.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 19 September 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 331 222
Rank change year-on-year -122 -109 -20
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 243 234 425
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.71% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.78% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 178 340
10th Percentile £385 £347 £313
25th Percentile £423 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £691 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £53.93 - -
25th Percentile £57.94 £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £65.25 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% -7.69% +30.00%
75th Percentile £71.94 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £75.58 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.00 - £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 50,612 30,015 35,830
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.27% 91.09% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,983 18,953 22,040
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £626 £623 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,861 1,585 1,681
10th Percentile £14.56 £13.75 £14.73
25th Percentile £20.25 £17.30 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.86%

.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 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 19 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 19 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 -100 211 £495 +4.21% 352
UK excluding London -62 122 £450 - 225
London -111 90 £580 +15.95% 141
Work from Home -77 85 £525 +5.00% 237
North of England -47 36 £450 +3.45% 70
Yorkshire -8 34 £455 -13.33% 18
Midlands -35 28 £525 +17.32% 34
South East -58 26 £394 -6.03% 66
East Midlands +2 23 £575 +83.71% 10
South West -23 17 £425 -22.73% 13
East of England -20 9 £525 +20.00% 31
West Midlands -51 5 £425 -14.14% 24
Wales -8 4 £600 - 5
North West -59 2 £358 -14.25% 36
Scotland -29 1 - - 7
Channel Islands - 1 £450 -

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

For the 6 months to 19 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
2 171 (70.37%) C#
3 111 (45.68%) Azure
4 101 (41.56%) CI/CD
5 87 (35.80%) SQL Server
6 81 (33.33%) SQL
7 72 (29.63%) Agile
8 66 (27.16%) DevOps
9 64 (26.34%) Microsoft
10 61 (25.10%) .NET Core
11 58 (23.87%) ASP.NET
12 57 (23.46%) .NET Framework
13 56 (23.05%) REST
14 51 (20.99%) Full-Stack Development
15 50 (20.58%) Microservices
16 47 (19.34%) Azure DevOps
17 46 (18.93%) AWS
18 43 (17.70%) Kubernetes
19 42 (17.28%) SC Cleared
19 42 (17.28%) Security Cleared
20 41 (16.87%) RESTful
21 40 (16.46%) Docker
22 37 (15.23%) Git
23 36 (14.81%) Test Automation
24 35 (14.40%) JavaScript
25 30 (12.35%) GitHub
25 30 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
26 28 (11.52%) AngularJS
26 28 (11.52%) Code Quality
26 28 (11.52%) Software Engineering

.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 13 (5.35%) Confluence
2 9 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.88%) IIS
4 3 (1.23%) CMS
5 2 (0.82%) Apache Superset
5 2 (0.82%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.41%) ColdFusion
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
1 111 (45.68%) Azure
2 47 (19.34%) Azure DevOps
3 46 (18.93%) AWS
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (35.80%) SQL Server
2 19 (7.82%) Relational Database
3 17 (7.00%) 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 4 (1.65%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (1.65%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.65%) Redis
9 3 (1.23%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.23%) DocumentDB
9 3 (1.23%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.82%) Db2
10 2 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.82%) Metabase
10 2 (0.82%) Parquet
10 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 37 (15.23%) Git
2 15 (6.17%) Jenkins
3 14 (5.76%) JIRA
4 12 (4.94%) Visual Studio
5 9 (3.70%) GitLab
6 6 (2.47%) SpecFlow
6 6 (2.47%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (2.06%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.65%) MSI
8 4 (1.65%) NUnit
8 4 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.82%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.82%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.82%) Postman
9 2 (0.82%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.41%) Moq
10 1 (0.41%) MSTest
10 1 (0.41%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 47 (19.34%) Finance
2 41 (16.87%) Social Skills
3 23 (9.47%) Banking
4 20 (8.23%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.53%) Investment Banking
6 10 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.29%) Front Office
8 6 (2.47%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.65%) Legal
10 3 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.23%) Local Government
11 2 (0.82%) Automotive
11 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.82%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.41%) Law
12 1 (0.41%) Military
12 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.41%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (100.00%) .NET
2 61 (25.10%) .NET Core
3 58 (23.87%) ASP.NET
4 57 (23.46%) .NET Framework
5 56 (23.05%) REST
6 41 (16.87%) RESTful
7 28 (11.52%) AngularJS
8 24 (9.88%) React
8 24 (9.88%) WPF
9 22 (9.05%) ASP.NET Core
10 21 (8.64%) Web Services
11 20 (8.23%) Entity Framework
11 20 (8.23%) WinForms
12 19 (7.82%) Terraform
13 16 (6.58%) 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
17 10 (4.12%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.93%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.82%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (6.58%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.88%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.47%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (2.47%) Legacy Code
6 6 (2.47%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.06%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.65%) Replication
8 4 (1.65%) Wiki
9 3 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.82%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.82%) Derivative
10 2 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.41%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.41%) Life Science
11 1 (0.41%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.64%) Windows
2 3 (1.23%) Linux
3 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (41.56%) CI/CD
2 72 (29.63%) Agile
3 66 (27.16%) DevOps
4 51 (20.99%) Full-Stack Development
5 50 (20.58%) Microservices
6 36 (14.81%) Test Automation
7 30 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (11.52%) Code Quality
8 28 (11.52%) Software Engineering
9 25 (10.29%) Scrum
10 24 (9.88%) API Development
10 24 (9.88%) Containerisation
11 23 (9.47%) Event-Driven
12 21 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (8.23%) AI
13 20 (8.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 19 (7.82%) Deployment Automation
14 19 (7.82%) Design Patterns
14 19 (7.82%) Mentoring
15 17 (7.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 171 (70.37%) C#
2 81 (33.33%) SQL
3 35 (14.40%) JavaScript
4 26 (10.70%) TypeScript
5 25 (10.29%) 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 2 (0.82%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.82%) Rust
14 2 (0.82%) VB
15 1 (0.41%) C++
15 1 (0.41%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.41%) VB6
Qualifications
1 42 (17.28%) SC Cleared
1 42 (17.28%) 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%) GMP
5 1 (0.41%) GxP
System Software
1 40 (16.46%) Docker
2 8 (3.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (17.70%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.47%) Ansible
3 3 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (26.34%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.29%) 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%) Telerik