.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 10 October 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 340 234
Rank change year-on-year -113 -106 -41
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 231 223 399
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.67% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.74% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 168 320
10th Percentile £404 £351 £313
25th Percentile £424 £400 £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 £679 £650 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £47.69 - -
25th Percentile £49.03 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £65.00
75th Percentile £65.88 - -
90th Percentile £73.15 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.40 - £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 50,251 30,087 35,271
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.06% 90.83% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,471 18,979 21,309
10th Percentile £325 £275 £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 £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £494
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.75% -1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4,065 1,640 1,482
10th Percentile £14.31 £13.75 £14.85
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.30 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +65.84% -40.16% -5.55%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £68.00 £74.37
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £25.00 £42.91
% change year-on-year +66.84% -41.74% -3.03%

.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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -103 198 £490 +3.16% 276
UK excluding London -56 106 £450 -2.70% 163
London -100 95 £572 +20.42% 118
Work from Home -72 83 £500 - 148
North of England -57 28 £450 +3.45% 51
Yorkshire -7 26 £450 -14.29% 23
Midlands -34 24 £500 -0.50% 28
South East -68 22 £388 -7.52% 44
South West -16 17 £425 -22.73% 9
East Midlands -6 16 £563 +10.29% 6
East of England -33 9 £525 +16.67% 17
West Midlands -44 8 £450 -9.09% 22
Wales -8 4 £600 - 6
North West -54 2 £358 -14.25% 19
Scotland -29 1 - - 9
Channel Islands - 1 £450 -

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

For the 6 months to 10 October 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.

1 231 (100.00%) .NET
2 168 (72.73%) C#
3 111 (48.05%) Azure
4 93 (40.26%) CI/CD
5 84 (36.36%) SQL Server
6 82 (35.50%) SQL
7 71 (30.74%) Agile
8 69 (29.87%) DevOps
9 65 (28.14%) .NET Core
10 62 (26.84%) Microsoft
10 62 (26.84%) REST
11 56 (24.24%) .NET Framework
11 56 (24.24%) ASP.NET
11 56 (24.24%) Full-Stack Development
12 49 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
13 46 (19.91%) AWS
13 46 (19.91%) Microservices
14 42 (18.18%) RESTful
15 41 (17.75%) SC Cleared
15 41 (17.75%) Security Cleared
16 39 (16.88%) Git
17 38 (16.45%) Docker
18 37 (16.02%) Kubernetes
18 37 (16.02%) Test Automation
19 36 (15.58%) JavaScript
20 31 (13.42%) AngularJS
20 31 (13.42%) Code Quality
20 31 (13.42%) React
21 30 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
22 28 (12.12%) WPF

.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 16 (6.93%) Confluence
2 9 (3.90%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.03%) IIS
4 2 (0.87%) CMS
4 2 (0.87%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.43%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.43%) nginx
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.43%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 111 (48.05%) Azure
2 49 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
3 46 (19.91%) AWS
4 24 (10.39%) GitHub
5 15 (6.49%) Azure Service Bus
6 13 (5.63%) Serverless
7 10 (4.33%) Azure Key Vault
7 10 (4.33%) Power Platform
8 9 (3.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (3.46%) Azure AKS
9 8 (3.46%) Azure Functions
9 8 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (3.46%) PaaS
10 6 (2.60%) Azure App Service
10 6 (2.60%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.73%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.73%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (1.73%) Azure Storage
11 4 (1.73%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.73%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.43%) Broadband
1 1 (0.43%) Internet
1 1 (0.43%) OpenVPN
1 1 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 18 (7.79%) Relational Database
3 14 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (3.90%) NoSQL
5 9 (3.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (2.60%) MS Access
6 6 (2.60%) Power BI
7 5 (2.16%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.73%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.30%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.30%) Db2
9 3 (1.30%) DocumentDB
10 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.87%) Redis
10 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.43%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.43%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 39 (16.88%) Git
2 18 (7.79%) JIRA
3 17 (7.36%) Jenkins
4 13 (5.63%) Visual Studio
5 11 (4.76%) GitLab
6 7 (3.03%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (2.60%) REST Assured
7 6 (2.60%) SpecFlow
8 5 (2.16%) NUnit
9 4 (1.73%) MSI
9 4 (1.73%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.30%) Fiddler
10 3 (1.30%) Postman
11 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.87%) Moq
11 2 (0.87%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.43%) MSTest
12 1 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 48 (20.78%) Finance
2 41 (17.75%) Social Skills
3 22 (9.52%) Banking
4 17 (7.36%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.90%) Financial Institution
6 9 (3.90%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.46%) Front Office
8 4 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.73%) Legal
8 4 (1.73%) Local Government
9 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.87%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.43%) Automotive
10 1 (0.43%) Law
10 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (100.00%) .NET
2 65 (28.14%) .NET Core
3 62 (26.84%) REST
4 56 (24.24%) .NET Framework
4 56 (24.24%) ASP.NET
5 42 (18.18%) RESTful
6 31 (13.42%) AngularJS
6 31 (13.42%) React
7 28 (12.12%) WPF
8 24 (10.39%) Entity Framework
9 22 (9.52%) Web Services
10 21 (9.09%) WinForms
11 20 (8.66%) ASP.NET Core
12 17 (7.36%) ASP.NET Web API
12 17 (7.36%) Terraform
13 15 (6.49%) Kafka
14 14 (6.06%) JSON
15 12 (5.19%) HTML
15 12 (5.19%) XML
16 11 (4.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.55%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.93%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (6.93%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (4.33%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.46%) Legacy Code
6 7 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (2.16%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.73%) Replication
8 4 (1.73%) Wiki
9 3 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.87%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.43%) Derivative
11 1 (0.43%) Fixed Income
11 1 (0.43%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.43%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.66%) Windows
2 4 (1.73%) Linux
3 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (40.26%) CI/CD
2 71 (30.74%) Agile
3 69 (29.87%) DevOps
4 56 (24.24%) Full-Stack Development
5 46 (19.91%) Microservices
6 37 (16.02%) Test Automation
7 31 (13.42%) Code Quality
8 30 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (11.69%) API Development
9 27 (11.69%) Software Engineering
10 26 (11.26%) Scrum
11 24 (10.39%) Containerisation
12 23 (9.96%) Event-Driven
13 22 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (8.66%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 19 (8.23%) Deployment Automation
15 19 (8.23%) Design Patterns
15 19 (8.23%) Mentoring
15 19 (8.23%) OO
15 19 (8.23%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 168 (72.73%) C#
2 82 (35.50%) SQL
3 36 (15.58%) JavaScript
4 26 (11.26%) TypeScript
5 25 (10.82%) Python
6 20 (8.66%) T-SQL
7 18 (7.79%) PL/SQL
8 10 (4.33%) Bicep
8 10 (4.33%) VB.NET
9 9 (3.90%) VBA
10 6 (2.60%) VBScript
11 5 (2.16%) XAML
12 4 (1.73%) VB
12 4 (1.73%) XPath
13 3 (1.30%) Java
14 2 (0.87%) VB6
15 1 (0.43%) C
15 1 (0.43%) C++
15 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 41 (17.75%) SC Cleared
1 41 (17.75%) Security Cleared
2 6 (2.60%) Degree
3 4 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (1.73%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.73%) PhD
4 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.87%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.06%) QA
2 6 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.16%) WCAG
4 4 (1.73%) NCSC
5 2 (0.87%) Basel III
5 2 (0.87%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.87%) GDPR
6 1 (0.43%) GMP
6 1 (0.43%) GxP
6 1 (0.43%) ITGC
System Software
1 38 (16.45%) Docker
2 9 (3.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (16.02%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.60%) Ansible
3 2 (0.87%) Kibana
3 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (26.84%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.82%) Oracle
3 7 (3.03%) Citrix
4 5 (2.16%) Centrify
4 5 (2.16%) CyberArk
5 3 (1.30%) DevExpress
5 3 (1.30%) IBM
6 2 (0.87%) Adyen
6 2 (0.87%) Databricks
7 1 (0.43%) InterSystems
7 1 (0.43%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.43%) SAP
7 1 (0.43%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.43%) Snow
7 1 (0.43%) Syncfusion
7 1 (0.43%) Telerik
7 1 (0.43%) TIBCO
7 1 (0.43%) WSO2