.NET Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
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 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited .NET over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 54 37
Rank change year-on-year -30 -17 -2
Contract jobs citing .NET 453 946 1,662
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.22% 4.03% 5.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.05% 21.97% 27.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 742 1,209
10th Percentile £300 £360 £360
25th Percentile £350 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £538
90th Percentile £678 £675 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £560 £538
% change year-on-year -6.25% +4.19% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 45
10th Percentile £20.77 £22.50 £20.45
25th Percentile £24.38 £48.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £58.91 £55.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.10% +12.24% +21.74%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £87.31 £67.25
UK median hourly rate £58.91 £60.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -1.83% +22.45% +20.99%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

.NET 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 3,224 4,306 6,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.83% 18.32% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,106 3,209 4,353
10th Percentile £325 £356 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £690 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 93 147
10th Percentile £21.63 £22.28 £20.55
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.05 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.78% +28.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £65.34
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.95 £75.81
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for .NET in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing .NET in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for .NET in the UK excluding London

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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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 May 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 -38 105 £425 -10.53% 352
South East -48 101 £500 -2.91% 178
South West +16 92 £553 +5.24% 107
North West -30 67 £445 -6.32% 198
Midlands -35 56 £456 +7.35% 224
Scotland -16 46 £425 -10.53% 71
West Midlands -14 37 £494 -1.25% 134
East of England -4 36 £475 - 70
Yorkshire -20 31 £400 -16.67% 109
East Midlands -19 19 £418 +4.38% 90
Wales -13 18 £413 -24.14% 41
North East +7 7 £278 -40.00% 48
Northern Ireland +4 4 - - 21
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UK

.NET
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 32 (7.06%) Confluence
2 20 (4.42%) Umbraco
3 19 (4.19%) SharePoint
4 17 (3.75%) CMS
5 16 (3.53%) IIS
6 5 (1.10%) Drupal
7 4 (0.88%) Apache
8 3 (0.66%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.44%) EPiServer
9 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.22%) Appian
10 1 (0.22%) Jadu
10 1 (0.22%) Kentico
10 1 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.22%) Site Server
10 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.22%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.22%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 8 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.66%) Magento
2 3 (0.66%) Maximo
2 3 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.22%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 209 (46.14%) Azure
2 104 (22.96%) Azure DevOps
3 57 (12.58%) AWS
4 27 (5.96%) Power Platform
5 20 (4.42%) Serverless
6 19 (4.19%) Power Automate
7 18 (3.97%) PaaS
7 18 (3.97%) SaaS
8 16 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (2.87%) PowerApps
10 12 (2.65%) Azure Functions
10 12 (2.65%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (1.99%) Azure AKS
11 9 (1.99%) IaaS
12 8 (1.77%) Azure API Management
13 7 (1.55%) Azure App Service
13 7 (1.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 6 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (1.10%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.99%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.32%) VPN
3 5 (1.10%) DNS
3 5 (1.10%) HTTP
3 5 (1.10%) SSL
4 4 (0.88%) DHCP
4 4 (0.88%) Network Security
5 3 (0.66%) LAN
5 3 (0.66%) WAN
5 3 (0.66%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.44%) MQTT
6 2 (0.44%) SAN
7 1 (0.22%) 5G
7 1 (0.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (0.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (0.22%) Internet
7 1 (0.22%) NAS
7 1 (0.22%) RS-232
7 1 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (19.21%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.87%) Power BI
2 13 (2.87%) Relational Database
3 11 (2.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (2.21%) MySQL
5 9 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.55%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.10%) SQLite
9 4 (0.88%) DB2
9 4 (0.88%) Redis
10 3 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.66%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.44%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.44%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.44%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 57 (12.58%) Git
2 48 (10.60%) Visual Studio
3 47 (10.38%) Jenkins
4 40 (8.83%) JIRA
5 31 (6.84%) Bitbucket
6 24 (5.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 14 (3.09%) NUnit
8 12 (2.65%) Selenium
9 9 (1.99%) Postman
10 7 (1.55%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.10%) Checkstyle
11 5 (1.10%) Maven
11 5 (1.10%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.10%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (0.88%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.88%) WebDriver
12 4 (0.88%) webpack
13 3 (0.66%) Fiddler
13 3 (0.66%) Mocha
General
1 87 (19.21%) Social Skills
2 42 (9.27%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (7.51%) Public Sector
4 32 (7.06%) Finance
5 18 (3.97%) Aerospace
6 8 (1.77%) Manufacturing
7 6 (1.32%) Banking
8 5 (1.10%) Automotive
8 5 (1.10%) Retail
9 4 (0.88%) Law
9 4 (0.88%) Legal
9 4 (0.88%) Tech for Good
10 3 (0.66%) Front Office
10 3 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.44%) Electronics
11 2 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.44%) Marketing
11 2 (0.44%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.22%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 279 (61.59%) Developer
2 130 (28.70%) .NET Developer
3 47 (10.38%) Senior
4 33 (7.28%) Architect
5 29 (6.40%) Senior Developer
6 28 (6.18%) Software Developer
7 26 (5.74%) Full Stack Developer
7 26 (5.74%) Lead
8 23 (5.08%) C# Developer
9 22 (4.86%) Software Engineer
10 19 (4.19%) Senior .NET Developer
11 17 (3.75%) React Developer
12 16 (3.53%) Analyst
12 16 (3.53%) C# .NET Developer
13 15 (3.31%) Applications Developer
13 15 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
14 14 (3.09%) Azure Developer
15 13 (2.87%) Full Stack .NET Developer
15 13 (2.87%) Umbraco Developer
16 11 (2.43%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (20.75%) .NET Core
2 73 (16.11%) .NET Framework
3 71 (15.67%) ASP.NET
4 53 (11.70%) HTML
5 48 (10.60%) AngularJS
5 48 (10.60%) CSS
6 45 (9.93%) React
7 30 (6.62%) REST
8 28 (6.18%) Blazor
9 26 (5.74%) RESTful
9 26 (5.74%) Web Services
10 25 (5.52%) Entity Framework
11 21 (4.64%) ASP.NET MVC
11 21 (4.64%) XML
12 18 (3.97%) SOAP
13 17 (3.75%) ASP.NET Web API
13 17 (3.75%) JSON
14 11 (2.43%) Vue
15 10 (2.21%) ASP.NET Core
15 10 (2.21%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.30%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.53%) Legacy Applications
2 16 (3.53%) Mobile App
3 15 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (2.65%) Public Cloud
5 11 (2.43%) Wiki
6 8 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.55%) IoT
8 6 (1.32%) Client/Server
8 6 (1.32%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.10%) NHS
9 5 (1.10%) PKI
9 5 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.88%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.88%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.88%) Mainframe
11 3 (0.66%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.66%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 39 (8.61%) Linux
2 28 (6.18%) Windows
3 11 (2.43%) Android
4 9 (1.99%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.55%) Unix
5 7 (1.55%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.66%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.44%) VMS
7 2 (0.44%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (31.57%) DevOps
2 136 (30.02%) Agile
3 78 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
4 70 (15.45%) CI/CD
5 64 (14.13%) OO
6 63 (13.91%) MVC
7 54 (11.92%) Full Stack Development
7 54 (11.92%) Microservices
8 39 (8.61%) Test Automation
9 38 (8.39%) Deployment Automation
10 37 (8.17%) Software Engineering
11 36 (7.95%) Scrum
12 35 (7.73%) Continuous Integration
13 34 (7.51%) Configuration Management
14 33 (7.28%) OOP
15 31 (6.84%) TDD
16 30 (6.62%) Task Automation
17 25 (5.52%) Design Patterns
17 25 (5.52%) SOLID
18 24 (5.30%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 268 (59.16%) C#
2 113 (24.94%) SQL
3 84 (18.54%) JavaScript
4 63 (13.91%) PowerShell
5 48 (10.60%) Python
6 34 (7.51%) Java
7 32 (7.06%) TypeScript
8 19 (4.19%) C
9 16 (3.53%) VB.NET
10 15 (3.31%) C++
11 9 (1.99%) PHP
12 8 (1.77%) Bicep
13 7 (1.55%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.55%) Ruby
13 7 (1.55%) VBA
14 5 (1.10%) Bash
14 5 (1.10%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.10%) VB
15 4 (0.88%) MATLAB
15 4 (0.88%) VB6
Qualifications
1 77 (17.00%) Security Cleared
2 61 (13.47%) SC Cleared
3 26 (5.74%) Degree
4 13 (2.87%) DV Cleared
5 8 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (1.32%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.66%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.66%) HNC
8 3 (0.66%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.44%) HND
9 2 (0.44%) ISEB
9 2 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.74%) QA
2 7 (1.55%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.32%) SLA
4 5 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (0.66%) GDPR
5 3 (0.66%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (0.44%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.44%) HL7
7 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (5.08%) Docker
2 16 (3.53%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.43%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.32%) vSphere
7 3 (0.66%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.44%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 44 (9.71%) Ansible
2 25 (5.52%) PowerCLI
3 21 (4.64%) Terraform
4 19 (4.19%) Kubernetes
5 10 (2.21%) SCOM
6 9 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.32%) SCCM
8 5 (1.10%) WSUS
9 4 (0.88%) Puppet
10 2 (0.44%) OPNET
11 1 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.22%) Argo
11 1 (0.22%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (0.22%) Istio
11 1 (0.22%) linkerd
11 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.22%) SELinux
11 1 (0.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 74 (16.34%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.74%) Atlassian
3 25 (5.52%) Oracle
4 22 (4.86%) Dell
4 22 (4.86%) HP
5 16 (3.53%) VMware
6 10 (2.21%) Xamarin
7 8 (1.77%) SAP
8 6 (1.32%) F5
8 6 (1.32%) Google
9 4 (0.88%) IBM
9 4 (0.88%) Infragistics
10 3 (0.66%) Nintex
10 3 (0.66%) OutSystems
10 3 (0.66%) Pega
11 2 (0.44%) Adobe
11 2 (0.44%) Atmel
11 2 (0.44%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.44%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.44%) Sitecore