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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 328 299
Rank change year-on-year -105 -29 +13
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 216 205 317
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.69% 0.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.18% 3.00% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 160 222
10th Percentile £385 £378 £325
25th Percentile £415 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -1.32% -9.52%
75th Percentile £580 £550 £588
90th Percentile £672 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile £49.08 £22.73 £39.59
25th Percentile £52.50 £24.33 £75.00
Median hourly rate £58.00 £27.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.81% -66.25% +48.19%
75th Percentile £59.50 - £85.00
90th Percentile £62.80 - £88.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.00 £23.41 £80.00
% change year-on-year +147.76% -70.74% +52.38%

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 9,895 6,827 9,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.54% 22.86% 21.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,500 4,658 6,376
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 126 277
10th Percentile £30.10 £29.16 £22.30
25th Percentile £51.88 £39.84 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% +10.29% -21.54%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.18 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.63
% change year-on-year +4.00% +12.36% -14.42%

.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 20 June 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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -85 198 £475 +0.53% 61
London -85 119 £509 +11.20% 26
UK excluding London -82 80 £450 -5.26% 49
Work from Home -41 56 £475 -3.80% 47
South West -6 25 £438 -27.08% 4
South East -53 23 £525 +10.53% 17
Midlands -54 13 £463 -7.50% 4
West Midlands -53 11 £463 -22.17% 3
North of England -81 10 £468 +16.88% 14
East of England -33 4 £345 -18.82% 4
North West -51 4 £650 +60.00% 9
Yorkshire -59 4 £454 +72.95% 1
Scotland -15 3 £358 -24.63% 2
East Midlands -19 2 £488 +55.75% 1
North East - 2 £475 - 4
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 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 30 (13.89%) IIS
2 19 (8.80%) SharePoint
3 16 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (5.09%) Confluence
5 6 (2.78%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (2.31%) Appian
6 5 (2.31%) Camunda
7 4 (1.85%) CMS
8 3 (1.39%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (6.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.93%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.46%) InDesign
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.31%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (2.31%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.85%) Findur
3 2 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.46%) Endur
4 1 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.46%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.46%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 122 (56.48%) Azure
2 59 (27.31%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (18.06%) GitHub
4 26 (12.04%) AWS
4 26 (12.04%) GitHub Actions
5 23 (10.65%) Azure Monitor
6 21 (9.72%) Azure Service Bus
7 18 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
8 17 (7.87%) Entra ID
9 15 (6.94%) Azure App Service
9 15 (6.94%) PaaS
10 14 (6.48%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (5.09%) Azure WebJobs
12 10 (4.63%) Azure AKS
13 8 (3.70%) Power Platform
13 8 (3.70%) Serverless
14 6 (2.78%) Azure Functions
14 6 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (2.78%) Power Automate
15 5 (2.31%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.09%) Internet
2 6 (2.78%) 3GPP
3 5 (2.31%) HTTP
4 4 (1.85%) RTCP
4 4 (1.85%) RTP
4 4 (1.85%) XCAP
5 2 (0.93%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.46%) DHCP
6 1 (0.46%) DNS
6 1 (0.46%) Firewall
6 1 (0.46%) Intranet
6 1 (0.46%) LAN
6 1 (0.46%) SMTP
6 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.46%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.46%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (48.15%) SQL Server
2 33 (15.28%) Oracle Database
3 19 (8.80%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.63%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (3.70%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.31%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (1.85%) Power BI
9 3 (1.39%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (1.39%) DocumentDB
9 3 (1.39%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.39%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.93%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.93%) MySQL
11 1 (0.46%) ClickHouse
11 1 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.46%) MS Access
11 1 (0.46%) Parquet
11 1 (0.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 31 (14.35%) Git
2 25 (11.57%) JIRA
3 23 (10.65%) Visual Studio
4 12 (5.56%) NUnit
5 8 (3.70%) MSI
6 5 (2.31%) MSTest
7 4 (1.85%) GitLab
7 4 (1.85%) Jasmine
7 4 (1.85%) Karma Test Runner
7 4 (1.85%) Postman
8 3 (1.39%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.39%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.93%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.93%) git-flow
9 2 (0.93%) JMeter
9 2 (0.93%) Moq
9 2 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.93%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.46%) TestRail
10 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 53 (24.54%) Finance
2 45 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 25 (11.57%) Banking
4 13 (6.02%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.85%) Retail
6 4 (1.85%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.39%) Automotive
7 3 (1.39%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.39%) Police
8 2 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.93%) Front Office
8 2 (0.93%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.46%) Military
9 1 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 147 (68.06%) Developer
2 66 (30.56%) C# Developer
3 48 (22.22%) .NET Developer
4 31 (14.35%) Architect
5 25 (11.57%) Senior
6 22 (10.19%) Full-Stack Developer
6 22 (10.19%) Solutions Architect
7 21 (9.72%) C# .NET Developer
8 19 (8.80%) Senior Developer
9 15 (6.94%) Azure Developer
10 13 (6.02%) Software Engineer
11 11 (5.09%) Applications Developer
12 10 (4.63%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (4.63%) Lead
13 9 (4.17%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 9 (4.17%) Microsoft 365 Developer
14 8 (3.70%) Senior .NET Developer
14 8 (3.70%) Site Engineer
14 8 (3.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 7 (3.24%) C# Application Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (100.00%) .NET
2 57 (26.39%) .NET Core
3 51 (23.61%) Entity Framework
4 48 (22.22%) React
5 45 (20.83%) ASP.NET
6 41 (18.98%) REST
7 37 (17.13%) CSS
8 33 (15.28%) HTML
9 31 (14.35%) RESTful
10 24 (11.11%) AngularJS
11 21 (9.72%) ASP.NET Web API
11 21 (9.72%) WPF
12 17 (7.87%) Web Services
13 15 (6.94%) WinForms
14 14 (6.48%) SOAP
14 14 (6.48%) XML
15 12 (5.56%) ASP.NET Core
15 12 (5.56%) ASP.NET MVC
16 11 (5.09%) Microsoft Graph
17 9 (4.17%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.81%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.63%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (4.17%) Legacy Code
6 8 (3.70%) AI Agents
6 8 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.78%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.31%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.85%) Wiki
11 3 (1.39%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.93%) FMCG
12 2 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.93%) Media Streaming
13 1 (0.46%) Derivative
13 1 (0.46%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 59 (27.31%) Windows
2 26 (12.04%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.93%) Linux
3 2 (0.93%) Unix
4 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (56.48%) DevOps
2 96 (44.44%) Agile
3 83 (38.43%) CI/CD
4 51 (23.61%) AI
5 45 (20.83%) Unit Testing
6 41 (18.98%) Microservices
6 41 (18.98%) OOP
7 39 (18.06%) Disaster Recovery
8 38 (17.59%) Scrum
9 35 (16.20%) Full-Stack Development
10 34 (15.74%) Data Analysis
11 33 (15.28%) Test Automation
12 31 (14.35%) Software Engineering
13 30 (13.89%) Migration
14 29 (13.43%) SDLC
15 24 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
16 23 (10.65%) MVC
17 22 (10.19%) Change Management
17 22 (10.19%) Containerisation
18 21 (9.72%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 184 (85.19%) C#
2 92 (42.59%) SQL
3 44 (20.37%) JavaScript
4 41 (18.98%) T-SQL
5 38 (17.59%) TypeScript
6 37 (17.13%) PL/SQL
7 29 (13.43%) Python
8 26 (12.04%) PowerShell
9 13 (6.02%) Bicep
10 12 (5.56%) VBA
11 11 (5.09%) Kusto Query Language
11 11 (5.09%) VB
12 5 (2.31%) Java
12 5 (2.31%) VB.NET
13 3 (1.39%) C++
14 2 (0.93%) XAML
14 2 (0.93%) XPath
15 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.46%) VB6
Qualifications
1 48 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 40 (18.52%) Degree
2 40 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.24%) Azure Certification
4 4 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (1.85%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (0.93%) PhD
6 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.46%) CISSP
6 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.46%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.46%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.46%) MBA
6 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (23.61%) QA
2 10 (4.63%) WCAG
3 9 (4.17%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.78%) NCSC
5 1 (0.46%) GDPR
5 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (19.44%) Docker
2 2 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.19%) Terraform
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (28.24%) Oracle
2 52 (24.07%) Microsoft
3 35 (16.20%) Citrix
4 7 (3.24%) Google
5 6 (2.78%) OpenText
6 5 (2.31%) Sitecore
7 4 (1.85%) OpenLink
8 2 (0.93%) Adobe
8 2 (0.93%) Databricks
8 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.46%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.46%) BMC
9 1 (0.46%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.46%) F5
9 1 (0.46%) Okta
9 1 (0.46%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.46%) Remedy
9 1 (0.46%) SAP
9 1 (0.46%) Serena
9 1 (0.46%) UiPath