.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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 55 38
Rank change year-on-year -35 -17 -2
Contract jobs citing .NET 455 971 1,676
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.21% 4.07% 5.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.00% 22.20% 27.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 763 1,226
10th Percentile £290 £363 £360
25th Percentile £350 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £485 £470
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +3.19% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £675 £676 £625
UK median daily rate £520 £560 £538
% change year-on-year -7.14% +4.19% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 45
10th Percentile £20.77 £22.50 £20.25
25th Percentile £24.38 £48.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £58.91 £55.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.10% +13.40% +19.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £87.31 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £58.91 £60.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year -1.83% +23.08% +20.37%

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 3,251 4,374 6,199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.81% 18.31% 20.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,135 3,275 4,420
10th Percentile £324 £360 £362
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £586
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 90 144
10th Percentile £21.81 £22.47 £20.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.35 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £63.25 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -24.90% +28.43% +9.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.19 £73.50
UK median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -27.94% +30.65% +10.56%

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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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -32 107 £425 -10.53% 317
South East -42 104 £500 -2.91% 194
South West +18 91 £553 +1.84% 116
North West -31 64 £450 -5.26% 186
Midlands -32 59 £445 +4.71% 217
Scotland -33 41 £394 -17.11% 82
West Midlands -12 39 £481 -3.75% 125
East of England +7 35 £475 - 75
Yorkshire -14 35 £400 -17.53% 99
East Midlands -22 20 £410 +2.50% 92
Wales -14 19 £425 -20.93% 43
North East +11 8 £278 -41.58% 34
Northern Ireland +4 4 - - 21
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UK

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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 33 (7.25%) Confluence
2 21 (4.62%) SharePoint
3 20 (4.40%) Umbraco
4 17 (3.74%) CMS
4 17 (3.74%) IIS
5 5 (1.10%) Drupal
6 4 (0.88%) Apache
7 3 (0.66%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.44%) EPiServer
8 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.44%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.22%) Jadu
9 1 (0.22%) Kentico
9 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.22%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.22%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 8 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.88%) Magento
3 3 (0.66%) Maximo
3 3 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.22%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 205 (45.05%) Azure
2 98 (21.54%) Azure DevOps
3 52 (11.43%) AWS
4 26 (5.71%) Power Platform
5 21 (4.62%) Serverless
6 18 (3.96%) Power Automate
7 17 (3.74%) PaaS
7 17 (3.74%) SaaS
8 16 (3.52%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (3.08%) Azure Functions
9 14 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (2.64%) Azure Logic Apps
10 12 (2.64%) PowerApps
11 10 (2.20%) Azure AKS
12 9 (1.98%) Azure API Management
12 9 (1.98%) IaaS
13 8 (1.76%) Azure App Service
14 6 (1.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 5 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
15 5 (1.10%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.20%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.32%) DNS
2 6 (1.32%) HTTP
3 5 (1.10%) SSL
3 5 (1.10%) VPN
4 4 (0.88%) DHCP
4 4 (0.88%) Network Security
5 3 (0.66%) LAN
5 3 (0.66%) SAN
5 3 (0.66%) WAN
5 3 (0.66%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.44%) MQTT
7 1 (0.22%) 2G
7 1 (0.22%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (0.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (0.22%) FTP
7 1 (0.22%) Internet
7 1 (0.22%) NAS
7 1 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (19.34%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.64%) Power BI
3 10 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (1.98%) MySQL
4 9 (1.98%) Relational Database
5 8 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (1.76%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.10%) SQLite
8 4 (0.88%) DB2
8 4 (0.88%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.88%) Redis
9 3 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (0.66%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.44%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.44%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 52 (11.43%) Git
2 47 (10.33%) Jenkins
3 41 (9.01%) JIRA
4 40 (8.79%) Visual Studio
5 30 (6.59%) Bitbucket
6 24 (5.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 15 (3.30%) NUnit
7 15 (3.30%) Selenium
8 8 (1.76%) Postman
9 7 (1.54%) TeamCity
10 6 (1.32%) SpecFlow
11 5 (1.10%) Checkstyle
11 5 (1.10%) Maven
11 5 (1.10%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.88%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (0.88%) WebDriver
12 4 (0.88%) webpack
13 3 (0.66%) Fiddler
General
1 84 (18.46%) Social Skills
2 40 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (8.35%) Finance
3 38 (8.35%) Public Sector
4 18 (3.96%) Aerospace
5 9 (1.98%) Manufacturing
6 6 (1.32%) Banking
6 6 (1.32%) Retail
7 5 (1.10%) Automotive
7 5 (1.10%) Law
8 4 (0.88%) Legal
8 4 (0.88%) Tech for Good
9 3 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.66%) Electronics
9 3 (0.66%) Front Office
9 3 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.66%) Marketing
9 3 (0.66%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 287 (63.08%) Developer
2 133 (29.23%) .NET Developer
3 47 (10.33%) Senior
4 32 (7.03%) Architect
5 30 (6.59%) Senior Developer
6 29 (6.37%) Software Developer
7 25 (5.49%) Full Stack Developer
7 25 (5.49%) Lead
8 24 (5.27%) C# Developer
9 20 (4.40%) Software Engineer
10 19 (4.18%) Senior .NET Developer
11 17 (3.74%) React Developer
12 16 (3.52%) Analyst
12 16 (3.52%) C# .NET Developer
13 15 (3.30%) Azure Developer
13 15 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
14 14 (3.08%) Applications Developer
15 13 (2.86%) Full Stack .NET Developer
15 13 (2.86%) Umbraco Developer
16 11 (2.42%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (20.66%) .NET Core
2 72 (15.82%) ASP.NET
3 71 (15.60%) .NET Framework
4 53 (11.65%) HTML
5 50 (10.99%) AngularJS
6 49 (10.77%) CSS
7 46 (10.11%) React
8 31 (6.81%) Blazor
9 29 (6.37%) REST
10 26 (5.71%) Entity Framework
10 26 (5.71%) RESTful
11 23 (5.05%) Web Services
12 22 (4.84%) ASP.NET MVC
12 22 (4.84%) XML
13 19 (4.18%) JSON
14 17 (3.74%) ASP.NET Web API
15 16 (3.52%) SOAP
16 10 (2.20%) ASP.NET Core
16 10 (2.20%) jQuery
17 9 (1.98%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.05%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.52%) Legacy Applications
3 15 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (2.64%) Mobile App
4 12 (2.64%) Wiki
5 11 (2.42%) Public Cloud
6 7 (1.54%) IoT
7 6 (1.32%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.10%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.10%) NHS
8 5 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.88%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.88%) Low-Code
9 4 (0.88%) Mainframe
9 4 (0.88%) PKI
10 3 (0.66%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.66%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 39 (8.57%) Linux
2 23 (5.05%) Windows
3 11 (2.42%) Android
4 9 (1.98%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.76%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.32%) Unix
7 4 (0.88%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.44%) VMS
8 2 (0.44%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.22%) Debian
9 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (30.33%) DevOps
2 131 (28.79%) Agile
3 76 (16.70%) Problem-Solving
4 70 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 66 (14.51%) MVC
6 61 (13.41%) OO
7 57 (12.53%) Microservices
8 53 (11.65%) Full Stack Development
9 38 (8.35%) Deployment Automation
9 38 (8.35%) Test Automation
10 37 (8.13%) Scrum
11 34 (7.47%) Software Engineering
12 32 (7.03%) OOP
13 31 (6.81%) Continuous Integration
13 31 (6.81%) TDD
14 30 (6.59%) Configuration Management
15 29 (6.37%) Task Automation
16 25 (5.49%) SOLID
17 23 (5.05%) Infrastructure Automation
17 23 (5.05%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 267 (58.68%) C#
2 106 (23.30%) SQL
3 83 (18.24%) JavaScript
4 64 (14.07%) PowerShell
5 47 (10.33%) Python
6 33 (7.25%) Java
7 31 (6.81%) TypeScript
8 18 (3.96%) C
8 18 (3.96%) VB.NET
9 14 (3.08%) C++
10 9 (1.98%) Bicep
10 9 (1.98%) PHP
11 8 (1.76%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.54%) Ruby
12 7 (1.54%) VBA
13 5 (1.10%) Bash
13 5 (1.10%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.88%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.66%) Perl
15 3 (0.66%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 81 (17.80%) Security Cleared
2 64 (14.07%) SC Cleared
3 24 (5.27%) Degree
4 13 (2.86%) DV Cleared
5 8 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (0.88%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.66%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
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%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.62%) QA
2 6 (1.32%) Accessibility
2 6 (1.32%) SLA
3 5 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (0.66%) GDPR
4 3 (0.66%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (0.44%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.22%) HL7
6 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (4.84%) Docker
2 17 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.42%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.32%) vSphere
7 2 (0.44%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (9.45%) Ansible
2 24 (5.27%) PowerCLI
3 21 (4.62%) Terraform
4 18 (3.96%) Kubernetes
5 10 (2.20%) SCOM
6 9 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.32%) SCCM
8 5 (1.10%) WSUS
9 4 (0.88%) Puppet
10 1 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.22%) Argo
10 1 (0.22%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.22%) Istio
10 1 (0.22%) linkerd
10 1 (0.22%) OPNET
10 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.22%) SELinux
10 1 (0.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 72 (15.82%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.49%) Atlassian
3 22 (4.84%) Dell
3 22 (4.84%) HP
4 20 (4.40%) Oracle
5 16 (3.52%) VMware
6 9 (1.98%) SAP
7 7 (1.54%) Xamarin
8 6 (1.32%) F5
9 5 (1.10%) Google
10 4 (0.88%) IBM
11 3 (0.66%) Nintex
11 3 (0.66%) Pega
11 3 (0.66%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.66%) Sitecore
11 3 (0.66%) Wind River
12 2 (0.44%) Atmel
12 2 (0.44%) OutSystems
12 2 (0.44%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.44%) ServiceNow