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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 338 300
Rank change year-on-year -102 -38 +4
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 191 191 295
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.65% 0.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.03% 2.87% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 145 207
10th Percentile £372 - £325
25th Percentile £415 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £563 £554 £575
90th Percentile £638 £683 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £454 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -4.42% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile £49.71 £22.73 -
25th Percentile £54.08 £24.33 £75.00
Median hourly rate £58.00 £27.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.81% -66.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £60.88 - £86.25
90th Percentile £63.35 - £88.50
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 9,410 6,657 8,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.62% 22.65% 20.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,206 4,560 6,201
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £417 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £726 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 109 246
10th Percentile £32.50 £29.21 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £72.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.20 £82.27 £74.47
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

.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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -98 172 £460 -3.16% 106
London -75 108 £475 - 33
UK excluding London -76 67 £454 -4.42% 79
Work from Home -22 57 £475 -2.56% 190
South West -8 19 £438 -28.28% 12
South East -54 19 £525 +10.53% 27
Midlands -63 12 £475 -5.00% 7
West Midlands -55 10 £475 -20.07% 4
North of England -75 10 £475 +18.75% 23
Scotland -3 4 £358 -24.63% 4
North West -42 4 £650 +60.00% 15
Yorkshire -57 4 £457 +74.10% 5
Northern Ireland +3 2 - -
East Midlands -28 2 £488 -2.50% 3
North East - 2 £475 - 3
East of England - 1 - - 5

.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 28 (14.66%) IIS
2 18 (9.42%) SharePoint
3 17 (8.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.62%) Confluence
5 3 (1.57%) CMS
6 2 (1.05%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (6.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.05%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.52%) InDesign
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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
3 1 (0.52%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 107 (56.02%) Azure
2 54 (28.27%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (20.94%) GitHub
4 29 (15.18%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (13.09%) AWS
6 24 (12.57%) Azure Monitor
6 24 (12.57%) Azure Service Bus
7 21 (10.99%) Azure Key Vault
8 17 (8.90%) Entra ID
9 16 (8.38%) Azure App Service
9 16 (8.38%) PaaS
10 14 (7.33%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (6.81%) Azure WebJobs
12 9 (4.71%) Azure AKS
12 9 (4.71%) Serverless
13 7 (3.66%) Power Platform
14 6 (3.14%) Azure Functions
14 6 (3.14%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (3.14%) Power Automate
15 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 1 (0.52%) SMTP
5 1 (0.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (49.74%) SQL Server
2 30 (15.71%) Oracle Database
3 15 (7.85%) Relational Database
4 9 (4.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (4.71%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (2.09%) Power BI
7 3 (1.57%) DocumentDB
7 3 (1.57%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.05%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (1.05%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.52%) GIS
9 1 (0.52%) Parquet
9 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (11.52%) Git
2 20 (10.47%) Visual Studio
3 18 (9.42%) JIRA
4 12 (6.28%) NUnit
5 5 (2.62%) MSTest
6 4 (2.09%) Jasmine
6 4 (2.09%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.09%) Karma Test Runner
6 4 (2.09%) Postman
7 3 (1.57%) GitLab
7 3 (1.57%) SpecFlow
8 2 (1.05%) git-flow
8 2 (1.05%) JMeter
8 2 (1.05%) Moq
8 2 (1.05%) MSI
8 2 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.52%) ClearCase
9 1 (0.52%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.52%) Rational Robot
9 1 (0.52%) Selenium
General
1 52 (27.23%) Finance
2 36 (18.85%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.99%) Banking
4 12 (6.28%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.57%) Automotive
6 3 (1.57%) Financial Institution
6 3 (1.57%) Police
6 3 (1.57%) Retail
6 3 (1.57%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.05%) Front Office
7 2 (1.05%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.52%) Military
8 1 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 136 (71.20%) Developer
2 66 (34.55%) C# Developer
3 50 (26.18%) .NET Developer
4 25 (13.09%) Senior
5 21 (10.99%) Architect
5 21 (10.99%) C# .NET Developer
6 20 (10.47%) Full-Stack Developer
7 18 (9.42%) Senior Developer
8 16 (8.38%) Azure Developer
9 15 (7.85%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (7.33%) Software Engineer
11 11 (5.76%) Applications Developer
12 10 (5.24%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (5.24%) Senior .NET Developer
13 9 (4.71%) Microsoft 365 Developer
14 8 (4.19%) C# Application Developer
14 8 (4.19%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 8 (4.19%) Site Engineer
14 8 (4.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 7 (3.66%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (100.00%) .NET
2 47 (24.61%) .NET Core
3 45 (23.56%) Entity Framework
4 44 (23.04%) React
5 42 (21.99%) ASP.NET
6 32 (16.75%) REST
7 28 (14.66%) CSS
8 24 (12.57%) HTML
9 23 (12.04%) RESTful
10 21 (10.99%) AngularJS
11 19 (9.95%) ASP.NET Web API
12 17 (8.90%) WinForms
12 17 (8.90%) WPF
13 15 (7.85%) SOAP
13 15 (7.85%) Web Services
14 14 (7.33%) ASP.NET MVC
15 13 (6.81%) Microsoft Graph
16 12 (6.28%) ASP.NET Core
17 11 (5.76%) XML
18 8 (4.19%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.47%) Cloud Native
2 19 (9.95%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (5.24%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.71%) Legacy Code
5 8 (4.19%) AI Agents
5 8 (4.19%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.09%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.09%) Wiki
9 3 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.05%) Media Streaming
11 1 (0.52%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.52%) Derivative
11 1 (0.52%) Equity Derivative
11 1 (0.52%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.52%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 47 (24.61%) Windows
2 28 (14.66%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.52%) Linux
3 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (51.83%) DevOps
2 76 (39.79%) Agile
3 72 (37.70%) CI/CD
4 41 (21.47%) Disaster Recovery
4 41 (21.47%) Unit Testing
5 35 (18.32%) AI
6 32 (16.75%) Microservices
7 31 (16.23%) Data Analysis
8 29 (15.18%) Full-Stack Development
8 29 (15.18%) Test Automation
9 28 (14.66%) OOP
10 24 (12.57%) Scrum
10 24 (12.57%) Software Engineering
11 23 (12.04%) SDLC
12 21 (10.99%) Business Intelligence
12 21 (10.99%) Migration
13 20 (10.47%) MVC
13 20 (10.47%) Observability
14 19 (9.95%) Change Management
14 19 (9.95%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 167 (87.43%) C#
2 85 (44.50%) SQL
3 39 (20.42%) T-SQL
4 35 (18.32%) PL/SQL
5 34 (17.80%) JavaScript
6 28 (14.66%) TypeScript
7 25 (13.09%) PowerShell
8 21 (10.99%) Python
9 13 (6.81%) Kusto Query Language
9 13 (6.81%) VB
10 12 (6.28%) VBA
11 7 (3.66%) Bicep
12 3 (1.57%) Java
12 3 (1.57%) VB.NET
13 2 (1.05%) C++
14 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.52%) VB6
14 1 (0.52%) XPath
Qualifications
1 39 (20.42%) Security Cleared
2 33 (17.28%) SC Cleared
3 28 (14.66%) Degree
4 7 (3.66%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.05%) ITIL 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
7 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (27.75%) QA
2 4 (2.09%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.09%) WCAG
3 1 (0.52%) EMIR
3 1 (0.52%) GDPR
3 1 (0.52%) MiFID
3 1 (0.52%) NCSC
3 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (17.80%) Docker
2 2 (1.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (12.57%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.38%) Terraform
3 2 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 56 (29.32%) Oracle
2 42 (21.99%) Microsoft
3 34 (17.80%) Citrix
4 7 (3.66%) Google
5 4 (2.09%) Sitecore
6 3 (1.57%) OpenLink
7 2 (1.05%) Adobe
7 2 (1.05%) Databricks
7 2 (1.05%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.05%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.52%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.52%) BMC
8 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.52%) Okta
8 1 (0.52%) OpenText
8 1 (0.52%) Remedy
8 1 (0.52%) SAP
8 1 (0.52%) Serena
8 1 (0.52%) Telerik