.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 18 February 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 302 194
Rank change year-on-year -114 -108 -38
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 187 241 536
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.79% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.85% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 191 434
10th Percentile £378 £330 £306
25th Percentile £413 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.64%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £639 £713 £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 37,174 28,501 41,310
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.66% 92.92% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,390 17,648 27,150
10th Percentile £305 £288 £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 £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +0.53% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,257 809 2,323
10th Percentile £14.57 £16.25 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.82 £21.46 £16.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.11 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.05% -2.54% -9.09%
75th Percentile £61.84 £63.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £72.52 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £35.58
% change year-on-year -8.92% -8.64% +1.64%

.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 18 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 18 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 -127 142 £500 - 239
London -75 92 £550 - 66
Work from Home -60 64 £475 +5.56% 198
UK excluding London -86 58 £450 - 195
North of England -53 15 £450 -10.00% 65
Scotland +12 14 £438 - 8
North West -26 10 £419 -16.25% 42
East of England -24 9 £450 -1.10% 20
Midlands -53 9 £499 +38.54% 17
South East -42 8 £517 +13.32% 57
West Midlands -46 5 £488 +2.63% 11
East Midlands -23 4 £510 +42.66% 6
Yorkshire -50 4 £513 - 15
Wales -2 2 £450 +127.85% 4
South West -27 2 £550 -15.38% 25
North East -13 1 - - 8

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 187 (100.00%) .NET
2 144 (77.01%) C#
3 102 (54.55%) Azure
4 75 (40.11%) SQL
5 61 (32.62%) DevOps
6 59 (31.55%) Agile
6 59 (31.55%) SQL Server
7 55 (29.41%) CI/CD
8 50 (26.74%) .NET Framework
9 44 (23.53%) .NET Core
10 42 (22.46%) Full-Stack Development
11 39 (20.86%) Azure DevOps
12 31 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (16.04%) ASP.NET
14 29 (15.51%) Microsoft
14 29 (15.51%) RESTful
15 28 (14.97%) React
16 26 (13.90%) Microservices
17 25 (13.37%) Scrum
18 24 (12.83%) Python
19 23 (12.30%) AI
19 23 (12.30%) AngularJS
19 23 (12.30%) Test Automation
20 22 (11.76%) AWS
20 22 (11.76%) Unit Testing
21 21 (11.23%) Entity Framework
21 21 (11.23%) MVC
22 20 (10.70%) Oracle
22 20 (10.70%) SDLC
23 19 (10.16%) Design Patterns

.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 6 (3.21%) Confluence
2 3 (1.60%) IIS
2 3 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.53%) CMS
4 1 (0.53%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Endur
1 2 (1.07%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 102 (54.55%) Azure
2 39 (20.86%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (11.76%) AWS
4 17 (9.09%) GitHub
4 17 (9.09%) Serverless
5 15 (8.02%) Azure Service Bus
6 14 (7.49%) Azure Functions
7 13 (6.95%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
8 11 (5.88%) Power Platform
9 10 (5.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 8 (4.28%) Azure AKS
10 8 (4.28%) Entra ID
11 7 (3.74%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (3.74%) PaaS
12 6 (3.21%) GCP
13 4 (2.14%) Cloud Functions
13 4 (2.14%) Cloud Run
14 3 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.14%) DNS
2 3 (1.60%) DHCP
2 3 (1.60%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.07%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (31.55%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.02%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (8.02%) Relational Database
3 9 (4.81%) Oracle Database
4 8 (4.28%) Power BI
5 5 (2.67%) Redis
6 4 (2.14%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.14%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.07%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.53%) MySQL
8 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (5.35%) Git
1 10 (5.35%) Jenkins
2 9 (4.81%) SpecFlow
3 8 (4.28%) JIRA
4 7 (3.74%) NUnit
5 6 (3.21%) MSTest
6 5 (2.67%) Visual Studio
7 4 (2.14%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (1.07%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.07%) Selenium
8 2 (1.07%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.53%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.53%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.53%) JMeter
9 1 (0.53%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.53%) Moq
9 1 (0.53%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.53%) Serilog
9 1 (0.53%) webpack
General
1 42 (22.46%) Finance
2 35 (18.72%) Social Skills
3 30 (16.04%) Public Sector
4 24 (12.83%) Banking
5 9 (4.81%) Investment Banking
6 8 (4.28%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.28%) Financial Institution
6 8 (4.28%) Front Office
7 3 (1.60%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.07%) Back Office
8 2 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.07%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.53%) Advertising
9 1 (0.53%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Retail
9 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (100.00%) .NET
2 50 (26.74%) .NET Framework
3 44 (23.53%) .NET Core
4 30 (16.04%) ASP.NET
5 29 (15.51%) RESTful
6 28 (14.97%) React
7 23 (12.30%) AngularJS
8 21 (11.23%) Entity Framework
9 18 (9.63%) REST
10 17 (9.09%) WPF
11 16 (8.56%) HTML
12 12 (6.42%) ASP.NET Web API
13 11 (5.88%) ASP.NET Core
14 10 (5.35%) CSS
15 8 (4.28%) ASP.NET MVC
15 8 (4.28%) NHibernate
15 8 (4.28%) Playwright
15 8 (4.28%) Web Services
15 8 (4.28%) WinForms
16 7 (3.74%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.56%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.02%) Product Ownership
3 12 (6.42%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (4.28%) Credit Risk
5 7 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.21%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (3.21%) Market Risk
7 5 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.67%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.67%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.67%) Wiki
8 4 (2.14%) IoT
9 3 (1.60%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.60%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.60%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.60%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.07%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.63%) Windows
2 6 (3.21%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.53%) Android
3 1 (0.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (32.62%) DevOps
2 59 (31.55%) Agile
3 55 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 42 (22.46%) Full-Stack Development
5 31 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (13.90%) Microservices
7 25 (13.37%) Scrum
8 23 (12.30%) AI
8 23 (12.30%) Test Automation
9 22 (11.76%) Unit Testing
10 21 (11.23%) MVC
11 20 (10.70%) SDLC
12 19 (10.16%) Design Patterns
13 17 (9.09%) Clean Code
14 14 (7.49%) Software Engineering
15 13 (6.95%) Infrastructure as Code
15 13 (6.95%) OOP
16 12 (6.42%) User Experience
17 11 (5.88%) Migration
18 10 (5.35%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 144 (77.01%) C#
2 75 (40.11%) SQL
3 24 (12.83%) Python
4 11 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 11 (5.88%) PL/SQL
5 10 (5.35%) T-SQL
6 9 (4.81%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.74%) Bicep
8 5 (2.67%) VB
8 5 (2.67%) VB.NET
9 4 (2.14%) C++
9 4 (2.14%) Java
9 4 (2.14%) PHP
9 4 (2.14%) VBA
10 3 (1.60%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.53%) Delphi
12 1 (0.53%) Go
12 1 (0.53%) VB6
Qualifications
1 19 (10.16%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.88%) Degree
4 4 (2.14%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.49%) QA
2 3 (1.60%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.07%) WCAG
4 1 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.53%) HL7
4 1 (0.53%) MiFID
System Software
1 15 (8.02%) Docker
2 5 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (6.95%) Kubernetes
1 13 (6.95%) Terraform
2 1 (0.53%) Ansible
Vendors
1 29 (15.51%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.70%) Oracle
3 7 (3.74%) Google
4 4 (2.14%) Citrix
5 3 (1.60%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.60%) ION Trading
5 3 (1.60%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.60%) VMware
5 3 (1.60%) Xamarin
6 2 (1.07%) NEC
7 1 (0.53%) Adobe
7 1 (0.53%) Databricks
7 1 (0.53%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.53%) SAP
7 1 (0.53%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.53%) Sybase
7 1 (0.53%) Temenos
7 1 (0.53%) Xero