.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 10 February 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 315 195
Rank change year-on-year -93 -120 -40
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 181 231 540
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.75% 1.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.81% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 180 441
10th Percentile £385 £337 £306
25th Percentile £413 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year - -3.06% -10.91%
75th Percentile £588 £602 £650
90th Percentile £638 £690 £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 36,029 28,524 41,865
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.54% 92.93% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,696 17,486 27,607
10th Percentile £300 £290 £275
25th Percentile £406 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £490
% change year-on-year -0.63% -2.45% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,191 825 2,307
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.91 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £16.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% -4.29% -1.41%
75th Percentile £62.05 £63.25 £60.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.60 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -6.80% -9.26% -

.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 10 February 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 10 February 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 -117 137 £500 - 228
London -76 89 £550 - 60
Work from Home -57 62 £475 +5.56% 186
UK excluding London -71 56 £450 - 189
Scotland +13 13 £438 - 6
South East -27 11 £488 +8.33% 53
North of England -63 11 £450 -10.00% 67
East of England -15 9 £450 -1.10% 18
Midlands -53 9 £499 +38.54% 21
North West -29 6 £450 -10.00% 40
West Midlands -45 5 £488 +2.63% 12
East Midlands -31 4 £510 +42.66% 9
Yorkshire -53 4 £513 - 15
Wales -4 2 £450 +127.85% 4
South West -22 2 £550 -15.38% 20
North East -12 1 - - 12

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

For the 6 months to 10 February 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.

1 181 (100.00%) .NET
2 137 (75.69%) C#
3 98 (54.14%) Azure
4 66 (36.46%) SQL
5 60 (33.15%) DevOps
6 57 (31.49%) SQL Server
7 56 (30.94%) Agile
8 49 (27.07%) .NET Framework
8 49 (27.07%) CI/CD
9 45 (24.86%) .NET Core
10 40 (22.10%) Full-Stack Development
11 37 (20.44%) Azure DevOps
12 34 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (17.13%) RESTful
14 28 (15.47%) Microservices
14 28 (15.47%) Microsoft
14 28 (15.47%) React
15 27 (14.92%) ASP.NET
16 25 (13.81%) AngularJS
17 23 (12.71%) Python
18 22 (12.15%) AI
19 21 (11.60%) AWS
20 20 (11.05%) Oracle
20 20 (11.05%) Test Automation
21 19 (10.50%) Entity Framework
21 19 (10.50%) MVC
21 19 (10.50%) Scrum
21 19 (10.50%) Security Cleared
22 18 (9.94%) Unit Testing
22 18 (9.94%) Windows

.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 (4.42%) Confluence
2 3 (1.66%) IIS
2 3 (1.66%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.10%) CMS
3 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.55%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.55%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Endur
1 2 (1.10%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 98 (54.14%) Azure
2 37 (20.44%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (11.60%) AWS
4 17 (9.39%) GitHub
5 16 (8.84%) Serverless
6 13 (7.18%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (6.63%) Azure Functions
7 12 (6.63%) Azure Service Bus
8 10 (5.52%) Power Platform
9 9 (4.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 9 (4.97%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (3.87%) Azure AKS
10 7 (3.87%) PaaS
11 6 (3.31%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (3.31%) Entra ID
11 6 (3.31%) GCP
12 4 (2.21%) Cloud Functions
12 4 (2.21%) Cloud Run
13 3 (1.66%) Azure Event Grid
13 3 (1.66%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.21%) DNS
2 3 (1.66%) DHCP
2 3 (1.66%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.10%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (31.49%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.29%) Relational Database
3 12 (6.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (4.97%) Oracle Database
5 7 (3.87%) Power BI
6 4 (2.21%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.21%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.21%) Redis
7 3 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.10%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.55%) MySQL
9 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (6.08%) JIRA
2 10 (5.52%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.97%) Git
3 9 (4.97%) SpecFlow
4 6 (3.31%) MSTest
5 5 (2.76%) NUnit
5 5 (2.76%) Visual Studio
6 4 (2.21%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.10%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.10%) Selenium
7 2 (1.10%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.55%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.55%) JMeter
8 1 (0.55%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.55%) webpack
General
1 43 (23.76%) Finance
2 33 (18.23%) Social Skills
3 31 (17.13%) Public Sector
4 24 (13.26%) Banking
5 9 (4.97%) Investment Banking
6 8 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.42%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.87%) Front Office
8 3 (1.66%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.55%) Advertising
10 1 (0.55%) Back Office
10 1 (0.55%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.55%) Retail
10 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (100.00%) .NET
2 49 (27.07%) .NET Framework
3 45 (24.86%) .NET Core
4 31 (17.13%) RESTful
5 28 (15.47%) React
6 27 (14.92%) ASP.NET
7 25 (13.81%) AngularJS
8 19 (10.50%) Entity Framework
9 17 (9.39%) REST
10 15 (8.29%) WPF
11 14 (7.73%) HTML
12 11 (6.08%) ASP.NET Web API
13 9 (4.97%) ASP.NET Core
13 9 (4.97%) CSS
14 8 (4.42%) NHibernate
14 8 (4.42%) Playwright
14 8 (4.42%) Web Services
15 7 (3.87%) ASP.NET MVC
15 7 (3.87%) Middleware
15 7 (3.87%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.84%) Cloud Native
1 16 (8.84%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.97%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.42%) Credit Risk
4 7 (3.87%) Legacy Applications
4 7 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.31%) Market Risk
5 6 (3.31%) Wiki
6 5 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.76%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.76%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.66%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.66%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.66%) IoT
7 3 (1.66%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.66%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.10%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.94%) Windows
2 6 (3.31%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.55%) Android
3 1 (0.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (33.15%) DevOps
2 56 (30.94%) Agile
3 49 (27.07%) CI/CD
4 40 (22.10%) Full-Stack Development
5 34 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (15.47%) Microservices
7 22 (12.15%) AI
8 20 (11.05%) Test Automation
9 19 (10.50%) MVC
9 19 (10.50%) Scrum
10 18 (9.94%) Unit Testing
11 17 (9.39%) Clean Code
11 17 (9.39%) SDLC
12 16 (8.84%) Design Patterns
13 13 (7.18%) Event-Driven
13 13 (7.18%) Software Engineering
14 12 (6.63%) Infrastructure as Code
14 12 (6.63%) Migration
14 12 (6.63%) User Experience
15 11 (6.08%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 137 (75.69%) C#
2 66 (36.46%) SQL
3 23 (12.71%) Python
4 11 (6.08%) PL/SQL
5 10 (5.52%) JavaScript
5 10 (5.52%) T-SQL
6 8 (4.42%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.31%) Bicep
8 5 (2.76%) VB
8 5 (2.76%) VB.NET
9 4 (2.21%) PHP
9 4 (2.21%) VBA
10 3 (1.66%) C++
10 3 (1.66%) Java
10 3 (1.66%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.55%) Delphi
12 1 (0.55%) Go
12 1 (0.55%) VB6
Qualifications
1 19 (10.50%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.39%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.97%) Degree
4 4 (2.21%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.73%) QA
2 3 (1.66%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.10%) WCAG
4 1 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.55%) HL7
4 1 (0.55%) MiFID
System Software
1 13 (7.18%) Docker
2 4 (2.21%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.66%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (7.18%) Terraform
2 12 (6.63%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.55%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (15.47%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.05%) Oracle
3 7 (3.87%) Google
4 4 (2.21%) Citrix
5 3 (1.66%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.66%) ION Trading
5 3 (1.66%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.66%) VMware
5 3 (1.66%) Xamarin
6 2 (1.10%) NEC
7 1 (0.55%) Adobe
7 1 (0.55%) Databricks
7 1 (0.55%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.55%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.55%) Sybase
7 1 (0.55%) Temenos
7 1 (0.55%) Xero