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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 390 265 274
Rank change year-on-year -125 +9 -63
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 200 311 410
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.84% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.46% 3.89% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 225 306
10th Percentile £378 £325 £375
25th Percentile £400 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £733 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £463
% change year-on-year -3.55% +6.49% -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% +13.82%

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 8,115 8,005 10,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.71% 21.67% 22.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,385 5,045 7,347
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 122 189
10th Percentile £30.80 £22.00 £35.55
25th Percentile £43.00 £37.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -14.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.40 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -3.08% +19.13% -16.06%

.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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -102 179 £456 -17.05% 140
London -52 112 £440 -23.48% 38
UK excluding London -62 62 £475 -3.55% 122
Work from Home -42 61 £500 +2.35% 92
East of England -11 17 £425 +46.55% 8
Midlands -31 15 £488 -14.02% 10
South East -5 14 £400 -23.81% 32
East Midlands - 10 £575 - 4
North of England -50 9 £475 -4.04% 49
West Midlands -30 5 £406 -28.35% 5
Yorkshire -35 5 £475 -15.82% 6
North West -31 4 £493 +3.68% 42
Wales +1 3 £519 - 10
South West -13 3 - - 12
Scotland -15 1 £475 +10.72% 2

.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 16 (8.00%) IIS
2 9 (4.50%) CMS
3 8 (4.00%) Confluence
4 7 (3.50%) Umbraco
5 5 (2.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (2.50%) Headless CMS
5 5 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (2.50%) SharePoint
5 5 (2.50%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (1.00%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.50%) Appian
7 1 (0.50%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.50%) Camunda
7 1 (0.50%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 24 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (6.00%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.50%) Fidessa
3 4 (2.00%) thinkFolio
4 3 (1.50%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (1.00%) OpenText MBPM
5 2 (1.00%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.50%) Eikon
6 1 (0.50%) Maximo
6 1 (0.50%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 79 (39.50%) Azure
2 38 (19.00%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (10.00%) GitHub
4 18 (9.00%) AWS
5 16 (8.00%) Serverless
6 14 (7.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 12 (6.00%) Power Platform
8 11 (5.50%) Azure Monitor
9 10 (5.00%) Entra ID
9 10 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (4.50%) Azure Functions
10 9 (4.50%) npm
11 8 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (3.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (3.50%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (3.50%) Kontent
12 7 (3.50%) PaaS
13 6 (3.00%) Azure App Service
14 5 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.50%) Internet
2 2 (1.00%) HTTP
2 2 (1.00%) SSL
3 1 (0.50%) DNS
3 1 (0.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (46.00%) SQL Server
2 29 (14.50%) Oracle Database
3 8 (4.00%) Power BI
3 8 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.00%) MySQL
5 2 (1.00%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.50%) DataStage
6 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.50%) GIS
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.50%) Redis
6 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 32 (16.00%) Git
2 25 (12.50%) JIRA
3 16 (8.00%) Visual Studio
4 14 (7.00%) SpecFlow
5 11 (5.50%) Artifactory
6 9 (4.50%) GitLab
7 7 (3.50%) Jenkins
7 7 (3.50%) Postman
8 6 (3.00%) Cypress.io
9 4 (2.00%) MSTest
10 3 (1.50%) NUnit
10 3 (1.50%) Selenium
11 2 (1.00%) Bitbucket
11 2 (1.00%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.00%) JMeter
12 1 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.50%) JetBrains Rider
12 1 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 69 (34.50%) Finance
2 56 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 23 (11.50%) Public Sector
4 20 (10.00%) Banking
5 16 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.00%) Front Office
7 7 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.50%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.50%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.00%) Legal
10 3 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.50%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.00%) Retail
12 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.50%) Back Office
12 1 (0.50%) Billing
12 1 (0.50%) Japanese Language
12 1 (0.50%) Law
12 1 (0.50%) Military
12 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 139 (69.50%) Developer
2 64 (32.00%) C# Developer
3 59 (29.50%) .NET Developer
4 32 (16.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 26 (13.00%) Senior
6 24 (12.00%) C# WPF Developer
6 24 (12.00%) WPF Developer
7 23 (11.50%) Angular Developer
7 23 (11.50%) Full-Stack Developer
8 22 (11.00%) Senior Developer
9 17 (8.50%) Software Engineer
10 13 (6.50%) Architect
11 12 (6.00%) Senior .NET Developer
12 10 (5.00%) C# WCF Developer
12 10 (5.00%) WCF Developer
13 9 (4.50%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 9 (4.50%) Lead
14 8 (4.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
14 8 (4.00%) Senior C# Developer
15 7 (3.50%) CMS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (100.00%) .NET
2 62 (31.00%) Entity Framework
3 52 (26.00%) AngularJS
4 46 (23.00%) REST
4 46 (23.00%) RESTful
5 41 (20.50%) ASP.NET
6 40 (20.00%) .NET Core
7 38 (19.00%) CSS
7 38 (19.00%) HTML
7 38 (19.00%) React
8 32 (16.00%) WPF
9 22 (11.00%) NHibernate
10 19 (9.50%) Playwright
11 17 (8.50%) SOAP
11 17 (8.50%) Vue
12 16 (8.00%) ASP.NET MVC
13 15 (7.50%) WinForms
14 13 (6.50%) Web Services
15 11 (5.50%) Node.js
15 11 (5.50%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.00%) Distributed Systems
1 14 (7.00%) Mobile App
2 12 (6.00%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.50%) Algorithms
3 11 (5.50%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (5.00%) Fixed Income
4 10 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (4.50%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.50%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.00%) Hedge funds
7 6 (3.00%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.50%) Market Risk
9 4 (2.00%) Credit Risk
9 4 (2.00%) Derivative
10 3 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 42 (21.00%) Windows
2 9 (4.50%) Linux
3 5 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.50%) Android
5 2 (1.00%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.50%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (39.50%) Agile
2 73 (36.50%) DevOps
3 68 (34.00%) CI/CD
4 58 (29.00%) Microservices
5 51 (25.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 43 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (18.00%) Software Engineering
8 32 (16.00%) MVC
8 32 (16.00%) OOP
9 29 (14.50%) Design Patterns
10 26 (13.00%) Clean Code
10 26 (13.00%) Containerisation
10 26 (13.00%) Unit Testing
11 25 (12.50%) TDD
12 23 (11.50%) Scrum
12 23 (11.50%) SDLC
13 22 (11.00%) Test Automation
14 19 (9.50%) API Development
15 17 (8.50%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (8.50%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 172 (86.00%) C#
2 98 (49.00%) SQL
3 60 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 35 (17.50%) PL/SQL
5 25 (12.50%) T-SQL
6 24 (12.00%) VBA
7 23 (11.50%) VB
8 19 (9.50%) TypeScript
8 19 (9.50%) VB.NET
9 11 (5.50%) PowerShell
10 9 (4.50%) C++
11 8 (4.00%) Python
12 5 (2.50%) Java
12 5 (2.50%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (1.50%) Bicep
14 2 (1.00%) Bash
14 2 (1.00%) PHP
15 1 (0.50%) C
15 1 (0.50%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 20 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (9.50%) Degree
3 14 (7.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.00%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.00%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.00%) PMP
7 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.50%) QA
2 13 (6.50%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.00%) WCAG
4 5 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.50%) MiFID
5 1 (0.50%) EMIR
5 1 (0.50%) GDPR
5 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (16.00%) Docker
2 5 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.50%) Terraform
3 2 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (27.50%) Microsoft
2 49 (24.50%) Oracle
3 16 (8.00%) Citrix
4 8 (4.00%) Sitecore
5 5 (2.50%) Adobe
6 4 (2.00%) Bloomberg
6 4 (2.00%) Murex
6 4 (2.00%) Portware
7 3 (1.50%) FactSet
7 3 (1.50%) Marketo
7 3 (1.50%) OneTrust
8 2 (1.00%) Databricks
8 2 (1.00%) GoldenSource
8 2 (1.00%) Okta
8 2 (1.00%) OpenText
9 1 (0.50%) Apple
9 1 (0.50%) Google
9 1 (0.50%) Reuters
9 1 (0.50%) Telerik
9 1 (0.50%) Xamarin