.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 10 July 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 323 222
Rank change year-on-year -100 -101 -26
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 247 246 464
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.76% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.83% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 195 384
10th Percentile £375 £330 £313
25th Percentile £425 £395 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £595 £606 £625
90th Percentile £692 £813 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £454 £450 £418
% change year-on-year +0.89% +7.78% -7.22%
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 48,674 29,733 40,149
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 91.88% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,515 18,978 25,840
10th Percentile £325 £288 £288
25th Percentile £418 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,263 1,368 2,770
10th Percentile £15.93 £13.75 £12.88
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £16.79
Median hourly rate £43.50 £26.39 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.87% -29.64% -14.05%
75th Percentile £67.50 £56.06 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.40 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% +0.50%

.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 July 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 10 July 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 -103 202 £500 - 192
UK excluding London -66 116 £454 +0.89% 149
Work from Home -63 91 £525 - 170
London -120 88 £588 +12.98% 61
North of England -47 44 £460 +9.85% 49
Yorkshire -21 30 £475 -9.52% 13
Midlands -36 27 £500 +59.74% 17
South East -56 24 £410 -1.20% 49
East Midlands +2 20 £563 +109.11% 4
North West -35 14 £450 +12.50% 22
South West -29 8 £450 -31.30% 8
West Midlands -63 7 £460 -7.07% 13
Scotland -18 5 £394 -12.50% 3
East of England -29 5 - - 23
Wales -11 4 £600 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 10 July 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.

1 247 (100.00%) .NET
2 181 (73.28%) C#
3 129 (52.23%) Azure
4 109 (44.13%) CI/CD
5 88 (35.63%) SQL
6 86 (34.82%) SQL Server
7 83 (33.60%) DevOps
8 82 (33.20%) Agile
9 58 (23.48%) .NET Framework
10 54 (21.86%) Microsoft
11 52 (21.05%) ASP.NET
11 52 (21.05%) RESTful
12 51 (20.65%) .NET Core
12 51 (20.65%) Microservices
13 50 (20.24%) Azure DevOps
14 45 (18.22%) Full-Stack Development
15 43 (17.41%) AWS
16 42 (17.00%) AngularJS
17 41 (16.60%) Security Cleared
18 40 (16.19%) Kubernetes
18 40 (16.19%) REST
19 39 (15.79%) SC Cleared
20 38 (15.38%) Docker
21 35 (14.17%) JavaScript
21 35 (14.17%) React
22 32 (12.96%) Test Automation
23 31 (12.55%) Oracle
23 31 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
24 30 (12.15%) GitHub
25 29 (11.74%) Python

.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 (3.24%) Confluence
1 8 (3.24%) IIS
2 7 (2.83%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.21%) Apache Superset
3 3 (1.21%) CMS
4 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.40%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.40%) Endur
1 1 (0.40%) NEC Housing
1 1 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 129 (52.23%) Azure
2 50 (20.24%) Azure DevOps
3 43 (17.41%) AWS
4 30 (12.15%) GitHub
5 20 (8.10%) Azure Service Bus
6 19 (7.69%) Serverless
7 13 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (5.26%) Power Platform
8 11 (4.45%) Azure Functions
9 10 (4.05%) GCP
10 8 (3.24%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (2.83%) Azure AKS
12 6 (2.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 6 (2.43%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (2.43%) Entra ID
13 5 (2.02%) Power Automate
14 4 (1.62%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (1.62%) Cloud Functions
14 4 (1.62%) Cloud Run
14 4 (1.62%) n8n
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (34.82%) SQL Server
2 23 (9.31%) Relational Database
3 17 (6.88%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (4.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (4.05%) Power BI
6 6 (2.43%) MS Access
6 6 (2.43%) Redis
6 6 (2.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.62%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.62%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.62%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.21%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.21%) DocumentDB
8 3 (1.21%) Metabase
8 3 (1.21%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.21%) Parquet
9 2 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (10.93%) Git
2 17 (6.88%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.26%) NUnit
4 11 (4.45%) Visual Studio
5 9 (3.64%) MSTest
6 8 (3.24%) JIRA
7 6 (2.43%) GitLab
7 6 (2.43%) SpecFlow
8 5 (2.02%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.62%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.21%) Jasmine
10 3 (1.21%) Karma Test Runner
10 3 (1.21%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (1.21%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.81%) Moq
12 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.40%) Mocha
12 1 (0.40%) MSBuild
12 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 50 (20.24%) Finance
2 34 (13.77%) Social Skills
3 25 (10.12%) Public Sector
4 20 (8.10%) Banking
5 14 (5.67%) Front Office
6 12 (4.86%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.02%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.62%) Legal
10 3 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.81%) Automotive
11 2 (0.81%) Back Office
11 2 (0.81%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.81%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.40%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.40%) Military
12 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.40%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.40%) Retail
12 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 247 (100.00%) .NET
2 58 (23.48%) .NET Framework
3 52 (21.05%) ASP.NET
3 52 (21.05%) RESTful
4 51 (20.65%) .NET Core
5 42 (17.00%) AngularJS
6 40 (16.19%) REST
7 35 (14.17%) React
8 27 (10.93%) HTML
9 21 (8.50%) ASP.NET Web API
9 21 (8.50%) Entity Framework
10 14 (5.67%) ASP.NET Core
10 14 (5.67%) Web Services
11 12 (4.86%) CSS
11 12 (4.86%) WinForms
11 12 (4.86%) WPF
12 11 (4.45%) RabbitMQ
13 10 (4.05%) ASP.NET MVC
13 10 (4.05%) Kafka
13 10 (4.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.67%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (5.67%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (4.45%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.83%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.02%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (2.02%) Legacy Code
7 4 (1.62%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.62%) Replication
8 3 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.21%) Derivative
8 3 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.21%) IoT
8 3 (1.21%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.21%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.81%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.81%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.81%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.67%) Windows
2 2 (0.81%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.40%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (44.13%) CI/CD
2 83 (33.60%) DevOps
3 82 (33.20%) Agile
4 51 (20.65%) Microservices
5 45 (18.22%) Full-Stack Development
6 32 (12.96%) Test Automation
7 31 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (11.34%) Scrum
9 23 (9.31%) Unit Testing
10 21 (8.50%) Containerisation
11 20 (8.10%) AI
11 20 (8.10%) TDD
12 19 (7.69%) Design Patterns
12 19 (7.69%) SOLID
13 17 (6.88%) Code Quality
13 17 (6.88%) Event-Driven
13 17 (6.88%) MVC
13 17 (6.88%) OOP
13 17 (6.88%) Software Engineering
14 15 (6.07%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 181 (73.28%) C#
2 88 (35.63%) SQL
3 35 (14.17%) JavaScript
4 29 (11.74%) Python
5 24 (9.72%) TypeScript
6 23 (9.31%) T-SQL
7 13 (5.26%) PL/SQL
8 9 (3.64%) VB.NET
9 7 (2.83%) VBA
10 6 (2.43%) VBScript
11 5 (2.02%) Bicep
11 5 (2.02%) Java
12 4 (1.62%) XPath
13 3 (1.21%) MATLAB
13 3 (1.21%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.21%) Rust
14 2 (0.81%) C++
14 2 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.81%) XAML
15 1 (0.40%) C
Qualifications
1 41 (16.60%) Security Cleared
2 39 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.64%) Degree
4 6 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.02%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.81%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.81%) PhD
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.67%) QA
2 5 (2.02%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.21%) WCAG
4 2 (0.81%) NCSC
5 1 (0.40%) Basel III
5 1 (0.40%) GMP
5 1 (0.40%) GxP
System Software
1 38 (15.38%) Docker
2 6 (2.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (16.19%) Kubernetes
2 23 (9.31%) Terraform
3 5 (2.02%) Ansible
4 4 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (21.86%) Microsoft
2 31 (12.55%) Oracle
3 8 (3.24%) Citrix
4 7 (2.83%) Google
5 4 (1.62%) Centrify
5 4 (1.62%) CyberArk
6 3 (1.21%) Xamarin
7 2 (0.81%) ION Trading
7 2 (0.81%) SAP
8 1 (0.40%) Adobe
8 1 (0.40%) DevExpress
8 1 (0.40%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.40%) NEC
8 1 (0.40%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.40%) Telerik
8 1 (0.40%) Xero