.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 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 90 56
Rank change year-on-year -29 -34 -17
Contract jobs citing .NET 283 459 865
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.19% 2.20% 3.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.78% 13.72% 20.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 333 681
10th Percentile £325 £300 £363
25th Percentile £385 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -7.22% +2.11%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £586
90th Percentile £600 £675 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £560
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.25% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 17 8
10th Percentile £23.18 £20.77 £41.75
25th Percentile £25.46 £22.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £29.25 £58.91 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.34% +7.10% +11.11%
75th Percentile £53.22 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.60 £85.00 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £28.13 £58.91 £53.99
% change year-on-year -52.25% +9.11% +8.53%

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 2,402 3,346 4,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.57% 16.05% 18.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,667 2,186 3,103
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £572 £608 £600
90th Percentile £638 £694 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -3.26% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 219 87
10th Percentile £33.59 £22.70 £22.39
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £51.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £48.43 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.21% -25.49% +18.18%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.38 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.45 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +23.81%

.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 3 June 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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -11 73 £425 -2.52% 435
South East +19 64 £475 -3.06% 302
Midlands +5 56 £490 +8.89% 232
North West -9 46 £413 -7.30% 268
Scotland -3 35 £475 +12.43% 69
West Midlands +10 31 £513 +6.49% 142
South West -19 31 £375 -35.90% 114
Yorkshire +2 26 £475 +13.16% 95
East Midlands +7 22 £490 +19.51% 86
East of England +4 13 £475 - 95
Wales -7 9 £525 +27.27% 22
Northern Ireland -7 4 £325 - 19
North East -3 1 £370 -1.33% 76
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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 12 (4.24%) IIS
2 11 (3.89%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.83%) Tomcat
3 8 (2.83%) Umbraco
4 6 (2.12%) Apache
5 5 (1.77%) BizTalk Server
5 5 (1.77%) CMS
6 4 (1.41%) nginx
7 2 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.71%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.71%) Confluence
7 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.35%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.35%) SAS
8 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) InfoPath
1 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (4.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.06%) Magento
2 3 (1.06%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.35%) Infor CloudSuite
3 1 (0.35%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 154 (54.42%) Azure
2 61 (21.55%) AWS
3 60 (21.20%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (9.54%) Serverless
5 24 (8.48%) Power Platform
6 23 (8.13%) SaaS
7 21 (7.42%) GCP
8 17 (6.01%) Azure Functions
9 15 (5.30%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (4.95%) Azure Logic Apps
11 13 (4.59%) Azure Service Bus
11 13 (4.59%) GitHub
12 12 (4.24%) Microsoft 365
12 12 (4.24%) PowerApps
13 10 (3.53%) Azure API Management
13 10 (3.53%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (3.18%) Power Automate
15 8 (2.83%) Entra ID
16 7 (2.47%) Azure AKS
16 7 (2.47%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.47%) Firewall
2 5 (1.77%) DNS
3 4 (1.41%) HTTP
3 4 (1.41%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.71%) Skype
4 2 (0.71%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.35%) FTP
5 1 (0.35%) Internet
5 1 (0.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (20.85%) SQL Server
2 26 (9.19%) Relational Database
3 16 (5.65%) MongoDB
3 16 (5.65%) MySQL
4 14 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (4.24%) NoSQL
5 12 (4.24%) Power BI
6 11 (3.89%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (1.77%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.41%) DocumentDB
9 4 (1.41%) GIS
9 4 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.06%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.06%) Tableau
11 2 (0.71%) Bigtable
11 2 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.71%) Metadata
11 2 (0.71%) MSDE
Development Applications
1 38 (13.43%) Git
2 14 (4.95%) Jenkins
2 14 (4.95%) JIRA
3 11 (3.89%) Postman
3 11 (3.89%) Selenium
3 11 (3.89%) Visual Studio
4 7 (2.47%) Cypress.io
4 7 (2.47%) Subversion
5 5 (1.77%) Babel
5 5 (1.77%) Cucumber
5 5 (1.77%) GitLab
5 5 (1.77%) WebDriver
5 5 (1.77%) webpack
6 4 (1.41%) Ant
6 4 (1.41%) Maven
6 4 (1.41%) SpecFlow
6 4 (1.41%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.41%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (1.06%) NUnit
7 3 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 66 (23.32%) Social Skills
2 48 (16.96%) Public Sector
3 43 (15.19%) Finance
4 17 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.30%) Manufacturing
6 13 (4.59%) Telecoms
7 12 (4.24%) Electronics
7 12 (4.24%) Marketing
8 10 (3.53%) Retail
9 7 (2.47%) Legal
10 6 (2.12%) Banking
10 6 (2.12%) Front Office
11 4 (1.41%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.41%) Law
11 4 (1.41%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (0.71%) French Language
12 2 (0.71%) Korean Language
12 2 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 146 (51.59%) Developer
2 61 (21.55%) .NET Developer
3 34 (12.01%) Architect
4 33 (11.66%) C# Developer
5 31 (10.95%) Senior
6 29 (10.25%) Software Engineer
7 23 (8.13%) Full-Stack Developer
8 20 (7.07%) Azure Developer
9 19 (6.71%) Solutions Architect
10 18 (6.36%) C# .NET Developer
10 18 (6.36%) Senior Developer
11 17 (6.01%) React Developer
12 16 (5.65%) Lead
13 13 (4.59%) DevOps Engineer
14 12 (4.24%) Azure Engineer
14 12 (4.24%) Senior .NET Developer
15 11 (3.89%) .NET Architect
15 11 (3.89%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 11 (3.89%) Software Developer
16 10 (3.53%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (18.37%) .NET Framework
2 51 (18.02%) .NET Core
2 51 (18.02%) React
3 50 (17.67%) HTML
4 45 (15.90%) CSS
5 36 (12.72%) AngularJS
6 33 (11.66%) ASP.NET
7 31 (10.95%) REST
8 23 (8.13%) RESTful
9 19 (6.71%) ASP.NET Web API
10 14 (4.95%) Entity Framework
11 12 (4.24%) Blazor
11 12 (4.24%) JSON
11 12 (4.24%) Node.js
12 11 (3.89%) ARM Templates
13 10 (3.53%) Web Services
14 9 (3.18%) ASP.NET MVC
15 8 (2.83%) HTML5
15 8 (2.83%) XML
16 7 (2.47%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.25%) Product Ownership
2 11 (3.89%) Management Information System
3 9 (3.18%) Wiki
4 8 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (2.83%) Legacy Applications
4 8 (2.83%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.47%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.12%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.77%) NHS
7 5 (1.77%) PKI
7 5 (1.77%) Replication
8 4 (1.41%) Derivative
8 4 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.41%) Equities
8 4 (1.41%) Equity Derivative
8 4 (1.41%) N-Tier
9 3 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.42%) Windows
2 15 (5.30%) Linux
3 10 (3.53%) Unix
4 8 (2.83%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.77%) AIX
6 3 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.71%) Android
7 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (37.81%) DevOps
2 93 (32.86%) Agile
3 91 (32.16%) CI/CD
4 60 (21.20%) Software Engineering
5 51 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (17.31%) Test Automation
7 48 (16.96%) Full-Stack Development
8 34 (12.01%) Microservices
9 30 (10.60%) Scrum
10 27 (9.54%) TDD
11 26 (9.19%) Containerisation
12 25 (8.83%) Business Intelligence
13 23 (8.13%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (7.77%) MVC
14 22 (7.77%) OO
14 22 (7.77%) User Experience
15 21 (7.42%) API Development
15 21 (7.42%) Mentoring
16 20 (7.07%) Migration
17 19 (6.71%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 176 (62.19%) C#
2 106 (37.46%) SQL
3 88 (31.10%) JavaScript
4 35 (12.37%) Python
5 31 (10.95%) PowerShell
6 22 (7.77%) Java
7 20 (7.07%) TypeScript
8 9 (3.18%) PHP
8 9 (3.18%) T-SQL
9 7 (2.47%) VB.NET
10 5 (1.77%) Bash
10 5 (1.77%) Bicep
10 5 (1.77%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.77%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.41%) VBA
12 3 (1.06%) C
12 3 (1.06%) C++
12 3 (1.06%) VB
12 3 (1.06%) VBScript
13 2 (0.71%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 30 (10.60%) Security Cleared
2 23 (8.13%) Degree
3 19 (6.71%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.24%) Azure Certification
4 12 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.77%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.41%) ISEB
7 4 (1.41%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.71%) PMP
9 2 (0.71%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.35%) IIBA
10 1 (0.35%) OCP
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.01%) QA
2 5 (1.77%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.41%) NCSC
4 2 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.71%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.35%) GDPR
5 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (9.54%) Docker
2 14 (4.95%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (14.13%) Kubernetes
2 36 (12.72%) Terraform
3 7 (2.47%) Ansible
4 5 (1.77%) Grafana
5 4 (1.41%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.41%) SCOM
6 3 (1.06%) Kibana
6 3 (1.06%) Puppet
6 3 (1.06%) WMI
7 2 (0.71%) CA Wily
7 2 (0.71%) Control-M
7 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.71%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.35%) OPNET
8 1 (0.35%) Perfmon
8 1 (0.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 79 (27.92%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.77%) Oracle
3 19 (6.71%) Google
4 13 (4.59%) SAP
5 8 (2.83%) Virgin Media
5 8 (2.83%) VMware
6 7 (2.47%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.77%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.41%) Sitecore
9 3 (1.06%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.06%) IBM
9 3 (1.06%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.71%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (0.71%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.71%) Mapbox
10 2 (0.71%) Splunk
11 1 (0.35%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.35%) HP
11 1 (0.35%) Infor
11 1 (0.35%) Xamarin