.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 14 August 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 320 206
Rank change year-on-year -93 -114 -5
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 257 245 439
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.74% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.82% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 191 361
10th Percentile £375 £355 £313
25th Percentile £416 £390 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £594 £550 £625
90th Percentile £725 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
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 49,408 30,056 36,163
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 91.31% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,654 19,017 23,287
10th Percentile £325 £281 £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 £623 £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 3,477 1,528 2,029
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.59 £14.23
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.29 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +2.00%
75th Percentile £67.98 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.13 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +71.50% -44.11% +23.29%

.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 14 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 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 14 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 -83 224 £495 +4.21% 201
UK excluding London -37 127 £450 - 152
London -111 98 £588 +23.68% 62
Work from Home -55 89 £525 +5.00% 188
North of England -34 43 £460 +6.98% 43
Yorkshire -8 36 £460 -12.38% 9
South East -65 28 £400 -5.44% 54
Midlands -34 25 £500 +1.01% 16
East Midlands -6 20 £563 +36.70% 7
South West -30 20 £425 - 10
North West -43 7 £575 +39.82% 26
East of England -18 5 - - 20
West Midlands -53 5 £425 -14.14% 9
Wales -13 4 £600 - 3
Scotland -15 2 £400 -11.11% 5

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 257 (100.00%) .NET
2 182 (70.82%) C#
3 121 (47.08%) Azure
4 115 (44.75%) CI/CD
5 95 (36.96%) SQL Server
6 88 (34.24%) SQL
7 85 (33.07%) Agile
8 84 (32.68%) DevOps
9 68 (26.46%) Microsoft
10 61 (23.74%) .NET Framework
11 59 (22.96%) Microservices
12 57 (22.18%) REST
13 56 (21.79%) .NET Core
13 56 (21.79%) Full-Stack Development
14 55 (21.40%) ASP.NET
15 52 (20.23%) Security Cleared
16 51 (19.84%) SC Cleared
17 50 (19.46%) Azure DevOps
18 47 (18.29%) RESTful
19 46 (17.90%) AWS
19 46 (17.90%) Kubernetes
20 44 (17.12%) JavaScript
21 43 (16.73%) AngularJS
22 42 (16.34%) Docker
23 37 (14.40%) Git
24 33 (12.84%) Test Automation
25 32 (12.45%) GitHub
26 31 (12.06%) React
27 30 (11.67%) Oracle
28 27 (10.51%) Problem-Solving

.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 (4.28%) Confluence
2 10 (3.89%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.50%) IIS
4 3 (1.17%) Apache Superset
4 3 (1.17%) CMS
5 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.39%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.39%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 121 (47.08%) Azure
2 50 (19.46%) Azure DevOps
3 46 (17.90%) AWS
4 32 (12.45%) GitHub
5 19 (7.39%) Azure Service Bus
5 19 (7.39%) Serverless
6 11 (4.28%) Azure Functions
7 10 (3.89%) Azure Key Vault
7 10 (3.89%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (3.50%) Azure AKS
8 9 (3.50%) PaaS
9 8 (3.11%) Power Platform
10 7 (2.72%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (2.72%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (1.95%) Azure App Service
11 5 (1.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (1.95%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.95%) GCP
11 5 (1.95%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.39%) Broadband
1 1 (0.39%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (36.96%) SQL Server
2 18 (7.00%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (7.00%) Relational Database
3 9 (3.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (2.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (2.33%) MS Access
5 6 (2.33%) Power BI
6 5 (1.95%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.95%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.95%) Redis
7 4 (1.56%) DocumentDB
7 4 (1.56%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (1.17%) Metabase
8 3 (1.17%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.17%) Parquet
9 2 (0.78%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.78%) Db2
10 1 (0.39%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.39%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 37 (14.40%) Git
2 13 (5.06%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.28%) JIRA
4 10 (3.89%) Visual Studio
5 8 (3.11%) GitLab
6 7 (2.72%) NUnit
7 6 (2.33%) SpecFlow
8 5 (1.95%) REST Assured
8 5 (1.95%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (1.56%) MSI
9 4 (1.56%) MSTest
9 4 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (1.17%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.78%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.78%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (0.78%) Postman
12 1 (0.39%) Moq
12 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.39%) tSQLt
General
1 56 (21.79%) Finance
2 35 (13.62%) Social Skills
3 25 (9.73%) Public Sector
4 24 (9.34%) Banking
5 13 (5.06%) Investment Banking
6 11 (4.28%) Front Office
7 8 (3.11%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.33%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.56%) Legal
10 3 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.17%) Local Government
11 2 (0.78%) Automotive
11 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.39%) Back Office
12 1 (0.39%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.39%) Military
12 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.39%) Police
12 1 (0.39%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 257 (100.00%) .NET
2 61 (23.74%) .NET Framework
3 57 (22.18%) REST
4 56 (21.79%) .NET Core
5 55 (21.40%) ASP.NET
6 47 (18.29%) RESTful
7 43 (16.73%) AngularJS
8 31 (12.06%) React
9 25 (9.73%) HTML
10 22 (8.56%) Entity Framework
11 21 (8.17%) ASP.NET Core
12 19 (7.39%) ASP.NET Web API
13 18 (7.00%) WPF
14 17 (6.61%) Web Services
15 16 (6.23%) WinForms
16 15 (5.84%) Kafka
17 14 (5.45%) CSS
18 10 (3.89%) Blazor
18 10 (3.89%) RabbitMQ
19 9 (3.50%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.51%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (6.23%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (4.28%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.95%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.56%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.56%) Legacy Code
7 4 (1.56%) Replication
7 4 (1.56%) Wiki
8 3 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.17%) Derivative
8 3 (1.17%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.39%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.39%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.39%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.39%) Windows
2 2 (0.78%) Linux
2 2 (0.78%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (44.75%) CI/CD
2 85 (33.07%) Agile
3 84 (32.68%) DevOps
4 59 (22.96%) Microservices
5 56 (21.79%) Full-Stack Development
6 33 (12.84%) Test Automation
7 27 (10.51%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (10.12%) Containerisation
9 23 (8.95%) API Development
9 23 (8.95%) Software Engineering
10 22 (8.56%) Code Quality
11 21 (8.17%) Scrum
11 21 (8.17%) SOLID
12 20 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (7.78%) Mentoring
13 19 (7.39%) Design Patterns
13 19 (7.39%) Event-Driven
13 19 (7.39%) OOP
14 18 (7.00%) AI
15 17 (6.61%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 182 (70.82%) C#
2 88 (34.24%) SQL
3 44 (17.12%) JavaScript
4 27 (10.51%) TypeScript
5 24 (9.34%) T-SQL
6 23 (8.95%) Python
7 17 (6.61%) PL/SQL
8 10 (3.89%) VB.NET
9 8 (3.11%) VBA
10 7 (2.72%) Bicep
11 6 (2.33%) VBScript
12 4 (1.56%) Java
12 4 (1.56%) XPath
13 3 (1.17%) MATLAB
13 3 (1.17%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.17%) Rust
14 2 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.78%) VB
14 2 (0.78%) XAML
15 1 (0.39%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 52 (20.23%) Security Cleared
2 51 (19.84%) SC Cleared
3 5 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (1.95%) DV Cleared
4 4 (1.56%) Degree
5 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.78%) PhD
6 1 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.45%) QA
2 7 (2.72%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.95%) NCSC
3 5 (1.95%) WCAG
4 1 (0.39%) Basel III
4 1 (0.39%) GMP
4 1 (0.39%) GxP
System Software
1 42 (16.34%) Docker
2 7 (2.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (17.90%) Kubernetes
2 24 (9.34%) Terraform
3 5 (1.95%) Ansible
4 4 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 68 (26.46%) Microsoft
2 30 (11.67%) Oracle
3 9 (3.50%) Citrix
4 4 (1.56%) Centrify
4 4 (1.56%) CyberArk
5 3 (1.17%) DevExpress
5 3 (1.17%) IBM
6 1 (0.39%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.39%) SAP
6 1 (0.39%) Telerik