.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 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 287 277
Rank change year-on-year -114 -10 -59
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 183 294 391
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.82% 0.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.25% 3.77% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 212 289
10th Percentile £385 £326 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -10.26%
75th Percentile £582 £619 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £495 £463
% change year-on-year -6.06% +7.03% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 12
10th Percentile £55.45 - £50.00
25th Percentile £63.63 - £59.38
Median hourly rate £67.00 £20.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +235.00% -71.43% +6.40%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £20.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +235.00% -71.43% -

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 8,136 7,791 10,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.43% 21.82% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,391 4,931 7,135
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £719 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 110 182
10th Percentile £30.08 £21.93 £32.30
25th Percentile £42.88 £37.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +14.09% -15.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.04 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -1.92% +23.81% -19.23%

.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 13 December 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 13 December 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 13 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 -113 162 £470 -14.55% 239
London -67 104 £446 -22.39% 24
Work from Home -54 60 £500 +5.26% 69
UK excluding London -75 53 £465 -6.06% 237
East of England -11 14 £500 +72.41% 31
Midlands -39 13 £550 -2.53% 38
South East -21 12 £390 -25.71% 67
East Midlands - 8 £600 - 18
North of England -57 7 £475 -7.77% 60
West Midlands -40 5 £406 -28.35% 18
Yorkshire -46 4 £495 -12.70% 17
South West -22 3 - - 26
North West -26 3 £435 -8.42% 39
Wales - 3 £519 - 8
Scotland -2 1 £455 +1.11% 9

.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 15 (8.20%) IIS
2 8 (4.37%) CMS
2 8 (4.37%) Confluence
3 6 (3.28%) Umbraco
4 5 (2.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (2.73%) Headless CMS
4 5 (2.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.73%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.73%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (1.09%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.55%) Appian
6 1 (0.55%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.55%) Camunda
6 1 (0.55%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 21 (11.48%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (6.01%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.73%) Fidessa
3 4 (2.19%) thinkFolio
4 3 (1.64%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (1.09%) OpenText MBPM
5 2 (1.09%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 70 (38.25%) Azure
2 37 (20.22%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (12.02%) GitHub
4 15 (8.20%) AWS
5 14 (7.65%) Azure Service Bus
5 14 (7.65%) Serverless
6 12 (6.56%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (6.56%) Power Platform
7 11 (6.01%) Azure Monitor
8 10 (5.46%) Entra ID
9 9 (4.92%) npm
10 8 (4.37%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (4.37%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (3.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (3.83%) Kontent
12 6 (3.28%) Azure App Service
12 6 (3.28%) Azure Functions
12 6 (3.28%) PaaS
13 5 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.56%) Internet
2 2 (1.09%) HTTP
2 2 (1.09%) SSL
3 1 (0.55%) DNS
3 1 (0.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (46.99%) SQL Server
2 28 (15.30%) Oracle Database
3 8 (4.37%) Power BI
4 7 (3.83%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.64%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.55%) DataStage
7 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.55%) GIS
7 1 (0.55%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.55%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.55%) Redis
7 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 31 (16.94%) Git
2 25 (13.66%) JIRA
3 17 (9.29%) Visual Studio
4 14 (7.65%) SpecFlow
5 11 (6.01%) Artifactory
6 9 (4.92%) GitLab
6 9 (4.92%) Jenkins
7 7 (3.83%) Postman
8 6 (3.28%) Cypress.io
9 4 (2.19%) MSTest
10 3 (1.64%) NUnit
10 3 (1.64%) Selenium
11 2 (1.09%) Bitbucket
11 2 (1.09%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.09%) JMeter
12 1 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 66 (36.07%) Finance
2 52 (28.42%) Social Skills
3 25 (13.66%) Public Sector
4 23 (12.57%) Banking
5 11 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.83%) Financial Institution
6 7 (3.83%) Front Office
7 6 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.73%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.09%) Retail
10 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.55%) Back Office
10 1 (0.55%) Billing
10 1 (0.55%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.55%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.55%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.55%) Military
10 1 (0.55%) Police
10 1 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 131 (71.58%) Developer
2 61 (33.33%) C# Developer
3 58 (31.69%) .NET Developer
4 31 (16.94%) C# .NET Developer
5 27 (14.75%) Senior
6 23 (12.57%) Senior Developer
7 22 (12.02%) Angular Developer
7 22 (12.02%) Full-Stack Developer
8 19 (10.38%) C# WPF Developer
8 19 (10.38%) WPF Developer
9 16 (8.74%) Software Engineer
10 13 (7.10%) Senior .NET Developer
11 11 (6.01%) Architect
12 10 (5.46%) Lead
13 8 (4.37%) C# WCF Developer
13 8 (4.37%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 8 (4.37%) Full-Stack C# Developer
13 8 (4.37%) WCF Developer
14 7 (3.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 7 (3.83%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (100.00%) .NET
2 54 (29.51%) Entity Framework
3 48 (26.23%) AngularJS
4 42 (22.95%) RESTful
5 39 (21.31%) .NET Core
6 38 (20.77%) REST
7 36 (19.67%) ASP.NET
8 35 (19.13%) React
9 31 (16.94%) HTML
10 30 (16.39%) CSS
11 28 (15.30%) WPF
12 21 (11.48%) NHibernate
13 19 (10.38%) Playwright
14 17 (9.29%) ASP.NET MVC
15 16 (8.74%) SOAP
15 16 (8.74%) WinForms
16 14 (7.65%) Vue
17 12 (6.56%) Web Services
18 11 (6.01%) ASP.NET Web API
18 11 (6.01%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.65%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (7.10%) Mobile App
2 13 (7.10%) Product Ownership
3 11 (6.01%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.46%) Algorithms
4 10 (5.46%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (4.92%) Data Structures
5 9 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (4.92%) Fixed Income
5 9 (4.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (3.83%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.83%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.28%) Hedge funds
8 4 (2.19%) Credit Risk
8 4 (2.19%) Derivative
8 4 (2.19%) Market Risk
9 3 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.09%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 42 (22.95%) Windows
2 9 (4.92%) Linux
2 9 (4.92%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.64%) Android
4 2 (1.09%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.55%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (39.89%) Agile
2 70 (38.25%) CI/CD
2 70 (38.25%) DevOps
3 54 (29.51%) Microservices
4 48 (26.23%) Full-Stack Development
5 35 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (16.94%) Software Engineering
7 30 (16.39%) OOP
8 28 (15.30%) MVC
9 27 (14.75%) Design Patterns
9 27 (14.75%) Unit Testing
10 26 (14.21%) Containerisation
11 23 (12.57%) Clean Code
12 22 (12.02%) SDLC
12 22 (12.02%) TDD
12 22 (12.02%) Test Automation
13 19 (10.38%) API Development
13 19 (10.38%) Scrum
14 18 (9.84%) Data Analysis
15 17 (9.29%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 160 (87.43%) C#
2 89 (48.63%) SQL
3 51 (27.87%) JavaScript
4 35 (19.13%) PL/SQL
5 26 (14.21%) T-SQL
6 20 (10.93%) VB
6 20 (10.93%) VBA
7 18 (9.84%) TypeScript
8 13 (7.10%) VB.NET
9 11 (6.01%) PowerShell
10 9 (4.92%) C++
11 7 (3.83%) Python
12 5 (2.73%) Java
12 5 (2.73%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (1.64%) Bicep
14 2 (1.09%) Bash
14 2 (1.09%) PHP
15 1 (0.55%) C
15 1 (0.55%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 20 (10.93%) Degree
1 20 (10.93%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.65%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.28%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.09%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (15.85%) QA
2 14 (7.65%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.28%) WCAG
4 5 (2.73%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.73%) MiFID
5 1 (0.55%) EMIR
5 1 (0.55%) GDPR
5 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (17.49%) Docker
2 5 (2.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (9.29%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.28%) Terraform
3 2 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (27.87%) Microsoft
2 45 (24.59%) Oracle
3 19 (10.38%) Citrix
4 8 (4.37%) Sitecore
5 5 (2.73%) Adobe
6 4 (2.19%) Murex
6 4 (2.19%) Portware
7 3 (1.64%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.64%) FactSet
7 3 (1.64%) Marketo
7 3 (1.64%) OneTrust
8 2 (1.09%) Databricks
8 2 (1.09%) GoldenSource
8 2 (1.09%) Okta
8 2 (1.09%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.09%) OpenText
9 1 (0.55%) Apple
9 1 (0.55%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.55%) Telerik
9 1 (0.55%) UiPath