.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 24 April 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 297 231
Rank change year-on-year -128 -66 -63
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 207 237 453
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.80% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.87% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 197 369
10th Percentile £375 £336 £306
25th Percentile £425 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £678 £813 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £388
% change year-on-year +11.76% +9.68% -16.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% - -
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 42,897 27,359 40,498
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 92.62% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,528 17,903 26,435
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,745 1,021 2,635
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.50 £29.23 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.40% -17.66% -21.11%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.43 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £28.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year +53.04% -23.33% -11.76%

.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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -126 162 £536 +7.25% 203
London -125 86 £561 +7.93% 60
UK excluding London -61 83 £475 +11.76% 159
Work from Home -53 71 £500 +2.56% 183
North of England -46 31 £494 +19.70% 49
South East -60 18 £488 +11.11% 52
Yorkshire -38 16 £525 - 12
Midlands -45 16 £550 +12.82% 18
North West -29 15 £450 +9.09% 31
East Midlands -24 12 £575 +58.62% 10
Scotland +10 11 £438 - 6
South West -31 5 £588 -6.37% 10
West Midlands -55 4 £519 +6.41% 8
Wales -12 2 £450 +127.85% 3
East of England -34 1 - - 19

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 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.

1 207 (100.00%) .NET
2 161 (77.78%) C#
3 116 (56.04%) Azure
4 87 (42.03%) CI/CD
5 77 (37.20%) DevOps
6 73 (35.27%) SQL
6 73 (35.27%) SQL Server
7 67 (32.37%) Agile
8 51 (24.64%) .NET Framework
9 46 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
10 45 (21.74%) .NET Core
11 40 (19.32%) Full-Stack Development
11 40 (19.32%) Microservices
12 38 (18.36%) Microsoft
12 38 (18.36%) RESTful
13 35 (16.91%) AngularJS
14 34 (16.43%) ASP.NET
15 33 (15.94%) React
16 31 (14.98%) Security Cleared
17 29 (14.01%) REST
17 29 (14.01%) SC Cleared
18 28 (13.53%) HTML
19 27 (13.04%) JavaScript
20 26 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
21 25 (12.08%) AWS
21 25 (12.08%) Python
22 23 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
22 23 (11.11%) Serverless
22 23 (11.11%) Test Automation
23 21 (10.14%) Docker

.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 6 (2.90%) IIS
1 6 (2.90%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.93%) CMS
2 4 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.45%) Apache Superset
4 2 (0.97%) Confluence
5 1 (0.48%) Orchard CMS
5 1 (0.48%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Endur
1 2 (0.97%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 116 (56.04%) Azure
2 46 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (12.08%) AWS
4 23 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
4 23 (11.11%) Serverless
5 21 (10.14%) GitHub
6 17 (8.21%) Azure Functions
7 13 (6.28%) Azure Key Vault
7 13 (6.28%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (5.31%) Power Platform
9 8 (3.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (3.86%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (3.86%) Entra ID
9 8 (3.86%) GCP
10 6 (2.90%) Azure AKS
11 5 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.42%) PaaS
11 5 (2.42%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.93%) Azure App Service
12 4 (1.93%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.48%) DHCP
1 1 (0.48%) DNS
1 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (35.27%) SQL Server
2 19 (9.18%) Relational Database
3 14 (6.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (3.86%) Power BI
5 8 (3.86%) Redis
6 6 (2.90%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.93%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.93%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.45%) Metabase
8 3 (1.45%) Parquet
9 2 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.97%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.48%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 16 (7.73%) Git
2 10 (4.83%) NUnit
3 8 (3.86%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.86%) MSTest
4 6 (2.90%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.42%) SpecFlow
5 5 (2.42%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.93%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.45%) Jasmine
7 3 (1.45%) JIRA
7 3 (1.45%) Karma Test Runner
7 3 (1.45%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.97%) Selenium
9 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.48%) JMeter
9 1 (0.48%) Mocha
9 1 (0.48%) Moq
9 1 (0.48%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.48%) tSQLt
General
1 41 (19.81%) Finance
2 36 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 33 (15.94%) Public Sector
4 24 (11.59%) Banking
5 15 (7.25%) Front Office
6 12 (5.80%) Investment Banking
7 7 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.38%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.45%) Back Office
8 3 (1.45%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.48%) Automotive
10 1 (0.48%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.48%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.48%) Military
10 1 (0.48%) Police
10 1 (0.48%) Retail
10 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (100.00%) .NET
2 51 (24.64%) .NET Framework
3 45 (21.74%) .NET Core
4 38 (18.36%) RESTful
5 35 (16.91%) AngularJS
6 34 (16.43%) ASP.NET
7 33 (15.94%) React
8 29 (14.01%) REST
9 28 (13.53%) HTML
10 16 (7.73%) Entity Framework
11 15 (7.25%) CSS
12 13 (6.28%) ASP.NET Core
12 13 (6.28%) ASP.NET Web API
13 11 (5.31%) ASP.NET MVC
14 10 (4.83%) WPF
15 9 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
15 9 (4.35%) WinForms
16 8 (3.86%) OAuth
17 7 (3.38%) HTML5
17 7 (3.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.25%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.28%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.83%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.38%) AI Agents
6 6 (2.90%) Credit Risk
6 6 (2.90%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.42%) Market Risk
8 4 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.93%) Derivative
8 4 (1.93%) IoT
8 4 (1.93%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.93%) Wiki
9 3 (1.45%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.45%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.97%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.97%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.76%) Windows
2 5 (2.42%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (42.03%) CI/CD
2 77 (37.20%) DevOps
3 67 (32.37%) Agile
4 40 (19.32%) Full-Stack Development
4 40 (19.32%) Microservices
5 26 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (11.11%) Test Automation
7 21 (10.14%) MVC
8 20 (9.66%) AI
9 19 (9.18%) SDLC
10 18 (8.70%) Design Patterns
10 18 (8.70%) Scrum
11 17 (8.21%) Unit Testing
12 16 (7.73%) TDD
13 15 (7.25%) OOP
14 14 (6.76%) SOLID
15 13 (6.28%) Infrastructure as Code
15 13 (6.28%) Software Engineering
16 12 (5.80%) Performance Tuning
16 12 (5.80%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 161 (77.78%) C#
2 73 (35.27%) SQL
3 27 (13.04%) JavaScript
4 25 (12.08%) Python
5 14 (6.76%) TypeScript
6 13 (6.28%) T-SQL
7 7 (3.38%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.90%) Bicep
8 6 (2.90%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.42%) Java
10 4 (1.93%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.45%) C++
11 3 (1.45%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.45%) Rust
12 1 (0.48%) Bash
12 1 (0.48%) Delphi
12 1 (0.48%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 31 (14.98%) Security Cleared
2 29 (14.01%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.83%) Degree
4 5 (2.42%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.73%) QA
2 4 (1.93%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.97%) WCAG
4 1 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.48%) HL7
4 1 (0.48%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (10.14%) Docker
2 2 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (10.14%) Kubernetes
2 20 (9.66%) Terraform
3 2 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.48%) Ansible
Vendors
1 38 (18.36%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.70%) Oracle
3 7 (3.38%) Citrix
3 7 (3.38%) Google
4 3 (1.45%) ION Trading
4 3 (1.45%) Xamarin
5 2 (0.97%) NEC
5 2 (0.97%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.48%) Adobe
6 1 (0.48%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.48%) SAP
6 1 (0.48%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.48%) Sybase
6 1 (0.48%) Temenos
6 1 (0.48%) VMware
6 1 (0.48%) Xero