.NET Architect Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft .NET Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft .NET Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £673, 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 430 331 390
Rank change year-on-year -99 +59 +76
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Architect 2 8 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.009% 0.064% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.069% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 3
10th Percentile £519 £508 £536
25th Percentile £577 £549 £590
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £673 £600 £680
Median % change year-on-year +12.17% -11.76% -
75th Percentile £769 £615 -
90th Percentile £827 - -
UK median daily rate £650 £600 £700
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% -6.67%

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 20,660 11,644 19,536
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.85% 92.48% 92.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,240 7,582 12,131
10th Percentile £261 £213 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £582 £585 £595
90th Percentile £675 £656 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,252 747 2,113
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.84 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.08 £19.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.76 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +25.94% -3.45% -21.68%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.90
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 the UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

.NET Architect job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

.NET Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

.NET Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Architect in the UK excluding London

.NET Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

.NET Architect
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 Architect within the UK excluding London 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
West Midlands - 1 £481 -
Midlands - 1 £481 -
.NET Architect
UK

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

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 UK excluding London region featuring .NET Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) ArchiMate
2 1 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Domain Models
2 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Programming
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps

.NET Architect 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) ArchiMate
1 1 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Domain Models
1 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Programming
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (50.00%) Sequence Diagram
1 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (50.00%) UML
1 1 (50.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft