.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 28 August 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 327 220
Rank change year-on-year -107 -107 -17
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 253 235 426
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.72% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.79% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 181 354
10th Percentile £375 £340 £313
25th Percentile £416 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £473 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.82% -0.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £594 £538 £624
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -7.69% +30.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
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 49,702 29,842 36,074
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 91.23% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,679 18,834 22,885
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% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £621 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,561 1,567 1,910
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.72 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £17.08 £19.50
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -0.73%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +7.50%

.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 28 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 28 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 -76 222 £490 +3.43% 229
UK excluding London -41 131 £450 - 163
London -119 93 £588 +23.68% 85
Work from Home -72 85 £525 +5.00% 188
North of England -34 42 £460 +6.98% 43
Yorkshire -10 38 £460 -12.38% 9
Midlands -32 28 £500 -0.50% 20
South East -57 28 £400 -3.61% 59
East Midlands +1 24 £550 +33.66% 9
South West -13 20 £425 - 10
East of England -17 6 £525 +20.00% 26
Wales -15 4 £600 - 3
North West -48 4 £358 -12.68% 26
West Midlands -56 4 £388 -24.02% 10
Scotland -21 2 £400 -11.11% 4
Channel Islands - 1 £450 -

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 253 (100.00%) .NET
2 179 (70.75%) C#
3 116 (45.85%) Azure
4 106 (41.90%) CI/CD
5 96 (37.94%) SQL Server
6 86 (33.99%) SQL
7 77 (30.43%) Agile
8 71 (28.06%) DevOps
9 68 (26.88%) Microsoft
10 61 (24.11%) .NET Framework
11 60 (23.72%) ASP.NET
12 58 (22.92%) .NET Core
12 58 (22.92%) REST
13 56 (22.13%) Microservices
14 53 (20.95%) Full-Stack Development
15 49 (19.37%) Azure DevOps
16 47 (18.58%) AWS
17 46 (18.18%) Kubernetes
17 46 (18.18%) RESTful
17 46 (18.18%) SC Cleared
17 46 (18.18%) Security Cleared
18 41 (16.21%) Docker
19 38 (15.02%) JavaScript
20 37 (14.62%) Git
21 35 (13.83%) Test Automation
22 33 (13.04%) GitHub
23 32 (12.65%) AngularJS
24 29 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
25 28 (11.07%) Oracle
25 28 (11.07%) 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 (4.74%) Confluence
2 10 (3.95%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.16%) IIS
4 3 (1.19%) Apache Superset
4 3 (1.19%) CMS
5 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.79%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.40%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 116 (45.85%) Azure
2 49 (19.37%) Azure DevOps
3 47 (18.58%) AWS
4 33 (13.04%) GitHub
5 17 (6.72%) Azure Service Bus
5 17 (6.72%) Serverless
6 12 (4.74%) Azure Functions
7 10 (3.95%) Azure Key Vault
7 10 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (3.56%) Azure AKS
8 9 (3.56%) PaaS
9 8 (3.16%) Power Platform
10 7 (2.77%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (2.77%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (2.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (2.37%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.98%) Azure App Service
12 5 (1.98%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.58%) GCP
13 4 (1.58%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.40%) Broadband
1 1 (0.40%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (37.94%) SQL Server
2 19 (7.51%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (7.51%) Relational Database
3 10 (3.95%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (3.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (2.37%) MS Access
5 6 (2.37%) Power BI
6 5 (1.98%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.98%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.98%) Redis
7 4 (1.58%) DocumentDB
7 4 (1.58%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (1.19%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.19%) Metabase
8 3 (1.19%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.19%) Parquet
9 2 (0.79%) Db2
9 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.40%) MySQL
10 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 37 (14.62%) Git
2 15 (5.93%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.74%) JIRA
4 10 (3.95%) Visual Studio
5 9 (3.56%) GitLab
6 6 (2.37%) NUnit
7 5 (1.98%) REST Assured
7 5 (1.98%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (1.58%) MSI
8 4 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.58%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (1.19%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.79%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.79%) MSTest
10 2 (0.79%) Postman
11 1 (0.40%) Jasmine
11 1 (0.40%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.40%) Moq
11 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 52 (20.55%) Finance
2 40 (15.81%) Social Skills
3 24 (9.49%) Banking
4 22 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.14%) Investment Banking
6 10 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.56%) Front Office
8 6 (2.37%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.58%) Legal
10 3 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.19%) Local Government
11 2 (0.79%) Automotive
11 2 (0.79%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.79%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.40%) Law
12 1 (0.40%) Military
12 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.40%) Police
12 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 253 (100.00%) .NET
2 61 (24.11%) .NET Framework
3 60 (23.72%) ASP.NET
4 58 (22.92%) .NET Core
4 58 (22.92%) REST
5 46 (18.18%) RESTful
6 32 (12.65%) AngularJS
7 28 (11.07%) React
8 22 (8.70%) ASP.NET Core
9 21 (8.30%) Terraform
9 21 (8.30%) Web Services
10 20 (7.91%) Entity Framework
11 19 (7.51%) WPF
12 18 (7.11%) ASP.NET Web API
13 17 (6.72%) WinForms
14 16 (6.32%) HTML
14 16 (6.32%) Kafka
15 11 (4.35%) ASP.NET MVC
15 11 (4.35%) CSS
15 11 (4.35%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.86%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.11%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.93%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.37%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.37%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.98%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (1.98%) Legacy Code
7 4 (1.58%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.58%) Replication
7 4 (1.58%) Wiki
8 3 (1.19%) Derivative
8 3 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.79%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.40%) Life Science
10 1 (0.40%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.51%) Windows
2 3 (1.19%) Linux
3 2 (0.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (41.90%) CI/CD
2 77 (30.43%) Agile
3 71 (28.06%) DevOps
4 56 (22.13%) Microservices
5 53 (20.95%) Full-Stack Development
6 35 (13.83%) Test Automation
7 29 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (10.28%) Containerisation
9 24 (9.49%) API Development
9 24 (9.49%) Software Engineering
10 23 (9.09%) Code Quality
11 22 (8.70%) Scrum
12 21 (8.30%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (8.30%) Event-Driven
13 20 (7.91%) AI
14 19 (7.51%) Mentoring
14 19 (7.51%) SOLID
15 18 (7.11%) OOP
16 17 (6.72%) Deployment Automation
16 17 (6.72%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 179 (70.75%) C#
2 86 (33.99%) SQL
3 38 (15.02%) JavaScript
4 27 (10.67%) TypeScript
5 26 (10.28%) Python
6 24 (9.49%) T-SQL
7 18 (7.11%) PL/SQL
8 10 (3.95%) VB.NET
9 8 (3.16%) VBA
10 7 (2.77%) Bicep
11 6 (2.37%) VBScript
12 4 (1.58%) XPath
13 3 (1.19%) Java
13 3 (1.19%) MATLAB
13 3 (1.19%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.19%) Rust
14 2 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.79%) VB
14 2 (0.79%) XAML
15 1 (0.40%) Bash
Qualifications
1 46 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 46 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 5 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (1.98%) DV Cleared
3 4 (1.58%) Degree
4 2 (0.79%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.79%) PhD
5 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.53%) QA
2 7 (2.77%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.98%) NCSC
3 5 (1.98%) WCAG
4 2 (0.79%) Basel III
5 1 (0.40%) GMP
5 1 (0.40%) GxP
System Software
1 41 (16.21%) Docker
2 8 (3.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.37%) Ansible
3 4 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 68 (26.88%) Microsoft
2 28 (11.07%) Oracle
3 9 (3.56%) Citrix
4 5 (1.98%) Centrify
4 5 (1.98%) CyberArk
5 3 (1.19%) DevExpress
5 3 (1.19%) IBM
6 2 (0.79%) Databricks
7 1 (0.40%) Adyen
7 1 (0.40%) InterSystems
7 1 (0.40%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.40%) SAP
7 1 (0.40%) Telerik