.NET Developer Contract Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 389 259 190
Rank change year-on-year -130 -69 -46
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 204 338 597
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.94% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 1.01% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 266 468
10th Percentile £355 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £607 £659
90th Percentile £650 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £444 £450 £430
% change year-on-year -1.39% +4.65% -7.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
Median hourly rate £46.00 - £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - +19.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 33,203 33,385 41,795
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.97% 92.79% 93.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,069 20,333 28,157
10th Percentile £285 £300 £292
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £723 £738 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,921 1,159 1,498
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.46 £15.22
25th Percentile £17.89 £20.75 £19.08
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +44.15%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%

.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 4 December 2025.

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 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 4 December 2025. 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 -109 171 £475 -9.09% 232
London -80 108 £500 -10.75% 57
Work from Home -50 69 £500 +17.65% 202
UK excluding London -58 68 £444 -1.39% 204
South East -12 19 £475 +2.70% 65
East of England -8 13 £450 -7.22% 17
Midlands -29 12 £510 +7.37% 23
Scotland +3 11 £438 -2.78% 11
North of England -49 10 £423 -11.05% 63
East Midlands -9 7 £513 +44.37% 9
North West -27 5 £410 -13.68% 38
West Midlands -33 5 £400 -15.79% 14
Yorkshire -31 4 £475 -5.00% 17
South West -12 2 £550 +25.00% 15
Wales -7 1 £600 +189.16% 10
North East -9 1 - - 8

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

For the 6 months to 4 December 2025, .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.

1 204 (100.00%) .NET
2 155 (75.98%) C#
3 99 (48.53%) Azure
4 81 (39.71%) SQL
5 74 (36.27%) Agile
6 70 (34.31%) DevOps
7 60 (29.41%) SQL Server
8 59 (28.92%) .NET Framework
8 59 (28.92%) CI/CD
9 47 (23.04%) .NET Core
9 47 (23.04%) Full-Stack Development
10 41 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
11 40 (19.61%) Microservices
12 36 (17.65%) AngularJS
12 36 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
13 32 (15.69%) AWS
14 31 (15.20%) Microsoft
15 28 (13.73%) Oracle
15 28 (13.73%) RESTful
16 27 (13.24%) WPF
17 25 (12.25%) Windows
18 23 (11.27%) ASP.NET
18 23 (11.27%) Entity Framework
18 23 (11.27%) Scrum
19 22 (10.78%) Clean Code
19 22 (10.78%) React
20 21 (10.29%) Migration
21 20 (9.80%) Docker
21 20 (9.80%) PL/SQL
22 19 (9.31%) Kubernetes

.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 8 (3.92%) Confluence
2 5 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.98%) CMS
3 2 (0.98%) IIS
3 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.49%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.49%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.49%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.49%) Mendix
4 1 (0.49%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 13 (6.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.49%) Eikon
2 1 (0.49%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 99 (48.53%) Azure
2 36 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (15.69%) AWS
4 15 (7.35%) GitHub
5 13 (6.37%) Serverless
6 9 (4.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 8 (3.92%) Azure AKS
7 8 (3.92%) Azure Functions
7 8 (3.92%) Azure Service Bus
7 8 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (3.92%) PaaS
8 7 (3.43%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (2.45%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (2.45%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.96%) Azure Pipelines
11 4 (1.96%) Figma
11 4 (1.96%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.96%) DNS
2 3 (1.47%) DHCP
2 3 (1.47%) HTTP
2 3 (1.47%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.49%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (29.41%) SQL Server
2 17 (8.33%) Oracle Database
3 12 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 9 (4.41%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.45%) Power BI
7 4 (1.96%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.47%) MySQL
8 3 (1.47%) Redis
9 2 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.49%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (5.39%) Git
1 11 (5.39%) JIRA
2 9 (4.41%) SpecFlow
3 6 (2.94%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.96%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.96%) NUnit
5 3 (1.47%) MSTest
6 2 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.49%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.49%) JetBrains Rider
7 1 (0.49%) JMeter
7 1 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.49%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 63 (30.88%) Finance
2 39 (19.12%) Social Skills
3 32 (15.69%) Public Sector
4 18 (8.82%) Banking
5 11 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.43%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.94%) Front Office
8 4 (1.96%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.47%) Back Office
9 3 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.98%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.49%) Advertising
11 1 (0.49%) Automotive
11 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.49%) Publishing
11 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (100.00%) .NET
2 59 (28.92%) .NET Framework
3 47 (23.04%) .NET Core
4 36 (17.65%) AngularJS
5 28 (13.73%) RESTful
6 27 (13.24%) WPF
7 23 (11.27%) ASP.NET
7 23 (11.27%) Entity Framework
8 22 (10.78%) React
9 16 (7.84%) CSS
9 16 (7.84%) REST
10 13 (6.37%) Blazor
11 12 (5.88%) HTML
12 11 (5.39%) Web Services
13 10 (4.90%) ASP.NET Web API
14 9 (4.41%) ASP.NET Core
14 9 (4.41%) Kafka
15 8 (3.92%) NHibernate
15 8 (3.92%) Playwright
16 7 (3.43%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.35%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.86%) Product Ownership
3 12 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.92%) Credit Risk
4 8 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (3.43%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.94%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.94%) Market Risk
7 5 (2.45%) Hedge funds
7 5 (2.45%) Wiki
8 4 (1.96%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.47%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.47%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.49%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.25%) Windows
2 5 (2.45%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.49%) Android
3 1 (0.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (36.27%) Agile
2 70 (34.31%) DevOps
3 59 (28.92%) CI/CD
4 47 (23.04%) Full-Stack Development
5 41 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (19.61%) Microservices
7 23 (11.27%) Scrum
8 22 (10.78%) Clean Code
9 21 (10.29%) Migration
10 19 (9.31%) SDLC
11 18 (8.82%) Design Patterns
12 17 (8.33%) AI
12 17 (8.33%) TDD
13 16 (7.84%) MVC
13 16 (7.84%) OO
13 16 (7.84%) Unit Testing
13 16 (7.84%) User Experience
14 14 (6.86%) Code Quality
14 14 (6.86%) Software Engineering
14 14 (6.86%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 155 (75.98%) C#
2 81 (39.71%) SQL
3 20 (9.80%) PL/SQL
4 14 (6.86%) JavaScript
4 14 (6.86%) Python
4 14 (6.86%) T-SQL
4 14 (6.86%) VB.NET
5 13 (6.37%) VB
5 13 (6.37%) VBA
6 7 (3.43%) PHP
7 6 (2.94%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.47%) Bicep
8 3 (1.47%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.98%) Java
9 2 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.49%) C++
10 1 (0.49%) Delphi
10 1 (0.49%) Formula Language
10 1 (0.49%) LotusScript
10 1 (0.49%) VB6
Qualifications
1 17 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.45%) Degree
4 4 (1.96%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.39%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.90%) QA
3 5 (2.45%) WCAG
4 3 (1.47%) EMIR
4 3 (1.47%) MiFID
System Software
1 20 (9.80%) Docker
2 4 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (9.31%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.41%) Terraform
3 1 (0.49%) Ansible
Vendors
1 31 (15.20%) Microsoft
2 28 (13.73%) Oracle
3 3 (1.47%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.47%) Databricks
3 3 (1.47%) VMware
4 2 (0.98%) Citrix
4 2 (0.98%) CQG
4 2 (0.98%) Salesforce
4 2 (0.98%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.49%) DevExpress
5 1 (0.49%) GoldenSource
5 1 (0.49%) Google
5 1 (0.49%) Kofax
5 1 (0.49%) Lotus
5 1 (0.49%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.49%) Reuters
5 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.49%) Sybase
5 1 (0.49%) Temenos