.NET Developer Contract Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer daily rate in the UK is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026.

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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 300 237
Rank change year-on-year -123 -63 -60
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 212 240 423
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.82% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.89% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 192 348
10th Percentile £368 £332 £306
25th Percentile £425 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% - -7.32%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £628
90th Percentile £675 £813 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £438 £375
% change year-on-year +6.86% +16.67% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +32.65%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +23.81%

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 44,544 26,886 39,472
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 92.37% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,258 17,494 25,719
10th Percentile £325 £293 £280
25th Percentile £413 £405 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -3.23%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.86% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,901 1,057 2,674
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.83
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.69 £27.99 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.50% -23.32% -18.89%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £26.34 £40.00
% change year-on-year +70.88% -34.16% -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 21 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 14 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 21 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 -127 166 £550 +10.00% 195
UK excluding London -71 96 £468 +6.86% 160
London -118 80 £575 +10.58% 46
Work from Home -77 76 £500 +2.56% 172
North of England -51 31 £500 +19.40% 55
South East -53 23 £450 +8.43% 49
Midlands -42 21 £550 +10.55% 15
East Midlands -14 16 £575 +15.00% 8
Yorkshire -40 16 £588 +11.90% 12
North West -32 15 £450 +9.09% 29
Scotland -3 10 £425 -5.56% 3
Wales -4 6 £450 - 4
South West -32 6 £450 -31.30% 10
West Midlands -55 5 £488 -1.52% 7

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

For the 6 months to 21 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.

1 212 (100.00%) .NET
2 160 (75.47%) C#
3 115 (54.25%) Azure
4 96 (45.28%) CI/CD
5 77 (36.32%) DevOps
6 73 (34.43%) SQL
7 68 (32.08%) Agile
7 68 (32.08%) SQL Server
8 49 (23.11%) .NET Framework
9 47 (22.17%) Azure DevOps
10 44 (20.75%) Microservices
11 42 (19.81%) .NET Core
11 42 (19.81%) RESTful
12 40 (18.87%) Full-Stack Development
13 39 (18.40%) Microsoft
14 38 (17.92%) ASP.NET
15 35 (16.51%) React
16 34 (16.04%) JavaScript
17 33 (15.57%) AngularJS
17 33 (15.57%) Security Cleared
18 31 (14.62%) SC Cleared
19 29 (13.68%) HTML
19 29 (13.68%) Python
19 29 (13.68%) REST
20 28 (13.21%) AWS
20 28 (13.21%) Kubernetes
21 27 (12.74%) Docker
21 27 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
22 24 (11.32%) Test Automation
23 23 (10.85%) Serverless

.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 6 (2.83%) IIS
2 4 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.42%) Apache Superset
3 3 (1.42%) CMS
4 2 (0.94%) Confluence
4 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.47%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 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
1 115 (54.25%) Azure
2 47 (22.17%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (13.21%) AWS
4 23 (10.85%) Serverless
5 22 (10.38%) Azure Service Bus
5 22 (10.38%) GitHub
6 17 (8.02%) Azure Functions
7 14 (6.60%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (5.19%) Azure Key Vault
9 10 (4.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 10 (4.72%) Power Platform
10 8 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (3.77%) GCP
11 6 (2.83%) Azure AKS
11 6 (2.83%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.36%) Azure API Management
12 5 (2.36%) Power Automate
13 4 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (1.89%) Cloud Functions
13 4 (1.89%) Cloud Run
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (32.08%) SQL Server
2 21 (9.91%) Relational Database
3 12 (5.66%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.30%) Power BI
5 6 (2.83%) Redis
6 5 (2.36%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.89%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.89%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.42%) DocumentDB
8 3 (1.42%) Metabase
8 3 (1.42%) Parquet
8 3 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.94%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.47%) MS Access
10 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (7.55%) Git
2 13 (6.13%) NUnit
3 8 (3.77%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.77%) MSTest
4 7 (3.30%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.36%) SpecFlow
6 4 (1.89%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.42%) Jasmine
7 3 (1.42%) Karma Test Runner
7 3 (1.42%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.42%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.94%) GitLab
8 2 (0.94%) JIRA
8 2 (0.94%) Moq
8 2 (0.94%) Selenium
9 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.47%) Mocha
9 1 (0.47%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.47%) webpack
General
1 38 (17.92%) Finance
2 30 (14.15%) Social Skills
3 29 (13.68%) Public Sector
4 19 (8.96%) Banking
5 13 (6.13%) Front Office
6 10 (4.72%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.36%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.42%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.94%) Automotive
10 2 (0.94%) Back Office
10 2 (0.94%) Legal
10 2 (0.94%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.47%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.47%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.47%) Military
11 1 (0.47%) Police
11 1 (0.47%) Retail
11 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (100.00%) .NET
2 49 (23.11%) .NET Framework
3 42 (19.81%) .NET Core
3 42 (19.81%) RESTful
4 38 (17.92%) ASP.NET
5 35 (16.51%) React
6 33 (15.57%) AngularJS
7 29 (13.68%) HTML
7 29 (13.68%) REST
8 19 (8.96%) Entity Framework
9 17 (8.02%) ASP.NET Web API
10 14 (6.60%) CSS
11 12 (5.66%) ASP.NET Core
12 11 (5.19%) ASP.NET MVC
13 10 (4.72%) OAuth
14 8 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
15 7 (3.30%) HTML5
15 7 (3.30%) OAuth2
15 7 (3.30%) YAML
16 6 (2.83%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.02%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.66%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.30%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.36%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.36%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.89%) IoT
7 4 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.89%) Wiki
8 3 (1.42%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.42%) Derivative
8 3 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.42%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.94%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.94%) NHS
9 2 (0.94%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.47%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.77%) Windows
2 3 (1.42%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (45.28%) CI/CD
2 77 (36.32%) DevOps
3 68 (32.08%) Agile
4 44 (20.75%) Microservices
5 40 (18.87%) Full-Stack Development
6 27 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (11.32%) Test Automation
8 20 (9.43%) Scrum
9 19 (8.96%) AI
10 18 (8.49%) SOLID
10 18 (8.49%) TDD
10 18 (8.49%) Unit Testing
11 16 (7.55%) Event-Driven
11 16 (7.55%) MVC
12 15 (7.08%) Containerisation
13 14 (6.60%) Clean Code
13 14 (6.60%) SDLC
14 13 (6.13%) Mentoring
14 13 (6.13%) Performance Tuning
14 13 (6.13%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 160 (75.47%) C#
2 73 (34.43%) SQL
3 34 (16.04%) JavaScript
4 29 (13.68%) Python
5 18 (8.49%) TypeScript
6 15 (7.08%) T-SQL
7 7 (3.30%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.83%) Bicep
9 5 (2.36%) Java
10 3 (1.42%) C++
10 3 (1.42%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.42%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.42%) Rust
11 2 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.94%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.47%) Bash
12 1 (0.47%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.47%) VBA
12 1 (0.47%) VBScript
12 1 (0.47%) XPath
Qualifications
1 33 (15.57%) Security Cleared
2 31 (14.62%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.25%) Degree
4 4 (1.89%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.42%) 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 15 (7.08%) QA
2 4 (1.89%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.94%) WCAG
4 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.47%) HL7
4 1 (0.47%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (12.74%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (13.21%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.38%) Terraform
3 2 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (18.40%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.91%) Oracle
3 7 (3.30%) Citrix
3 7 (3.30%) Google
4 3 (1.42%) ION Trading
4 3 (1.42%) Xamarin
5 2 (0.94%) NEC
5 2 (0.94%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.94%) SAP
6 1 (0.47%) Adobe
6 1 (0.47%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.47%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.47%) Temenos
6 1 (0.47%) Xero