.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 April 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 297 215
Rank change year-on-year -124 -82 -42
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 216 229 473
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.78% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.85% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 192 383
10th Percentile £375 £341 £306
25th Percentile £425 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £644
90th Percentile £675 £813 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £440 £375
% change year-on-year +4.55% +17.33% -21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 42,318 27,076 40,821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 92.68% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,340 17,810 26,699
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £407 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,659 966 2,580
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.95 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.09 £20.12 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.54 £31.58 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.37% -9.77% -21.81%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £30.20 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.87% -13.71% -17.38%

.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 April 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 15 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 April 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 -122 168 £525 +5.00% 221
London -115 90 £560 +7.69% 65
UK excluding London -82 86 £460 +4.55% 169
Work from Home -52 74 £500 +5.26% 201
North of England -55 32 £488 +13.04% 54
South East -54 18 £517 +16.57% 48
North West -22 16 £450 +9.09% 32
Yorkshire -41 16 £525 - 16
Midlands -53 14 £500 - 19
Scotland +10 12 £425 - 5
East Midlands -24 10 £500 - 9
East of England -32 5 - - 21
South West -29 4 £588 -2.08% 19
West Midlands -61 4 £519 +6.41% 10
Wales -12 2 £450 +127.85% 4

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

For the 6 months to 10 April 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.

1 216 (100.00%) .NET
2 164 (75.93%) C#
3 120 (55.56%) Azure
4 88 (40.74%) CI/CD
5 78 (36.11%) DevOps
6 77 (35.65%) SQL
7 72 (33.33%) SQL Server
8 71 (32.87%) Agile
9 52 (24.07%) .NET Framework
10 47 (21.76%) Azure DevOps
11 46 (21.30%) .NET Core
12 43 (19.91%) Full-Stack Development
13 40 (18.52%) RESTful
14 39 (18.06%) Microsoft
15 38 (17.59%) Microservices
16 37 (17.13%) AngularJS
17 36 (16.67%) ASP.NET
18 35 (16.20%) React
19 33 (15.28%) Security Cleared
20 31 (14.35%) SC Cleared
21 29 (13.43%) HTML
21 29 (13.43%) REST
22 28 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
22 28 (12.96%) Python
23 26 (12.04%) AWS
23 26 (12.04%) JavaScript
23 26 (12.04%) Test Automation
24 23 (10.65%) Serverless
25 22 (10.19%) Azure Service Bus
26 21 (9.72%) AI

.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 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.31%) IIS
3 4 (1.85%) CMS
3 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.39%) Apache Superset
5 2 (0.93%) Confluence
6 1 (0.46%) Orchard CMS
6 1 (0.46%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Endur
1 2 (0.93%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 120 (55.56%) Azure
2 47 (21.76%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (12.04%) AWS
4 23 (10.65%) Serverless
5 22 (10.19%) Azure Service Bus
6 21 (9.72%) GitHub
7 18 (8.33%) Azure Functions
8 13 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
10 11 (5.09%) Power Platform
11 9 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (4.17%) Entra ID
12 8 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (3.70%) GCP
13 6 (2.78%) Azure AKS
13 6 (2.78%) PaaS
14 5 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (2.31%) Power Automate
15 4 (1.85%) Azure WebJobs
15 4 (1.85%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.93%) DHCP
1 2 (0.93%) DNS
1 2 (0.93%) HTTP
1 2 (0.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 19 (8.80%) Relational Database
3 16 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (3.70%) Power BI
6 7 (3.24%) Redis
7 5 (2.31%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.85%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.85%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.39%) Metabase
9 3 (1.39%) Parquet
10 2 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.46%) DocumentDB
11 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (8.33%) Git
2 10 (4.63%) NUnit
3 8 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.70%) MSTest
4 6 (2.78%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.85%) SpecFlow
5 4 (1.85%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.39%) Jasmine
6 3 (1.39%) JIRA
6 3 (1.39%) Karma Test Runner
6 3 (1.39%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.93%) Selenium
8 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.46%) JMeter
8 1 (0.46%) Mocha
8 1 (0.46%) Moq
8 1 (0.46%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.46%) tSQLt
General
1 42 (19.44%) Finance
2 36 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 36 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 26 (12.04%) Banking
4 14 (6.48%) Front Office
5 12 (5.56%) Investment Banking
6 9 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.70%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.39%) Back Office
8 3 (1.39%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.93%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.46%) Automotive
10 1 (0.46%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.46%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.46%) Military
10 1 (0.46%) Police
10 1 (0.46%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (100.00%) .NET
2 52 (24.07%) .NET Framework
3 46 (21.30%) .NET Core
4 40 (18.52%) RESTful
5 37 (17.13%) AngularJS
6 36 (16.67%) ASP.NET
7 35 (16.20%) React
8 29 (13.43%) HTML
8 29 (13.43%) REST
9 16 (7.41%) ASP.NET Core
9 16 (7.41%) CSS
9 16 (7.41%) Entity Framework
10 14 (6.48%) ASP.NET Web API
11 11 (5.09%) WPF
12 10 (4.63%) ASP.NET MVC
13 9 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
13 9 (4.17%) WinForms
14 8 (3.70%) HTML5
14 8 (3.70%) OAuth
14 8 (3.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.94%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.48%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.63%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.24%) AI Agents
5 7 (3.24%) Credit Risk
6 6 (2.78%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.78%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (2.31%) IoT
7 5 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.31%) Market Risk
7 5 (2.31%) Wiki
8 4 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.39%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.39%) Derivative
9 3 (1.39%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.93%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.93%) NHS
10 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.48%) Windows
2 6 (2.78%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.46%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (40.74%) CI/CD
2 78 (36.11%) DevOps
3 71 (32.87%) Agile
4 43 (19.91%) Full-Stack Development
5 38 (17.59%) Microservices
6 28 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (12.04%) Test Automation
8 21 (9.72%) AI
8 21 (9.72%) MVC
9 19 (8.80%) Scrum
9 19 (8.80%) SDLC
10 18 (8.33%) Design Patterns
10 18 (8.33%) Unit Testing
11 16 (7.41%) TDD
12 14 (6.48%) OOP
12 14 (6.48%) Software Engineering
13 13 (6.02%) Clean Code
13 13 (6.02%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (6.02%) SOLID
13 13 (6.02%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 164 (75.93%) C#
2 77 (35.65%) SQL
3 28 (12.96%) Python
4 26 (12.04%) JavaScript
5 15 (6.94%) T-SQL
6 13 (6.02%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.78%) PL/SQL
7 6 (2.78%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.31%) Bicep
8 5 (2.31%) Java
9 4 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.39%) C++
10 3 (1.39%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.39%) Rust
11 1 (0.46%) Bash
11 1 (0.46%) Delphi
11 1 (0.46%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.46%) Swift
Qualifications
1 33 (15.28%) Security Cleared
2 31 (14.35%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.63%) Degree
4 5 (2.31%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.46%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.46%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.94%) QA
2 4 (1.85%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.93%) WCAG
4 1 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.46%) HL7
4 1 (0.46%) MiFID
4 1 (0.46%) NCSC
System Software
1 20 (9.26%) Docker
2 3 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (9.72%) Kubernetes
2 19 (8.80%) Terraform
3 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.46%) Ansible
Vendors
1 39 (18.06%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.33%) Oracle
3 7 (3.24%) Google
4 6 (2.78%) Citrix
5 3 (1.39%) ION Trading
5 3 (1.39%) Xamarin
6 2 (0.93%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.93%) NEC
6 2 (0.93%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.93%) VMware
7 1 (0.46%) Adobe
7 1 (0.46%) SAP
7 1 (0.46%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.46%) Sybase
7 1 (0.46%) Temenos
7 1 (0.46%) Xero