.NET Developer Contract Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer daily rate in the UK is £481, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 290 187
Rank change year-on-year -116 -103 -39
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 180 259 543
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.82% 1.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.88% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 206 440
10th Percentile £375 £325 £307
25th Percentile £403 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £480 £495
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% -3.03% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £638 £694 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £408
% change year-on-year - +10.43% -14.21%
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 34,674 29,426 40,527
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.44% 92.86% 93.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,946 18,016 26,864
10th Percentile £300 £288 £275
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.31% -4.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,058 877 1,975
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.91 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -17.83% +13.00%
75th Percentile £60.60 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.85 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.59 £31.64 £40.28
% change year-on-year -19.11% -21.44% +34.25%

.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 23 January 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 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 23 January 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 -103 146 £500 -4.31% 251
London -79 94 £515 -9.49% 64
Work from Home -54 62 £494 +16.18% 223
UK excluding London -65 59 £450 - 208
South East -25 14 £494 +9.72% 73
Scotland +10 12 £438 - 6
East of England -16 12 £425 -12.37% 26
North of England -56 11 £450 -10.00% 57
Midlands -49 7 £499 +19.46% 26
North West -29 6 £443 -11.50% 37
East Midlands -27 4 £510 +42.66% 12
Yorkshire -49 4 £513 +2.50% 13
West Midlands -47 3 £488 - 14
Wales -1 2 £450 +127.85% 5
South West -12 2 £550 +0.92% 17
North East -13 1 - - 7

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

For the 6 months to 23 January 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.

1 180 (100.00%) .NET
2 138 (76.67%) C#
3 100 (55.56%) Azure
4 70 (38.89%) SQL
5 61 (33.89%) DevOps
6 60 (33.33%) SQL Server
7 58 (32.22%) Agile
8 51 (28.33%) CI/CD
9 50 (27.78%) .NET Framework
10 43 (23.89%) .NET Core
11 41 (22.78%) Full-Stack Development
12 37 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
14 32 (17.78%) Microservices
15 28 (15.56%) Microsoft
16 27 (15.00%) AngularJS
17 25 (13.89%) ASP.NET
18 24 (13.33%) RESTful
19 23 (12.78%) AWS
19 23 (12.78%) React
20 22 (12.22%) Oracle
21 21 (11.67%) Windows
22 20 (11.11%) Entity Framework
22 20 (11.11%) WPF
23 19 (10.56%) AI
23 19 (10.56%) Python
23 19 (10.56%) Scrum
23 19 (10.56%) SDLC
24 18 (10.00%) Serverless
25 17 (9.44%) Clean Code

.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 (4.44%) Confluence
2 4 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.67%) IIS
4 2 (1.11%) CMS
4 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.56%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.56%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 7 (3.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.11%) Endur
1 2 (1.11%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 100 (55.56%) Azure
2 36 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (12.78%) AWS
4 18 (10.00%) Serverless
5 13 (7.22%) Azure Functions
5 13 (7.22%) Azure Service Bus
5 13 (7.22%) GitHub
6 10 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 9 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (4.44%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (4.44%) PaaS
8 8 (4.44%) Power Platform
9 7 (3.89%) Azure AKS
10 6 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (2.78%) Entra ID
12 4 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (1.67%) Azure Event Grid
13 3 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.22%) DNS
2 3 (1.67%) DHCP
2 3 (1.67%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.11%) HTTP
4 1 (0.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.22%) Relational Database
3 12 (6.67%) Oracle Database
4 11 (6.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (2.78%) Power BI
6 4 (2.22%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.22%) Redis
7 3 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.11%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.56%) MySQL
9 1 (0.56%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (5.00%) Git
1 9 (5.00%) JIRA
1 9 (5.00%) SpecFlow
2 7 (3.89%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.78%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.11%) MSTest
5 2 (1.11%) NUnit
5 2 (1.11%) Selenium
6 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.56%) JMeter
6 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
General
1 48 (26.67%) Finance
2 35 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 27 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 24 (13.33%) Banking
5 8 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.44%) Financial Institution
5 8 (4.44%) Investment Banking
6 6 (3.33%) Front Office
7 3 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.67%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.56%) Advertising
8 1 (0.56%) Back Office
8 1 (0.56%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (100.00%) .NET
2 50 (27.78%) .NET Framework
3 43 (23.89%) .NET Core
4 27 (15.00%) AngularJS
5 25 (13.89%) ASP.NET
6 24 (13.33%) RESTful
7 23 (12.78%) React
8 20 (11.11%) Entity Framework
8 20 (11.11%) WPF
9 15 (8.33%) REST
10 14 (7.78%) HTML
11 10 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
11 10 (5.56%) CSS
12 9 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
13 8 (4.44%) NHibernate
13 8 (4.44%) Playwright
13 8 (4.44%) Web Services
13 8 (4.44%) WinForms
14 7 (3.89%) Middleware
15 6 (3.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.44%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (4.44%) Credit Risk
4 8 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (3.33%) Market Risk
6 5 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.78%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.78%) Wiki
7 4 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.67%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.67%) IoT
8 3 (1.67%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.11%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.11%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.56%) NHS
10 1 (0.56%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.67%) Windows
2 6 (3.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.56%) Android
3 1 (0.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (33.89%) DevOps
2 58 (32.22%) Agile
3 51 (28.33%) CI/CD
4 41 (22.78%) Full-Stack Development
5 37 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (17.78%) Microservices
7 19 (10.56%) AI
7 19 (10.56%) Scrum
7 19 (10.56%) SDLC
8 17 (9.44%) Clean Code
8 17 (9.44%) Unit Testing
9 16 (8.89%) MVC
9 16 (8.89%) Test Automation
10 14 (7.78%) Design Patterns
10 14 (7.78%) Migration
11 13 (7.22%) Software Engineering
12 12 (6.67%) OO
12 12 (6.67%) OOP
13 11 (6.11%) Event-Driven
14 10 (5.56%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 138 (76.67%) C#
2 70 (38.89%) SQL
3 19 (10.56%) Python
4 14 (7.78%) PL/SQL
5 13 (7.22%) T-SQL
6 10 (5.56%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.44%) VB
7 8 (4.44%) VB.NET
8 7 (3.89%) VBA
9 6 (3.33%) Bicep
9 6 (3.33%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.22%) PHP
11 3 (1.67%) C++
11 3 (1.67%) Java
11 3 (1.67%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.56%) Cypher
13 1 (0.56%) Delphi
13 1 (0.56%) Go
13 1 (0.56%) VB6
Qualifications
1 16 (8.89%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.78%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.44%) Degree
4 4 (2.22%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.67%) QA
2 2 (1.11%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.11%) WCAG
3 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.56%) HL7
3 1 (0.56%) MiFID
System Software
1 13 (7.22%) Docker
2 4 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (6.11%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.56%) Terraform
3 1 (0.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.22%) Oracle
3 3 (1.67%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.67%) Citrix
3 3 (1.67%) OpenAI
3 3 (1.67%) VMware
4 2 (1.11%) Google
4 2 (1.11%) ION Trading
4 2 (1.11%) NEC
4 2 (1.11%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.56%) Adobe
5 1 (0.56%) Databricks
5 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.56%) Sybase
5 1 (0.56%) Temenos