.NET Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring .NET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 93 54
Rank change year-on-year -16 -39 -17
Contract jobs citing .NET 286 456 960
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.24% 2.21% 4.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.00% 13.93% 22.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 342 755
10th Percentile £325 £291 £363
25th Percentile £400 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -7.69% +3.72%
75th Percentile £547 £575 £588
90th Percentile £600 £680 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £521 £563
% change year-on-year +0.72% -7.33% +4.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 10
10th Percentile £23.18 £20.77 £22.50
25th Percentile £25.46 £24.38 £48.88
Median hourly rate £29.25 £58.91 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.34% +7.10% +17.85%
75th Percentile £53.22 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.60 £85.00 £87.31
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £58.91 £60.00
% change year-on-year -54.16% -1.83% +26.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

.NET 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 2,383 3,274 4,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.64% 15.84% 18.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,646 2,151 3,268
10th Percentile £350 £324 £359
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £603 £600
90th Percentile £658 £694 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 202 91
10th Percentile £32.08 £21.81 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.03
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -24.00% +27.55%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.50
90th Percentile £81.73 £75.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.84 £65.00
% change year-on-year +38.77% -27.94% +32.65%

.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

.NET
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 4 May 2025.

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

.NET
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 4 May 2025.

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 4 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
North of England -14 71 £425 - 389
South East +9 69 £500 - 323
Midlands +10 56 £490 +10.11% 236
North West -4 45 £413 -8.33% 238
South West -6 36 £545 -1.36% 109
West Midlands +8 31 £500 +3.90% 128
Scotland -1 28 £468 +13.33% 54
Yorkshire -1 23 £475 +18.75% 94
East Midlands +12 21 £495 +20.73% 99
East of England +12 12 £481 +1.32% 128
Wales -2 10 £513 +20.65% 28
Northern Ireland -4 5 £325 - 8
North East -6 3 £370 +33.33% 64
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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 15 (5.24%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.15%) IIS
3 8 (2.80%) Tomcat
3 8 (2.80%) Umbraco
4 6 (2.10%) Apache
5 5 (1.75%) CMS
6 4 (1.40%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (1.40%) nginx
7 3 (1.05%) Confluence
7 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.35%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.35%) Appian
8 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.35%) SAS
8 1 (0.35%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 5 (1.75%) InfoPath
2 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.70%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 15 (5.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.05%) Magento
2 3 (1.05%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.70%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.35%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.35%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 147 (51.40%) Azure
2 61 (21.33%) AWS
3 55 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (8.39%) Power Platform
5 22 (7.69%) Serverless
6 21 (7.34%) GCP
6 21 (7.34%) SaaS
7 15 (5.24%) Dynamics 365
8 14 (4.90%) PowerApps
9 13 (4.55%) Azure Functions
9 13 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (4.55%) Power Automate
10 12 (4.20%) GitHub
11 10 (3.50%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (3.50%) Entra ID
12 7 (2.45%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (2.10%) AWS CodeBuild
13 6 (2.10%) Azure AKS
13 6 (2.10%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.59%) Firewall
2 15 (5.24%) DNS
3 13 (4.55%) Kerberos
4 4 (1.40%) HTTP
5 3 (1.05%) Skype
6 2 (0.70%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.35%) FTP
7 1 (0.35%) Internet
7 1 (0.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (19.58%) SQL Server
2 23 (8.04%) Relational Database
3 18 (6.29%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (5.94%) MySQL
5 16 (5.59%) MongoDB
6 14 (4.90%) Power BI
7 10 (3.50%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.75%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (1.40%) GIS
10 4 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.05%) DocumentDB
11 3 (1.05%) Tableau
12 2 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.70%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.70%) Power Query
12 2 (0.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 49 (17.13%) Git
2 16 (5.59%) JIRA
3 13 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.55%) Visual Studio
4 12 (4.20%) Selenium
5 11 (3.85%) Postman
6 7 (2.45%) Cypress.io
6 7 (2.45%) NUnit
6 7 (2.45%) Subversion
7 5 (1.75%) Babel
7 5 (1.75%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.75%) GitLab
7 5 (1.75%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (1.75%) WebDriver
7 5 (1.75%) webpack
8 4 (1.40%) Ant
8 4 (1.40%) Maven
8 4 (1.40%) SpecFlow
8 4 (1.40%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (1.40%) TeamCity
General
1 50 (17.48%) Social Skills
2 47 (16.43%) Public Sector
3 45 (15.73%) Finance
4 17 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.20%) Telecoms
6 11 (3.85%) Aerospace
6 11 (3.85%) Electronics
6 11 (3.85%) Manufacturing
6 11 (3.85%) Marketing
7 9 (3.15%) Retail
8 6 (2.10%) Banking
8 6 (2.10%) Front Office
8 6 (2.10%) Legal
9 5 (1.75%) Law
10 4 (1.40%) French Language
10 4 (1.40%) Wholesale Banking
11 3 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.70%) Korean Language
12 2 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.35%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 147 (51.40%) Developer
2 56 (19.58%) .NET Developer
3 36 (12.59%) Architect
3 36 (12.59%) Senior
4 32 (11.19%) C# Developer
5 31 (10.84%) Software Engineer
6 26 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
7 25 (8.74%) Full-Stack Developer
8 20 (6.99%) React Developer
9 17 (5.94%) Senior Developer
10 15 (5.24%) C# .NET Developer
11 14 (4.90%) Azure Developer
11 14 (4.90%) Lead
12 13 (4.55%) Software Developer
13 12 (4.20%) Azure Engineer
13 12 (4.20%) C# Software Engineer
14 11 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
14 11 (3.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 11 (3.85%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 10 (3.50%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (20.28%) HTML
2 54 (18.88%) CSS
3 51 (17.83%) .NET Core
4 48 (16.78%) React
5 42 (14.69%) .NET Framework
6 40 (13.99%) AngularJS
7 34 (11.89%) ASP.NET
8 32 (11.19%) REST
9 20 (6.99%) ASP.NET Web API
10 19 (6.64%) RESTful
11 15 (5.24%) Entity Framework
12 12 (4.20%) Blazor
13 10 (3.50%) ASP.NET MVC
13 10 (3.50%) JSON
13 10 (3.50%) Node.js
13 10 (3.50%) WPF
14 9 (3.15%) Web Services
15 8 (2.80%) HTML5
15 8 (2.80%) HTML5 Canvas
15 8 (2.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.04%) Product Ownership
2 15 (5.24%) Data Centre
2 15 (5.24%) Replication
3 14 (4.90%) PKI
4 13 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 9 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.15%) Wiki
6 8 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.45%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.45%) Legacy Applications
7 7 (2.45%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.10%) NHS
9 5 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.40%) Derivative
10 4 (1.40%) Equities
10 4 (1.40%) Equity Derivative
11 3 (1.05%) Clustering
11 3 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.69%) Windows
2 17 (5.94%) Linux
3 9 (3.15%) Unix
4 6 (2.10%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.10%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.40%) AIX
5 4 (1.40%) Android
6 3 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (33.57%) Agile
2 94 (32.87%) DevOps
3 84 (29.37%) CI/CD
4 66 (23.08%) Software Engineering
5 53 (18.53%) Test Automation
6 48 (16.78%) Full-Stack Development
7 39 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (12.59%) Microservices
9 33 (11.54%) Scrum
10 28 (9.79%) TDD
11 25 (8.74%) Business Intelligence
12 24 (8.39%) User Experience
13 23 (8.04%) Containerisation
14 22 (7.69%) MVC
15 21 (7.34%) Migration
16 20 (6.99%) SDLC
16 20 (6.99%) Web Development
17 19 (6.64%) Computer Science
18 18 (6.29%) CRM
18 18 (6.29%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 165 (57.69%) C#
2 100 (34.97%) SQL
3 92 (32.17%) JavaScript
4 37 (12.94%) Python
5 28 (9.79%) PowerShell
6 21 (7.34%) TypeScript
7 19 (6.64%) Java
8 12 (4.20%) PHP
9 11 (3.85%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.40%) Bash
10 4 (1.40%) Bicep
10 4 (1.40%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.05%) C
11 3 (1.05%) C++
11 3 (1.05%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.05%) VBA
11 3 (1.05%) VBScript
12 2 (0.70%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.70%) Ruby
12 2 (0.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 45 (15.73%) Security Cleared
2 34 (11.89%) SC Cleared
3 29 (10.14%) Degree
4 13 (4.55%) Azure Certification
4 13 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.75%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.75%) ISTQB
5 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.40%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.40%) ISEB
7 3 (1.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.70%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.35%) IIBA
9 1 (0.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.35%) OCP
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.69%) QA
2 4 (1.40%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.05%) NCSC
4 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.35%) GDPR
5 1 (0.35%) HL7
5 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (10.14%) Docker
2 16 (5.59%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (13.29%) Kubernetes
2 29 (10.14%) Terraform
3 7 (2.45%) Ansible
4 4 (1.40%) Grafana
5 3 (1.05%) Kibana
5 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.05%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.05%) Puppet
5 3 (1.05%) SCOM
5 3 (1.05%) WMI
6 2 (0.70%) CA Wily
6 2 (0.70%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.35%) OPNET
7 1 (0.35%) Perfmon
7 1 (0.35%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 68 (23.78%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.99%) Oracle
3 19 (6.64%) Google
4 12 (4.20%) SAP
5 8 (2.80%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.80%) Virgin Media
5 8 (2.80%) VMware
6 6 (2.10%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.75%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.40%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.70%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.70%) BeyondTrust
9 2 (0.70%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.70%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.70%) IBM
9 2 (0.70%) Mapbox
9 2 (0.70%) New Relic
9 2 (0.70%) Splunk
9 2 (0.70%) Workday
10 1 (0.35%) MuleSoft