.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 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 568 609 497
Rank change year-on-year +41 -112 +122
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Software Developer 95 84 324
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.17% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.18% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 93 73 310
10th Percentile £45,000 - £38,175
25th Percentile £50,000 £31,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £118,750 £56,250 £99,375
90th Percentile £143,750 £60,000 £142,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +36.84% -5.00% -

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 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 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 11 February 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Software Developer in the UK

.NET Software Developer
Top 13 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 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 +64 89 £70,000 +33.33% 16
UK excluding London +19 76 £65,000 +36.84% 14
Work from Home +72 50 £112,500 +246.15% 12
South East +37 37 £112,500 +87.50% 1
London +45 20 £100,000 +66.67% 3
South West +3 14 £50,000 -16.67% 3
North of England -7 13 £55,000 +10.00% 8
North West +19 8 £45,000 -10.00% 4
Wales - 6 £45,000 -
East of England +5 5 £55,000 +3.77%
Yorkshire - 5 £65,000 - 4
Midlands +14 1 £50,000 -13.04% 2
East Midlands - 1 £50,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 11 February 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 95 (100.00%) .NET
2 49 (51.58%) Agile
3 46 (48.42%) Azure
3 46 (48.42%) Software Engineering
4 43 (45.26%) SaaS
5 42 (44.21%) C#
6 40 (42.11%) JavaScript
7 39 (41.05%) AWS
8 32 (33.68%) TypeScript
9 30 (31.58%) AI
9 30 (31.58%) Business Strategy
9 30 (31.58%) GCP
9 30 (31.58%) Roadmaps
10 17 (17.89%) .NET Framework
10 17 (17.89%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (16.84%) .NET Core
12 15 (15.79%) SQL
13 14 (14.74%) SQL Server
14 11 (11.58%) Microsoft
15 10 (10.53%) CSS
16 9 (9.47%) CI/CD
16 9 (9.47%) HTML
16 9 (9.47%) SDLC
17 7 (7.37%) ASP.NET
17 7 (7.37%) Migration
18 6 (6.32%) Problem-Solving
19 5 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
19 5 (5.26%) DevOps
19 5 (5.26%) Docker
19 5 (5.26%) Microservices

.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 (1.05%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 46 (48.42%) Azure
2 43 (45.26%) SaaS
3 39 (41.05%) AWS
4 30 (31.58%) GCP
5 4 (4.21%) Serverless
6 3 (3.16%) Azure App Service
6 3 (3.16%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.16%) GitHub
7 2 (2.11%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 2 (2.11%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.11%) Azure Table
7 2 (2.11%) PaaS
8 1 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.05%) Firebase
8 1 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.05%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.16%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.74%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.11%) MySQL
3 1 (1.05%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.05%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.05%) Redis
3 1 (1.05%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (4.21%) Visual Studio
2 3 (3.16%) Git
3 1 (1.05%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.05%) Postman
3 1 (1.05%) SpecFlow
General
1 37 (38.95%) Finance
2 6 (6.32%) Manufacturing
3 4 (4.21%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (3.16%) Banking
4 3 (3.16%) Front Office
5 2 (2.11%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.05%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (100.00%) .NET
2 17 (17.89%) .NET Framework
3 16 (16.84%) .NET Core
4 10 (10.53%) CSS
5 9 (9.47%) HTML
6 7 (7.37%) ASP.NET
7 5 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (5.26%) React
7 5 (5.26%) Vue
8 4 (4.21%) Autofac
8 4 (4.21%) Blazor
8 4 (4.21%) Entity Framework
9 3 (3.16%) AngularJS
9 3 (3.16%) JSON
9 3 (3.16%) KnockoutJS
9 3 (3.16%) RESTful
10 2 (2.11%) LINQ
10 2 (2.11%) Next.js
10 2 (2.11%) WinForms
10 2 (2.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (3.16%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.16%) Fixed Income
2 3 (3.16%) Hedge funds
3 1 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (51.58%) Agile
2 46 (48.42%) Software Engineering
3 30 (31.58%) AI
3 30 (31.58%) Business Strategy
3 30 (31.58%) Roadmaps
4 17 (17.89%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (9.47%) CI/CD
5 9 (9.47%) SDLC
6 7 (7.37%) Migration
7 6 (6.32%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (5.26%) DevOps
8 5 (5.26%) Microservices
8 5 (5.26%) MVC
8 5 (5.26%) TDD
9 4 (4.21%) B2B
9 4 (4.21%) Dependency Injection
9 4 (4.21%) RAD
10 3 (3.16%) Application Security
10 3 (3.16%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 42 (44.21%) C#
2 40 (42.11%) JavaScript
3 32 (33.68%) TypeScript
4 15 (15.79%) SQL
5 2 (2.11%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (1.05%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.11%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (11.58%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.05%) IBM
2 1 (1.05%) ION Trading
2 1 (1.05%) Xamarin