.NET Framework Contracts in England

Microsoft .NET Framework
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for .NET Framework skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited .NET Framework over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 286 227
Rank change year-on-year -10 -59 +60
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 264 457 903
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.72% 0.91% 1.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.54% 3.96% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 356 689
10th Percentile £330 £386 £363
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +0.92% +14.74%
75th Percentile £581 £700 £650
90th Percentile £683 £806 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -13.64% +2.33% +16.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 20
10th Percentile - £52.83 £45.60
25th Percentile £75.00 £60.12 £48.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +53.06% +10.11%
75th Percentile £86.25 £85.63 £61.84
90th Percentile £88.50 £87.58 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 £49.25
% change year-on-year - +62.44% +21.60%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Framework is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,458 11,526 19,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.23% 23.07% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,308 8,536 14,406
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 137 210
10th Percentile £22.50 £28.30 £22.45
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +8.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £75.26
UK median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -27.94% +30.65% +10.56%

.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 5 May 2024.

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 5 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
London +56 189 £490 -19.18% 103
North of England +8 31 £450 -7.69% 72
North West +13 22 £475 - 35
South East -9 15 £438 -16.67% 38
East of England +17 9 £550 +15.79% 23
Yorkshire +11 8 £350 -33.33% 32
South West -1 8 £638 +15.91% 28
Midlands -10 7 £375 -11.76% 60
West Midlands +5 6 £431 -17.86% 38
North East +16 1 £375 - 5
East Midlands -1 1 £189 -55.62% 22
.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 25 (9.47%) IIS
2 15 (5.68%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.27%) CMS
4 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.14%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.76%) Apache
6 2 (0.76%) Confluence
6 2 (0.76%) Jadu
Applications
1 29 (10.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 14 (5.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.14%) Maximo
3 2 (0.76%) Endur
4 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 160 (60.61%) Azure
2 101 (38.26%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (10.61%) AWS
3 28 (10.61%) Entra ID
4 17 (6.44%) Serverless
5 15 (5.68%) Power Platform
6 14 (5.30%) Azure Functions
7 12 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
8 11 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (3.79%) Power Automate
10 8 (3.03%) PowerApps
11 7 (2.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (2.65%) GitHub
12 6 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (1.89%) PaaS
14 4 (1.52%) Azure API Management
15 3 (1.14%) Azure App Service
15 3 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.06%) Internet
2 6 (2.27%) HTTP
3 4 (1.52%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.52%) Wireshark
4 2 (0.76%) FTP
5 1 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (50.38%) SQL Server
2 27 (10.23%) Oracle Database
3 12 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.41%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.03%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (2.65%) Power BI
6 7 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (2.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.89%) MySQL
7 5 (1.89%) SQLite
8 4 (1.52%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.52%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.52%) Redis
9 3 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.76%) Big Data
10 2 (0.76%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.76%) RavenDB
11 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 50 (18.94%) Git
2 36 (13.64%) SpecFlow
3 28 (10.61%) Selenium
4 25 (9.47%) Visual Studio
5 21 (7.95%) WebDriver
6 15 (5.68%) NUnit
7 13 (4.92%) TeamCity
8 11 (4.17%) Cucumber
8 11 (4.17%) JIRA
8 11 (4.17%) Postman
8 11 (4.17%) SoapUI
9 10 (3.79%) Appium
10 9 (3.41%) eggPlant
10 9 (3.41%) JUnit
10 9 (3.41%) Moq
10 9 (3.41%) REST Assured
10 9 (3.41%) SOAtest
10 9 (3.41%) TestNG
11 8 (3.03%) SonarQube
12 6 (2.27%) GitLab
General
1 61 (23.11%) Social Skills
2 45 (17.05%) Finance
3 26 (9.85%) Banking
3 26 (9.85%) Public Sector
4 14 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.79%) Investment Banking
6 7 (2.65%) Front Office
7 6 (2.27%) Back Office
7 6 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.52%) Local Government
8 4 (1.52%) Retail
9 3 (1.14%) Marketing
10 2 (0.76%) Electronics
10 2 (0.76%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.76%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.38%) Aviation
11 1 (0.38%) Billing
11 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.38%) Law
11 1 (0.38%) Legal
Job Titles
1 179 (67.80%) Developer
2 86 (32.58%) .NET Developer
3 71 (26.89%) C# Developer
4 61 (23.11%) Senior
5 43 (16.29%) Senior Developer
5 43 (16.29%) Software Developer
6 33 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
7 29 (10.98%) Azure Developer
8 27 (10.23%) Senior Software Developer
9 26 (9.85%) Software Engineer
10 22 (8.33%) Full Stack Developer
11 16 (6.06%) Architect
12 12 (4.55%) Analyst
12 12 (4.55%) Lead
13 11 (4.17%) Full Stack .NET Developer
13 11 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
13 11 (4.17%) Senior Test Analyst
13 11 (4.17%) Test Analyst
14 10 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
15 9 (3.41%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (100.00%) .NET
2 65 (24.62%) AngularJS
3 61 (23.11%) XML
4 59 (22.35%) Entity Framework
5 54 (20.45%) .NET Core
6 48 (18.18%) ASP.NET
7 35 (13.26%) React
8 33 (12.50%) HTML
9 28 (10.61%) WCF
10 26 (9.85%) Web Services
11 23 (8.71%) CSS
11 23 (8.71%) REST
12 19 (7.20%) JSON
13 18 (6.82%) ASP.NET Web API
13 18 (6.82%) RESTful
14 17 (6.44%) Blazor
15 13 (4.92%) WPF
16 12 (4.55%) HTML5
17 11 (4.17%) jQuery
18 10 (3.79%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 10 (3.79%) Cloud Native
3 9 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.03%) Derivative
5 6 (2.27%) Replication
6 5 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.52%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.52%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.52%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 4 (1.52%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.52%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.52%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.14%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.76%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (0.76%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.76%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.76%) NHS
10 1 (0.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.36%) Windows
2 5 (1.89%) Linux
3 2 (0.76%) Android
4 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (52.27%) DevOps
2 134 (50.76%) Agile
3 79 (29.92%) CI/CD
4 70 (26.52%) Scrum
5 51 (19.32%) Test Automation
6 49 (18.56%) Software Engineering
7 37 (14.02%) MVC
8 36 (13.64%) TDD
9 35 (13.26%) Full Stack Development
10 34 (12.88%) SDLC
11 31 (11.74%) Microservices
12 30 (11.36%) OO
13 29 (10.98%) B2C
14 28 (10.61%) BDD
15 27 (10.23%) Continuous Integration
15 27 (10.23%) Problem-Solving
16 25 (9.47%) Design Patterns
17 23 (8.71%) Software Testing
17 23 (8.71%) Unit Testing
18 19 (7.20%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 233 (88.26%) C#
2 96 (36.36%) SQL
3 70 (26.52%) PowerShell
4 56 (21.21%) JavaScript
5 31 (11.74%) VBA
6 30 (11.36%) PL/SQL
7 26 (9.85%) T-SQL
8 25 (9.47%) VB
9 23 (8.71%) VB.NET
10 21 (7.95%) Java
11 14 (5.30%) Python
12 10 (3.79%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.52%) C++
13 4 (1.52%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.76%) Bash
14 2 (0.76%) Bicep
14 2 (0.76%) C
14 2 (0.76%) PHP
15 1 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (11.74%) Security Cleared
2 24 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.71%) Degree
4 10 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.89%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.76%) HND
7 2 (0.76%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (11.74%) QA
2 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
2 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (12.12%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.03%) Docker
3 2 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (2.65%) Terraform
2 5 (1.89%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.52%) SCOM
4 2 (0.76%) Ansible
4 2 (0.76%) PowerCLI
4 2 (0.76%) SCOrch
5 1 (0.38%) Kibana
5 1 (0.38%) logstash
5 1 (0.38%) OPNET
5 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 103 (39.02%) Microsoft
2 55 (20.83%) Oracle
3 19 (7.20%) Citrix
4 8 (3.03%) SAP
5 4 (1.52%) F5
5 4 (1.52%) IBM
5 4 (1.52%) Nintex
6 3 (1.14%) Google
6 3 (1.14%) Pega
6 3 (1.14%) Sitecore
7 2 (0.76%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.76%) OpenLink
7 2 (0.76%) Optimizely
7 2 (0.76%) TIBCO
7 2 (0.76%) VMware
8 1 (0.38%) Cerner
8 1 (0.38%) Cisco
8 1 (0.38%) Databricks
8 1 (0.38%) Xamarin