.NET Developer Contract Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026.

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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 303 244
Rank change year-on-year -130 -59 -60
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 213 230 419
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.80% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.87% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 185 347
10th Percentile £364 £330 £306
25th Percentile £422 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £675 £828 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £375
% change year-on-year +11.76% +13.33% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +36.84%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +18.18%

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 45,155 26,550 39,743
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.33% 92.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,543 17,231 25,865
10th Percentile £325 £290 £280
25th Percentile £413 £405 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,003 1,045 2,776
10th Percentile £15.01 £14.00 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.50 £17.87 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.50 £27.99 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +51.84% -24.72% -17.38%
75th Percentile £66.38 £59.90 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.61 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +73.38% -37.13% -5.88%

.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 29 May 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 15 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 29 May 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 -134 171 £549 +9.75% 171
UK excluding London -63 100 £475 +11.76% 144
Work from Home -57 77 £500 - 148
London -129 77 £580 +11.54% 38
North of England -53 31 £500 +21.21% 53
Midlands -39 25 £550 +10.55% 13
South East -45 25 £425 +2.41% 43
East Midlands -12 18 £575 +41.45% 6
Yorkshire -40 17 £588 +11.90% 11
North West -27 14 £450 +10.77% 30
West Midlands -55 7 £460 -9.80% 7
Wales -7 6 £450 - 3
Scotland -10 6 £400 -11.11% 4
South West -30 6 £450 -31.30% 8
East of England -28 2 - - 20

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 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.

1 213 (100.00%) .NET
2 158 (74.18%) C#
3 116 (54.46%) Azure
4 97 (45.54%) CI/CD
5 76 (35.68%) DevOps
6 75 (35.21%) SQL
7 68 (31.92%) Agile
8 66 (30.99%) SQL Server
9 46 (21.60%) .NET Framework
10 45 (21.13%) Azure DevOps
11 43 (20.19%) Microservices
11 43 (20.19%) Microsoft
12 42 (19.72%) RESTful
13 41 (19.25%) .NET Core
14 39 (18.31%) Full-Stack Development
15 38 (17.84%) ASP.NET
16 34 (15.96%) Security Cleared
17 33 (15.49%) AngularJS
17 33 (15.49%) JavaScript
18 32 (15.02%) SC Cleared
19 31 (14.55%) React
19 31 (14.55%) REST
20 30 (14.08%) AWS
21 29 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
21 29 (13.62%) Python
22 28 (13.15%) HTML
23 27 (12.68%) Kubernetes
24 26 (12.21%) Docker
25 24 (11.27%) Test Automation
26 23 (10.80%) Oracle

.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 (2.35%) IIS
2 4 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.41%) Apache Superset
3 3 (1.41%) CMS
4 2 (0.94%) Confluence
4 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.47%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Endur
1 2 (0.94%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 116 (54.46%) Azure
2 45 (21.13%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (14.08%) AWS
4 23 (10.80%) Serverless
5 22 (10.33%) GitHub
6 21 (9.86%) Azure Service Bus
7 17 (7.98%) Azure Functions
8 13 (6.10%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (4.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 10 (4.69%) Azure Key Vault
9 10 (4.69%) Power Platform
10 8 (3.76%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (3.76%) GCP
11 6 (2.82%) Azure AKS
11 6 (2.82%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.35%) Azure API Management
12 5 (2.35%) Power Automate
13 4 (1.88%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (1.88%) Cloud Functions
13 4 (1.88%) Cloud Run
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (30.99%) SQL Server
2 19 (8.92%) Relational Database
3 13 (6.10%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.29%) Power BI
5 6 (2.82%) Redis
6 4 (1.88%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.88%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.88%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.41%) DocumentDB
7 3 (1.41%) Metabase
7 3 (1.41%) Parquet
7 3 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.94%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.94%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.47%) MS Access
9 1 (0.47%) MySQL
9 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (8.45%) Git
2 13 (6.10%) NUnit
3 8 (3.76%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.76%) MSTest
4 7 (3.29%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.35%) SpecFlow
6 4 (1.88%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.41%) GitLab
7 3 (1.41%) Jasmine
7 3 (1.41%) Karma Test Runner
7 3 (1.41%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.41%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.94%) JIRA
8 2 (0.94%) Moq
8 2 (0.94%) Selenium
8 2 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.47%) Mocha
9 1 (0.47%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.47%) webpack
General
1 37 (17.37%) Finance
2 29 (13.62%) Social Skills
3 25 (11.74%) Public Sector
4 17 (7.98%) Banking
5 14 (6.57%) Front Office
6 10 (4.69%) Investment Banking
7 7 (3.29%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.88%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.88%) Legal
9 3 (1.41%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.94%) Automotive
10 2 (0.94%) Back Office
10 2 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.94%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.47%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.47%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.47%) Military
11 1 (0.47%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.47%) Retail
11 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (100.00%) .NET
2 46 (21.60%) .NET Framework
3 42 (19.72%) RESTful
4 41 (19.25%) .NET Core
5 38 (17.84%) ASP.NET
6 33 (15.49%) AngularJS
7 31 (14.55%) React
7 31 (14.55%) REST
8 28 (13.15%) HTML
9 19 (8.92%) Entity Framework
10 15 (7.04%) ASP.NET Web API
11 14 (6.57%) ASP.NET Core
11 14 (6.57%) CSS
12 10 (4.69%) OAuth
13 9 (4.23%) ASP.NET MVC
14 8 (3.76%) RabbitMQ
14 8 (3.76%) XML
14 8 (3.76%) YAML
15 7 (3.29%) HTML5
15 7 (3.29%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.98%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (5.16%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.29%) AI Agents
3 7 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.35%) Fixed Income
4 5 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.88%) IoT
5 4 (1.88%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.41%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.41%) Derivative
6 3 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.41%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.41%) Wiki
7 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.94%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.94%) NHS
7 2 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.47%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.47%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.29%) Windows
2 2 (0.94%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (45.54%) CI/CD
2 76 (35.68%) DevOps
3 68 (31.92%) Agile
4 43 (20.19%) Microservices
5 39 (18.31%) Full-Stack Development
6 29 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (11.27%) Test Automation
8 21 (9.86%) Scrum
9 20 (9.39%) Unit Testing
10 19 (8.92%) AI
11 18 (8.45%) SOLID
11 18 (8.45%) TDD
12 15 (7.04%) Containerisation
12 15 (7.04%) Event-Driven
13 14 (6.57%) Clean Code
13 14 (6.57%) MVC
14 13 (6.10%) Design Patterns
14 13 (6.10%) Infrastructure as Code
14 13 (6.10%) Mentoring
14 13 (6.10%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 158 (74.18%) C#
2 75 (35.21%) SQL
3 33 (15.49%) JavaScript
4 29 (13.62%) Python
5 18 (8.45%) TypeScript
6 14 (6.57%) T-SQL
7 6 (2.82%) Bicep
7 6 (2.82%) Java
7 6 (2.82%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.88%) VB.NET
8 4 (1.88%) VBA
9 3 (1.41%) C++
9 3 (1.41%) MATLAB
9 3 (1.41%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.41%) Rust
10 2 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.47%) Bash
11 1 (0.47%) Swift
11 1 (0.47%) VB
11 1 (0.47%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 34 (15.96%) Security Cleared
2 32 (15.02%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.23%) Degree
4 4 (1.88%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.10%) QA
2 3 (1.41%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.94%) WCAG
4 1 (0.47%) Basel III
4 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.47%) HL7
4 1 (0.47%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (12.21%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (12.68%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.33%) Terraform
3 3 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (20.19%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.80%) Oracle
3 7 (3.29%) Google
4 6 (2.82%) Citrix
5 3 (1.41%) ION Trading
5 3 (1.41%) Xamarin
6 2 (0.94%) NEC
6 2 (0.94%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.94%) SAP
7 1 (0.47%) Adobe
7 1 (0.47%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.47%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.47%) Xero