.NET Developer Contracts

.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 30 April 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 233 167
Rank change year-on-year -70 -66 -29
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 235 453 916
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.80% 1.04% 1.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 1.12% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 370 753
10th Percentile £333 £306 £364
25th Percentile £400 £364 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £813 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £375 £475
% change year-on-year +12.00% -21.05% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 9
10th Percentile - - £34.80
25th Percentile £55.00 - £45.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +30.00% -19.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £67.50
90th Percentile - - £85.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +23.81% -15.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

.NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured .NET Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Developer in the UK

.NET Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Developer.

Daily rate trend for .NET Developer in the UK

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Developer over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Developer in the UK

.NET Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Developer.

Hourly rate trend for .NET Developer in the UK

.NET Developer
Top 16 Contract 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 30 April 2025. 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 -65 192 £500 - 227
London -43 145 £520 -11.49% 44
Work from Home -23 96 £494 +12.86% 187
UK excluding London -27 57 £420 +12.00% 193
South East +40 22 £415 -11.70% 43
North of England -3 10 £413 +17.86% 73
Scotland -5 9 £438 +11.11% 7
North West -4 7 £413 +6.45% 44
South West +36 4 £628 +79.29% 13
Midlands +9 4 £488 +34.48% 37
Northern Ireland -6 4 £325 - 1
Yorkshire +2 3 £525 +50.00% 12
East of England +26 2 £388 +10.71% 19
West Midlands +10 2 £488 +30.00% 26
East Midlands +1 2 £363 +3.57% 11
Wales -1 2 £198 -53.53% 3

.NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, .NET Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring .NET Developer in the job title.

1 235 (100.00%) .NET
2 184 (78.30%) C#
3 106 (45.11%) Azure
4 103 (43.83%) SQL
5 88 (37.45%) .NET Framework
6 85 (36.17%) Agile
7 74 (31.49%) DevOps
8 70 (29.79%) Finance
9 62 (26.38%) .NET Core
10 58 (24.68%) SQL Server
11 56 (23.83%) Full-Stack Development
12 52 (22.13%) AWS
13 51 (21.70%) AngularJS
13 51 (21.70%) Social Skills
14 49 (20.85%) CI/CD
14 49 (20.85%) JavaScript
15 47 (20.00%) Oracle
16 42 (17.87%) Kubernetes
17 41 (17.45%) Docker
17 41 (17.45%) Microsoft
18 40 (17.02%) ASP.NET
18 40 (17.02%) Windows
19 39 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
20 37 (15.74%) PL/SQL
21 36 (15.32%) Entity Framework
22 35 (14.89%) TDD
22 35 (14.89%) React
23 34 (14.47%) Microservices
23 34 (14.47%) Azure DevOps
23 34 (14.47%) RESTful

.NET Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (3.40%) Umbraco
2 4 (1.70%) CMS
2 4 (1.70%) IIS
3 2 (0.85%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.43%) Confluence
4 1 (0.43%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 17 (7.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.43%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 106 (45.11%) Azure
2 52 (22.13%) AWS
3 34 (14.47%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (7.66%) Serverless
5 11 (4.68%) Azure Functions
5 11 (4.68%) GCP
6 10 (4.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (2.55%) Azure Service Fabric
7 6 (2.55%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (2.13%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (2.13%) Azure Storage
9 4 (1.70%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.70%) Azure API Management
9 4 (1.70%) Azure App Service
9 4 (1.70%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (1.28%) GitHub
11 2 (0.85%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.85%) Firewall
1 2 (0.85%) HTTP
1 2 (0.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (24.68%) SQL Server
2 23 (9.79%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (8.94%) Oracle Database
4 16 (6.81%) NoSQL
4 16 (6.81%) Relational Database
5 13 (5.53%) MongoDB
6 12 (5.11%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (2.55%) MySQL
9 4 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.85%) DocumentDB
10 2 (0.85%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.85%) Redis
10 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.43%) ClickHouse
11 1 (0.43%) Informix
11 1 (0.43%) MS Access
11 1 (0.43%) Parquet
11 1 (0.43%) Power BI
11 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 26 (11.06%) Git
2 17 (7.23%) JIRA
3 9 (3.83%) NUnit
4 8 (3.40%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.13%) Ant
5 5 (2.13%) Maven
5 5 (2.13%) Subversion
5 5 (2.13%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (2.13%) Visual Studio
6 4 (1.70%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.85%) MSTest
7 2 (0.85%) Postman
7 2 (0.85%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.43%) GitLab
8 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.43%) SpecFlow
General
1 70 (29.79%) Finance
2 51 (21.70%) Social Skills
3 30 (12.77%) Banking
3 30 (12.77%) Front Office
4 26 (11.06%) Public Sector
5 24 (10.21%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.98%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.13%) Billing
7 5 (2.13%) Wholesale Banking
8 3 (1.28%) Law
8 3 (1.28%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.85%) Electronics
9 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.85%) Marketing
9 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.85%) Retail
10 1 (0.43%) French Language
10 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.43%) Police
10 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (100.00%) .NET
2 88 (37.45%) .NET Framework
3 62 (26.38%) .NET Core
4 51 (21.70%) AngularJS
5 40 (17.02%) ASP.NET
6 36 (15.32%) Entity Framework
7 35 (14.89%) React
8 34 (14.47%) RESTful
9 29 (12.34%) WPF
10 28 (11.91%) HTML
11 27 (11.49%) CSS
12 19 (8.09%) Reactive Extensions
13 18 (7.66%) ASP.NET Web API
14 14 (5.96%) ASP.NET MVC
15 13 (5.53%) REST
15 13 (5.53%) Web Services
16 12 (5.11%) ASP.NET Core
17 11 (4.68%) OAuth
18 10 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
18 10 (4.26%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.79%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.96%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (3.83%) Cloud Native
3 9 (3.83%) Legacy Applications
4 8 (3.40%) Wiki
5 7 (2.98%) Market Risk
6 6 (2.55%) Derivative
6 6 (2.55%) Equities
6 6 (2.55%) Equity Derivative
6 6 (2.55%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.28%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.85%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.85%) NHS
9 2 (0.85%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.43%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 40 (17.02%) Windows
2 6 (2.55%) Linux
3 5 (2.13%) Unix
4 1 (0.43%) AIX
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (36.17%) Agile
2 74 (31.49%) DevOps
3 56 (23.83%) Full-Stack Development
4 49 (20.85%) CI/CD
5 39 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (14.89%) TDD
7 34 (14.47%) Microservices
8 31 (13.19%) Design Patterns
9 30 (12.77%) OO
10 29 (12.34%) Containerisation
11 26 (11.06%) MVC
11 26 (11.06%) User Experience
12 24 (10.21%) Test Automation
13 23 (9.79%) API Development
14 22 (9.36%) Scrum
15 19 (8.09%) Continuous Improvement
16 16 (6.81%) Code Quality
17 15 (6.38%) SDLC
17 15 (6.38%) SOLID
17 15 (6.38%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 184 (78.30%) C#
2 103 (43.83%) SQL
3 49 (20.85%) JavaScript
4 37 (15.74%) PL/SQL
5 19 (8.09%) VBA
6 18 (7.66%) VB
6 18 (7.66%) VB.NET
7 15 (6.38%) TypeScript
8 12 (5.11%) Java
9 11 (4.68%) PowerShell
9 11 (4.68%) RPG
9 11 (4.68%) RPG IV
10 8 (3.40%) Python
10 8 (3.40%) T-SQL
11 5 (2.13%) F#
12 3 (1.28%) C++
13 2 (0.85%) Go
14 1 (0.43%) Bicep
14 1 (0.43%) VB6
14 1 (0.43%) XAML
Qualifications
1 13 (5.53%) Security Cleared
2 11 (4.68%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.13%) Degree
4 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.43%) MCAD
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.38%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.83%) QA
3 2 (0.85%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.43%) GDPR
4 1 (0.43%) HL7
4 1 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 41 (17.45%) Docker
2 3 (1.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (17.87%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 47 (20.00%) Oracle
2 41 (17.45%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.13%) SAP
4 4 (1.70%) Solace
4 4 (1.70%) TIBCO
5 3 (1.28%) Databricks
5 3 (1.28%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.28%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.28%) Sitecore
5 3 (1.28%) Virgin Media
6 2 (0.85%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.43%) Google
7 1 (0.43%) IBM
7 1 (0.43%) Murex
7 1 (0.43%) Rackspace
7 1 (0.43%) Splunk
7 1 (0.43%) Telerik
7 1 (0.43%) VMware