.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 July 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 313 234
Rank change year-on-year -97 -79 -43
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 240 239 451
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.76% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.83% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 189 375
10th Percentile £375 £348 £313
25th Percentile £424 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £695 £813 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £450 £415
% change year-on-year +2.22% +8.43% -7.78%
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 - - +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 47,626 28,777 40,436
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 92.02% 93.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,832 18,386 25,995
10th Percentile £325 £288 £285
25th Percentile £416 £401 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £494
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.85% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,230 1,296 2,846
10th Percentile £15.70 £13.93 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.49 £16.65
Median hourly rate £43.00 £26.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.26% -29.33% -12.79%
75th Percentile £67.50 £55.31 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.50 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -

.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 July 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 3 July 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 -108 199 £525 +5.00% 210
UK excluding London -48 115 £460 +2.22% 169
London -122 86 £588 +12.44% 60
Work from Home -64 84 £525 - 186
North of England -39 42 £460 +9.85% 61
Yorkshire -27 28 £490 -6.67% 20
Midlands -42 27 £500 +59.74% 16
South East -55 25 £420 -5.62% 57
East Midlands +2 20 £563 +109.11% 5
North West -35 14 £450 +12.50% 25
South West -24 8 £450 -31.30% 9
West Midlands -59 7 £460 -7.07% 11
Scotland -11 5 £394 -12.50% 3
East of England -19 5 - - 21
Wales -16 4 £600 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 3 July 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.

1 240 (100.00%) .NET
2 176 (73.33%) C#
3 125 (52.08%) Azure
4 107 (44.58%) CI/CD
5 83 (34.58%) SQL
6 80 (33.33%) Agile
7 79 (32.92%) SQL Server
8 78 (32.50%) DevOps
9 58 (24.17%) .NET Framework
10 52 (21.67%) Microsoft
11 50 (20.83%) Microservices
11 50 (20.83%) RESTful
12 48 (20.00%) .NET Core
13 47 (19.58%) ASP.NET
14 45 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
14 45 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
15 42 (17.50%) AWS
16 41 (17.08%) AngularJS
17 39 (16.25%) Security Cleared
18 38 (15.83%) Kubernetes
19 37 (15.42%) Docker
19 37 (15.42%) REST
19 37 (15.42%) SC Cleared
20 35 (14.58%) JavaScript
20 35 (14.58%) React
21 33 (13.75%) Test Automation
22 29 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
22 29 (12.08%) Python
23 28 (11.67%) GitHub
23 28 (11.67%) Scrum

.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 7 (2.92%) Confluence
2 5 (2.08%) IIS
3 4 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.25%) Apache Superset
4 3 (1.25%) CMS
5 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.42%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.42%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.42%) Endur
1 1 (0.42%) NEC Housing
1 1 (0.42%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 125 (52.08%) Azure
2 45 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 42 (17.50%) AWS
4 28 (11.67%) GitHub
5 21 (8.75%) Azure Service Bus
6 20 (8.33%) Serverless
7 13 (5.42%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (5.42%) Power Platform
8 12 (5.00%) Azure Functions
9 10 (4.17%) GCP
10 8 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (2.92%) Azure AKS
11 7 (2.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 6 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (2.50%) Entra ID
13 5 (2.08%) Power Automate
14 4 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (1.67%) Cloud Functions
14 4 (1.67%) Cloud Run
14 4 (1.67%) n8n
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (32.92%) SQL Server
2 23 (9.58%) Relational Database
3 16 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (4.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (4.17%) Power BI
6 6 (2.50%) Redis
7 4 (1.67%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.67%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.67%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.25%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.25%) DocumentDB
8 3 (1.25%) Metabase
8 3 (1.25%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.25%) MS Access
8 3 (1.25%) Parquet
8 3 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (9.58%) Git
2 13 (5.42%) NUnit
3 12 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.75%) MSTest
5 8 (3.33%) Visual Studio
6 7 (2.92%) JIRA
7 6 (2.50%) SpecFlow
8 5 (2.08%) GitLab
9 4 (1.67%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.25%) Jasmine
10 3 (1.25%) Karma Test Runner
10 3 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.83%) Moq
11 2 (0.83%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.42%) MSI
12 1 (0.42%) Postman
12 1 (0.42%) Selenium
General
1 49 (20.42%) Finance
2 32 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 26 (10.83%) Public Sector
4 19 (7.92%) Banking
5 14 (5.83%) Front Office
6 11 (4.58%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.92%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.67%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.67%) Legal
9 3 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.83%) Automotive
10 2 (0.83%) Back Office
10 2 (0.83%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.42%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.42%) Military
11 1 (0.42%) Police
11 1 (0.42%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.42%) Retail
11 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 240 (100.00%) .NET
2 58 (24.17%) .NET Framework
3 50 (20.83%) RESTful
4 48 (20.00%) .NET Core
5 47 (19.58%) ASP.NET
6 41 (17.08%) AngularJS
7 37 (15.42%) REST
8 35 (14.58%) React
9 24 (10.00%) HTML
10 21 (8.75%) Entity Framework
11 18 (7.50%) ASP.NET Web API
12 13 (5.42%) ASP.NET Core
13 12 (5.00%) CSS
13 12 (5.00%) Web Services
14 11 (4.58%) RabbitMQ
14 11 (4.58%) WPF
15 10 (4.17%) ASP.NET MVC
16 9 (3.75%) Kafka
17 8 (3.33%) OAuth
17 8 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.50%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.42%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (5.42%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (4.58%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.92%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (2.08%) Legacy Code
7 4 (1.67%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.25%) Derivative
8 3 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.25%) IoT
8 3 (1.25%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.25%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.83%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.83%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.83%) Wiki
10 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.17%) Windows
2 2 (0.83%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (44.58%) CI/CD
2 80 (33.33%) Agile
3 78 (32.50%) DevOps
4 50 (20.83%) Microservices
5 45 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
6 33 (13.75%) Test Automation
7 29 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (11.67%) Scrum
9 23 (9.58%) Unit Testing
10 20 (8.33%) AI
10 20 (8.33%) Containerisation
10 20 (8.33%) TDD
11 19 (7.92%) SOLID
12 18 (7.50%) Design Patterns
13 17 (7.08%) Code Quality
13 17 (7.08%) MVC
13 17 (7.08%) Software Engineering
14 16 (6.67%) Event-Driven
15 15 (6.25%) OOP
15 15 (6.25%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 176 (73.33%) C#
2 83 (34.58%) SQL
3 35 (14.58%) JavaScript
4 29 (12.08%) Python
5 24 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 20 (8.33%) T-SQL
7 10 (4.17%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.50%) VB.NET
9 5 (2.08%) Bicep
9 5 (2.08%) Java
10 4 (1.67%) VBA
11 3 (1.25%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.25%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.25%) Rust
11 3 (1.25%) VBScript
12 2 (0.83%) C++
12 2 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.83%) XAML
13 1 (0.42%) Bash
13 1 (0.42%) C
Qualifications
1 39 (16.25%) Security Cleared
2 37 (15.42%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.75%) Degree
4 5 (2.08%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.83%) PhD
7 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.83%) QA
2 5 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.25%) WCAG
4 2 (0.83%) NCSC
5 1 (0.42%) Basel III
System Software
1 37 (15.42%) Docker
2 5 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (15.83%) Kubernetes
2 22 (9.17%) Terraform
3 4 (1.67%) Ansible
3 4 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (21.67%) Microsoft
2 27 (11.25%) Oracle
3 7 (2.92%) Citrix
3 7 (2.92%) Google
4 4 (1.67%) Centrify
4 4 (1.67%) CyberArk
5 3 (1.25%) Xamarin
6 2 (0.83%) ION Trading
6 2 (0.83%) SAP
7 1 (0.42%) Adobe
7 1 (0.42%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.42%) NEC
7 1 (0.42%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.42%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.42%) Telerik
7 1 (0.42%) Xero