15 (0.59%) MSTest
9 15 (0.59%) Selenium
10 13 (0.51%) Jenkins
11 9 (0.35%) Jasmine
12 8 (0.32%) MSBuild
13 6 (0.24%) IntelliJ
13 6 (0.24%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.20%) FitNesse
14 5 (0.20%) Moq
14 5 (0.20%) SpecFlow
14 5 (0.20%) WebDriver
General
1 366 (14.42%) Finance
2 244 (9.61%) Social Skills
3 111 (4.37%) Games
4 109 (4.29%) Front Office
5 92 (3.62%) Marketing
6 88 (3.47%) Advertising
7 83 (3.27%) Retail
8 57 (2.24%) Analytical Skills
9 47 (1.85%) Manufacturing
10 44 (1.73%) Back Office
11 35 (1.38%) Music Industry
11 35 (1.38%) Public Sector
12 30 (1.18%) Legal
12 30 (1.18%) Telecoms
13 27 (1.06%) Banking
14 23 (0.91%) Aerospace
14 23 (0.91%) Law
15 18 (0.71%) Automotive
16 17 (0.67%) Tech for Good
17 15 (0.59%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,539 (100.00%) .NET
2 1,234 (48.60%) ASP.NET
3 1,179 (46.44%) .NET Core
4 1,048 (41.28%) AngularJS
5 877 (34.54%) ASP.NET Web API
6 852 (33.56%) .NET Framework
7 799 (31.47%) ASP.NET MVC
8 758 (29.85%) Entity Framework
9 757 (29.81%) HTML
10 676 (26.62%) React
11 548 (21.58%) CSS
12 497 (19.57%) Vue
13 467 (18.39%) HTML5
14 385 (15.16%) RESTful
15 323 (12.72%) Blazor
16 259 (10.20%) Node.js
17 255 (10.04%) CSS3
18 210 (8.27%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 203 (8.00%) LINQ
20 149 (5.87%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 231 (9.10%) Greenfield Project
2 113 (4.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 102 (4.02%) Equities
3 102 (4.02%) Fixed Income
4 100 (3.94%) Hedge funds
5 87 (3.43%) Derivative
6 65 (2.56%) Mobile App
7 56 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
8 53 (2.09%) Social Network
9 49 (1.93%) Social Media
10 43 (1.69%) Product Ownership
11 40 (1.58%) Client/Server
12 39 (1.54%) iPhone
12 39 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
13 33 (1.30%) BBC
14 25 (0.98%) Digital TV
15 24 (0.95%) Video\Live Streaming
16 23 (0.91%) Data Structures
17 21 (0.83%) Algorithms
18 19 (0.75%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 49 (1.93%) Windows
2 45 (1.77%) Android
3 14 (0.55%) Linux
4 12 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (0.28%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.20%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,403 (55.26%) Agile
2 1,385 (54.55%) Full Stack Development
3 1,058 (41.67%) MVC
4 842 (33.16%) Microservices
5 578 (22.76%) TDD
6 413 (16.27%) DevOps
7 390 (15.36%) BDD
8 369 (14.53%) Scrum
9 293 (11.54%) Kanban
10 266 (10.48%) Software Engineering
11 261 (10.28%) Multithreading
12 205 (8.07%) Problem-Solving
13 198 (7.80%) OO
14 192 (7.56%) CI/CD
15 184 (7.25%) Design Patterns
16 177 (6.97%) Web Development
17 163 (6.42%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
18 146 (5.75%) Fintech
18 146 (5.75%) Mentoring
19 140 (5.51%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2,205 (86.85%) C#
2 1,511 (59.51%) JavaScript
3 732 (28.83%) SQL
4 522 (20.56%) TypeScript
5 87 (3.43%) VB.NET
6 80 (3.15%) Python
7 65 (2.56%) T-SQL
8 49 (1.93%) Java
9 20 (0.79%) VB
10 13 (0.51%) PowerShell
11 12 (0.47%) VBA
12 11 (0.43%) Bicep
13 9 (0.35%) C
13 9 (0.35%) MATLAB
13 9 (0.35%) XAML
14 8 (0.32%) XPath
15 7 (0.28%) F#
16 6 (0.24%) Go
16 6 (0.24%) PHP
16 6 (0.24%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 161 (6.34%) Degree
2 75 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (1.02%) Security Cleared
4 23 (0.91%) Master's Degree
5 17 (0.67%) Azure Certification
6 15 (0.59%) SC Cleared
7 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (0.32%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
9 7 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.12%) MCPD
11 3 (0.12%) PhD
12 2 (0.079%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.079%) HNC
13 1 (0.039%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.039%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (5.36%) QA
2 11 (0.43%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.20%) GDPR
4 4 (0.16%) SLA
5 2 (0.079%) WCAG
6 1 (0.039%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 130 (5.12%) Docker
2 9 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.079%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.039%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.039%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 93 (3.66%) Kubernetes
2 47 (1.85%) Terraform
3 8 (0.32%) MIIS
4 5 (0.20%) Control-M
5 3 (0.12%) Grafana
5 3 (0.12%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.039%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 976 (38.44%) Microsoft
2 85 (3.35%) Facebook
2 85 (3.35%) Google
3 58 (2.28%) Sitecore
4 36 (1.42%) Optimizely
5 33 (1.30%) Apple
5 33 (1.30%) Sony
5 33 (1.30%) Yahoo!
6 30 (1.18%) Xamarin
7 23 (0.91%) YouTube
8 15 (0.59%) SAP
9 8 (0.32%) Oracle
9 8 (0.32%) Zoho
10 7 (0.28%) UiPath
11 6 (0.24%) Alterian
11 6 (0.24%) SYSPRO
12 4 (0.16%) Databricks
12 4 (0.16%) Twitter
13 3 (0.12%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.12%) Splunk