.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 8 February 2026.

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

 6 months to
8 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 613 497
Rank change year-on-year +40 -116 +128
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Software Developer 93 84 325
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 91 73 311
10th Percentile £45,000 - £38,250
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 £110,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £60,000 £142,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £48,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -2.50% -

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 59,491 46,587 70,587
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.01% 91.89% 94.95%
Number of salaries quoted 37,142 24,097 55,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,520
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 8 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 8 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 +89 87 £70,000 +33.33% 21
UK excluding London +38 74 £65,000 +33.33% 18
Work from Home +57 49 £112,500 +246.15% 15
South East +34 36 £112,500 +87.50% 2
London +61 20 £100,000 +66.67% 5
South West +20 14 £50,000 -16.67% 3
North of England -6 12 £55,000 +10.00% 10
North West +15 7 £45,000 -10.00% 6
Wales - 6 £45,000 -
East of England +10 5 £55,000 +3.77% 2
Yorkshire - 5 £65,000 - 4
Midlands +13 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 8 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 93 (100.00%) .NET
2 47 (50.54%) Agile
3 46 (49.46%) Software Engineering
4 45 (48.39%) Azure
5 43 (46.24%) SaaS
6 40 (43.01%) C#
7 39 (41.94%) JavaScript
8 38 (40.86%) AWS
9 32 (34.41%) TypeScript
10 30 (32.26%) AI
10 30 (32.26%) Business Strategy
10 30 (32.26%) GCP
10 30 (32.26%) Roadmaps
11 17 (18.28%) .NET Framework
12 16 (17.20%) Full-Stack Development
13 15 (16.13%) .NET Core
14 14 (15.05%) SQL
15 13 (13.98%) SQL Server
16 10 (10.75%) Microsoft
17 8 (8.60%) CI/CD
17 8 (8.60%) CSS
17 8 (8.60%) SDLC
18 7 (7.53%) HTML
18 7 (7.53%) Migration
19 6 (6.45%) ASP.NET
19 6 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
20 5 (5.38%) Continuous Improvement
20 5 (5.38%) Docker
20 5 (5.38%) Microservices
20 5 (5.38%) RabbitMQ

.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 (1.08%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 45 (48.39%) Azure
2 43 (46.24%) SaaS
3 38 (40.86%) AWS
4 30 (32.26%) GCP
5 4 (4.30%) Serverless
6 3 (3.23%) Azure App Service
6 3 (3.23%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.23%) GitHub
7 2 (2.15%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 2 (2.15%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.15%) Azure Table
7 2 (2.15%) PaaS
8 1 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.08%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.98%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.15%) MySQL
3 1 (1.08%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.08%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.08%) Redis
3 1 (1.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.08%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.08%) Git
2 1 (1.08%) Postman
2 1 (1.08%) SpecFlow
General
1 37 (39.78%) Finance
2 6 (6.45%) Manufacturing
3 4 (4.30%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (3.23%) Banking
4 3 (3.23%) Front Office
5 2 (2.15%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.08%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.08%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (100.00%) .NET
2 17 (18.28%) .NET Framework
3 15 (16.13%) .NET Core
4 8 (8.60%) CSS
5 7 (7.53%) HTML
6 6 (6.45%) ASP.NET
7 5 (5.38%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (5.38%) React
7 5 (5.38%) Vue
8 4 (4.30%) Autofac
8 4 (4.30%) Blazor
8 4 (4.30%) Entity Framework
9 3 (3.23%) AngularJS
9 3 (3.23%) KnockoutJS
10 2 (2.15%) JSON
10 2 (2.15%) LINQ
10 2 (2.15%) Next.js
10 2 (2.15%) RESTful
10 2 (2.15%) WinForms
11 1 (1.08%) MassTransit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.30%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (3.23%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.23%) Fixed Income
2 3 (3.23%) Hedge funds
3 1 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.08%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (50.54%) Agile
2 46 (49.46%) Software Engineering
3 30 (32.26%) AI
3 30 (32.26%) Business Strategy
3 30 (32.26%) Roadmaps
4 16 (17.20%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (8.60%) CI/CD
5 8 (8.60%) SDLC
6 7 (7.53%) Migration
7 6 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (5.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (5.38%) Microservices
8 5 (5.38%) TDD
9 4 (4.30%) B2B
9 4 (4.30%) Dependency Injection
9 4 (4.30%) DevOps
9 4 (4.30%) MVC
9 4 (4.30%) RAD
10 3 (3.23%) Infrastructure as Code
10 3 (3.23%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 40 (43.01%) C#
2 39 (41.94%) JavaScript
3 32 (34.41%) TypeScript
4 14 (15.05%) SQL
5 1 (1.08%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (1.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.08%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (5.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.15%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (10.75%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.08%) IBM
2 1 (1.08%) ION Trading
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