Senior .NET Developer Job Trends

Senior .NET Developer
UK

The median Senior .NET Developer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 January 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 502 450
Rank change year-on-year -74 -52 +78
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior .NET Developer 74 204 303
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.39% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.42% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 63 140 281
10th Percentile £57,500 £43,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £62,125 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £63,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.67% +3.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,625 £93,750
90th Percentile £79,500 £98,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -

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 55,541 49,002 57,717
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.82% 92.63% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 34,360 25,280 44,689
10th Percentile £28,697 £33,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,272 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -5.04%

Senior .NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior .NET Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior .NET Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior .NET Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior .NET Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior .NET Developer job vacancies in the UK

Senior .NET Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior .NET Developer over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior .NET Developer in the UK

Senior .NET 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 Senior .NET Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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 -48 70 £70,000 +10.24% 18
UK excluding London -39 63 £70,000 +16.67% 16
Work from Home -31 27 £65,000 +8.33% 11
South East +44 24 £75,000 +7.14% 7
North of England -11 24 £65,000 +8.33% 6
North West +15 17 £60,000 - 4
Midlands -11 10 £60,000 +4.35% 1
West Midlands +10 8 £60,000 +4.35% 1
London +18 7 £75,000 -23.08% 6
Yorkshire -19 6 £71,250 +9.62%
South West -9 4 £70,000 - 1
East Midlands -27 2 £61,000 -12.86%
North East +4 1 £100,000 - 2
Wales +2 1 £41,500 -44.67%

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

For the 6 months to 20 January 2026, Senior .NET 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 Senior .NET Developer in the job title.

1 74 (100.00%) .NET
2 58 (78.38%) C#
3 36 (48.65%) Azure
4 26 (35.14%) .NET Core
4 26 (35.14%) Agile
4 26 (35.14%) CI/CD
4 26 (35.14%) Full-Stack Development
5 24 (32.43%) Microservices
6 21 (28.38%) DevOps
7 18 (24.32%) SQL
7 18 (24.32%) SQL Server
8 17 (22.97%) Clean Code
9 15 (20.27%) React
10 14 (18.92%) AngularJS
10 14 (18.92%) ASP.NET
10 14 (18.92%) CSS
10 14 (18.92%) JavaScript
10 14 (18.92%) REST
11 13 (17.57%) Git
11 13 (17.57%) HTML
11 13 (17.57%) RESTful
11 13 (17.57%) SaaS
11 13 (17.57%) Serverless
11 13 (17.57%) TDD
12 12 (16.22%) .NET Framework
12 12 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (16.22%) Microsoft
12 12 (16.22%) NoSQL
12 12 (16.22%) Software Engineering
13 11 (14.86%) Azure DevOps

Senior .NET 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 4 (5.41%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (48.65%) Azure
2 13 (17.57%) SaaS
2 13 (17.57%) Serverless
3 11 (14.86%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (10.81%) Azure Functions
4 8 (10.81%) Azure Service Bus
5 7 (9.46%) GitHub
6 6 (8.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (6.76%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (6.76%) Power Automate
7 5 (6.76%) Power Platform
8 4 (5.41%) PowerApps
9 3 (4.05%) AWS
9 3 (4.05%) Azure API Management
9 3 (4.05%) Azure App Service
9 3 (4.05%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.70%) Azure Cognitive Search
10 2 (2.70%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 2 (2.70%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (24.32%) SQL Server
2 12 (16.22%) NoSQL
3 5 (6.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (5.41%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.05%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.70%) MySQL
7 1 (1.35%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (17.57%) Git
2 7 (9.46%) Visual Studio
3 5 (6.76%) JIRA
4 3 (4.05%) JMeter
4 3 (4.05%) Postman
4 3 (4.05%) Selenium
4 3 (4.05%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.35%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.35%) GitLab
5 1 (1.35%) MSTest
5 1 (1.35%) NUnit
General
1 16 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.86%) Finance
3 6 (8.11%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.41%) Retail
5 2 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.35%) Back Office
6 1 (1.35%) Banking
6 1 (1.35%) Front Office
6 1 (1.35%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (100.00%) .NET
2 26 (35.14%) .NET Core
3 15 (20.27%) React
4 14 (18.92%) AngularJS
4 14 (18.92%) ASP.NET
4 14 (18.92%) CSS
4 14 (18.92%) REST
5 13 (17.57%) HTML
5 13 (17.57%) RESTful
6 12 (16.22%) .NET Framework
7 10 (13.51%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (10.81%) ASP.NET Web API
9 7 (9.46%) Blazor
10 5 (6.76%) Entity Framework
10 5 (6.76%) OpenAPI
10 5 (6.76%) Swagger
11 4 (5.41%) jQuery
11 4 (5.41%) Razor View Engine
11 4 (5.41%) Sass
11 4 (5.41%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.86%) Mobile App
2 6 (8.11%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.70%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.35%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (35.14%) Agile
1 26 (35.14%) CI/CD
1 26 (35.14%) Full-Stack Development
2 24 (32.43%) Microservices
3 21 (28.38%) DevOps
4 17 (22.97%) Clean Code
5 13 (17.57%) TDD
6 12 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (16.22%) Software Engineering
7 9 (12.16%) Scrum
8 8 (10.81%) MVC
9 7 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (9.46%) SOLID
10 6 (8.11%) API Development
10 6 (8.11%) Design Patterns
10 6 (8.11%) Event-Driven
10 6 (8.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 6 (8.11%) Front End Development
10 6 (8.11%) Kanban
10 6 (8.11%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 58 (78.38%) C#
2 18 (24.32%) SQL
3 14 (18.92%) JavaScript
4 7 (9.46%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.70%) Erlang
5 2 (2.70%) VB
6 1 (1.35%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (2.70%) Degree
2 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.16%) QA
2 4 (5.41%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.05%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (9.46%) Docker
2 2 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (6.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.05%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.70%) Oracle