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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 348 264
Rank change year-on-year -86 -84 +26
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 245 226 352
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.69% 0.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.42% 3.05% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 167 239
10th Percentile £391 £372 £325
25th Percentile £415 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £668 £688 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 6
10th Percentile £47.94 £25.93 £17.99
25th Percentile £49.65 £27.00 £33.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £66.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -17.50% +51.03%
75th Percentile £58.50 £67.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £59.10 - £87.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £67.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -17.91% -16.25% +45.45%

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 10,137 7,412 8,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.98% 22.51% 22.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,603 4,984 5,799
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £412 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £663
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +6.61% -6.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 171 241
10th Percentile £28.11 £30.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.33 £41.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.91
% change year-on-year +13.04% -2.39% +0.16%

.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 11 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 11 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 -89 217 £478 +0.63% 123
London -93 122 £525 +10.53% 53
UK excluding London -57 105 £450 -5.26% 75
Work from Home -73 56 £475 -3.80% 66
South West -1 36 £438 +16.67% 12
South East -59 27 £500 +25.00% 20
North of England -75 16 £454 -1.84% 19
Scotland -7 15 £450 -5.26% 3
Yorkshire -42 10 £454 -1.84% 4
Midlands -55 8 £450 +9.09% 13
West Midlands -54 7 £463 -21.54% 5
North West -42 5 £588 +19.29% 14
East of England -32 3 £345 -31.00% 6
East Midlands -12 1 £450 +43.77% 8
North East - 1 - - 1

.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 34 (13.88%) IIS
2 21 (8.57%) SharePoint
3 20 (8.16%) Confluence
4 14 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (4.08%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (2.04%) Appian
6 5 (2.04%) Camunda
7 4 (1.63%) 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 16 (6.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.82%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.41%) InDesign
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.04%) OpenText MBPM
2 5 (2.04%) Oracle BPM
3 4 (1.63%) Findur
4 2 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.41%) Endur
5 1 (0.41%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.41%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 139 (56.73%) Azure
2 70 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 43 (17.55%) GitHub
4 29 (11.84%) Azure Monitor
4 29 (11.84%) Entra ID
5 27 (11.02%) AWS
6 23 (9.39%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (8.98%) Azure App Service
7 22 (8.98%) Azure Key Vault
7 22 (8.98%) Azure Service Bus
7 22 (8.98%) PaaS
8 15 (6.12%) Azure AKS
9 13 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (5.31%) Serverless
10 10 (4.08%) Azure Functions
11 9 (3.67%) Azure WebJobs
12 8 (3.27%) IaaS
12 8 (3.27%) Power Platform
13 7 (2.86%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.31%) Internet
2 6 (2.45%) HTTP
3 2 (0.82%) 3GPP
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%) RTCP
4 1 (0.41%) RTP
4 1 (0.41%) SMTP
4 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.41%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.41%) WAN
4 1 (0.41%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (48.16%) SQL Server
2 33 (13.47%) Oracle Database
3 22 (8.98%) Relational Database
4 16 (6.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 14 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (4.49%) Geospatial Data
7 10 (4.08%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.63%) DocumentDB
9 4 (1.63%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.63%) MySQL
9 4 (1.63%) Power BI
10 3 (1.22%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.22%) Redis
11 2 (0.82%) ClickHouse
11 2 (0.82%) Db2
11 2 (0.82%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 51 (20.82%) Git
2 24 (9.80%) JIRA
3 20 (8.16%) Visual Studio
4 14 (5.71%) MSI
5 12 (4.90%) NUnit
6 5 (2.04%) GitLab
6 5 (2.04%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.63%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.63%) Jasmine
7 4 (1.63%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.63%) JetBrains Rider
7 4 (1.63%) Karma Test Runner
7 4 (1.63%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (1.22%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.22%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.82%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.82%) Moq
9 2 (0.82%) MSTest
9 2 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 59 (24.08%) Finance
2 52 (21.22%) Social Skills
3 23 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.98%) Banking
5 20 (8.16%) Public Sector
6 4 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.63%) Retail
7 3 (1.22%) Automotive
7 3 (1.22%) Front Office
7 3 (1.22%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.22%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.82%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.82%) Marketing
8 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.41%) Military
9 1 (0.41%) Police
9 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 157 (64.08%) Developer
2 63 (25.71%) .NET Developer
3 59 (24.08%) C# Developer
4 37 (15.10%) Architect
5 29 (11.84%) Full-Stack Developer
6 28 (11.43%) Senior
7 25 (10.20%) C# .NET Developer
8 24 (9.80%) Solutions Architect
9 21 (8.57%) Senior Developer
10 17 (6.94%) Lead
11 15 (6.12%) Azure Developer
12 12 (4.90%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 11 (4.49%) Software Developer
14 10 (4.08%) Applications Architect
14 10 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
14 10 (4.08%) Senior .NET Developer
14 10 (4.08%) Software Engineer
15 8 (3.27%) Applications Developer
15 8 (3.27%) Site Engineer
15 8 (3.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (100.00%) .NET
2 69 (28.16%) REST
3 63 (25.71%) .NET Core
4 58 (23.67%) Entity Framework
5 48 (19.59%) ASP.NET
6 42 (17.14%) React
7 38 (15.51%) RESTful
8 33 (13.47%) CSS
9 31 (12.65%) HTML
10 27 (11.02%) WPF
11 26 (10.61%) AngularJS
12 24 (9.80%) XML
13 22 (8.98%) Web Services
14 21 (8.57%) SOAP
15 20 (8.16%) ASP.NET Web API
16 17 (6.94%) WinForms
17 15 (6.12%) ASP.NET Core
18 14 (5.71%) CSS3
18 14 (5.71%) HTML5
19 13 (5.31%) COM
Miscellaneous
1 48 (19.59%) Cloud Native
2 27 (11.02%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (6.53%) Onboarding
4 14 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (5.31%) Legacy Code
6 12 (4.90%) Product Ownership
7 10 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (3.27%) PKI
8 8 (3.27%) Wiki
9 7 (2.86%) AI Agents
10 5 (2.04%) Data Structures
10 5 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (2.04%) LIMS
10 5 (2.04%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.22%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.82%) FMCG
12 2 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 68 (27.76%) Windows
2 28 (11.43%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.04%) Linux
4 2 (0.82%) Unix
5 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (56.73%) DevOps
2 107 (43.67%) Agile
3 103 (42.04%) CI/CD
4 56 (22.86%) AI
5 54 (22.04%) OOP
6 49 (20.00%) Microservices
6 49 (20.00%) Scrum
7 48 (19.59%) Full-Stack Development
8 47 (19.18%) Test Automation
9 45 (18.37%) Migration
9 45 (18.37%) SDLC
10 42 (17.14%) Unit Testing
11 34 (13.88%) Disaster Recovery
12 33 (13.47%) Software Engineering
13 32 (13.06%) OO
14 30 (12.24%) Data Analysis
14 30 (12.24%) Deployment Automation
15 28 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
16 26 (10.61%) Containerisation
16 26 (10.61%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 206 (84.08%) C#
2 100 (40.82%) SQL
3 57 (23.27%) JavaScript
4 44 (17.96%) TypeScript
5 39 (15.92%) T-SQL
6 37 (15.10%) PowerShell
7 36 (14.69%) PL/SQL
8 35 (14.29%) Python
9 22 (8.98%) Bicep
10 14 (5.71%) VBA
11 12 (4.90%) VB
12 9 (3.67%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (2.45%) VB.NET
14 4 (1.63%) Java
15 3 (1.22%) C++
16 2 (0.82%) XAML
16 2 (0.82%) XPath
17 1 (0.41%) Bash
17 1 (0.41%) CodeQL
17 1 (0.41%) VB6
Qualifications
1 66 (26.94%) Security Cleared
2 53 (21.63%) SC Cleared
3 32 (13.06%) Degree
4 6 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.04%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.22%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.82%) PhD
8 1 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (18.78%) QA
2 15 (6.12%) Accessibility
3 14 (5.71%) WCAG
4 12 (4.90%) NCSC
5 5 (2.04%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 5 (2.04%) GMP
5 5 (2.04%) GxP
5 5 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 3 (1.22%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (17.96%) Docker
2 16 (6.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (15.92%) Kubernetes
2 34 (13.88%) Terraform
3 4 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.41%) Istio
Vendors
1 89 (36.33%) Microsoft
2 59 (24.08%) Oracle
3 32 (13.06%) Citrix
4 6 (2.45%) BeyondTrust
4 6 (2.45%) Okta
5 5 (2.04%) OpenText
6 4 (1.63%) OpenLink
7 3 (1.22%) IBM
7 3 (1.22%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.82%) Databricks
8 2 (0.82%) Google
8 2 (0.82%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.41%) Adobe
9 1 (0.41%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.41%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.41%) F5
9 1 (0.41%) SAP
9 1 (0.41%) Telerik
9 1 (0.41%) UiPath