.NET Framework Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft .NET Framework
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for .NET Framework skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited .NET Framework over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 303 246 236
Rank change year-on-year -57 -10 +2
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 90 197 316
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.87% 1.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.68% 4.79% 5.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 142 220
10th Percentile £309 £373 £356
25th Percentile £381 £413 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £525
90th Percentile £589 £688 £575
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 13
10th Percentile £39.59 - £48.50
25th Percentile £75.00 £50.00 £49.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -4.35% +27.78%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £63.60
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year +45.45% -6.38% +32.02%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

.NET Framework 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 advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3,364 4,114 6,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.96% 18.09% 19.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,187 3,064 4,365
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £407 £419 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £588
90th Percentile £689 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 90 139
10th Percentile £22.75 £22.47 £19.32
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.56 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.49 £78.12 £77.06
UK median hourly rate £48.97 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -24.67% +23.81% +16.67%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing .NET Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Framework in the UK excluding London

.NET Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Framework in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for .NET Framework in the UK excluding London

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Framework in the UK excluding London

.NET Framework
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Framework in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for .NET Framework in the UK excluding London

.NET Framework
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing .NET Framework in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for .NET Framework in the UK excluding London

.NET Framework
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Framework within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
North of England +3 30 £450 -5.26% 86
North West +4 22 £475 - 50
South East -16 17 £475 -5.00% 38
East of England +12 14 £550 +15.79% 18
South West -6 11 £638 +15.91% 26
Midlands -12 10 £425 - 58
Yorkshire +8 7 £400 -20.00% 22
West Midlands -2 7 £488 +2.63% 33
Scotland +27 6 £423 -11.05% 19
Wales +11 3 - - 7
East Midlands -7 3 £307 -27.81% 25
North East +11 1 £375 - 17
.NET Framework
UK

.NET Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (8.89%) SharePoint
2 7 (7.78%) IIS
3 5 (5.56%) Confluence
4 4 (4.44%) CMS
5 2 (2.22%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (1.11%) Apache
6 1 (1.11%) Jadu
6 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (1.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.33%) Maximo
3 1 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (57.78%) Azure
2 27 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (21.11%) AWS
4 10 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 9 (10.00%) PaaS
6 8 (8.89%) PowerApps
6 8 (8.89%) Serverless
7 7 (7.78%) Power Automate
8 6 (6.67%) Azure Functions
9 5 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (5.56%) GCP
10 4 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (4.44%) OpenShift
11 3 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (3.33%) npm
11 3 (3.33%) Yarn
12 2 (2.22%) Entra ID
12 2 (2.22%) GitHub
12 2 (2.22%) SaaS
12 2 (2.22%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.56%) HTTP
2 4 (4.44%) TCP/IP
2 4 (4.44%) VPN
2 4 (4.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (36.67%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.67%) MySQL
2 6 (6.67%) Power BI
2 6 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.56%) SQLite
4 4 (4.44%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (3.33%) Redis
5 3 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.11%) MS Access
7 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.11%) SAP HANA
7 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 20 (22.22%) Git
2 11 (12.22%) Visual Studio
3 6 (6.67%) JIRA
4 5 (5.56%) Bitbucket
4 5 (5.56%) Checkstyle
4 5 (5.56%) SonarQube
4 5 (5.56%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (4.44%) Fiddler
6 3 (3.33%) Jasmine
6 3 (3.33%) Karma Test Runner
6 3 (3.33%) Mocha
6 3 (3.33%) NUnit
6 3 (3.33%) ReSharper
6 3 (3.33%) webpack
7 2 (2.22%) Moq
7 2 (2.22%) Selenium
7 2 (2.22%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.11%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.11%) WebDriver
General
1 21 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.78%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.22%) Finance
5 1 (1.11%) Advertising
5 1 (1.11%) Aviation
5 1 (1.11%) Banking
5 1 (1.11%) Legal
5 1 (1.11%) Local Government
5 1 (1.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 60 (66.67%) Developer
2 32 (35.56%) .NET Developer
3 12 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 8 (8.89%) Architect
5 7 (7.78%) Senior
6 6 (6.67%) Applications Developer
6 6 (6.67%) Software Developer
7 5 (5.56%) C# Developer
7 5 (5.56%) Power Platform Developer
7 5 (5.56%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.44%) Administrator
8 4 (4.44%) Automation Architect
8 4 (4.44%) Azure Developer
8 4 (4.44%) Lead
8 4 (4.44%) Senior .NET Developer
8 4 (4.44%) SharePoint Administrator
8 4 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.33%) Dynamics 365 Architect
9 3 (3.33%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
9 3 (3.33%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (100.00%) .NET
2 32 (35.56%) Entity Framework
3 29 (32.22%) .NET Core
4 18 (20.00%) XML
5 17 (18.89%) Web Services
6 16 (17.78%) HTML
7 15 (16.67%) CSS
7 15 (16.67%) JSON
8 13 (14.44%) React
8 13 (14.44%) RESTful
9 12 (13.33%) ASP.NET Web API
9 12 (13.33%) WCF
10 11 (12.22%) ASP.NET
10 11 (12.22%) REST
11 9 (10.00%) AngularJS
12 6 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC
12 6 (6.67%) jQuery
12 6 (6.67%) SOAP
13 4 (4.44%) SAML
13 4 (4.44%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.89%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.78%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.56%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.44%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.44%) Low-Code
4 4 (4.44%) PKI
4 4 (4.44%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.44%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.11%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.11%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.78%) Linux
2 6 (6.67%) Windows
3 2 (2.22%) Android
4 1 (1.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (53.33%) Agile
2 38 (42.22%) DevOps
3 23 (25.56%) OO
4 21 (23.33%) MVC
5 18 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 15 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 15 (16.67%) Microservices
7 14 (15.56%) Design Patterns
7 14 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (12.22%) Computer Science
8 11 (12.22%) Scrum
9 10 (11.11%) Migration
10 8 (8.89%) OOD
10 8 (8.89%) OOP
10 8 (8.89%) SDLC
10 8 (8.89%) Test Automation
11 7 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (7.78%) TOGAF
11 7 (7.78%) UML
11 7 (7.78%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 72 (80.00%) C#
2 30 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 24 (26.67%) SQL
4 13 (14.44%) PowerShell
5 9 (10.00%) Python
6 6 (6.67%) VB.NET
7 5 (5.56%) T-SQL
8 4 (4.44%) Java
8 4 (4.44%) MATLAB
8 4 (4.44%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.44%) VBA
9 2 (2.22%) Bash
10 1 (1.11%) Bicep
10 1 (1.11%) C++
10 1 (1.11%) PHP
10 1 (1.11%) R
10 1 (1.11%) XAML
Qualifications
1 21 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 18 (20.00%) Degree
3 15 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.67%) Master's Degree
5 5 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (5.56%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (2.22%) HND
8 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.56%) QA
2 1 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 6 (6.67%) Docker
2 5 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.44%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (6.67%) Terraform
2 5 (5.56%) Ansible
2 5 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.56%) PowerCLI
3 4 (4.44%) OPNET
3 4 (4.44%) SCOM
3 4 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.11%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 35 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.56%) Atlassian
2 5 (5.56%) Google
2 5 (5.56%) Oracle
2 5 (5.56%) VMware
3 4 (4.44%) Cisco
3 4 (4.44%) F5
3 4 (4.44%) SAP
3 4 (4.44%) Xamarin
4 3 (3.33%) IBM
4 3 (3.33%) Nintex
4 3 (3.33%) Pega
5 2 (2.22%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.11%) Adobe
6 1 (1.11%) New Relic