.NET Developer Contract Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 296 195
Rank change year-on-year -119 -101 -35
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 197 234 537
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.76% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.82% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 186 436
10th Percentile £379 £339 £306
25th Percentile £425 £395 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £483
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.55% -11.47%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £650
90th Percentile £675 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £400
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 38,243 28,404 41,374
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.82% 92.82% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,036 17,847 27,236
10th Percentile £310 £293 £275
25th Percentile £409 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.32% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,330 852 2,355
10th Percentile £14.64 £16.25 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.30
Median hourly rate £33.50 £34.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% -0.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -3.08% -7.14% -6.67%

.NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring '.NET Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

.NET Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in the UK

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Developer over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Developer in the UK

.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in the UK

.NET Developer
Top 16 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 Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 February 2026. 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 -126 150 £515 +3.00% 218
London -74 100 £550 +5.26% 60
Work from Home -45 66 £475 +5.56% 189
UK excluding London -101 58 £450 - 185
North of England -58 18 £450 -5.26% 61
Scotland +13 13 £438 - 6
North West -31 13 £450 -5.26% 34
East of England -20 9 £450 +5.88% 19
Midlands -50 9 £499 +2.31% 18
South East -50 6 £534 +19.42% 57
West Midlands -47 5 £488 +2.63% 11
East Midlands -18 4 £510 +2.00% 7
Yorkshire -61 4 £513 -2.38% 19
Wales -6 2 £450 +127.85% 4
South West -33 2 £550 -15.38% 20
North East -14 1 - - 9

.NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 February 2026, .NET Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring .NET Developer in the job title.

1 197 (100.00%) .NET
2 154 (78.17%) C#
3 110 (55.84%) Azure
4 78 (39.59%) SQL
5 73 (37.06%) DevOps
6 68 (34.52%) Agile
6 68 (34.52%) CI/CD
7 64 (32.49%) SQL Server
8 50 (25.38%) .NET Framework
9 46 (23.35%) .NET Core
10 44 (22.34%) Full-Stack Development
11 40 (20.30%) Azure DevOps
12 37 (18.78%) AngularJS
13 32 (16.24%) Microsoft
13 32 (16.24%) React
13 32 (16.24%) RESTful
14 31 (15.74%) Microservices
15 30 (15.23%) ASP.NET
15 30 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
16 25 (12.69%) HTML
16 25 (12.69%) Scrum
17 24 (12.18%) AI
17 24 (12.18%) AWS
17 24 (12.18%) Python
17 24 (12.18%) Security Cleared
17 24 (12.18%) Test Automation
18 23 (11.68%) Unit Testing
19 22 (11.17%) Entity Framework
19 22 (11.17%) REST
20 21 (10.66%) Design Patterns

.NET Developer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.54%) Confluence
2 4 (2.03%) IIS
3 3 (1.52%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.02%) CMS
4 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.51%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Endur
1 2 (1.02%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 110 (55.84%) Azure
2 40 (20.30%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (12.18%) AWS
4 20 (10.15%) Serverless
5 18 (9.14%) Azure Service Bus
6 17 (8.63%) GitHub
7 14 (7.11%) Azure Functions
8 13 (6.60%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (6.09%) Power Platform
10 11 (5.58%) Azure Key Vault
11 10 (5.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 8 (4.06%) Entra ID
13 7 (3.55%) Azure AKS
13 7 (3.55%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (3.55%) PaaS
14 6 (3.05%) GCP
15 4 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
15 4 (2.03%) Cloud Functions
15 4 (2.03%) Cloud Run
16 3 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.03%) DNS
2 3 (1.52%) DHCP
2 3 (1.52%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.02%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (32.49%) SQL Server
2 15 (7.61%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (7.61%) Relational Database
3 8 (4.06%) Power BI
4 7 (3.55%) Oracle Database
5 5 (2.54%) Redis
6 4 (2.03%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.03%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.02%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.51%) MySQL
8 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (6.60%) Git
2 11 (5.58%) SpecFlow
3 10 (5.08%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.06%) NUnit
5 7 (3.55%) JIRA
5 7 (3.55%) MSTest
6 5 (2.54%) Visual Studio
7 4 (2.03%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (1.02%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.02%) Jasmine
8 2 (1.02%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (1.02%) Selenium
8 2 (1.02%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.51%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.51%) JMeter
9 1 (0.51%) Mocha
9 1 (0.51%) Moq
9 1 (0.51%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.51%) tSQLt
General
1 45 (22.84%) Finance
2 33 (16.75%) Public Sector
2 33 (16.75%) Social Skills
3 26 (13.20%) Banking
4 11 (5.58%) Front Office
5 9 (4.57%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.57%) Investment Banking
6 8 (4.06%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.52%) Back Office
7 3 (1.52%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.51%) Advertising
9 1 (0.51%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.51%) Retail
9 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (100.00%) .NET
2 50 (25.38%) .NET Framework
3 46 (23.35%) .NET Core
4 37 (18.78%) AngularJS
5 32 (16.24%) React
5 32 (16.24%) RESTful
6 30 (15.23%) ASP.NET
7 25 (12.69%) HTML
8 22 (11.17%) Entity Framework
8 22 (11.17%) REST
9 16 (8.12%) WPF
10 13 (6.60%) ASP.NET Web API
10 13 (6.60%) CSS
11 12 (6.09%) ASP.NET Core
12 8 (4.06%) ASP.NET MVC
12 8 (4.06%) NHibernate
12 8 (4.06%) Playwright
12 8 (4.06%) Web Services
12 8 (4.06%) WinForms
12 8 (4.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.12%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.11%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (7.11%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.06%) Credit Risk
4 7 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.55%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.05%) Market Risk
6 5 (2.54%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.54%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.03%) IoT
7 4 (2.03%) Wiki
8 3 (1.52%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.52%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.52%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.52%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.51%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.63%) Windows
2 6 (3.05%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.51%) Android
3 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (37.06%) DevOps
2 68 (34.52%) Agile
2 68 (34.52%) CI/CD
3 44 (22.34%) Full-Stack Development
4 31 (15.74%) Microservices
5 30 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (12.69%) Scrum
7 24 (12.18%) AI
7 24 (12.18%) Test Automation
8 23 (11.68%) Unit Testing
9 21 (10.66%) Design Patterns
9 21 (10.66%) MVC
10 20 (10.15%) SDLC
11 17 (8.63%) Clean Code
12 15 (7.61%) OOP
13 14 (7.11%) Infrastructure as Code
13 14 (7.11%) Software Engineering
14 13 (6.60%) Migration
14 13 (6.60%) TDD
15 11 (5.58%) OO
Programming Languages
1 154 (78.17%) C#
2 78 (39.59%) SQL
3 24 (12.18%) Python
4 19 (9.64%) JavaScript
5 12 (6.09%) T-SQL
6 10 (5.08%) PL/SQL
7 8 (4.06%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.55%) Bicep
9 5 (2.54%) Java
10 4 (2.03%) C++
10 4 (2.03%) PHP
11 3 (1.52%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.52%) VB
11 3 (1.52%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.02%) VBA
13 1 (0.51%) Delphi
13 1 (0.51%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.51%) Swift
13 1 (0.51%) VB6
Qualifications
1 24 (12.18%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.66%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.58%) Degree
4 3 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.52%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.61%) QA
2 3 (1.52%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.02%) WCAG
4 1 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.51%) HL7
4 1 (0.51%) MiFID
System Software
1 16 (8.12%) Docker
2 5 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (8.63%) Terraform
2 14 (7.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.51%) Ansible
Vendors
1 32 (16.24%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.15%) Oracle
3 7 (3.55%) Google
4 4 (2.03%) Citrix
5 3 (1.52%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.52%) ION Trading
5 3 (1.52%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.52%) VMware
5 3 (1.52%) Xamarin
6 2 (1.02%) NEC
7 1 (0.51%) Adobe
7 1 (0.51%) Databricks
7 1 (0.51%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.51%) SAP
7 1 (0.51%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.51%) Sybase
7 1 (0.51%) Temenos
7 1 (0.51%) Xero