.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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 250 283
Rank change year-on-year -108 +33 -62
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 204 366 419
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.95% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.70% 4.24% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 252 310
10th Percentile £363 £305 £375
25th Percentile £385 £385 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -7.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £675
90th Percentile £750 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 13
10th Percentile £25.93 £17.99 -
25th Percentile £27.00 £33.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £66.00 £80.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +23.08% +3.92%
75th Percentile £67.00 £85.00 £70.00
90th Percentile - £87.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £80.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -16.25% +18.52% +9.76%

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 7,545 8,634 11,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.90% 22.41% 22.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,010 5,617 7,893
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £474 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.24% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 188 180
10th Percentile £31.25 £25.60 £36.19
25th Percentile £41.82 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.85 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% +2.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £72.41
90th Percentile £72.25 £74.61 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year -11.54% +10.11% -6.67%

.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
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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for .NET Framework in the UK

.NET Framework
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 Framework within the UK over the 6 months to 19 September 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 -106 176 £475 -5.00% 238
London -86 109 £500 -6.98% 67
UK excluding London -30 69 £475 - 187
Work from Home -50 60 £500 +5.26% 178
South East +16 16 £450 -14.29% 57
North of England -40 16 £475 -2.56% 53
East of England -2 15 £500 +66.67% 17
Midlands -24 11 £413 -26.54% 38
North West -14 10 £493 +3.68% 27
West Midlands -17 8 £425 -25.04% 20
Scotland -9 7 £475 +10.72% 2
Yorkshire -24 6 £475 -15.41% 15
Wales +4 3 £519 - 4
East Midlands -5 3 £313 +2.02% 16
South West +4 2 £375 -30.23% 12

.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 16 (7.84%) IIS
2 6 (2.94%) Confluence
3 4 (1.96%) Umbraco
4 3 (1.47%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (1.47%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.98%) CMS
6 1 (0.49%) Apache
6 1 (0.49%) Appian
6 1 (0.49%) Camunda
6 1 (0.49%) nginx
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.49%) SAS
6 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 29 (14.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (5.88%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.45%) Fidessa
3 4 (1.96%) thinkFolio
4 3 (1.47%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (1.47%) Magento
4 3 (1.47%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.98%) OpenText MBPM
5 2 (0.98%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.49%) Eikon
6 1 (0.49%) Maximo
6 1 (0.49%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 79 (38.73%) Azure
2 33 (16.18%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (8.33%) AWS
4 14 (6.86%) GitHub
4 14 (6.86%) Serverless
5 13 (6.37%) Azure Service Bus
5 13 (6.37%) Power Platform
6 9 (4.41%) Azure Logic Apps
6 9 (4.41%) npm
7 8 (3.92%) Azure Functions
8 6 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (2.94%) Power Automate
8 6 (2.94%) PowerApps
9 5 (2.45%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.96%) Azure AKS
10 4 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.96%) GCP
11 3 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.90%) Internet
2 3 (1.47%) DNS
3 2 (0.98%) 3G
3 2 (0.98%) DHCP
3 2 (0.98%) GPRS
3 2 (0.98%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (0.98%) LAN
3 2 (0.98%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.98%) WAN
3 2 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (39.71%) SQL Server
2 30 (14.71%) Oracle Database
3 16 (7.84%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.90%) Power BI
5 7 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.45%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.96%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.98%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.98%) MySQL
9 2 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.49%) Metadata
10 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.49%) Redis
10 1 (0.49%) Sisense
10 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (11.27%) Git
2 22 (10.78%) JIRA
3 17 (8.33%) Visual Studio
4 13 (6.37%) SpecFlow
5 10 (4.90%) Artifactory
6 9 (4.41%) GitLab
7 6 (2.94%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.96%) Postman
9 3 (1.47%) NUnit
10 2 (0.98%) MSTest
10 2 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.49%) gulp
11 1 (0.49%) Jenkins
11 1 (0.49%) JetBrains Rider
11 1 (0.49%) JMeter
11 1 (0.49%) ReSharper
11 1 (0.49%) Selenium
11 1 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 71 (34.80%) Finance
2 58 (28.43%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.29%) Public Sector
4 18 (8.82%) Banking
5 14 (6.86%) Front Office
6 13 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.45%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.96%) Legal
11 3 (1.47%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.98%) Back Office
12 2 (0.98%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.98%) Retail
13 1 (0.49%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.49%) Billing
13 1 (0.49%) French Language
13 1 (0.49%) Italian Language
13 1 (0.49%) Japanese Language
13 1 (0.49%) Law
Job Titles
1 136 (66.67%) Developer
2 71 (34.80%) .NET Developer
3 59 (28.92%) C# Developer
4 40 (19.61%) C# .NET Developer
5 30 (14.71%) C# WPF Developer
5 30 (14.71%) WPF Developer
6 24 (11.76%) Senior
7 22 (10.78%) Angular Developer
8 20 (9.80%) Architect
8 20 (9.80%) Senior Developer
9 17 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (5.88%) Software Engineer
11 10 (4.90%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (4.41%) C# WCF Developer
12 9 (4.41%) Senior .NET Developer
12 9 (4.41%) WCF Developer
13 8 (3.92%) .NET Architect
13 8 (3.92%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 8 (3.92%) Lead
14 7 (3.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (100.00%) .NET
2 71 (34.80%) Entity Framework
3 46 (22.55%) AngularJS
4 39 (19.12%) .NET Core
5 37 (18.14%) HTML
6 36 (17.65%) CSS
7 35 (17.16%) REST
8 34 (16.67%) RESTful
9 33 (16.18%) ASP.NET
9 33 (16.18%) WPF
10 30 (14.71%) React
11 21 (10.29%) NHibernate
12 18 (8.82%) WCF
13 16 (7.84%) Playwright
13 16 (7.84%) Vue
14 12 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
15 11 (5.39%) ASP.NET Web API
15 11 (5.39%) jQuery
16 10 (4.90%) Svelte
17 9 (4.41%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.33%) Fixed Income
2 13 (6.37%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.39%) Algorithms
4 10 (4.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (4.90%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.41%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.41%) Data Structures
5 9 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.94%) Hedge funds
6 6 (2.94%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.94%) N-Tier
7 5 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.45%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.45%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.96%) Derivative
8 4 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.98%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.98%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.98%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 40 (19.61%) Windows
2 13 (6.37%) Linux
3 5 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.47%) AIX
5 2 (0.98%) Android
6 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (43.63%) Agile
2 65 (31.86%) DevOps
3 53 (25.98%) CI/CD
3 53 (25.98%) Microservices
4 47 (23.04%) Full-Stack Development
5 42 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (17.65%) TDD
7 34 (16.67%) Design Patterns
8 30 (14.71%) Scrum
8 30 (14.71%) Software Engineering
9 26 (12.75%) Containerisation
9 26 (12.75%) MVC
9 26 (12.75%) Unit Testing
10 25 (12.25%) OOP
11 24 (11.76%) Computer Science
12 23 (11.27%) Test Automation
13 22 (10.78%) Clean Code
14 20 (9.80%) API Development
14 20 (9.80%) SDLC
15 18 (8.82%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 165 (80.88%) C#
2 95 (46.57%) SQL
3 57 (27.94%) JavaScript
4 36 (17.65%) PL/SQL
5 31 (15.20%) VB
6 29 (14.22%) VBA
7 25 (12.25%) VB.NET
8 20 (9.80%) TypeScript
9 18 (8.82%) T-SQL
10 9 (4.41%) C++
11 6 (2.94%) F#
12 5 (2.45%) Python
13 4 (1.96%) PowerShell
14 3 (1.47%) PHP
15 2 (0.98%) Java
15 2 (0.98%) RPG
15 2 (0.98%) RPG IV
16 1 (0.49%) VB6
16 1 (0.49%) VBScript
16 1 (0.49%) XAML
Qualifications
1 23 (11.27%) Degree
2 15 (7.35%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.41%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.96%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.47%) MCPD
6 3 (1.47%) MCSD
6 3 (1.47%) PMP
7 2 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.98%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.98%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.31%) QA
2 13 (6.37%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.45%) MiFID
3 5 (2.45%) WCAG
4 3 (1.47%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.47%) NCSC
5 2 (0.98%) GDPR
5 2 (0.98%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.98%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.49%) EMIR
System Software
1 30 (14.71%) Docker
2 4 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (9.80%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.96%) Terraform
3 2 (0.98%) SCOM
4 1 (0.49%) MIIS
4 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 44 (21.57%) Oracle
3 10 (4.90%) Citrix
4 5 (2.45%) VMware
5 4 (1.96%) Bloomberg
5 4 (1.96%) Murex
5 4 (1.96%) Portware
5 4 (1.96%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.47%) FactSet
6 3 (1.47%) IBM
7 2 (0.98%) Cisco
7 2 (0.98%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.98%) GoldenSource
7 2 (0.98%) Marketo
7 2 (0.98%) OneTrust
7 2 (0.98%) OpenText
7 2 (0.98%) Sitecore
7 2 (0.98%) Solace
7 2 (0.98%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.49%) Google