.NET Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft .NET Architect
UK > England

The median Microsoft .NET Architect daily rate in England is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 530 486 535
Rank change year-on-year -44 +49 +183
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Architect 7 10 26
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.022% 0.035% 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.037% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 23
10th Percentile £498 - £541
25th Percentile £564 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £680
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.76% -0.73%
75th Percentile £709 £625 £750
90th Percentile £726 £655 -
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £680
% change year-on-year - -11.76% -0.73%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 28,730 26,847 34,730
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.24% 92.95% 93.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,314 16,727 23,863
10th Percentile £293 £300 £288
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,773 846 1,347
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.83 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.22 £21.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% -22.22% +40.63%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.93% -25.56% +50.00%

.NET Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring '.NET Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Architect job vacancy trend in England

.NET Architect
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for .NET Architect job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for .NET Architect job vacancies in England

.NET Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Architect in England over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Architect in England

.NET Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for .NET Architect job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for .NET Architect job vacancies in England

.NET Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 20 December 2025. 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
London -1 6 £700 +16.67% 1
North of England -47 1 £600 +20.00%
Yorkshire - 1 £600 -
.NET Architect
UK

.NET Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 December 2025, .NET Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring .NET Architect in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) .NET
2 6 (85.71%) Design Patterns
3 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 5 (71.43%) Azure
3 5 (71.43%) C#
3 5 (71.43%) REST
4 4 (57.14%) .NET Core
4 4 (57.14%) .NET Framework
4 4 (57.14%) Aladdin
4 4 (57.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (57.14%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (57.14%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 4 (57.14%) DevOps
4 4 (57.14%) Fidessa
4 4 (57.14%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (57.14%) Microservices
4 4 (57.14%) MiFID
4 4 (57.14%) Multithreaded Programming
4 4 (57.14%) Multithreading
4 4 (57.14%) Order Management
4 4 (57.14%) Portware
4 4 (57.14%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (57.14%) Serverless
4 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
4 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
4 4 (57.14%) thinkFolio
5 2 (28.57%) API Development
6 1 (14.29%) AngularJS

.NET Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Aladdin
1 4 (57.14%) Fidessa
1 4 (57.14%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Logic Apps
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Service Bus
2 4 (57.14%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Banking
2 4 (57.14%) Investment Banking
3 3 (42.86%) Front Office
4 2 (28.57%) Finance
5 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (71.43%) REST
3 4 (57.14%) .NET Core
3 4 (57.14%) .NET Framework
3 4 (57.14%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (57.14%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 1 (14.29%) Blazor
4 1 (14.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
1 4 (57.14%) Derivative
1 4 (57.14%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Fixed Income
1 4 (57.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (57.14%) Hedge funds
1 4 (57.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Design Patterns
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) Microservices
3 4 (57.14%) Multithreaded Programming
3 4 (57.14%) Multithreading
3 4 (57.14%) Order Management
3 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) API Development
5 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Resource Allocation
5 1 (14.29%) SDLC
5 1 (14.29%) Software Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Debt
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) MiFID
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Portware
2 1 (14.29%) DevExpress
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) SnapLogic