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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 441 358 263
Rank change year-on-year -83 -95 +34
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 243 197 359
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.60% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.04% 2.29% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 137 247
10th Percentile £388 £350 £318
25th Percentile £413 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £588 £594 £616
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.22% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 6
10th Percentile - £25.93 £17.99
25th Percentile - £27.00 £33.75
Median hourly rate £46.80 £66.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.09% -17.50% +18.52%
75th Percentile £52.15 £67.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £55.36 - £87.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.80 £67.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -30.15% -16.25% +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 11,903 8,611 9,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.69% 26.03% 24.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,828 5,738 6,200
10th Percentile £375 £353 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 191 190
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £47.35 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -10.71% +2.67%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.50 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £58.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.84% -9.62% +10.11%

.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 26 September 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 14 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 26 September 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 -83 206 £500 +5.82% 265
London -63 125 £548 +15.26% 120
UK excluding London -80 89 £460 +2.22% 172
Work from Home -50 57 £475 - 135
South West -14 27 £450 +20.00% 15
South East -63 23 £500 +14.29% 38
Scotland -13 15 £450 -5.26% 13
North of England -73 14 £436 -8.16% 43
Yorkshire -37 10 £425 -10.53% 17
East of England -44 5 £345 -31.00% 18
West Midlands -48 5 £450 +5.88% 16
Midlands -52 5 £450 +10.77% 32
North West -51 3 £525 +6.60% 24
North East - 1 - - 3

.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 25 (10.29%) IIS
2 18 (7.41%) Confluence
3 13 (5.35%) SharePoint
4 10 (4.12%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (2.06%) Appian
5 5 (2.06%) Camunda
5 5 (2.06%) CMS
6 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.82%) nginx
7 2 (0.82%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.41%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 16 (6.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (4.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.06%) OpenText MBPM
2 5 (2.06%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.82%) 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
1 129 (53.09%) Azure
2 67 (27.57%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (14.81%) GitHub
4 29 (11.93%) AWS
5 18 (7.41%) Entra ID
6 14 (5.76%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (5.35%) Azure App Service
8 12 (4.94%) Azure AKS
8 12 (4.94%) PaaS
9 11 (4.53%) Azure Key Vault
9 11 (4.53%) Azure Monitor
9 11 (4.53%) Power Platform
10 10 (4.12%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (4.12%) Serverless
11 9 (3.70%) Azure Functions
11 9 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (3.29%) Power Automate
13 7 (2.88%) Azure API Management
13 7 (2.88%) IaaS
13 7 (2.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.35%) Internet
2 5 (2.06%) 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%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.41%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.41%) VPN
4 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (43.62%) SQL Server
2 30 (12.35%) Oracle Database
3 24 (9.88%) Relational Database
4 15 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (4.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (4.53%) Geospatial Data
7 10 (4.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (3.29%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (2.88%) NoSQL
9 7 (2.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.06%) MySQL
11 4 (1.65%) Db2
11 4 (1.65%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.65%) Power BI
12 3 (1.23%) DocumentDB
12 3 (1.23%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.23%) Redis
13 2 (0.82%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 56 (23.05%) Git
2 21 (8.64%) Visual Studio
3 20 (8.23%) JIRA
4 13 (5.35%) MSI
5 9 (3.70%) Jenkins
6 8 (3.29%) GitLab
6 8 (3.29%) NUnit
7 7 (2.88%) TeamCity
8 6 (2.47%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.47%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (1.65%) JetBrains Rider
10 3 (1.23%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.23%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.23%) Selenium
10 3 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.82%) ClearCase
11 2 (0.82%) Fiddler
11 2 (0.82%) JMeter
11 2 (0.82%) MSTest
11 2 (0.82%) Rational Robot
General
1 53 (21.81%) Social Skills
2 50 (20.58%) Finance
3 29 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.05%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.58%) Banking
6 4 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.65%) Marketing
6 4 (1.65%) Retail
7 3 (1.23%) Automotive
7 3 (1.23%) Front Office
7 3 (1.23%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.82%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.41%) Law
9 1 (0.41%) Military
9 1 (0.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 144 (59.26%) Developer
2 62 (25.51%) .NET Developer
3 52 (21.40%) C# Developer
4 41 (16.87%) Architect
5 35 (14.40%) Senior
6 23 (9.47%) C# .NET Developer
6 23 (9.47%) Senior Developer
6 23 (9.47%) Solutions Architect
7 22 (9.05%) Full-Stack Developer
8 19 (7.82%) Lead
9 15 (6.17%) Senior .NET Developer
9 15 (6.17%) Software Developer
10 14 (5.76%) Applications Architect
11 9 (3.70%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 9 (3.70%) Lead Developer
11 9 (3.70%) Software Engineer
12 8 (3.29%) .NET Software Developer
12 8 (3.29%) .NET Software Engineer
12 8 (3.29%) React Developer
13 7 (2.88%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (100.00%) .NET
2 71 (29.22%) .NET Core
3 69 (28.40%) REST
4 64 (26.34%) Entity Framework
5 50 (20.58%) ASP.NET
6 38 (15.64%) RESTful
7 37 (15.23%) React
7 37 (15.23%) WPF
8 30 (12.35%) Terraform
9 29 (11.93%) AngularJS
9 29 (11.93%) CSS
9 29 (11.93%) HTML
10 28 (11.52%) XML
11 26 (10.70%) ASP.NET Web API
12 21 (8.64%) Web Services
13 18 (7.41%) WinForms
14 16 (6.58%) SOAP
15 14 (5.76%) ASP.NET Core
16 13 (5.35%) COM
16 13 (5.35%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 49 (20.16%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.82%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (7.00%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (6.58%) Onboarding
5 14 (5.76%) Product Ownership
6 11 (4.53%) AI Agents
6 11 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (4.12%) Legacy Code
8 8 (3.29%) Legacy Applications
8 8 (3.29%) PKI
8 8 (3.29%) Wiki
9 7 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (2.47%) LIMS
10 6 (2.47%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 3 (1.23%) Data Centre
13 2 (0.82%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
13 2 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 66 (27.16%) Windows
2 19 (7.82%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.47%) Linux
4 2 (0.82%) Unix
5 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (53.50%) DevOps
2 102 (41.98%) Agile
3 101 (41.56%) CI/CD
4 59 (24.28%) AI
5 54 (22.22%) Scrum
6 51 (20.99%) SDLC
7 50 (20.58%) OOP
8 48 (19.75%) Test Automation
9 47 (19.34%) Migration
10 46 (18.93%) Microservices
11 44 (18.11%) Full-Stack Development
12 43 (17.70%) Software Engineering
13 38 (15.64%) Deployment Automation
14 37 (15.23%) OO
15 34 (13.99%) Unit Testing
16 33 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
17 28 (11.52%) SOLID
17 28 (11.52%) Workflow
18 27 (11.11%) Code Quality
19 26 (10.70%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 204 (83.95%) C#
2 94 (38.68%) SQL
3 68 (27.98%) JavaScript
4 45 (18.52%) TypeScript
5 36 (14.81%) Python
6 34 (13.99%) T-SQL
7 30 (12.35%) PL/SQL
8 21 (8.64%) PowerShell
9 20 (8.23%) Bicep
10 14 (5.76%) VBA
11 13 (5.35%) VB
12 7 (2.88%) VB.NET
13 5 (2.06%) Java
14 4 (1.65%) XAML
15 2 (0.82%) C++
15 2 (0.82%) VB6
15 2 (0.82%) XPath
16 1 (0.41%) COBOL
16 1 (0.41%) REXX
16 1 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 57 (23.46%) Security Cleared
2 42 (17.28%) SC Cleared
3 34 (13.99%) Degree
4 8 (3.29%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 4 (1.65%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.65%) PhD
7 3 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.82%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (16.87%) QA
2 18 (7.41%) Accessibility
3 13 (5.35%) WCAG
4 12 (4.94%) NCSC
5 6 (2.47%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 6 (2.47%) GMP
5 6 (2.47%) GxP
5 6 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 3 (1.23%) SLA
7 1 (0.41%) GDPR
System Software
1 44 (18.11%) Docker
2 16 (6.58%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 35 (14.40%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.23%) Kibana
2 3 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.41%) Control-M
4 1 (0.41%) Istio
Vendors
1 88 (36.21%) Microsoft
2 52 (21.40%) Oracle
3 28 (11.52%) Citrix
4 6 (2.47%) BeyondTrust
4 6 (2.47%) Okta
5 5 (2.06%) OpenText
6 4 (1.65%) IBM
7 3 (1.23%) Sitecore
7 3 (1.23%) UiPath
8 2 (0.82%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.82%) OpenLink
8 2 (0.82%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.82%) WSO2
9 1 (0.41%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.41%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.41%) F5
9 1 (0.41%) Foundry
9 1 (0.41%) JDA
9 1 (0.41%) Snow
9 1 (0.41%) Telerik