.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 5 June 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 300 241
Rank change year-on-year -139 -59 -55
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 212 235 421
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.81% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.88% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 188 348
10th Percentile £368 £330 £307
25th Percentile £424 £400 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £628 £638
90th Percentile £685 £820 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £438 £400
% change year-on-year +5.14% +9.38% -15.79%
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 45,342 26,733 39,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.39% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,608 17,258 25,745
10th Percentile £325 £287 £280
25th Percentile £413 £404 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £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 3,029 1,088 2,850
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.87 £16.30
Median hourly rate £43.69 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.04% -25.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.75 £61.60
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -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 5 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 5 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 -120 170 £550 +10.00% 195
UK excluding London -71 97 £460 +5.14% 150
London -124 78 £586 +12.74% 55
Work from Home -67 77 £513 +2.50% 172
North of England -59 30 £500 +17.65% 58
Midlands -32 25 £550 +10.55% 13
South East -60 24 £423 +1.81% 45
East Midlands -10 18 £575 +41.45% 6
Yorkshire -38 16 £588 +11.90% 12
North West -30 14 £450 +10.77% 32
West Midlands -50 7 £460 -9.80% 7
Wales -13 6 £450 - 3
South West -29 6 £450 -31.30% 8
Scotland -12 5 £400 -11.11% 5
East of England -28 2 - - 18

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

For the 6 months to 5 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.

1 212 (100.00%) .NET
2 159 (75.00%) C#
3 115 (54.25%) Azure
4 99 (46.70%) CI/CD
5 75 (35.38%) SQL
6 73 (34.43%) DevOps
7 69 (32.55%) Agile
8 67 (31.60%) SQL Server
9 46 (21.70%) .NET Framework
9 46 (21.70%) Microservices
10 44 (20.75%) RESTful
11 43 (20.28%) Microsoft
12 42 (19.81%) Azure DevOps
13 41 (19.34%) .NET Core
14 39 (18.40%) ASP.NET
14 39 (18.40%) Full-Stack Development
15 35 (16.51%) AngularJS
15 35 (16.51%) JavaScript
16 34 (16.04%) Security Cleared
17 33 (15.57%) React
18 32 (15.09%) AWS
18 32 (15.09%) REST
18 32 (15.09%) SC Cleared
19 30 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
20 28 (13.21%) Kubernetes
20 28 (13.21%) Python
21 27 (12.74%) Docker
21 27 (12.74%) HTML
22 26 (12.26%) Test Automation
23 23 (10.85%) GitHub

.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 (1.89%) IIS
1 4 (1.89%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.42%) Apache Superset
2 3 (1.42%) CMS
3 2 (0.94%) Confluence
3 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.47%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Endur
2 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.47%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 115 (54.25%) Azure
2 42 (19.81%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (15.09%) AWS
4 23 (10.85%) GitHub
4 23 (10.85%) Serverless
5 21 (9.91%) Azure Service Bus
6 17 (8.02%) Azure Functions
7 14 (6.60%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (5.66%) Power Platform
9 10 (4.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 10 (4.72%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (3.77%) GCP
11 6 (2.83%) Azure AKS
11 6 (2.83%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.36%) Azure API Management
12 5 (2.36%) Power Automate
13 4 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.89%) Cloud Functions
13 4 (1.89%) Cloud Run
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (31.60%) SQL Server
2 20 (9.43%) Relational Database
3 14 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (6.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (4.25%) Power BI
6 6 (2.83%) Redis
7 4 (1.89%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.89%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.42%) DocumentDB
8 3 (1.42%) Metabase
8 3 (1.42%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.42%) Parquet
8 3 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.94%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.94%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.94%) MS Access
10 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.47%) MySQL
10 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (8.49%) Git
2 13 (6.13%) NUnit
3 8 (3.77%) MSTest
4 7 (3.30%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.30%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.36%) SpecFlow
6 4 (1.89%) GitLab
6 4 (1.89%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.42%) Jasmine
7 3 (1.42%) Karma Test Runner
7 3 (1.42%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.42%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.94%) JIRA
8 2 (0.94%) Moq
8 2 (0.94%) Selenium
8 2 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.47%) Mocha
9 1 (0.47%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.47%) tSQLt
General
1 39 (18.40%) Finance
2 29 (13.68%) Social Skills
3 23 (10.85%) Public Sector
4 17 (8.02%) Banking
5 14 (6.60%) Front Office
6 11 (5.19%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.89%) Legal
9 3 (1.42%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.42%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.94%) Automotive
10 2 (0.94%) Back Office
10 2 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.94%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.47%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.47%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.47%) Military
11 1 (0.47%) Police
11 1 (0.47%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.47%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (100.00%) .NET
2 46 (21.70%) .NET Framework
3 44 (20.75%) RESTful
4 41 (19.34%) .NET Core
5 39 (18.40%) ASP.NET
6 35 (16.51%) AngularJS
7 33 (15.57%) React
8 32 (15.09%) REST
9 27 (12.74%) HTML
10 20 (9.43%) Entity Framework
11 16 (7.55%) ASP.NET Web API
12 14 (6.60%) ASP.NET Core
12 14 (6.60%) CSS
13 10 (4.72%) OAuth
14 9 (4.25%) ASP.NET MVC
15 8 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
15 8 (3.77%) YAML
16 7 (3.30%) HTML5
16 7 (3.30%) Kafka
16 7 (3.30%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.49%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.72%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.30%) AI Agents
4 7 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.36%) Fixed Income
5 5 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.42%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.42%) Derivative
6 3 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.42%) IoT
6 3 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.42%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.94%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.94%) NHS
7 2 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.94%) Wiki
8 1 (0.47%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.47%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.83%) Windows
2 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (46.70%) CI/CD
2 73 (34.43%) DevOps
3 69 (32.55%) Agile
4 46 (21.70%) Microservices
5 39 (18.40%) Full-Stack Development
6 30 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (12.26%) Test Automation
8 23 (10.85%) Scrum
9 20 (9.43%) Unit Testing
10 19 (8.96%) SOLID
10 19 (8.96%) TDD
11 18 (8.49%) AI
12 17 (8.02%) Event-Driven
13 15 (7.08%) Containerisation
14 14 (6.60%) Clean Code
14 14 (6.60%) Design Patterns
14 14 (6.60%) MVC
14 14 (6.60%) Software Engineering
15 13 (6.13%) Infrastructure as Code
15 13 (6.13%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 159 (75.00%) C#
2 75 (35.38%) SQL
3 35 (16.51%) JavaScript
4 28 (13.21%) Python
5 20 (9.43%) TypeScript
6 15 (7.08%) T-SQL
7 6 (2.83%) Bicep
7 6 (2.83%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.36%) Java
8 5 (2.36%) VB.NET
9 4 (1.89%) VBA
10 3 (1.42%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.42%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.42%) Rust
11 2 (0.94%) C++
11 2 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.94%) VBScript
12 1 (0.47%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.47%) VB
12 1 (0.47%) VB6
Qualifications
1 34 (16.04%) Security Cleared
2 32 (15.09%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.77%) Degree
4 4 (1.89%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.13%) QA
2 3 (1.42%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.94%) WCAG
4 1 (0.47%) Basel III
4 1 (0.47%) HL7
4 1 (0.47%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (12.74%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (13.21%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.38%) Terraform
3 3 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (20.28%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.38%) Oracle
3 7 (3.30%) Google
4 5 (2.36%) Citrix
5 3 (1.42%) ION Trading
5 3 (1.42%) Xamarin
6 2 (0.94%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.94%) SAP
7 1 (0.47%) Adobe
7 1 (0.47%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.47%) NEC
7 1 (0.47%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.47%) Xero