.NET Framework Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft .NET Framework
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Framework skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 382 270 264
Rank change year-on-year -112 -6 -34
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 154 255 330
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.88% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.20% 4.03% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 179 248
10th Percentile £385 £373 £385
25th Percentile £404 £397 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.30% -0.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £582 £634 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 10
10th Percentile £55.45 - £61.25
25th Percentile £63.63 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £20.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +235.00% -71.43% +6.40%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £20.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +235.00% -71.43% +6.40%

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 7,011 6,325 8,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.29% 21.83% 21.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,678 4,051 5,940
10th Percentile £352 £358 £375
25th Percentile £413 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £631 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £770
UK median daily rate £505 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -7.68% -0.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 81 167
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £33.80
25th Percentile £43.77 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile £66.88 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing .NET Framework relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Framework job vacancy trend in England

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Framework.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Framework

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework in England over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Framework in England

.NET Framework
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Framework.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Framework

.NET Framework
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing .NET Framework in England over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 19 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 -70 99 £466 -18.91% 22
East of England -16 14 £500 +66.67% 7
South East -24 12 £390 -17.89% 37
Midlands -49 12 £550 -2.05% 11
East Midlands -11 8 £600 +20.00% 7
North of England -65 7 £475 -11.21% 21
Yorkshire -46 4 £495 -12.70% 3
West Midlands -47 4 £413 -27.25% 4
South West -17 3 - - 9
North West -37 3 £435 -8.42% 15
.NET Framework
UK

.NET Framework
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 14 (9.09%) IIS
2 8 (5.19%) CMS
2 8 (5.19%) Confluence
3 6 (3.90%) Umbraco
4 5 (3.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (3.25%) Headless CMS
4 5 (3.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (3.25%) SharePoint
4 5 (3.25%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (1.30%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 20 (12.99%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.55%) Aladdin
2 5 (3.25%) Fidessa
3 4 (2.60%) thinkFolio
4 2 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 54 (35.06%) Azure
2 30 (19.48%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (12.99%) GitHub
4 13 (8.44%) Azure Service Bus
5 12 (7.79%) Serverless
6 11 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (6.49%) Entra ID
8 9 (5.84%) AWS
8 9 (5.84%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (5.84%) npm
9 8 (5.19%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (4.55%) Kontent
10 7 (4.55%) Power Platform
11 6 (3.90%) Azure App Service
11 6 (3.90%) Azure Functions
11 6 (3.90%) PaaS
12 5 (3.25%) Contentful
12 5 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.79%) Internet
2 2 (1.30%) HTTP
2 2 (1.30%) SSL
3 1 (0.65%) DNS
3 1 (0.65%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (48.05%) SQL Server
2 25 (16.23%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.60%) Power BI
3 4 (2.60%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.65%) DataStage
6 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.65%) Redis
6 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (16.23%) Git
2 24 (15.58%) JIRA
3 15 (9.74%) Visual Studio
4 14 (9.09%) SpecFlow
5 11 (7.14%) Artifactory
6 9 (5.84%) GitLab
6 9 (5.84%) Jenkins
7 6 (3.90%) Postman
8 4 (2.60%) MSTest
9 3 (1.95%) Selenium
10 2 (1.30%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.30%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.65%) AppVeyor
11 1 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.65%) JMeter
11 1 (0.65%) NUnit
11 1 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 57 (37.01%) Finance
2 43 (27.92%) Social Skills
3 22 (14.29%) Banking
4 15 (9.74%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.55%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.25%) Front Office
7 5 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.25%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.65%) Back Office
8 1 (0.65%) Billing
8 1 (0.65%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.65%) Japanese Language
8 1 (0.65%) Law
8 1 (0.65%) Legal
8 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.65%) Military
8 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 113 (73.38%) Developer
2 53 (34.42%) C# Developer
3 50 (32.47%) .NET Developer
4 27 (17.53%) C# .NET Developer
5 24 (15.58%) Senior
6 23 (14.94%) Full-Stack Developer
7 21 (13.64%) Angular Developer
8 20 (12.99%) Senior Developer
9 17 (11.04%) C# WPF Developer
9 17 (11.04%) WPF Developer
10 15 (9.74%) Software Engineer
11 11 (7.14%) Senior .NET Developer
12 10 (6.49%) Architect
13 8 (5.19%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 8 (5.19%) Full-Stack C# Developer
14 7 (4.55%) C# WCF Developer
14 7 (4.55%) CMS Developer
14 7 (4.55%) Senior C# Developer
14 7 (4.55%) WCF Developer
15 6 (3.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (100.00%) .NET
2 45 (29.22%) AngularJS
3 41 (26.62%) Entity Framework
4 37 (24.03%) RESTful
5 32 (20.78%) REST
6 31 (20.13%) .NET Core
7 30 (19.48%) React
8 29 (18.83%) ASP.NET
9 28 (18.18%) WPF
10 27 (17.53%) CSS
10 27 (17.53%) HTML
11 20 (12.99%) NHibernate
12 18 (11.69%) Playwright
13 16 (10.39%) WinForms
14 15 (9.74%) ASP.NET MVC
15 14 (9.09%) Vue
16 13 (8.44%) SOAP
17 10 (6.49%) Node.js
18 9 (5.84%) Svelte
19 8 (5.19%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (6.49%) Algorithms
2 10 (6.49%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.49%) Mobile App
3 9 (5.84%) Data Structures
3 9 (5.84%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (5.84%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (5.19%) Fixed Income
4 8 (5.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (5.19%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.55%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.25%) Credit Risk
6 5 (3.25%) Market Risk
7 4 (2.60%) Derivative
8 3 (1.95%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 39 (25.32%) Windows
2 9 (5.84%) Linux
3 8 (5.19%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.95%) Android
5 2 (1.30%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.65%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (40.26%) Agile
2 57 (37.01%) CI/CD
3 55 (35.71%) DevOps
4 50 (32.47%) Microservices
5 47 (30.52%) Full-Stack Development
6 34 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (18.18%) OOP
8 27 (17.53%) Design Patterns
9 25 (16.23%) Clean Code
9 25 (16.23%) Software Engineering
10 24 (15.58%) MVC
11 22 (14.29%) Unit Testing
12 21 (13.64%) SDLC
13 20 (12.99%) Containerisation
13 20 (12.99%) TDD
14 17 (11.04%) Data Analysis
15 16 (10.39%) API Development
15 16 (10.39%) Disaster Recovery
15 16 (10.39%) Scrum
16 15 (9.74%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 140 (90.91%) C#
2 74 (48.05%) SQL
3 39 (25.32%) JavaScript
4 32 (20.78%) PL/SQL
5 24 (15.58%) T-SQL
6 19 (12.34%) VB
6 19 (12.34%) VBA
7 12 (7.79%) VB.NET
8 11 (7.14%) TypeScript
9 10 (6.49%) PowerShell
10 9 (5.84%) C++
11 5 (3.25%) Java
11 5 (3.25%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (3.25%) Python
12 3 (1.95%) Bicep
13 2 (1.30%) Bash
13 2 (1.30%) PHP
14 1 (0.65%) C
14 1 (0.65%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.65%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (11.69%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.04%) Degree
3 13 (8.44%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.95%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (14.94%) QA
2 6 (3.90%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.90%) MiFID
3 2 (1.30%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.30%) EMIR
3 2 (1.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (15.58%) Docker
2 5 (3.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.60%) Terraform
3 2 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (25.32%) Microsoft
2 38 (24.68%) Oracle
3 18 (11.69%) Citrix
4 8 (5.19%) Sitecore
5 5 (3.25%) Adobe
6 4 (2.60%) Portware
7 3 (1.95%) Marketo
7 3 (1.95%) Murex
7 3 (1.95%) OneTrust
8 2 (1.30%) Databricks
8 2 (1.30%) GoldenSource
8 2 (1.30%) Okta
8 2 (1.30%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.65%) Apple
9 1 (0.65%) CQG
9 1 (0.65%) Google
9 1 (0.65%) Telerik
9 1 (0.65%) TOWER Software
9 1 (0.65%) UiPath
9 1 (0.65%) Xamarin