.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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 326 269
Rank change year-on-year -90 -57 +28
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 251 233 355
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.71% 0.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.46% 3.15% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 175 242
10th Percentile £382 £378 £326
25th Percentile £415 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £483
Median % change year-on-year - -1.71% -7.95%
75th Percentile £578 £565 £600
90th Percentile £668 £675 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 6
10th Percentile £48.51 £25.93 £17.99
25th Percentile £51.08 £27.00 £33.75
Median hourly rate £56.50 £66.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.39% -17.50% +60.00%
75th Percentile £59.50 £67.00 £85.00
90th Percentile - - £87.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.50 £67.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -16.25% +60.00%

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 10,187 7,404 8,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.23% 22.56% 21.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,652 5,003 5,902
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 160 247
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.23 £23.38
25th Percentile £43.13 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £73.94 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.81 £80.10 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +13.04% -1.37% -0.42%

.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 30 July 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
Top 14 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 30 July 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 -93 220 £484 +1.95% 102
London -82 123 £523 +10.00% 40
UK excluding London -56 105 £450 -5.26% 73
Work from Home -65 59 £475 -5.00% 62
South West -3 34 £438 +16.67% 11
South East -56 28 £500 +8.11% 22
North of England -70 15 £454 -4.42% 17
Scotland -9 14 £450 -5.26% 1
Midlands -57 11 £450 -1.37% 14
Yorkshire -44 10 £454 -1.84% 5
West Midlands -60 10 £463 -21.54% 10
North West -54 5 £588 +6.82% 10
East of England -27 3 £345 -31.00% 10
East Midlands -14 1 £450 +43.77% 4

.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 34 (13.55%) IIS
2 23 (9.16%) SharePoint
3 19 (7.57%) Confluence
4 16 (6.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (3.98%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (1.99%) Appian
6 5 (1.99%) Camunda
7 4 (1.59%) CMS
8 2 (0.80%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.40%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.40%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 16 (6.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.80%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.40%) InDesign
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.99%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (1.99%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (1.59%) Findur
3 3 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.40%) Endur
5 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.40%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 137 (54.58%) Azure
2 72 (28.69%) Azure DevOps
3 45 (17.93%) GitHub
4 32 (12.75%) Entra ID
5 31 (12.35%) Azure Monitor
6 27 (10.76%) AWS
7 25 (9.96%) Azure Key Vault
7 25 (9.96%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (9.56%) Azure App Service
8 24 (9.56%) PaaS
9 23 (9.16%) Azure Service Bus
10 16 (6.37%) Azure AKS
11 15 (5.98%) Microsoft 365
12 12 (4.78%) Serverless
13 11 (4.38%) Azure WebJobs
14 9 (3.59%) Azure Functions
15 8 (3.19%) IaaS
16 7 (2.79%) GitHub Copilot
16 7 (2.79%) SaaS
17 6 (2.39%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.18%) Internet
2 9 (3.59%) HTTP
3 6 (2.39%) 3GPP
4 4 (1.59%) RTCP
4 4 (1.59%) RTP
4 4 (1.59%) XCAP
5 2 (0.80%) Intranet
5 2 (0.80%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.40%) DHCP
6 1 (0.40%) DNS
6 1 (0.40%) Firewall
6 1 (0.40%) LAN
6 1 (0.40%) SMTP
6 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.40%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (47.01%) SQL Server
2 34 (13.55%) Oracle Database
3 23 (9.16%) Relational Database
4 17 (6.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 14 (5.58%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (3.98%) NoSQL
7 9 (3.59%) Geospatial Data
8 7 (2.79%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (2.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (1.59%) DocumentDB
10 4 (1.59%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.59%) MySQL
10 4 (1.59%) Power BI
11 3 (1.20%) Crystal Reports
11 3 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.20%) Redis
12 2 (0.80%) ClickHouse
12 2 (0.80%) Db2
12 2 (0.80%) Parquet
12 2 (0.80%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 48 (19.12%) Git
2 24 (9.56%) JIRA
3 19 (7.57%) Visual Studio
4 12 (4.78%) MSI
4 12 (4.78%) NUnit
5 5 (1.99%) GitLab
5 5 (1.99%) MSTest
5 5 (1.99%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.59%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.59%) Jasmine
6 4 (1.59%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.59%) JetBrains Rider
6 4 (1.59%) Karma Test Runner
6 4 (1.59%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (1.59%) Postman
7 3 (1.20%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.20%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.80%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.80%) Moq
8 2 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 60 (23.90%) Finance
2 53 (21.12%) Social Skills
3 23 (9.16%) Banking
4 22 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (7.57%) Public Sector
6 4 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.59%) Retail
6 4 (1.59%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.20%) Automotive
7 3 (1.20%) Front Office
7 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.20%) Police
8 2 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.80%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.40%) Marketing
9 1 (0.40%) Military
9 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 163 (64.94%) Developer
2 65 (25.90%) .NET Developer
3 63 (25.10%) C# Developer
4 35 (13.94%) Architect
5 30 (11.95%) Full-Stack Developer
6 27 (10.76%) Senior
7 26 (10.36%) C# .NET Developer
8 23 (9.16%) Solutions Architect
9 20 (7.97%) Senior Developer
10 18 (7.17%) Azure Developer
10 18 (7.17%) Lead
11 13 (5.18%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 13 (5.18%) Software Engineer
12 11 (4.38%) Software Developer
13 10 (3.98%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (3.98%) Senior .NET Developer
14 9 (3.59%) Applications Architect
14 9 (3.59%) Applications Developer
14 9 (3.59%) Microsoft 365 Developer
15 8 (3.19%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (100.00%) .NET
2 69 (27.49%) REST
3 68 (27.09%) .NET Core
4 62 (24.70%) Entity Framework
5 56 (22.31%) ASP.NET
6 44 (17.53%) React
7 38 (15.14%) RESTful
8 32 (12.75%) CSS
9 30 (11.95%) HTML
10 29 (11.55%) XML
11 26 (10.36%) AngularJS
12 25 (9.96%) WPF
13 24 (9.56%) Web Services
14 23 (9.16%) ASP.NET Web API
14 23 (9.16%) SOAP
15 17 (6.77%) WinForms
16 15 (5.98%) ASP.NET Core
17 13 (5.18%) ASP.NET MVC
18 12 (4.78%) CSS3
18 12 (4.78%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 45 (17.93%) Cloud Native
2 26 (10.36%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (5.58%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (5.58%) Onboarding
4 13 (5.18%) Legacy Code
5 12 (4.78%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (3.19%) AI Agents
7 8 (3.19%) Wiki
8 7 (2.79%) PKI
9 6 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.99%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.99%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.99%) LIMS
10 5 (1.99%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.20%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.80%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 66 (26.29%) Windows
2 28 (11.16%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.59%) Linux
4 2 (0.80%) Unix
5 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (55.38%) DevOps
2 108 (43.03%) Agile
3 103 (41.04%) CI/CD
4 56 (22.31%) AI
5 55 (21.91%) OOP
6 47 (18.73%) Full-Stack Development
6 47 (18.73%) Microservices
6 47 (18.73%) Scrum
7 46 (18.33%) Test Automation
8 44 (17.53%) Migration
8 44 (17.53%) SDLC
9 43 (17.13%) Unit Testing
10 40 (15.94%) Software Engineering
11 34 (13.55%) Disaster Recovery
12 31 (12.35%) OO
13 30 (11.95%) Data Analysis
14 28 (11.16%) Problem-Solving
15 27 (10.76%) Deployment Automation
15 27 (10.76%) Root Cause Analysis
15 27 (10.76%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 214 (85.26%) C#
2 103 (41.04%) SQL
3 52 (20.72%) JavaScript
4 41 (16.33%) TypeScript
5 39 (15.54%) PowerShell
5 39 (15.54%) T-SQL
6 36 (14.34%) PL/SQL
7 33 (13.15%) Python
8 20 (7.97%) Bicep
9 14 (5.58%) VBA
10 12 (4.78%) VB
11 11 (4.38%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (2.39%) VB.NET
13 4 (1.59%) Java
14 3 (1.20%) C++
15 2 (0.80%) XAML
15 2 (0.80%) XPath
16 1 (0.40%) CodeQL
16 1 (0.40%) VB6
16 1 (0.40%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 65 (25.90%) Security Cleared
2 55 (21.91%) SC Cleared
3 33 (13.15%) Degree
4 6 (2.39%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.59%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.80%) PhD
8 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.40%) MBA
8 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (18.33%) QA
2 13 (5.18%) Accessibility
3 12 (4.78%) WCAG
4 10 (3.98%) NCSC
5 5 (1.99%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 5 (1.99%) GMP
5 5 (1.99%) GxP
5 5 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 4 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (17.93%) Docker
2 16 (6.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (14.74%) Kubernetes
2 31 (12.35%) Terraform
3 4 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.40%) Istio
Vendors
1 86 (34.26%) Microsoft
2 62 (24.70%) Oracle
3 32 (12.75%) Citrix
4 6 (2.39%) BeyondTrust
4 6 (2.39%) Okta
5 5 (1.99%) OpenText
6 4 (1.59%) OpenLink
6 4 (1.59%) Sitecore
7 3 (1.20%) Google
7 3 (1.20%) IBM
7 3 (1.20%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.80%) Databricks
9 1 (0.40%) BMC
9 1 (0.40%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.40%) F5
9 1 (0.40%) Remedy
9 1 (0.40%) SAP
9 1 (0.40%) Telerik
9 1 (0.40%) UiPath