.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 7 August 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 313 216
Rank change year-on-year -100 -97 -16
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 264 256 446
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.78% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.85% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 203 366
10th Percentile £371 £342 £313
25th Percentile £413 £390 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.81% -2.25%
75th Percentile £594 £563 £625
90th Percentile £723 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £440
% change year-on-year - +2.27% -2.22%
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 49,463 30,049 36,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.60% 91.45% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,748 19,085 23,408
10th Percentile £329 £283 £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 £625 £638
90th Percentile £727 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,453 1,494 2,053
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £42.25 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.99% -41.51% -
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.83 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.10 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.95
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.78% +15.89%

.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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -79 229 £500 +5.26% 195
UK excluding London -38 134 £450 - 146
London -117 98 £586 +20.26% 61
Work from Home -64 89 £525 +5.00% 174
North of England -41 47 £454 +5.58% 41
Yorkshire -9 36 £460 -12.38% 9
South East -66 29 £410 -3.07% 58
Midlands -42 25 £500 +1.01% 14
East Midlands +1 20 £563 +36.70% 6
South West -17 20 £425 - 7
North West -38 11 £358 -12.95% 25
East of England -20 5 - - 20
West Midlands -62 5 £425 -14.14% 8
Wales -7 4 £600 - 3
Scotland -16 4 £388 -13.89% 3

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

For the 6 months to 7 August 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.

1 264 (100.00%) .NET
2 189 (71.59%) C#
3 125 (47.35%) Azure
4 119 (45.08%) CI/CD
5 96 (36.36%) SQL
6 94 (35.61%) SQL Server
7 87 (32.95%) Agile
8 85 (32.20%) DevOps
9 68 (25.76%) Microsoft
10 64 (24.24%) .NET Framework
11 58 (21.97%) Full-Stack Development
11 58 (21.97%) Microservices
12 57 (21.59%) ASP.NET
13 56 (21.21%) REST
14 55 (20.83%) .NET Core
15 53 (20.08%) Security Cleared
16 51 (19.32%) Azure DevOps
16 51 (19.32%) SC Cleared
17 49 (18.56%) RESTful
18 46 (17.42%) Kubernetes
19 45 (17.05%) AWS
19 45 (17.05%) JavaScript
20 44 (16.67%) Docker
21 43 (16.29%) AngularJS
22 36 (13.64%) Test Automation
23 35 (13.26%) Git
24 32 (12.12%) React
25 31 (11.74%) GitHub
25 31 (11.74%) Oracle
26 29 (10.98%) 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 12 (4.55%) Confluence
2 10 (3.79%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.41%) IIS
4 3 (1.14%) Apache Superset
4 3 (1.14%) CMS
5 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.38%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.38%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 125 (47.35%) Azure
2 51 (19.32%) Azure DevOps
3 45 (17.05%) AWS
4 31 (11.74%) GitHub
5 22 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 21 (7.95%) Serverless
7 13 (4.92%) Azure Functions
8 12 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
9 10 (3.79%) Azure AKS
9 10 (3.79%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (3.41%) PaaS
10 9 (3.41%) Power Platform
11 8 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (3.03%) Entra ID
12 7 (2.65%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (2.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 5 (1.89%) Azure App Service
14 5 (1.89%) GCP
14 5 (1.89%) Power Automate
15 4 (1.52%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.38%) Broadband
1 1 (0.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (35.61%) SQL Server
2 18 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (6.44%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (2.65%) Power BI
5 7 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (2.27%) MS Access
6 6 (2.27%) Redis
7 5 (1.89%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.89%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.52%) DocumentDB
8 4 (1.52%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.14%) Metabase
9 3 (1.14%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.14%) Parquet
10 2 (0.76%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.76%) Db2
10 2 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.38%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 35 (13.26%) Git
2 12 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.17%) JIRA
4 10 (3.79%) Visual Studio
5 9 (3.41%) NUnit
6 7 (2.65%) GitLab
7 6 (2.27%) SpecFlow
8 5 (1.89%) REST Assured
8 5 (1.89%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (1.52%) MSI
9 4 (1.52%) MSTest
9 4 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.52%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.14%) Jasmine
10 3 (1.14%) Karma Test Runner
10 3 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.76%) Moq
11 2 (0.76%) Postman
12 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.38%) Mocha
General
1 58 (21.97%) Finance
2 36 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 26 (9.85%) Public Sector
4 23 (8.71%) Banking
5 12 (4.55%) Investment Banking
6 11 (4.17%) Front Office
7 8 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.27%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.52%) Legal
10 3 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.14%) Local Government
11 2 (0.76%) Automotive
11 2 (0.76%) Back Office
11 2 (0.76%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.38%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.38%) Military
12 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.38%) Police
12 1 (0.38%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (100.00%) .NET
2 64 (24.24%) .NET Framework
3 57 (21.59%) ASP.NET
4 56 (21.21%) REST
5 55 (20.83%) .NET Core
6 49 (18.56%) RESTful
7 43 (16.29%) AngularJS
8 32 (12.12%) React
9 27 (10.23%) HTML
10 25 (9.47%) Entity Framework
11 23 (8.71%) ASP.NET Core
12 20 (7.58%) ASP.NET Web API
12 20 (7.58%) WPF
13 17 (6.44%) Web Services
13 17 (6.44%) WinForms
14 15 (5.68%) CSS
15 14 (5.30%) Kafka
16 10 (3.79%) RabbitMQ
17 9 (3.41%) ASP.NET MVC
17 9 (3.41%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.47%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.82%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.89%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.52%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.52%) Legacy Code
7 4 (1.52%) Replication
7 4 (1.52%) Wiki
8 3 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.14%) Derivative
8 3 (1.14%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.76%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.76%) IoT
9 2 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.38%) LIMS
10 1 (0.38%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.82%) Windows
2 2 (0.76%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (45.08%) CI/CD
2 87 (32.95%) Agile
3 85 (32.20%) DevOps
4 58 (21.97%) Full-Stack Development
4 58 (21.97%) Microservices
5 36 (13.64%) Test Automation
6 26 (9.85%) Containerisation
6 26 (9.85%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (9.85%) Scrum
7 23 (8.71%) Software Engineering
7 23 (8.71%) SOLID
8 22 (8.33%) API Development
8 22 (8.33%) Code Quality
8 22 (8.33%) OOP
9 21 (7.95%) Unit Testing
10 20 (7.58%) AI
10 20 (7.58%) Design Patterns
10 20 (7.58%) TDD
11 19 (7.20%) Mentoring
12 18 (6.82%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 189 (71.59%) C#
2 96 (36.36%) SQL
3 45 (17.05%) JavaScript
4 29 (10.98%) TypeScript
5 25 (9.47%) Python
6 24 (9.09%) T-SQL
7 17 (6.44%) PL/SQL
8 10 (3.79%) VB.NET
9 8 (3.03%) Bicep
9 8 (3.03%) VBA
10 6 (2.27%) VBScript
11 5 (1.89%) Java
12 4 (1.52%) XPath
13 3 (1.14%) MATLAB
13 3 (1.14%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.14%) Rust
14 2 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.76%) VB
14 2 (0.76%) XAML
15 1 (0.38%) C++
Qualifications
1 53 (20.08%) Security Cleared
2 51 (19.32%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.65%) Degree
4 5 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.89%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.76%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.76%) PhD
6 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.30%) QA
2 8 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.27%) WCAG
4 5 (1.89%) NCSC
5 1 (0.38%) Basel III
5 1 (0.38%) GMP
5 1 (0.38%) GxP
System Software
1 44 (16.67%) Docker
2 8 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (17.42%) Kubernetes
2 23 (8.71%) Terraform
3 5 (1.89%) Ansible
4 4 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 68 (25.76%) Microsoft
2 31 (11.74%) Oracle
3 9 (3.41%) Citrix
4 4 (1.52%) Centrify
4 4 (1.52%) CyberArk
5 3 (1.14%) IBM
6 2 (0.76%) DevExpress
6 2 (0.76%) SAP
7 1 (0.38%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.38%) Telerik