.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 1 January 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 272 187
Rank change year-on-year -125 -85 -45
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 195 298 554
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.90% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.97% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 234 441
10th Percentile £363 £316 £319
25th Percentile £403 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -6.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £564 £597 £669
90th Percentile £642 £696 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -10.53%
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 33,835 30,753 40,099
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 92.71% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,431 18,857 26,859
10th Percentile £300 £298 £281
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,964 949 1,554
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.50 £14.43
25th Percentile £18.24 £21.05 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -27.78% +41.93%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.52 £46.18
% change year-on-year -20.21% -31.75% +80.14%

.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 1 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 1 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 -101 161 £500 - 265
London -72 101 £500 -9.09% 86
UK excluding London -62 66 £450 - 205
Work from Home -56 64 £475 +13.10% 247
South East -10 18 £481 +7.72% 68
Scotland +10 12 £438 - 12
East of England -11 12 £425 -12.37% 19
North of England -58 12 £443 -10.61% 61
Midlands -39 9 £515 +8.42% 22
East Midlands -16 6 £515 +44.06% 12
Yorkshire -50 6 £500 - 11
North West -31 5 £410 -17.17% 44
West Midlands -35 3 £488 +2.63% 10
South West -13 2 £550 +0.92% 16
Wales -4 1 £450 +116.87% 6
North East -8 1 - - 6

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 195 (100.00%) .NET
2 148 (75.90%) C#
3 101 (51.79%) Azure
4 82 (42.05%) SQL
5 69 (35.38%) Agile
5 69 (35.38%) DevOps
6 59 (30.26%) SQL Server
7 58 (29.74%) CI/CD
8 53 (27.18%) .NET Framework
9 46 (23.59%) .NET Core
10 44 (22.56%) Full-Stack Development
11 39 (20.00%) Microservices
12 38 (19.49%) Azure DevOps
12 38 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
13 32 (16.41%) AngularJS
14 31 (15.90%) Microsoft
15 28 (14.36%) AWS
16 27 (13.85%) Oracle
17 25 (12.82%) RESTful
18 24 (12.31%) ASP.NET
18 24 (12.31%) React
19 23 (11.79%) Windows
19 23 (11.79%) WPF
20 22 (11.28%) Entity Framework
21 21 (10.77%) Migration
21 21 (10.77%) Scrum
22 20 (10.26%) Clean Code
22 20 (10.26%) Docker
23 19 (9.74%) AI
23 19 (9.74%) 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 (3.59%) Confluence
2 5 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.54%) IIS
4 2 (1.03%) CMS
4 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.51%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.51%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.51%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.51%) Mendix
5 1 (0.51%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 9 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.51%) Endur
2 1 (0.51%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 101 (51.79%) Azure
2 38 (19.49%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (14.36%) AWS
4 17 (8.72%) GitHub
5 16 (8.21%) Serverless
6 12 (6.15%) Azure Service Bus
7 11 (5.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 11 (5.64%) Azure Functions
8 10 (5.13%) Azure AKS
8 10 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (4.10%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (4.10%) PaaS
10 7 (3.59%) Power Platform
11 6 (3.08%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (3.08%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (2.56%) Entra ID
13 4 (2.05%) Azure Pipelines
13 4 (2.05%) ChatGPT
13 4 (2.05%) Figma
13 4 (2.05%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.05%) DNS
2 3 (1.54%) DHCP
2 3 (1.54%) HTTP
2 3 (1.54%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.51%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (30.26%) SQL Server
2 15 (7.69%) Oracle Database
3 11 (5.64%) Relational Database
4 10 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.59%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.56%) Power BI
8 3 (1.54%) MySQL
8 3 (1.54%) Redis
9 2 (1.03%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.51%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (5.13%) Git
2 9 (4.62%) JIRA
2 9 (4.62%) SpecFlow
3 5 (2.56%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.05%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.51%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.51%) JMeter
6 1 (0.51%) MSTest
6 1 (0.51%) NUnit
6 1 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.51%) Selenium
6 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 56 (28.72%) Finance
2 39 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 33 (16.92%) Public Sector
4 21 (10.77%) Banking
5 8 (4.10%) Financial Institution
6 7 (3.59%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.08%) Front Office
7 6 (3.08%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.54%) Back Office
8 3 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.51%) Advertising
10 1 (0.51%) Automotive
10 1 (0.51%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.51%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.51%) Publishing
10 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (100.00%) .NET
2 53 (27.18%) .NET Framework
3 46 (23.59%) .NET Core
4 32 (16.41%) AngularJS
5 25 (12.82%) RESTful
6 24 (12.31%) ASP.NET
6 24 (12.31%) React
7 23 (11.79%) WPF
8 22 (11.28%) Entity Framework
9 17 (8.72%) CSS
10 15 (7.69%) HTML
10 15 (7.69%) REST
11 10 (5.13%) Blazor
12 9 (4.62%) ASP.NET Core
12 9 (4.62%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (4.62%) Web Services
13 8 (4.10%) Kafka
13 8 (4.10%) NHibernate
13 8 (4.10%) Playwright
13 8 (4.10%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.21%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.10%) Credit Risk
6 7 (3.59%) Legacy Applications
7 6 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (3.08%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.08%) Market Risk
8 5 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.56%) Wiki
9 4 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.05%) Fixed Income
9 4 (2.05%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.54%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.54%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.03%) Algorithms
11 2 (1.03%) IoT
12 1 (0.51%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.79%) Windows
2 6 (3.08%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.51%) Android
3 1 (0.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (35.38%) Agile
1 69 (35.38%) DevOps
2 58 (29.74%) CI/CD
3 44 (22.56%) Full-Stack Development
4 39 (20.00%) Microservices
5 38 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (10.77%) Migration
6 21 (10.77%) Scrum
7 20 (10.26%) Clean Code
8 19 (9.74%) AI
8 19 (9.74%) SDLC
9 17 (8.72%) Design Patterns
10 16 (8.21%) Unit Testing
11 15 (7.69%) MVC
11 15 (7.69%) OO
12 14 (7.18%) Containerisation
12 14 (7.18%) OOP
12 14 (7.18%) Software Engineering
12 14 (7.18%) Test Automation
13 13 (6.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 148 (75.90%) C#
2 82 (42.05%) SQL
3 18 (9.23%) PL/SQL
4 15 (7.69%) Python
4 15 (7.69%) T-SQL
5 14 (7.18%) JavaScript
6 11 (5.64%) VB.NET
7 10 (5.13%) VB
8 9 (4.62%) VBA
9 7 (3.59%) PHP
10 6 (3.08%) Bicep
11 5 (2.56%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.54%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.03%) C++
13 2 (1.03%) Java
13 2 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.51%) Cypher
14 1 (0.51%) Delphi
14 1 (0.51%) Go
14 1 (0.51%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 17 (8.72%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.18%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.59%) Degree
4 4 (2.05%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.15%) QA
2 9 (4.62%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.56%) WCAG
4 3 (1.54%) MiFID
5 2 (1.03%) EMIR
6 1 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.51%) HL7
System Software
1 20 (10.26%) Docker
2 4 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (9.74%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.64%) Terraform
3 1 (0.51%) Ansible
Vendors
1 31 (15.90%) Microsoft
2 27 (13.85%) Oracle
3 3 (1.54%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.54%) Citrix
3 3 (1.54%) VMware
4 2 (1.03%) CQG
4 2 (1.03%) Databricks
4 2 (1.03%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.03%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.03%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.51%) DevExpress
5 1 (0.51%) GoldenSource
5 1 (0.51%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.51%) Kofax
5 1 (0.51%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.51%) NEC
5 1 (0.51%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.51%) Sybase
5 1 (0.51%) Temenos
5 1 (0.51%) Virgin Media