.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 1 April 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 582 466 531
Rank change year-on-year -116 +65 +125
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Architect 3 11 19
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.008% 0.045% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.049% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 14
10th Percentile £510 £500 £580
25th Percentile £553 £531 £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £725
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -17.24% -
75th Percentile £770 £615 £750
90th Percentile £827 £641 -
UK median daily rate £650 £600 £700
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% -6.67%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 35,200 22,534 34,941
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.21% 92.95% 92.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,188 15,074 23,351
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,322 836 2,308
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.91 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £41.86 £34.31 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.01% +5.55% -24.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.95
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.35 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £38.63 £32.50 £32.90
% change year-on-year +18.86% -1.20% -25.00%

.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 1 April 2026.

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 1 April 2026. 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 -52 1 £865 +73.00% 1
London -69 1 £650 +8.33% 4
Midlands - 1 £481 -
West Midlands - 1 £481 -
.NET Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 April 2026, .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 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) ArchiMate
3 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Domain Models
3 1 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Programming
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL

.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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) ArchiMate
2 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Domain Models
2 1 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Programming
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Sequence Diagram
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 1 (33.33%) UML
2 1 (33.33%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft