.NET Developer Contract Job Trends

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 297 197
Rank change year-on-year -130 -100 -46
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 185 232 533
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.75% 1.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.81% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 182 436
10th Percentile £385 £338 £306
25th Percentile £413 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £490
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -2.04% -10.91%
75th Percentile £588 £597 £650
90th Percentile £643 £688 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £404
% change year-on-year - +11.46% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 - -
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 36,337 28,613 41,534
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.55% 92.96% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,892 17,630 27,389
10th Percentile £300 £290 £275
25th Percentile £406 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £489
% change year-on-year -0.84% -2.04% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,207 829 2,294
10th Percentile £14.57 £15.91 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £16.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.54 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% -4.17% -2.51%
75th Percentile £62.05 £63.75 £60.75
90th Percentile £72.20 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.60 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -6.80% -9.26% -

.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 11 February 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 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 11 February 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 -107 140 £500 - 230
London -71 90 £550 - 62
Work from Home -48 64 £475 +5.56% 193
UK excluding London -81 58 £450 - 191
Scotland +15 14 £438 - 7
South East -44 12 £494 +6.76% 54
North of England -59 11 £450 -10.00% 66
East of England -19 9 £450 -1.10% 18
Midlands -55 9 £499 +38.54% 22
North West -29 6 £450 -10.00% 39
West Midlands -46 5 £488 +2.63% 13
East Midlands -24 4 £510 +42.66% 9
Yorkshire -55 4 £513 - 15
Wales +1 2 £450 +127.85% 4
South West -28 2 £550 -15.38% 20
North East -14 1 - - 12

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

For the 6 months to 11 February 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.

1 185 (100.00%) .NET
2 141 (76.22%) C#
3 100 (54.05%) Azure
4 69 (37.30%) SQL
5 61 (32.97%) DevOps
6 58 (31.35%) SQL Server
7 56 (30.27%) Agile
8 51 (27.57%) CI/CD
9 50 (27.03%) .NET Framework
10 46 (24.86%) .NET Core
11 41 (22.16%) Full-Stack Development
12 38 (20.54%) Azure DevOps
13 35 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
14 32 (17.30%) RESTful
15 29 (15.68%) Microsoft
16 28 (15.14%) Microservices
16 28 (15.14%) React
17 27 (14.59%) ASP.NET
18 25 (13.51%) AngularJS
19 23 (12.43%) Python
20 22 (11.89%) AI
20 22 (11.89%) AWS
21 21 (11.35%) Test Automation
22 20 (10.81%) Entity Framework
22 20 (10.81%) Oracle
23 19 (10.27%) MVC
23 19 (10.27%) REST
23 19 (10.27%) Scrum
23 19 (10.27%) Security Cleared
24 18 (9.73%) SDLC

.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 9 (4.86%) Confluence
2 3 (1.62%) IIS
2 3 (1.62%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.08%) CMS
3 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.54%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.54%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 4 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Endur
1 2 (1.08%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 100 (54.05%) Azure
2 38 (20.54%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (11.89%) AWS
4 17 (9.19%) GitHub
4 17 (9.19%) Serverless
5 13 (7.03%) Azure Functions
5 13 (7.03%) Azure Service Bus
5 13 (7.03%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (5.95%) Power Platform
7 10 (5.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 10 (5.41%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (4.32%) Azure AKS
9 7 (3.78%) Entra ID
9 7 (3.78%) PaaS
10 6 (3.24%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (3.24%) GCP
11 4 (2.16%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (2.16%) Cloud Run
12 3 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.62%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.16%) DNS
2 3 (1.62%) DHCP
2 3 (1.62%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (31.35%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.11%) Relational Database
3 14 (7.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (4.86%) Oracle Database
5 8 (4.32%) Power BI
6 4 (2.16%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.16%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.16%) Redis
7 3 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.08%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.54%) MySQL
9 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (5.95%) JIRA
2 10 (5.41%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.86%) Git
3 9 (4.86%) SpecFlow
4 6 (3.24%) MSTest
5 5 (2.70%) NUnit
5 5 (2.70%) Visual Studio
6 4 (2.16%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.08%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.08%) Selenium
7 2 (1.08%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.54%) JMeter
8 1 (0.54%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.54%) webpack
General
1 43 (23.24%) Finance
2 33 (17.84%) Social Skills
3 31 (16.76%) Public Sector
4 24 (12.97%) Banking
5 9 (4.86%) Investment Banking
6 8 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.32%) Financial Institution
6 8 (4.32%) Front Office
7 3 (1.62%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.08%) Back Office
8 2 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.08%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.54%) Advertising
9 1 (0.54%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.54%) Retail
9 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (100.00%) .NET
2 50 (27.03%) .NET Framework
3 46 (24.86%) .NET Core
4 32 (17.30%) RESTful
5 28 (15.14%) React
6 27 (14.59%) ASP.NET
7 25 (13.51%) AngularJS
8 20 (10.81%) Entity Framework
9 19 (10.27%) REST
10 17 (9.19%) WPF
11 14 (7.57%) HTML
12 11 (5.95%) ASP.NET Web API
13 9 (4.86%) ASP.NET Core
13 9 (4.86%) CSS
14 8 (4.32%) NHibernate
14 8 (4.32%) Playwright
14 8 (4.32%) Web Services
14 8 (4.32%) WinForms
15 7 (3.78%) ASP.NET MVC
15 7 (3.78%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.65%) Cloud Native
1 16 (8.65%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.86%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.32%) Credit Risk
4 7 (3.78%) Legacy Applications
4 7 (3.78%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.24%) Market Risk
5 6 (3.24%) Wiki
6 5 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.70%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.70%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.62%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.62%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.62%) IoT
7 3 (1.62%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.62%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.08%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.73%) Windows
2 6 (3.24%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.54%) Android
3 1 (0.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (32.97%) DevOps
2 56 (30.27%) Agile
3 51 (27.57%) CI/CD
4 41 (22.16%) Full-Stack Development
5 35 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (15.14%) Microservices
7 22 (11.89%) AI
8 21 (11.35%) Test Automation
9 19 (10.27%) MVC
9 19 (10.27%) Scrum
10 18 (9.73%) SDLC
10 18 (9.73%) Unit Testing
11 17 (9.19%) Clean Code
12 16 (8.65%) Design Patterns
13 13 (7.03%) Event-Driven
13 13 (7.03%) Software Engineering
14 12 (6.49%) Infrastructure as Code
14 12 (6.49%) Migration
14 12 (6.49%) User Experience
15 11 (5.95%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 141 (76.22%) C#
2 69 (37.30%) SQL
3 23 (12.43%) Python
4 11 (5.95%) PL/SQL
5 10 (5.41%) JavaScript
5 10 (5.41%) T-SQL
6 8 (4.32%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.24%) Bicep
8 5 (2.70%) VB
8 5 (2.70%) VB.NET
9 4 (2.16%) PHP
9 4 (2.16%) VBA
10 3 (1.62%) C++
10 3 (1.62%) Java
10 3 (1.62%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.54%) Delphi
12 1 (0.54%) Go
12 1 (0.54%) VB6
Qualifications
1 19 (10.27%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.19%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.86%) Degree
4 4 (2.16%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.57%) QA
2 3 (1.62%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.08%) WCAG
4 1 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.54%) HL7
4 1 (0.54%) MiFID
System Software
1 13 (7.03%) Docker
2 5 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.62%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (7.03%) Terraform
2 12 (6.49%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.54%) Ansible
Vendors
1 29 (15.68%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.81%) Oracle
3 7 (3.78%) Google
4 4 (2.16%) Citrix
5 3 (1.62%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.62%) ION Trading
5 3 (1.62%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.62%) VMware
5 3 (1.62%) Xamarin
6 2 (1.08%) NEC
7 1 (0.54%) Adobe
7 1 (0.54%) Databricks
7 1 (0.54%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.54%) SAP
7 1 (0.54%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.54%) Sybase
7 1 (0.54%) Temenos
7 1 (0.54%) Xero