.NET Software Developer Job Trends

.NET Software Developer
UK

The median .NET Software Developer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
5 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 571 612 502
Rank change year-on-year +41 -110 +94
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Software Developer 79 95 229
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.18% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.19% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 77 84 221
10th Percentile £45,000 - £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £31,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -28.57% +27.27%
75th Percentile £118,750 £56,250 £115,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £61,250 £142,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% - -

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 53,595 50,414 50,501
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.55% 92.94% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 33,001 26,357 38,868
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,199 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,956 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,458 £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 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 5 January 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 5 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 +89 72 £85,000 +70.00% 14
UK excluding London +28 61 £65,000 +30.00% 11
Work from Home +62 43 £112,500 +246.15% 10
South East +41 34 £112,500 +100.00% 5
London +61 17 £112,500 +87.50% 3
South West +21 13 £50,000 -16.67% 1
Wales - 6 £45,000 -
North of England +12 5 £45,000 -10.00% 2
North West +11 3 £45,000 -10.00% 1
Yorkshire -8 2 £65,000 +13.04% 1
Midlands +21 1 £52,000 -9.57% 2
East of England +11 1 £47,500 -5.00% 1
East Midlands -5 1 £52,000 -9.57% 2
Scotland -33 1 £55,000 +69.23%

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

For the 6 months to 5 January 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 79 (100.00%) .NET
2 44 (55.70%) Azure
3 42 (53.16%) Agile
4 40 (50.63%) SaaS
5 39 (49.37%) JavaScript
5 39 (49.37%) Software Engineering
6 34 (43.04%) AWS
6 34 (43.04%) TypeScript
7 30 (37.97%) AI
7 30 (37.97%) Business Strategy
7 30 (37.97%) C#
7 30 (37.97%) GCP
7 30 (37.97%) Roadmaps
8 15 (18.99%) .NET Framework
9 14 (17.72%) .NET Core
10 11 (13.92%) Full-Stack Development
11 10 (12.66%) SQL Server
12 9 (11.39%) CI/CD
12 9 (11.39%) Microsoft
12 9 (11.39%) SQL
13 8 (10.13%) CSS
14 7 (8.86%) HTML
14 7 (8.86%) Migration
14 7 (8.86%) Problem-Solving
15 5 (6.33%) ASP.NET
15 5 (6.33%) MVC
15 5 (6.33%) React
15 5 (6.33%) TDD
16 4 (5.06%) AngularJS
16 4 (5.06%) Autofac

.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:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 44 (55.70%) Azure
2 40 (50.63%) SaaS
3 34 (43.04%) AWS
4 30 (37.97%) GCP
5 3 (3.80%) GitHub
5 3 (3.80%) Serverless
6 2 (2.53%) Azure App Service
6 2 (2.53%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 2 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (2.53%) Azure Table
6 2 (2.53%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.53%) PaaS
7 1 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.27%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.66%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.80%) MySQL
3 2 (2.53%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.27%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.27%) Redis
4 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.27%) Git
2 1 (1.27%) GitLab
2 1 (1.27%) JIRA
General
1 34 (43.04%) Finance
2 4 (5.06%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (3.80%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.53%) Banking
4 2 (2.53%) Front Office
5 1 (1.27%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.27%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (100.00%) .NET
2 15 (18.99%) .NET Framework
3 14 (17.72%) .NET Core
4 8 (10.13%) CSS
5 7 (8.86%) HTML
6 5 (6.33%) ASP.NET
6 5 (6.33%) React
7 4 (5.06%) AngularJS
7 4 (5.06%) Autofac
7 4 (5.06%) Entity Framework
8 3 (3.80%) Blazor
8 3 (3.80%) KnockoutJS
8 3 (3.80%) Vue
9 2 (2.53%) JSON
9 2 (2.53%) LINQ
9 2 (2.53%) Next.js
9 2 (2.53%) REST
9 2 (2.53%) RESTful
9 2 (2.53%) WinForms
10 1 (1.27%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.33%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (5.06%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.80%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.27%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.27%) NHS
4 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (53.16%) Agile
2 39 (49.37%) Software Engineering
3 30 (37.97%) AI
3 30 (37.97%) Business Strategy
3 30 (37.97%) Roadmaps
4 11 (13.92%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (11.39%) CI/CD
6 7 (8.86%) Migration
6 7 (8.86%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (6.33%) MVC
7 5 (6.33%) TDD
8 4 (5.06%) Dependency Injection
8 4 (5.06%) DevOps
8 4 (5.06%) SDLC
9 3 (3.80%) B2B
9 3 (3.80%) Clean Code
9 3 (3.80%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (3.80%) Microservices
9 3 (3.80%) MVVM
9 3 (3.80%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 39 (49.37%) JavaScript
2 34 (43.04%) TypeScript
3 30 (37.97%) C#
4 9 (11.39%) SQL
5 1 (1.27%) Python
5 1 (1.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (2.53%) Degree
2 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.27%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (5.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.53%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (11.39%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.27%) ION Trading
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle
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