.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 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
11 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 613 485
Rank change year-on-year +55 -128 +109
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Software Developer 84 92 248
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.17% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.18% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 82 81 239
10th Percentile £45,000 - £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £31,250 £47,500
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 £112,500
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 53,748 49,914 53,281
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.60% 92.93% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 33,232 25,949 41,098
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,500 £30,125
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £96,250
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 11 January 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 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 +93 78 £70,000 +35.27% 11
UK excluding London +34 66 £65,000 +30.00% 10
Work from Home +74 45 £112,500 +246.15% 7
South East +56 36 £112,500 +87.50% 4
London +52 17 £112,500 +87.50% 1
South West +17 13 £50,000 -16.67%
North of England +11 7 £45,000 -10.00% 2
Wales - 6 £45,000 -
North West +18 5 £45,000 -10.00% 1
Midlands +21 2 £51,000 -11.30% 3
East of England +3 2 £51,250 +2.50% 2
East Midlands -6 2 £51,000 -11.30% 2
Yorkshire -16 2 £65,000 +13.04% 1

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 84 (100.00%) .NET
2 46 (54.76%) Azure
3 44 (52.38%) Agile
4 41 (48.81%) Software Engineering
5 40 (47.62%) SaaS
6 39 (46.43%) JavaScript
7 35 (41.67%) AWS
8 34 (40.48%) C#
8 34 (40.48%) TypeScript
9 30 (35.71%) AI
9 30 (35.71%) Business Strategy
9 30 (35.71%) GCP
9 30 (35.71%) Roadmaps
10 16 (19.05%) .NET Core
10 16 (19.05%) .NET Framework
11 13 (15.48%) SQL Server
12 12 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
13 11 (13.10%) SQL
14 10 (11.90%) Microsoft
15 9 (10.71%) CI/CD
16 8 (9.52%) CSS
17 7 (8.33%) ASP.NET
17 7 (8.33%) HTML
17 7 (8.33%) Migration
17 7 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
18 5 (5.95%) AngularJS
18 5 (5.95%) Docker
18 5 (5.95%) MVC
18 5 (5.95%) React
18 5 (5.95%) TDD

.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 (1.19%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 46 (54.76%) Azure
2 40 (47.62%) SaaS
3 35 (41.67%) AWS
4 30 (35.71%) GCP
5 4 (4.76%) GitHub
6 3 (3.57%) Serverless
7 2 (2.38%) Azure App Service
7 2 (2.38%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 2 (2.38%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.38%) Azure Table
7 2 (2.38%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.38%) PaaS
8 1 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.19%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.48%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.57%) MySQL
3 2 (2.38%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.19%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.19%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.19%) Redis
4 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.19%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.19%) Git
2 1 (1.19%) GitLab
2 1 (1.19%) JIRA
2 1 (1.19%) Postman
2 1 (1.19%) SpecFlow
General
1 34 (40.48%) Finance
2 4 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (3.57%) Manufacturing
3 3 (3.57%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.38%) Banking
4 2 (2.38%) Front Office
5 1 (1.19%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.19%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (100.00%) .NET
2 16 (19.05%) .NET Core
2 16 (19.05%) .NET Framework
3 8 (9.52%) CSS
4 7 (8.33%) ASP.NET
4 7 (8.33%) HTML
5 5 (5.95%) AngularJS
5 5 (5.95%) React
6 4 (4.76%) Autofac
6 4 (4.76%) Entity Framework
7 3 (3.57%) Blazor
7 3 (3.57%) KnockoutJS
7 3 (3.57%) Vue
8 2 (2.38%) JSON
8 2 (2.38%) LINQ
8 2 (2.38%) Next.js
8 2 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.38%) REST
8 2 (2.38%) RESTful
8 2 (2.38%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.95%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.57%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.19%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.19%) NHS
4 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (52.38%) Agile
2 41 (48.81%) Software Engineering
3 30 (35.71%) AI
3 30 (35.71%) Business Strategy
3 30 (35.71%) Roadmaps
4 12 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (10.71%) CI/CD
6 7 (8.33%) Migration
6 7 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (5.95%) MVC
7 5 (5.95%) TDD
8 4 (4.76%) Dependency Injection
8 4 (4.76%) DevOps
8 4 (4.76%) RAD
8 4 (4.76%) SDLC
9 3 (3.57%) Clean Code
9 3 (3.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (3.57%) Microservices
9 3 (3.57%) MVVM
9 3 (3.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 39 (46.43%) JavaScript
2 34 (40.48%) C#
2 34 (40.48%) TypeScript
3 11 (13.10%) SQL
4 1 (1.19%) Python
4 1 (1.19%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (2.38%) Degree
2 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.19%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (5.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.19%) ION Trading
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle
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