.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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 364 246
Rank change year-on-year -84 -118 +36
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 236 202 372
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.61% 0.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.00% 2.37% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 142 256
10th Percentile £383 £351 £306
25th Percentile £406 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +1.26% -4.04% -5.71%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 6
10th Percentile £47.37 £25.93 £17.99
25th Percentile £48.23 £27.00 £33.75
Median hourly rate £50.90 £66.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.88% -17.50% +23.08%
75th Percentile £54.83 £67.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £56.43 - £87.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.90 £67.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -24.03% -16.25% +18.52%

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 11,809 8,526 9,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.63% 25.91% 24.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,767 5,699 6,322
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £437 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £637 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £734 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.21% -5.00% -2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 188 190
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% -1.44%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.15 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.39% -11.54% +8.33%

.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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -94 201 £500 +5.26% 264
London -65 123 £531 +6.25% 125
UK excluding London -89 87 £450 -5.26% 156
Work from Home -73 54 £475 -5.00% 134
South West -10 27 £450 +20.00% 14
South East -53 23 £500 +11.11% 35
Scotland -14 15 £450 -5.26% 14
North of England -70 12 £436 -8.16% 47
Yorkshire -42 9 £425 -10.53% 18
East of England -37 5 £345 -31.00% 12
West Midlands -51 5 £450 +5.88% 17
Midlands -58 5 £450 +10.77% 27
North West -55 2 £525 +6.60% 26
North East - 1 - - 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 26 (11.02%) IIS
2 18 (7.63%) Confluence
3 13 (5.51%) SharePoint
4 10 (4.24%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (2.12%) Appian
5 5 (2.12%) Camunda
6 4 (1.69%) CMS
7 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.85%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.42%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.42%) nginx
9 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 17 (7.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (4.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.12%) OpenText MBPM
2 5 (2.12%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.85%) Findur
4 1 (0.42%) Endur
4 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.42%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 129 (54.66%) Azure
2 65 (27.54%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (15.25%) GitHub
4 25 (10.59%) AWS
5 18 (7.63%) Entra ID
6 14 (5.93%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (5.51%) Azure App Service
8 12 (5.08%) Azure AKS
8 12 (5.08%) PaaS
9 11 (4.66%) Azure Key Vault
9 11 (4.66%) Azure Monitor
9 11 (4.66%) Power Platform
10 10 (4.24%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (4.24%) Serverless
11 9 (3.81%) Azure Functions
11 9 (3.81%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (3.39%) Power Automate
13 7 (2.97%) Azure API Management
13 7 (2.97%) IaaS
13 7 (2.97%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.93%) Internet
2 5 (2.12%) HTTP
3 2 (0.85%) Intranet
3 2 (0.85%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.42%) DHCP
4 1 (0.42%) DNS
4 1 (0.42%) Firewall
4 1 (0.42%) LAN
4 1 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.42%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (43.22%) SQL Server
2 30 (12.71%) Oracle Database
3 23 (9.75%) Relational Database
4 12 (5.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (4.66%) Geospatial Data
6 10 (4.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (3.39%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (2.97%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.12%) MySQL
10 4 (1.69%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.69%) Power BI
11 3 (1.27%) Db2
11 3 (1.27%) DocumentDB
11 3 (1.27%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.27%) Redis
12 2 (0.85%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 52 (22.03%) Git
2 21 (8.90%) JIRA
3 20 (8.47%) Visual Studio
4 13 (5.51%) MSI
5 9 (3.81%) NUnit
6 7 (2.97%) TeamCity
7 6 (2.54%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.54%) Jenkins
8 5 (2.12%) GitLab
8 5 (2.12%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (1.69%) JetBrains Rider
9 4 (1.69%) Selenium
10 3 (1.27%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.85%) Fiddler
11 2 (0.85%) git-flow
11 2 (0.85%) Moq
11 2 (0.85%) MSTest
11 2 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 52 (22.03%) Social Skills
2 50 (21.19%) Finance
3 29 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.90%) Public Sector
5 18 (7.63%) Banking
6 4 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.69%) Marketing
6 4 (1.69%) Retail
7 3 (1.27%) Automotive
7 3 (1.27%) Front Office
7 3 (1.27%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.85%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.85%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.42%) Law
9 1 (0.42%) Military
9 1 (0.42%) Police
Job Titles
1 138 (58.47%) Developer
2 57 (24.15%) .NET Developer
3 52 (22.03%) C# Developer
4 40 (16.95%) Architect
5 33 (13.98%) Senior
6 24 (10.17%) Solutions Architect
7 22 (9.32%) C# .NET Developer
8 21 (8.90%) Senior Developer
9 19 (8.05%) Full-Stack Developer
10 17 (7.20%) Lead
11 13 (5.51%) Applications Architect
12 12 (5.08%) Software Developer
13 11 (4.66%) Senior .NET Developer
14 9 (3.81%) Software Engineer
15 8 (3.39%) .NET Software Engineer
15 8 (3.39%) Lead Developer
16 7 (2.97%) Applications Developer
16 7 (2.97%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
16 7 (2.97%) React Developer
16 7 (2.97%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (100.00%) .NET
2 68 (28.81%) .NET Core
3 64 (27.12%) REST
4 59 (25.00%) Entity Framework
5 49 (20.76%) ASP.NET
6 36 (15.25%) RESTful
7 34 (14.41%) React
7 34 (14.41%) WPF
8 29 (12.29%) CSS
8 29 (12.29%) HTML
8 29 (12.29%) Terraform
9 28 (11.86%) AngularJS
10 27 (11.44%) XML
11 23 (9.75%) ASP.NET Web API
12 19 (8.05%) Web Services
13 18 (7.63%) WinForms
14 15 (6.36%) ASP.NET Core
14 15 (6.36%) SOAP
15 13 (5.51%) CSS3
15 13 (5.51%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 48 (20.34%) Cloud Native
2 19 (8.05%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (6.78%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (6.78%) Onboarding
4 14 (5.93%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (4.24%) AI Agents
6 10 (4.24%) Legacy Code
7 8 (3.39%) Legacy Applications
7 8 (3.39%) PKI
7 8 (3.39%) Wiki
8 7 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.54%) LIMS
9 6 (2.54%) Management Information System
10 5 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 3 (1.27%) Data Centre
13 2 (0.85%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.85%) FMCG
13 2 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 65 (27.54%) Windows
2 19 (8.05%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.69%) Linux
4 2 (0.85%) Unix
5 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.42%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (52.97%) DevOps
2 96 (40.68%) Agile
3 95 (40.25%) CI/CD
4 57 (24.15%) AI
5 53 (22.46%) Scrum
6 50 (21.19%) OOP
7 49 (20.76%) SDLC
8 47 (19.92%) Migration
9 45 (19.07%) Test Automation
10 43 (18.22%) Full-Stack Development
11 42 (17.80%) Microservices
12 41 (17.37%) Software Engineering
13 37 (15.68%) Deployment Automation
14 34 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
14 34 (14.41%) Unit Testing
15 33 (13.98%) OO
16 27 (11.44%) Workflow
17 26 (11.02%) Code Quality
17 26 (11.02%) Data Analysis
18 25 (10.59%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 198 (83.90%) C#
2 93 (39.41%) SQL
3 63 (26.69%) JavaScript
4 44 (18.64%) TypeScript
5 38 (16.10%) Python
6 35 (14.83%) T-SQL
7 31 (13.14%) PL/SQL
8 21 (8.90%) PowerShell
9 20 (8.47%) Bicep
10 15 (6.36%) VBA
11 13 (5.51%) VB
12 7 (2.97%) VB.NET
13 4 (1.69%) Java
13 4 (1.69%) XAML
14 2 (0.85%) C++
14 2 (0.85%) XPath
15 1 (0.42%) Bash
15 1 (0.42%) COBOL
15 1 (0.42%) CodeQL
15 1 (0.42%) VB6
Qualifications
1 53 (22.46%) Security Cleared
2 39 (16.53%) SC Cleared
3 35 (14.83%) Degree
4 8 (3.39%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.69%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 4 (1.69%) PhD
6 3 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.85%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (17.80%) QA
2 17 (7.20%) Accessibility
3 13 (5.51%) WCAG
4 12 (5.08%) NCSC
5 6 (2.54%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 6 (2.54%) GMP
5 6 (2.54%) GxP
5 6 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 3 (1.27%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (17.37%) Docker
2 16 (6.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 35 (14.83%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.42%) Control-M
4 1 (0.42%) Istio
Vendors
1 85 (36.02%) Microsoft
2 51 (21.61%) Oracle
3 29 (12.29%) Citrix
4 6 (2.54%) BeyondTrust
4 6 (2.54%) Okta
5 5 (2.12%) OpenText
6 4 (1.69%) IBM
7 3 (1.27%) Sitecore
7 3 (1.27%) UiPath
8 2 (0.85%) Databricks
8 2 (0.85%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.85%) OpenLink
8 2 (0.85%) WSO2
9 1 (0.42%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.42%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.42%) F5
9 1 (0.42%) Foundry
9 1 (0.42%) SAP
9 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.42%) Telerik