.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 6 February 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 303 191
Rank change year-on-year -118 -112 -39
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 184 236 538
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.76% 1.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.82% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 186 439
10th Percentile £385 £339 £306
25th Percentile £413 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £490
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -2.04% -10.91%
75th Percentile £588 £597 £650
90th Percentile £638 £688 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £409
% change year-on-year - +10.09% -13.95%
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 35,834 28,947 41,693
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.51% 92.90% 93.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,581 17,764 27,572
10th Percentile £300 £291 £275
25th Percentile £406 £408 £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 £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £490
% change year-on-year -0.42% -2.65% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,159 838 2,289
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.98 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.54 £21.25 £16.54
Median hourly rate £29.65 £33.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% -5.71% -
75th Percentile £61.25 £62.64 £61.60
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £73.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.77 £31.76 £36.00
% change year-on-year -12.56% -11.78% +10.77%

.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 6 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 6 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 -109 140 £500 -0.15% 250
London -71 90 £525 -4.55% 74
Work from Home -65 64 £475 +5.56% 211
UK excluding London -84 57 £450 - 194
Scotland +11 13 £438 - 4
South East -35 12 £494 +9.72% 55
North of England -54 11 £450 -10.00% 69
East of England -23 9 £450 -1.10% 21
Midlands -53 9 £499 +19.46% 26
North West -29 6 £443 -11.50% 41
West Midlands -42 5 £488 - 14
East Midlands -26 4 £510 +42.66% 12
Yorkshire -53 4 £513 - 17
Wales 0 2 £450 +127.85% 3
South West -23 2 £550 -15.38% 17
North East -14 1 - - 11

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

For the 6 months to 6 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.

1 184 (100.00%) .NET
2 140 (76.09%) C#
3 100 (54.35%) Azure
4 69 (37.50%) SQL
5 62 (33.70%) DevOps
6 60 (32.61%) SQL Server
7 58 (31.52%) Agile
8 53 (28.80%) .NET Framework
9 50 (27.17%) CI/CD
10 45 (24.46%) .NET Core
11 40 (21.74%) Full-Stack Development
12 39 (21.20%) Azure DevOps
13 35 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (16.30%) Microservices
14 30 (16.30%) RESTful
15 29 (15.76%) Microsoft
16 28 (15.22%) ASP.NET
17 27 (14.67%) AngularJS
18 26 (14.13%) React
19 22 (11.96%) AI
19 22 (11.96%) AWS
19 22 (11.96%) Python
20 21 (11.41%) Oracle
21 20 (10.87%) Entity Framework
21 20 (10.87%) Test Automation
22 19 (10.33%) Scrum
22 19 (10.33%) Security Cleared
22 19 (10.33%) Windows
23 18 (9.78%) MVC
23 18 (9.78%) SDLC

.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 (4.35%) Confluence
2 4 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.63%) IIS
4 2 (1.09%) CMS
4 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.54%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.54%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 5 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Endur
1 2 (1.09%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 100 (54.35%) Azure
2 39 (21.20%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (11.96%) AWS
4 17 (9.24%) GitHub
5 16 (8.70%) Serverless
6 13 (7.07%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (6.52%) Azure Functions
7 12 (6.52%) Azure Service Bus
8 11 (5.98%) Power Platform
9 9 (4.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 9 (4.89%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (3.80%) Azure AKS
10 7 (3.80%) PaaS
11 6 (3.26%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (3.26%) GCP
12 5 (2.72%) Entra ID
13 4 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (2.17%) Cloud Functions
13 4 (2.17%) Cloud Run
14 3 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.17%) DNS
2 3 (1.63%) DHCP
2 3 (1.63%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.09%) HTTP
4 1 (0.54%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (32.61%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.15%) Relational Database
3 12 (6.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (5.43%) Oracle Database
5 8 (4.35%) Power BI
6 4 (2.17%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.17%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.17%) Redis
7 3 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.09%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.54%) MySQL
9 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (5.43%) Jenkins
2 9 (4.89%) Git
2 9 (4.89%) JIRA
2 9 (4.89%) SpecFlow
3 6 (3.26%) MSTest
4 5 (2.72%) NUnit
4 5 (2.72%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.09%) Selenium
7 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.54%) JMeter
7 1 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.54%) TeamCity
General
1 44 (23.91%) Finance
2 32 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 31 (16.85%) Public Sector
4 24 (13.04%) Banking
5 9 (4.89%) Investment Banking
6 8 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.35%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.80%) Front Office
8 3 (1.63%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.54%) Advertising
10 1 (0.54%) Back Office
10 1 (0.54%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (100.00%) .NET
2 53 (28.80%) .NET Framework
3 45 (24.46%) .NET Core
4 30 (16.30%) RESTful
5 28 (15.22%) ASP.NET
6 27 (14.67%) AngularJS
7 26 (14.13%) React
8 20 (10.87%) Entity Framework
9 17 (9.24%) REST
9 17 (9.24%) WPF
10 14 (7.61%) HTML
11 12 (6.52%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (4.89%) ASP.NET Core
12 9 (4.89%) CSS
13 8 (4.35%) NHibernate
13 8 (4.35%) Playwright
13 8 (4.35%) Web Services
14 7 (3.80%) Middleware
14 7 (3.80%) WinForms
15 6 (3.26%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.24%) Product Ownership
2 16 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.89%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (4.35%) Credit Risk
4 8 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.80%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.26%) Market Risk
6 6 (3.26%) Wiki
7 5 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.72%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.17%) Fixed Income
8 4 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.63%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.63%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.63%) IoT
9 3 (1.63%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.63%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.33%) Windows
2 6 (3.26%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.54%) Android
3 1 (0.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (33.70%) DevOps
2 58 (31.52%) Agile
3 50 (27.17%) CI/CD
4 40 (21.74%) Full-Stack Development
5 35 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (16.30%) Microservices
7 22 (11.96%) AI
8 20 (10.87%) Test Automation
9 19 (10.33%) Scrum
10 18 (9.78%) MVC
10 18 (9.78%) SDLC
10 18 (9.78%) Unit Testing
11 17 (9.24%) Clean Code
11 17 (9.24%) Design Patterns
12 13 (7.07%) Event-Driven
12 13 (7.07%) Software Engineering
13 12 (6.52%) Infrastructure as Code
13 12 (6.52%) Migration
13 12 (6.52%) User Experience
14 11 (5.98%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 140 (76.09%) C#
2 69 (37.50%) SQL
3 22 (11.96%) Python
4 12 (6.52%) PL/SQL
5 11 (5.98%) JavaScript
5 11 (5.98%) T-SQL
6 7 (3.80%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.26%) Bicep
7 6 (3.26%) VB
7 6 (3.26%) VB.NET
8 5 (2.72%) VBA
9 4 (2.17%) PHP
10 3 (1.63%) C++
10 3 (1.63%) Java
10 3 (1.63%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.54%) Delphi
12 1 (0.54%) Go
12 1 (0.54%) VB6
Qualifications
1 19 (10.33%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.24%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.89%) Degree
4 4 (2.17%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.61%) QA
2 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.09%) WCAG
3 1 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.54%) HL7
3 1 (0.54%) MiFID
System Software
1 13 (7.07%) Docker
2 4 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (7.07%) Terraform
2 12 (6.52%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.54%) Ansible
Vendors
1 29 (15.76%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.41%) Oracle
3 6 (3.26%) Google
4 4 (2.17%) Citrix
5 3 (1.63%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.63%) ION Trading
5 3 (1.63%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.63%) VMware
5 3 (1.63%) Xamarin
6 2 (1.09%) NEC
7 1 (0.54%) Adobe
7 1 (0.54%) Databricks
7 1 (0.54%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.54%) Sybase
7 1 (0.54%) Temenos
7 1 (0.54%) Xero