.NET Developer Contract Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 248 190
Rank change year-on-year -116 -58 -48
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 207 352 631
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.97% 1.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 1.04% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 279 495
10th Percentile £363 £323 £350
25th Percentile £400 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £661
90th Percentile £648 £726 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
Median hourly rate £46.00 - £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.63%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 31,404 33,725 43,853
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 92.88% 93.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,903 20,327 29,840
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,775 1,275 1,525
10th Percentile £14.02 £15.08 £14.79
25th Percentile £17.60 £20.19 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.28 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.54% -17.16% +57.89%
75th Percentile £51.14 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £36.08 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.30% -18.92% +89.36%

.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 4 November 2025.

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 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 4 November 2025. 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 -119 173 £475 -9.52% 257
London -86 107 £475 -17.39% 67
Work from Home -43 79 £500 +17.65% 220
UK excluding London -40 70 £475 +5.56% 215
South East +2 19 £475 +5.56% 79
East of England -5 13 £450 -7.22% 25
Midlands -23 13 £495 +7.61% 27
North of England -50 10 £430 -4.44% 58
Scotland -5 9 £450 - 5
East Midlands -9 7 £510 +43.66% 13
West Midlands -25 6 £448 -5.79% 14
North West -29 6 £418 -7.22% 43
South West +1 5 £550 +25.00% 13
Yorkshire -29 3 £500 - 8
Wales -2 1 £600 +189.16% 8
North East -13 1 - - 8

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

For the 6 months to 4 November 2025, .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.

1 207 (100.00%) .NET
2 161 (77.78%) C#
3 105 (50.72%) Azure
4 93 (44.93%) SQL
5 84 (40.58%) Agile
6 77 (37.20%) DevOps
7 60 (28.99%) .NET Framework
8 58 (28.02%) SQL Server
9 57 (27.54%) CI/CD
10 52 (25.12%) .NET Core
11 45 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
11 45 (21.74%) Microservices
12 44 (21.26%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (17.39%) Full-Stack Development
13 36 (17.39%) Microsoft
14 35 (16.91%) AngularJS
14 35 (16.91%) Oracle
15 32 (15.46%) AWS
16 30 (14.49%) RESTful
17 28 (13.53%) ASP.NET
18 27 (13.04%) Scrum
19 26 (12.56%) TDD
19 26 (12.56%) WPF
20 25 (12.08%) JavaScript
21 24 (11.59%) CSS
21 24 (11.59%) Windows
22 23 (11.11%) PL/SQL
23 22 (10.63%) Clean Code
23 22 (10.63%) Entity Framework
24 21 (10.14%) OO

.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 8 (3.86%) Confluence
2 5 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.97%) CMS
4 1 (0.48%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.48%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.48%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.48%) Mendix
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.48%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 18 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) Eikon
2 1 (0.48%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 105 (50.72%) Azure
2 45 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (15.46%) AWS
4 15 (7.25%) GitHub
4 15 (7.25%) Serverless
5 12 (5.80%) Azure Service Bus
6 11 (5.31%) Azure Functions
7 10 (4.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 9 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (3.86%) Azure AKS
10 7 (3.38%) Entra ID
10 7 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (3.38%) PaaS
11 6 (2.90%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.93%) Azure Event Grid
12 4 (1.93%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (1.93%) Azure Pipelines
12 4 (1.93%) Figma
12 4 (1.93%) GCP
12 4 (1.93%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.45%) DNS
1 3 (1.45%) HTTP
2 2 (0.97%) DHCP
2 2 (0.97%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.48%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (28.02%) SQL Server
2 17 (8.21%) Oracle Database
3 15 (7.25%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.83%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (4.83%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.90%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.42%) MySQL
8 4 (1.93%) Redis
9 3 (1.45%) Power BI
10 2 (0.97%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.48%) Metadata
11 1 (0.48%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 12 (5.80%) JIRA
2 9 (4.35%) SpecFlow
3 7 (3.38%) Git
4 5 (2.42%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.42%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.45%) MSTest
5 3 (1.45%) NUnit
6 2 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.48%) GitLab
7 1 (0.48%) JetBrains Rider
7 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 66 (31.88%) Finance
2 35 (16.91%) Social Skills
3 33 (15.94%) Public Sector
4 16 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.31%) Banking
6 8 (3.86%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.90%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.42%) Electronics
8 5 (2.42%) Front Office
8 5 (2.42%) Marketing
9 3 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.97%) Back Office
10 2 (0.97%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Advertising
11 1 (0.48%) Automotive
11 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.48%) Legal
11 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.48%) Publishing
11 1 (0.48%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (100.00%) .NET
2 60 (28.99%) .NET Framework
3 52 (25.12%) .NET Core
4 35 (16.91%) AngularJS
5 30 (14.49%) RESTful
6 28 (13.53%) ASP.NET
7 26 (12.56%) WPF
8 24 (11.59%) CSS
9 22 (10.63%) Entity Framework
10 20 (9.66%) HTML
11 19 (9.18%) React
12 16 (7.73%) REST
13 14 (6.76%) ASP.NET Core
14 13 (6.28%) Blazor
15 11 (5.31%) Web Services
16 8 (3.86%) NHibernate
16 8 (3.86%) Playwright
17 7 (3.38%) ASP.NET Web API
17 7 (3.38%) Kafka
18 6 (2.90%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.21%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.28%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (2.90%) Legacy Applications
4 6 (2.90%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.42%) Hedge funds
6 4 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.93%) Wiki
7 3 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.45%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.45%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.45%) Market Risk
7 3 (1.45%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.97%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.97%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.59%) Windows
2 5 (2.42%) Android
3 4 (1.93%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.97%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.48%) AIX
5 1 (0.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (40.58%) Agile
2 77 (37.20%) DevOps
3 57 (27.54%) CI/CD
4 45 (21.74%) Microservices
5 44 (21.26%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (17.39%) Full-Stack Development
7 27 (13.04%) Scrum
8 26 (12.56%) TDD
9 22 (10.63%) Clean Code
10 21 (10.14%) OO
11 20 (9.66%) Migration
12 18 (8.70%) Design Patterns
12 18 (8.70%) User Experience
13 17 (8.21%) Unit Testing
14 16 (7.73%) Code Quality
14 16 (7.73%) Containerisation
14 16 (7.73%) SOLID
15 15 (7.25%) AI
16 14 (6.76%) BDD
16 14 (6.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 161 (77.78%) C#
2 93 (44.93%) SQL
3 25 (12.08%) JavaScript
4 23 (11.11%) PL/SQL
5 19 (9.18%) VBA
6 18 (8.70%) VB.NET
7 16 (7.73%) VB
8 12 (5.80%) Python
8 12 (5.80%) T-SQL
9 9 (4.35%) PowerShell
10 7 (3.38%) PHP
10 7 (3.38%) TypeScript
11 5 (2.42%) Bicep
12 2 (0.97%) Java
13 1 (0.48%) C++
13 1 (0.48%) Cypher
13 1 (0.48%) Go
13 1 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.48%) LotusScript
13 1 (0.48%) XAML
Qualifications
1 15 (7.25%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.83%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.90%) Degree
4 4 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.45%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.80%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.86%) QA
3 5 (2.42%) WCAG
4 3 (1.45%) EMIR
4 3 (1.45%) MiFID
5 1 (0.48%) NCSC
System Software
1 20 (9.66%) Docker
2 6 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (9.18%) Kubernetes
2 14 (6.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 35 (16.91%) Oracle
3 5 (2.42%) SAP
4 3 (1.45%) Databricks
4 3 (1.45%) VMware
5 2 (0.97%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.97%) CQG
5 2 (0.97%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.97%) TOWER Software
6 1 (0.48%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.48%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.48%) Kofax
6 1 (0.48%) Lotus
6 1 (0.48%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.48%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.48%) Reuters
6 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.48%) Solace
6 1 (0.48%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.48%) Xamarin