.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 17 December 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 273 190
Rank change year-on-year -120 -83 -49
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 197 321 581
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.93% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 1.01% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 251 460
10th Percentile £363 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -7.32% -6.82%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £669
90th Percentile £638 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +0.56% +5.88% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £46.00 - £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - +19.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 33,474 31,919 40,968
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.98% 92.77% 93.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,192 19,646 27,547
10th Percentile £290 £300 £288
25th Percentile £404 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,966 1,020 1,459
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.48 £15.16
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.52 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.97% -25.51% +50.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.59 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £72.53 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.00%

.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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025. 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 -111 165 £492 -1.60% 215
London -78 103 £500 -9.09% 58
UK excluding London -73 66 £453 +0.56% 186
Work from Home -59 65 £488 +14.71% 193
South East -17 19 £475 +7.10% 73
East of England -6 13 £450 -10.89% 15
North of England -53 12 £443 -4.32% 49
Scotland +3 11 £438 -2.78% 10
Midlands -34 9 £515 +8.42% 19
East Midlands -21 6 £515 +44.06% 7
Yorkshire -41 6 £500 - 12
North West -35 5 £410 -11.35% 29
West Midlands -39 3 £488 +2.63% 12
South West -7 2 £550 +25.00% 14
North East -8 1 - - 8

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

For the 6 months to 17 December 2025, .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.

1 197 (100.00%) .NET
2 151 (76.65%) C#
3 101 (51.27%) Azure
4 85 (43.15%) SQL
5 71 (36.04%) DevOps
6 70 (35.53%) Agile
7 60 (30.46%) CI/CD
7 60 (30.46%) SQL Server
8 56 (28.43%) .NET Framework
9 48 (24.37%) .NET Core
10 45 (22.84%) Full-Stack Development
11 40 (20.30%) Azure DevOps
12 39 (19.80%) Microservices
12 39 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
13 33 (16.75%) AngularJS
14 31 (15.74%) Microsoft
15 29 (14.72%) AWS
16 28 (14.21%) Oracle
17 25 (12.69%) RESTful
18 24 (12.18%) Windows
18 24 (12.18%) WPF
19 23 (11.68%) Entity Framework
19 23 (11.68%) React
20 22 (11.17%) ASP.NET
20 22 (11.17%) Scrum
21 21 (10.66%) Docker
21 21 (10.66%) Migration
22 20 (10.15%) Clean Code
22 20 (10.15%) Kubernetes
23 19 (9.64%) PL/SQL

.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 7 (3.55%) Confluence
2 5 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.52%) IIS
4 2 (1.02%) CMS
4 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.51%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.51%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.51%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.51%) Mendix
5 1 (0.51%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 10 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.51%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 101 (51.27%) Azure
2 40 (20.30%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (14.72%) AWS
4 17 (8.63%) GitHub
5 15 (7.61%) Serverless
6 11 (5.58%) Azure Service Bus
7 10 (5.08%) Azure AKS
7 10 (5.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 10 (5.08%) Azure Functions
7 10 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (4.06%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (4.06%) PaaS
9 7 (3.55%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (3.55%) Power Platform
10 6 (3.05%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (2.54%) Entra ID
12 4 (2.03%) Azure Pipelines
12 4 (2.03%) ChatGPT
12 4 (2.03%) Figma
12 4 (2.03%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.03%) DNS
2 3 (1.52%) DHCP
2 3 (1.52%) HTTP
2 3 (1.52%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.51%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (30.46%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.12%) Oracle Database
3 12 (6.09%) Relational Database
4 10 (5.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (4.06%) NoSQL
5 8 (4.06%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.54%) Power BI
7 3 (1.52%) MySQL
7 3 (1.52%) Redis
8 2 (1.02%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.51%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (5.08%) Git
1 10 (5.08%) JIRA
2 9 (4.57%) SpecFlow
3 5 (2.54%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.52%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.51%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.51%) JMeter
5 1 (0.51%) MSTest
5 1 (0.51%) NUnit
5 1 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 58 (29.44%) Finance
2 40 (20.30%) Social Skills
3 32 (16.24%) Public Sector
4 21 (10.66%) Banking
5 8 (4.06%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.06%) Financial Institution
6 7 (3.55%) Front Office
7 5 (2.54%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.52%) Back Office
8 3 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.51%) Advertising
10 1 (0.51%) Automotive
10 1 (0.51%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.51%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.51%) Publishing
10 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (100.00%) .NET
2 56 (28.43%) .NET Framework
3 48 (24.37%) .NET Core
4 33 (16.75%) AngularJS
5 25 (12.69%) RESTful
6 24 (12.18%) WPF
7 23 (11.68%) Entity Framework
7 23 (11.68%) React
8 22 (11.17%) ASP.NET
9 17 (8.63%) CSS
10 15 (7.61%) HTML
10 15 (7.61%) REST
11 12 (6.09%) Blazor
12 10 (5.08%) ASP.NET Web API
13 9 (4.57%) Kafka
13 9 (4.57%) Web Services
14 8 (4.06%) ASP.NET Core
14 8 (4.06%) NHibernate
14 8 (4.06%) Playwright
14 8 (4.06%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.12%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.60%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (4.57%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.06%) Credit Risk
6 7 (3.55%) Legacy Applications
7 6 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (3.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (3.05%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.05%) Market Risk
8 5 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.54%) Fixed Income
8 5 (2.54%) Hedge funds
8 5 (2.54%) Wiki
9 3 (1.52%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.52%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.02%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.02%) IoT
11 1 (0.51%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 24 (12.18%) Windows
2 6 (3.05%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.51%) Android
3 1 (0.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (36.04%) DevOps
2 70 (35.53%) Agile
3 60 (30.46%) CI/CD
4 45 (22.84%) Full-Stack Development
5 39 (19.80%) Microservices
5 39 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (11.17%) Scrum
7 21 (10.66%) Migration
8 20 (10.15%) Clean Code
9 19 (9.64%) SDLC
10 18 (9.14%) AI
11 17 (8.63%) Design Patterns
12 16 (8.12%) Unit Testing
13 15 (7.61%) OO
13 15 (7.61%) TDD
14 14 (7.11%) Containerisation
14 14 (7.11%) MVC
14 14 (7.11%) OOP
14 14 (7.11%) Software Engineering
15 13 (6.60%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 151 (76.65%) C#
2 85 (43.15%) SQL
3 19 (9.64%) PL/SQL
4 15 (7.61%) Python
4 15 (7.61%) T-SQL
5 14 (7.11%) JavaScript
6 12 (6.09%) VB.NET
7 11 (5.58%) VB
8 10 (5.08%) VBA
9 7 (3.55%) PHP
10 6 (3.05%) Bicep
11 5 (2.54%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.52%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.02%) C++
13 2 (1.02%) Java
13 2 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.51%) Formula Language
14 1 (0.51%) LotusScript
14 1 (0.51%) Ruby
14 1 (0.51%) VB6
Qualifications
1 15 (7.61%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.09%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.55%) Degree
4 4 (2.03%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.58%) QA
2 9 (4.57%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.54%) WCAG
4 3 (1.52%) EMIR
4 3 (1.52%) MiFID
5 1 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.51%) HL7
System Software
1 21 (10.66%) Docker
2 4 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (10.15%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.58%) Terraform
3 1 (0.51%) Ansible
Vendors
1 31 (15.74%) Microsoft
2 28 (14.21%) Oracle
3 3 (1.52%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.52%) Citrix
3 3 (1.52%) VMware
4 2 (1.02%) CQG
4 2 (1.02%) Databricks
4 2 (1.02%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.02%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.51%) DevExpress
5 1 (0.51%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.51%) Kofax
5 1 (0.51%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.51%) NEC
5 1 (0.51%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.51%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.51%) Solace
5 1 (0.51%) Sybase
5 1 (0.51%) Temenos
5 1 (0.51%) Virgin Media