.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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 360 246
Rank change year-on-year -88 -114 +32
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 243 204 359
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.62% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.07% 2.44% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 146 249
10th Percentile £400 £378 £306
25th Percentile £416 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.52%
75th Percentile £580 £553 £595
90th Percentile £668 £725 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £463
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 6
10th Percentile £47.37 £25.93 £17.99
25th Percentile £48.23 £27.00 £33.75
Median hourly rate £50.90 £66.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.88% -17.50% +45.45%
75th Percentile £54.83 £67.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £56.43 - £87.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.90 £67.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -24.03% -16.25% +23.08%

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 11,762 8,376 9,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.82% 25.42% 24.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,742 5,653 6,407
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £432 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £634 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.32% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 185 197
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.45 £26.44
25th Percentile £45.00 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.51 £79.48 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +8.33%

.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 29 August 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
Top 15 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 29 August 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 -75 215 £489 +5.11% 200
London -65 122 £525 +12.90% 104
UK excluding London -62 100 £450 -5.26% 117
Work from Home -64 55 £470 -6.00% 92
South West -5 35 £438 +16.67% 14
South East -54 26 £500 +11.11% 24
North of England -68 15 £454 -4.42% 29
Scotland -18 13 £450 -5.26% 11
Yorkshire -38 11 £451 -5.11% 8
Midlands -50 8 £475 +15.15% 20
West Midlands -39 7 £478 +12.47% 7
East of England -35 3 £345 -31.00% 18
North West -64 3 £525 +6.60% 17
East Midlands -16 1 £450 +43.77% 13
North East - 1 - - 4

.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 32 (13.17%) IIS
2 21 (8.64%) SharePoint
3 19 (7.82%) Confluence
4 12 (4.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (3.70%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (2.06%) Appian
6 5 (2.06%) Camunda
7 4 (1.65%) CMS
8 2 (0.82%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.41%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 15 (6.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.82%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (3.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.06%) OpenText MBPM
2 5 (2.06%) Oracle BPM
3 3 (1.23%) Findur
4 1 (0.41%) Endur
4 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.41%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.41%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 140 (57.61%) Azure
2 68 (27.98%) Azure DevOps
3 43 (17.70%) GitHub
4 29 (11.93%) AWS
5 26 (10.70%) Azure Monitor
5 26 (10.70%) Entra ID
6 21 (8.64%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (8.23%) Azure App Service
7 20 (8.23%) PaaS
8 19 (7.82%) Azure Key Vault
9 18 (7.41%) Azure Service Bus
10 13 (5.35%) Azure AKS
11 12 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (4.94%) Serverless
12 10 (4.12%) Azure Functions
12 10 (4.12%) Power Platform
13 8 (3.29%) Azure WebJobs
13 8 (3.29%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (2.88%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (2.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.94%) Internet
2 4 (1.65%) HTTP
3 2 (0.82%) Intranet
3 2 (0.82%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.41%) DHCP
4 1 (0.41%) DNS
4 1 (0.41%) Firewall
4 1 (0.41%) LAN
4 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.41%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (47.33%) SQL Server
2 31 (12.76%) Oracle Database
3 21 (8.64%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.35%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (4.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (4.53%) Geospatial Data
7 10 (4.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (3.70%) NoSQL
9 8 (3.29%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (1.65%) DocumentDB
11 4 (1.65%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.65%) MySQL
11 4 (1.65%) Power BI
12 3 (1.23%) Redis
13 2 (0.82%) ClickHouse
13 2 (0.82%) Crystal Reports
13 2 (0.82%) Db2
13 2 (0.82%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 51 (20.99%) Git
2 22 (9.05%) JIRA
3 20 (8.23%) Visual Studio
4 13 (5.35%) MSI
5 9 (3.70%) NUnit
6 6 (2.47%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.06%) GitLab
7 5 (2.06%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.65%) Jenkins
8 4 (1.65%) JetBrains Rider
8 4 (1.65%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (1.23%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.23%) Selenium
10 2 (0.82%) git-flow
10 2 (0.82%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.82%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (0.82%) Moq
10 2 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 54 (22.22%) Finance
1 54 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 28 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (7.82%) Banking
3 19 (7.82%) Public Sector
4 4 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (1.65%) Marketing
4 4 (1.65%) Retail
5 3 (1.23%) Automotive
5 3 (1.23%) Front Office
5 3 (1.23%) Manufacturing
6 2 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (0.82%) Investment Banking
6 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.41%) Military
7 1 (0.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 148 (60.91%) Developer
2 61 (25.10%) .NET Developer
3 52 (21.40%) C# Developer
4 38 (15.64%) Architect
5 30 (12.35%) Senior
6 24 (9.88%) Full-Stack Developer
7 23 (9.47%) Solutions Architect
8 22 (9.05%) C# .NET Developer
9 20 (8.23%) Senior Developer
10 15 (6.17%) Lead
11 13 (5.35%) Azure Developer
12 11 (4.53%) Applications Architect
12 11 (4.53%) Software Developer
13 10 (4.12%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (4.12%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 9 (3.70%) Senior .NET Developer
14 9 (3.70%) Software Engineer
15 8 (3.29%) .NET Software Engineer
15 8 (3.29%) Site Engineer
15 8 (3.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (100.00%) .NET
2 70 (28.81%) REST
3 63 (25.93%) .NET Core
4 56 (23.05%) Entity Framework
5 47 (19.34%) ASP.NET
6 38 (15.64%) RESTful
7 36 (14.81%) React
8 31 (12.76%) CSS
8 31 (12.76%) Terraform
9 29 (11.93%) HTML
10 27 (11.11%) AngularJS
11 26 (10.70%) WPF
12 23 (9.47%) Web Services
12 23 (9.47%) XML
13 22 (9.05%) SOAP
14 21 (8.64%) ASP.NET Web API
15 16 (6.58%) WinForms
16 14 (5.76%) CSS3
16 14 (5.76%) HTML5
17 13 (5.35%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 48 (19.75%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.29%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (6.58%) Onboarding
4 15 (6.17%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (6.17%) Legacy Code
5 13 (5.35%) Product Ownership
6 11 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (3.70%) AI Agents
8 8 (3.29%) PKI
8 8 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (3.29%) Wiki
9 6 (2.47%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (2.06%) LIMS
10 5 (2.06%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.65%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 3 (1.23%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 66 (27.16%) Windows
2 27 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.65%) Linux
4 2 (0.82%) Unix
5 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (56.38%) DevOps
2 102 (41.98%) Agile
3 98 (40.33%) CI/CD
4 57 (23.46%) AI
5 50 (20.58%) Scrum
6 49 (20.16%) OOP
7 47 (19.34%) Migration
8 46 (18.93%) Microservices
8 46 (18.93%) SDLC
9 45 (18.52%) Full-Stack Development
10 43 (17.70%) Test Automation
11 36 (14.81%) Unit Testing
12 35 (14.40%) Software Engineering
13 33 (13.58%) Deployment Automation
14 32 (13.17%) Problem-Solving
15 30 (12.35%) Disaster Recovery
15 30 (12.35%) OO
16 27 (11.11%) Data Analysis
17 26 (10.70%) Containerisation
17 26 (10.70%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 201 (82.72%) C#
2 95 (39.09%) SQL
3 58 (23.87%) JavaScript
4 40 (16.46%) TypeScript
5 37 (15.23%) T-SQL
6 35 (14.40%) PowerShell
6 35 (14.40%) Python
7 32 (13.17%) PL/SQL
8 20 (8.23%) Bicep
9 13 (5.35%) VBA
10 11 (4.53%) VB
11 8 (3.29%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (2.47%) VB.NET
13 4 (1.65%) Java
14 2 (0.82%) C++
14 2 (0.82%) XAML
14 2 (0.82%) XPath
15 1 (0.41%) CodeQL
15 1 (0.41%) VB6
15 1 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 65 (26.75%) Security Cleared
2 50 (20.58%) SC Cleared
3 35 (14.40%) Degree
4 6 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (2.47%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.65%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.82%) PhD
7 2 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (18.11%) QA
2 14 (5.76%) Accessibility
3 13 (5.35%) WCAG
4 12 (4.94%) NCSC
5 5 (2.06%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 5 (2.06%) GMP
5 5 (2.06%) GxP
5 5 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 3 (1.23%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (17.70%) Docker
2 16 (6.58%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (16.46%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.41%) Istio
Vendors
1 93 (38.27%) Microsoft
2 53 (21.81%) Oracle
3 30 (12.35%) Citrix
4 6 (2.47%) BeyondTrust
4 6 (2.47%) Okta
5 5 (2.06%) OpenText
6 3 (1.23%) IBM
6 3 (1.23%) OpenLink
6 3 (1.23%) Sitecore
6 3 (1.23%) UiPath
7 2 (0.82%) Databricks
7 2 (0.82%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.41%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.41%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.41%) F5
8 1 (0.41%) Foundry
8 1 (0.41%) SAP
8 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.41%) Telerik