.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 21 March 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 308 209
Rank change year-on-year -115 -99 -47
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 198 223 495
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.76% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.82% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 186 407
10th Percentile £376 £340 £306
25th Percentile £425 £391 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -11.21%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £670 £769 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £440 £375
% change year-on-year +3.30% +17.33% -21.05%
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 40,298 27,260 41,112
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.94% 92.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,195 17,769 26,943
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £410 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.37%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £721 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £487
% change year-on-year +1.32% -2.46% -2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,491 893 2,499
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £12.92
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £33.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.54% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £76.25 £71.77
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.77% - -18.75%

.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 21 March 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 21 March 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 -134 153 £517 +4.97% 251
London -96 93 £560 +8.21% 86
Work from Home -47 69 £475 +5.56% 216
UK excluding London -74 69 £455 +3.30% 189
North of England -55 25 £454 +0.89% 51
North West -21 15 £450 +4.35% 29
Scotland +11 12 £425 - 7
Yorkshire -48 10 £500 -4.76% 15
South East -60 10 £550 +24.01% 60
East of England -15 9 £450 +5.88% 25
Midlands -56 9 £499 -0.25% 26
East Midlands -29 5 £443 -11.50% 13
West Midlands -60 4 £519 +6.41% 13
South West -28 3 £725 +20.83% 20
Wales -6 2 £450 +127.85% 3

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

For the 6 months to 21 March 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.

1 198 (100.00%) .NET
2 150 (75.76%) C#
3 116 (58.59%) Azure
4 79 (39.90%) SQL
5 77 (38.89%) DevOps
6 73 (36.87%) CI/CD
7 66 (33.33%) Agile
8 64 (32.32%) SQL Server
9 47 (23.74%) .NET Framework
10 44 (22.22%) .NET Core
10 44 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
11 42 (21.21%) Full-Stack Development
12 40 (20.20%) RESTful
13 38 (19.19%) AngularJS
14 34 (17.17%) React
15 33 (16.67%) Microsoft
16 32 (16.16%) ASP.NET
16 32 (16.16%) Microservices
17 28 (14.14%) HTML
17 28 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
17 28 (14.14%) Security Cleared
18 27 (13.64%) Python
18 27 (13.64%) REST
19 26 (13.13%) SC Cleared
20 25 (12.63%) Serverless
21 23 (11.62%) AI
21 23 (11.62%) AWS
21 23 (11.62%) JavaScript
21 23 (11.62%) Test Automation
21 23 (11.62%) Unit Testing

.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 5 (2.53%) IIS
1 5 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.52%) CMS
3 3 (1.52%) Confluence
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.51%) Orchard CMS
4 1 (0.51%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Endur
1 2 (1.01%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 116 (58.59%) Azure
2 44 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (12.63%) Serverless
4 23 (11.62%) AWS
5 21 (10.61%) Azure Service Bus
6 19 (9.60%) Azure Functions
7 16 (8.08%) GitHub
8 13 (6.57%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (6.06%) Azure Key Vault
10 11 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 11 (5.56%) Power Platform
11 10 (5.05%) Entra ID
12 9 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (4.04%) PaaS
14 7 (3.54%) Azure AKS
15 6 (3.03%) GCP
16 5 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
17 4 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
17 4 (2.02%) Azure App Service
17 4 (2.02%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.52%) DNS
2 2 (1.01%) DHCP
2 2 (1.01%) HTTP
2 2 (1.01%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (32.32%) SQL Server
2 17 (8.59%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (7.07%) Relational Database
4 8 (4.04%) Power BI
5 6 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.03%) Redis
6 5 (2.53%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.02%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.02%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.51%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.51%) Metabase
9 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.51%) Parquet
9 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (8.59%) Git
2 10 (5.05%) NUnit
3 9 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.04%) MSTest
5 7 (3.54%) SpecFlow
6 6 (3.03%) Visual Studio
7 4 (2.02%) JIRA
7 4 (2.02%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (1.52%) Jasmine
8 3 (1.52%) Karma Test Runner
8 3 (1.52%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.01%) Selenium
10 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.51%) JMeter
10 1 (0.51%) Moq
10 1 (0.51%) Postman
10 1 (0.51%) Serilog
10 1 (0.51%) tSQLt
10 1 (0.51%) webpack
General
1 38 (19.19%) Finance
2 31 (15.66%) Public Sector
2 31 (15.66%) Social Skills
3 25 (12.63%) Banking
4 12 (6.06%) Front Office
5 11 (5.56%) Investment Banking
6 9 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.04%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.52%) Back Office
8 3 (1.52%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.01%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.01%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.51%) Advertising
10 1 (0.51%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.51%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.51%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (100.00%) .NET
2 47 (23.74%) .NET Framework
3 44 (22.22%) .NET Core
4 40 (20.20%) RESTful
5 38 (19.19%) AngularJS
6 34 (17.17%) React
7 32 (16.16%) ASP.NET
8 28 (14.14%) HTML
9 27 (13.64%) REST
10 17 (8.59%) Entity Framework
11 15 (7.58%) CSS
12 14 (7.07%) ASP.NET Core
13 13 (6.57%) ASP.NET Web API
14 11 (5.56%) WPF
15 9 (4.55%) ASP.NET MVC
16 8 (4.04%) HTML5
16 8 (4.04%) Web Services
16 8 (4.04%) WinForms
16 8 (4.04%) YAML
17 7 (3.54%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.07%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.57%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (4.04%) Credit Risk
4 8 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.03%) Fixed Income
6 6 (3.03%) Market Risk
7 5 (2.53%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.02%) IoT
8 4 (2.02%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.02%) Wiki
9 3 (1.52%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.52%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.52%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.52%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.01%) Derivative
10 2 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.06%) Windows
2 6 (3.03%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (38.89%) DevOps
2 73 (36.87%) CI/CD
3 66 (33.33%) Agile
4 42 (21.21%) Full-Stack Development
5 32 (16.16%) Microservices
6 28 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (11.62%) AI
7 23 (11.62%) Test Automation
7 23 (11.62%) Unit Testing
8 21 (10.61%) Design Patterns
8 21 (10.61%) Scrum
9 20 (10.10%) MVC
10 19 (9.60%) SDLC
11 14 (7.07%) OOP
11 14 (7.07%) TDD
12 13 (6.57%) Clean Code
12 13 (6.57%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (6.57%) Migration
13 12 (6.06%) Software Engineering
13 12 (6.06%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 150 (75.76%) C#
2 79 (39.90%) SQL
3 27 (13.64%) Python
4 23 (11.62%) JavaScript
5 13 (6.57%) T-SQL
6 10 (5.05%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.54%) PL/SQL
8 6 (3.03%) Bicep
9 5 (2.53%) Java
9 5 (2.53%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.02%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.52%) C++
12 2 (1.01%) PHP
13 1 (0.51%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.51%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.51%) Rust
13 1 (0.51%) Swift
13 1 (0.51%) VB
13 1 (0.51%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.51%) VB6
Qualifications
1 28 (14.14%) Security Cleared
2 26 (13.13%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.05%) Degree
4 4 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.01%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.07%) QA
2 4 (2.02%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.01%) WCAG
4 1 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.51%) HL7
4 1 (0.51%) MiFID
System Software
1 16 (8.08%) Docker
2 3 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.08%) Terraform
3 1 (0.51%) Ansible
3 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.60%) Oracle
3 7 (3.54%) Google
4 5 (2.53%) Citrix
5 3 (1.52%) ION Trading
5 3 (1.52%) Xamarin
6 2 (1.01%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.01%) NEC
6 2 (1.01%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.01%) VMware
7 1 (0.51%) Adobe
7 1 (0.51%) Databricks
7 1 (0.51%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.51%) SAP
7 1 (0.51%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.51%) Sybase
7 1 (0.51%) Temenos
7 1 (0.51%) Xero