.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 8 May 2026.

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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 313 231
Rank change year-on-year -99 -82 -62
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 213 231 435
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.79% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.86% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 190 359
10th Percentile £375 £330 £306
25th Percentile £426 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -8.65%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £685 £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 43,778 26,928 40,006
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 92.53% 92.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,907 17,551 26,037
10th Percentile £319 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.58% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,831 1,044 2,664
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £44.00 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.04% -21.23% -18.89%
75th Percentile £67.25 £62.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.59 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +65.76% -31.25% -5.35%

.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 8 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 8 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 -125 168 £550 +8.37% 196
London -110 88 £569 +8.33% 57
UK excluding London -66 87 £488 +14.71% 149
Work from Home -48 74 £500 +5.26% 179
North of England -39 33 £500 +21.21% 46
Yorkshire -33 18 £588 +11.90% 10
Midlands -57 18 £550 +10.55% 19
South East -70 18 £488 +17.47% 44
North West -31 15 £450 +9.09% 23
East Midlands -17 14 £575 +15.00% 8
Scotland -6 10 £425 -2.86% 4
South West -35 5 £588 -10.31% 13
Wales -6 4 £450 - 4
West Midlands -55 4 £519 +4.80% 11

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 213 (100.00%) .NET
2 164 (77.00%) C#
3 116 (54.46%) Azure
4 95 (44.60%) CI/CD
5 79 (37.09%) DevOps
6 75 (35.21%) SQL
6 75 (35.21%) SQL Server
7 71 (33.33%) Agile
8 53 (24.88%) .NET Framework
9 48 (22.54%) Azure DevOps
10 46 (21.60%) .NET Core
11 44 (20.66%) Microservices
12 42 (19.72%) Full-Stack Development
12 42 (19.72%) RESTful
13 36 (16.90%) Microsoft
13 36 (16.90%) React
14 35 (16.43%) ASP.NET
15 34 (15.96%) AngularJS
16 32 (15.02%) Security Cleared
17 31 (14.55%) AWS
17 31 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
17 31 (14.55%) REST
18 30 (14.08%) JavaScript
18 30 (14.08%) SC Cleared
19 29 (13.62%) Python
20 28 (13.15%) HTML
21 26 (12.21%) Kubernetes
22 25 (11.74%) Docker
23 24 (11.27%) Test Automation
24 22 (10.33%) 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 (2.82%) IIS
2 4 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.41%) Apache Superset
3 3 (1.41%) CMS
3 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.94%) Confluence
5 1 (0.47%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Endur
1 2 (0.94%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 116 (54.46%) Azure
2 48 (22.54%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (14.55%) AWS
4 22 (10.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 22 (10.33%) GitHub
4 22 (10.33%) Serverless
5 16 (7.51%) Azure Functions
6 14 (6.57%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (5.63%) Azure Key Vault
7 12 (5.63%) Power Platform
8 8 (3.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (3.76%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (3.76%) GCP
9 7 (3.29%) Entra ID
10 6 (2.82%) Azure AKS
11 4 (1.88%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (1.88%) Cloud Run
11 4 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.88%) PaaS
11 4 (1.88%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.47%) DHCP
1 1 (0.47%) DNS
1 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (35.21%) SQL Server
2 21 (9.86%) Relational Database
3 12 (5.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.23%) Power BI
5 7 (3.29%) Redis
6 6 (2.82%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.88%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.88%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.41%) Metabase
8 3 (1.41%) Parquet
9 2 (0.94%) DocumentDB
9 2 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.94%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 17 (7.98%) Git
2 11 (5.16%) NUnit
3 8 (3.76%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.76%) MSTest
4 6 (2.82%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.35%) SpecFlow
6 4 (1.88%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.41%) Jasmine
7 3 (1.41%) JIRA
7 3 (1.41%) Karma Test Runner
7 3 (1.41%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.41%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.94%) GitLab
8 2 (0.94%) Moq
8 2 (0.94%) Selenium
9 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.47%) Mocha
9 1 (0.47%) Postman
9 1 (0.47%) Serilog
9 1 (0.47%) webpack
General
1 45 (21.13%) Finance
2 37 (17.37%) Social Skills
3 32 (15.02%) Public Sector
4 23 (10.80%) Banking
5 13 (6.10%) Front Office
6 11 (5.16%) Investment Banking
7 9 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (3.29%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.41%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.94%) Back Office
11 1 (0.47%) Automotive
11 1 (0.47%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.47%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.47%) Military
11 1 (0.47%) Police
11 1 (0.47%) Retail
11 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (100.00%) .NET
2 53 (24.88%) .NET Framework
3 46 (21.60%) .NET Core
4 42 (19.72%) RESTful
5 36 (16.90%) React
6 35 (16.43%) ASP.NET
7 34 (15.96%) AngularJS
8 31 (14.55%) REST
9 28 (13.15%) HTML
10 18 (8.45%) Entity Framework
11 15 (7.04%) ASP.NET Web API
11 15 (7.04%) CSS
12 12 (5.63%) ASP.NET Core
13 11 (5.16%) ASP.NET MVC
14 9 (4.23%) OAuth
14 9 (4.23%) RabbitMQ
14 9 (4.23%) WinForms
14 9 (4.23%) WPF
15 7 (3.29%) HTML5
15 7 (3.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.98%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.10%) Product Ownership
3 12 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.29%) AI Agents
6 6 (2.82%) Credit Risk
6 6 (2.82%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.35%) Market Risk
8 4 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.88%) IoT
8 4 (1.88%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.88%) Wiki
9 3 (1.41%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.41%) Derivative
9 3 (1.41%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.94%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.94%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.57%) Windows
2 5 (2.35%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (44.60%) CI/CD
2 79 (37.09%) DevOps
3 71 (33.33%) Agile
4 44 (20.66%) Microservices
5 42 (19.72%) Full-Stack Development
6 31 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (11.27%) Test Automation
8 21 (9.86%) MVC
9 20 (9.39%) Scrum
10 19 (8.92%) AI
10 19 (8.92%) SDLC
11 18 (8.45%) Design Patterns
11 18 (8.45%) Unit Testing
12 17 (7.98%) TDD
13 16 (7.51%) SOLID
14 15 (7.04%) Containerisation
14 15 (7.04%) Event-Driven
14 15 (7.04%) OOP
15 14 (6.57%) Performance Tuning
16 13 (6.10%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 164 (77.00%) C#
2 75 (35.21%) SQL
3 30 (14.08%) JavaScript
4 29 (13.62%) Python
5 18 (8.45%) TypeScript
6 16 (7.51%) T-SQL
7 7 (3.29%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.82%) Bicep
9 5 (2.35%) Java
9 5 (2.35%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.41%) C++
10 3 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.41%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.41%) Rust
11 1 (0.47%) Bash
11 1 (0.47%) Delphi
11 1 (0.47%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.47%) Swift
Qualifications
1 32 (15.02%) Security Cleared
2 30 (14.08%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.23%) Degree
4 5 (2.35%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.04%) QA
2 4 (1.88%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.94%) WCAG
4 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.47%) HL7
4 1 (0.47%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (11.74%) Docker
2 2 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (12.21%) Kubernetes
2 21 (9.86%) Terraform
3 2 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.47%) Ansible
Vendors
1 36 (16.90%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.92%) Oracle
3 7 (3.29%) Citrix
3 7 (3.29%) Google
4 3 (1.41%) ION Trading
4 3 (1.41%) Xamarin
5 2 (0.94%) NEC
5 2 (0.94%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.47%) Adobe
6 1 (0.47%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.47%) SAP
6 1 (0.47%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.47%) Sybase
6 1 (0.47%) Temenos
6 1 (0.47%) VMware
6 1 (0.47%) Xero