.NET Developer Contract Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2026.

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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 298 228
Rank change year-on-year -114 -70 -53
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 213 238 445
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.81% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.88% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 195 368
10th Percentile £375 £338 £306
25th Percentile £431 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -8.65%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £628
90th Percentile £683 £813 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £425 £375
% change year-on-year +13.24% +13.33% -18.92%
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 - - +23.81%

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 43,538 27,092 40,027
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 92.49% 92.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,804 17,695 26,061
10th Percentile £315 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.58% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,808 1,048 2,666
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.18 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £44.00 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.72% -20.55% -18.89%
75th Percentile £66.06 £62.50 £61.29
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +62.36% -30.00% -5.35%

.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 4 May 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 14 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 4 May 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 -125 168 £550 +8.37% 186
UK excluding London -66 88 £481 +13.24% 145
London -103 88 £575 +10.05% 50
Work from Home -56 73 £500 +3.90% 170
North of England -38 33 £500 +21.21% 49
South East -58 19 £481 +15.96% 43
Yorkshire -32 18 £588 +11.90% 9
Midlands -58 18 £550 +10.00% 15
North West -29 15 £450 +9.09% 28
East Midlands -21 14 £575 +15.00% 6
Scotland -6 11 £438 - 6
South West -32 5 £588 -10.31% 10
West Midlands -59 4 £519 +3.75% 9
Wales -10 3 £450 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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.

1 213 (100.00%) .NET
2 164 (77.00%) C#
3 116 (54.46%) Azure
4 93 (43.66%) CI/CD
5 77 (36.15%) DevOps
6 76 (35.68%) SQL
7 75 (35.21%) SQL Server
8 69 (32.39%) Agile
9 52 (24.41%) .NET Framework
10 46 (21.60%) .NET Core
10 46 (21.60%) Azure DevOps
11 43 (20.19%) Microservices
12 41 (19.25%) Full-Stack Development
12 41 (19.25%) RESTful
13 36 (16.90%) Microsoft
14 35 (16.43%) ASP.NET
15 34 (15.96%) AngularJS
15 34 (15.96%) React
16 31 (14.55%) Security Cleared
17 30 (14.08%) REST
18 29 (13.62%) AWS
18 29 (13.62%) JavaScript
18 29 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
18 29 (13.62%) SC Cleared
19 28 (13.15%) HTML
19 28 (13.15%) Python
20 25 (11.74%) Kubernetes
21 24 (11.27%) Docker
21 24 (11.27%) Test Automation
22 22 (10.33%) Azure Service Bus

.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 6 (2.82%) IIS
2 4 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.41%) Apache Superset
3 3 (1.41%) CMS
3 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.94%) Confluence
5 1 (0.47%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Endur
1 2 (0.94%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 116 (54.46%) Azure
2 46 (21.60%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (13.62%) AWS
4 22 (10.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 22 (10.33%) Serverless
5 21 (9.86%) GitHub
6 16 (7.51%) Azure Functions
7 13 (6.10%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (5.63%) Azure Key Vault
9 11 (5.16%) Power Platform
10 8 (3.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 8 (3.76%) GCP
11 7 (3.29%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (3.29%) Entra ID
12 6 (2.82%) Azure AKS
13 4 (1.88%) Azure API Management
13 4 (1.88%) Cloud Functions
13 4 (1.88%) Cloud Run
13 4 (1.88%) n8n
13 4 (1.88%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.47%) DHCP
1 1 (0.47%) DNS
1 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (35.21%) SQL Server
2 20 (9.39%) Relational Database
3 13 (6.10%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (3.76%) Power BI
5 8 (3.76%) Redis
6 6 (2.82%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.88%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.88%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.41%) Metabase
8 3 (1.41%) Parquet
9 2 (0.94%) DocumentDB
9 2 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.94%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 17 (7.98%) Git
2 11 (5.16%) NUnit
3 8 (3.76%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.76%) MSTest
4 6 (2.82%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.35%) SpecFlow
5 5 (2.35%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.88%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.41%) Jasmine
7 3 (1.41%) JIRA
7 3 (1.41%) Karma Test Runner
7 3 (1.41%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.94%) Moq
8 2 (0.94%) Selenium
9 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.47%) JMeter
9 1 (0.47%) Mocha
9 1 (0.47%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.47%) tSQLt
General
1 44 (20.66%) Finance
2 37 (17.37%) Social Skills
3 32 (15.02%) Public Sector
4 24 (11.27%) Banking
5 15 (7.04%) Front Office
6 12 (5.63%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (3.29%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.41%) Back Office
9 3 (1.41%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.47%) Automotive
11 1 (0.47%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.47%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.47%) Military
11 1 (0.47%) Police
11 1 (0.47%) Retail
11 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (100.00%) .NET
2 52 (24.41%) .NET Framework
3 46 (21.60%) .NET Core
4 41 (19.25%) RESTful
5 35 (16.43%) ASP.NET
6 34 (15.96%) AngularJS
6 34 (15.96%) React
7 30 (14.08%) REST
8 28 (13.15%) HTML
9 18 (8.45%) Entity Framework
10 15 (7.04%) ASP.NET Web API
10 15 (7.04%) CSS
11 12 (5.63%) ASP.NET Core
12 11 (5.16%) ASP.NET MVC
13 10 (4.69%) WPF
14 9 (4.23%) OAuth
14 9 (4.23%) RabbitMQ
14 9 (4.23%) WinForms
15 7 (3.29%) HTML5
15 7 (3.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.51%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.10%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.29%) AI Agents
6 6 (2.82%) Credit Risk
6 6 (2.82%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.35%) Market Risk
8 4 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.88%) Derivative
8 4 (1.88%) IoT
8 4 (1.88%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.88%) Wiki
9 3 (1.41%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.41%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.94%) NHS
10 2 (0.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.57%) Windows
2 5 (2.35%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (43.66%) CI/CD
2 77 (36.15%) DevOps
3 69 (32.39%) Agile
4 43 (20.19%) Microservices
5 41 (19.25%) Full-Stack Development
6 29 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (11.27%) Test Automation
8 21 (9.86%) MVC
9 20 (9.39%) AI
10 19 (8.92%) Scrum
10 19 (8.92%) SDLC
11 18 (8.45%) Design Patterns
11 18 (8.45%) Unit Testing
12 17 (7.98%) TDD
13 16 (7.51%) SOLID
14 15 (7.04%) OOP
15 14 (6.57%) Clean Code
15 14 (6.57%) Containerisation
15 14 (6.57%) Event-Driven
16 13 (6.10%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 164 (77.00%) C#
2 76 (35.68%) SQL
3 29 (13.62%) JavaScript
4 28 (13.15%) Python
5 16 (7.51%) TypeScript
6 15 (7.04%) T-SQL
7 7 (3.29%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.82%) Bicep
9 5 (2.35%) Java
9 5 (2.35%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.41%) C++
10 3 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.41%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.41%) Rust
11 1 (0.47%) Bash
11 1 (0.47%) Delphi
11 1 (0.47%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.47%) Swift
Qualifications
1 31 (14.55%) Security Cleared
2 29 (13.62%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.23%) Degree
4 5 (2.35%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.51%) QA
2 4 (1.88%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.94%) WCAG
4 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.47%) HL7
4 1 (0.47%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (11.27%) Docker
2 2 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (11.74%) Kubernetes
2 21 (9.86%) Terraform
3 2 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.47%) Ansible
Vendors
1 36 (16.90%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.92%) Oracle
3 7 (3.29%) Citrix
3 7 (3.29%) Google
4 3 (1.41%) ION Trading
4 3 (1.41%) Xamarin
5 2 (0.94%) NEC
5 2 (0.94%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.47%) Adobe
6 1 (0.47%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.47%) SAP
6 1 (0.47%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.47%) Sybase
6 1 (0.47%) Temenos
6 1 (0.47%) VMware
6 1 (0.47%) Xero