.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 3 October 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 334 235
Rank change year-on-year -137 -99 -43
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 239 227 401
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.68% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.75% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 171 319
10th Percentile £405 £340 £323
25th Percentile £425 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £544 £625
90th Percentile £681 £675 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £47.69 - -
25th Percentile £49.03 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £65.00
75th Percentile £65.88 - -
90th Percentile £73.15 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.40 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +30.00%

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 50,556 30,128 35,360
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.16% 90.91% 92.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,767 19,028 21,436
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £636 £623 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,987 1,619 1,546
10th Percentile £14.45 £13.75 £14.85
25th Percentile £19.78 £17.27 £20.75
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £42.96
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -41.45% -3.47%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.31 £74.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.00 £25.08 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.50% -41.69% -2.27%

.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 3 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing .NET Developer over the 6 months to 3 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for .NET Developer 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 3 October 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 -104 204 £500 +5.26% 349
UK excluding London -83 110 £450 -2.70% 276
London -92 96 £572 +20.42% 104
Work from Home -78 87 £518 +3.60% 284
North of England -54 31 £450 +3.45% 75
Yorkshire -13 28 £450 -14.29% 27
Midlands -41 24 £500 -0.50% 46
South East -62 23 £400 -4.53% 72
East Midlands -8 18 £563 +10.29% 14
South West -25 17 £425 -22.73% 17
East of England -20 9 £525 +20.00% 35
West Midlands -41 6 £425 -14.14% 32
Wales -9 4 £600 - 10
North West -53 3 £358 -14.25% 36
Scotland -35 1 - - 18
Channel Islands - 1 £450 -

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

For the 6 months to 3 October 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.

1 239 (100.00%) .NET
2 172 (71.97%) C#
3 113 (47.28%) Azure
4 99 (41.42%) CI/CD
5 85 (35.56%) SQL Server
6 81 (33.89%) SQL
7 74 (30.96%) Agile
8 69 (28.87%) DevOps
9 64 (26.78%) Microsoft
10 63 (26.36%) .NET Core
11 61 (25.52%) REST
12 60 (25.10%) .NET Framework
13 57 (23.85%) ASP.NET
14 54 (22.59%) Full-Stack Development
15 49 (20.50%) Azure DevOps
15 49 (20.50%) Microservices
16 48 (20.08%) AWS
17 43 (17.99%) RESTful
17 43 (17.99%) SC Cleared
17 43 (17.99%) Security Cleared
18 40 (16.74%) Kubernetes
19 39 (16.32%) Docker
20 38 (15.90%) Git
21 37 (15.48%) Test Automation
22 36 (15.06%) JavaScript
23 31 (12.97%) AngularJS
23 31 (12.97%) Code Quality
24 30 (12.55%) GitHub
24 30 (12.55%) Software Engineering
25 29 (12.13%) Problem-Solving

.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 15 (6.28%) Confluence
2 9 (3.77%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.93%) IIS
4 2 (0.84%) CMS
4 2 (0.84%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.42%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.42%) nginx
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (2.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.42%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 113 (47.28%) Azure
2 49 (20.50%) Azure DevOps
3 48 (20.08%) AWS
4 30 (12.55%) GitHub
5 16 (6.69%) Azure Service Bus
6 15 (6.28%) Serverless
7 10 (4.18%) Azure Functions
7 10 (4.18%) Azure Key Vault
7 10 (4.18%) Power Platform
8 9 (3.77%) Azure AKS
8 9 (3.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (3.35%) PaaS
10 6 (2.51%) Azure App Service
10 6 (2.51%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (2.51%) Power Automate
11 5 (2.09%) GitHub Copilot
12 4 (1.67%) Azure API Management
12 4 (1.67%) Azure Storage
12 4 (1.67%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.42%) Broadband
1 1 (0.42%) Internet
1 1 (0.42%) OpenVPN
1 1 (0.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (35.56%) SQL Server
2 17 (7.11%) Relational Database
3 15 (6.28%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (4.60%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (3.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (3.35%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.51%) MS Access
7 6 (2.51%) Power BI
8 5 (2.09%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.67%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (1.26%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.26%) Db2
10 3 (1.26%) DocumentDB
11 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.84%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.84%) Redis
11 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.42%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.42%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.42%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 38 (15.90%) Git
2 17 (7.11%) Jenkins
3 16 (6.69%) JIRA
4 13 (5.44%) Visual Studio
5 11 (4.60%) GitLab
6 7 (2.93%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (2.51%) REST Assured
7 6 (2.51%) SpecFlow
8 4 (1.67%) MSI
8 4 (1.67%) NUnit
8 4 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.26%) Fiddler
9 3 (1.26%) Postman
10 2 (0.84%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.42%) MSTest
11 1 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.42%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 50 (20.92%) Finance
2 40 (16.74%) Social Skills
3 22 (9.21%) Banking
4 20 (8.37%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.77%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.35%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.35%) Front Office
8 4 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.67%) Legal
8 4 (1.67%) Local Government
9 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.84%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.42%) Automotive
10 1 (0.42%) Law
10 1 (0.42%) Military
10 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.42%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 239 (100.00%) .NET
2 63 (26.36%) .NET Core
3 61 (25.52%) REST
4 60 (25.10%) .NET Framework
5 57 (23.85%) ASP.NET
6 43 (17.99%) RESTful
7 31 (12.97%) AngularJS
8 29 (12.13%) React
9 28 (11.72%) WPF
10 24 (10.04%) Entity Framework
11 22 (9.21%) Web Services
12 21 (8.79%) WinForms
13 20 (8.37%) ASP.NET Core
14 17 (7.11%) ASP.NET Web API
14 17 (7.11%) Terraform
15 16 (6.69%) Kafka
16 14 (5.86%) JSON
17 13 (5.44%) HTML
18 12 (5.02%) ASP.NET MVC
18 12 (5.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.13%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.53%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (6.69%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (4.60%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.77%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.93%) Legacy Code
7 6 (2.51%) Legacy Applications
7 6 (2.51%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.09%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.67%) Replication
9 4 (1.67%) Wiki
10 3 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.84%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 1 (0.42%) Derivative
12 1 (0.42%) Life Science
12 1 (0.42%) Market Risk
12 1 (0.42%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.37%) Windows
2 4 (1.67%) Linux
3 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (41.42%) CI/CD
2 74 (30.96%) Agile
3 69 (28.87%) DevOps
4 54 (22.59%) Full-Stack Development
5 49 (20.50%) Microservices
6 37 (15.48%) Test Automation
7 31 (12.97%) Code Quality
8 30 (12.55%) Software Engineering
9 29 (12.13%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (10.88%) API Development
11 25 (10.46%) Containerisation
11 25 (10.46%) Scrum
12 24 (10.04%) Event-Driven
13 23 (9.62%) AI
14 22 (9.21%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (8.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 20 (8.37%) Mentoring
17 19 (7.95%) Deployment Automation
17 19 (7.95%) Design Patterns
17 19 (7.95%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 172 (71.97%) C#
2 81 (33.89%) SQL
3 36 (15.06%) JavaScript
4 26 (10.88%) Python
4 26 (10.88%) TypeScript
5 20 (8.37%) T-SQL
6 18 (7.53%) PL/SQL
7 10 (4.18%) Bicep
7 10 (4.18%) VB.NET
8 9 (3.77%) VBA
9 6 (2.51%) VBScript
10 5 (2.09%) XAML
11 4 (1.67%) Java
11 4 (1.67%) VB
11 4 (1.67%) XPath
12 2 (0.84%) VB6
13 1 (0.42%) Bash
13 1 (0.42%) C
13 1 (0.42%) C++
13 1 (0.42%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 43 (17.99%) SC Cleared
1 43 (17.99%) Security Cleared
2 6 (2.51%) Degree
3 4 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (1.67%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.67%) PhD
4 3 (1.26%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.84%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.86%) QA
2 6 (2.51%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.09%) NCSC
3 5 (2.09%) WCAG
4 2 (0.84%) Basel III
4 2 (0.84%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.84%) GDPR
5 1 (0.42%) GMP
5 1 (0.42%) GxP
5 1 (0.42%) ITGC
System Software
1 39 (16.32%) Docker
2 9 (3.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (16.74%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.51%) Ansible
3 3 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.84%) Kibana
Vendors
1 64 (26.78%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.46%) Oracle
3 7 (2.93%) Citrix
4 5 (2.09%) Centrify
4 5 (2.09%) CyberArk
5 3 (1.26%) DevExpress
5 3 (1.26%) IBM
6 2 (0.84%) Adyen
6 2 (0.84%) Databricks
7 1 (0.42%) InterSystems
7 1 (0.42%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.42%) SAP
7 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.42%) Snow
7 1 (0.42%) Syncfusion
7 1 (0.42%) Telerik
7 1 (0.42%) WSO2