.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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 437 312 292
Rank change year-on-year -125 -20 -36
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 173 223 341
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.73% 0.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.94% 3.22% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 172 266
10th Percentile £386 £385 £350
25th Percentile £404 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £491 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% -5.07% -13.75%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £621
90th Percentile £675 £699 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 6
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 - - -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 8,931 6,922 9,204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.97% 22.68% 20.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,977 4,485 6,445
10th Percentile £358 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -1.87% -6.96%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 88 216
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.95 £22.12
25th Percentile £52.50 £38.44 £43.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £74.26 £67.63 £66.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.30 £75.77
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 23 February 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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -126 151 £475 -4.52% 112
London -66 103 £415 -13.54% 29
Work from Home -33 51 £500 -1.67% 76
UK excluding London -86 47 £525 +5.00% 96
Midlands -58 16 £550 -2.05% 13
South East -34 11 £525 +10.53% 27
East Midlands -19 9 £600 +20.00% 7
North of England -61 7 £500 -5.35% 24
West Midlands -67 7 £425 -25.04% 6
Scotland +13 4 £358 - 7
East of England -29 4 - - 12
North West -34 4 £650 +57.58% 19
South West -27 3 - - 14
Northern Ireland 0 2 - -
North East - 2 £475 - 3
Yorkshire -64 1 £525 -7.41% 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 17 (9.83%) IIS
2 8 (4.62%) CMS
2 8 (4.62%) Confluence
3 7 (4.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (3.47%) SharePoint
4 6 (3.47%) Umbraco
5 5 (2.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (2.89%) Headless CMS
5 5 (2.89%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (1.16%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.58%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.58%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 15 (8.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.58%) Findur
1 1 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 69 (39.88%) Azure
2 42 (24.28%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (12.72%) GitHub
4 17 (9.83%) Azure Service Bus
5 16 (9.25%) AWS
6 15 (8.67%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (8.09%) Azure Monitor
7 14 (8.09%) Entra ID
8 13 (7.51%) Azure Key Vault
9 11 (6.36%) Serverless
10 9 (5.20%) Azure App Service
10 9 (5.20%) PaaS
10 9 (5.20%) Power Platform
11 8 (4.62%) Azure Functions
11 8 (4.62%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (4.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (4.05%) Azure WebJobs
12 7 (4.05%) Kontent
12 7 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (2.89%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.51%) Internet
2 6 (3.47%) 3GPP
2 6 (3.47%) HTTP
3 4 (2.31%) RTCP
3 4 (2.31%) RTP
3 4 (2.31%) XCAP
4 2 (1.16%) SSL
5 1 (0.58%) DNS
5 1 (0.58%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (53.76%) SQL Server
2 26 (15.03%) Oracle Database
3 12 (6.94%) Relational Database
4 9 (5.20%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (4.05%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.73%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.73%) Power BI
6 3 (1.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.58%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.58%) Parquet
8 1 (0.58%) Redis
8 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (15.61%) Git
2 22 (12.72%) JIRA
3 17 (9.83%) Visual Studio
4 11 (6.36%) SpecFlow
5 9 (5.20%) Jenkins
6 8 (4.62%) Postman
7 6 (3.47%) MSTest
8 4 (2.31%) NUnit
9 3 (1.73%) Selenium
10 2 (1.16%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.16%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.16%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.16%) Jasmine
10 2 (1.16%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.58%) AppVeyor
11 1 (0.58%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.58%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 49 (28.32%) Finance
2 36 (20.81%) Social Skills
3 22 (12.72%) Banking
4 17 (9.83%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.47%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.16%) Front Office
7 2 (1.16%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.16%) Police
7 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.58%) Billing
8 1 (0.58%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.58%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.58%) Legal
8 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.58%) Military
8 1 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 132 (76.30%) Developer
2 72 (41.62%) C# Developer
3 50 (28.90%) .NET Developer
4 25 (14.45%) C# .NET Developer
4 25 (14.45%) Full-Stack Developer
4 25 (14.45%) Senior
5 19 (10.98%) Senior Developer
6 14 (8.09%) Angular Developer
6 14 (8.09%) Software Engineer
7 12 (6.94%) Architect
7 12 (6.94%) Senior .NET Developer
8 10 (5.78%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 9 (5.20%) Applications Developer
9 9 (5.20%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 9 (5.20%) Lead
9 9 (5.20%) Senior C# Developer
10 8 (4.62%) Azure Developer
10 8 (4.62%) C# WPF Developer
10 8 (4.62%) WPF Developer
11 7 (4.05%) CMS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (100.00%) .NET
2 53 (30.64%) .NET Core
3 50 (28.90%) ASP.NET
4 46 (26.59%) Entity Framework
5 43 (24.86%) React
6 37 (21.39%) RESTful
7 32 (18.50%) AngularJS
7 32 (18.50%) REST
8 29 (16.76%) CSS
9 28 (16.18%) HTML
10 26 (15.03%) ASP.NET MVC
11 24 (13.87%) WPF
12 19 (10.98%) WinForms
13 16 (9.25%) ASP.NET Web API
13 16 (9.25%) Playwright
14 13 (7.51%) NHibernate
14 13 (7.51%) XML
15 12 (6.94%) SOAP
15 12 (6.94%) Web Services
16 11 (6.36%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.09%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (5.78%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (5.78%) Mobile App
3 9 (5.20%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.47%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.89%) Credit Risk
6 5 (2.89%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.89%) Market Risk
7 4 (2.31%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.16%) Media Streaming
8 2 (1.16%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.58%) Derivative
9 1 (0.58%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (0.58%) Life Science
9 1 (0.58%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 43 (24.86%) Windows
2 15 (8.67%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.73%) Android
4 2 (1.16%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.16%) Linux
5 1 (0.58%) Unix
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (37.57%) DevOps
2 62 (35.84%) CI/CD
3 60 (34.68%) Agile
4 39 (22.54%) Full-Stack Development
5 35 (20.23%) MVC
6 34 (19.65%) Microservices
6 34 (19.65%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (17.92%) Unit Testing
8 27 (15.61%) AI
8 27 (15.61%) Software Engineering
9 25 (14.45%) Data Analysis
9 25 (14.45%) Disaster Recovery
9 25 (14.45%) Test Automation
10 23 (13.29%) OOP
11 19 (10.98%) Change Management
12 18 (10.40%) Business Intelligence
13 17 (9.83%) Clean Code
14 16 (9.25%) Analytics
14 16 (9.25%) Scrum
15 15 (8.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 162 (93.64%) C#
2 88 (50.87%) SQL
3 35 (20.23%) JavaScript
4 34 (19.65%) PL/SQL
5 31 (17.92%) T-SQL
6 18 (10.40%) Python
7 17 (9.83%) TypeScript
8 14 (8.09%) PowerShell
8 14 (8.09%) VB
8 14 (8.09%) VBA
9 7 (4.05%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (3.47%) Java
11 4 (2.31%) VB.NET
12 3 (1.73%) Bicep
13 2 (1.16%) Bash
13 2 (1.16%) C++
13 2 (1.16%) PHP
14 1 (0.58%) C
14 1 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (14.45%) Degree
2 19 (10.98%) Security Cleared
3 15 (8.67%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.20%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.73%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.58%) CISSP
7 1 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.58%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (21.39%) QA
2 7 (4.05%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.31%) WCAG
4 2 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.16%) SLA
5 1 (0.58%) EMIR
5 1 (0.58%) GDPR
5 1 (0.58%) MiFID
System Software
1 24 (13.87%) Docker
2 7 (4.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (6.36%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.05%) Terraform
3 3 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (28.90%) Oracle
2 36 (20.81%) Microsoft
3 27 (15.61%) Citrix
4 12 (6.94%) Sitecore
5 7 (4.05%) Google
6 6 (3.47%) Adobe
7 3 (1.73%) Marketo
7 3 (1.73%) OneTrust
7 3 (1.73%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.16%) Databricks
8 2 (1.16%) Okta
8 2 (1.16%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.58%) Apple
9 1 (0.58%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.58%) BMC
9 1 (0.58%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.58%) Remedy
9 1 (0.58%) SAP
9 1 (0.58%) UiPath
9 1 (0.58%) Xamarin