.NET Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
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 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited .NET over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 55 38
Rank change year-on-year -31 -17 -3
Contract jobs citing .NET 456 950 1,652
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.22% 4.04% 5.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.03% 22.12% 26.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 748 1,203
10th Percentile £297 £362 £360
25th Percentile £350 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £470
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +2.13% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £538
90th Percentile £677 £675 £625
UK median daily rate £524 £560 £538
% change year-on-year -6.39% +4.09% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 43
10th Percentile £20.77 £22.50 £20.25
25th Percentile £24.38 £48.88 £33.63
Median hourly rate £58.91 £55.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.10% +13.40% +13.45%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £87.31 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £58.91 £60.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year -1.83% +23.08% +14.71%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

.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 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 3,250 4,294 6,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.84% 18.27% 19.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,122 3,209 4,365
10th Percentile £324 £356 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £690 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 91 138
10th Percentile £21.73 £22.50 £20.18
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.65 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.78% +30.61% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £63.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.65
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.93% +10.32%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for .NET in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for .NET in the UK excluding London

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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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South East -46 104 £500 -2.44% 180
North of England -38 103 £423 -11.05% 311
South West +18 91 £553 +4.25% 117
North West -28 65 £445 -6.32% 180
Midlands -33 57 £456 +7.35% 207
Scotland -23 46 £419 -11.84% 79
West Midlands -12 38 £494 -1.25% 119
East of England -4 36 £475 - 74
Yorkshire -11 30 £400 -16.67% 101
Wales -12 20 £425 -20.93% 38
East Midlands -22 19 £418 +4.38% 88
North East +11 8 £278 -40.00% 32
Northern Ireland +4 4 - - 21
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UK

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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 32 (7.02%) Confluence
2 20 (4.39%) Umbraco
3 19 (4.17%) SharePoint
4 17 (3.73%) CMS
5 16 (3.51%) IIS
6 5 (1.10%) Drupal
7 4 (0.88%) Apache
8 3 (0.66%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.44%) EPiServer
9 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.22%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.22%) Jadu
10 1 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.22%) Site Server
10 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.22%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.22%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 8 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.88%) Magento
3 3 (0.66%) Maximo
3 3 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.22%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 211 (46.27%) Azure
2 106 (23.25%) Azure DevOps
3 55 (12.06%) AWS
4 27 (5.92%) Power Platform
5 22 (4.82%) Serverless
6 19 (4.17%) Power Automate
6 19 (4.17%) SaaS
7 18 (3.95%) PaaS
8 16 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (3.07%) Azure Functions
10 13 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (2.85%) PowerApps
11 12 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
12 10 (2.19%) Azure AKS
13 9 (1.97%) Azure API Management
13 9 (1.97%) IaaS
14 8 (1.75%) Azure App Service
15 7 (1.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 6 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
17 5 (1.10%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.19%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.32%) HTTP
2 6 (1.32%) VPN
3 5 (1.10%) DNS
3 5 (1.10%) SSL
4 4 (0.88%) DHCP
4 4 (0.88%) Network Security
5 3 (0.66%) LAN
5 3 (0.66%) SAN
5 3 (0.66%) WAN
5 3 (0.66%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.44%) MQTT
7 1 (0.22%) 2G
7 1 (0.22%) 5G
7 1 (0.22%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.22%) Internet
7 1 (0.22%) NAS
7 1 (0.22%) RS-232
7 1 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (19.30%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.85%) Power BI
2 13 (2.85%) Relational Database
3 10 (2.19%) MySQL
3 10 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (1.75%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.10%) SQLite
7 4 (0.88%) DB2
7 4 (0.88%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.88%) Redis
8 3 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.66%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.44%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.44%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 58 (12.72%) Git
2 47 (10.31%) Jenkins
2 47 (10.31%) Visual Studio
3 41 (8.99%) JIRA
4 31 (6.80%) Bitbucket
5 24 (5.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 14 (3.07%) NUnit
7 12 (2.63%) Selenium
8 9 (1.97%) Postman
9 7 (1.54%) TeamCity
10 5 (1.10%) Checkstyle
10 5 (1.10%) Maven
10 5 (1.10%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.10%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.88%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 4 (0.88%) WebDriver
11 4 (0.88%) webpack
12 3 (0.66%) Fiddler
12 3 (0.66%) SpecFlow
General
1 88 (19.30%) Social Skills
2 41 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (8.11%) Public Sector
4 33 (7.24%) Finance
5 18 (3.95%) Aerospace
6 9 (1.97%) Manufacturing
7 6 (1.32%) Banking
7 6 (1.32%) Retail
8 5 (1.10%) Automotive
9 4 (0.88%) Law
9 4 (0.88%) Legal
9 4 (0.88%) Tech for Good
10 3 (0.66%) Electronics
10 3 (0.66%) Front Office
10 3 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.66%) Marketing
10 3 (0.66%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 285 (62.50%) Developer
2 133 (29.17%) .NET Developer
3 48 (10.53%) Senior
4 33 (7.24%) Architect
5 30 (6.58%) Senior Developer
6 29 (6.36%) Software Developer
7 26 (5.70%) Full Stack Developer
8 25 (5.48%) C# Developer
8 25 (5.48%) Lead
9 21 (4.61%) Software Engineer
10 19 (4.17%) Senior .NET Developer
11 17 (3.73%) C# .NET Developer
11 17 (3.73%) React Developer
12 16 (3.51%) Analyst
13 15 (3.29%) Applications Developer
13 15 (3.29%) Azure Developer
13 15 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (2.85%) Full Stack .NET Developer
14 13 (2.85%) Umbraco Developer
15 11 (2.41%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (20.61%) .NET Core
2 74 (16.23%) .NET Framework
3 70 (15.35%) ASP.NET
4 53 (11.62%) HTML
5 50 (10.96%) AngularJS
6 49 (10.75%) CSS
7 46 (10.09%) React
8 32 (7.02%) REST
9 29 (6.36%) Blazor
10 27 (5.92%) RESTful
11 26 (5.70%) Entity Framework
11 26 (5.70%) Web Services
12 21 (4.61%) ASP.NET MVC
12 21 (4.61%) XML
13 18 (3.95%) JSON
13 18 (3.95%) SOAP
14 17 (3.73%) ASP.NET Web API
15 11 (2.41%) Vue
16 10 (2.19%) ASP.NET Core
16 10 (2.19%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.51%) Legacy Applications
3 15 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (3.29%) Mobile App
4 12 (2.63%) Public Cloud
4 12 (2.63%) Wiki
5 8 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.54%) IoT
7 6 (1.32%) Client/Server
7 6 (1.32%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.10%) NHS
8 5 (1.10%) PKI
8 5 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.88%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.88%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.88%) Low-Code
9 4 (0.88%) Mainframe
10 3 (0.66%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 40 (8.77%) Linux
2 27 (5.92%) Windows
3 11 (2.41%) Android
4 9 (1.97%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.54%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.32%) Unix
7 4 (0.88%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.44%) VMS
8 2 (0.44%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.22%) Debian
9 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (31.80%) DevOps
2 136 (29.82%) Agile
3 78 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
4 72 (15.79%) CI/CD
5 64 (14.04%) MVC
6 63 (13.82%) OO
7 55 (12.06%) Microservices
8 54 (11.84%) Full Stack Development
9 39 (8.55%) Test Automation
10 38 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
11 37 (8.11%) Scrum
12 36 (7.89%) Software Engineering
13 35 (7.68%) Continuous Integration
14 34 (7.46%) Configuration Management
15 32 (7.02%) OOP
16 31 (6.80%) TDD
17 30 (6.58%) Task Automation
18 25 (5.48%) SOLID
19 24 (5.26%) Infrastructure Automation
19 24 (5.26%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 269 (58.99%) C#
2 111 (24.34%) SQL
3 83 (18.20%) JavaScript
4 63 (13.82%) PowerShell
5 48 (10.53%) Python
6 33 (7.24%) Java
7 32 (7.02%) TypeScript
8 18 (3.95%) C
9 17 (3.73%) VB.NET
10 14 (3.07%) C++
11 9 (1.97%) PHP
12 8 (1.75%) Bicep
13 7 (1.54%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.54%) Ruby
13 7 (1.54%) VBA
14 5 (1.10%) Bash
14 5 (1.10%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.10%) VB
15 4 (0.88%) MATLAB
15 4 (0.88%) VB6
Qualifications
1 80 (17.54%) Security Cleared
2 63 (13.82%) SC Cleared
3 26 (5.70%) Degree
4 13 (2.85%) DV Cleared
5 8 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (1.32%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.66%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.66%) HNC
7 3 (0.66%) ISTQB
7 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.44%) HND
8 2 (0.44%) ISEB
8 2 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.48%) QA
2 7 (1.54%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.32%) SLA
4 5 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (0.66%) GDPR
5 3 (0.66%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (0.44%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.22%) HL7
7 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (5.26%) Docker
2 16 (3.51%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.41%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.32%) vSphere
6 3 (0.66%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.44%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 44 (9.65%) Ansible
2 25 (5.48%) PowerCLI
3 22 (4.82%) Terraform
4 19 (4.17%) Kubernetes
5 10 (2.19%) SCOM
6 9 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.32%) SCCM
8 5 (1.10%) WSUS
9 4 (0.88%) Puppet
10 2 (0.44%) OPNET
11 1 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.22%) Argo
11 1 (0.22%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (0.22%) Istio
11 1 (0.22%) linkerd
11 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.22%) SELinux
11 1 (0.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 74 (16.23%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.70%) Atlassian
3 25 (5.48%) Oracle
4 22 (4.82%) Dell
4 22 (4.82%) HP
5 17 (3.73%) VMware
6 10 (2.19%) Xamarin
7 9 (1.97%) SAP
8 6 (1.32%) F5
8 6 (1.32%) Google
9 4 (0.88%) IBM
9 4 (0.88%) Infragistics
10 3 (0.66%) Nintex
10 3 (0.66%) Pega
10 3 (0.66%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.44%) Atmel
11 2 (0.44%) OutSystems
11 2 (0.44%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.44%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.44%) Sitecore