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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 430 333 297
Rank change year-on-year -97 -36 +11
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 237 218 346
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.68% 0.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.33% 3.00% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 171 240
10th Percentile £400 £378 £325
25th Percentile £415 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £486
Median % change year-on-year - -2.31% -7.38%
75th Percentile £587 £581 £596
90th Percentile £668 £675 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 6
10th Percentile £49.08 £22.73 £17.99
25th Percentile £52.50 £24.33 £33.75
Median hourly rate £58.00 £27.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.81% -66.25% +51.03%
75th Percentile £59.50 - £85.00
90th Percentile £62.80 - £87.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.00 £23.41 £80.00
% change year-on-year +147.76% -70.74% +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 10,152 7,261 9,292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.46% 22.73% 21.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,656 4,905 6,368
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.74% -2.18%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £653
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 149 283
10th Percentile £30.00 £28.76 £22.55
25th Percentile £50.75 £35.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.20 £74.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -6.72%

.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 8 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing .NET Framework over the 6 months to 8 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for .NET Framework in the UK

.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 8 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 -81 216 £475 - 72
London -84 128 £515 +8.42% 23
UK excluding London -72 88 £450 -5.26% 67
Work from Home -42 59 £481 -3.80% 53
South West -10 28 £438 -27.08% 6
South East -55 24 £525 +10.53% 21
North of England -78 15 £454 +15.30% 18
Midlands -55 13 £463 -7.50% 6
West Midlands -52 11 £463 -22.17% 4
Yorkshire -35 10 £454 +72.95% 4
North West -53 5 £588 +46.88% 9
Scotland -18 4 £358 -24.63% 7
East of England -26 4 £345 -31.00% 5
East Midlands -15 2 £488 +55.75% 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 33 (13.92%) IIS
2 19 (8.02%) SharePoint
3 16 (6.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (5.49%) Confluence
5 9 (3.80%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (2.11%) Appian
6 5 (2.11%) Camunda
7 4 (1.69%) CMS
8 3 (1.27%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 16 (6.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.84%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.42%) InDesign
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.11%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (2.11%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.69%) Findur
3 2 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.42%) Endur
4 1 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.42%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 130 (54.85%) Azure
2 63 (26.58%) Azure DevOps
3 42 (17.72%) GitHub
4 26 (10.97%) AWS
4 26 (10.97%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (10.55%) Azure Monitor
6 21 (8.86%) Azure Service Bus
7 19 (8.02%) Entra ID
8 18 (7.59%) Azure Key Vault
9 17 (7.17%) Azure App Service
9 17 (7.17%) PaaS
10 14 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (4.64%) Azure AKS
11 11 (4.64%) Azure WebJobs
12 9 (3.80%) Serverless
13 8 (3.38%) Power Platform
14 6 (2.53%) Azure Functions
14 6 (2.53%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (2.53%) Power Automate
14 6 (2.53%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.49%) Internet
2 8 (3.38%) HTTP
3 6 (2.53%) 3GPP
4 4 (1.69%) RTCP
4 4 (1.69%) RTP
4 4 (1.69%) XCAP
5 2 (0.84%) Intranet
5 2 (0.84%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.42%) DHCP
6 1 (0.42%) DNS
6 1 (0.42%) Firewall
6 1 (0.42%) LAN
6 1 (0.42%) SMTP
6 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.42%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (47.26%) SQL Server
2 37 (15.61%) Oracle Database
3 26 (10.97%) Relational Database
4 12 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.95%) Geospatial Data
6 7 (2.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (2.53%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.53%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (1.69%) Power BI
9 3 (1.27%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (1.27%) DocumentDB
9 3 (1.27%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.27%) MySQL
10 2 (0.84%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.84%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.84%) Redis
11 1 (0.42%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.42%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 35 (14.77%) Git
2 25 (10.55%) JIRA
3 22 (9.28%) Visual Studio
4 12 (5.06%) NUnit
5 10 (4.22%) MSI
6 5 (2.11%) MSTest
7 4 (1.69%) GitLab
7 4 (1.69%) Jasmine
7 4 (1.69%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.69%) Karma Test Runner
7 4 (1.69%) Postman
8 3 (1.27%) JetBrains Rider
8 3 (1.27%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (1.27%) SpecFlow
8 3 (1.27%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.84%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.84%) git-flow
9 2 (0.84%) JMeter
9 2 (0.84%) Moq
9 2 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 58 (24.47%) Finance
2 53 (22.36%) Social Skills
3 26 (10.97%) Banking
4 17 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.17%) Public Sector
5 4 (1.69%) Front Office
5 4 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (1.69%) Retail
5 4 (1.69%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.27%) Automotive
6 3 (1.27%) Investment Banking
6 3 (1.27%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.27%) Police
7 2 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.42%) Military
8 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 160 (67.51%) Developer
2 68 (28.69%) C# Developer
3 58 (24.47%) .NET Developer
4 35 (14.77%) Architect
5 27 (11.39%) Senior
6 25 (10.55%) Full-Stack Developer
7 24 (10.13%) C# .NET Developer
7 24 (10.13%) Solutions Architect
8 20 (8.44%) Senior Developer
9 15 (6.33%) Azure Developer
10 14 (5.91%) Software Engineer
11 13 (5.49%) Lead
12 11 (4.64%) Applications Developer
13 10 (4.22%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (4.22%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 10 (4.22%) Software Developer
14 9 (3.80%) Microsoft 365 Developer
15 8 (3.38%) .NET Software Engineer
15 8 (3.38%) Site Engineer
15 8 (3.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 237 (100.00%) .NET
2 63 (26.58%) .NET Core
3 55 (23.21%) Entity Framework
4 52 (21.94%) ASP.NET
4 52 (21.94%) REST
5 51 (21.52%) React
6 38 (16.03%) CSS
7 34 (14.35%) HTML
7 34 (14.35%) RESTful
8 25 (10.55%) AngularJS
8 25 (10.55%) WPF
9 22 (9.28%) ASP.NET Web API
10 21 (8.86%) Web Services
11 18 (7.59%) SOAP
11 18 (7.59%) WinForms
11 18 (7.59%) XML
12 11 (4.64%) ASP.NET Core
12 11 (4.64%) ASP.NET MVC
12 11 (4.64%) CSS3
12 11 (4.64%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 39 (16.46%) Cloud Native
2 29 (12.24%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (5.91%) Product Ownership
4 13 (5.49%) Legacy Code
5 10 (4.22%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (4.22%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.80%) AI Agents
6 9 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (3.38%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.11%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.11%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.69%) Wiki
10 3 (1.27%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.27%) LIMS
11 2 (0.84%) FMCG
11 2 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.84%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.84%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 64 (27.00%) Windows
2 28 (11.81%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.27%) Linux
3 3 (1.27%) Unix
4 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (56.12%) DevOps
2 106 (44.73%) Agile
3 90 (37.97%) CI/CD
4 55 (23.21%) AI
5 50 (21.10%) OOP
6 47 (19.83%) Unit Testing
7 45 (18.99%) Microservices
7 45 (18.99%) Scrum
8 40 (16.88%) Full-Stack Development
8 40 (16.88%) Test Automation
9 39 (16.46%) Migration
10 38 (16.03%) Disaster Recovery
10 38 (16.03%) Software Engineering
11 37 (15.61%) SDLC
12 33 (13.92%) Data Analysis
13 29 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
14 26 (10.97%) OO
15 24 (10.13%) Root Cause Analysis
15 24 (10.13%) SOLID
16 23 (9.70%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 202 (85.23%) C#
2 99 (41.77%) SQL
3 49 (20.68%) JavaScript
4 45 (18.99%) TypeScript
5 42 (17.72%) T-SQL
6 38 (16.03%) PL/SQL
7 32 (13.50%) Python
8 26 (10.97%) PowerShell
9 15 (6.33%) Bicep
10 14 (5.91%) VBA
11 12 (5.06%) VB
12 11 (4.64%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (2.53%) VB.NET
14 5 (2.11%) Java
15 3 (1.27%) C++
16 2 (0.84%) XAML
16 2 (0.84%) XPath
17 1 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.42%) VB6
Qualifications
1 56 (23.63%) Security Cleared
2 48 (20.25%) SC Cleared
3 37 (15.61%) Degree
4 6 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.11%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.69%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.84%) PhD
8 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.42%) CISSP
8 1 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.42%) MBA
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (22.36%) QA
2 12 (5.06%) Accessibility
2 12 (5.06%) WCAG
3 8 (3.38%) NCSC
4 3 (1.27%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 3 (1.27%) GMP
4 3 (1.27%) GxP
4 3 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 1 (0.42%) GDPR
5 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (17.72%) Docker
2 2 (0.84%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (13.92%) Kubernetes
2 25 (10.55%) Terraform
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 67 (28.27%) Oracle
2 61 (25.74%) Microsoft
3 35 (14.77%) Citrix
4 6 (2.53%) OpenText
5 5 (2.11%) Google
6 4 (1.69%) OpenLink
6 4 (1.69%) Sitecore
7 2 (0.84%) Adobe
7 2 (0.84%) Databricks
7 2 (0.84%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.42%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.42%) BMC
8 1 (0.42%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.42%) F5
8 1 (0.42%) Okta
8 1 (0.42%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.42%) Remedy
8 1 (0.42%) SAP
8 1 (0.42%) Serena
8 1 (0.42%) UiPath