.NET Framework Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft .NET Framework
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring .NET Framework skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 279 260
Rank change year-on-year -76 -19 +8
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 54 77 145
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.52% 0.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.61% 2.90% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 46 105
10th Percentile £325 £325 £278
25th Percentile £402 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £463
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% +6.49% -7.50%
75th Percentile £536 £567 £555
90th Percentile £625 £681 £645
UK median daily rate £473 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -8.25% -1.90% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 9
10th Percentile £63.63 - £68.50
25th Percentile £65.88 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £20.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +235.00% -71.43% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £20.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +235.00% -71.43% +6.40%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

.NET Framework falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,353 2,655 3,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.23% 17.97% 17.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,197 1,654 2,360
10th Percentile £335 £340 £325
25th Percentile £403 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £671 £688 £678
UK median daily rate £505 £544 £550
% change year-on-year -7.17% -1.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 63 136
10th Percentile £31.25 £22.00 £38.77
25th Percentile £46.25 £36.97 £46.18
Median hourly rate £63.50 £65.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +25.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.35 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing .NET Framework relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

.NET Framework job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing .NET Framework.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing .NET Framework

.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 26 December 2025.

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

.NET Framework
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing .NET Framework.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing .NET Framework

.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 26 December 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
East of England -17 14 £500 +66.67% 19
South East -12 12 £390 -16.80% 53
Midlands -55 12 £550 -2.05% 28
East Midlands -12 8 £600 +20.00% 14
North of England -73 8 £475 -11.21% 41
Yorkshire -44 4 £495 -12.70% 15
West Midlands -47 4 £413 -27.25% 13
South West -16 3 - - 17
North West -38 3 £435 -8.42% 23
Wales - 3 £519 - 5
Scotland 0 1 £455 +1.11% 15
Northern Ireland -5 1 - - 2
North East - 1 £475 - 3
.NET Framework
UK

.NET Framework
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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (14.81%) CMS
2 6 (11.11%) Umbraco
3 5 (9.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (9.26%) Headless CMS
3 5 (9.26%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (5.56%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.04%) Azure
2 11 (20.37%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (16.67%) npm
4 7 (12.96%) Kontent
5 5 (9.26%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (9.26%) Contentful
5 5 (9.26%) Serverless
6 4 (7.41%) Azure Functions
6 4 (7.41%) Entra ID
7 3 (5.56%) Azure API Management
7 3 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (5.56%) GitHub
8 2 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (3.70%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.85%) Firebase
9 1 (1.85%) PaaS
9 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.70%) HTTP
1 2 (3.70%) SSL
2 1 (1.85%) DNS
2 1 (1.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.37%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.85%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.85%) Redis
3 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (33.33%) Git
2 14 (25.93%) JIRA
3 11 (20.37%) Artifactory
4 10 (18.52%) Visual Studio
5 9 (16.67%) GitLab
6 5 (9.26%) Jenkins
7 3 (5.56%) Cypress.io
8 2 (3.70%) Bitbucket
8 2 (3.70%) NUnit
8 2 (3.70%) Postman
9 1 (1.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.85%) Selenium
9 1 (1.85%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.37%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.56%) Finance
4 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.85%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.85%) Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Billing
5 1 (1.85%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.85%) Law
5 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 35 (64.81%) Developer
2 16 (29.63%) Full-Stack Developer
3 14 (25.93%) .NET Developer
4 10 (18.52%) C# Developer
4 10 (18.52%) Software Engineer
5 8 (14.81%) Senior
6 7 (12.96%) CMS Developer
7 5 (9.26%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 5 (9.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) React Developer
7 5 (9.26%) Senior Developer
8 4 (7.41%) Lead
8 4 (7.41%) Senior .NET Developer
9 3 (5.56%) C# .NET Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Development Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Software Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Software Development Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (100.00%) .NET
2 26 (48.15%) HTML
3 25 (46.30%) CSS
3 25 (46.30%) React
4 23 (42.59%) AngularJS
5 20 (37.04%) ASP.NET
6 19 (35.19%) RESTful
7 18 (33.33%) .NET Core
8 15 (27.78%) Entity Framework
9 13 (24.07%) ASP.NET MVC
10 11 (20.37%) Vue
11 9 (16.67%) Node.js
11 9 (16.67%) Svelte
12 5 (9.26%) ASP.NET Web API
12 5 (9.26%) OAuth
12 5 (9.26%) REST
13 4 (7.41%) ASP.NET Core
13 4 (7.41%) Blazor
13 4 (7.41%) YAML
14 3 (5.56%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.52%) Algorithms
2 9 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 9 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (16.67%) Mobile App
3 4 (7.41%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.70%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.85%) Contactless
6 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.81%) Linux
2 3 (5.56%) Android
3 2 (3.70%) Windows
4 1 (1.85%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.85%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (57.41%) Agile
2 26 (48.15%) CI/CD
3 25 (46.30%) DevOps
3 25 (46.30%) Full-Stack Development
4 19 (35.19%) Microservices
5 17 (31.48%) MVC
6 16 (29.63%) OOP
7 15 (27.78%) Design Patterns
8 14 (25.93%) Containerisation
9 12 (22.22%) TDD
10 11 (20.37%) SDLC
10 11 (20.37%) Software Engineering
11 9 (16.67%) Computer Science
11 9 (16.67%) Software Testing
11 9 (16.67%) User Experience
12 8 (14.81%) Test Automation
13 7 (12.96%) AI
13 7 (12.96%) Clean Code
13 7 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
14 6 (11.11%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 44 (81.48%) C#
2 32 (59.26%) JavaScript
3 19 (35.19%) SQL
4 13 (24.07%) TypeScript
5 9 (16.67%) C++
6 3 (5.56%) Java
7 2 (3.70%) Bash
7 2 (3.70%) Bicep
7 2 (3.70%) PHP
7 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.70%) Python
8 1 (1.85%) C
8 1 (1.85%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.26%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.56%) QA
2 3 (5.56%) WCAG
3 2 (3.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (31.48%) Docker
2 3 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (24.07%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.11%) Sitecore
3 5 (9.26%) Adobe
4 2 (3.70%) GoldenSource
4 2 (3.70%) Google
5 1 (1.85%) Apple
5 1 (1.85%) Telerik
5 1 (1.85%) Xamarin