.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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 437 319 295
Rank change year-on-year -118 -24 -67
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 152 227 349
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.73% 0.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.82% 3.24% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 163 273
10th Percentile £385 £363 £325
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.57% -1.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £552 £610 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £495 £450
% change year-on-year +2.53% +10.00% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £47.90 - £68.50
25th Percentile £50.75 - -
Median hourly rate £55.50 - £70.00
75th Percentile £60.25 - -
90th Percentile £63.10 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -12.50%

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 8,368 7,016 9,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.18% 22.43% 21.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,575 4,448 6,613
10th Percentile £358 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £770 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 91 189
10th Percentile £34.60 £25.09 £25.95
25th Percentile £46.25 £38.38 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £66.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.10 £77.19 £76.72
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -0.77% +18.18% -15.38%

.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 26 January 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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -133 137 £450 -11.33% 170
London -51 93 £415 -22.07% 33
Work from Home -51 43 £500 +5.26% 134
UK excluding London -75 40 £508 +2.53% 168
South East -32 11 £466 -0.53% 57
Midlands -55 11 £575 +2.40% 18
East Midlands -19 8 £600 +20.00% 8
North of England -58 8 £475 -15.41% 30
East of England -16 4 - - 21
South West -25 3 - - 18
North West -26 3 £435 +5.45% 22
Yorkshire -50 3 £515 -9.17% 5
West Midlands -54 3 £413 -27.25% 10
Northern Ireland -3 2 - - 2
North East - 2 £475 - 3
Scotland +7 1 £455 -4.21% 16

.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 16 (10.53%) IIS
2 8 (5.26%) CMS
2 8 (5.26%) Confluence
3 6 (3.95%) Umbraco
4 5 (3.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (3.29%) Headless CMS
4 5 (3.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (3.29%) SharePoint
4 5 (3.29%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (1.32%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.66%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.66%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 17 (11.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.66%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.66%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.66%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 54 (35.53%) Azure
2 30 (19.74%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (13.82%) GitHub
4 17 (11.18%) AWS
5 11 (7.24%) Azure Monitor
5 11 (7.24%) Azure Service Bus
5 11 (7.24%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (6.58%) Entra ID
7 9 (5.92%) Serverless
8 8 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (5.26%) Power Platform
9 7 (4.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (4.61%) Kontent
10 6 (3.95%) Azure App Service
10 6 (3.95%) PaaS
11 5 (3.29%) Azure Functions
11 5 (3.29%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (3.29%) Azure WebJobs
11 5 (3.29%) Contentful
11 5 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.55%) Internet
2 2 (1.32%) HTTP
2 2 (1.32%) SSL
3 1 (0.66%) DNS
3 1 (0.66%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (55.26%) SQL Server
2 23 (15.13%) Oracle Database
3 10 (6.58%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.29%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.97%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.97%) Power BI
7 2 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.66%) DataStage
8 1 (0.66%) GIS
8 1 (0.66%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.66%) Redis
8 1 (0.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (15.79%) Git
2 18 (11.84%) JIRA
3 15 (9.87%) Visual Studio
4 12 (7.89%) SpecFlow
5 9 (5.92%) Jenkins
6 7 (4.61%) Postman
7 4 (2.63%) MSTest
8 3 (1.97%) Selenium
9 2 (1.32%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.32%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.32%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.32%) NUnit
10 1 (0.66%) AppVeyor
10 1 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.66%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.66%) JMeter
10 1 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.66%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 48 (31.58%) Finance
2 37 (24.34%) Social Skills
3 23 (15.13%) Banking
4 17 (11.18%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.95%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.97%) Front Office
7 3 (1.97%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.66%) Billing
8 1 (0.66%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.66%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.66%) Legal
8 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.66%) Military
8 1 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 118 (77.63%) Developer
2 64 (42.11%) C# Developer
3 49 (32.24%) .NET Developer
4 27 (17.76%) Senior
5 25 (16.45%) C# .NET Developer
6 22 (14.47%) Senior Developer
7 21 (13.82%) Full-Stack Developer
8 16 (10.53%) Angular Developer
9 13 (8.55%) Senior .NET Developer
10 12 (7.89%) C# WPF Developer
10 12 (7.89%) WPF Developer
11 11 (7.24%) Software Engineer
12 9 (5.92%) Full-Stack C# Developer
12 9 (5.92%) Senior C# Developer
13 8 (5.26%) Architect
13 8 (5.26%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 7 (4.61%) Applications Developer
14 7 (4.61%) CMS Developer
15 6 (3.95%) C# WCF Developer
15 6 (3.95%) WCF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (100.00%) .NET
2 39 (25.66%) ASP.NET
3 38 (25.00%) .NET Core
4 37 (24.34%) Entity Framework
5 36 (23.68%) RESTful
6 33 (21.71%) AngularJS
7 32 (21.05%) React
8 27 (17.76%) REST
8 27 (17.76%) WPF
9 23 (15.13%) CSS
9 23 (15.13%) HTML
10 21 (13.82%) ASP.NET MVC
11 18 (11.84%) Playwright
11 18 (11.84%) WinForms
12 15 (9.87%) NHibernate
13 10 (6.58%) ASP.NET Web API
13 10 (6.58%) SOAP
13 10 (6.58%) Web Services
14 9 (5.92%) OAuth
15 8 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.24%) Legacy Systems
1 11 (7.24%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.58%) Mobile App
3 9 (5.92%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.95%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.95%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.29%) Credit Risk
5 5 (3.29%) Market Risk
6 4 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.32%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.32%) Derivative
8 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.66%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.66%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 44 (28.95%) Windows
2 14 (9.21%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.97%) Android
4 2 (1.32%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.32%) Linux
5 1 (0.66%) Unix
5 1 (0.66%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (36.18%) Agile
2 54 (35.53%) DevOps
3 51 (33.55%) CI/CD
4 37 (24.34%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (23.68%) Full-Stack Development
5 36 (23.68%) Microservices
6 29 (19.08%) MVC
7 26 (17.11%) Unit Testing
8 23 (15.13%) Disaster Recovery
9 22 (14.47%) Data Analysis
10 20 (13.16%) Clean Code
11 19 (12.50%) Software Engineering
12 18 (11.84%) AI
12 18 (11.84%) Test Automation
13 17 (11.18%) Change Management
13 17 (11.18%) OOP
14 16 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
15 15 (9.87%) API Development
15 15 (9.87%) Design Patterns
16 14 (9.21%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 141 (92.76%) C#
2 80 (52.63%) SQL
3 36 (23.68%) JavaScript
4 35 (23.03%) PL/SQL
5 30 (19.74%) T-SQL
6 16 (10.53%) VB
6 16 (10.53%) VBA
7 11 (7.24%) Python
8 10 (6.58%) PowerShell
9 9 (5.92%) TypeScript
10 8 (5.26%) VB.NET
11 6 (3.95%) Java
12 5 (3.29%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (1.32%) Bash
13 2 (1.32%) Bicep
13 2 (1.32%) C++
13 2 (1.32%) PHP
14 1 (0.66%) C
14 1 (0.66%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (15.13%) Degree
2 15 (9.87%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.58%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.61%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.97%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.66%) CISSP
7 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (21.71%) QA
2 7 (4.61%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.63%) WCAG
4 2 (1.32%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.32%) MiFID
5 1 (0.66%) EMIR
5 1 (0.66%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (13.16%) Docker
2 5 (3.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (5.92%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.29%) Terraform
3 3 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (28.95%) Oracle
2 32 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 24 (15.79%) Citrix
4 11 (7.24%) Sitecore
5 6 (3.95%) Adobe
6 5 (3.29%) Google
7 3 (1.97%) Marketo
7 3 (1.97%) OneTrust
7 3 (1.97%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.32%) Databricks
8 2 (1.32%) Okta
9 1 (0.66%) Apple
9 1 (0.66%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.66%) ESRI
9 1 (0.66%) OpenText
9 1 (0.66%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.66%) Portware
9 1 (0.66%) Serena
9 1 (0.66%) UiPath
9 1 (0.66%) Xamarin