.NET Framework Contracts

Microsoft .NET Framework
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring .NET Framework skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET Framework over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 326 287
Rank change year-on-year -13 -39 -47
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 186 292 552
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.67% 0.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.81% 3.26% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 219 432
10th Percentile £385 £325 £400
25th Percentile £390 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £700
90th Percentile £700 £675 £806
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 11
10th Percentile £22.73 - £52.50
25th Percentile £24.33 £75.00 £57.74
Median hourly rate £27.00 £80.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.25% - +63.27%
75th Percentile - £86.25 £85.00
90th Percentile - £88.50 £87.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.41 £80.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -70.74% +14.29% +42.86%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

.NET Framework falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing .NET Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Framework in the UK

.NET Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Framework.

Daily rate trend for .NET Framework in the UK

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Framework in the UK

.NET Framework
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Framework.

Hourly rate trend for .NET Framework in the UK

.NET Framework
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Framework within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 -24 168 £475 - 262
London -12 131 £475 -5.00% 54
Work from Home -11 50 £500 +5.26% 214
UK excluding London +24 41 £475 +5.56% 214
Midlands +30 13 £500 +25.00% 43
South East +38 10 £463 +5.71% 56
West Midlands +19 9 £594 +39.82% 27
North of England +6 9 £400 -11.11% 72
North West -4 7 £406 -14.47% 45
Scotland +13 5 £475 +26.67% 7
South West +40 4 £825 +32.00% 23
East Midlands +12 3 £500 +165.08% 16
Yorkshire +9 2 £263 -25.00% 14
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

.NET Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (9.14%) IIS
2 8 (4.30%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.15%) Confluence
4 1 (0.54%) Apache
4 1 (0.54%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.54%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.54%) nginx
4 1 (0.54%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.54%) Umbraco
Applications
1 29 (15.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.69%) InfoPath
3 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.61%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (10.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.61%) Magento
2 3 (1.61%) Sage 200
3 2 (1.08%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 71 (38.17%) Azure
2 35 (18.82%) AWS
3 25 (13.44%) Serverless
4 22 (11.83%) Azure Functions
4 22 (11.83%) Dynamics 365
5 20 (10.75%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (10.75%) Power Platform
6 18 (9.68%) Azure Logic Apps
6 18 (9.68%) PowerApps
7 17 (9.14%) Power Automate
8 13 (6.99%) Azure Service Bus
9 12 (6.45%) GCP
10 10 (5.38%) Entra ID
11 7 (3.76%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (3.76%) Azure Event Grid
11 7 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (2.15%) SaaS
13 3 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.61%) Azure API Management
13 3 (1.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.91%) Internet
2 3 (1.61%) HTTP
3 2 (1.08%) 3G
3 2 (1.08%) DHCP
3 2 (1.08%) DNS
3 2 (1.08%) Firewall
3 2 (1.08%) GPRS
3 2 (1.08%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.08%) LAN
3 2 (1.08%) SSL
3 2 (1.08%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.08%) WAN
3 2 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.54%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (40.86%) SQL Server
2 35 (18.82%) Oracle Database
3 23 (12.37%) Relational Database
4 22 (11.83%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (7.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 13 (6.99%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (5.38%) NoSQL
8 8 (4.30%) MongoDB
8 8 (4.30%) MySQL
8 8 (4.30%) Power BI
9 5 (2.69%) RDBMS
9 5 (2.69%) Redis
10 4 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.08%) DocumentDB
12 2 (1.08%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.54%) Informix
13 1 (0.54%) MS Access
13 1 (0.54%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 27 (14.52%) Git
2 9 (4.84%) JIRA
3 7 (3.76%) NUnit
4 6 (3.23%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.69%) Visual Studio
6 4 (2.15%) GitLab
7 3 (1.61%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.08%) Postman
9 1 (0.54%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.54%) gulp
9 1 (0.54%) JUnit
9 1 (0.54%) Moq
9 1 (0.54%) ReSharper
9 1 (0.54%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.54%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.54%) TestNG
9 1 (0.54%) Toad
9 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 49 (26.34%) Finance
2 35 (18.82%) Social Skills
3 21 (11.29%) Banking
4 19 (10.22%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.76%) Front Office
7 5 (2.69%) Billing
8 4 (2.15%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.08%) German Language
9 2 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.08%) Law
9 2 (1.08%) Legal
9 2 (1.08%) Marketing
9 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Back Office
10 1 (0.54%) Electronics
10 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Police
Job Titles
1 129 (69.35%) Developer
2 88 (47.31%) .NET Developer
3 64 (34.41%) C# Developer
4 44 (23.66%) C# .NET Developer
5 31 (16.67%) C# WPF Developer
5 31 (16.67%) WPF Developer
6 23 (12.37%) Architect
7 20 (10.75%) Senior
8 16 (8.60%) Solutions Architect
9 15 (8.06%) Lead
10 14 (7.53%) Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (7.53%) Senior Developer
11 11 (5.91%) C# WCF Developer
11 11 (5.91%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 11 (5.91%) WCF Developer
12 10 (5.38%) React Developer
12 10 (5.38%) Senior .NET Developer
12 10 (5.38%) Senior C# Developer
13 9 (4.84%) Cloud Developer
13 9 (4.84%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (100.00%) .NET
2 62 (33.33%) Entity Framework
3 47 (25.27%) .NET Core
4 41 (22.04%) HTML
5 38 (20.43%) CSS
6 37 (19.89%) ASP.NET
7 36 (19.35%) WPF
8 35 (18.82%) ASP.NET Web API
8 35 (18.82%) WCF
9 32 (17.20%) AngularJS
10 25 (13.44%) React
10 25 (13.44%) RESTful
11 23 (12.37%) ASP.NET MVC
12 18 (9.68%) REST
13 17 (9.14%) JSON
13 17 (9.14%) XML
14 15 (8.06%) HTML5 Canvas
14 15 (8.06%) WinForms
15 12 (6.45%) Web Services
16 11 (5.91%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.84%) Fixed Income
2 8 (4.30%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.76%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.69%) Enterprise Cloud
5 5 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.69%) N-Tier
6 4 (2.15%) Market Risk
7 3 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.61%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.08%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.08%) PKI
9 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.54%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.54%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.54%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.54%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.54%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 44 (23.66%) Windows
2 6 (3.23%) Linux
3 4 (2.15%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.08%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (31.72%) Agile
2 41 (22.04%) CI/CD
3 40 (21.51%) DevOps
4 38 (20.43%) MVC
5 34 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 31 (16.67%) TDD
7 27 (14.52%) Test Automation
8 26 (13.98%) CRM
8 26 (13.98%) Web Development
9 23 (12.37%) Scrum
10 19 (10.22%) Design Patterns
10 19 (10.22%) Software Engineering
11 18 (9.68%) Unit Testing
12 17 (9.14%) Containerisation
12 17 (9.14%) OOP
13 16 (8.60%) Data Analysis
14 15 (8.06%) Business Intelligence
15 14 (7.53%) Disaster Recovery
15 14 (7.53%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 157 (84.41%) C#
2 104 (55.91%) SQL
3 56 (30.11%) JavaScript
4 47 (25.27%) PL/SQL
5 33 (17.74%) VB
6 30 (16.13%) VBA
7 21 (11.29%) T-SQL
8 17 (9.14%) VB.NET
9 16 (8.60%) TypeScript
10 11 (5.91%) RPG
10 11 (5.91%) RPG IV
11 7 (3.76%) Python
12 6 (3.23%) F#
13 4 (2.15%) PowerShell
14 3 (1.61%) Java
14 3 (1.61%) PHP
14 3 (1.61%) VB6
15 2 (1.08%) C++
16 1 (0.54%) Bash
16 1 (0.54%) XAML
Qualifications
1 18 (9.68%) Degree
2 15 (8.06%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.91%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.69%) MCPD
5 5 (2.69%) MCSD
6 3 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.61%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.08%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.08%) PhD
7 2 (1.08%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.54%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.14%) QA
2 9 (4.84%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.08%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (1.08%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 2 (1.08%) NCSC
4 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.54%) HL7
4 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.54%) SEPA
System Software
1 31 (16.67%) Docker
2 8 (4.30%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 27 (14.52%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.53%) Terraform
3 1 (0.54%) Ansible
3 1 (0.54%) MIIS
3 1 (0.54%) PowerCLI
3 1 (0.54%) SCOM
Vendors
1 58 (31.18%) Microsoft
2 40 (21.51%) Oracle
3 11 (5.91%) Citrix
4 5 (2.69%) TIBCO
4 5 (2.69%) VMware
5 4 (2.15%) Solace
6 3 (1.61%) IBM
6 3 (1.61%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.61%) SAP
7 2 (1.08%) Cisco
7 2 (1.08%) Google
7 2 (1.08%) Murex
8 1 (0.54%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.54%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.54%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.54%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.54%) Pardot
8 1 (0.54%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.54%) Siemens
8 1 (0.54%) Telerik