.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 19 June 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 310 245
Rank change year-on-year -108 -65 -65
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 219 236 428
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.79% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.86% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 189 355
10th Percentile £371 £330 £313
25th Percentile £425 £390 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £697 £813 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £450 £404
% change year-on-year +2.22% +11.46% -12.70%
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 46,676 27,509 40,765
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 92.24% 92.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,368 17,700 26,113
10th Percentile £325 £290 £280
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,110 1,183 2,977
10th Percentile £15.24 £13.88 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.92 £17.47 £16.37
Median hourly rate £43.69 £27.21 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.57% -27.44% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -1.45%

.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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -115 179 £550 +10.00% 170
UK excluding London -66 102 £460 +2.22% 135
London -123 82 £586 +12.74% 55
Work from Home -65 79 £525 +5.00% 160
North of England -50 29 £500 +17.65% 44
Midlands -39 26 £525 +67.73% 12
South East -57 26 £423 -5.06% 45
East Midlands -2 19 £575 +113.75% 4
Yorkshire -47 15 £588 +11.90% 9
North West -30 14 £450 +10.77% 24
South West -22 7 £450 -31.30% 8
West Midlands -57 7 £460 -7.07% 8
Wales -11 6 £450 -25.00% 3
Scotland -14 5 £400 -11.11% 6
East of England -26 4 - - 17

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

For the 6 months to 19 June 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.

1 219 (100.00%) .NET
2 162 (73.97%) C#
3 116 (52.97%) Azure
4 98 (44.75%) CI/CD
5 74 (33.79%) SQL
6 72 (32.88%) DevOps
7 71 (32.42%) Agile
8 67 (30.59%) SQL Server
9 48 (21.92%) .NET Framework
10 47 (21.46%) RESTful
11 45 (20.55%) Microservices
12 44 (20.09%) Microsoft
13 42 (19.18%) Full-Stack Development
14 41 (18.72%) Azure DevOps
15 40 (18.26%) .NET Core
16 38 (17.35%) ASP.NET
17 35 (15.98%) AngularJS
17 35 (15.98%) AWS
17 35 (15.98%) JavaScript
17 35 (15.98%) Security Cleared
18 33 (15.07%) React
18 33 (15.07%) SC Cleared
19 30 (13.70%) REST
20 28 (12.79%) Python
21 27 (12.33%) Docker
21 27 (12.33%) Kubernetes
21 27 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
22 25 (11.42%) HTML
22 25 (11.42%) Scrum
22 25 (11.42%) Test Automation

.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 4 (1.83%) IIS
1 4 (1.83%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.37%) Apache Superset
2 3 (1.37%) CMS
3 2 (0.91%) Confluence
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.46%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.46%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.46%) Endur
1 1 (0.46%) NEC Housing
1 1 (0.46%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 116 (52.97%) Azure
2 41 (18.72%) Azure DevOps
3 35 (15.98%) AWS
4 22 (10.05%) GitHub
4 22 (10.05%) Serverless
5 19 (8.68%) Azure Service Bus
6 15 (6.85%) Azure Functions
7 13 (5.94%) Power Platform
8 12 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (4.11%) GCP
10 8 (3.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (3.20%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (2.74%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (2.74%) Entra ID
13 5 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (2.28%) Azure AKS
13 5 (2.28%) Power Automate
14 4 (1.83%) Cloud Functions
14 4 (1.83%) Cloud Run
14 4 (1.83%) n8n
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (30.59%) SQL Server
2 20 (9.13%) Relational Database
3 15 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (5.02%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (4.57%) Power BI
6 6 (2.74%) Redis
7 4 (1.83%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.83%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.37%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.37%) DocumentDB
8 3 (1.37%) Metabase
8 3 (1.37%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.37%) Parquet
8 3 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.91%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.91%) MS Access
10 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.46%) MySQL
10 1 (0.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (9.13%) Git
2 13 (5.94%) NUnit
3 9 (4.11%) Visual Studio
4 8 (3.65%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.65%) MSTest
5 5 (2.28%) GitLab
5 5 (2.28%) SpecFlow
6 4 (1.83%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.37%) Jasmine
7 3 (1.37%) Karma Test Runner
7 3 (1.37%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.37%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.91%) JIRA
8 2 (0.91%) Moq
8 2 (0.91%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.91%) Selenium
8 2 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.46%) Mocha
9 1 (0.46%) MSBuild
General
1 42 (19.18%) Finance
2 27 (12.33%) Social Skills
3 24 (10.96%) Public Sector
4 17 (7.76%) Banking
5 13 (5.94%) Front Office
6 10 (4.57%) Investment Banking
7 7 (3.20%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.83%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.83%) Legal
9 3 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.91%) Automotive
10 2 (0.91%) Back Office
10 2 (0.91%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.91%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.46%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.46%) Military
11 1 (0.46%) Police
11 1 (0.46%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.46%) Retail
11 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (100.00%) .NET
2 48 (21.92%) .NET Framework
3 47 (21.46%) RESTful
4 40 (18.26%) .NET Core
5 38 (17.35%) ASP.NET
6 35 (15.98%) AngularJS
7 33 (15.07%) React
8 30 (13.70%) REST
9 25 (11.42%) HTML
10 20 (9.13%) Entity Framework
11 16 (7.31%) ASP.NET Web API
12 14 (6.39%) ASP.NET Core
13 13 (5.94%) CSS
14 9 (4.11%) ASP.NET MVC
14 9 (4.11%) RabbitMQ
15 8 (3.65%) Kafka
15 8 (3.65%) OAuth
15 8 (3.65%) Web Services
15 8 (3.65%) WPF
15 8 (3.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.31%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.57%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.20%) AI Agents
4 7 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.83%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.37%) Derivative
7 3 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.37%) IoT
7 3 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.37%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.91%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.91%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.91%) Wiki
9 1 (0.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.46%) NHS
9 1 (0.46%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.65%) Windows
2 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (44.75%) CI/CD
2 72 (32.88%) DevOps
3 71 (32.42%) Agile
4 45 (20.55%) Microservices
5 42 (19.18%) Full-Stack Development
6 27 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (11.42%) Scrum
7 25 (11.42%) Test Automation
8 22 (10.05%) Unit Testing
9 20 (9.13%) AI
10 19 (8.68%) TDD
11 17 (7.76%) MVC
11 17 (7.76%) SOLID
12 16 (7.31%) Design Patterns
12 16 (7.31%) Software Engineering
13 15 (6.85%) Containerisation
13 15 (6.85%) Performance Tuning
14 14 (6.39%) Clean Code
14 14 (6.39%) Event-Driven
15 13 (5.94%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 162 (73.97%) C#
2 74 (33.79%) SQL
3 35 (15.98%) JavaScript
4 28 (12.79%) Python
5 21 (9.59%) TypeScript
6 18 (8.22%) T-SQL
7 7 (3.20%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.28%) Java
8 5 (2.28%) VB.NET
9 4 (1.83%) VBA
10 3 (1.37%) Bicep
10 3 (1.37%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.37%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.37%) Rust
11 2 (0.91%) C++
11 2 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.91%) VBScript
11 2 (0.91%) XAML
12 1 (0.46%) C
12 1 (0.46%) VB
Qualifications
1 35 (15.98%) Security Cleared
2 33 (15.07%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.11%) Degree
4 4 (1.83%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.91%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.91%) PhD
6 1 (0.46%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.46%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.94%) QA
2 3 (1.37%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.91%) WCAG
4 1 (0.46%) Basel III
4 1 (0.46%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (12.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (12.33%) Kubernetes
2 19 (8.68%) Terraform
3 3 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (20.09%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.50%) Oracle
3 7 (3.20%) Google
4 6 (2.74%) Citrix
5 3 (1.37%) Xamarin
6 2 (0.91%) ION Trading
6 2 (0.91%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.91%) SAP
7 1 (0.46%) Adobe
7 1 (0.46%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.46%) NEC
7 1 (0.46%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.46%) Xero