.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 12 May 2026.

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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 303 230
Rank change year-on-year -124 -73 -56
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 205 237 438
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.81% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.88% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 193 359
10th Percentile £375 £334 £306
25th Percentile £425 £400 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -8.65%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £680 £813 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £425 £375
% change year-on-year +14.71% +13.33% -16.67%
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 43,836 26,998 39,901
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 92.47% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,861 17,609 25,964
10th Percentile £319 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.07% -2.38% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,872 1,048 2,673
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.34 £16.30
Median hourly rate £44.00 £28.60 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -23.73% -16.67%
75th Percentile £66.63 £62.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.56 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +65.65% -31.25% -5.73%

.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 12 May 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 14 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 12 May 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 -154 160 £550 +9.84% 207
UK excluding London -77 88 £488 +14.71% 156
London -115 81 £575 +9.52% 64
Work from Home -68 73 £500 +2.56% 183
North of England -45 33 £500 +19.40% 46
Yorkshire -39 18 £588 +11.90% 10
Midlands -43 18 £550 +10.55% 18
South East -60 18 £488 +17.47% 54
North West -30 15 £450 +9.09% 27
East Midlands -22 14 £575 +15.00% 9
Scotland 0 10 £425 -2.86% 5
Wales -7 5 £450 - 4
South West -30 5 £588 -10.31% 11
West Midlands -63 4 £519 +4.80% 9

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 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.

1 205 (100.00%) .NET
2 156 (76.10%) C#
3 110 (53.66%) Azure
4 90 (43.90%) CI/CD
5 74 (36.10%) DevOps
6 70 (34.15%) SQL
7 69 (33.66%) Agile
7 69 (33.66%) SQL Server
8 49 (23.90%) .NET Framework
9 48 (23.41%) Azure DevOps
10 43 (20.98%) Microservices
11 41 (20.00%) .NET Core
12 40 (19.51%) Full-Stack Development
13 38 (18.54%) RESTful
14 35 (17.07%) ASP.NET
15 34 (16.59%) Microsoft
15 34 (16.59%) React
16 33 (16.10%) AngularJS
17 32 (15.61%) Security Cleared
18 30 (14.63%) JavaScript
18 30 (14.63%) REST
18 30 (14.63%) SC Cleared
19 29 (14.15%) Python
20 28 (13.66%) HTML
20 28 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
21 26 (12.68%) AWS
21 26 (12.68%) Kubernetes
22 25 (12.20%) Docker
23 24 (11.71%) Test Automation
24 22 (10.73%) Azure Service Bus

.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 (2.93%) IIS
2 4 (1.95%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.46%) Apache Superset
3 3 (1.46%) CMS
3 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.98%) Confluence
5 1 (0.49%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Endur
1 2 (0.98%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 110 (53.66%) Azure
2 48 (23.41%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (12.68%) AWS
4 22 (10.73%) Azure Service Bus
4 22 (10.73%) GitHub
4 22 (10.73%) Serverless
5 16 (7.80%) Azure Functions
6 14 (6.83%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (5.85%) Azure Key Vault
7 12 (5.85%) Power Platform
8 8 (3.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (3.90%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (3.90%) GCP
9 7 (3.41%) Entra ID
10 6 (2.93%) Azure AKS
11 4 (1.95%) Azure API Management
11 4 (1.95%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (1.95%) Cloud Run
11 4 (1.95%) n8n
11 4 (1.95%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.49%) DHCP
1 1 (0.49%) DNS
1 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (33.66%) SQL Server
2 20 (9.76%) Relational Database
3 12 (5.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.39%) Power BI
5 6 (2.93%) Redis
6 5 (2.44%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.95%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.95%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.46%) Metabase
8 3 (1.46%) Parquet
9 2 (0.98%) DocumentDB
9 2 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.98%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 13 (6.34%) Git
2 11 (5.37%) NUnit
3 8 (3.90%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.90%) MSTest
4 6 (2.93%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.44%) SpecFlow
6 4 (1.95%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.46%) Jasmine
7 3 (1.46%) Karma Test Runner
7 3 (1.46%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.46%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.98%) GitLab
8 2 (0.98%) JIRA
8 2 (0.98%) Moq
8 2 (0.98%) Selenium
9 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.49%) Mocha
9 1 (0.49%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.49%) tSQLt
General
1 38 (18.54%) Finance
2 31 (15.12%) Public Sector
2 31 (15.12%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.24%) Banking
4 12 (5.85%) Front Office
5 10 (4.88%) Investment Banking
6 6 (2.93%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.46%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.46%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.98%) Back Office
9 1 (0.49%) Automotive
9 1 (0.49%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.49%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.49%) Military
9 1 (0.49%) Police
9 1 (0.49%) Retail
9 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (100.00%) .NET
2 49 (23.90%) .NET Framework
3 41 (20.00%) .NET Core
4 38 (18.54%) RESTful
5 35 (17.07%) ASP.NET
6 34 (16.59%) React
7 33 (16.10%) AngularJS
8 30 (14.63%) REST
9 28 (13.66%) HTML
10 18 (8.78%) Entity Framework
11 15 (7.32%) ASP.NET Web API
12 14 (6.83%) CSS
13 12 (5.85%) ASP.NET Core
14 11 (5.37%) ASP.NET MVC
15 9 (4.39%) OAuth
16 8 (3.90%) RabbitMQ
17 7 (3.41%) HTML5
17 7 (3.41%) OAuth2
17 7 (3.41%) YAML
18 6 (2.93%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.80%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.85%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.37%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.41%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.44%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.95%) IoT
7 4 (1.95%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.95%) Wiki
8 3 (1.46%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.46%) Derivative
8 3 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.46%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.98%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.98%) NHS
9 2 (0.98%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.39%) Windows
2 5 (2.44%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (43.90%) CI/CD
2 74 (36.10%) DevOps
3 69 (33.66%) Agile
4 43 (20.98%) Microservices
5 40 (19.51%) Full-Stack Development
6 28 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (11.71%) Test Automation
8 19 (9.27%) Scrum
9 18 (8.78%) AI
10 17 (8.29%) MVC
10 17 (8.29%) TDD
10 17 (8.29%) Unit Testing
11 16 (7.80%) SOLID
12 15 (7.32%) Containerisation
12 15 (7.32%) Event-Driven
12 15 (7.32%) SDLC
13 14 (6.83%) Performance Tuning
14 13 (6.34%) Design Patterns
14 13 (6.34%) Infrastructure as Code
15 12 (5.85%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 156 (76.10%) C#
2 70 (34.15%) SQL
3 30 (14.63%) JavaScript
4 29 (14.15%) Python
5 17 (8.29%) TypeScript
6 16 (7.80%) T-SQL
7 7 (3.41%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.93%) Bicep
9 5 (2.44%) Java
10 4 (1.95%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.46%) C++
11 3 (1.46%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.46%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.46%) Rust
12 1 (0.49%) Bash
12 1 (0.49%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 32 (15.61%) Security Cleared
2 30 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.39%) Degree
4 5 (2.44%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.32%) QA
2 4 (1.95%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.98%) WCAG
4 1 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.49%) HL7
4 1 (0.49%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (12.20%) Docker
2 2 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (12.68%) Kubernetes
2 20 (9.76%) Terraform
3 2 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (16.59%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.78%) Oracle
3 7 (3.41%) Citrix
3 7 (3.41%) Google
4 3 (1.46%) ION Trading
4 3 (1.46%) Xamarin
5 2 (0.98%) NEC
5 2 (0.98%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.49%) Adobe
6 1 (0.49%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.49%) SAP
6 1 (0.49%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.49%) Sybase
6 1 (0.49%) Temenos
6 1 (0.49%) VMware
6 1 (0.49%) Xero