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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 425 301 279
Rank change year-on-year -124 -22 -52
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 168 273 368
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.81% 0.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.02% 3.70% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 194 275
10th Percentile £385 £363 £335
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.80% -2.62% -12.50%
75th Percentile £559 £625 £625
90th Percentile £694 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £463
% change year-on-year -3.06% +5.95% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 9
10th Percentile £55.45 - £68.50
25th Percentile £63.63 - -
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 8,322 7,379 9,512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.38% 21.93% 21.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,509 4,694 6,770
10th Percentile £355 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 90 173
10th Percentile £31.25 £21.25 £31.40
25th Percentile £44.88 £33.69 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -3.08% +25.26% -20.17%

.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 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 27 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for .NET Framework in the UK

.NET Framework
Top 17 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 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 -124 148 £450 -17.43% 252
London -74 93 £425 -25.44% 61
Work from Home -42 56 £500 +7.53% 200
UK excluding London -75 53 £475 -3.06% 215
East of England -18 13 - - 20
South East -16 12 £390 -16.80% 53
Midlands -49 12 £550 -2.05% 32
East Midlands -14 8 £600 +20.00% 18
North of England -61 8 £475 -10.08% 67
West Midlands -41 4 £413 -27.25% 13
Yorkshire -45 4 £495 -12.70% 18
South West -13 3 - - 20
North West -29 3 £435 -8.42% 42
Wales - 3 £519 - 5
Scotland +2 1 £455 +1.11% 19
Northern Ireland -7 1 - - 4
North East - 1 £475 - 7

.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 14 (8.33%) IIS
2 8 (4.76%) CMS
3 7 (4.17%) Confluence
4 6 (3.57%) Umbraco
5 5 (2.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (2.98%) Headless CMS
5 5 (2.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (2.98%) SharePoint
5 5 (2.98%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (1.19%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.60%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.60%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 20 (11.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (4.76%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.98%) Fidessa
3 4 (2.38%) thinkFolio
4 3 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (1.19%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 63 (37.50%) Azure
2 32 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (12.50%) GitHub
4 16 (9.52%) AWS
5 14 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 14 (8.33%) Serverless
6 12 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (6.55%) Azure Monitor
8 10 (5.95%) Entra ID
9 9 (5.36%) npm
9 9 (5.36%) Power Platform
10 8 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 8 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (4.17%) Kontent
12 6 (3.57%) Azure App Service
12 6 (3.57%) Azure Functions
12 6 (3.57%) PaaS
13 5 (2.98%) Contentful
13 5 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.14%) Internet
2 2 (1.19%) HTTP
2 2 (1.19%) SSL
3 1 (0.60%) DNS
3 1 (0.60%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (45.24%) SQL Server
2 25 (14.88%) Oracle Database
3 6 (3.57%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.98%) Power BI
5 4 (2.38%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.19%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.60%) DataStage
7 1 (0.60%) GIS
7 1 (0.60%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.60%) Redis
7 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (17.86%) Git
2 23 (13.69%) JIRA
3 18 (10.71%) Visual Studio
4 12 (7.14%) SpecFlow
5 11 (6.55%) Artifactory
6 9 (5.36%) GitLab
6 9 (5.36%) Jenkins
7 7 (4.17%) Postman
8 6 (3.57%) Cypress.io
9 4 (2.38%) MSTest
10 3 (1.79%) Selenium
11 2 (1.19%) Bitbucket
11 2 (1.19%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.19%) JMeter
11 2 (1.19%) NUnit
11 2 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.60%) AppVeyor
12 1 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 56 (33.33%) Finance
2 46 (27.38%) Social Skills
3 24 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 21 (12.50%) Banking
5 9 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.17%) Financial Institution
6 7 (4.17%) Front Office
7 5 (2.98%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.19%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.60%) Back Office
10 1 (0.60%) Billing
10 1 (0.60%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.60%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.60%) Law
10 1 (0.60%) Legal
10 1 (0.60%) Military
10 1 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 120 (71.43%) Developer
2 60 (35.71%) C# Developer
3 54 (32.14%) .NET Developer
4 29 (17.26%) C# .NET Developer
5 25 (14.88%) Senior
6 23 (13.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 21 (12.50%) Senior Developer
8 17 (10.12%) Angular Developer
8 17 (10.12%) C# WPF Developer
8 17 (10.12%) WPF Developer
9 16 (9.52%) Software Engineer
10 13 (7.74%) Senior .NET Developer
11 11 (6.55%) Architect
12 10 (5.95%) Lead
13 8 (4.76%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 8 (4.76%) Full-Stack C# Developer
14 7 (4.17%) C# WCF Developer
14 7 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 7 (4.17%) Senior C# Developer
14 7 (4.17%) WCF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (100.00%) .NET
2 44 (26.19%) Entity Framework
3 42 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 39 (23.21%) RESTful
5 38 (22.62%) .NET Core
6 37 (22.02%) React
7 36 (21.43%) ASP.NET
8 31 (18.45%) REST
9 29 (17.26%) HTML
10 28 (16.67%) CSS
10 28 (16.67%) WPF
11 18 (10.71%) ASP.NET MVC
11 18 (10.71%) Playwright
12 16 (9.52%) NHibernate
12 16 (9.52%) WinForms
13 13 (7.74%) Vue
14 12 (7.14%) SOAP
15 11 (6.55%) Node.js
16 10 (5.95%) ASP.NET Web API
16 10 (5.95%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (7.74%) Product Ownership
3 11 (6.55%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.95%) Algorithms
4 10 (5.95%) Mobile App
5 9 (5.36%) Data Structures
5 9 (5.36%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (4.17%) Fixed Income
6 7 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (4.17%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.57%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.98%) Credit Risk
8 5 (2.98%) Hedge funds
8 5 (2.98%) Market Risk
9 4 (2.38%) Derivative
10 2 (1.19%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 41 (24.40%) Windows
2 9 (5.36%) Linux
2 9 (5.36%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.79%) Android
4 2 (1.19%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.60%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (41.07%) Agile
2 65 (38.69%) CI/CD
2 65 (38.69%) DevOps
3 49 (29.17%) Microservices
4 43 (25.60%) Full-Stack Development
5 33 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (17.86%) Software Engineering
7 29 (17.26%) OOP
8 28 (16.67%) MVC
9 27 (16.07%) Design Patterns
10 25 (14.88%) Containerisation
11 24 (14.29%) Unit Testing
12 23 (13.69%) Clean Code
13 21 (12.50%) Test Automation
14 20 (11.90%) TDD
15 19 (11.31%) SDLC
16 17 (10.12%) Data Analysis
16 17 (10.12%) Disaster Recovery
16 17 (10.12%) Scrum
17 15 (8.93%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 149 (88.69%) C#
2 83 (49.40%) SQL
3 44 (26.19%) JavaScript
4 34 (20.24%) PL/SQL
5 26 (15.48%) T-SQL
6 19 (11.31%) VB
6 19 (11.31%) VBA
7 18 (10.71%) TypeScript
8 12 (7.14%) VB.NET
9 10 (5.95%) PowerShell
10 9 (5.36%) C++
11 6 (3.57%) Python
12 5 (2.98%) Java
12 5 (2.98%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (1.79%) Bicep
14 2 (1.19%) Bash
14 2 (1.19%) PHP
15 1 (0.60%) C
15 1 (0.60%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.60%) Swift
Qualifications
1 19 (11.31%) Degree
1 19 (11.31%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.57%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.19%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (16.67%) QA
2 14 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.57%) MiFID
3 6 (3.57%) WCAG
4 4 (2.38%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.19%) EMIR
6 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (19.05%) Docker
2 5 (2.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.57%) Terraform
3 2 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (25.60%) Microsoft
2 39 (23.21%) Oracle
3 19 (11.31%) Citrix
4 9 (5.36%) Sitecore
5 5 (2.98%) Adobe
6 4 (2.38%) Portware
7 3 (1.79%) Marketo
7 3 (1.79%) OneTrust
8 2 (1.19%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.19%) Databricks
8 2 (1.19%) FactSet
8 2 (1.19%) GoldenSource
8 2 (1.19%) Google
8 2 (1.19%) Murex
8 2 (1.19%) Okta
8 2 (1.19%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.60%) CQG
9 1 (0.60%) ESRI
9 1 (0.60%) Telerik
9 1 (0.60%) TOWER Software