.NET Framework Contracts in England

Microsoft .NET Framework
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring .NET Framework skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET Framework over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 295 281
Rank change year-on-year -25 -14 -51
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 168 267 463
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.69% 0.72% 0.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.08% 3.55% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 197 360
10th Percentile £385 £333 £393
25th Percentile £390 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% -
75th Percentile £594 £588 £700
90th Percentile £700 £680 £806
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 8
10th Percentile - - £52.83
25th Percentile £21.67 £75.00 £60.12
Median hourly rate £23.41 £80.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.74% +6.67% +53.06%
75th Percentile £25.16 £86.25 £85.63
90th Percentile - £88.50 £87.58
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £80.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -66.25% - +63.27%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Framework falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing .NET Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Framework in England

.NET Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for .NET Framework in England

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Framework in England

.NET Framework
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET Framework in England

.NET Framework
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 Framework within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 -14 131 £475 -5.00% 63
Midlands +28 13 £500 +33.33% 48
South East +41 10 £463 +5.71% 69
West Midlands +17 9 £594 +37.80% 29
North of England -3 9 £400 -11.11% 82
North West +2 7 £406 -14.47% 50
South West +41 4 £825 +32.00% 28
East Midlands +12 3 £500 +165.08% 18
Yorkshire +2 2 £263 -25.00% 17
.NET Framework
UK

.NET Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 16 (9.52%) IIS
2 7 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.38%) Confluence
4 1 (0.60%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.60%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.60%) Umbraco
Applications
1 29 (17.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.98%) InfoPath
3 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.79%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (11.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.79%) Magento
2 3 (1.79%) Sage 200
3 2 (1.19%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 60 (35.71%) Azure
2 30 (17.86%) AWS
3 25 (14.88%) Serverless
4 22 (13.10%) Azure Functions
4 22 (13.10%) Dynamics 365
5 20 (11.90%) Power Platform
6 18 (10.71%) Azure Logic Apps
6 18 (10.71%) PowerApps
7 17 (10.12%) Power Automate
8 16 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (7.74%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (5.36%) GCP
11 7 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (4.17%) Azure Event Grid
11 7 (4.17%) Entra ID
11 7 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (2.38%) SaaS
13 3 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.79%) Azure API Management
13 3 (1.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.55%) Internet
2 3 (1.79%) HTTP
3 2 (1.19%) DHCP
3 2 (1.19%) DNS
3 2 (1.19%) Firewall
3 2 (1.19%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.19%) SSL
3 2 (1.19%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.60%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (42.26%) SQL Server
2 35 (20.83%) Oracle Database
3 22 (13.10%) Relational Database
4 20 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 13 (7.74%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (5.95%) NoSQL
8 8 (4.76%) Power BI
9 7 (4.17%) MongoDB
9 7 (4.17%) MySQL
10 5 (2.98%) RDBMS
10 5 (2.98%) Redis
11 3 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (1.19%) DocumentDB
12 2 (1.19%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.60%) MS Access
13 1 (0.60%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 19 (11.31%) Git
2 8 (4.76%) JIRA
3 7 (4.17%) NUnit
4 6 (3.57%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.38%) GitLab
6 3 (1.79%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.19%) Postman
7 2 (1.19%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.60%) gulp
8 1 (0.60%) JUnit
8 1 (0.60%) Moq
8 1 (0.60%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.60%) Selenium
8 1 (0.60%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.60%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.60%) TestNG
8 1 (0.60%) Toad
General
1 49 (29.17%) Finance
2 33 (19.64%) Social Skills
3 21 (12.50%) Banking
4 11 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.95%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.17%) Front Office
7 5 (2.98%) Billing
8 4 (2.38%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.19%) Law
9 2 (1.19%) Legal
9 2 (1.19%) Marketing
9 2 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Back Office
10 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Electronics
10 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Police
10 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 116 (69.05%) Developer
2 77 (45.83%) .NET Developer
3 63 (37.50%) C# Developer
4 43 (25.60%) C# .NET Developer
5 30 (17.86%) C# WPF Developer
5 30 (17.86%) WPF Developer
6 23 (13.69%) Architect
7 20 (11.90%) Senior
8 16 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
9 14 (8.33%) Senior Developer
10 13 (7.74%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (7.74%) Lead
11 11 (6.55%) C# WCF Developer
11 11 (6.55%) WCF Developer
12 10 (5.95%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 10 (5.95%) React Developer
12 10 (5.95%) Senior .NET Developer
12 10 (5.95%) Senior C# Developer
13 9 (5.36%) Cloud Developer
14 8 (4.76%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (100.00%) .NET
2 54 (32.14%) Entity Framework
3 39 (23.21%) .NET Core
4 36 (21.43%) HTML
5 34 (20.24%) WPF
6 33 (19.64%) CSS
6 33 (19.64%) WCF
7 29 (17.26%) ASP.NET
7 29 (17.26%) ASP.NET Web API
8 23 (13.69%) AngularJS
9 19 (11.31%) RESTful
10 18 (10.71%) React
11 17 (10.12%) ASP.NET MVC
11 17 (10.12%) JSON
12 15 (8.93%) HTML5 Canvas
13 14 (8.33%) REST
13 14 (8.33%) WinForms
13 14 (8.33%) XML
14 9 (5.36%) Web Services
15 8 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.36%) Fixed Income
2 7 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.98%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (2.98%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.98%) N-Tier
5 4 (2.38%) Market Risk
6 3 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.79%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.19%) PKI
8 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.60%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.60%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.60%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.60%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 42 (25.00%) Windows
2 4 (2.38%) Linux
2 4 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (28.57%) Agile
2 35 (20.83%) CI/CD
3 30 (17.86%) DevOps
3 30 (17.86%) MVC
4 28 (16.67%) TDD
5 27 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (16.07%) Test Automation
6 26 (15.48%) Full-Stack Development
7 25 (14.88%) CRM
8 24 (14.29%) Web Development
9 17 (10.12%) Design Patterns
9 17 (10.12%) OOP
10 16 (9.52%) Data Analysis
10 16 (9.52%) Unit Testing
11 15 (8.93%) Scrum
11 15 (8.93%) Software Engineering
12 14 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
12 14 (8.33%) Containerisation
12 14 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
12 14 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 142 (84.52%) C#
2 98 (58.33%) SQL
3 46 (27.38%) JavaScript
4 45 (26.79%) PL/SQL
5 32 (19.05%) VB
6 30 (17.86%) VBA
7 20 (11.90%) T-SQL
8 17 (10.12%) VB.NET
9 15 (8.93%) TypeScript
10 11 (6.55%) RPG
10 11 (6.55%) RPG IV
11 7 (4.17%) Python
12 6 (3.57%) F#
13 4 (2.38%) PowerShell
14 3 (1.79%) PHP
15 2 (1.19%) C++
15 2 (1.19%) Java
15 2 (1.19%) VB6
16 1 (0.60%) Bash
16 1 (0.60%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 14 (8.33%) Degree
2 13 (7.74%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.36%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.98%) MCPD
5 5 (2.98%) MCSD
6 3 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.19%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.60%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.12%) QA
2 4 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.19%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (1.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.60%) HL7
4 1 (0.60%) SEPA
System Software
1 28 (16.67%) Docker
2 5 (2.98%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 24 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.33%) Terraform
3 1 (0.60%) Ansible
3 1 (0.60%) PowerCLI
3 1 (0.60%) SCOM
Vendors
1 53 (31.55%) Microsoft
2 38 (22.62%) Oracle
3 11 (6.55%) Citrix
4 5 (2.98%) TIBCO
5 4 (2.38%) Solace
6 3 (1.79%) IBM
6 3 (1.79%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.79%) SAP
6 3 (1.79%) VMware
7 2 (1.19%) Cisco
7 2 (1.19%) Google
7 2 (1.19%) Murex
8 1 (0.60%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.60%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.60%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.60%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.60%) Pardot
8 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.60%) Siemens
8 1 (0.60%) Splunk