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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 326 328
Rank change year-on-year -107 +2 -43
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 194 198 279
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.68% 0.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.05% 2.98% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 158 213
10th Percentile £400 £385 £328
25th Percentile £415 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £563 £582 £600
90th Percentile £615 £691 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -4.21% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £49.15 - -
25th Percentile £53.88 £21.67 £75.00
Median hourly rate £58.00 £23.41 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +147.76% -70.74% -
75th Percentile £60.88 £25.16 £87.50
90th Percentile £63.35 - £89.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.00 £23.41 £80.00
% change year-on-year +147.76% -70.74% +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 9,447 6,648 8,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.60% 22.69% 20.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,288 4,554 6,179
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 101 186
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £18.74
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £71.62 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £84.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -26.11%

.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 15 April 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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -123 172 £458 -3.68% 93
London -82 108 £453 -4.74% 30
UK excluding London -70 67 £455 -4.21% 76
Work from Home -26 60 £496 -0.80% 55
South West -15 18 £438 -30.00% 16
South East -45 15 £525 +13.51% 17
Midlands -60 15 £487 -2.70% 4
West Midlands -59 10 £475 -20.07% 2
North of England -68 10 £475 +16.92% 21
East Midlands -28 5 £600 +20.00% 2
Scotland +4 4 £358 -24.63% 6
North West -45 4 £650 +57.58% 8
Yorkshire -51 4 £457 +74.10% 8
East of England - 3 - - 12
Northern Ireland 0 2 - -
North East - 2 £475 - 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 30 (15.46%) IIS
2 18 (9.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (8.76%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.58%) Confluence
5 4 (2.06%) CMS
5 4 (2.06%) Umbraco
6 3 (1.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (1.55%) Headless CMS
6 3 (1.55%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (6.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.03%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.52%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Findur
2 2 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.52%) Endur
3 1 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 103 (53.09%) Azure
2 53 (27.32%) Azure DevOps
3 35 (18.04%) GitHub
4 29 (14.95%) Azure Monitor
5 27 (13.92%) Azure Service Bus
6 26 (13.40%) AWS
6 26 (13.40%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (11.34%) Azure Key Vault
7 22 (11.34%) Entra ID
8 18 (9.28%) Azure App Service
8 18 (9.28%) PaaS
9 16 (8.25%) Azure WebJobs
9 16 (8.25%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (6.70%) Serverless
11 10 (5.15%) Azure Functions
12 8 (4.12%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (4.12%) Power Platform
13 6 (3.09%) Azure AKS
13 6 (3.09%) Power Automate
14 5 (2.58%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.70%) Internet
2 7 (3.61%) HTTP
3 6 (3.09%) 3GPP
4 4 (2.06%) RTCP
4 4 (2.06%) RTP
4 4 (2.06%) XCAP
5 2 (1.03%) SSL
6 1 (0.52%) Network Security
6 1 (0.52%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (52.58%) SQL Server
2 29 (14.95%) Oracle Database
3 14 (7.22%) Relational Database
4 11 (5.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (4.64%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.55%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.55%) Power BI
7 3 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.03%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.52%) DataStage
9 1 (0.52%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.52%) GIS
9 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (15.46%) Git
2 19 (9.79%) Visual Studio
3 18 (9.28%) JIRA
4 9 (4.64%) NUnit
5 7 (3.61%) Jenkins
5 7 (3.61%) MSTest
5 7 (3.61%) Postman
6 4 (2.06%) Jasmine
6 4 (2.06%) Karma Test Runner
7 3 (1.55%) Selenium
7 3 (1.55%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.52%) Appium
8 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.52%) JMeter
8 1 (0.52%) Moq
8 1 (0.52%) MSI
8 1 (0.52%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.52%) TestRail
8 1 (0.52%) webpack
General
1 52 (26.80%) Finance
2 37 (19.07%) Social Skills
3 23 (11.86%) Banking
4 18 (9.28%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.58%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.55%) Police
8 2 (1.03%) Front Office
8 2 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.52%) Automotive
9 1 (0.52%) Billing
9 1 (0.52%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.52%) Military
9 1 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 138 (71.13%) Developer
2 67 (34.54%) C# Developer
3 53 (27.32%) .NET Developer
4 24 (12.37%) Senior
5 20 (10.31%) Full-Stack Developer
6 19 (9.79%) C# .NET Developer
7 18 (9.28%) Architect
7 18 (9.28%) Azure Developer
8 17 (8.76%) Software Engineer
9 16 (8.25%) Senior Developer
10 12 (6.19%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (6.19%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (5.15%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 10 (5.15%) Senior .NET Developer
12 8 (4.12%) .NET Software Engineer
12 8 (4.12%) Applications Developer
12 8 (4.12%) C# Application Developer
12 8 (4.12%) Lead
12 8 (4.12%) Site Engineer
12 8 (4.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (100.00%) .NET
2 52 (26.80%) .NET Core
3 45 (23.20%) ASP.NET
4 43 (22.16%) React
5 39 (20.10%) REST
6 38 (19.59%) Entity Framework
7 28 (14.43%) CSS
7 28 (14.43%) RESTful
8 24 (12.37%) HTML
9 23 (11.86%) AngularJS
10 22 (11.34%) WPF
11 21 (10.82%) WinForms
12 20 (10.31%) Web Services
13 18 (9.28%) Microsoft Graph
13 18 (9.28%) SOAP
14 17 (8.76%) ASP.NET MVC
15 16 (8.25%) ASP.NET Web API
16 14 (7.22%) ASP.NET Core
17 12 (6.19%) XML
18 10 (5.15%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.82%) Legacy Systems
2 14 (7.22%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.67%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.64%) AI Agents
5 8 (4.12%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.61%) Legacy Code
7 5 (2.58%) Credit Risk
7 5 (2.58%) Market Risk
8 4 (2.06%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.06%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.03%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.03%) Media Streaming
10 2 (1.03%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.03%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 52 (26.80%) Windows
2 26 (13.40%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.52%) Linux
3 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (48.45%) DevOps
2 71 (36.60%) CI/CD
3 67 (34.54%) Agile
4 42 (21.65%) Disaster Recovery
5 37 (19.07%) AI
6 34 (17.53%) Unit Testing
7 32 (16.49%) Data Analysis
8 31 (15.98%) OOP
9 29 (14.95%) Full-Stack Development
9 29 (14.95%) Test Automation
10 28 (14.43%) Microservices
11 27 (13.92%) Software Engineering
12 25 (12.89%) MVC
13 22 (11.34%) Analytics
13 22 (11.34%) Change Management
13 22 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (10.82%) Business Intelligence
14 21 (10.82%) Log Analytics
14 21 (10.82%) Observability
15 19 (9.79%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 174 (89.69%) C#
2 87 (44.85%) SQL
3 40 (20.62%) T-SQL
4 38 (19.59%) PL/SQL
5 32 (16.49%) JavaScript
6 31 (15.98%) PowerShell
7 24 (12.37%) TypeScript
8 20 (10.31%) Python
9 16 (8.25%) Kusto Query Language
10 13 (6.70%) VB
10 13 (6.70%) VBA
11 6 (3.09%) Java
12 5 (2.58%) Bicep
13 2 (1.03%) Bash
13 2 (1.03%) PHP
14 1 (0.52%) C++
14 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (21.65%) Security Cleared
2 37 (19.07%) SC Cleared
3 27 (13.92%) Degree
4 8 (4.12%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.03%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.52%) CISSP
7 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.52%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.52%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (26.29%) QA
2 5 (2.58%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.55%) WCAG
4 2 (1.03%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.52%) EMIR
5 1 (0.52%) GDPR
5 1 (0.52%) MiFID
5 1 (0.52%) NCSC
5 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (14.43%) Docker
2 6 (3.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (8.76%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.70%) Terraform
3 3 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (29.90%) Oracle
2 51 (26.29%) Microsoft
3 34 (17.53%) Citrix
4 7 (3.61%) Google
4 7 (3.61%) Sitecore
5 5 (2.58%) Adobe
6 4 (2.06%) Databricks
7 3 (1.55%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.55%) OpenLink
8 2 (1.03%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.52%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.52%) BMC
9 1 (0.52%) Okta
9 1 (0.52%) OpenText
9 1 (0.52%) Remedy
9 1 (0.52%) SAP
9 1 (0.52%) Serena