.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 1 April 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 305 219
Rank change year-on-year -114 -86 -52
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 210 224 484
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.77% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.83% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 190 397
10th Percentile £373 £340 £304
25th Percentile £425 £395 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £624 £638
90th Percentile £675 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £452 £440 £375
% change year-on-year +2.73% +17.33% -21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% - -
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 41,143 26,962 41,094
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.09% 92.84% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,657 17,725 26,925
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.54%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.11% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,568 945 2,533
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.03 £12.86
25th Percentile £19.74 £20.94 £16.25
Median hourly rate £38.63 £32.50 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +18.86% -1.20% -25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.81 £71.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £31.76 £32.90
% change year-on-year +25.94% -3.45% -21.68%

.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 April 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 1 April 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 -130 165 £525 +5.00% 221
London -109 94 £563 +8.17% 65
UK excluding London -70 80 £452 +2.73% 169
Work from Home -60 69 £481 +6.35% 201
North of England -51 29 £460 +2.22% 54
North West -34 15 £450 +4.35% 32
South East -57 15 £502 +13.25% 48
Yorkshire -43 14 £500 -4.76% 16
Scotland +10 12 £425 - 5
Midlands -63 11 £519 +3.75% 19
East of England -22 8 £450 +16.13% 21
East Midlands -26 7 £475 -5.00% 9
South West -26 4 £588 -2.08% 19
West Midlands -56 4 £519 +6.41% 10
Wales -10 2 £450 +127.85% 4

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

For the 6 months to 1 April 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.

1 210 (100.00%) .NET
2 158 (75.24%) C#
3 124 (59.05%) Azure
4 83 (39.52%) CI/CD
5 80 (38.10%) DevOps
5 80 (38.10%) SQL
6 70 (33.33%) SQL Server
7 68 (32.38%) Agile
8 48 (22.86%) Azure DevOps
9 47 (22.38%) .NET Framework
10 46 (21.90%) .NET Core
11 44 (20.95%) Full-Stack Development
12 42 (20.00%) RESTful
13 38 (18.10%) AngularJS
13 38 (18.10%) Microsoft
14 35 (16.67%) ASP.NET
14 35 (16.67%) React
15 34 (16.19%) Microservices
16 32 (15.24%) Security Cleared
17 30 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
17 30 (14.29%) SC Cleared
18 29 (13.81%) Python
19 28 (13.33%) HTML
19 28 (13.33%) REST
20 26 (12.38%) Test Automation
21 25 (11.90%) JavaScript
22 24 (11.43%) AWS
22 24 (11.43%) Serverless
23 22 (10.48%) Azure Service Bus
24 21 (10.00%) 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 6 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.38%) IIS
3 4 (1.90%) CMS
3 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.95%) Apache Superset
4 2 (0.95%) Confluence
5 1 (0.48%) Orchard CMS
5 1 (0.48%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Endur
1 2 (0.95%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 124 (59.05%) Azure
2 48 (22.86%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (11.43%) AWS
3 24 (11.43%) Serverless
4 22 (10.48%) Azure Service Bus
5 19 (9.05%) Azure Functions
6 16 (7.62%) GitHub
7 14 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (5.71%) Azure Key Vault
9 11 (5.24%) Power Platform
10 10 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (4.29%) Entra ID
11 9 (4.29%) PaaS
12 8 (3.81%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (3.33%) Azure AKS
14 6 (2.86%) GCP
15 5 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
16 4 (1.90%) Azure App Service
16 4 (1.90%) Cloud Functions
16 4 (1.90%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.95%) DHCP
1 2 (0.95%) DNS
1 2 (0.95%) HTTP
1 2 (0.95%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 17 (8.10%) Azure SQL Database
2 17 (8.10%) Relational Database
3 8 (3.81%) Power BI
4 7 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.33%) Redis
5 5 (2.38%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.90%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.90%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.95%) Metabase
7 2 (0.95%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.95%) Parquet
7 2 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.48%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (8.57%) Git
2 10 (4.76%) NUnit
3 9 (4.29%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.81%) MSTest
5 6 (2.86%) Visual Studio
6 5 (2.38%) SpecFlow
7 4 (1.90%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.90%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (1.43%) Jasmine
8 3 (1.43%) JIRA
8 3 (1.43%) Karma Test Runner
8 3 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.95%) Selenium
10 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.48%) JMeter
10 1 (0.48%) Mocha
10 1 (0.48%) Moq
10 1 (0.48%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.48%) tSQLt
10 1 (0.48%) webpack
General
1 40 (19.05%) Finance
2 35 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 33 (15.71%) Public Sector
4 27 (12.86%) Banking
5 14 (6.67%) Front Office
6 13 (6.19%) Investment Banking
7 9 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (3.81%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.43%) Back Office
9 3 (1.43%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.95%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.95%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.48%) Automotive
11 1 (0.48%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.48%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.48%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 210 (100.00%) .NET
2 47 (22.38%) .NET Framework
3 46 (21.90%) .NET Core
4 42 (20.00%) RESTful
5 38 (18.10%) AngularJS
6 35 (16.67%) ASP.NET
6 35 (16.67%) React
7 28 (13.33%) HTML
7 28 (13.33%) REST
8 16 (7.62%) ASP.NET Core
8 16 (7.62%) Entity Framework
9 15 (7.14%) CSS
10 14 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
11 11 (5.24%) WPF
12 9 (4.29%) ASP.NET MVC
12 9 (4.29%) WinForms
13 8 (3.81%) HTML5
13 8 (3.81%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (3.81%) Web Services
14 7 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.62%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.81%) Credit Risk
5 7 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.86%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (2.86%) Market Risk
7 5 (2.38%) IoT
7 5 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.38%) Wiki
8 4 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.43%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.43%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.43%) Derivative
9 3 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.43%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.95%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.95%) NHS
10 2 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.67%) Windows
2 6 (2.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (39.52%) CI/CD
2 80 (38.10%) DevOps
3 68 (32.38%) Agile
4 44 (20.95%) Full-Stack Development
5 34 (16.19%) Microservices
6 30 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (12.38%) Test Automation
8 20 (9.52%) AI
8 20 (9.52%) Design Patterns
8 20 (9.52%) MVC
9 19 (9.05%) Scrum
9 19 (9.05%) SDLC
9 19 (9.05%) Unit Testing
10 15 (7.14%) TDD
11 14 (6.67%) OOP
12 13 (6.19%) Clean Code
12 13 (6.19%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (6.19%) User Experience
13 12 (5.71%) Software Engineering
13 12 (5.71%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 158 (75.24%) C#
2 80 (38.10%) SQL
3 29 (13.81%) Python
4 25 (11.90%) JavaScript
5 15 (7.14%) T-SQL
6 13 (6.19%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.86%) PL/SQL
7 6 (2.86%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.38%) Bicep
8 5 (2.38%) Java
9 4 (1.90%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.43%) C++
11 2 (0.95%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.95%) Rust
12 1 (0.48%) Delphi
12 1 (0.48%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 32 (15.24%) Security Cleared
2 30 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.76%) Degree
4 4 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.90%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.14%) QA
2 4 (1.90%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.95%) WCAG
4 1 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.48%) HL7
4 1 (0.48%) MiFID
System Software
1 19 (9.05%) Docker
2 3 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 20 (9.52%) Terraform
3 1 (0.48%) Ansible
3 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (18.10%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.57%) Oracle
3 7 (3.33%) Google
4 6 (2.86%) Citrix
5 3 (1.43%) ION Trading
5 3 (1.43%) Xamarin
6 2 (0.95%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.95%) NEC
6 2 (0.95%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.95%) VMware
7 1 (0.48%) Adobe
7 1 (0.48%) Databricks
7 1 (0.48%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.48%) SAP
7 1 (0.48%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.48%) Sybase
7 1 (0.48%) Temenos
7 1 (0.48%) Xero