.NET Developer Contracts

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 223 186
Rank change year-on-year -94 -37 -38
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 243 454 787
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.76% 1.05% 1.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 1.13% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 379 638
10th Percentile £332 £313 £363
25th Percentile £400 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £813 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £415 £450
% change year-on-year +8.43% -7.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £35.40
25th Percentile £55.00 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +30.00% -20.06%
75th Percentile £65.00 - -
90th Percentile - - £60.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +30.00% -18.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 29,261 40,308 53,403
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 92.99% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,659 25,937 37,084
10th Percentile £287 £285 £313
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,318 2,814 1,558
10th Percentile £13.75 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.65 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £38.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.47% -10.47% +70.13%
75th Percentile £55.25 £63.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.90 £74.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £39.55
% change year-on-year -37.13% +1.14% +96.47%

.NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET Developer in the UK

.NET Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for .NET Developer in the UK

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Developer over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Developer in the UK

.NET Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET Developer in the UK

.NET Developer
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 5 July 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
England -72 195 £500 -3.85% 593
London -50 146 £523 -9.13% 194
Work from Home -26 102 £525 +16.67% 470
UK excluding London -28 60 £450 +8.43% 426
South East +24 20 £445 -6.32% 121
Scotland -9 10 £450 +5.88% 11
North of England -22 10 £419 +4.69% 125
Midlands +3 8 £313 -22.72% 62
North West -13 7 £400 -3.03% 67
South West +30 6 £655 +87.14% 45
West Midlands +5 4 £495 +17.16% 39
East Midlands 0 4 £269 -29.21% 23
Yorkshire -4 3 £525 +40.00% 42
East of England +20 2 £425 +21.43% 48
Wales 0 2 £600 +41.18% 12
Northern Ireland - 2 £325 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 5 July 2025, .NET Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 243 (100.00%) .NET
2 200 (82.30%) C#
3 112 (46.09%) Azure
4 111 (45.68%) SQL
5 101 (41.56%) Agile
6 88 (36.21%) Finance
6 88 (36.21%) .NET Framework
7 86 (35.39%) DevOps
8 81 (33.33%) .NET Core
9 61 (25.10%) CI/CD
9 61 (25.10%) AWS
10 58 (23.87%) SQL Server
11 53 (21.81%) AngularJS
12 51 (20.99%) Social Skills
12 51 (20.99%) JavaScript
13 50 (20.58%) Oracle
13 50 (20.58%) Azure DevOps
14 47 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
14 47 (19.34%) Microsoft
15 46 (18.93%) Full-Stack Development
16 45 (18.52%) TDD
17 43 (17.70%) Microservices
17 43 (17.70%) Docker
18 40 (16.46%) Kubernetes
19 37 (15.23%) Windows
20 36 (14.81%) PL/SQL
21 35 (14.40%) OO
21 35 (14.40%) RESTful
21 35 (14.40%) Design Patterns
22 34 (13.99%) Analytical Skills

.NET Developer 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 5 (2.06%) Umbraco
2 2 (0.82%) CMS
2 2 (0.82%) Confluence
2 2 (0.82%) IIS
2 2 (0.82%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.41%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.41%) EPiServer
3 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 22 (9.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.41%) Eikon
1 1 (0.41%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.41%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 112 (46.09%) Azure
2 61 (25.10%) AWS
3 50 (20.58%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (7.00%) Serverless
5 10 (4.12%) Azure Functions
5 10 (4.12%) Entra ID
6 9 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (3.70%) GCP
7 8 (3.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 8 (3.29%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (2.88%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (2.06%) SaaS
10 4 (1.65%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.65%) Azure App Service
10 4 (1.65%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (1.65%) Azure Storage
10 4 (1.65%) GitHub
11 3 (1.23%) Azure API Management
11 3 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (0.82%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (23.87%) SQL Server
2 20 (8.23%) Oracle Database
3 18 (7.41%) Relational Database
4 17 (7.00%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (6.58%) NoSQL
6 14 (5.76%) MongoDB
7 13 (5.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (3.29%) MySQL
10 4 (1.65%) Redis
11 3 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.82%) DocumentDB
13 1 (0.41%) ClickHouse
13 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.41%) Metadata
13 1 (0.41%) MS Access
13 1 (0.41%) Parquet
13 1 (0.41%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (9.47%) Git
2 21 (8.64%) JIRA
3 10 (4.12%) NUnit
4 7 (2.88%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.88%) Visual Studio
5 6 (2.47%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (1.65%) MSTest
7 2 (0.82%) Ant
7 2 (0.82%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.82%) GitLab
7 2 (0.82%) Maven
7 2 (0.82%) Subversion
7 2 (0.82%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.41%) JetBrains Rider
8 1 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 88 (36.21%) Finance
2 51 (20.99%) Social Skills
3 34 (13.99%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (13.17%) Public Sector
5 29 (11.93%) Front Office
6 17 (7.00%) Banking
7 8 (3.29%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.29%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.88%) Electronics
8 7 (2.88%) Marketing
9 5 (2.06%) Billing
10 4 (1.65%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.82%) Back Office
11 2 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.82%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.41%) Legal
12 1 (0.41%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (100.00%) .NET
2 88 (36.21%) .NET Framework
3 81 (33.33%) .NET Core
4 53 (21.81%) AngularJS
5 35 (14.40%) RESTful
6 33 (13.58%) ASP.NET
6 33 (13.58%) WPF
7 32 (13.17%) Entity Framework
8 31 (12.76%) React
9 29 (11.93%) HTML
10 28 (11.52%) CSS
11 21 (8.64%) Reactive Extensions
12 20 (8.23%) REST
13 17 (7.00%) ASP.NET Web API
14 13 (5.35%) Web Services
15 12 (4.94%) ASP.NET Core
16 11 (4.53%) Blazor
16 11 (4.53%) WCF
17 10 (4.12%) OAuth
17 10 (4.12%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.70%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.76%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (3.29%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.29%) Fixed Income
3 8 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.88%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.47%) Wiki
6 5 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.06%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.65%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.23%) Equities
8 3 (1.23%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.82%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.82%) Derivative
9 2 (0.82%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (0.82%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.82%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.82%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 37 (15.23%) Windows
2 5 (2.06%) Android
2 5 (2.06%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.65%) Linux
4 2 (0.82%) AIX
4 2 (0.82%) Unix
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (41.56%) Agile
2 86 (35.39%) DevOps
3 61 (25.10%) CI/CD
4 47 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (18.93%) Full-Stack Development
6 45 (18.52%) TDD
7 43 (17.70%) Microservices
8 35 (14.40%) Design Patterns
8 35 (14.40%) OO
9 32 (13.17%) Containerisation
10 30 (12.35%) Scrum
11 27 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (11.11%) User Experience
12 26 (10.70%) API Development
13 25 (10.29%) Test Automation
14 23 (9.47%) SOLID
15 21 (8.64%) BDD
16 20 (8.23%) Code Quality
16 20 (8.23%) MVC
17 16 (6.58%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 200 (82.30%) C#
2 111 (45.68%) SQL
3 51 (20.99%) JavaScript
4 36 (14.81%) PL/SQL
5 25 (10.29%) VBA
6 21 (8.64%) TypeScript
6 21 (8.64%) VB.NET
7 20 (8.23%) VB
8 15 (6.17%) Java
9 14 (5.76%) PowerShell
10 11 (4.53%) RPG
10 11 (4.53%) RPG IV
11 7 (2.88%) Python
12 5 (2.06%) Bicep
12 5 (2.06%) F#
12 5 (2.06%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.82%) C
13 2 (0.82%) C++
13 2 (0.82%) XAML
14 1 (0.41%) VB6
Qualifications
1 6 (2.47%) Security Cleared
2 5 (2.06%) Degree
3 4 (1.65%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.82%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.82%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.41%) MCAD
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.41%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.41%) Accessibility
2 13 (5.35%) QA
3 2 (0.82%) EMIR
3 2 (0.82%) NCSC
4 1 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.41%) HL7
4 1 (0.41%) MiFID
System Software
1 43 (17.70%) Docker
2 9 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (16.46%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.82%) Terraform
3 2 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (20.58%) Oracle
2 47 (19.34%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.29%) SAP
4 5 (2.06%) Databricks
4 5 (2.06%) Solace
5 4 (1.65%) TIBCO
5 4 (1.65%) Virgin Media
6 3 (1.23%) Sitecore
7 2 (0.82%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.82%) VMware
8 1 (0.41%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.41%) DevExpress
8 1 (0.41%) Google
8 1 (0.41%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.41%) Murex
8 1 (0.41%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.41%) Reuters
8 1 (0.41%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.41%) Splunk
8 1 (0.41%) Xamarin