.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 24 July 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 311 234
Rank change year-on-year -113 -77 -36
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 255 257 447
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.79% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.86% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 203 369
10th Percentile £375 £342 £313
25th Percentile £420 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £625
90th Percentile £695 £813 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -5.56%
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 48,872 29,931 38,007
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.61% 91.58% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,492 19,056 24,610
10th Percentile £328 £283 £298
25th Percentile £420 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.02%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £727 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,302 1,437 2,371
10th Percentile £15.81 £13.75 £13.60
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £18.17
Median hourly rate £43.55 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +73.17% -38.57% -6.42%
75th Percentile £67.89 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.92 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.91
% change year-on-year +78.93% -41.39% +7.28%

.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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -98 215 £500 +5.26% 90
UK excluding London -50 127 £450 - 68
London -130 92 £588 +17.50% 30
Work from Home -66 88 £525 +5.00% 61
North of England -31 47 £454 +8.42% 21
Yorkshire -15 35 £460 -12.38% 10
Midlands -36 27 £500 +1.01% 7
South East -61 27 £420 +0.24% 21
East Midlands +3 20 £563 +36.70% 1
South West -34 12 £450 -39.19% 9
North West -40 12 £404 -0.25% 5
West Midlands -59 7 £425 -14.14% 6
Scotland -15 5 £394 -12.50% 1
East of England -16 5 - - 10
Wales -13 4 £600 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 24 July 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.

1 255 (100.00%) .NET
2 184 (72.16%) C#
3 129 (50.59%) Azure
4 117 (45.88%) CI/CD
5 94 (36.86%) SQL
6 90 (35.29%) SQL Server
7 88 (34.51%) DevOps
8 87 (34.12%) Agile
9 66 (25.88%) Microsoft
10 65 (25.49%) .NET Framework
11 57 (22.35%) ASP.NET
12 56 (21.96%) Microservices
13 55 (21.57%) Full-Stack Development
14 54 (21.18%) .NET Core
14 54 (21.18%) Azure DevOps
15 52 (20.39%) REST
16 49 (19.22%) RESTful
17 47 (18.43%) Security Cleared
18 45 (17.65%) SC Cleared
19 44 (17.25%) Docker
20 43 (16.86%) AngularJS
20 43 (16.86%) JavaScript
20 43 (16.86%) Kubernetes
21 41 (16.08%) AWS
22 37 (14.51%) Test Automation
23 36 (14.12%) React
24 32 (12.55%) Git
24 32 (12.55%) GitHub
25 30 (11.76%) Oracle
26 28 (10.98%) HTML

.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 11 (4.31%) Confluence
2 9 (3.53%) IIS
2 9 (3.53%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.18%) Apache Superset
3 3 (1.18%) CMS
4 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.39%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.39%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 129 (50.59%) Azure
2 54 (21.18%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (16.08%) AWS
4 32 (12.55%) GitHub
5 21 (8.24%) Azure Service Bus
6 20 (7.84%) Serverless
7 12 (4.71%) Azure Functions
7 12 (4.71%) Azure Key Vault
7 12 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (4.31%) Power Platform
9 9 (3.53%) Azure AKS
10 8 (3.14%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (3.14%) Entra ID
10 8 (3.14%) GCP
10 8 (3.14%) PaaS
11 6 (2.35%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (1.96%) Azure App Service
12 5 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (1.96%) Power Automate
13 4 (1.57%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.39%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (35.29%) SQL Server
2 18 (7.06%) Relational Database
3 17 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (5.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (3.53%) Power BI
6 7 (2.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (2.35%) MS Access
7 6 (2.35%) Redis
8 5 (1.96%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.96%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.57%) DocumentDB
10 3 (1.18%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.18%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.18%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (1.18%) Metabase
10 3 (1.18%) Parquet
11 2 (0.78%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.39%) Db2
12 1 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (12.55%) Git
2 15 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.71%) NUnit
4 10 (3.92%) JIRA
4 10 (3.92%) Visual Studio
5 8 (3.14%) MSTest
6 6 (2.35%) GitLab
6 6 (2.35%) SpecFlow
7 5 (1.96%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.57%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.18%) Jasmine
9 3 (1.18%) Karma Test Runner
9 3 (1.18%) MSI
9 3 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (1.18%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.78%) Moq
10 2 (0.78%) Postman
11 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.39%) Mocha
General
1 54 (21.18%) Finance
2 37 (14.51%) Social Skills
3 27 (10.59%) Public Sector
4 19 (7.45%) Banking
5 12 (4.71%) Front Office
6 10 (3.92%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.96%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.57%) Legal
10 2 (0.78%) Automotive
10 2 (0.78%) Back Office
10 2 (0.78%) Local Government
10 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.39%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.39%) Military
11 1 (0.39%) Police
11 1 (0.39%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.39%) Retail
11 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 255 (100.00%) .NET
2 65 (25.49%) .NET Framework
3 57 (22.35%) ASP.NET
4 54 (21.18%) .NET Core
5 52 (20.39%) REST
6 49 (19.22%) RESTful
7 43 (16.86%) AngularJS
8 36 (14.12%) React
9 28 (10.98%) HTML
10 24 (9.41%) Entity Framework
11 21 (8.24%) ASP.NET Core
11 21 (8.24%) ASP.NET Web API
12 16 (6.27%) WPF
13 15 (5.88%) CSS
13 15 (5.88%) Web Services
14 14 (5.49%) WinForms
15 11 (4.31%) Kafka
16 10 (3.92%) ASP.NET MVC
16 10 (3.92%) JSON
16 10 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.24%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.27%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.92%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.35%) AI Agents
6 5 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (1.96%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.57%) Legacy Code
7 4 (1.57%) Replication
7 4 (1.57%) Wiki
8 3 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.18%) Derivative
8 3 (1.18%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.18%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.78%) IoT
9 2 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.39%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.67%) Windows
2 2 (0.78%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (45.88%) CI/CD
2 88 (34.51%) DevOps
3 87 (34.12%) Agile
4 56 (21.96%) Microservices
5 55 (21.57%) Full-Stack Development
6 37 (14.51%) Test Automation
7 27 (10.59%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (10.59%) Scrum
8 24 (9.41%) Containerisation
9 23 (9.02%) Code Quality
10 22 (8.63%) Unit Testing
11 21 (8.24%) SOLID
12 20 (7.84%) OOP
12 20 (7.84%) TDD
13 19 (7.45%) AI
13 19 (7.45%) Software Engineering
14 18 (7.06%) API Development
14 18 (7.06%) Design Patterns
15 17 (6.67%) Event-Driven
15 17 (6.67%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 184 (72.16%) C#
2 94 (36.86%) SQL
3 43 (16.86%) JavaScript
4 28 (10.98%) TypeScript
5 27 (10.59%) Python
6 24 (9.41%) T-SQL
7 15 (5.88%) PL/SQL
8 10 (3.92%) VB.NET
9 8 (3.14%) VBA
10 7 (2.75%) Bicep
11 6 (2.35%) VBScript
12 4 (1.57%) Java
12 4 (1.57%) XPath
13 3 (1.18%) MATLAB
13 3 (1.18%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.18%) Rust
14 2 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.78%) VB
14 2 (0.78%) XAML
15 1 (0.39%) C++
Qualifications
1 47 (18.43%) Security Cleared
2 45 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.14%) Degree
4 5 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.96%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.78%) PhD
6 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.27%) QA
2 7 (2.75%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.96%) WCAG
4 4 (1.57%) NCSC
5 1 (0.39%) Basel III
5 1 (0.39%) GMP
5 1 (0.39%) GxP
System Software
1 44 (17.25%) Docker
2 8 (3.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (16.86%) Kubernetes
2 25 (9.80%) Terraform
3 5 (1.96%) Ansible
4 4 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (25.88%) Microsoft
2 30 (11.76%) Oracle
3 9 (3.53%) Citrix
4 4 (1.57%) Centrify
4 4 (1.57%) CyberArk
4 4 (1.57%) Google
5 2 (0.78%) DevExpress
5 2 (0.78%) IBM
5 2 (0.78%) SAP
6 1 (0.39%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.39%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.39%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.39%) Telerik
6 1 (0.39%) Xero