.NET Developer Contracts

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 229 171 137
Rank change year-on-year -58 -34 +10
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 435 881 1,731
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.01% 1.52% 1.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 1.60% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 727 1,452
10th Percentile £306 £363 £363
25th Percentile £366 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 7
10th Percentile - £34.80 £45.55
25th Percentile - £45.00 £52.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.00 £62.15
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -19.55% +80.14%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £62.88
90th Percentile - £85.55 £63.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £62.15
% change year-on-year +23.81% -15.53% +82.79%

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 39,991 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,011 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,675 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.28 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

.NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET Developer in the UK

.NET Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for .NET Developer in the UK

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Developer over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Developer in the UK

.NET Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET Developer in the UK

.NET Developer
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 Developer within the UK 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
England -81 360 £500 -3.85% 388
London -7 248 £578 +0.43% 133
Work from Home -49 172 £450 -5.26% 354
UK excluding London -72 133 £375 -16.67% 279
North of England -51 41 £363 -23.68% 103
South East -6 24 £470 +4.44% 40
North West -38 24 £375 -21.05% 56
Scotland +29 21 £375 -21.05% 11
Midlands 0 18 £350 -2.78% 62
Yorkshire +4 15 £350 -27.27% 35
South West -13 11 £350 -36.36% 29
East Midlands +6 10 £338 +2.27% 26
East of England +4 9 £350 +3.70% 18
Wales +11 8 £425 - 16
West Midlands +10 8 £375 -11.76% 36
North East +6 2 £375 -16.67% 13
Northern Ireland +6 2 - - 5

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, .NET Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 435 (100.00%) .NET
2 349 (80.23%) C#
3 214 (49.20%) Azure
4 143 (32.87%) DevOps
5 142 (32.64%) SQL
6 137 (31.49%) SQL Server
7 123 (28.28%) .NET Core
8 120 (27.59%) Agile
9 119 (27.36%) Finance
10 117 (26.90%) Full Stack Development
11 104 (23.91%) React
12 101 (23.22%) JavaScript
13 94 (21.61%) .NET Framework
14 90 (20.69%) ASP.NET
15 86 (19.77%) AWS
16 82 (18.85%) AngularJS
17 79 (18.16%) Azure DevOps
18 61 (14.02%) Software Engineering
18 61 (14.02%) Microsoft
19 58 (13.33%) TDD
20 57 (13.10%) MVC
21 56 (12.87%) Microservices
22 52 (11.95%) QA
23 51 (11.72%) Social Skills
24 50 (11.49%) TypeScript
24 50 (11.49%) CI/CD
25 49 (11.26%) Oracle
26 46 (10.57%) Problem-Solving
27 45 (10.34%) HTML
28 44 (10.11%) CSS

.NET Developer 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:

Application Platforms
1 17 (3.91%) CMS
2 7 (1.61%) Umbraco
3 4 (0.92%) IIS
4 3 (0.69%) Kentico
4 3 (0.69%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.46%) Confluence
5 2 (0.46%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.46%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.23%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (3.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.23%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.69%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.46%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.46%) SAP GTS
3 1 (0.23%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.23%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.23%) OPENHousing
3 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 214 (49.20%) Azure
2 86 (19.77%) AWS
3 79 (18.16%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (8.05%) GCP
5 25 (5.75%) Serverless
6 21 (4.83%) Azure Service Bus
7 15 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 12 (2.76%) Azure AKS
9 10 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (2.30%) Azure Functions
10 7 (1.61%) Azure App Service
10 7 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (1.61%) Entra ID
10 7 (1.61%) NuGet
11 6 (1.38%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.38%) Azure API Management
11 6 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (1.38%) GitHub
12 5 (1.15%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (1.15%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.46%) FTP
2 1 (0.23%) HTTP
2 1 (0.23%) Internet
2 1 (0.23%) Intranet
2 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (31.49%) SQL Server
2 18 (4.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 17 (3.91%) Oracle Database
3 17 (3.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 16 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.68%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.30%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.07%) MySQL
7 7 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.15%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.15%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.92%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (0.69%) Redis
11 2 (0.46%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.46%) DTS
12 1 (0.23%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.23%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 39 (8.97%) Git
2 16 (3.68%) Visual Studio
3 12 (2.76%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.53%) TeamCity
5 10 (2.30%) JIRA
5 10 (2.30%) Team Foundation Server
6 8 (1.84%) SpecFlow
7 7 (1.61%) Octopus Deploy
8 6 (1.38%) GitLab
9 5 (1.15%) Jasmine
9 5 (1.15%) NUnit
10 4 (0.92%) Selenium
10 4 (0.92%) webpack
11 2 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.46%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (0.46%) Mocha
12 1 (0.23%) Hudson
12 1 (0.23%) Moq
12 1 (0.23%) MSTest
12 1 (0.23%) WebDriver
General
1 119 (27.36%) Finance
2 51 (11.72%) Social Skills
3 41 (9.43%) Front Office
4 38 (8.74%) Public Sector
5 27 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (5.75%) Banking
7 15 (3.45%) Back Office
8 13 (2.99%) Investment Banking
9 9 (2.07%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.61%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.15%) Electronics
12 5 (1.15%) Law
12 5 (1.15%) Marketing
13 3 (0.69%) Automotive
13 3 (0.69%) Local Government
14 2 (0.46%) Legal
14 2 (0.46%) Retail
15 1 (0.23%) Advertising
15 1 (0.23%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 435 (100.00%) .NET
2 123 (28.28%) .NET Core
3 104 (23.91%) React
4 94 (21.61%) .NET Framework
5 90 (20.69%) ASP.NET
6 82 (18.85%) AngularJS
7 45 (10.34%) HTML
8 44 (10.11%) CSS
9 37 (8.51%) Entity Framework
10 26 (5.98%) Redux
11 25 (5.75%) RESTful
12 24 (5.52%) Vue
13 23 (5.29%) ASP.NET Core
13 23 (5.29%) REST
14 20 (4.60%) Web Services
15 19 (4.37%) Blazor
16 18 (4.14%) ASP.NET Web API
17 15 (3.45%) Kafka
18 14 (3.22%) ASP.NET MVC
18 14 (3.22%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.82%) Hedge funds
2 33 (7.59%) Fixed Income
3 31 (7.13%) Equities
3 31 (7.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 29 (6.67%) Product Ownership
5 24 (5.52%) Derivative
6 17 (3.91%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (3.22%) Legacy Applications
8 11 (2.53%) Wiki
9 7 (1.61%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.38%) NHS
10 6 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.92%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.69%) IoT
12 3 (0.69%) Market Risk
12 3 (0.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.45%) Windows
2 4 (0.92%) Linux
3 1 (0.23%) Android
3 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.23%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (32.87%) DevOps
2 120 (27.59%) Agile
3 117 (26.90%) Full Stack Development
4 61 (14.02%) Software Engineering
5 58 (13.33%) TDD
6 57 (13.10%) MVC
7 56 (12.87%) Microservices
8 50 (11.49%) CI/CD
9 46 (10.57%) Problem-Solving
10 44 (10.11%) Fintech
11 37 (8.51%) User Experience
12 36 (8.28%) Asset Management
13 34 (7.82%) Unit Testing
14 31 (7.13%) Code Quality
15 30 (6.90%) Scrum
16 29 (6.67%) OO
17 26 (5.98%) Design Patterns
18 24 (5.52%) Investment Management
19 20 (4.60%) Continuous Integration
20 19 (4.37%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 349 (80.23%) C#
2 142 (32.64%) SQL
3 101 (23.22%) JavaScript
4 50 (11.49%) TypeScript
5 37 (8.51%) PL/SQL
6 30 (6.90%) PowerShell
7 25 (5.75%) T-SQL
7 25 (5.75%) VB.NET
8 18 (4.14%) VBA
9 15 (3.45%) Python
10 14 (3.22%) Bicep
10 14 (3.22%) VB
11 11 (2.53%) Java
12 4 (0.92%) C
12 4 (0.92%) C++
12 4 (0.92%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.23%) F#
13 1 (0.23%) Go
13 1 (0.23%) R
13 1 (0.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (5.52%) Degree
2 17 (3.91%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.68%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (11.95%) QA
2 9 (2.07%) Accessibility
2 9 (2.07%) MiFID
3 4 (0.92%) Dodd-Frank
3 4 (0.92%) EMIR
4 3 (0.69%) WCAG
5 2 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.46%) GDPR
6 1 (0.23%) HL7
6 1 (0.23%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.23%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 10 (2.30%) Active Directory
1 10 (2.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (5.29%) Terraform
2 16 (3.68%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.69%) Ansible
5 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 61 (14.02%) Microsoft
2 49 (11.26%) Oracle
3 12 (2.76%) Citrix
4 7 (1.61%) Salesforce
4 7 (1.61%) SAP
5 4 (0.92%) Optimizely
5 4 (0.92%) Xamarin
6 3 (0.69%) Google
6 3 (0.69%) Murex
6 3 (0.69%) NEC
6 3 (0.69%) Sitecore
7 2 (0.46%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.23%) Aareon
8 1 (0.23%) Adobe
8 1 (0.23%) Atmel
8 1 (0.23%) Cerner
8 1 (0.23%) IBM
8 1 (0.23%) mParticle
8 1 (0.23%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.23%) Splunk