.NET Compact Framework Contract Job Trends

Microsoft .NET Compact Framework
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring .NET Compact Framework skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 582 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing .NET Compact Framework 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.003% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.013% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

.NET Compact Framework 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,819 8,045 10,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 23.05% 21.98% 22.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,176 5,093 7,606
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -1.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £670
90th Percentile £725 £779 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 133 191
10th Percentile £30.05 £25.15 £36.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £42.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.56
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +16.99% -14.52%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.25 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.77% +18.18% -15.38%

.NET Compact Framework
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing .NET Compact Framework relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

.NET Compact Framework job vacancy trend in the UK

.NET Compact Framework
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing .NET Compact Framework.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing .NET Compact Framework

.NET Compact Framework
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing .NET Compact Framework.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing .NET Compact Framework

.NET Compact Framework
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Compact Framework within the UK over the 6 months to 28 October 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
South West - 1 - - 2
England - 1 - - 2
UK excluding London - 1 - - 2

.NET Compact Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Android Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Xamarin