.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 31 March 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 300 220
Rank change year-on-year -108 -80 -52
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 209 223 484
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.77% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.83% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 190 397
10th Percentile £373 £340 £304
25th Percentile £425 £395 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £638
90th Percentile £675 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £454 £442 £375
% change year-on-year +2.77% +17.80% -21.05%
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 40,988 26,987 41,095
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.05% 92.82% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,540 17,745 26,925
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.67%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.11% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,566 944 2,532
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.02 £12.86
25th Percentile £19.72 £20.92 £16.25
Median hourly rate £38.63 £32.50 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +18.86% -1.20% -25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.91 £71.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £31.88 £32.90
% change year-on-year +25.47% -3.09% -21.32%

.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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -131 164 £525 +5.00% 221
London -105 93 £563 +8.43% 65
UK excluding London -78 80 £454 +2.77% 169
Work from Home -53 70 £488 +7.14% 201
North of England -51 29 £460 +2.22% 54
North West -26 15 £450 +4.35% 32
Yorkshire -43 14 £500 -4.76% 16
South East -59 14 £517 +16.57% 48
Scotland +6 12 £425 - 5
Midlands -57 11 £519 +3.75% 19
East of England -29 9 £450 +5.88% 21
East Midlands -31 7 £475 -5.00% 9
South West -27 4 £588 -2.08% 19
West Midlands -53 4 £519 +6.41% 10
Wales -10 2 £450 +127.85% 4

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

For the 6 months to 31 March 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
2 156 (74.64%) C#
3 124 (59.33%) Azure
4 83 (39.71%) CI/CD
5 81 (38.76%) DevOps
6 80 (38.28%) SQL
7 70 (33.49%) SQL Server
8 69 (33.01%) Agile
9 49 (23.44%) Azure DevOps
10 47 (22.49%) .NET Core
10 47 (22.49%) .NET Framework
11 44 (21.05%) Full-Stack Development
12 42 (20.10%) RESTful
13 38 (18.18%) AngularJS
13 38 (18.18%) Microsoft
14 36 (17.22%) React
15 35 (16.75%) ASP.NET
16 33 (15.79%) Microservices
17 32 (15.31%) Security Cleared
18 30 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
18 30 (14.35%) SC Cleared
19 29 (13.88%) Python
20 28 (13.40%) HTML
20 28 (13.40%) REST
21 26 (12.44%) Test Automation
22 25 (11.96%) JavaScript
23 24 (11.48%) AWS
23 24 (11.48%) Serverless
24 22 (10.53%) Azure Service Bus
25 21 (10.05%) Kubernetes

.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%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.39%) IIS
3 4 (1.91%) CMS
3 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.96%) Apache Superset
4 2 (0.96%) Confluence
5 1 (0.48%) Orchard CMS
5 1 (0.48%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Endur
1 2 (0.96%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 124 (59.33%) Azure
2 49 (23.44%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (11.48%) AWS
3 24 (11.48%) Serverless
4 22 (10.53%) Azure Service Bus
5 19 (9.09%) Azure Functions
6 16 (7.66%) GitHub
7 14 (6.70%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (5.74%) Azure Key Vault
9 11 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 11 (5.26%) Power Platform
10 10 (4.78%) Entra ID
11 9 (4.31%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (4.31%) PaaS
12 7 (3.35%) Azure AKS
13 6 (2.87%) GCP
14 5 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
15 4 (1.91%) Azure App Service
15 4 (1.91%) Azure WebJobs
15 4 (1.91%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.44%) DNS
2 2 (0.96%) DHCP
2 2 (0.96%) HTTP
2 2 (0.96%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (33.49%) SQL Server
2 17 (8.13%) Azure SQL Database
2 17 (8.13%) Relational Database
3 8 (3.83%) Power BI
4 7 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.35%) Redis
5 5 (2.39%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.91%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.91%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.96%) Metabase
7 2 (0.96%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.96%) Parquet
7 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.48%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (8.61%) Git
2 10 (4.78%) NUnit
3 9 (4.31%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.83%) MSTest
5 6 (2.87%) Visual Studio
6 5 (2.39%) SpecFlow
7 4 (1.91%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.91%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (1.44%) Jasmine
8 3 (1.44%) JIRA
8 3 (1.44%) Karma Test Runner
8 3 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.96%) Selenium
10 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.48%) JMeter
10 1 (0.48%) Mocha
10 1 (0.48%) Moq
10 1 (0.48%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.48%) tSQLt
General
1 39 (18.66%) Finance
2 34 (16.27%) Social Skills
3 33 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 26 (12.44%) Banking
5 14 (6.70%) Front Office
6 12 (5.74%) Investment Banking
7 9 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (3.83%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.44%) Back Office
9 3 (1.44%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.96%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.48%) Advertising
11 1 (0.48%) Automotive
11 1 (0.48%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.48%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.48%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (100.00%) .NET
2 47 (22.49%) .NET Core
2 47 (22.49%) .NET Framework
3 42 (20.10%) RESTful
4 38 (18.18%) AngularJS
5 36 (17.22%) React
6 35 (16.75%) ASP.NET
7 28 (13.40%) HTML
7 28 (13.40%) REST
8 16 (7.66%) ASP.NET Core
8 16 (7.66%) Entity Framework
9 15 (7.18%) CSS
10 14 (6.70%) ASP.NET Web API
11 11 (5.26%) WPF
12 9 (4.31%) ASP.NET MVC
12 9 (4.31%) WinForms
13 8 (3.83%) HTML5
13 8 (3.83%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (3.83%) Web Services
13 8 (3.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.66%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.70%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.78%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.83%) Credit Risk
5 6 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.87%) Fixed Income
5 6 (2.87%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.87%) Market Risk
6 5 (2.39%) IoT
6 5 (2.39%) Wiki
7 4 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.44%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.44%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.44%) Derivative
8 3 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.44%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.96%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.96%) NHS
9 2 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.22%) Windows
2 6 (2.87%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (39.71%) CI/CD
2 81 (38.76%) DevOps
3 69 (33.01%) Agile
4 44 (21.05%) Full-Stack Development
5 33 (15.79%) Microservices
6 30 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (12.44%) Test Automation
8 20 (9.57%) AI
8 20 (9.57%) Design Patterns
8 20 (9.57%) MVC
8 20 (9.57%) Unit Testing
9 19 (9.09%) Scrum
9 19 (9.09%) SDLC
10 14 (6.70%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (6.70%) OOP
10 14 (6.70%) TDD
11 13 (6.22%) Clean Code
11 13 (6.22%) User Experience
12 12 (5.74%) Software Engineering
12 12 (5.74%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 156 (74.64%) C#
2 80 (38.28%) SQL
3 29 (13.88%) Python
4 25 (11.96%) JavaScript
5 14 (6.70%) T-SQL
6 13 (6.22%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.87%) Bicep
7 6 (2.87%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.39%) Java
8 5 (2.39%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.91%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.44%) C++
11 2 (0.96%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.96%) Rust
12 1 (0.48%) Delphi
12 1 (0.48%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.48%) Swift
12 1 (0.48%) VB
12 1 (0.48%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.48%) VB6
Qualifications
1 32 (15.31%) Security Cleared
2 30 (14.35%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.78%) Degree
4 4 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.91%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.70%) 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%) MiFID
System Software
1 19 (9.09%) Docker
2 3 (1.44%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (10.05%) Kubernetes
2 20 (9.57%) Terraform
3 1 (0.48%) Ansible
3 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.13%) Oracle
3 7 (3.35%) Google
4 5 (2.39%) Citrix
5 3 (1.44%) ION Trading
5 3 (1.44%) Xamarin
6 2 (0.96%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.96%) NEC
6 2 (0.96%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.96%) VMware
7 1 (0.48%) Adobe
7 1 (0.48%) Databricks
7 1 (0.48%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.48%) SAP
7 1 (0.48%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.48%) Sybase
7 1 (0.48%) Temenos
7 1 (0.48%) Xero