Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for .NET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited .NET over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 48 37
Rank change year-on-year -5 -11 -1
Contract jobs citing .NET 1,541 2,520 5,239
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.59% 4.49% 5.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.08% 19.54% 22.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,155 1,967 4,099
10th Percentile £325 £388 £385
25th Percentile £413 £449 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +4.65% +13.16%
75th Percentile £639 £700 £670
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £486 £475
% change year-on-year -7.46% +2.37% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 47
10th Percentile £20.77 £32.40 £20.25
25th Percentile £23.56 £41.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £58.91 £55.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.10% +12.24% +20.99%
75th Percentile £64.69 £71.25 £62.20
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £69.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.91 £55.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +7.10% +12.24% +20.99%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

.NET is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,022 12,899 23,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.02% 22.97% 26.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,266 9,378 17,309
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 149 224
10th Percentile £21.96 £29.15 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.49% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.48 £80.40 £76.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.47 £65.00 £54.25
% change year-on-year -22.36% +19.82% +20.56%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing .NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the UK

.NET
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET.

Daily rate trend for .NET in the UK

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the UK

.NET
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET.

Hourly rate trend for .NET in the UK

.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing .NET over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for .NET in the UK

.NET
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the UK over the 6 months to 29 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -6 1,354 £538 -6.52% 1,398
London +5 921 £575 -11.54% 416
Work from Home -1 594 £500 -9.09% 1,133
UK excluding London -32 459 £450 -7.46% 1,052
North of England -34 109 £441 -7.26% 352
South West +16 96 £585 +6.36% 107
South East -57 93 £489 -4.87% 191
North West -29 66 £445 -6.32% 204
Midlands -31 61 £450 +5.26% 230
Scotland -16 47 £425 -10.53% 56
West Midlands -12 40 £481 -3.75% 134
East of England +5 36 £475 +5.56% 82
Yorkshire -22 36 £420 -13.45% 103
East Midlands -24 23 £410 -0.61% 96
Wales -10 18 £413 -26.99% 37
North East +7 7 £375 -14.29% 51
Northern Ireland +2 4 - - 20

.NET
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 47 (3.05%) CMS
1 47 (3.05%) IIS
2 44 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 36 (2.34%) Confluence
4 32 (2.08%) Umbraco
5 11 (0.71%) BizTalk Server
6 9 (0.58%) Apache
7 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.39%) WordPress
8 5 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.32%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.32%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.32%) Drupal
9 4 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.19%) Kentico
10 3 (0.19%) nginx
10 3 (0.19%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.13%) EPiServer
11 2 (0.13%) Jadu
Applications
1 40 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.065%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.065%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.065%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.065%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 41 (2.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.17%) Endur
3 8 (0.52%) NEC Housing
4 7 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
5 6 (0.39%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.39%) SimCorp Dimension
6 4 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.19%) Magento
7 3 (0.19%) Maximo
8 2 (0.13%) Fidessa
8 2 (0.13%) Shopify
9 1 (0.065%) Aareon QL
9 1 (0.065%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.065%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
9 1 (0.065%) MIS ActiveH
9 1 (0.065%) OPENHousing
9 1 (0.065%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 797 (51.72%) Azure
2 360 (23.36%) Azure DevOps
3 235 (15.25%) AWS
4 124 (8.05%) Azure Service Bus
5 95 (6.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 88 (5.71%) Entra ID
7 81 (5.26%) Power Platform
8 80 (5.19%) Serverless
9 59 (3.83%) Dynamics 365
10 57 (3.70%) GCP
11 54 (3.50%) PaaS
12 53 (3.44%) Azure Monitor
13 52 (3.37%) Azure Functions
14 47 (3.05%) PowerApps
15 46 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
16 44 (2.86%) Power Automate
17 37 (2.40%) GitHub
18 33 (2.14%) Azure AKS
19 32 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
20 30 (1.95%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.56%) Internet
2 15 (0.97%) DNS
3 14 (0.91%) Network Security
3 14 (0.91%) TCP/IP
3 14 (0.91%) VPN
4 12 (0.78%) HTTP
5 9 (0.58%) Firewall
6 8 (0.52%) FTP
7 6 (0.39%) DHCP
8 5 (0.32%) Intranet
8 5 (0.32%) SSL
8 5 (0.32%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.19%) AMQP
9 3 (0.19%) LAN
9 3 (0.19%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.19%) SSH
9 3 (0.19%) WAN
9 3 (0.19%) Wireless
10 2 (0.13%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.13%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 445 (28.88%) SQL Server
2 63 (4.09%) NoSQL
3 55 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 49 (3.18%) Relational Database
5 41 (2.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 39 (2.53%) Power BI
7 37 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
8 34 (2.21%) Oracle Database
8 34 (2.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 33 (2.14%) MySQL
10 28 (1.82%) Redis
11 25 (1.62%) MongoDB
12 22 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
13 19 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
14 13 (0.84%) Data Lake
15 12 (0.78%) Big Data
16 11 (0.71%) DynamoDB
17 9 (0.58%) BusinessObjects
17 9 (0.58%) GIS
18 8 (0.52%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 197 (12.78%) Git
2 99 (6.42%) Visual Studio
3 76 (4.93%) Jenkins
4 61 (3.96%) JIRA
5 60 (3.89%) TeamCity
6 58 (3.76%) SpecFlow
7 55 (3.57%) Selenium
8 37 (2.40%) Bitbucket
9 34 (2.21%) NUnit
10 31 (2.01%) Postman
11 27 (1.75%) Cucumber
11 27 (1.75%) WebDriver
12 26 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 20 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
14 19 (1.23%) Moq
15 18 (1.17%) Cypress.io
16 13 (0.84%) GitLab
16 13 (0.84%) Subversion
17 12 (0.78%) Appium
17 12 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 275 (17.85%) Social Skills
2 267 (17.33%) Finance
3 152 (9.86%) Public Sector
4 101 (6.55%) Front Office
5 100 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
6 96 (6.23%) Banking
7 57 (3.70%) Back Office
8 48 (3.11%) Investment Banking
9 31 (2.01%) Local Government
10 18 (1.17%) Aerospace
11 16 (1.04%) Manufacturing
11 16 (1.04%) Retail
12 15 (0.97%) Marketing
13 12 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (0.71%) Financial Institution
14 11 (0.71%) Law
14 11 (0.71%) Telecoms
15 9 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
16 8 (0.52%) Electronics
16 8 (0.52%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 947 (61.45%) Developer
2 417 (27.06%) .NET Developer
3 250 (16.22%) Senior
4 235 (15.25%) C# Developer
5 163 (10.58%) Senior Developer
6 140 (9.09%) Full Stack Developer
7 133 (8.63%) Software Engineer
8 109 (7.07%) C# .NET Developer
8 109 (7.07%) Lead
9 102 (6.62%) Architect
10 100 (6.49%) Software Developer
11 89 (5.78%) Azure Developer
12 61 (3.96%) Full Stack .NET Developer
13 57 (3.70%) .NET Software Engineer
14 50 (3.24%) Azure Engineer
15 47 (3.05%) React Developer
16 46 (2.99%) DevOps Engineer
17 45 (2.92%) Senior .NET Developer
18 44 (2.86%) Analyst
19 43 (2.79%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 362 (23.49%) .NET Core
2 301 (19.53%) .NET Framework
3 241 (15.64%) React
4 235 (15.25%) ASP.NET
5 206 (13.37%) AngularJS
6 173 (11.23%) HTML
7 169 (10.97%) CSS
8 133 (8.63%) XML
9 105 (6.81%) REST
10 84 (5.45%) Entity Framework
10 84 (5.45%) Web Services
11 78 (5.06%) RESTful
12 69 (4.48%) ASP.NET Core
13 65 (4.22%) Blazor
13 65 (4.22%) WCF
14 57 (3.70%) ASP.NET Web API
15 47 (3.05%) jQuery
16 46 (2.99%) Vue
17 45 (2.92%) Kafka
17 45 (2.92%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 92 (5.97%) Product Ownership
2 44 (2.86%) Derivative
3 43 (2.79%) Fixed Income
3 43 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
4 39 (2.53%) Hedge funds
5 36 (2.34%) Equities
6 32 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 28 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
8 27 (1.75%) Cloud Native
9 26 (1.69%) Mobile App
10 25 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
11 24 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
12 19 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
13 17 (1.10%) Public Cloud
14 16 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
15 15 (0.97%) Data Structures
15 15 (0.97%) Onboarding
16 14 (0.91%) Algorithms
17 13 (0.84%) Client/Server
18 12 (0.78%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 130 (8.44%) Windows
2 73 (4.74%) Linux
3 32 (2.08%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.30%) Android
5 18 (1.17%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.71%) Unix
7 4 (0.26%) VMS
8 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.19%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.065%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (35.95%) DevOps
2 541 (35.11%) Agile
3 284 (18.43%) CI/CD
4 232 (15.06%) Software Engineering
5 225 (14.60%) Full Stack Development
6 196 (12.72%) TDD
7 188 (12.20%) Microservices
8 182 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
8 182 (11.81%) Scrum
9 174 (11.29%) OO
10 156 (10.12%) Test Automation
11 152 (9.86%) MVC
12 102 (6.62%) Continuous Integration
13 101 (6.55%) SDLC
14 91 (5.91%) Design Patterns
14 91 (5.91%) Migration
15 89 (5.78%) API Management
16 79 (5.13%) B2C
17 75 (4.87%) Computer Science
18 73 (4.74%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 1,110 (72.03%) C#
2 497 (32.25%) SQL
3 323 (20.96%) JavaScript
4 245 (15.90%) PowerShell
5 146 (9.47%) TypeScript
6 138 (8.96%) Python
7 135 (8.76%) Java
8 103 (6.68%) Bicep
9 73 (4.74%) T-SQL
10 70 (4.54%) PL/SQL
11 62 (4.02%) C++
12 52 (3.37%) VB.NET
13 48 (3.11%) VBA
14 38 (2.47%) VB
15 30 (1.95%) C
16 23 (1.49%) Ruby
17 19 (1.23%) PHP
18 15 (0.97%) Bash
19 12 (0.78%) Go
20 8 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 151 (9.80%) Security Cleared
2 117 (7.59%) SC Cleared
3 111 (7.20%) Degree
4 36 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (1.30%) DV Cleared
6 18 (1.17%) Master's Degree
7 11 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (0.65%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.45%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.32%) CISSP
12 4 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.19%) CISA
13 3 (0.19%) CISM
13 3 (0.19%) HNC
13 3 (0.19%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.13%) CCNP
14 2 (0.13%) HND
14 2 (0.13%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (7.33%) QA
2 48 (3.11%) Accessibility
3 26 (1.69%) WCAG
4 11 (0.71%) MiFID
5 8 (0.52%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
7 6 (0.39%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.39%) EMIR
7 6 (0.39%) SLA
8 5 (0.32%) Dodd-Frank
9 4 (0.26%) GDPR
9 4 (0.26%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.19%) GRC
10 3 (0.19%) HL7
10 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.065%) DICOM
11 1 (0.065%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 142 (9.21%) Active Directory
2 93 (6.04%) Docker
3 20 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.97%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.58%) vSphere
7 6 (0.39%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.19%) NFS
8 3 (0.19%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.065%) Firmware
9 1 (0.065%) GridGain
9 1 (0.065%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 101 (6.55%) Kubernetes
2 73 (4.74%) Terraform
3 63 (4.09%) Ansible
4 27 (1.75%) PowerCLI
5 21 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (0.91%) SCOM
7 10 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
8 9 (0.58%) BladeLogic
9 6 (0.39%) SCCM
10 5 (0.32%) WSUS
11 4 (0.26%) Grafana
11 4 (0.26%) OPNET
11 4 (0.26%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.26%) Puppet
12 3 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.19%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.13%) SCOrch
14 1 (0.065%) Kibana
14 1 (0.065%) logstash
14 1 (0.065%) SELinux
Vendors
1 361 (23.43%) Microsoft
2 149 (9.67%) Oracle
3 32 (2.08%) SAP
4 31 (2.01%) Citrix
5 28 (1.82%) Atlassian
6 22 (1.43%) Dell
6 22 (1.43%) HP
6 22 (1.43%) VMware
7 18 (1.17%) MuleSoft
7 18 (1.17%) OpenLink
8 17 (1.10%) Databricks
9 16 (1.04%) Google
10 15 (0.97%) Xamarin
11 10 (0.65%) TIBCO
12 9 (0.58%) Altiris
12 9 (0.58%) Dynatrace
12 9 (0.58%) F5
12 9 (0.58%) Salesforce
13 8 (0.52%) NEC
13 8 (0.52%) Virgin Media