.NET Framework Contract Job Trends

Microsoft .NET Framework
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring .NET Framework skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 444 360 257
Rank change year-on-year -84 -103 +23
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 246 200 358
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.60% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.07% 2.32% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 136 246
10th Percentile £398 £350 £316
25th Percentile £413 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £588 £599 £612
90th Percentile £686 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £481
% change year-on-year -1.05% -1.30% +1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 6
10th Percentile - £27.00 £17.99
25th Percentile - £53.06 £33.75
Median hourly rate £46.80 £66.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.62% -16.88% +14.29%
75th Percentile £52.15 £67.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £55.36 - £87.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.80 £67.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -30.15% -16.25% +14.29%

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 11,905 8,636 9,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.69% 26.08% 24.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,825 5,740 6,160
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £440 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 188 188
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.19 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -14.19% +4.88%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.60 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.34% -11.54% +11.03%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing .NET Framework relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

.NET Framework job vacancy trend in the UK

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing .NET Framework.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing .NET Framework

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Framework in the UK

.NET Framework
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing .NET Framework.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing .NET Framework

.NET Framework
Top 14 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 Framework within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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 -88 207 £500 +5.26% 295
London -62 126 £550 +15.79% 126
UK excluding London -83 89 £470 -1.05% 185
Work from Home -73 59 £475 -2.56% 144
South West -12 26 £450 +20.00% 19
South East -55 24 £500 +14.29% 39
Scotland -18 15 £450 -5.26% 13
North of England -73 14 £436 -8.16% 54
Yorkshire -29 10 £425 -10.53% 24
East of England -36 5 £345 -31.00% 21
West Midlands -43 5 £450 +5.88% 16
Midlands -61 5 £450 +7.46% 30
North West -56 3 £525 +6.60% 27
North East - 1 - - 4

.NET Framework
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 25 (10.16%) IIS
2 20 (8.13%) Confluence
3 12 (4.88%) SharePoint
4 10 (4.07%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (2.03%) Appian
5 5 (2.03%) Camunda
5 5 (2.03%) CMS
6 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.81%) nginx
7 2 (0.81%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.41%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 16 (6.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (4.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.03%) OpenText MBPM
2 5 (2.03%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.81%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.41%) Findur
4 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.41%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.41%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 134 (54.47%) Azure
2 68 (27.64%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (13.82%) GitHub
4 28 (11.38%) AWS
5 21 (8.54%) Entra ID
6 16 (6.50%) Azure App Service
7 15 (6.10%) Azure AKS
8 14 (5.69%) Azure Key Vault
9 13 (5.28%) Azure Monitor
9 13 (5.28%) PaaS
10 12 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (4.47%) Power Platform
12 10 (4.07%) Serverless
13 9 (3.66%) Azure API Management
13 9 (3.66%) Azure Functions
13 9 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
13 9 (3.66%) IaaS
14 8 (3.25%) Power Automate
15 7 (2.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.28%) Internet
2 5 (2.03%) HTTP
3 2 (0.81%) Intranet
3 2 (0.81%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.41%) DHCP
4 1 (0.41%) DNS
4 1 (0.41%) Firewall
4 1 (0.41%) LAN
4 1 (0.41%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.41%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.41%) VPN
4 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (42.68%) SQL Server
2 29 (11.79%) Oracle Database
3 24 (9.76%) Relational Database
4 15 (6.10%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (4.47%) Geospatial Data
6 10 (4.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (3.66%) NoSQL
8 8 (3.25%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (2.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.03%) MySQL
11 4 (1.63%) Db2
11 4 (1.63%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.63%) Power BI
12 3 (1.22%) DocumentDB
12 3 (1.22%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.22%) Parquet
12 3 (1.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 58 (23.58%) Git
2 22 (8.94%) JIRA
3 21 (8.54%) Visual Studio
4 13 (5.28%) MSI
5 8 (3.25%) GitLab
5 8 (3.25%) Jenkins
5 8 (3.25%) NUnit
6 7 (2.85%) TeamCity
7 6 (2.44%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.44%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (1.63%) JetBrains Rider
9 3 (1.22%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.22%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.22%) Selenium
9 3 (1.22%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.81%) git-flow
10 2 (0.81%) Moq
10 2 (0.81%) MSTest
10 2 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 55 (22.36%) Social Skills
2 52 (21.14%) Finance
3 29 (11.79%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (9.35%) Public Sector
5 18 (7.32%) Banking
6 4 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.63%) Marketing
6 4 (1.63%) Retail
7 3 (1.22%) Front Office
7 3 (1.22%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.81%) Automotive
8 2 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.81%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.81%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.41%) Law
9 1 (0.41%) Military
9 1 (0.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 144 (58.54%) Developer
2 60 (24.39%) .NET Developer
3 49 (19.92%) C# Developer
4 41 (16.67%) Architect
5 35 (14.23%) Senior
6 25 (10.16%) Full-Stack Developer
7 23 (9.35%) Senior Developer
8 22 (8.94%) Solutions Architect
9 21 (8.54%) C# .NET Developer
9 21 (8.54%) Lead
10 15 (6.10%) Applications Architect
10 15 (6.10%) Software Developer
11 14 (5.69%) Senior .NET Developer
12 10 (4.07%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 10 (4.07%) Lead Developer
12 10 (4.07%) Software Engineer
13 9 (3.66%) .NET Software Engineer
13 9 (3.66%) React Developer
14 8 (3.25%) .NET Software Developer
15 7 (2.85%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 246 (100.00%) .NET
2 72 (29.27%) .NET Core
3 71 (28.86%) REST
4 66 (26.83%) Entity Framework
5 49 (19.92%) ASP.NET
6 40 (16.26%) RESTful
7 39 (15.85%) React
8 37 (15.04%) WPF
9 31 (12.60%) Terraform
10 30 (12.20%) CSS
10 30 (12.20%) HTML
11 29 (11.79%) AngularJS
12 28 (11.38%) XML
13 26 (10.57%) ASP.NET Web API
14 21 (8.54%) Web Services
15 18 (7.32%) WinForms
16 16 (6.50%) SOAP
17 14 (5.69%) ASP.NET Core
18 13 (5.28%) CSS3
18 13 (5.28%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 48 (19.51%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.72%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (6.91%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (6.50%) Onboarding
5 13 (5.28%) Product Ownership
6 11 (4.47%) AI Agents
6 11 (4.47%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (4.07%) Legacy Code
8 9 (3.66%) Wiki
9 8 (3.25%) PKI
10 7 (2.85%) Legacy Applications
10 7 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (2.44%) LIMS
11 6 (2.44%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 3 (1.22%) Data Centre
14 2 (0.81%) Data Structures
14 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
14 2 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 65 (26.42%) Windows
2 19 (7.72%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.44%) Linux
4 2 (0.81%) Unix
5 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (54.47%) DevOps
2 106 (43.09%) Agile
3 105 (42.68%) CI/CD
4 60 (24.39%) AI
5 55 (22.36%) Scrum
6 52 (21.14%) SDLC
7 51 (20.73%) OOP
7 51 (20.73%) Test Automation
8 48 (19.51%) Migration
9 47 (19.11%) Full-Stack Development
10 46 (18.70%) Microservices
11 45 (18.29%) Software Engineering
12 39 (15.85%) Deployment Automation
13 38 (15.45%) OO
14 35 (14.23%) Problem-Solving
15 34 (13.82%) Unit Testing
16 28 (11.38%) SOLID
16 28 (11.38%) Workflow
17 27 (10.98%) Code Quality
18 26 (10.57%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 205 (83.33%) C#
2 95 (38.62%) SQL
3 66 (26.83%) JavaScript
4 43 (17.48%) TypeScript
5 38 (15.45%) Python
6 33 (13.41%) T-SQL
7 29 (11.79%) PL/SQL
8 22 (8.94%) Bicep
8 22 (8.94%) PowerShell
9 14 (5.69%) VBA
10 13 (5.28%) VB
11 7 (2.85%) VB.NET
12 4 (1.63%) Java
12 4 (1.63%) XAML
13 2 (0.81%) C++
13 2 (0.81%) VB6
13 2 (0.81%) XPath
14 1 (0.41%) COBOL
14 1 (0.41%) REXX
14 1 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 56 (22.76%) Security Cleared
2 40 (16.26%) SC Cleared
3 34 (13.82%) Degree
4 8 (3.25%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.44%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 4 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.63%) PhD
8 3 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.81%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (17.07%) QA
2 19 (7.72%) Accessibility
3 13 (5.28%) WCAG
4 12 (4.88%) NCSC
5 6 (2.44%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 6 (2.44%) GMP
5 6 (2.44%) GxP
5 6 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 3 (1.22%) SLA
7 1 (0.41%) GDPR
System Software
1 43 (17.48%) Docker
2 18 (7.32%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 35 (14.23%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.22%) Kibana
2 3 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.41%) Control-M
4 1 (0.41%) Istio
Vendors
1 90 (36.59%) Microsoft
2 50 (20.33%) Oracle
3 27 (10.98%) Citrix
4 6 (2.44%) BeyondTrust
4 6 (2.44%) Okta
5 5 (2.03%) OpenText
6 4 (1.63%) IBM
7 3 (1.22%) Sitecore
7 3 (1.22%) UiPath
7 3 (1.22%) WSO2
8 2 (0.81%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.81%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.81%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.81%) Telerik
8 2 (0.81%) Temenos
9 1 (0.41%) Foundry
9 1 (0.41%) JDA
9 1 (0.41%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.41%) SAP
9 1 (0.41%) Syncfusion