.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 30 January 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 288 193
Rank change year-on-year -124 -95 -40
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 185 254 540
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.81% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.87% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 201 439
10th Percentile £377 £325 £306
25th Percentile £406 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -11.36%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £650
90th Percentile £638 £688 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £400
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -15.79%
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 35,358 29,223 41,314
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.46% 92.91% 93.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,294 17,866 27,352
10th Percentile £300 £293 £275
25th Percentile £405 £409 £411
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 £475 £477 £495
% change year-on-year -0.42% -3.64% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,104 859 2,166
10th Percentile £14.39 £15.98 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.90 £32.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.09% -10.96% +4.29%
75th Percentile £61.18 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.89 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.76 £37.50
% change year-on-year -13.41% -15.31% +25.00%

.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 30 January 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 30 January 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 -120 145 £500 -3.85% 252
London -70 93 £520 -5.45% 67
Work from Home -52 67 £475 +7.10% 216
UK excluding London -69 58 £450 - 209
South East -28 13 £488 +8.33% 66
Scotland +8 12 £438 - 7
East of England -14 11 £400 -17.53% 27
North of England -64 11 £450 -10.00% 63
Midlands -51 8 £488 +16.77% 26
North West -23 6 £443 -11.50% 40
East Midlands -27 4 £510 +42.66% 11
West Midlands -37 4 £474 -2.82% 15
Yorkshire -54 4 £513 +2.50% 16
Wales 0 2 £450 +127.85% 5
South West -26 2 £550 -15.38% 16
North East -13 1 - - 7

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

For the 6 months to 30 January 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.

1 185 (100.00%) .NET
2 141 (76.22%) C#
3 102 (55.14%) Azure
4 72 (38.92%) SQL
5 61 (32.97%) DevOps
5 61 (32.97%) SQL Server
6 58 (31.35%) Agile
7 52 (28.11%) .NET Framework
7 52 (28.11%) CI/CD
8 44 (23.78%) .NET Core
9 42 (22.70%) Full-Stack Development
10 36 (19.46%) Azure DevOps
10 36 (19.46%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (17.84%) Microservices
12 30 (16.22%) AngularJS
13 28 (15.14%) Microsoft
13 28 (15.14%) RESTful
14 26 (14.05%) ASP.NET
14 26 (14.05%) React
15 22 (11.89%) AWS
16 21 (11.35%) Oracle
16 21 (11.35%) Scrum
17 20 (10.81%) AI
17 20 (10.81%) Entity Framework
17 20 (10.81%) Windows
18 19 (10.27%) Python
18 19 (10.27%) WPF
19 18 (9.73%) Clean Code
19 18 (9.73%) SDLC
19 18 (9.73%) Serverless

.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 8 (4.32%) Confluence
2 4 (2.16%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.62%) IIS
4 2 (1.08%) CMS
4 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.54%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.54%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 6 (3.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Endur
1 2 (1.08%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 102 (55.14%) Azure
2 36 (19.46%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (11.89%) AWS
4 18 (9.73%) Serverless
5 15 (8.11%) GitHub
6 14 (7.57%) Azure Service Bus
7 13 (7.03%) Azure Functions
8 11 (5.95%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (5.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 9 (4.86%) Azure Key Vault
10 9 (4.86%) Power Platform
11 8 (4.32%) PaaS
12 7 (3.78%) Azure AKS
13 6 (3.24%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (2.70%) Entra ID
15 4 (2.16%) GCP
16 3 (1.62%) Azure Event Grid
16 3 (1.62%) Azure Logic Apps
16 3 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
16 3 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.16%) DNS
2 3 (1.62%) DHCP
2 3 (1.62%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.08%) HTTP
4 1 (0.54%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (32.97%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.11%) Relational Database
3 13 (7.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (5.95%) Oracle Database
5 6 (3.24%) Power BI
6 5 (2.70%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.16%) Redis
8 3 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.08%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.08%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.54%) MySQL
10 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (4.86%) Git
1 9 (4.86%) JIRA
1 9 (4.86%) SpecFlow
2 8 (4.32%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.70%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.16%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (1.62%) MSTest
5 3 (1.62%) NUnit
6 2 (1.08%) Selenium
7 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.54%) JMeter
7 1 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.54%) TeamCity
General
1 46 (24.86%) Finance
2 35 (18.92%) Social Skills
3 29 (15.68%) Public Sector
4 24 (12.97%) Banking
5 8 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.32%) Financial Institution
5 8 (4.32%) Investment Banking
6 6 (3.24%) Front Office
7 3 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.62%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.54%) Advertising
9 1 (0.54%) Back Office
9 1 (0.54%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (100.00%) .NET
2 52 (28.11%) .NET Framework
3 44 (23.78%) .NET Core
4 30 (16.22%) AngularJS
5 28 (15.14%) RESTful
6 26 (14.05%) ASP.NET
6 26 (14.05%) React
7 20 (10.81%) Entity Framework
8 19 (10.27%) WPF
9 17 (9.19%) REST
10 13 (7.03%) HTML
11 11 (5.95%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (4.86%) ASP.NET Core
12 9 (4.86%) CSS
13 8 (4.32%) NHibernate
13 8 (4.32%) Playwright
13 8 (4.32%) Web Services
13 8 (4.32%) WinForms
14 7 (3.78%) Middleware
15 6 (3.24%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.65%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.57%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.86%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (4.32%) Credit Risk
4 8 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.24%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (3.24%) Market Risk
6 5 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.70%) Wiki
7 4 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.62%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.62%) IoT
8 3 (1.62%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.62%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.08%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.08%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.08%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.81%) Windows
2 6 (3.24%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.54%) Android
3 1 (0.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (32.97%) DevOps
2 58 (31.35%) Agile
3 52 (28.11%) CI/CD
4 42 (22.70%) Full-Stack Development
5 36 (19.46%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (17.84%) Microservices
7 21 (11.35%) Scrum
8 20 (10.81%) AI
9 18 (9.73%) Clean Code
9 18 (9.73%) SDLC
9 18 (9.73%) Unit Testing
10 17 (9.19%) Design Patterns
10 17 (9.19%) MVC
10 17 (9.19%) Test Automation
11 14 (7.57%) Migration
12 13 (7.03%) Software Engineering
13 12 (6.49%) Event-Driven
13 12 (6.49%) OO
13 12 (6.49%) OOP
13 12 (6.49%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 141 (76.22%) C#
2 72 (38.92%) SQL
3 19 (10.27%) Python
4 13 (7.03%) PL/SQL
4 13 (7.03%) T-SQL
5 10 (5.41%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.78%) VB
6 7 (3.78%) VB.NET
7 6 (3.24%) Bicep
7 6 (3.24%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.24%) VBA
8 4 (2.16%) PHP
9 3 (1.62%) C++
9 3 (1.62%) Java
9 3 (1.62%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.54%) Delphi
11 1 (0.54%) Go
11 1 (0.54%) VB6
Qualifications
1 17 (9.19%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.11%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.86%) Degree
4 4 (2.16%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.08%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.57%) QA
2 2 (1.08%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.08%) WCAG
3 1 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.54%) HL7
3 1 (0.54%) MiFID
System Software
1 14 (7.57%) Docker
2 4 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.62%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (6.49%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.95%) Terraform
3 1 (0.54%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (15.14%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.35%) Oracle
3 4 (2.16%) Citrix
3 4 (2.16%) Google
4 3 (1.62%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.62%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.62%) VMware
4 3 (1.62%) Xamarin
5 2 (1.08%) ION Trading
5 2 (1.08%) NEC
5 2 (1.08%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.54%) Adobe
6 1 (0.54%) Databricks
6 1 (0.54%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.54%) Sybase
6 1 (0.54%) Temenos