.NET Framework Contracts

Microsoft .NET Framework
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring .NET Framework skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET Framework over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 280 305
Rank change year-on-year -57 +25 -69
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 217 344 469
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.79% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.00% 3.70% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 239 362
10th Percentile £381 £325 -
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £584 £597 £669
90th Percentile £676 £703 £799
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +5.56% -7.69% +4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 11
10th Percentile £22.73 £17.99 -
25th Percentile £24.33 £33.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £80.00 £52.97
Median % change year-on-year -66.25% +51.03% -13.87%
75th Percentile - £85.00 £77.50
90th Percentile - £87.50 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.41 £80.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -70.74% +60.00% -13.04%

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 7,227 9,292 12,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.72% 21.44% 22.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,889 6,370 9,338
10th Percentile £350 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £651 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 283 160
10th Percentile £28.44 £22.55 £29.75
25th Percentile £35.00 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.41 £74.35 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.20% -6.72% +13.64%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing .NET Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Framework in the UK

.NET Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Framework.

Daily rate trend for .NET Framework in the UK

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Framework in the UK

.NET Framework
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Framework.

Hourly rate trend for .NET Framework in the UK

.NET Framework
Top 14 Contract 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 5 July 2025. 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 -34 191 £475 -2.56% 779
London -22 142 £475 -8.21% 244
Work from Home -39 55 £500 - 594
UK excluding London +1 53 £475 +5.56% 596
South East +30 14 £475 -9.52% 143
North of England -9 14 £394 -12.50% 145
Scotland +5 10 £475 +11.76% 43
North West -5 10 £400 -15.79% 68
Midlands +8 9 £500 +17.65% 90
East of England +15 5 £500 +42.86% 101
West Midlands +5 5 £594 +21.90% 51
East Midlands +5 4 £313 +2.02% 38
Yorkshire 0 4 £263 -34.38% 59
South West +28 3 £600 +33.33% 58

.NET Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (9.68%) IIS
2 4 (1.84%) Confluence
3 3 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.38%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.92%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.46%) Apache
5 1 (0.46%) Appian
5 1 (0.46%) Camunda
5 1 (0.46%) CMS
5 1 (0.46%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.46%) nginx
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.46%) SAS
5 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Applications
1 32 (14.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.92%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.46%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (6.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (3.23%) Aladdin
3 3 (1.38%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.38%) Magento
3 3 (1.38%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.92%) Bloomberg AIM
4 2 (0.92%) OpenText MBPM
4 2 (0.92%) Oracle BPM
4 2 (0.92%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.46%) Eikon
5 1 (0.46%) Maximo
5 1 (0.46%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 91 (41.94%) Azure
2 36 (16.59%) AWS
3 34 (15.67%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (12.44%) Serverless
5 23 (10.60%) Power Platform
6 21 (9.68%) Azure Functions
7 19 (8.76%) Dynamics 365
8 17 (7.83%) Azure Logic Apps
8 17 (7.83%) Azure Service Bus
8 17 (7.83%) PowerApps
9 16 (7.37%) Power Automate
10 8 (3.69%) Azure Event Grid
10 8 (3.69%) Entra ID
10 8 (3.69%) GCP
11 7 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (3.23%) GitHub
12 6 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (2.76%) SaaS
13 4 (1.84%) PaaS
14 3 (1.38%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.53%) Internet
2 3 (1.38%) DNS
3 2 (0.92%) 3G
3 2 (0.92%) DHCP
3 2 (0.92%) GPRS
3 2 (0.92%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (0.92%) LAN
3 2 (0.92%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.92%) WAN
3 2 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.46%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (44.24%) SQL Server
2 37 (17.05%) Oracle Database
3 26 (11.98%) Relational Database
4 16 (7.37%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (5.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 12 (5.53%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (4.61%) Power BI
8 9 (4.15%) NoSQL
9 8 (3.69%) MongoDB
10 6 (2.76%) MySQL
11 5 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.92%) DocumentDB
12 2 (0.92%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.92%) Redis
13 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 1 (0.46%) MS Access
13 1 (0.46%) Parquet
13 1 (0.46%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (13.82%) Git
2 12 (5.53%) JIRA
3 7 (3.23%) Visual Studio
4 6 (2.76%) NUnit
5 5 (2.30%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.38%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.38%) Postman
7 2 (0.92%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.92%) GitLab
8 1 (0.46%) gulp
8 1 (0.46%) JetBrains Rider
8 1 (0.46%) JMeter
8 1 (0.46%) Moq
8 1 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.46%) ReSharper
8 1 (0.46%) Selenium
8 1 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 73 (33.64%) Finance
2 54 (24.88%) Social Skills
3 21 (9.68%) Banking
4 17 (7.83%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (5.07%) Front Office
7 6 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.76%) Legal
8 5 (2.30%) Billing
9 4 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.84%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.38%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.92%) Back Office
11 2 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.92%) Marketing
11 2 (0.92%) Retail
12 1 (0.46%) French Language
12 1 (0.46%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.46%) Japanese Language
12 1 (0.46%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 147 (67.74%) Developer
2 88 (40.55%) .NET Developer
3 64 (29.49%) C# Developer
4 41 (18.89%) C# .NET Developer
5 35 (16.13%) C# WPF Developer
5 35 (16.13%) WPF Developer
6 26 (11.98%) Architect
7 20 (9.22%) Senior
8 16 (7.37%) Senior Developer
9 15 (6.91%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
11 12 (5.53%) C# WCF Developer
11 12 (5.53%) WCF Developer
12 11 (5.07%) Angular Developer
13 10 (4.61%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 9 (4.15%) Cloud Developer
14 9 (4.15%) Senior C# Developer
15 8 (3.69%) Lead
15 8 (3.69%) Senior .NET Developer
16 7 (3.23%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (100.00%) .NET
2 72 (33.18%) Entity Framework
3 47 (21.66%) .NET Core
4 43 (19.82%) HTML
5 40 (18.43%) CSS
6 39 (17.97%) WPF
7 38 (17.51%) AngularJS
7 38 (17.51%) ASP.NET
8 36 (16.59%) REST
8 36 (16.59%) WCF
9 32 (14.75%) ASP.NET Web API
10 31 (14.29%) RESTful
11 27 (12.44%) React
12 17 (7.83%) ASP.NET MVC
12 17 (7.83%) XML
13 15 (6.91%) JSON
14 14 (6.45%) WinForms
15 13 (5.99%) HTML5 Canvas
16 12 (5.53%) RabbitMQ
17 11 (5.07%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.99%) Fixed Income
2 9 (4.15%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.69%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (3.69%) N-Tier
4 6 (2.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.84%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.84%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.38%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.92%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.92%) Derivative
8 2 (0.92%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.92%) Market Risk
8 2 (0.92%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.92%) PKI
9 1 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 47 (21.66%) Windows
2 6 (2.76%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.30%) Linux
4 3 (1.38%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (34.56%) Agile
2 56 (25.81%) DevOps
3 49 (22.58%) CI/CD
4 45 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (17.05%) Full-Stack Development
6 36 (16.59%) TDD
7 35 (16.13%) MVC
8 30 (13.82%) Microservices
9 28 (12.90%) Scrum
10 27 (12.44%) Test Automation
11 25 (11.52%) Unit Testing
12 24 (11.06%) Design Patterns
12 24 (11.06%) Web Development
13 23 (10.60%) Software Engineering
14 21 (9.68%) CRM
15 20 (9.22%) Containerisation
16 19 (8.76%) API Development
17 18 (8.29%) Business Intelligence
17 18 (8.29%) Data Analysis
17 18 (8.29%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 177 (81.57%) C#
2 118 (54.38%) SQL
3 64 (29.49%) JavaScript
4 51 (23.50%) PL/SQL
5 36 (16.59%) VB
6 34 (15.67%) VBA
7 24 (11.06%) VB.NET
8 23 (10.60%) T-SQL
9 16 (7.37%) TypeScript
10 11 (5.07%) RPG
10 11 (5.07%) RPG IV
11 8 (3.69%) Python
12 6 (2.76%) F#
13 4 (1.84%) PowerShell
14 3 (1.38%) PHP
14 3 (1.38%) VB6
15 2 (0.92%) C++
15 2 (0.92%) Java
16 1 (0.46%) Korn
16 1 (0.46%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (10.14%) Degree
2 11 (5.07%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (2.76%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.30%) MCPD
5 5 (2.30%) MCSD
6 4 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.38%) PMP
8 2 (0.92%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.92%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.92%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.92%) PhD
8 2 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.46%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.68%) QA
2 7 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.38%) MiFID
3 3 (1.38%) NCSC
4 2 (0.92%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.92%) GDPR
4 2 (0.92%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (0.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.46%) EMIR
5 1 (0.46%) HL7
System Software
1 29 (13.36%) Docker
2 8 (3.69%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (11.06%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.91%) Terraform
3 2 (0.92%) SCOM
4 1 (0.46%) Ansible
4 1 (0.46%) MIIS
Vendors
1 72 (33.18%) Microsoft
2 52 (23.96%) Oracle
3 13 (5.99%) Citrix
4 5 (2.30%) TIBCO
4 5 (2.30%) VMware
5 4 (1.84%) IBM
5 4 (1.84%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.84%) Solace
6 3 (1.38%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.92%) Cisco
7 2 (0.92%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.92%) FactSet
7 2 (0.92%) Murex
7 2 (0.92%) OpenText
7 2 (0.92%) Portware
7 2 (0.92%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.92%) SAP
8 1 (0.46%) Pardot
8 1 (0.46%) Splunk
8 1 (0.46%) Workday