.NET Software Engineer Contracts

.NET Software Engineer
UK

The median .NET Software Engineer daily rate in the UK is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 519 613 687
Rank change year-on-year +94 +74 -105
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Software Engineer 60 87 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.15% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.15% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 77 138
10th Percentile £458 £550 £400
25th Percentile £563 £613 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £713
90th Percentile £800 £743 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £420 £400
% change year-on-year +7.14% +5.00% -27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - £47.75
25th Percentile £75.00 - £48.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £49.00
75th Percentile £85.00 - £49.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - £49.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

.NET Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET Software Engineer in the UK

.NET Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for .NET Software Engineer in the UK

.NET Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Software Engineer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Software Engineer in the UK

.NET Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET Software Engineer in the UK

.NET Software Engineer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +86 59 £700 +7.69% 34
London +86 53 £700 +3.70% 11
Work from Home +103 12 £463 -32.48% 177
UK excluding London +69 6 £450 +7.14% 24
South East +28 4 £450 - 4
South West +24 2 £475 - 4

.NET Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, .NET Software Engineer contract 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 contract job ads featuring .NET Software Engineer in the job title.

1 60 (100.00%) .NET
1 60 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 58 (96.67%) C#
3 44 (73.33%) Azure
4 36 (60.00%) AWS
5 35 (58.33%) DevOps
6 32 (53.33%) Agile
7 31 (51.67%) JavaScript
7 31 (51.67%) Front Office
7 31 (51.67%) React
8 30 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
9 29 (48.33%) Finance
9 29 (48.33%) TypeScript
10 28 (46.67%) TDD
11 27 (45.00%) Derivative
11 27 (45.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 27 (45.00%) Fintech
12 26 (43.33%) GCP
12 26 (43.33%) Redux
12 26 (43.33%) Asset Management
12 26 (43.33%) Fixed Income
12 26 (43.33%) Equities
12 26 (43.33%) Hedge funds
12 26 (43.33%) Investment Management
12 26 (43.33%) QA
13 23 (38.33%) .NET Core
14 15 (25.00%) AngularJS
15 13 (21.67%) ASP.NET
16 12 (20.00%) SQL
17 11 (18.33%) ASP.NET Core

.NET Software Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 44 (73.33%) Azure
2 36 (60.00%) AWS
3 26 (43.33%) GCP
4 7 (11.67%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (5.00%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.33%) PaaS
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.67%) GitHub
8 1 (1.67%) NuGet
8 1 (1.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.67%) Big Data
3 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.67%) MySQL
3 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.67%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Git
1 2 (3.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.67%) Checkstyle
2 1 (1.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.67%) Postman
General
1 31 (51.67%) Front Office
2 29 (48.33%) Finance
3 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.33%) Banking
4 2 (3.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.67%) Electronics
5 1 (1.67%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.67%) Marketing
5 1 (1.67%) Retail
5 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (100.00%) .NET
2 31 (51.67%) React
3 26 (43.33%) Redux
4 23 (38.33%) .NET Core
5 15 (25.00%) AngularJS
6 13 (21.67%) ASP.NET
7 11 (18.33%) ASP.NET Core
7 11 (18.33%) Vue
8 7 (11.67%) .NET Framework
9 5 (8.33%) CSS
9 5 (8.33%) REST
10 3 (5.00%) XML
11 2 (3.33%) CSS3
11 2 (3.33%) HTML
11 2 (3.33%) HTML5
11 2 (3.33%) JSON
12 1 (1.67%) Angular 2
12 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET Web API
12 1 (1.67%) Blazor
12 1 (1.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (45.00%) Derivative
1 27 (45.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 26 (43.33%) Equities
2 26 (43.33%) Fixed Income
2 26 (43.33%) Hedge funds
3 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.67%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.67%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.67%) IoT
4 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.67%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 35 (58.33%) DevOps
3 32 (53.33%) Agile
4 30 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
5 28 (46.67%) TDD
6 27 (45.00%) Fintech
7 26 (43.33%) Asset Management
7 26 (43.33%) Investment Management
8 7 (11.67%) Microservices
9 5 (8.33%) Analytics
9 5 (8.33%) Multithreading
10 3 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence
10 3 (5.00%) CI/CD
10 3 (5.00%) Data Governance
10 3 (5.00%) LLM
10 3 (5.00%) Machine Learning
10 3 (5.00%) MVC
10 3 (5.00%) SDLC
10 3 (5.00%) Test Automation
11 2 (3.33%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 58 (96.67%) C#
2 31 (51.67%) JavaScript
3 29 (48.33%) TypeScript
4 12 (20.00%) SQL
5 3 (5.00%) Java
5 3 (5.00%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.33%) C++
6 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.67%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.67%) DBS Check
2 1 (1.67%) Degree
2 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (43.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.33%) Terraform
2 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.67%) Databricks
2 1 (1.67%) SAP