.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 26 September 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 441 328 233
Rank change year-on-year -113 -95 -34
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 243 229 411
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.69% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.76% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 174 327
10th Percentile £400 £343 £320
25th Percentile £423 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £47.69 - -
25th Percentile £49.03 £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -7.69% +30.00%
75th Percentile £65.88 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £73.15 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.40 - £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 50,596 30,108 35,619
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.21% 91.02% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,877 19,013 21,671
10th Percentile £325 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.62%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £731 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,928 1,616 1,603
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.75 £14.84
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.68 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £69.20 £74.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -0.38%

.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 26 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing .NET Developer over the 6 months to 26 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for .NET Developer in the UK

.NET Developer
Top 16 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 26 September 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 -89 209 £490 +3.16% 369
UK excluding London -55 118 £450 - 244
London -107 92 £572 +20.42% 146
Work from Home -57 87 £520 +4.00% 263
North of England -48 34 £450 +3.45% 61
Yorkshire -14 31 £450 -14.29% 19
Midlands -34 26 £500 +1.01% 37
South East -69 26 £394 -6.03% 72
East Midlands -3 20 £563 +36.70% 14
South West -27 17 £425 -22.73% 20
East of England -29 9 £525 +20.00% 34
West Midlands -46 6 £425 -14.14% 23
Wales -7 4 £600 - 7
North West -47 3 £358 -14.25% 32
Scotland -33 1 - - 10
Channel Islands - 1 £450 -

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

For the 6 months to 26 September 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.

1 243 (100.00%) .NET
2 173 (71.19%) C#
3 110 (45.27%) Azure
4 99 (40.74%) CI/CD
5 85 (34.98%) SQL Server
6 80 (32.92%) SQL
7 75 (30.86%) Agile
8 66 (27.16%) DevOps
9 64 (26.34%) Microsoft
10 63 (25.93%) .NET Core
11 62 (25.51%) .NET Framework
12 59 (24.28%) ASP.NET
12 59 (24.28%) REST
13 54 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
14 49 (20.16%) Microservices
15 48 (19.75%) AWS
16 46 (18.93%) Azure DevOps
17 45 (18.52%) SC Cleared
17 45 (18.52%) Security Cleared
18 42 (17.28%) Docker
19 41 (16.87%) Kubernetes
20 40 (16.46%) RESTful
21 38 (15.64%) Git
21 38 (15.64%) JavaScript
21 38 (15.64%) Test Automation
22 30 (12.35%) GitHub
22 30 (12.35%) Software Engineering
23 29 (11.93%) AngularJS
23 29 (11.93%) Code Quality
24 28 (11.52%) 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 14 (5.76%) Confluence
2 9 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.88%) IIS
4 3 (1.23%) CMS
5 2 (0.82%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.41%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.41%) nginx
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 110 (45.27%) Azure
2 48 (19.75%) AWS
3 46 (18.93%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (12.35%) GitHub
5 16 (6.58%) Azure Service Bus
6 14 (5.76%) Serverless
7 9 (3.70%) Azure Functions
7 9 (3.70%) Power Platform
8 8 (3.29%) Azure AKS
8 8 (3.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (3.29%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (3.29%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.88%) PaaS
10 6 (2.47%) GitHub Copilot
10 6 (2.47%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.65%) Azure App Service
11 4 (1.65%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.65%) GCP
11 4 (1.65%) n8n
11 4 (1.65%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.41%) Broadband
1 1 (0.41%) Internet
1 1 (0.41%) OpenVPN
1 1 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (34.98%) SQL Server
2 18 (7.41%) Relational Database
3 16 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (3.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (2.88%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.47%) MS Access
7 6 (2.47%) Power BI
8 5 (2.06%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.65%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (1.23%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.23%) Db2
10 3 (1.23%) DocumentDB
10 3 (1.23%) Redis
11 2 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.41%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 38 (15.64%) Git
2 17 (7.00%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.17%) JIRA
4 13 (5.35%) Visual Studio
5 11 (4.53%) GitLab
6 7 (2.88%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (2.47%) REST Assured
8 5 (2.06%) SpecFlow
9 4 (1.65%) MSI
9 4 (1.65%) NUnit
9 4 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.82%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.82%) Fiddler
10 2 (0.82%) Postman
11 1 (0.41%) Moq
11 1 (0.41%) MSTest
11 1 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 47 (19.34%) Finance
2 39 (16.05%) Social Skills
3 22 (9.05%) Banking
4 20 (8.23%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.53%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.12%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.88%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.88%) Front Office
8 4 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.65%) Legal
9 3 (1.23%) Local Government
10 2 (0.82%) Automotive
10 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.82%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.41%) Law
11 1 (0.41%) Military
11 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.41%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (100.00%) .NET
2 63 (25.93%) .NET Core
3 62 (25.51%) .NET Framework
4 59 (24.28%) ASP.NET
4 59 (24.28%) REST
5 40 (16.46%) RESTful
6 29 (11.93%) AngularJS
7 27 (11.11%) React
7 27 (11.11%) WPF
8 25 (10.29%) Entity Framework
9 22 (9.05%) ASP.NET Core
9 22 (9.05%) Web Services
10 21 (8.64%) WinForms
11 19 (7.82%) Terraform
12 17 (7.00%) ASP.NET Web API
13 16 (6.58%) Kafka
14 13 (5.35%) HTML
15 12 (4.94%) JSON
16 11 (4.53%) ASP.NET MVC
16 11 (4.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.35%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.82%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (6.58%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (4.12%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.47%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (2.47%) Legacy Code
5 6 (2.47%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.06%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.65%) Replication
7 4 (1.65%) Wiki
8 3 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.82%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.41%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.41%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.41%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.41%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.05%) Windows
2 4 (1.65%) Linux
3 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (40.74%) CI/CD
2 75 (30.86%) Agile
3 66 (27.16%) DevOps
4 54 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 49 (20.16%) Microservices
6 38 (15.64%) Test Automation
7 30 (12.35%) Software Engineering
8 29 (11.93%) Code Quality
9 28 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (11.11%) API Development
11 25 (10.29%) Scrum
12 24 (9.88%) Containerisation
13 23 (9.47%) Event-Driven
14 22 (9.05%) AI
15 21 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (8.64%) Mentoring
16 20 (8.23%) Design Patterns
16 20 (8.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 20 (8.23%) SOLID
17 19 (7.82%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 173 (71.19%) C#
2 80 (32.92%) SQL
3 38 (15.64%) JavaScript
4 25 (10.29%) TypeScript
5 24 (9.88%) Python
6 20 (8.23%) T-SQL
7 18 (7.41%) PL/SQL
8 10 (4.12%) VB.NET
9 8 (3.29%) VBA
10 7 (2.88%) Bicep
11 6 (2.47%) VBScript
12 5 (2.06%) XAML
13 4 (1.65%) Java
13 4 (1.65%) XPath
14 3 (1.23%) VB
15 2 (0.82%) VB6
16 1 (0.41%) Bash
16 1 (0.41%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.41%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 45 (18.52%) SC Cleared
1 45 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 6 (2.47%) Degree
3 5 (2.06%) DV Cleared
4 4 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (1.65%) Master's Degree
4 4 (1.65%) PhD
5 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.35%) QA
2 6 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.06%) NCSC
3 5 (2.06%) WCAG
4 2 (0.82%) Basel III
4 2 (0.82%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.41%) GDPR
5 1 (0.41%) GMP
5 1 (0.41%) GxP
5 1 (0.41%) ITGC
System Software
1 42 (17.28%) Docker
2 8 (3.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (16.87%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.47%) Ansible
3 3 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.82%) Kibana
Vendors
1 64 (26.34%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.70%) Oracle
3 8 (3.29%) Citrix
4 5 (2.06%) Centrify
4 5 (2.06%) CyberArk
5 3 (1.23%) DevExpress
5 3 (1.23%) IBM
6 2 (0.82%) Adyen
6 2 (0.82%) Databricks
7 1 (0.41%) InterSystems
7 1 (0.41%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.41%) SAP
7 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.41%) Snow
7 1 (0.41%) Telerik