.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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 334 326
Rank change year-on-year -97 -8 -45
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 191 198 283
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.67% 0.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.02% 2.97% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 155 217
10th Percentile £400 £385 £325
25th Percentile £415 £395 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £588
90th Percentile £607 £695 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -4.21% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £49.15 £22.20 -
25th Percentile £53.88 £23.00 £75.00
Median hourly rate £58.00 £25.21 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +130.11% -68.49% -
75th Percentile £60.88 £26.54 £87.50
90th Percentile £63.35 £26.82 £89.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.00 £23.41 £80.00
% change year-on-year +147.76% -70.74% +14.29%

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 9,440 6,661 8,942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.47% 22.63% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,290 4,565 6,235
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £726 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 101 195
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.00 £20.61
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.50 £36.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £71.50 £68.75 £64.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £84.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -24.00%

.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 18 April 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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -110 170 £460 -3.16% 103
London -70 107 £455 -4.21% 37
UK excluding London -73 65 £455 -4.21% 79
Work from Home -39 60 £496 -1.00% 59
South West -15 18 £438 -30.00% 18
South East -38 15 £525 +13.51% 20
Midlands -64 15 £487 -2.70% 4
West Midlands -63 10 £475 -20.07% 2
North of England -68 10 £475 +16.92% 19
East Midlands -32 5 £600 +20.00% 2
Scotland +1 4 £358 -24.63% 7
North West -50 4 £650 +57.58% 8
Yorkshire -54 4 £457 +74.10% 5
Northern Ireland +4 2 - -
North East - 2 £475 - 6
East of England - 1 - - 11

.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 30 (15.71%) IIS
2 19 (9.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (9.42%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.09%) CMS
4 4 (2.09%) Confluence
4 4 (2.09%) Umbraco
5 3 (1.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (1.57%) Headless CMS
5 3 (1.57%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (6.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.05%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.52%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 3 (1.57%) Findur
2 2 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.52%) Endur
3 1 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 104 (54.45%) Azure
2 53 (27.75%) Azure DevOps
3 35 (18.32%) GitHub
4 29 (15.18%) Azure Monitor
5 27 (14.14%) Azure Service Bus
6 26 (13.61%) GitHub Actions
7 25 (13.09%) AWS
8 22 (11.52%) Azure Key Vault
9 21 (10.99%) Entra ID
10 18 (9.42%) Azure App Service
10 18 (9.42%) PaaS
11 16 (8.38%) Azure WebJobs
11 16 (8.38%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (6.81%) Serverless
13 10 (5.24%) Azure Functions
14 8 (4.19%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (4.19%) Power Platform
15 7 (3.66%) Azure AKS
16 6 (3.14%) Power Automate
17 5 (2.62%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.28%) Internet
2 6 (3.14%) 3GPP
3 5 (2.62%) HTTP
4 4 (2.09%) RTCP
4 4 (2.09%) RTP
4 4 (2.09%) XCAP
5 2 (1.05%) SSL
6 1 (0.52%) Network Security
6 1 (0.52%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (53.40%) SQL Server
2 30 (15.71%) Oracle Database
3 14 (7.33%) Relational Database
4 11 (5.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (5.24%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.57%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.57%) Power BI
8 2 (1.05%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.52%) DataStage
9 1 (0.52%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.52%) GIS
9 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (14.66%) Git
2 19 (9.95%) Visual Studio
3 18 (9.42%) JIRA
4 9 (4.71%) NUnit
5 7 (3.66%) MSTest
6 6 (3.14%) Jenkins
6 6 (3.14%) Postman
7 4 (2.09%) Jasmine
7 4 (2.09%) Karma Test Runner
8 3 (1.57%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.05%) Selenium
10 1 (0.52%) Appium
10 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.52%) JMeter
10 1 (0.52%) Moq
10 1 (0.52%) MSI
10 1 (0.52%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.52%) TestRail
10 1 (0.52%) webpack
General
1 55 (28.80%) Finance
2 40 (20.94%) Social Skills
3 23 (12.04%) Banking
4 18 (9.42%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.24%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.62%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.57%) Police
8 2 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.05%) Front Office
8 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.05%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.52%) Automotive
9 1 (0.52%) Billing
9 1 (0.52%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.52%) Military
9 1 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 136 (71.20%) Developer
2 68 (35.60%) C# Developer
3 51 (26.70%) .NET Developer
4 23 (12.04%) Senior
5 20 (10.47%) C# .NET Developer
5 20 (10.47%) Full-Stack Developer
6 19 (9.95%) Architect
7 18 (9.42%) Azure Developer
8 16 (8.38%) Software Engineer
9 15 (7.85%) Senior Developer
10 12 (6.28%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (6.28%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (5.24%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 9 (4.71%) Senior .NET Developer
13 8 (4.19%) Applications Developer
13 8 (4.19%) C# Application Developer
13 8 (4.19%) Site Engineer
13 8 (4.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 7 (3.66%) Full-Stack C# Developer
14 7 (3.66%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (100.00%) .NET
2 53 (27.75%) .NET Core
3 42 (21.99%) ASP.NET
4 41 (21.47%) React
5 37 (19.37%) Entity Framework
5 37 (19.37%) REST
6 26 (13.61%) CSS
6 26 (13.61%) RESTful
7 22 (11.52%) HTML
8 20 (10.47%) AngularJS
8 20 (10.47%) WinForms
8 20 (10.47%) WPF
9 18 (9.42%) Microsoft Graph
9 18 (9.42%) SOAP
9 18 (9.42%) Web Services
10 16 (8.38%) ASP.NET MVC
11 15 (7.85%) ASP.NET Web API
12 12 (6.28%) ASP.NET Core
12 12 (6.28%) XML
13 9 (4.71%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.99%) Legacy Systems
2 15 (7.85%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.76%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.71%) AI Agents
5 8 (4.19%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (3.66%) Legacy Code
7 6 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.62%) Credit Risk
8 5 (2.62%) Market Risk
9 4 (2.09%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.57%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.57%) Wiki
11 2 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (1.05%) Low-Code
11 2 (1.05%) Media Streaming
11 2 (1.05%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 52 (27.23%) Windows
2 27 (14.14%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.52%) Linux
3 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (50.26%) DevOps
2 72 (37.70%) CI/CD
3 67 (35.08%) Agile
4 42 (21.99%) Disaster Recovery
5 39 (20.42%) AI
6 34 (17.80%) Unit Testing
7 33 (17.28%) OOP
8 32 (16.75%) Data Analysis
9 29 (15.18%) Full-Stack Development
10 28 (14.66%) Test Automation
11 26 (13.61%) Microservices
11 26 (13.61%) Software Engineering
12 25 (13.09%) MVC
13 23 (12.04%) Change Management
14 22 (11.52%) Analytics
14 22 (11.52%) Business Intelligence
14 22 (11.52%) Observability
15 21 (10.99%) Log Analytics
15 21 (10.99%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (10.99%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 172 (90.05%) C#
2 87 (45.55%) SQL
3 42 (21.99%) T-SQL
4 39 (20.42%) PL/SQL
5 31 (16.23%) PowerShell
6 30 (15.71%) JavaScript
7 24 (12.57%) TypeScript
8 20 (10.47%) Python
9 16 (8.38%) Kusto Query Language
10 12 (6.28%) VB
10 12 (6.28%) VBA
11 6 (3.14%) Bicep
12 5 (2.62%) Java
13 2 (1.05%) Bash
13 2 (1.05%) PHP
14 1 (0.52%) C++
14 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (21.99%) Security Cleared
2 37 (19.37%) SC Cleared
3 29 (15.18%) Degree
4 7 (3.66%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.52%) CISSP
7 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.52%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.52%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (27.23%) QA
2 5 (2.62%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.57%) WCAG
4 2 (1.05%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.52%) EMIR
5 1 (0.52%) GDPR
5 1 (0.52%) MiFID
5 1 (0.52%) NCSC
5 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (15.18%) Docker
2 5 (2.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (8.90%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.33%) Terraform
3 3 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (30.37%) Oracle
2 50 (26.18%) Microsoft
3 35 (18.32%) Citrix
4 7 (3.66%) Google
4 7 (3.66%) Sitecore
5 5 (2.62%) Adobe
6 4 (2.09%) Databricks
7 3 (1.57%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.57%) OpenLink
8 2 (1.05%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.52%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.52%) BMC
9 1 (0.52%) OpenText
9 1 (0.52%) Remedy
9 1 (0.52%) SAP
9 1 (0.52%) Serena
9 1 (0.52%) Telerik