.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 9 January 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 284 190
Rank change year-on-year -109 -94 -44
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 189 274 537
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.86% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.93% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 216 430
10th Percentile £374 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £506
Median % change year-on-year - -6.17% -7.95%
75th Percentile £555 £600 £669
90th Percentile £638 £688 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £421
% change year-on-year - +6.82% -11.32%
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 33,508 29,606 39,607
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.31% 92.68% 93.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,195 18,121 26,431
10th Percentile £300 £291 £281
25th Percentile £405 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £500
% change year-on-year -0.89% -4.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,969 900 1,622
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.52 £14.18
25th Percentile £18.22 £21.05 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% -26.97% +34.85%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.24 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.46 £73.75 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.50 £45.11
% change year-on-year -20.16% -30.16% +67.04%

.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 9 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 9 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 -106 154 £500 - 229
London -59 94 £500 -9.09% 59
UK excluding London -63 67 £450 - 189
Work from Home -66 63 £475 +11.76% 225
South East -17 18 £494 +10.52% 64
Scotland -2 12 £438 - 6
East of England -18 12 £425 -12.37% 24
North of England -51 12 £443 -10.61% 49
Midlands -42 9 £515 +8.42% 27
East Midlands -20 6 £515 +44.06% 13
Yorkshire -43 6 £500 - 8
North West -35 5 £410 -17.17% 35
West Midlands -39 3 £488 +2.63% 13
Wales 0 2 £450 +127.85% 7
South West -15 2 £550 +0.92% 12
North East -12 1 - - 6

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 189 (100.00%) .NET
2 144 (76.19%) C#
3 99 (52.38%) Azure
4 79 (41.80%) SQL
5 67 (35.45%) Agile
5 67 (35.45%) DevOps
6 57 (30.16%) SQL Server
7 55 (29.10%) CI/CD
8 50 (26.46%) .NET Framework
9 42 (22.22%) .NET Core
10 40 (21.16%) Full-Stack Development
11 37 (19.58%) Microservices
11 37 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
12 36 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
13 30 (15.87%) Microsoft
14 28 (14.81%) AngularJS
15 27 (14.29%) AWS
16 26 (13.76%) Oracle
17 25 (13.23%) ASP.NET
18 24 (12.70%) RESTful
19 23 (12.17%) React
20 22 (11.64%) Windows
20 22 (11.64%) WPF
21 21 (11.11%) Entity Framework
21 21 (11.11%) Migration
21 21 (11.11%) Scrum
22 20 (10.58%) Docker
22 20 (10.58%) SDLC
23 19 (10.05%) AI
23 19 (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 7 (3.70%) Confluence
2 5 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.59%) IIS
4 2 (1.06%) CMS
4 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.53%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.53%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.53%) Mendix
5 1 (0.53%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 8 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.53%) Endur
1 1 (0.53%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.53%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 99 (52.38%) Azure
2 36 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (14.29%) AWS
4 18 (9.52%) Serverless
5 17 (8.99%) GitHub
6 13 (6.88%) Azure Functions
6 13 (6.88%) Azure Service Bus
7 10 (5.29%) Azure AKS
7 10 (5.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 10 (5.29%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (4.23%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (4.23%) PaaS
9 7 (3.70%) Power Platform
10 6 (3.17%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (2.65%) Entra ID
12 4 (2.12%) ChatGPT
12 4 (2.12%) Figma
12 4 (2.12%) GitHub Copilot
13 3 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.12%) DNS
2 3 (1.59%) DHCP
2 3 (1.59%) HTTP
2 3 (1.59%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (30.16%) SQL Server
2 14 (7.41%) Oracle Database
3 11 (5.82%) Relational Database
4 10 (5.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.65%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.65%) Power BI
7 3 (1.59%) MySQL
7 3 (1.59%) Redis
8 2 (1.06%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.53%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (5.29%) Git
2 9 (4.76%) JIRA
2 9 (4.76%) SpecFlow
3 5 (2.65%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.65%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.59%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.06%) Selenium
6 1 (0.53%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.53%) JMeter
6 1 (0.53%) MSTest
6 1 (0.53%) NUnit
6 1 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
General
1 52 (27.51%) Finance
2 38 (20.11%) Social Skills
3 34 (17.99%) Public Sector
4 21 (11.11%) Banking
5 8 (4.23%) Financial Institution
6 7 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.17%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.65%) Front Office
9 3 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.06%) Back Office
11 1 (0.53%) Advertising
11 1 (0.53%) Automotive
11 1 (0.53%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.53%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (100.00%) .NET
2 50 (26.46%) .NET Framework
3 42 (22.22%) .NET Core
4 28 (14.81%) AngularJS
5 25 (13.23%) ASP.NET
6 24 (12.70%) RESTful
7 23 (12.17%) React
8 22 (11.64%) WPF
9 21 (11.11%) Entity Framework
10 16 (8.47%) CSS
11 14 (7.41%) HTML
12 13 (6.88%) REST
13 10 (5.29%) ASP.NET Core
14 9 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
14 9 (4.76%) Blazor
14 9 (4.76%) Web Services
15 8 (4.23%) NHibernate
15 8 (4.23%) Playwright
15 8 (4.23%) WinForms
16 7 (3.70%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.47%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.88%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.29%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.23%) Credit Risk
6 7 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
7 6 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (3.17%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.17%) Market Risk
8 5 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.65%) Wiki
9 4 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.59%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.59%) Legacy Code
11 2 (1.06%) Hedge funds
11 2 (1.06%) IoT
11 2 (1.06%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.53%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.64%) Windows
2 6 (3.17%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.53%) Android
3 1 (0.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (35.45%) Agile
1 67 (35.45%) DevOps
2 55 (29.10%) CI/CD
3 40 (21.16%) Full-Stack Development
4 37 (19.58%) Microservices
4 37 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (11.11%) Migration
5 21 (11.11%) Scrum
6 20 (10.58%) SDLC
7 19 (10.05%) AI
8 18 (9.52%) Clean Code
9 16 (8.47%) Design Patterns
9 16 (8.47%) MVC
9 16 (8.47%) Unit Testing
10 15 (7.94%) Test Automation
11 14 (7.41%) Containerisation
12 13 (6.88%) OOP
12 13 (6.88%) Software Engineering
12 13 (6.88%) TDD
12 13 (6.88%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 144 (76.19%) C#
2 79 (41.80%) SQL
3 17 (8.99%) PL/SQL
4 15 (7.94%) Python
5 14 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 14 (7.41%) T-SQL
6 10 (5.29%) VB.NET
7 9 (4.76%) VB
8 8 (4.23%) VBA
9 7 (3.70%) PHP
10 6 (3.17%) Bicep
11 5 (2.65%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.59%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.06%) C++
13 2 (1.06%) Java
13 2 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.53%) Cypher
14 1 (0.53%) Delphi
14 1 (0.53%) Go
14 1 (0.53%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 19 (10.05%) Security Cleared
2 16 (8.47%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.70%) Degree
4 4 (2.12%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.88%) QA
2 9 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.65%) WCAG
4 2 (1.06%) MiFID
5 1 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.53%) EMIR
5 1 (0.53%) HL7
System Software
1 20 (10.58%) Docker
2 4 (2.12%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (10.05%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.82%) Terraform
3 1 (0.53%) Ansible
Vendors
1 30 (15.87%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.76%) Oracle
3 3 (1.59%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.59%) Citrix
3 3 (1.59%) OpenAI
3 3 (1.59%) VMware
4 2 (1.06%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.53%) CQG
5 1 (0.53%) Databricks
5 1 (0.53%) GoldenSource
5 1 (0.53%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.53%) Kofax
5 1 (0.53%) Lotus
5 1 (0.53%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.53%) NEC
5 1 (0.53%) Sybase
5 1 (0.53%) Temenos
5 1 (0.53%) TOWER Software