.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 11 May 2026.

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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 300 225
Rank change year-on-year -120 -75 -49
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 209 237 438
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.81% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.87% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 193 359
10th Percentile £375 £334 £306
25th Percentile £425 £400 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -8.65%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £676 £813 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £425 £375
% change year-on-year +14.71% +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% +30.00%
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 43,945 27,196 39,894
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 92.49% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,960 17,736 25,958
10th Percentile £319 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.68% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,864 1,058 2,674
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.37 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £44.25 £28.51 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +55.24% -23.66% -17.02%
75th Percentile £67.25 £62.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.59 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +65.76% -31.25% -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 11 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 11 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 -135 165 £550 +9.84% 203
UK excluding London -62 87 £488 +14.71% 155
London -104 85 £575 +9.52% 60
Work from Home -57 73 £500 +2.56% 181
North of England -46 33 £500 +19.40% 50
Yorkshire -37 18 £588 +11.90% 10
Midlands -53 18 £550 +10.55% 19
South East -61 18 £488 +17.47% 46
North West -35 15 £450 +9.09% 26
East Midlands -22 14 £575 +15.00% 9
Scotland +5 10 £425 -2.86% 5
South West -32 5 £588 -10.31% 13
Wales -9 4 £450 - 4
West Midlands -59 4 £519 +4.80% 10

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 209 (100.00%) .NET
2 160 (76.56%) C#
3 113 (54.07%) Azure
4 92 (44.02%) CI/CD
5 77 (36.84%) DevOps
6 73 (34.93%) SQL
7 72 (34.45%) SQL Server
8 70 (33.49%) Agile
9 51 (24.40%) .NET Framework
10 48 (22.97%) Azure DevOps
11 43 (20.57%) .NET Core
11 43 (20.57%) Microservices
12 41 (19.62%) Full-Stack Development
13 40 (19.14%) RESTful
14 36 (17.22%) Microsoft
15 35 (16.75%) ASP.NET
15 35 (16.75%) React
16 33 (15.79%) AngularJS
17 32 (15.31%) Security Cleared
18 31 (14.83%) REST
19 30 (14.35%) JavaScript
19 30 (14.35%) SC Cleared
20 29 (13.88%) Python
21 28 (13.40%) AWS
21 28 (13.40%) HTML
21 28 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
22 26 (12.44%) Kubernetes
23 25 (11.96%) Docker
24 24 (11.48%) Test Automation
25 22 (10.53%) Azure Service Bus

.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 (2.87%) IIS
2 4 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.44%) Apache Superset
3 3 (1.44%) CMS
3 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.96%) Confluence
5 1 (0.48%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Endur
1 2 (0.96%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 113 (54.07%) Azure
2 48 (22.97%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (13.40%) AWS
4 22 (10.53%) Azure Service Bus
4 22 (10.53%) GitHub
4 22 (10.53%) Serverless
5 16 (7.66%) Azure Functions
6 14 (6.70%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (5.74%) Azure Key Vault
7 12 (5.74%) Power Platform
8 8 (3.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (3.83%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (3.83%) GCP
9 7 (3.35%) Entra ID
10 6 (2.87%) Azure AKS
11 4 (1.91%) Azure API Management
11 4 (1.91%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (1.91%) Cloud Run
11 4 (1.91%) n8n
11 4 (1.91%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.48%) DHCP
1 1 (0.48%) DNS
1 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (34.45%) SQL Server
2 21 (10.05%) Relational Database
3 12 (5.74%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.31%) Power BI
5 6 (2.87%) Redis
6 5 (2.39%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.91%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.91%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.44%) Metabase
8 3 (1.44%) Parquet
9 2 (0.96%) DocumentDB
9 2 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.96%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 15 (7.18%) Git
2 11 (5.26%) NUnit
3 8 (3.83%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.83%) MSTest
4 6 (2.87%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.39%) SpecFlow
6 4 (1.91%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.44%) Jasmine
7 3 (1.44%) JIRA
7 3 (1.44%) Karma Test Runner
7 3 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.44%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.96%) GitLab
8 2 (0.96%) Moq
8 2 (0.96%) Selenium
9 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.48%) Postman
9 1 (0.48%) Serilog
9 1 (0.48%) tSQLt
9 1 (0.48%) webpack
General
1 41 (19.62%) Finance
2 34 (16.27%) Social Skills
3 32 (15.31%) Public Sector
4 22 (10.53%) Banking
5 13 (6.22%) Front Office
6 11 (5.26%) Investment Banking
7 7 (3.35%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.39%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.44%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.96%) Back Office
11 1 (0.48%) Automotive
11 1 (0.48%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.48%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.48%) Military
11 1 (0.48%) Police
11 1 (0.48%) Retail
11 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (100.00%) .NET
2 51 (24.40%) .NET Framework
3 43 (20.57%) .NET Core
4 40 (19.14%) RESTful
5 35 (16.75%) ASP.NET
5 35 (16.75%) React
6 33 (15.79%) AngularJS
7 31 (14.83%) REST
8 28 (13.40%) HTML
9 18 (8.61%) Entity Framework
10 15 (7.18%) ASP.NET Web API
10 15 (7.18%) CSS
11 12 (5.74%) ASP.NET Core
12 11 (5.26%) ASP.NET MVC
13 9 (4.31%) OAuth
14 8 (3.83%) RabbitMQ
15 7 (3.35%) HTML5
15 7 (3.35%) OAuth2
15 7 (3.35%) WPF
15 7 (3.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.66%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (5.74%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.78%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.35%) AI Agents
5 6 (2.87%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.91%) IoT
7 4 (1.91%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.91%) Wiki
8 3 (1.44%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.44%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.44%) Derivative
8 3 (1.44%) Market Risk
8 3 (1.44%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.96%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.96%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.26%) Windows
2 5 (2.39%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (44.02%) CI/CD
2 77 (36.84%) DevOps
3 70 (33.49%) Agile
4 43 (20.57%) Microservices
5 41 (19.62%) Full-Stack Development
6 28 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (11.48%) Test Automation
8 19 (9.09%) AI
8 19 (9.09%) MVC
8 19 (9.09%) Scrum
9 17 (8.13%) SDLC
9 17 (8.13%) TDD
9 17 (8.13%) Unit Testing
10 16 (7.66%) Design Patterns
10 16 (7.66%) SOLID
11 15 (7.18%) Containerisation
11 15 (7.18%) Event-Driven
12 14 (6.70%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (6.22%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (6.22%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 160 (76.56%) C#
2 73 (34.93%) SQL
3 30 (14.35%) JavaScript
4 29 (13.88%) Python
5 18 (8.61%) TypeScript
6 16 (7.66%) T-SQL
7 7 (3.35%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.87%) Bicep
9 5 (2.39%) Java
10 4 (1.91%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.44%) C++
11 3 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.44%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.44%) Rust
12 1 (0.48%) Bash
12 1 (0.48%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 32 (15.31%) Security Cleared
2 30 (14.35%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.31%) Degree
4 5 (2.39%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.18%) QA
2 4 (1.91%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.96%) WCAG
4 1 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.48%) HL7
4 1 (0.48%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (11.96%) Docker
2 2 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (12.44%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.05%) Terraform
3 2 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (17.22%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.61%) Oracle
3 7 (3.35%) Citrix
3 7 (3.35%) Google
4 3 (1.44%) ION Trading
4 3 (1.44%) Xamarin
5 2 (0.96%) NEC
5 2 (0.96%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.48%) Adobe
6 1 (0.48%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.48%) SAP
6 1 (0.48%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.48%) Sybase
6 1 (0.48%) Temenos
6 1 (0.48%) VMware
6 1 (0.48%) Xero