.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 21 August 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 329 221
Rank change year-on-year -86 -108 -13
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 261 237 427
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.72% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.79% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 181 357
10th Percentile £375 £350 £313
25th Percentile £416 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £594 £538 £625
90th Percentile £729 £750 £747
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
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 49,522 29,914 36,178
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 91.26% 92.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,686 18,901 23,122
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,509 1,556 1,977
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.60 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.53 £17.30 £19.59
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% +2.38%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.99 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +14.67%

.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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -86 227 £495 +4.21% 200
UK excluding London -42 129 £450 - 160
London -110 100 £588 +23.68% 58
Work from Home -72 90 £525 +5.00% 175
North of England -45 43 £460 +8.24% 45
Yorkshire -7 38 £460 -12.38% 10
South East -62 28 £400 -4.53% 58
Midlands -36 25 £500 -0.50% 19
East Midlands -4 20 £563 +36.70% 9
South West -31 20 £425 - 11
East of England -12 6 £525 +20.00% 22
North West -45 5 £467 +13.43% 24
West Midlands -52 5 £425 -16.67% 9
Wales -14 4 £600 - 3
Scotland -26 2 £400 -11.11% 4
Channel Islands - 1 £450 -

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

For the 6 months to 21 August 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.

1 261 (100.00%) .NET
2 186 (71.26%) C#
3 122 (46.74%) Azure
4 115 (44.06%) CI/CD
5 98 (37.55%) SQL Server
6 91 (34.87%) SQL
7 86 (32.95%) Agile
8 83 (31.80%) DevOps
9 70 (26.82%) Microsoft
10 63 (24.14%) .NET Framework
11 59 (22.61%) ASP.NET
12 58 (22.22%) .NET Core
12 58 (22.22%) REST
13 57 (21.84%) Microservices
14 56 (21.46%) Full-Stack Development
15 52 (19.92%) Security Cleared
16 51 (19.54%) Azure DevOps
16 51 (19.54%) SC Cleared
17 48 (18.39%) RESTful
18 47 (18.01%) AWS
18 47 (18.01%) JavaScript
18 47 (18.01%) Kubernetes
19 44 (16.86%) AngularJS
20 43 (16.48%) Docker
21 38 (14.56%) Git
22 35 (13.41%) Test Automation
23 33 (12.64%) GitHub
24 30 (11.49%) Oracle
24 30 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
24 30 (11.49%) React

.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 12 (4.60%) Confluence
2 10 (3.83%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.45%) IIS
4 3 (1.15%) Apache Superset
4 3 (1.15%) CMS
5 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.38%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.38%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 122 (46.74%) Azure
2 51 (19.54%) Azure DevOps
3 47 (18.01%) AWS
4 33 (12.64%) GitHub
5 18 (6.90%) Serverless
6 17 (6.51%) Azure Service Bus
7 11 (4.21%) Azure Functions
8 10 (3.83%) Azure Key Vault
8 10 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (3.45%) Azure AKS
9 9 (3.45%) PaaS
9 9 (3.45%) Power Platform
10 7 (2.68%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (2.68%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (2.30%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.92%) Azure App Service
12 5 (1.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (1.92%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.92%) GCP
13 4 (1.53%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.38%) Broadband
1 1 (0.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (37.55%) SQL Server
2 19 (7.28%) Relational Database
3 18 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (2.30%) MS Access
5 6 (2.30%) Power BI
6 5 (1.92%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.92%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.92%) Redis
7 4 (1.53%) DocumentDB
7 4 (1.53%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (1.15%) Metabase
8 3 (1.15%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.15%) Parquet
9 2 (0.77%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.77%) Db2
9 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.38%) MySQL
10 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 38 (14.56%) Git
2 14 (5.36%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.60%) JIRA
4 10 (3.83%) Visual Studio
5 8 (3.07%) GitLab
6 7 (2.68%) NUnit
7 6 (2.30%) SpecFlow
8 5 (1.92%) REST Assured
8 5 (1.92%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (1.53%) MSI
9 4 (1.53%) MSTest
9 4 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (1.15%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.77%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.77%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.77%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (0.77%) Postman
12 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.38%) tSQLt
General
1 58 (22.22%) Finance
2 39 (14.94%) Social Skills
3 26 (9.96%) Public Sector
4 25 (9.58%) Banking
5 13 (4.98%) Investment Banking
6 10 (3.83%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.83%) Front Office
7 6 (2.30%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.53%) Legal
9 3 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.15%) Local Government
10 2 (0.77%) Automotive
10 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.38%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.38%) Law
11 1 (0.38%) Military
11 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.38%) Police
11 1 (0.38%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (100.00%) .NET
2 63 (24.14%) .NET Framework
3 59 (22.61%) ASP.NET
4 58 (22.22%) .NET Core
4 58 (22.22%) REST
5 48 (18.39%) RESTful
6 44 (16.86%) AngularJS
7 30 (11.49%) React
8 25 (9.58%) HTML
9 22 (8.43%) Terraform
10 21 (8.05%) ASP.NET Core
10 21 (8.05%) Web Services
11 20 (7.66%) Entity Framework
12 19 (7.28%) ASP.NET Web API
13 17 (6.51%) WPF
14 16 (6.13%) WinForms
15 15 (5.75%) Kafka
16 14 (5.36%) CSS
17 11 (4.21%) ASP.NET MVC
18 10 (3.83%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.51%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (6.51%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.30%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (1.92%) Legacy Code
5 5 (1.92%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.53%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.53%) Replication
6 4 (1.53%) Wiki
7 3 (1.15%) Derivative
7 3 (1.15%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.77%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.38%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.38%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.28%) Windows
2 2 (0.77%) Linux
2 2 (0.77%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (44.06%) CI/CD
2 86 (32.95%) Agile
3 83 (31.80%) DevOps
4 57 (21.84%) Microservices
5 56 (21.46%) Full-Stack Development
6 35 (13.41%) Test Automation
7 30 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (9.96%) Containerisation
9 25 (9.58%) API Development
10 23 (8.81%) Code Quality
10 23 (8.81%) Software Engineering
11 22 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (8.05%) SOLID
13 20 (7.66%) AI
13 20 (7.66%) Event-Driven
13 20 (7.66%) Scrum
14 19 (7.28%) Design Patterns
14 19 (7.28%) Mentoring
14 19 (7.28%) OOP
15 17 (6.51%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 186 (71.26%) C#
2 91 (34.87%) SQL
3 47 (18.01%) JavaScript
4 28 (10.73%) TypeScript
5 26 (9.96%) T-SQL
6 25 (9.58%) Python
7 18 (6.90%) PL/SQL
8 10 (3.83%) VB.NET
9 8 (3.07%) VBA
10 7 (2.68%) Bicep
11 6 (2.30%) VBScript
12 4 (1.53%) Java
12 4 (1.53%) XPath
13 3 (1.15%) MATLAB
13 3 (1.15%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.15%) Rust
14 2 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.77%) VB
14 2 (0.77%) XAML
15 1 (0.38%) C
Qualifications
1 52 (19.92%) Security Cleared
2 51 (19.54%) SC Cleared
3 5 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (1.92%) DV Cleared
4 4 (1.53%) Degree
5 2 (0.77%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.77%) PhD
6 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.75%) QA
2 7 (2.68%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.92%) NCSC
3 5 (1.92%) WCAG
4 1 (0.38%) Basel III
4 1 (0.38%) GMP
4 1 (0.38%) GxP
System Software
1 43 (16.48%) Docker
2 8 (3.07%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 47 (18.01%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.30%) Ansible
3 4 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 70 (26.82%) Microsoft
2 30 (11.49%) Oracle
3 9 (3.45%) Citrix
4 5 (1.92%) Centrify
4 5 (1.92%) CyberArk
5 3 (1.15%) DevExpress
5 3 (1.15%) IBM
6 1 (0.38%) InterSystems
6 1 (0.38%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.38%) SAP
6 1 (0.38%) Telerik