.NET Developer Contract Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026.

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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 292 237
Rank change year-on-year -129 -55 -58
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 209 241 428
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.83% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.90% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 194 351
10th Percentile £369 £336 £306
25th Percentile £425 £400 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -7.32%
75th Percentile £600 £622 £631
90th Percentile £675 £813 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £425 £375
% change year-on-year +13.24% +13.33% -16.67%
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 - - +23.81%

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 44,018 26,871 39,592
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 92.45% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,969 17,507 25,749
10th Percentile £320 £296 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -2.78%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,868 1,042 2,669
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.20 £16.30
Median hourly rate £43.09 £28.60 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +50.66% -23.08% -17.38%
75th Percentile £66.50 £62.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.02
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +63.64% -31.25% -5.88%

.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 15 May 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 14 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 15 May 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 -144 165 £550 +10.00% 194
UK excluding London -65 92 £481 +13.24% 155
London -124 82 £575 +10.58% 55
Work from Home -53 76 £500 +5.26% 178
North of England -42 33 £500 +21.21% 48
Midlands -52 20 £550 +10.55% 19
South East -60 19 £481 +15.96% 47
Yorkshire -42 18 £588 +11.90% 9
East Midlands -16 15 £575 +15.00% 9
North West -27 15 £450 +9.09% 28
Scotland +3 10 £425 -2.86% 6
South West -29 6 £450 -31.30% 11
Wales -3 5 £450 - 5
West Midlands -59 5 £488 -1.52% 10

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 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.

1 209 (100.00%) .NET
2 159 (76.08%) C#
3 112 (53.59%) Azure
4 91 (43.54%) CI/CD
5 74 (35.41%) DevOps
5 74 (35.41%) SQL
6 68 (32.54%) Agile
6 68 (32.54%) SQL Server
7 49 (23.44%) .NET Framework
8 47 (22.49%) Azure DevOps
9 43 (20.57%) Microservices
10 41 (19.62%) .NET Core
11 40 (19.14%) Full-Stack Development
11 40 (19.14%) RESTful
12 36 (17.22%) ASP.NET
12 36 (17.22%) Microsoft
13 35 (16.75%) React
14 33 (15.79%) JavaScript
15 32 (15.31%) AngularJS
15 32 (15.31%) Security Cleared
16 30 (14.35%) SC Cleared
17 29 (13.88%) Python
17 29 (13.88%) REST
18 28 (13.40%) HTML
19 27 (12.92%) AWS
19 27 (12.92%) Kubernetes
20 26 (12.44%) Docker
20 26 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
21 25 (11.96%) Test Automation
22 23 (11.00%) Azure Service Bus

.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 (2.87%) IIS
2 4 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.44%) Apache Superset
3 3 (1.44%) CMS
3 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.96%) Confluence
5 1 (0.48%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Endur
1 2 (0.96%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 112 (53.59%) Azure
2 47 (22.49%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (12.92%) AWS
4 23 (11.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 22 (10.53%) GitHub
5 22 (10.53%) Serverless
6 16 (7.66%) Azure Functions
7 14 (6.70%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (5.74%) Azure Key Vault
8 12 (5.74%) Power Platform
9 9 (4.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 8 (3.83%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (3.83%) GCP
11 7 (3.35%) Entra ID
12 6 (2.87%) Azure AKS
13 5 (2.39%) Azure API Management
13 5 (2.39%) Power Automate
14 4 (1.91%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (1.91%) Cloud Functions
14 4 (1.91%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.48%) DHCP
1 1 (0.48%) DNS
1 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (32.54%) SQL Server
2 21 (10.05%) Relational Database
3 12 (5.74%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.31%) Power BI
5 6 (2.87%) Redis
6 5 (2.39%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.39%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.91%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.44%) Metabase
8 3 (1.44%) Parquet
9 2 (0.96%) DocumentDB
9 2 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.96%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.48%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (6.70%) Git
2 12 (5.74%) NUnit
3 8 (3.83%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.83%) MSTest
4 6 (2.87%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.39%) SpecFlow
6 4 (1.91%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.44%) Jasmine
7 3 (1.44%) Karma Test Runner
7 3 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.44%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.96%) GitLab
8 2 (0.96%) JIRA
8 2 (0.96%) Moq
8 2 (0.96%) Selenium
9 1 (0.48%) Mocha
9 1 (0.48%) Postman
9 1 (0.48%) Serilog
9 1 (0.48%) tSQLt
9 1 (0.48%) webpack
General
1 39 (18.66%) Finance
2 31 (14.83%) Social Skills
3 30 (14.35%) Public Sector
4 21 (10.05%) Banking
5 13 (6.22%) Front Office
6 10 (4.78%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.91%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.44%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.96%) Automotive
10 2 (0.96%) Back Office
10 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.48%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.48%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.48%) Military
11 1 (0.48%) Police
11 1 (0.48%) Retail
11 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (100.00%) .NET
2 49 (23.44%) .NET Framework
3 41 (19.62%) .NET Core
4 40 (19.14%) RESTful
5 36 (17.22%) ASP.NET
6 35 (16.75%) React
7 32 (15.31%) AngularJS
8 29 (13.88%) REST
9 28 (13.40%) HTML
10 18 (8.61%) Entity Framework
11 16 (7.66%) ASP.NET Web API
12 14 (6.70%) CSS
13 12 (5.74%) ASP.NET Core
14 11 (5.26%) ASP.NET MVC
15 10 (4.78%) OAuth
16 8 (3.83%) RabbitMQ
17 7 (3.35%) HTML5
17 7 (3.35%) OAuth2
17 7 (3.35%) YAML
18 6 (2.87%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.66%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.78%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.35%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.39%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.91%) IoT
6 4 (1.91%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.91%) Wiki
7 3 (1.44%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.44%) Derivative
7 3 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.44%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.96%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.96%) NHS
8 2 (0.96%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.31%) Windows
2 5 (2.39%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (43.54%) CI/CD
2 74 (35.41%) DevOps
3 68 (32.54%) Agile
4 43 (20.57%) Microservices
5 40 (19.14%) Full-Stack Development
6 26 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (11.96%) Test Automation
8 20 (9.57%) Scrum
9 18 (8.61%) AI
9 18 (8.61%) TDD
10 17 (8.13%) MVC
10 17 (8.13%) SOLID
10 17 (8.13%) Unit Testing
11 15 (7.18%) Containerisation
11 15 (7.18%) Event-Driven
11 15 (7.18%) SDLC
12 14 (6.70%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (6.22%) Clean Code
13 13 (6.22%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (6.22%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 159 (76.08%) C#
2 74 (35.41%) SQL
3 33 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 29 (13.88%) Python
5 17 (8.13%) TypeScript
6 16 (7.66%) T-SQL
7 7 (3.35%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.87%) Bicep
9 5 (2.39%) Java
10 4 (1.91%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.44%) C++
11 3 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.44%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.44%) Rust
12 1 (0.48%) Bash
12 1 (0.48%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.48%) Swift
12 1 (0.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 32 (15.31%) Security Cleared
2 30 (14.35%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.31%) Degree
4 5 (2.39%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.18%) QA
2 4 (1.91%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.96%) WCAG
4 1 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.48%) HL7
4 1 (0.48%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (12.44%) Docker
2 2 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (12.92%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.05%) Terraform
3 2 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (17.22%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.09%) Oracle
3 7 (3.35%) Citrix
3 7 (3.35%) Google
4 3 (1.44%) ION Trading
4 3 (1.44%) Xamarin
5 2 (0.96%) NEC
5 2 (0.96%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.96%) SAP
6 1 (0.48%) Adobe
6 1 (0.48%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.48%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.48%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.48%) Temenos
6 1 (0.48%) VMware
6 1 (0.48%) Xero