.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 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 313 296
Rank change year-on-year -116 -17 -37
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 173 219 324
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.73% 0.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.90% 3.19% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 168 253
10th Percentile £390 £385 £350
25th Percentile £404 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £486 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -2.75% -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £625
90th Percentile £650 £691 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £49.15 - -
25th Percentile £53.88 - -
Median hourly rate £58.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile £60.88 - -
90th Percentile £63.35 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -12.50%

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 9,094 6,871 9,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.97% 22.76% 20.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,072 4,489 6,389
10th Percentile £358 £363 £340
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -0.94% -7.54%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 88 226
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.06 £39.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.09 £68.19 £65.94
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.34 £75.77
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

.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 March 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing .NET Framework over the 6 months to 2 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for .NET Framework in the UK

.NET Framework
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 Framework within the UK over the 6 months to 2 March 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 -135 151 £473 -4.06% 121
London -79 103 £415 -13.54% 32
Work from Home -44 50 £500 - 75
UK excluding London -92 47 £525 +5.00% 102
Midlands -64 15 £550 -2.05% 14
South East -38 11 £525 +13.51% 32
East Midlands -25 9 £600 +20.00% 6
North of England -69 7 £500 -5.35% 24
West Midlands -64 6 £450 -20.63% 8
Scotland +15 4 £358 - 6
South West -26 4 £525 -19.23% 16
East of England -27 4 - - 11
North West -37 4 £650 +57.58% 17
Northern Ireland -1 2 - -
North East - 2 £475 - 3
Yorkshire -69 1 £525 -7.41% 5

.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 19 (10.98%) IIS
2 9 (5.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (4.62%) CMS
3 8 (4.62%) Confluence
4 7 (4.05%) SharePoint
5 6 (3.47%) Umbraco
6 5 (2.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (2.89%) Headless CMS
6 5 (2.89%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (1.16%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.58%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.58%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 14 (8.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.58%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.58%) Findur
1 1 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 70 (40.46%) Azure
2 44 (25.43%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (12.72%) GitHub
4 17 (9.83%) Azure Service Bus
5 16 (9.25%) Entra ID
5 16 (9.25%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (8.67%) AWS
6 15 (8.67%) Azure Key Vault
6 15 (8.67%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (5.78%) Azure App Service
7 10 (5.78%) Serverless
8 9 (5.20%) PaaS
8 9 (5.20%) Power Platform
9 8 (4.62%) Azure WebJobs
9 8 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (4.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (4.05%) Azure Functions
10 7 (4.05%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (4.05%) Kontent
11 5 (2.89%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.51%) Internet
2 7 (4.05%) HTTP
3 6 (3.47%) 3GPP
4 4 (2.31%) RTCP
4 4 (2.31%) RTP
4 4 (2.31%) XCAP
5 2 (1.16%) SSL
6 1 (0.58%) DNS
6 1 (0.58%) Network Security
6 1 (0.58%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (54.91%) SQL Server
2 26 (15.03%) Oracle Database
3 12 (6.94%) Relational Database
4 10 (5.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (4.05%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.73%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.73%) Power BI
6 3 (1.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.16%) GIS
7 2 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.58%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.58%) Parquet
8 1 (0.58%) Redis
8 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (16.18%) Git
2 21 (12.14%) JIRA
3 18 (10.40%) Visual Studio
4 11 (6.36%) SpecFlow
5 9 (5.20%) Jenkins
6 7 (4.05%) Postman
7 6 (3.47%) MSTest
8 5 (2.89%) NUnit
9 3 (1.73%) Jasmine
9 3 (1.73%) Karma Test Runner
9 3 (1.73%) Selenium
10 2 (1.16%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.16%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.16%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.58%) AppVeyor
11 1 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.58%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.58%) webpack
General
1 49 (28.32%) Finance
2 36 (20.81%) Social Skills
3 23 (13.29%) Banking
4 16 (9.25%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.47%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.16%) Front Office
7 2 (1.16%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.16%) Police
7 2 (1.16%) Publishing
7 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.58%) Billing
8 1 (0.58%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.58%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.58%) Legal
8 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.58%) Military
Job Titles
1 133 (76.88%) Developer
2 73 (42.20%) C# Developer
3 49 (28.32%) .NET Developer
4 26 (15.03%) C# .NET Developer
5 25 (14.45%) Full-Stack Developer
6 24 (13.87%) Senior
7 18 (10.40%) Senior Developer
8 14 (8.09%) Software Engineer
9 12 (6.94%) Angular Developer
9 12 (6.94%) Senior .NET Developer
10 11 (6.36%) Architect
10 11 (6.36%) Full-Stack C# Developer
11 10 (5.78%) Applications Developer
12 9 (5.20%) Azure Developer
12 9 (5.20%) Lead
13 8 (4.62%) C# Application Developer
13 8 (4.62%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 8 (4.62%) Senior C# Developer
14 7 (4.05%) CMS Developer
15 6 (3.47%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (100.00%) .NET
2 52 (30.06%) .NET Core
3 51 (29.48%) ASP.NET
4 44 (25.43%) Entity Framework
5 43 (24.86%) React
6 34 (19.65%) REST
6 34 (19.65%) RESTful
7 31 (17.92%) CSS
8 30 (17.34%) AngularJS
9 29 (16.76%) HTML
10 27 (15.61%) ASP.NET MVC
11 23 (13.29%) WPF
12 19 (10.98%) WinForms
13 16 (9.25%) ASP.NET Web API
14 15 (8.67%) Playwright
15 13 (7.51%) Web Services
15 13 (7.51%) XML
16 12 (6.94%) SOAP
17 11 (6.36%) NHibernate
17 11 (6.36%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.09%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (6.36%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (5.78%) Mobile App
4 9 (5.20%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.89%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.89%) Credit Risk
6 5 (2.89%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.89%) Market Risk
7 4 (2.31%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.16%) Media Streaming
9 2 (1.16%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.58%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.58%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.58%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 45 (26.01%) Windows
2 16 (9.25%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.73%) Android
3 3 (1.73%) Linux
4 2 (1.16%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.58%) Unix
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (39.31%) DevOps
2 64 (36.99%) CI/CD
3 60 (34.68%) Agile
4 37 (21.39%) Full-Stack Development
5 35 (20.23%) MVC
6 34 (19.65%) Microservices
7 33 (19.08%) Unit Testing
8 32 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (16.18%) AI
9 28 (16.18%) Disaster Recovery
10 27 (15.61%) Data Analysis
10 27 (15.61%) Software Engineering
11 25 (14.45%) OOP
11 25 (14.45%) Test Automation
12 20 (11.56%) Change Management
13 19 (10.98%) Business Intelligence
14 18 (10.40%) Analytics
15 15 (8.67%) Clean Code
15 15 (8.67%) Design Patterns
15 15 (8.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 162 (93.64%) C#
2 89 (51.45%) SQL
3 36 (20.81%) PL/SQL
4 35 (20.23%) JavaScript
5 34 (19.65%) T-SQL
6 18 (10.40%) Python
6 18 (10.40%) TypeScript
7 15 (8.67%) PowerShell
8 13 (7.51%) VB
8 13 (7.51%) VBA
9 8 (4.62%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (4.05%) Java
11 4 (2.31%) Bicep
12 3 (1.73%) C++
12 3 (1.73%) VB.NET
13 2 (1.16%) Bash
13 2 (1.16%) PHP
14 1 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.58%) Swift
Qualifications
1 24 (13.87%) Degree
2 22 (12.72%) Security Cleared
3 17 (9.83%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.20%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.73%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.58%) CISSP
7 1 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.58%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (22.54%) QA
2 7 (4.05%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.31%) WCAG
4 2 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.16%) SLA
5 1 (0.58%) EMIR
5 1 (0.58%) GDPR
5 1 (0.58%) MiFID
System Software
1 24 (13.87%) Docker
2 7 (4.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (6.36%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.62%) Terraform
3 3 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (30.64%) Oracle
2 38 (21.97%) Microsoft
3 28 (16.18%) Citrix
4 12 (6.94%) Sitecore
5 8 (4.62%) Google
6 7 (4.05%) Adobe
7 3 (1.73%) Marketo
7 3 (1.73%) OneTrust
7 3 (1.73%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.16%) Databricks
8 2 (1.16%) Okta
8 2 (1.16%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.58%) Apple
9 1 (0.58%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.58%) BMC
9 1 (0.58%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.58%) Remedy
9 1 (0.58%) SAP
9 1 (0.58%) UiPath
9 1 (0.58%) Xamarin