.NET Applications Developer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

.NET Application Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median .NET Application Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 January 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 - 403
Rank change year-on-year - - +79
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Applications Developer 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.016% - 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% - 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £470 - £457
25th Percentile £500 - £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £466
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.24%
75th Percentile - - £477
90th Percentile - - £479
UK median daily rate £550 £508 £475
% change year-on-year +8.37% +6.84% -15.56%

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 16,663 12,724 18,427
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.69% 92.44% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,213 7,527 11,761
10th Percentile £213 £213 £213
25th Percentile £375 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -3.90% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,697 694 1,513
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.36 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £17.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +46.55%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.40 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.69 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £40.32
% change year-on-year -15.38% -19.39% +18.58%

.NET Applications Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring '.NET Applications Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

.NET Applications Developer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

.NET Applications Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for .NET Applications Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for .NET Applications Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

.NET Applications Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for .NET Applications Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for .NET Applications Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

.NET Applications Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Applications Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 January 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 - 2 £550 - 1
North West - 1 £450 - 2
North of England - 1 £450 - 3
.NET Applications Developer
UK

.NET Applications Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 19 January 2026, .NET Applications Developer 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 UK excluding London region featuring .NET Applications Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (33.33%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) NEC
3 1 (33.33%) NEC Housing
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) XML

.NET Applications Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) NEC
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle