Lead .NET Developer Jobs

Lead .NET Developer
UK

The median Lead .NET Developer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 702 780 839
Rank change year-on-year +78 +59 +172
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead .NET Developer 28 119 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.050% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.13% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 26 109 127
10th Percentile £56,875 £60,000 £56,000
25th Percentile £67,219 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +10.77%
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £98,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,250 £70,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year +1.79% +1.82% +14.58%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 50,706 94,386 91,123
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.83% 94.69% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 27,254 67,482 57,423
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £71,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%

Lead .NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Lead .NET Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Lead .NET Developer in the UK

Lead .NET Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead .NET Developer.

Salary trend for Lead .NET Developer in the UK

Lead .NET Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead .NET Developer over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead .NET Developer in the UK

Lead .NET Developer
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead .NET Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 17 May 2025. 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 +63 27 £75,000 - 22
UK excluding London +135 20 £71,250 +1.79% 19
North of England +30 17 £72,500 +3.57% 10
Work from Home +74 15 £75,000 +7.14% 15
North West -10 13 £72,500 +3.57% 9
London +80 7 £112,500 +25.00% 4
Yorkshire - 3 £70,000 -
South East +59 2 £53,750 -23.21% 6
North East +35 1 £80,000 +14.29% 1
South West - 1 £82,500 - 1

Lead .NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, Lead .NET Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Lead .NET Developer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) .NET
2 22 (78.57%) C#
3 14 (50.00%) Azure
3 14 (50.00%) React
4 13 (46.43%) JavaScript
5 12 (42.86%) .NET Core
5 12 (42.86%) DevOps
5 12 (42.86%) CI/CD
6 11 (39.29%) SQL Server
7 10 (35.71%) AWS
7 10 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (32.14%) Mentoring
8 9 (32.14%) Microservices
8 9 (32.14%) HTML
8 9 (32.14%) CSS
8 9 (32.14%) TDD
8 9 (32.14%) Software Engineering
9 8 (28.57%) Line Management
9 8 (28.57%) TypeScript
10 7 (25.00%) Docker
10 7 (25.00%) Kubernetes
10 7 (25.00%) Event-Driven
11 6 (21.43%) Product Ownership
11 6 (21.43%) .NET Framework
11 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
11 6 (21.43%) Finance
12 5 (17.86%) ASP.NET
12 5 (17.86%) Agile
12 5 (17.86%) Terraform
12 5 (17.86%) Cloud Native

Lead .NET Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.57%) CMS
1 1 (3.57%) DNN
1 1 (3.57%) Kentico
1 1 (3.57%) Sitecore CMS
1 1 (3.57%) Sitefinity
1 1 (3.57%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 14 (50.00%) Azure
2 10 (35.71%) AWS
3 5 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (14.29%) SaaS
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (10.71%) GitHub
6 2 (7.14%) Serverless
7 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.57%) Power Automate
7 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.57%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (39.29%) SQL Server
2 5 (17.86%) NoSQL
3 4 (14.29%) MongoDB
4 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (10.71%) Tableau
5 2 (7.14%) MySQL
6 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) MSTest
1 2 (7.14%) NUnit
2 1 (3.57%) Git
General
1 6 (21.43%) Finance
2 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Games
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Legal
4 1 (3.57%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (100.00%) .NET
2 14 (50.00%) React
3 12 (42.86%) .NET Core
4 9 (32.14%) CSS
4 9 (32.14%) HTML
5 6 (21.43%) .NET Framework
6 5 (17.86%) AngularJS
6 5 (17.86%) ASP.NET
6 5 (17.86%) Node.js
7 4 (14.29%) Kafka
7 4 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (10.71%) CSS3
8 3 (10.71%) HTML5
8 3 (10.71%) RESTful
8 3 (10.71%) WPF
9 2 (7.14%) Blazor
9 2 (7.14%) Web Services
9 2 (7.14%) WinForms
10 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET Core
10 1 (3.57%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 5 (17.86%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.14%) Clustering
3 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 12 (42.86%) DevOps
2 10 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
3 9 (32.14%) Mentoring
3 9 (32.14%) Microservices
3 9 (32.14%) Software Engineering
3 9 (32.14%) TDD
4 8 (28.57%) Line Management
5 7 (25.00%) Event-Driven
6 5 (17.86%) Agile
6 5 (17.86%) Containerisation
6 5 (17.86%) Software Architecture
7 4 (14.29%) API Development
7 4 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (10.71%) Decision-Making
8 3 (10.71%) SOA
8 3 (10.71%) Strategic Thinking
8 3 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (10.71%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 22 (78.57%) C#
2 13 (46.43%) JavaScript
3 8 (28.57%) TypeScript
4 4 (14.29%) SQL
5 3 (10.71%) Java
5 3 (10.71%) Python
6 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (17.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Sitecore