.NET Framework Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft .NET Framework
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 246 231
Rank change year-on-year -77 -15 +16
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 72 234 353
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.96% 1.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.19% 5.25% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 169 229
10th Percentile £313 £375 £356
25th Percentile £363 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £525
90th Percentile £634 £650 £620
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -13.64% +2.33% +16.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 25
10th Percentile - £56.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £75.00 £61.25 £47.75
Median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +42.86% +24.05%
75th Percentile £86.25 £77.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £88.50 £82.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year - +63.27% +27.27%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

.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 the UK excluding London 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 3,292 4,457 6,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.83% 18.29% 20.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,161 3,345 4,534
10th Percentile £324 £354 £358
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.82%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £577
90th Percentile £689 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 90 154
10th Percentile £20.91 £22.22 £20.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £48.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.19 £73.50
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing .NET Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

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

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

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

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

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

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

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

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

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

.NET Framework
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 Framework within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
North of England +4 29 £450 -14.29% 70
North West -1 21 £475 -9.52% 39
South East -16 15 £425 -19.05% 58
Midlands +6 10 £438 -2.78% 50
West Midlands +16 9 £450 +5.88% 28
East of England +16 9 £550 +15.79% 29
South West +11 9 £625 +19.05% 30
Yorkshire +11 7 £350 -33.33% 28
North East +22 1 £375 - 4
Scotland +3 1 £375 -11.76% 13
East Midlands -3 1 £189 -64.50% 22
.NET Framework
UK

.NET Framework
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 9 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 6 (8.33%) IIS
3 4 (5.56%) CMS
4 3 (4.17%) Confluence
5 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (2.78%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (1.39%) Apache
6 1 (1.39%) Jadu
6 1 (1.39%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Maximo
2 1 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (50.00%) Azure
2 19 (26.39%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (15.28%) AWS
4 7 (9.72%) Serverless
5 5 (6.94%) Azure Functions
6 3 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (4.17%) npm
6 3 (4.17%) PaaS
6 3 (4.17%) Power Automate
6 3 (4.17%) Yarn
7 2 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.78%) GCP
7 2 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.78%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.78%) SaaS
7 2 (2.78%) SonarCloud
8 1 (1.39%) Azure App Service
8 1 (1.39%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (1.39%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.39%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.94%) HTTP
2 3 (4.17%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.17%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.39%) DHCP
3 1 (1.39%) DNS
3 1 (1.39%) FTP
3 1 (1.39%) Skype
3 1 (1.39%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.39%) SSL
3 1 (1.39%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.39%) VPN
3 1 (1.39%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (30.56%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.94%) SQLite
3 3 (4.17%) Redis
4 2 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.78%) MySQL
4 2 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.39%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.39%) Power BI
5 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.39%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 18 (25.00%) Git
2 7 (9.72%) JIRA
3 6 (8.33%) NUnit
4 5 (6.94%) Checkstyle
4 5 (6.94%) Selenium
4 5 (6.94%) SonarQube
4 5 (6.94%) Visual Studio
5 3 (4.17%) Bitbucket
5 3 (4.17%) Fiddler
5 3 (4.17%) Jasmine
5 3 (4.17%) Karma Test Runner
5 3 (4.17%) Mocha
5 3 (4.17%) SpecFlow
5 3 (4.17%) webpack
6 2 (2.78%) Moq
7 1 (1.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.39%) MSTest
7 1 (1.39%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
7 1 (1.39%) WebDriver
General
1 13 (18.06%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.56%) Finance
3 4 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.39%) Aviation
5 1 (1.39%) Banking
5 1 (1.39%) Electronics
5 1 (1.39%) Legal
5 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.39%) Marketing
5 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (63.89%) Developer
2 30 (41.67%) .NET Developer
3 10 (13.89%) Software Engineer
4 7 (9.72%) Senior
5 5 (6.94%) Azure Developer
5 5 (6.94%) C# Developer
5 5 (6.94%) Lead
5 5 (6.94%) Senior Developer
6 4 (5.56%) Applications Developer
6 4 (5.56%) Architect
6 4 (5.56%) C# .NET Developer
6 4 (5.56%) Senior .NET Developer
6 4 (5.56%) Software Developer
7 3 (4.17%) Administrator
7 3 (4.17%) Lead Developer
7 3 (4.17%) Pega Developer
7 3 (4.17%) SharePoint Administrator
8 2 (2.78%) C# Software Engineer
8 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Developer
8 2 (2.78%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (100.00%) .NET
2 25 (34.72%) .NET Core
2 25 (34.72%) Entity Framework
3 12 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 12 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 12 (16.67%) JSON
3 12 (16.67%) React
4 11 (15.28%) REST
4 11 (15.28%) XML
5 10 (13.89%) HTML
6 9 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
6 9 (12.50%) WCF
6 9 (12.50%) Web Services
7 7 (9.72%) CSS
7 7 (9.72%) RESTful
8 6 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC
9 5 (6.94%) Blazor
9 5 (6.94%) NHibernate
10 4 (5.56%) ARM Templates
10 4 (5.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.94%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.56%) Low-Code
4 3 (4.17%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.17%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.78%) PKI
6 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.39%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.39%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.94%) Windows
2 4 (5.56%) Linux
3 1 (1.39%) Android
3 1 (1.39%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.39%) Windows 7
3 1 (1.39%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (52.78%) Agile
2 31 (43.06%) DevOps
3 19 (26.39%) OO
4 18 (25.00%) Microservices
5 16 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 15 (20.83%) MVC
7 13 (18.06%) Design Patterns
8 11 (15.28%) Scrum
9 10 (13.89%) CI/CD
10 9 (12.50%) TDD
11 8 (11.11%) OOP
11 8 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (11.11%) SDLC
11 8 (11.11%) Test Automation
11 8 (11.11%) Unit Testing
12 7 (9.72%) SOLID
13 6 (8.33%) Computer Science
13 6 (8.33%) Full Stack Development
14 5 (6.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 5 (6.94%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 53 (73.61%) C#
2 19 (26.39%) JavaScript
3 14 (19.44%) SQL
4 11 (15.28%) PowerShell
5 6 (8.33%) Python
6 4 (5.56%) Bicep
6 4 (5.56%) Java
6 4 (5.56%) VB.NET
7 3 (4.17%) MATLAB
7 3 (4.17%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.17%) VBA
8 2 (2.78%) Bash
8 2 (2.78%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.39%) C++
9 1 (1.39%) PHP
9 1 (1.39%) R
9 1 (1.39%) XAML
Qualifications
1 17 (23.61%) Security Cleared
2 11 (15.28%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.50%) Degree
4 6 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.78%) HND
7 2 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 6 (8.33%) Docker
2 4 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.78%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.39%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (1.39%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (6.94%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.56%) Terraform
3 3 (4.17%) Ansible
3 3 (4.17%) SCOM
3 3 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.78%) PowerCLI
4 2 (2.78%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.78%) Puppet
5 1 (1.39%) OPNET
5 1 (1.39%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.39%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (36.11%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.94%) SAP
3 3 (4.17%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.17%) F5
3 3 (4.17%) IBM
3 3 (4.17%) Nintex
3 3 (4.17%) Oracle
3 3 (4.17%) Pega
3 3 (4.17%) VMware
4 2 (2.78%) Google
4 2 (2.78%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.39%) Cisco
5 1 (1.39%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.39%) Splunk
5 1 (1.39%) Veeam
5 1 (1.39%) Xamarin