.NET Software Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

.NET Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median .NET Software Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £489, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 July 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 396 440
Rank change year-on-year +51 +44 +62
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Software Engineer 10 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.069% 0.033% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.036% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 2
10th Percentile - - £395
25th Percentile £325 £425 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £445
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% +6.74% -1.11%
75th Percentile £502 £519 £483
90th Percentile £519 £569 £501
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £685
% change year-on-year -12.00% -8.76% +14.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 -

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 13,145 19,446 22,073
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.06% 92.34% 94.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,143 11,680 15,182
10th Percentile £220 £213 £231
25th Percentile £363 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,058 2,405 1,173
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.75 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% - +100.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.52 £75.64
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £37.50 £43.63
% change year-on-year -29.47% -14.05% +74.52%

.NET Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

.NET Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for .NET Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

.NET Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

.NET Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

.NET Software Engineer
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 Software Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Yorkshire +10 6 £500 - 7
North of England +8 6 £500 - 22
Northern Ireland - 2 £325 -
Scotland - 1 £488 - 9
East of England - 1 £325 - 5
.NET Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 July 2025, .NET Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) .NET
1 10 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (80.00%) C#
3 7 (70.00%) Azure
4 5 (50.00%) Agile
5 4 (40.00%) SQL
5 4 (40.00%) DevOps
5 4 (40.00%) Terraform
6 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (30.00%) Clean Code
6 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
6 3 (30.00%) OO
6 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (30.00%) NHS
7 2 (20.00%) Banking
7 2 (20.00%) Subversion
7 2 (20.00%) Maven
7 2 (20.00%) Derivative
7 2 (20.00%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (20.00%) Wholesale Banking
7 2 (20.00%) Ant
7 2 (20.00%) Unix
7 2 (20.00%) Windows
7 2 (20.00%) Linux
7 2 (20.00%) OOP
7 2 (20.00%) OOA/OOD
7 2 (20.00%) Front Office
7 2 (20.00%) Finance
7 2 (20.00%) Equities
7 2 (20.00%) React

.NET Software Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Stack
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Ant
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (20.00%) Maven
1 2 (20.00%) Subversion
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Front Office
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Wholesale Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) FHIR
2 2 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
2 2 (20.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (10.00%) D3.js
3 1 (10.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (10.00%) Next.js
3 1 (10.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) NHS
1 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (20.00%) Derivative
2 2 (20.00%) Equities
2 2 (20.00%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Clean Code
4 3 (30.00%) OO
5 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (20.00%) Concurrent Programming
5 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
5 2 (20.00%) High Availability
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (20.00%) OOA/OOD
5 2 (20.00%) OOP
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) SDLC
6 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
6 1 (10.00%) Health Informatics
6 1 (10.00%) Informatics
6 1 (10.00%) Refactoring
6 1 (10.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) C#
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) DICOM
2 1 (10.00%) HL7
2 1 (10.00%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Brio