.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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 336 299
Rank change year-on-year -95 -37 -36
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 183 199 324
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.68% 0.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.97% 2.98% 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 159 254
10th Percentile £400 - £341
25th Percentile £413 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% -5.00% -13.21%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £606
90th Percentile £638 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £495 £450
% change year-on-year -1.72% +10.00% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £49.15 - -
25th Percentile £53.88 - -
Median hourly rate £58.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile £60.88 - -
90th Percentile £63.35 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

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 9,302 6,686 9,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.72% 22.69% 20.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,202 4,463 6,264
10th Percentile £358 £363 £334
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -7.08%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 95 217
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £42.13 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.62 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

.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 13 March 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 13 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for .NET Framework in the UK

.NET Framework
Top 16 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 13 March 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 -108 159 £460 -3.16% 121
London -78 101 £415 -12.63% 35
Work from Home -26 60 £481 -0.05% 78
UK excluding London -81 58 £487 -1.72% 98
Midlands -59 17 £550 +12.82% 18
South East -55 13 £525 +9.09% 27
South West -26 9 £438 -32.69% 16
East Midlands -26 9 £600 +20.00% 9
North of England -63 9 £475 +15.15% 23
West Midlands -61 8 £481 +1.26% 9
Scotland +11 4 £358 - 7
East of England -23 4 - - 8
Yorkshire -53 4 £457 +74.10% 7
North West -37 3 £650 +57.58% 13
Northern Ireland -1 2 - -
North East - 2 £475 - 3

.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 24 (13.11%) IIS
2 18 (9.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (8.20%) SharePoint
4 8 (4.37%) CMS
5 6 (3.28%) Confluence
5 6 (3.28%) Umbraco
6 5 (2.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (2.73%) Headless CMS
6 5 (2.73%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (1.09%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.55%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.55%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (7.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.09%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.55%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.55%) Findur
1 1 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 84 (45.90%) Azure
2 51 (27.87%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (15.30%) GitHub
4 27 (14.75%) Azure Monitor
5 24 (13.11%) Azure Service Bus
5 24 (13.11%) Entra ID
5 24 (13.11%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (12.57%) Azure Key Vault
7 20 (10.93%) AWS
8 18 (9.84%) Azure App Service
9 17 (9.29%) PaaS
10 16 (8.74%) Azure WebJobs
10 16 (8.74%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (6.56%) Serverless
12 8 (4.37%) Azure Functions
12 8 (4.37%) Power Platform
13 7 (3.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (3.83%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (3.83%) Kontent
14 5 (2.73%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.10%) Internet
2 7 (3.83%) HTTP
3 6 (3.28%) 3GPP
4 4 (2.19%) RTCP
4 4 (2.19%) RTP
4 4 (2.19%) XCAP
5 2 (1.09%) SSL
6 1 (0.55%) DNS
6 1 (0.55%) Network Security
6 1 (0.55%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (55.19%) SQL Server
2 28 (15.30%) Oracle Database
3 12 (6.56%) Relational Database
4 11 (6.01%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (4.92%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.64%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.64%) Power BI
7 3 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.09%) GIS
9 1 (0.55%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.55%) DataStage
9 1 (0.55%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.55%) Redis
9 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (15.85%) Git
2 20 (10.93%) Visual Studio
3 19 (10.38%) JIRA
4 8 (4.37%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.37%) Postman
5 7 (3.83%) MSTest
5 7 (3.83%) NUnit
5 7 (3.83%) SpecFlow
6 4 (2.19%) Jasmine
6 4 (2.19%) Karma Test Runner
7 3 (1.64%) Selenium
8 2 (1.09%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.55%) AppVeyor
9 1 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.55%) webpack
General
1 49 (26.78%) Finance
2 36 (19.67%) Social Skills
3 25 (13.66%) Banking
4 18 (9.84%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.28%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.09%) Front Office
7 2 (1.09%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.09%) Police
7 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.09%) Publishing
7 2 (1.09%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.55%) Billing
8 1 (0.55%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.55%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.55%) Legal
8 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 139 (75.96%) Developer
2 71 (38.80%) C# Developer
3 48 (26.23%) .NET Developer
4 26 (14.21%) Full-Stack Developer
5 23 (12.57%) Senior
6 22 (12.02%) C# .NET Developer
7 17 (9.29%) Azure Developer
8 16 (8.74%) Senior Developer
9 13 (7.10%) Software Engineer
10 11 (6.01%) Architect
11 10 (5.46%) Full-Stack C# Developer
11 10 (5.46%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 9 (4.92%) Applications Developer
12 9 (4.92%) Lead
12 9 (4.92%) Senior .NET Developer
13 8 (4.37%) C# Application Developer
13 8 (4.37%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 7 (3.83%) CMS Developer
14 7 (3.83%) Senior C# Developer
15 6 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (100.00%) .NET
2 51 (27.87%) .NET Core
3 48 (26.23%) ASP.NET
4 43 (23.50%) React
5 42 (22.95%) REST
6 37 (20.22%) Entity Framework
7 34 (18.58%) CSS
7 34 (18.58%) RESTful
8 30 (16.39%) HTML
9 29 (15.85%) AngularJS
10 24 (13.11%) ASP.NET MVC
11 22 (12.02%) WPF
12 21 (11.48%) Web Services
13 20 (10.93%) SOAP
14 19 (10.38%) WinForms
15 18 (9.84%) Microsoft Graph
16 17 (9.29%) ASP.NET Web API
17 13 (7.10%) XML
18 11 (6.01%) ASP.NET Core
18 11 (6.01%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.29%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (4.92%) Mobile App
3 8 (4.37%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (4.37%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.28%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.73%) Credit Risk
5 5 (2.73%) Market Risk
5 5 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.19%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.19%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.64%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.09%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.09%) Media Streaming
8 2 (1.09%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 49 (26.78%) Windows
2 22 (12.02%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.09%) Linux
4 1 (0.55%) Android
4 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.55%) Unix
4 1 (0.55%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (43.72%) DevOps
2 66 (36.07%) CI/CD
3 59 (32.24%) Agile
4 37 (20.22%) Unit Testing
5 36 (19.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 36 (19.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 32 (17.49%) MVC
7 31 (16.94%) Microservices
8 30 (16.39%) Data Analysis
9 29 (15.85%) AI
10 28 (15.30%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (14.75%) Test Automation
12 26 (14.21%) OOP
12 26 (14.21%) Software Engineering
13 24 (13.11%) Analytics
14 21 (11.48%) Change Management
14 21 (11.48%) Log Analytics
15 20 (10.93%) Business Intelligence
15 20 (10.93%) Observability
16 17 (9.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 166 (90.71%) C#
2 93 (50.82%) SQL
3 38 (20.77%) PL/SQL
3 38 (20.77%) T-SQL
4 37 (20.22%) JavaScript
5 26 (14.21%) PowerShell
6 21 (11.48%) TypeScript
7 18 (9.84%) Python
8 16 (8.74%) Kusto Query Language
9 12 (6.56%) VB
9 12 (6.56%) VBA
10 7 (3.83%) Java
11 4 (2.19%) Bicep
12 2 (1.09%) Bash
12 2 (1.09%) C++
12 2 (1.09%) PHP
12 2 (1.09%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.55%) C
13 1 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 35 (19.13%) Security Cleared
2 29 (15.85%) SC Cleared
3 24 (13.11%) Degree
4 9 (4.92%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.64%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.55%) CISSP
7 1 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.55%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (23.50%) QA
2 6 (3.28%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.19%) WCAG
4 2 (1.09%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.09%) SLA
5 1 (0.55%) EMIR
5 1 (0.55%) GDPR
5 1 (0.55%) MiFID
System Software
1 23 (12.57%) Docker
2 7 (3.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (7.65%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.37%) Terraform
3 3 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (31.15%) Oracle
2 47 (25.68%) Microsoft
3 31 (16.94%) Citrix
4 10 (5.46%) Sitecore
5 7 (3.83%) Adobe
5 7 (3.83%) Google
6 3 (1.64%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.09%) Databricks
7 2 (1.09%) Okta
7 2 (1.09%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.55%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.55%) BMC
8 1 (0.55%) ESRI
8 1 (0.55%) Marketo
8 1 (0.55%) OpenLink
8 1 (0.55%) OpenText
8 1 (0.55%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.55%) Remedy
8 1 (0.55%) Serena
8 1 (0.55%) Xamarin