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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 328 306
Rank change year-on-year -98 -22 -38
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 186 196 311
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.66% 0.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.99% 2.92% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 155 237
10th Percentile £400 - £325
25th Percentile £413 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.15% -7.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £558 £578 £600
90th Percentile £625 £688 £693
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -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 9,348 6,708 8,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.29% 22.72% 20.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,247 4,528 6,224
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £495 £495
% change year-on-year +0.96% +0.05% -2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 96 198
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.06 £39.86
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.09 £68.19 £64.69
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.53 £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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -128 162 £455 -3.70% 120
London -76 100 £415 -12.63% 37
UK excluding London -55 63 £475 - 95
Work from Home -31 60 £475 - 74
Midlands -50 18 £550 +12.82% 17
South West -28 13 £438 -39.66% 10
South East -49 12 £563 +21.62% 27
North of England -76 10 £475 +15.15% 26
East Midlands -27 9 £600 +20.00% 5
West Midlands -64 9 £478 +0.63% 12
Scotland 0 4 £358 -24.63% 7
North West -30 4 £650 +57.58% 12
Yorkshire -55 4 £457 +74.10% 10
East of England - 4 - - 9
Northern Ireland -1 2 - -
North East - 2 £475 - 8

.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 27 (14.52%) IIS
2 18 (9.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (8.06%) SharePoint
4 8 (4.30%) CMS
5 6 (3.23%) Confluence
5 6 (3.23%) Umbraco
6 5 (2.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (2.69%) Headless CMS
6 5 (2.69%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.54%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.54%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.54%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.08%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.54%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Findur
2 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 92 (49.46%) Azure
2 51 (27.42%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (16.13%) GitHub
4 29 (15.59%) Azure Monitor
5 25 (13.44%) Azure Service Bus
5 25 (13.44%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (12.37%) AWS
6 23 (12.37%) Entra ID
7 22 (11.83%) Azure Key Vault
8 18 (9.68%) Azure App Service
9 17 (9.14%) PaaS
10 16 (8.60%) Azure WebJobs
10 16 (8.60%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (6.99%) Serverless
12 9 (4.84%) Azure Functions
13 8 (4.30%) Power Platform
14 7 (3.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 7 (3.76%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (3.76%) Kontent
15 5 (2.69%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.99%) Internet
2 7 (3.76%) HTTP
3 6 (3.23%) 3GPP
4 4 (2.15%) RTCP
4 4 (2.15%) RTP
4 4 (2.15%) XCAP
5 2 (1.08%) SSL
6 1 (0.54%) DNS
6 1 (0.54%) Network Security
6 1 (0.54%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (55.38%) SQL Server
2 27 (14.52%) Oracle Database
3 13 (6.99%) Relational Database
4 11 (5.91%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (4.84%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.61%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.61%) Power BI
7 3 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.08%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (1.08%) GIS
8 2 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.54%) DataStage
9 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.54%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.54%) Parquet
9 1 (0.54%) Redis
9 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (16.67%) Git
2 21 (11.29%) JIRA
3 19 (10.22%) Visual Studio
4 8 (4.30%) NUnit
5 7 (3.76%) Jenkins
5 7 (3.76%) MSTest
5 7 (3.76%) Postman
5 7 (3.76%) SpecFlow
6 4 (2.15%) Jasmine
6 4 (2.15%) Karma Test Runner
7 3 (1.61%) Selenium
8 1 (0.54%) Appium
8 1 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.54%) JMeter
8 1 (0.54%) MSI
8 1 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.54%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.54%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 48 (25.81%) Finance
2 38 (20.43%) Social Skills
3 27 (14.52%) Banking
4 18 (9.68%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.69%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.08%) Front Office
7 2 (1.08%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.08%) Police
7 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.08%) Publishing
7 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.54%) Billing
8 1 (0.54%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.54%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.54%) Legal
8 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.54%) Military
Job Titles
1 139 (74.73%) Developer
2 69 (37.10%) C# Developer
3 47 (25.27%) .NET Developer
4 27 (14.52%) Full-Stack Developer
5 26 (13.98%) Senior
6 20 (10.75%) C# .NET Developer
7 19 (10.22%) Senior Developer
8 17 (9.14%) Azure Developer
9 12 (6.45%) Architect
9 12 (6.45%) Software Engineer
10 10 (5.38%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 10 (5.38%) Microsoft 365 Developer
10 10 (5.38%) Senior .NET Developer
11 9 (4.84%) Applications Developer
11 9 (4.84%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (4.30%) C# Application Developer
12 8 (4.30%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 7 (3.76%) Lead
13 7 (3.76%) Senior C# Developer
13 7 (3.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (100.00%) .NET
2 51 (27.42%) .NET Core
2 51 (27.42%) ASP.NET
3 47 (25.27%) React
4 40 (21.51%) REST
5 39 (20.97%) Entity Framework
6 35 (18.82%) CSS
6 35 (18.82%) RESTful
7 31 (16.67%) AngularJS
7 31 (16.67%) HTML
8 24 (12.90%) ASP.NET MVC
9 21 (11.29%) WPF
10 20 (10.75%) Web Services
11 19 (10.22%) SOAP
11 19 (10.22%) WinForms
12 18 (9.68%) Microsoft Graph
13 17 (9.14%) ASP.NET Web API
14 14 (7.53%) ASP.NET Core
15 12 (6.45%) XML
16 11 (5.91%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.22%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (5.38%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (4.84%) Mobile App
4 8 (4.30%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (3.76%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.76%) Legacy Code
6 5 (2.69%) Credit Risk
6 5 (2.69%) Market Risk
6 5 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.15%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.61%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.08%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.08%) Media Streaming
9 2 (1.08%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.54%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 50 (26.88%) Windows
2 25 (13.44%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.08%) Linux
4 1 (0.54%) Android
4 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.54%) Unix
4 1 (0.54%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (46.24%) DevOps
2 66 (35.48%) CI/CD
3 65 (34.95%) Agile
4 39 (20.97%) Disaster Recovery
5 38 (20.43%) Full-Stack Development
5 38 (20.43%) Unit Testing
6 32 (17.20%) MVC
7 31 (16.67%) Microservices
8 30 (16.13%) AI
8 30 (16.13%) Data Analysis
9 28 (15.05%) Test Automation
10 27 (14.52%) OOP
10 27 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (12.90%) Analytics
11 24 (12.90%) Software Engineering
12 21 (11.29%) Business Intelligence
12 21 (11.29%) Change Management
12 21 (11.29%) Log Analytics
13 20 (10.75%) Observability
14 17 (9.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 168 (90.32%) C#
2 93 (50.00%) SQL
3 38 (20.43%) T-SQL
4 37 (19.89%) JavaScript
4 37 (19.89%) PL/SQL
5 29 (15.59%) PowerShell
6 21 (11.29%) Python
6 21 (11.29%) TypeScript
7 16 (8.60%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (5.91%) VB
8 11 (5.91%) VBA
9 6 (3.23%) Java
10 4 (2.15%) Bicep
11 2 (1.08%) Bash
11 2 (1.08%) C++
11 2 (1.08%) PHP
12 1 (0.54%) C
12 1 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.54%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 31 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 25 (13.44%) Degree
4 9 (4.84%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.61%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.54%) CISSP
7 1 (0.54%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.54%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (26.34%) QA
2 6 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.15%) WCAG
4 2 (1.08%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.08%) SLA
5 1 (0.54%) EMIR
5 1 (0.54%) GDPR
5 1 (0.54%) MiFID
System Software
1 25 (13.44%) Docker
2 6 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (8.06%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.91%) Terraform
3 3 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (30.65%) Oracle
2 44 (23.66%) Microsoft
3 31 (16.67%) Citrix
4 10 (5.38%) Sitecore
5 7 (3.76%) Adobe
5 7 (3.76%) Google
6 4 (2.15%) Databricks
7 3 (1.61%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.08%) OpenLink
8 2 (1.08%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.54%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.54%) BMC
9 1 (0.54%) ESRI
9 1 (0.54%) Marketo
9 1 (0.54%) Okta
9 1 (0.54%) OpenText
9 1 (0.54%) Remedy
9 1 (0.54%) SAP
9 1 (0.54%) Serena
9 1 (0.54%) Xamarin