.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 13 February 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 307 194
Rank change year-on-year -116 -113 -39
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 192 234 532
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.76% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.81% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 184 434
10th Percentile £379 £330 £306
25th Percentile £413 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £483
Median % change year-on-year - -1.55% -12.27%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £650
90th Percentile £638 £688 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £404
% change year-on-year - +11.46% -15.00%
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 36,628 28,781 41,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.57% 92.94% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,025 17,777 27,347
10th Percentile £300 £290 £275
25th Percentile £406 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £477 £490
% change year-on-year -0.21% -2.65% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,228 824 2,299
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.94 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.86 £21.25 £16.40
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.52 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% -4.23% -2.23%
75th Percentile £61.94 £63.75 £60.75
90th Percentile £72.51 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.60 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -6.80% -9.26% -

.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 13 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 13 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 -121 146 £500 - 233
London -61 92 £550 - 64
Work from Home -43 66 £475 +5.56% 195
UK excluding London -72 63 £450 - 189
Scotland +15 15 £438 - 6
North of England -54 15 £450 -10.00% 61
South East -46 12 £494 +9.72% 56
North West -31 10 £419 -16.25% 37
East of England -20 9 £450 -1.10% 19
Midlands -53 9 £499 +38.54% 22
West Midlands -46 5 £488 +2.63% 13
East Midlands -30 4 £510 +42.66% 9
Yorkshire -60 4 £513 - 15
Wales -3 2 £450 +127.85% 4
South West -21 2 £550 -15.38% 21
North East -14 1 - - 9

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 192 (100.00%) .NET
2 148 (77.08%) C#
3 104 (54.17%) Azure
4 75 (39.06%) SQL
5 64 (33.33%) DevOps
6 62 (32.29%) Agile
7 59 (30.73%) SQL Server
8 56 (29.17%) CI/CD
9 52 (27.08%) .NET Framework
10 47 (24.48%) .NET Core
11 43 (22.40%) Full-Stack Development
12 40 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
13 35 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
14 33 (17.19%) RESTful
15 30 (15.63%) ASP.NET
15 30 (15.63%) Microsoft
16 29 (15.10%) Microservices
16 29 (15.10%) React
17 26 (13.54%) AngularJS
18 25 (13.02%) Scrum
19 24 (12.50%) AI
19 24 (12.50%) Python
20 23 (11.98%) Test Automation
21 22 (11.46%) AWS
21 22 (11.46%) Unit Testing
22 21 (10.94%) Entity Framework
22 21 (10.94%) MVC
22 21 (10.94%) Oracle
23 20 (10.42%) SDLC
23 20 (10.42%) Security Cleared

.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 9 (4.69%) Confluence
2 3 (1.56%) IIS
2 3 (1.56%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.04%) CMS
3 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.52%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.52%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Endur
1 2 (1.04%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 104 (54.17%) Azure
2 40 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (11.46%) AWS
4 18 (9.38%) Serverless
5 17 (8.85%) GitHub
6 15 (7.81%) Azure Service Bus
7 14 (7.29%) Azure Functions
8 13 (6.77%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (5.73%) Azure Key Vault
9 11 (5.73%) Power Platform
10 10 (5.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 8 (4.17%) Azure AKS
11 8 (4.17%) Entra ID
12 7 (3.65%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (3.65%) PaaS
13 6 (3.13%) GCP
14 4 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (2.08%) Cloud Functions
14 4 (2.08%) Cloud Run
15 3 (1.56%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.08%) DNS
2 3 (1.56%) DHCP
2 3 (1.56%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.04%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (30.73%) SQL Server
2 15 (7.81%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (7.81%) Relational Database
3 9 (4.69%) Oracle Database
4 8 (4.17%) Power BI
5 5 (2.60%) Redis
6 4 (2.08%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.08%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.04%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.52%) MySQL
8 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (5.73%) JIRA
2 10 (5.21%) Git
2 10 (5.21%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.69%) SpecFlow
4 7 (3.65%) NUnit
5 6 (3.13%) MSTest
6 5 (2.60%) Visual Studio
7 4 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (1.04%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.04%) Selenium
8 2 (1.04%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.52%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.52%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.52%) JMeter
9 1 (0.52%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.52%) Moq
9 1 (0.52%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.52%) Serilog
9 1 (0.52%) webpack
General
1 45 (23.44%) Finance
2 36 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 32 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 24 (12.50%) Banking
5 9 (4.69%) Investment Banking
6 8 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.17%) Financial Institution
6 8 (4.17%) Front Office
7 3 (1.56%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.04%) Back Office
8 2 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.04%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.52%) Advertising
9 1 (0.52%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Retail
9 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (100.00%) .NET
2 52 (27.08%) .NET Framework
3 47 (24.48%) .NET Core
4 33 (17.19%) RESTful
5 30 (15.63%) ASP.NET
6 29 (15.10%) React
7 26 (13.54%) AngularJS
8 21 (10.94%) Entity Framework
9 19 (9.90%) REST
10 17 (8.85%) WPF
11 16 (8.33%) HTML
12 12 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
13 11 (5.73%) ASP.NET Core
14 10 (5.21%) CSS
15 8 (4.17%) ASP.NET MVC
15 8 (4.17%) NHibernate
15 8 (4.17%) Playwright
15 8 (4.17%) Web Services
15 8 (4.17%) WinForms
16 7 (3.65%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 16 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 12 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.17%) Credit Risk
4 7 (3.65%) Legacy Applications
4 7 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.13%) Market Risk
5 6 (3.13%) Wiki
6 5 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.60%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.60%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.08%) IoT
8 3 (1.56%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.56%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.56%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.56%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.04%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.38%) Windows
2 6 (3.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.52%) Android
3 1 (0.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (33.33%) DevOps
2 62 (32.29%) Agile
3 56 (29.17%) CI/CD
4 43 (22.40%) Full-Stack Development
5 35 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (15.10%) Microservices
7 25 (13.02%) Scrum
8 24 (12.50%) AI
9 23 (11.98%) Test Automation
10 22 (11.46%) Unit Testing
11 21 (10.94%) MVC
12 20 (10.42%) SDLC
13 19 (9.90%) Design Patterns
14 17 (8.85%) Clean Code
15 14 (7.29%) Software Engineering
16 13 (6.77%) Event-Driven
16 13 (6.77%) Infrastructure as Code
16 13 (6.77%) OOP
16 13 (6.77%) User Experience
17 12 (6.25%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 148 (77.08%) C#
2 75 (39.06%) SQL
3 24 (12.50%) Python
4 11 (5.73%) JavaScript
4 11 (5.73%) PL/SQL
5 10 (5.21%) T-SQL
6 9 (4.69%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.65%) Bicep
8 5 (2.60%) VB
8 5 (2.60%) VB.NET
9 4 (2.08%) C++
9 4 (2.08%) Java
9 4 (2.08%) PHP
9 4 (2.08%) VBA
10 3 (1.56%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.52%) Delphi
12 1 (0.52%) Go
12 1 (0.52%) VB6
Qualifications
1 20 (10.42%) Security Cleared
2 17 (8.85%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.73%) Degree
4 4 (2.08%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.29%) QA
2 3 (1.56%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.04%) WCAG
4 1 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.52%) HL7
4 1 (0.52%) MiFID
System Software
1 15 (7.81%) Docker
2 5 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (6.77%) Kubernetes
1 13 (6.77%) Terraform
2 1 (0.52%) Ansible
Vendors
1 30 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.94%) Oracle
3 7 (3.65%) Google
4 4 (2.08%) Citrix
5 3 (1.56%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.56%) ION Trading
5 3 (1.56%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.56%) VMware
5 3 (1.56%) Xamarin
6 2 (1.04%) NEC
7 1 (0.52%) Adobe
7 1 (0.52%) Databricks
7 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.52%) SAP
7 1 (0.52%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.52%) Sybase
7 1 (0.52%) Temenos
7 1 (0.52%) Xero