.NET Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

.NET Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median .NET Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £414, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 264 184
Rank change year-on-year -15 -80 -32
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 57 136 338
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.65% 1.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.71% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 111 274
10th Percentile £317 £275 £335
25th Percentile £325 £319 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £375 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.33% -21.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £513 £480 £561
90th Percentile £575 £550 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £48.95
25th Percentile - - £49.63
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +23.81% -15.53%
75th Percentile - - £64.38
90th Percentile - - £76.75
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% +30.00% -19.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

.NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured .NET Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Developer in the UK excluding London

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for .NET Developer in the UK excluding London

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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

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

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for .NET Developer in the UK excluding London

.NET 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 Developer within the UK excluding London 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
South East +44 23 £408 -13.30% 63
North of England -11 10 £413 +17.86% 89
Scotland 0 9 £438 +11.11% 6
North West +2 7 £413 +6.45% 52
South West +37 4 £628 +79.29% 22
Northern Ireland -6 4 £325 - 1
Midlands +7 3 £475 +35.71% 41
Yorkshire -5 3 £525 +50.00% 19
East of England +23 2 £388 +10.71% 28
East Midlands +2 2 £363 +7.41% 11
Wales -5 2 £198 -53.53% 3
West Midlands +7 1 £475 +26.67% 28
.NET Developer
UK

.NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, .NET Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring .NET Developer in the job title.

1 57 (100.00%) .NET
2 40 (70.18%) C#
3 33 (57.89%) Azure
4 23 (40.35%) DevOps
5 22 (38.60%) SQL
6 21 (36.84%) .NET Core
7 15 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (26.32%) Full-Stack Development
8 14 (24.56%) React
8 14 (24.56%) JavaScript
8 14 (24.56%) Agile
9 13 (22.81%) SQL Server
9 13 (22.81%) Product Ownership
10 12 (21.05%) .NET Framework
10 12 (21.05%) Git
11 11 (19.30%) CSS
11 11 (19.30%) HTML
11 11 (19.30%) Microsoft
11 11 (19.30%) Public Sector
12 9 (15.79%) User Experience
12 9 (15.79%) AngularJS
12 9 (15.79%) CI/CD
12 9 (15.79%) ASP.NET
12 9 (15.79%) MVC
12 9 (15.79%) Finance
13 8 (14.04%) TDD
13 8 (14.04%) Software Engineering
13 8 (14.04%) Wiki
13 8 (14.04%) AWS
13 8 (14.04%) REST

.NET Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (10.53%) Umbraco
2 4 (7.02%) CMS
3 1 (1.75%) Confluence
3 1 (1.75%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.75%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 33 (57.89%) Azure
2 15 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (14.04%) AWS
4 4 (7.02%) Serverless
5 3 (5.26%) Azure Functions
5 3 (5.26%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.51%) Azure API Management
6 2 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (3.51%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.75%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.75%) Azure App Service
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.75%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.75%) dbt
7 1 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.75%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (22.81%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.51%) DocumentDB
3 2 (3.51%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.51%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.75%) MySQL
4 1 (1.75%) Parquet
4 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (21.05%) Git
2 4 (7.02%) Ant
2 4 (7.02%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.02%) Maven
2 4 (7.02%) Subversion
3 2 (3.51%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.75%) JIRA
4 1 (1.75%) NUnit
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.75%) Postman
4 1 (1.75%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (19.30%) Public Sector
2 9 (15.79%) Finance
3 6 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.02%) Banking
4 4 (7.02%) Front Office
4 4 (7.02%) Wholesale Banking
5 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Law
5 2 (3.51%) Retail
5 2 (3.51%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.75%) Electronics
6 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.75%) Marketing
6 1 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.75%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (100.00%) .NET
2 21 (36.84%) .NET Core
3 14 (24.56%) React
4 12 (21.05%) .NET Framework
5 11 (19.30%) CSS
5 11 (19.30%) HTML
6 9 (15.79%) AngularJS
6 9 (15.79%) ASP.NET
7 8 (14.04%) REST
8 7 (12.28%) ASP.NET Web API
8 7 (12.28%) Entity Framework
9 6 (10.53%) Blazor
10 4 (7.02%) ASP.NET MVC
11 3 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
11 3 (5.26%) Node.js
11 3 (5.26%) RESTful
12 2 (3.51%) ASP.NET MVC 5
12 2 (3.51%) Ember.js
12 2 (3.51%) WCF
12 2 (3.51%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.81%) Product Ownership
2 8 (14.04%) Wiki
3 7 (12.28%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (7.02%) Derivative
4 4 (7.02%) Equities
4 4 (7.02%) Equity Derivative
5 3 (5.26%) Cloud Native
5 3 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.75%) NHS
6 1 (1.75%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.53%) Windows
2 5 (8.77%) Linux
3 4 (7.02%) Unix
4 1 (1.75%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (40.35%) DevOps
2 15 (26.32%) Full-Stack Development
3 14 (24.56%) Agile
4 9 (15.79%) CI/CD
4 9 (15.79%) MVC
4 9 (15.79%) User Experience
5 8 (14.04%) Software Engineering
5 8 (14.04%) TDD
6 7 (12.28%) Knowledge Transfer
6 7 (12.28%) OO
7 6 (10.53%) API Development
7 6 (10.53%) Code Quality
7 6 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (10.53%) Scrum
8 5 (8.77%) Design Patterns
8 5 (8.77%) Microservices
8 5 (8.77%) SDLC
8 5 (8.77%) Test Automation
9 4 (7.02%) Concurrent Programming
9 4 (7.02%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 40 (70.18%) C#
2 22 (38.60%) SQL
3 14 (24.56%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.26%) PL/SQL
4 3 (5.26%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.75%) Bicep
6 1 (1.75%) Python
6 1 (1.75%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 3 (5.26%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.51%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.75%) GDPR
2 1 (1.75%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (8.77%) Terraform
2 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (19.30%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.77%) Oracle
3 3 (5.26%) Sitecore
3 3 (5.26%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.75%) Rackspace
4 1 (1.75%) SAP
4 1 (1.75%) VMware