.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 £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 253 179
Rank change year-on-year -32 -74 -30
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 58 133 329
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.65% 1.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.70% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 109 267
10th Percentile £319 £275 £334
25th Percentile £331 £319 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £517 £480 £541
90th Percentile £575 £530 £625
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £520
% change year-on-year - -8.65% +4.00%
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 11,781 18,945 22,165
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 92.49% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,499 11,550 15,483
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 840 2,261 1,134
10th Percentile £13.99 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £27.13 £40.00 £42.08
Median % change year-on-year -32.19% -4.94% +110.39%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.18 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.85% -16.67% +88.21%

.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 13 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 13 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 +45 22 £415 -11.70% 69
North of England -9 11 £419 +15.52% 95
Scotland -3 9 £438 +16.67% 9
North West +3 8 £413 +10.00% 50
Midlands +7 6 £498 +42.14% 28
Northern Ireland -6 4 £325 - 1
South West +37 3 £655 +87.14% 19
West Midlands +13 3 £495 +32.00% 16
Yorkshire +3 3 £525 +50.00% 24
East Midlands +2 3 £500 +48.15% 10
East of England +16 2 £388 +10.71% 22
Wales -3 1 - - 5
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 58 (100.00%) .NET
2 43 (74.14%) C#
3 36 (62.07%) Azure
4 25 (43.10%) DevOps
5 23 (39.66%) SQL
6 21 (36.21%) .NET Core
7 16 (27.59%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (27.59%) SQL Server
7 16 (27.59%) Agile
8 15 (25.86%) JavaScript
9 14 (24.14%) Git
10 13 (22.41%) Microsoft
10 13 (22.41%) React
10 13 (22.41%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (22.41%) Product Ownership
11 12 (20.69%) .NET Framework
12 11 (18.97%) HTML
12 11 (18.97%) CSS
12 11 (18.97%) Public Sector
12 11 (18.97%) AWS
13 10 (17.24%) CI/CD
14 9 (15.52%) Software Engineering
14 9 (15.52%) MVC
14 9 (15.52%) Finance
14 9 (15.52%) ASP.NET
14 9 (15.52%) REST
14 9 (15.52%) AngularJS
15 8 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
15 8 (13.79%) OO
15 8 (13.79%) Wiki

.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 (10.34%) Umbraco
2 4 (6.90%) CMS
3 1 (1.72%) Confluence
3 1 (1.72%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.72%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (62.07%) Azure
2 16 (27.59%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (18.97%) AWS
4 5 (8.62%) Serverless
5 4 (6.90%) Azure Functions
6 3 (5.17%) Azure API Management
6 3 (5.17%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (5.17%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Storage
7 2 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.45%) SaaS
8 1 (1.72%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.72%) Cloudflare
8 1 (1.72%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (27.59%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.62%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.45%) DocumentDB
4 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.45%) MySQL
4 2 (3.45%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.72%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 14 (24.14%) Git
2 4 (6.90%) Ant
2 4 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.90%) Maven
2 4 (6.90%) Subversion
3 2 (3.45%) JIRA
3 2 (3.45%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.72%) NUnit
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.72%) Postman
4 1 (1.72%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (18.97%) Public Sector
2 9 (15.52%) Finance
3 4 (6.90%) Banking
3 4 (6.90%) Front Office
3 4 (6.90%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.90%) Wholesale Banking
4 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.45%) Law
4 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.45%) Retail
4 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.72%) Electronics
5 1 (1.72%) Marketing
5 1 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.72%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (100.00%) .NET
2 21 (36.21%) .NET Core
3 13 (22.41%) React
4 12 (20.69%) .NET Framework
5 11 (18.97%) CSS
5 11 (18.97%) HTML
6 9 (15.52%) AngularJS
6 9 (15.52%) ASP.NET
6 9 (15.52%) REST
7 7 (12.07%) ASP.NET Web API
8 6 (10.34%) Blazor
9 5 (8.62%) Entity Framework
10 4 (6.90%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (6.90%) RESTful
11 3 (5.17%) ASP.NET Core
12 2 (3.45%) ARM Templates
12 2 (3.45%) ASP.NET MVC 5
12 2 (3.45%) NHibernate
12 2 (3.45%) WCF
12 2 (3.45%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.41%) Product Ownership
2 8 (13.79%) Wiki
3 7 (12.07%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (6.90%) Derivative
4 4 (6.90%) Equities
4 4 (6.90%) Equity Derivative
5 3 (5.17%) Cloud Native
5 3 (5.17%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.72%) NHS
6 1 (1.72%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.62%) Linux
1 5 (8.62%) Windows
2 4 (6.90%) Unix
3 1 (1.72%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (43.10%) DevOps
2 16 (27.59%) Agile
3 13 (22.41%) Full-Stack Development
4 10 (17.24%) CI/CD
5 9 (15.52%) MVC
5 9 (15.52%) Software Engineering
6 8 (13.79%) OO
6 8 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (12.07%) Code Quality
7 7 (12.07%) Design Patterns
7 7 (12.07%) Knowledge Transfer
7 7 (12.07%) User Experience
8 6 (10.34%) API Development
8 6 (10.34%) Microservices
8 6 (10.34%) TDD
9 5 (8.62%) SDLC
9 5 (8.62%) SOLID
10 4 (6.90%) Concurrent Programming
10 4 (6.90%) High Availability
10 4 (6.90%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 43 (74.14%) C#
2 23 (39.66%) SQL
3 15 (25.86%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.17%) PL/SQL
4 3 (5.17%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.17%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.72%) Bicep
5 1 (1.72%) Python
5 1 (1.72%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.72%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.72%) GDPR
2 1 (1.72%) NCSC
2 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.17%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.45%) Docker
3 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (10.34%) Terraform
2 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (22.41%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.34%) Oracle
3 3 (5.17%) Sitecore
3 3 (5.17%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.72%) Rackspace
4 1 (1.72%) SAP
4 1 (1.72%) VMware