.NET Architect Contracts

Microsoft .NET Architect
UK

The median Microsoft .NET Architect daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
7 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 668 792
Rank change year-on-year +99 +124 -139
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Architect 16 25 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.043% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.045% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 41
10th Percentile £516 £519 £525
25th Percentile £559 £565 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £663 £650
Median % change year-on-year -13.21% +1.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £658 £766 £700
90th Percentile £743 £796 £809
UK excluding London median daily rate £590 £565 £644
% change year-on-year +4.42% -12.23% +43.06%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,719 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,839 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,655 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

.NET Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured .NET Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Architect in the UK

.NET Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Architect.

Daily rate trend for .NET Architect in the UK

.NET Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Architect over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Architect in the UK

.NET Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Architect.

Hourly rate trend for .NET Architect in the UK

.NET Architect
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
England +101 16 £575 -14.81% 5
London +85 12 £575 -20.69% 2
UK excluding London +68 4 £590 +4.42% 4
South East - 4 £590 - 2
Work from Home +117 3 £525 -27.59% 6

.NET Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, .NET Architect 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 featuring .NET Architect in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) .NET
2 11 (68.75%) C#
3 8 (50.00%) AWS
3 8 (50.00%) .NET Core
4 7 (43.75%) Analytics
4 7 (43.75%) JavaScript
4 7 (43.75%) SQL
4 7 (43.75%) Software Engineering
5 6 (37.50%) TypeScript
5 6 (37.50%) React
5 6 (37.50%) Azure
6 5 (31.25%) Data Governance
6 5 (31.25%) Machine Learning
6 5 (31.25%) T-SQL
6 5 (31.25%) CSS
6 5 (31.25%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (31.25%) LLM
7 4 (25.00%) Java
7 4 (25.00%) Banking
8 3 (18.75%) Agile
8 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET
9 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
9 2 (12.50%) Git
9 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
9 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
9 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
9 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
9 2 (12.50%) C++
9 2 (12.50%) Windows
9 2 (12.50%) Linux

.NET Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (6.25%) CMS
1 1 (6.25%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) NuGet
4 1 (6.25%) Azure API Management
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (6.25%) dbt
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) PaaS
4 1 (6.25%) SaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Arrow
2 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.25%) Big Data
2 1 (6.25%) Dremio
2 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
2 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (100.00%) .NET
2 8 (50.00%) .NET Core
3 6 (37.50%) React
4 5 (31.25%) CSS
5 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET
6 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
6 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
7 1 (6.25%) FHIR
7 1 (6.25%) gRPC
7 1 (6.25%) JSON
7 1 (6.25%) OAuth
7 1 (6.25%) OpenID
7 1 (6.25%) Protocol Buffers
7 1 (6.25%) Redux
7 1 (6.25%) REST
7 1 (6.25%) RESTful
7 1 (6.25%) SOAP
7 1 (6.25%) WPF
7 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Equities
2 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.25%) Derivative
2 1 (6.25%) Fixed Income
2 1 (6.25%) Hedge funds
2 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (6.25%) Synthetic Equity
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Analytics
1 7 (43.75%) Software Engineering
2 5 (31.25%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (31.25%) Data Governance
2 5 (31.25%) LLM
2 5 (31.25%) Machine Learning
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
4 2 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (12.50%) Dependency Injection
4 2 (12.50%) Microservices
4 2 (12.50%) Portfolio Analytics
4 2 (12.50%) Quantitative Research
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Debt
4 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 1 (6.25%) Application Security
5 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
5 1 (6.25%) Design Patterns
5 1 (6.25%) Roadmaps
5 1 (6.25%) Technology Transformation
5 1 (6.25%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) C#
2 7 (43.75%) JavaScript
2 7 (43.75%) SQL
3 6 (37.50%) TypeScript
4 5 (31.25%) T-SQL
5 4 (25.00%) Java
6 2 (12.50%) C++
7 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
7 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) DICOM
1 1 (6.25%) HL7
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Sitecore
2 1 (6.25%) Virgin Media
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