.NET Software Developer Job Trends

.NET Software Developer
UK

The median .NET Software Developer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 March 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 564 562
Rank change year-on-year -35 -2 +75
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Software Developer 97 66 308
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.16% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.18% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 95 61 296
10th Percentile - - £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £53,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £60,000 £142,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -1.96%

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 71,222 36,907 83,204
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.08% 90.09% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 45,433 22,994 62,996
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,000 £38,750
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 £79,648 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -4.76%

.NET Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring '.NET Software Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

.NET Software Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

.NET Software Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for .NET Software Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for .NET Software Developer job vacancies in the UK

.NET Software Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Software Developer over the 6 months to 26 March 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Software Developer in the UK

.NET Software Developer
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Software Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 March 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 +5 92 £57,500 +8.49% 8
UK excluding London -34 83 £55,000 +10.00% 9
North of England -34 31 £65,000 +30.00% 3
Work from Home -2 29 £57,500 +76.92% 5
Yorkshire - 20 £65,000 - 3
South West - 20 £45,000 - 2
London +12 17 £85,000 +41.67% 1
South East -21 16 £70,000 +16.67%
North West -25 11 £55,000 +10.00%
East of England -23 6 £55,000 +3.77% 1
Midlands -34 5 £90,000 +56.52% 1
Wales - 5 £45,000 - 1
West Midlands -2 4 £90,000 +56.52%
East Midlands - 1 £50,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 26 March 2026, .NET Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 97 (100.00%) .NET
2 65 (67.01%) C#
3 29 (29.90%) Full-Stack Development
3 29 (29.90%) Software Engineering
4 27 (27.84%) SaaS
5 19 (19.59%) Azure
5 19 (19.59%) HTML
5 19 (19.59%) SQL
6 18 (18.56%) Agile
6 18 (18.56%) CSS
7 17 (17.53%) .NET Core
8 16 (16.49%) .NET Framework
8 16 (16.49%) SQL Server
9 15 (15.46%) AWS
10 14 (14.43%) Microsoft
10 14 (14.43%) SDLC
11 13 (13.40%) Vue
12 11 (11.34%) JavaScript
12 11 (11.34%) Microservices
13 10 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (10.31%) Product Vision
13 10 (10.31%) Resource Allocation
14 9 (9.28%) CI/CD
14 9 (9.28%) CQRS
15 8 (8.25%) DevOps
16 7 (7.22%) ASP.NET
16 7 (7.22%) Blazor
16 7 (7.22%) Migration
16 7 (7.22%) React
17 6 (6.19%) MVC

.NET Software 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 1 (1.03%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 27 (27.84%) SaaS
2 19 (19.59%) Azure
3 15 (15.46%) AWS
4 3 (3.09%) GitHub
4 3 (3.09%) Serverless
5 2 (2.06%) Azure App Service
5 2 (2.06%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 2 (2.06%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (2.06%) Azure Table
5 2 (2.06%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.06%) PaaS
6 1 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.03%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.49%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.03%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.03%) MySQL
2 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Visual Studio
2 2 (2.06%) Git
3 1 (1.03%) Postman
3 1 (1.03%) SpecFlow
General
1 11 (11.34%) Finance
2 7 (7.22%) Manufacturing
3 4 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (2.06%) Banking
4 2 (2.06%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.03%) Front Office
5 1 (1.03%) Law
5 1 (1.03%) Legal
5 1 (1.03%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.03%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (100.00%) .NET
2 19 (19.59%) HTML
3 18 (18.56%) CSS
4 17 (17.53%) .NET Core
5 16 (16.49%) .NET Framework
6 13 (13.40%) Vue
7 7 (7.22%) ASP.NET
7 7 (7.22%) Blazor
7 7 (7.22%) React
8 6 (6.19%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (6.19%) RESTful
9 4 (4.12%) Autofac
9 4 (4.12%) Entity Framework
10 3 (3.09%) JSON
10 3 (3.09%) KnockoutJS
11 2 (2.06%) AngularJS
11 2 (2.06%) HTML5
11 2 (2.06%) LINQ
11 2 (2.06%) Next.js
11 2 (2.06%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.12%) Hedge funds
2 3 (3.09%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.06%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.03%) Derivative
4 1 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.03%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (29.90%) Full-Stack Development
1 29 (29.90%) Software Engineering
2 18 (18.56%) Agile
3 14 (14.43%) SDLC
4 11 (11.34%) Microservices
5 10 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (10.31%) Product Vision
5 10 (10.31%) Resource Allocation
6 9 (9.28%) CI/CD
6 9 (9.28%) CQRS
7 8 (8.25%) DevOps
8 7 (7.22%) Migration
9 6 (6.19%) MVC
10 5 (5.15%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (5.15%) TDD
11 4 (4.12%) Dependency Injection
11 4 (4.12%) RAD
12 3 (3.09%) B2B
12 3 (3.09%) Computer Science
12 3 (3.09%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 65 (67.01%) C#
2 19 (19.59%) SQL
3 11 (11.34%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.12%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.06%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.03%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (2.06%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.03%) QA
System Software
1 5 (5.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (14.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.06%) Sage
3 1 (1.03%) IBM
3 1 (1.03%) Xamarin