.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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 280 265
Rank change year-on-year -97 -15 -43
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 203 313 403
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.85% 0.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.47% 3.91% 4.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 226 301
10th Percentile £378 £325 £369
25th Percentile £400 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £731 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £490 £463
% change year-on-year -5.10% +5.95% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 13
10th Percentile £55.45 £16.38 -
25th Percentile £63.63 £16.99 £50.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £17.99 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +272.43% -74.30% +6.40%
75th Percentile - £19.00 -
90th Percentile - £19.60 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £17.99 £70.00
% change year-on-year +272.43% -74.30% -

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 8,233 7,997 10,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.79% 21.80% 22.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,463 5,033 7,178
10th Percentile £350 £353 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £724 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 122 186
10th Percentile £30.80 £22.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £37.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.66% -13.05%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -1.54% +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 27 November 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 27 November 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 27 November 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 -91 180 £466 -15.23% 181
London -64 113 £456 -20.65% 41
UK excluding London -73 63 £465 -5.10% 157
Work from Home -49 62 £500 -0.40% 136
East of England -11 17 £425 +46.55% 15
Midlands -28 15 £488 -14.02% 19
South East -11 14 £400 -23.81% 56
East Midlands - 10 £575 - 10
North of England -52 9 £475 -4.04% 44
West Midlands -41 5 £406 -28.35% 8
Yorkshire -44 5 £475 -15.82% 9
North West -31 4 £493 +3.68% 32
Wales +2 3 £519 - 7
South West -12 3 - - 15
Scotland -9 2 £465 +8.39% 3

.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 (7.39%) IIS
2 9 (4.43%) CMS
3 8 (3.94%) Confluence
4 7 (3.45%) Umbraco
5 5 (2.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (2.46%) Headless CMS
5 5 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (2.46%) SharePoint
5 5 (2.46%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.99%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.49%) Appian
7 1 (0.49%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.49%) Camunda
7 1 (0.49%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 22 (10.84%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (5.91%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.46%) Fidessa
3 4 (1.97%) thinkFolio
4 3 (1.48%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.99%) OpenText MBPM
5 2 (0.99%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.49%) Eikon
6 1 (0.49%) Maximo
6 1 (0.49%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 80 (39.41%) Azure
2 39 (19.21%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (10.34%) GitHub
4 18 (8.87%) AWS
5 17 (8.37%) Serverless
6 15 (7.39%) Azure Service Bus
7 12 (5.91%) Power Platform
8 11 (5.42%) Azure Monitor
8 11 (5.42%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (4.93%) Entra ID
10 9 (4.43%) Azure Functions
10 9 (4.43%) npm
11 8 (3.94%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (3.94%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (3.45%) Kontent
12 7 (3.45%) PaaS
13 6 (2.96%) Azure App Service
14 5 (2.46%) Azure WebJobs
14 5 (2.46%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.91%) Internet
2 2 (0.99%) HTTP
2 2 (0.99%) SSL
3 1 (0.49%) DNS
3 1 (0.49%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (46.80%) SQL Server
2 27 (13.30%) Oracle Database
3 10 (4.93%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.94%) Power BI
5 3 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.48%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.99%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.99%) MySQL
7 1 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.49%) DataStage
7 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.49%) GIS
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.49%) Redis
7 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (16.26%) Git
2 25 (12.32%) JIRA
3 18 (8.87%) Visual Studio
4 14 (6.90%) SpecFlow
5 11 (5.42%) Artifactory
6 9 (4.43%) GitLab
7 7 (3.45%) Jenkins
7 7 (3.45%) Postman
8 6 (2.96%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.97%) MSTest
9 4 (1.97%) NUnit
10 3 (1.48%) Selenium
11 2 (0.99%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.99%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.99%) JMeter
12 1 (0.49%) AppVeyor
12 1 (0.49%) JetBrains Rider
12 1 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 70 (34.48%) Finance
2 57 (28.08%) Social Skills
3 25 (12.32%) Public Sector
4 21 (10.34%) Banking
5 16 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.94%) Front Office
7 7 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.46%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.46%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.97%) Legal
10 3 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.48%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.99%) Retail
12 1 (0.49%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.49%) Back Office
12 1 (0.49%) Billing
12 1 (0.49%) Japanese Language
12 1 (0.49%) Law
12 1 (0.49%) Military
12 1 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 142 (69.95%) Developer
2 65 (32.02%) C# Developer
3 62 (30.54%) .NET Developer
4 33 (16.26%) C# .NET Developer
5 27 (13.30%) Senior
6 23 (11.33%) Angular Developer
6 23 (11.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 23 (11.33%) Senior Developer
7 22 (10.84%) C# WPF Developer
7 22 (10.84%) WPF Developer
8 17 (8.37%) Software Engineer
9 13 (6.40%) Architect
9 13 (6.40%) Senior .NET Developer
10 10 (4.93%) Lead
11 9 (4.43%) C# WCF Developer
11 9 (4.43%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 9 (4.43%) WCF Developer
12 8 (3.94%) Full-Stack C# Developer
12 8 (3.94%) Senior C# Developer
13 7 (3.45%) CMS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (100.00%) .NET
2 63 (31.03%) Entity Framework
3 54 (26.60%) AngularJS
4 47 (23.15%) RESTful
5 46 (22.66%) REST
6 43 (21.18%) ASP.NET
7 42 (20.69%) .NET Core
8 39 (19.21%) HTML
8 39 (19.21%) React
9 38 (18.72%) CSS
10 31 (15.27%) WPF
11 22 (10.84%) NHibernate
12 19 (9.36%) Playwright
13 18 (8.87%) ASP.NET MVC
14 17 (8.37%) SOAP
14 17 (8.37%) Vue
15 14 (6.90%) WinForms
16 13 (6.40%) Web Services
17 11 (5.42%) ASP.NET Web API
17 11 (5.42%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
1 14 (6.90%) Mobile App
2 13 (6.40%) Product Ownership
3 12 (5.91%) Cloud Native
4 11 (5.42%) Algorithms
5 10 (4.93%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (4.93%) Fixed Income
5 10 (4.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (4.93%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (4.43%) Data Structures
7 7 (3.45%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.45%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.96%) Hedge funds
9 5 (2.46%) Market Risk
10 4 (1.97%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.97%) Derivative
11 3 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.99%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 41 (20.20%) Windows
2 9 (4.43%) Linux
3 6 (2.96%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.48%) Android
5 2 (0.99%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.49%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (39.41%) Agile
2 74 (36.45%) DevOps
3 69 (33.99%) CI/CD
4 59 (29.06%) Microservices
5 52 (25.62%) Full-Stack Development
6 43 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (17.73%) Software Engineering
8 34 (16.75%) MVC
9 32 (15.76%) OOP
10 29 (14.29%) Design Patterns
11 28 (13.79%) Unit Testing
12 27 (13.30%) Containerisation
13 26 (12.81%) Clean Code
14 25 (12.32%) TDD
15 23 (11.33%) Scrum
15 23 (11.33%) SDLC
15 23 (11.33%) Test Automation
16 20 (9.85%) API Development
17 17 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
17 17 (8.37%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 175 (86.21%) C#
2 97 (47.78%) SQL
3 61 (30.05%) JavaScript
4 34 (16.75%) PL/SQL
5 25 (12.32%) T-SQL
6 22 (10.84%) VBA
7 21 (10.34%) VB
8 19 (9.36%) TypeScript
9 18 (8.87%) VB.NET
10 11 (5.42%) PowerShell
11 9 (4.43%) C++
12 8 (3.94%) Python
13 5 (2.46%) Java
13 5 (2.46%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (1.48%) Bicep
15 2 (0.99%) Bash
15 2 (0.99%) PHP
16 1 (0.49%) C
16 1 (0.49%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 20 (9.85%) Degree
1 20 (9.85%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.96%) Azure Certification
3 6 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.99%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.99%) PMP
6 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (13.79%) QA
2 14 (6.90%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.96%) WCAG
4 5 (2.46%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.46%) MiFID
5 1 (0.49%) EMIR
5 1 (0.49%) GDPR
5 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (16.26%) Docker
2 5 (2.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (8.37%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.45%) Terraform
3 2 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 48 (23.65%) Oracle
3 16 (7.88%) Citrix
4 8 (3.94%) Sitecore
5 5 (2.46%) Adobe
6 4 (1.97%) Bloomberg
6 4 (1.97%) Murex
6 4 (1.97%) Portware
7 3 (1.48%) FactSet
7 3 (1.48%) Marketo
7 3 (1.48%) OneTrust
8 2 (0.99%) Databricks
8 2 (0.99%) GoldenSource
8 2 (0.99%) Okta
8 2 (0.99%) OpenText
9 1 (0.49%) Apple
9 1 (0.49%) Google
9 1 (0.49%) Reuters
9 1 (0.49%) Telerik
9 1 (0.49%) Xamarin