.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 July 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 316 218
Rank change year-on-year -106 -98 -17
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 261 251 447
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.77% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.84% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 197 369
10th Percentile £375 £336 £313
25th Percentile £417 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £625
90th Percentile £725 £813 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £425
% change year-on-year -2.70% +8.82% -5.56%
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 49,168 30,000 36,945
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.60% 91.47% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,645 19,092 23,906
10th Percentile £331 £284 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.02%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,387 1,467 2,179
10th Percentile £15.37 £13.72 £14.05
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £19.05
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -40.82% -1.16%
75th Percentile £67.86 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -41.51% +8.72%

.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 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 31 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 -101 223 £500 +5.26% 187
UK excluding London -19 132 £450 -2.70% 141
London -110 95 £594 +21.79% 57
Work from Home -55 88 £525 +5.00% 165
North of England -36 48 £452 +6.35% 41
Yorkshire -21 36 £460 -12.38% 12
South East -61 28 £420 -0.71% 50
Midlands -37 26 £525 +6.06% 17
East Midlands +2 20 £563 +36.70% 6
South West -28 16 £450 - 8
North West -49 12 £404 -1.46% 22
West Midlands -60 6 £425 -14.14% 11
Scotland -14 5 £394 -12.50% 2
East of England -17 5 - - 24
Wales -13 4 £600 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 31 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.

1 261 (100.00%) .NET
2 186 (71.26%) C#
3 127 (48.66%) Azure
4 119 (45.59%) CI/CD
5 93 (35.63%) SQL
5 93 (35.63%) SQL Server
6 88 (33.72%) Agile
7 86 (32.95%) DevOps
8 68 (26.05%) Microsoft
9 65 (24.90%) .NET Framework
10 59 (22.61%) ASP.NET
11 58 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
12 56 (21.46%) Microservices
13 54 (20.69%) .NET Core
13 54 (20.69%) REST
14 52 (19.92%) Azure DevOps
15 50 (19.16%) Security Cleared
16 49 (18.77%) RESTful
17 48 (18.39%) SC Cleared
18 45 (17.24%) JavaScript
18 45 (17.24%) Kubernetes
19 44 (16.86%) Docker
20 43 (16.48%) AngularJS
20 43 (16.48%) AWS
21 37 (14.18%) Test Automation
22 35 (13.41%) React
23 34 (13.03%) Git
24 32 (12.26%) Oracle
25 31 (11.88%) GitHub
26 29 (11.11%) TypeScript

.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 11 (4.21%) Confluence
2 10 (3.83%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.45%) IIS
4 3 (1.15%) Apache Superset
4 3 (1.15%) CMS
5 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.38%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.38%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 127 (48.66%) Azure
2 52 (19.92%) Azure DevOps
3 43 (16.48%) AWS
4 31 (11.88%) GitHub
5 21 (8.05%) Azure Service Bus
5 21 (8.05%) Serverless
6 13 (4.98%) Azure Functions
7 12 (4.60%) Azure Key Vault
8 10 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (3.83%) Power Platform
9 9 (3.45%) Azure AKS
9 9 (3.45%) PaaS
10 8 (3.07%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (3.07%) Entra ID
11 7 (2.68%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (2.30%) GCP
13 5 (1.92%) Azure App Service
13 5 (1.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 5 (1.92%) Power Automate
14 4 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.38%) Broadband
1 1 (0.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (35.63%) SQL Server
2 18 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (6.90%) Relational Database
3 12 (4.60%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (3.07%) Power BI
5 7 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (2.30%) MS Access
6 6 (2.30%) Redis
7 5 (1.92%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.92%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.53%) DocumentDB
9 3 (1.15%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.15%) Metabase
9 3 (1.15%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.15%) Parquet
10 2 (0.77%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.77%) Db2
11 1 (0.38%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.38%) MySQL
11 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 34 (13.03%) Git
2 13 (4.98%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.21%) JIRA
4 10 (3.83%) NUnit
4 10 (3.83%) Visual Studio
5 7 (2.68%) GitLab
6 6 (2.30%) MSTest
6 6 (2.30%) SpecFlow
7 5 (1.92%) REST Assured
7 5 (1.92%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.53%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.15%) Jasmine
9 3 (1.15%) Karma Test Runner
9 3 (1.15%) MSI
9 3 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.77%) Moq
10 2 (0.77%) Postman
11 1 (0.38%) Serilog
11 1 (0.38%) webpack
General
1 59 (22.61%) Finance
2 38 (14.56%) Social Skills
3 27 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 22 (8.43%) Banking
5 13 (4.98%) Investment Banking
6 12 (4.60%) Front Office
7 9 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.30%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.53%) Legal
10 3 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.15%) Local Government
11 2 (0.77%) Automotive
11 2 (0.77%) Back Office
11 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.38%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.38%) Military
12 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.38%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.38%) Retail
12 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (100.00%) .NET
2 65 (24.90%) .NET Framework
3 59 (22.61%) ASP.NET
4 54 (20.69%) .NET Core
4 54 (20.69%) REST
5 49 (18.77%) RESTful
6 43 (16.48%) AngularJS
7 35 (13.41%) React
8 28 (10.73%) HTML
9 25 (9.58%) Entity Framework
10 22 (8.43%) ASP.NET Core
11 21 (8.05%) ASP.NET Web API
12 17 (6.51%) Web Services
12 17 (6.51%) WPF
13 15 (5.75%) CSS
13 15 (5.75%) WinForms
14 13 (4.98%) Kafka
15 11 (4.21%) ASP.NET MVC
16 10 (3.83%) RabbitMQ
16 10 (3.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.43%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (6.51%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.68%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.92%) AI Agents
6 5 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (1.92%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.92%) Wiki
7 4 (1.53%) Legacy Code
7 4 (1.53%) Replication
8 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.15%) Derivative
8 3 (1.15%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.15%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.77%) IoT
9 2 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.38%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.38%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.51%) Windows
2 2 (0.77%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (45.59%) CI/CD
2 88 (33.72%) Agile
3 86 (32.95%) DevOps
4 58 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 56 (21.46%) Microservices
6 37 (14.18%) Test Automation
7 28 (10.73%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (9.96%) Scrum
9 25 (9.58%) Containerisation
10 24 (9.20%) Code Quality
11 23 (8.81%) Software Engineering
12 22 (8.43%) AI
12 22 (8.43%) SOLID
13 21 (8.05%) OOP
13 21 (8.05%) Unit Testing
14 20 (7.66%) TDD
15 19 (7.28%) API Development
15 19 (7.28%) Design Patterns
15 19 (7.28%) Event-Driven
15 19 (7.28%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 186 (71.26%) C#
2 93 (35.63%) SQL
3 45 (17.24%) JavaScript
4 29 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 26 (9.96%) Python
6 24 (9.20%) T-SQL
7 15 (5.75%) PL/SQL
8 10 (3.83%) VB.NET
9 8 (3.07%) VBA
10 7 (2.68%) Bicep
11 6 (2.30%) VBScript
12 5 (1.92%) Java
13 4 (1.53%) XPath
14 3 (1.15%) MATLAB
14 3 (1.15%) PowerShell
14 3 (1.15%) Rust
15 2 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.77%) VB
15 2 (0.77%) XAML
16 1 (0.38%) C++
Qualifications
1 50 (19.16%) Security Cleared
2 48 (18.39%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.68%) Degree
4 5 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.92%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.77%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.77%) PhD
6 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.36%) QA
2 7 (2.68%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.92%) WCAG
4 4 (1.53%) NCSC
5 1 (0.38%) Basel III
5 1 (0.38%) GMP
5 1 (0.38%) GxP
System Software
1 44 (16.86%) Docker
2 8 (3.07%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (17.24%) Kubernetes
2 23 (8.81%) Terraform
3 5 (1.92%) Ansible
4 4 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 68 (26.05%) Microsoft
2 32 (12.26%) Oracle
3 9 (3.45%) Citrix
4 4 (1.53%) Centrify
4 4 (1.53%) CyberArk
5 3 (1.15%) IBM
6 2 (0.77%) DevExpress
6 2 (0.77%) Google
6 2 (0.77%) SAP
7 1 (0.38%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.38%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.38%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.38%) Telerik
7 1 (0.38%) Xero