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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 347 250
Rank change year-on-year -81 -97 +40
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 237 212 350
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.64% 0.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.34% 2.88% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 153 236
10th Percentile £400 £382 £325
25th Percentile £417 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.52%
75th Percentile £583 £550 £600
90th Percentile £668 £698 £731
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 10,111 7,358 8,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.94% 22.35% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,580 4,929 5,791
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £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 £748 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.50% -6.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 176 243
10th Percentile £28.07 £29.63 £22.96
25th Percentile £41.30 £41.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.44 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% -1.02% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.18 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% +0.54%

.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 14 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 14 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 -78 212 £478 +0.90% 131
London -75 118 £525 +10.82% 54
UK excluding London -61 101 £450 -5.26% 85
Work from Home -56 53 £475 -5.00% 74
South West -12 36 £438 +16.67% 14
South East -54 27 £500 +11.11% 23
North of England -63 16 £454 -4.42% 20
Scotland -5 12 £450 -5.26% 4
Yorkshire -35 10 £454 -4.42% 7
Midlands -51 7 £463 +10.45% 15
West Midlands -54 6 £475 -6.36% 7
North West -46 5 £588 +19.29% 11
East of England -31 3 £345 -31.00% 10
East Midlands -22 1 £450 +43.77% 8
North East - 1 - - 2

.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 33 (13.92%) IIS
2 21 (8.86%) SharePoint
3 20 (8.44%) Confluence
4 14 (5.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (4.22%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (2.11%) Appian
6 5 (2.11%) Camunda
7 4 (1.69%) CMS
8 2 (0.84%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.42%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 15 (6.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.42%) InDesign
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.11%) OpenText MBPM
2 5 (2.11%) Oracle BPM
3 4 (1.69%) Findur
4 2 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.42%) Endur
5 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.42%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 133 (56.12%) Azure
2 66 (27.85%) Azure DevOps
3 43 (18.14%) GitHub
4 29 (12.24%) Azure Monitor
4 29 (12.24%) Entra ID
5 27 (11.39%) AWS
6 23 (9.70%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (9.28%) Azure App Service
7 22 (9.28%) Azure Key Vault
7 22 (9.28%) PaaS
8 19 (8.02%) Azure Service Bus
9 14 (5.91%) Azure AKS
10 13 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (4.22%) Serverless
12 9 (3.80%) Azure WebJobs
13 8 (3.38%) IaaS
13 8 (3.38%) Power Platform
14 7 (2.95%) Azure Functions
14 7 (2.95%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (2.95%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.06%) Internet
2 5 (2.11%) HTTP
3 2 (0.84%) Intranet
3 2 (0.84%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.42%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.42%) DHCP
4 1 (0.42%) DNS
4 1 (0.42%) Firewall
4 1 (0.42%) LAN
4 1 (0.42%) SMTP
4 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.42%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (48.95%) SQL Server
2 31 (13.08%) Oracle Database
3 22 (9.28%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (4.64%) Geospatial Data
6 10 (4.22%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.95%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (2.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.69%) DocumentDB
8 4 (1.69%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.69%) MySQL
8 4 (1.69%) Power BI
9 3 (1.27%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.27%) Redis
10 2 (0.84%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.84%) Db2
10 2 (0.84%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 50 (21.10%) Git
2 23 (9.70%) JIRA
3 20 (8.44%) Visual Studio
4 14 (5.91%) MSI
5 10 (4.22%) NUnit
6 5 (2.11%) GitLab
6 5 (2.11%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.69%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.69%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.69%) JetBrains Rider
7 4 (1.69%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (1.27%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.84%) git-flow
9 2 (0.84%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.84%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (0.84%) Moq
9 2 (0.84%) MSTest
9 2 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.84%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 57 (24.05%) Finance
2 51 (21.52%) Social Skills
3 23 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.86%) Banking
5 18 (7.59%) Public Sector
6 4 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.69%) Retail
7 3 (1.27%) Automotive
7 3 (1.27%) Front Office
7 3 (1.27%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.27%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.84%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.84%) Marketing
8 2 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.42%) Military
9 1 (0.42%) Police
9 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 151 (63.71%) Developer
2 61 (25.74%) .NET Developer
3 56 (23.63%) C# Developer
4 36 (15.19%) Architect
5 27 (11.39%) Senior
6 26 (10.97%) Full-Stack Developer
7 24 (10.13%) C# .NET Developer
8 23 (9.70%) Solutions Architect
9 21 (8.86%) Senior Developer
10 17 (7.17%) Lead
11 15 (6.33%) Azure Developer
12 11 (4.64%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 11 (4.64%) Software Developer
13 10 (4.22%) Applications Architect
13 10 (4.22%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (4.22%) Senior .NET Developer
13 10 (4.22%) Software Engineer
14 8 (3.38%) Site Engineer
14 8 (3.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 7 (2.95%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 237 (100.00%) .NET
2 69 (29.11%) REST
3 58 (24.47%) .NET Core
4 54 (22.78%) Entity Framework
5 43 (18.14%) ASP.NET
6 41 (17.30%) React
7 38 (16.03%) RESTful
8 31 (13.08%) CSS
9 29 (12.24%) HTML
10 26 (10.97%) WPF
11 23 (9.70%) AngularJS
11 23 (9.70%) XML
12 22 (9.28%) Web Services
13 21 (8.86%) SOAP
14 19 (8.02%) ASP.NET Web API
15 16 (6.75%) WinForms
16 14 (5.91%) CSS3
16 14 (5.91%) HTML5
17 13 (5.49%) COM
18 12 (5.06%) ATL
Miscellaneous
1 48 (20.25%) Cloud Native
2 26 (10.97%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (6.75%) Onboarding
4 14 (5.91%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (5.49%) Legacy Code
6 12 (5.06%) Product Ownership
7 10 (4.22%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (4.22%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (3.38%) PKI
8 8 (3.38%) Wiki
9 7 (2.95%) AI Agents
10 5 (2.11%) Data Structures
10 5 (2.11%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (2.11%) LIMS
10 5 (2.11%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (1.27%) Data Centre
13 2 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.84%) FMCG
13 2 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 67 (28.27%) Windows
2 28 (11.81%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.11%) Linux
4 2 (0.84%) Unix
5 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (56.96%) DevOps
2 102 (43.04%) Agile
3 98 (41.35%) CI/CD
4 53 (22.36%) AI
5 52 (21.94%) OOP
6 46 (19.41%) Microservices
6 46 (19.41%) Scrum
7 45 (18.99%) Full-Stack Development
8 44 (18.57%) Migration
8 44 (18.57%) SDLC
8 44 (18.57%) Test Automation
9 40 (16.88%) Unit Testing
10 33 (13.92%) Disaster Recovery
11 31 (13.08%) OO
11 31 (13.08%) Software Engineering
12 29 (12.24%) Data Analysis
12 29 (12.24%) Deployment Automation
13 28 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (10.55%) Containerisation
14 25 (10.55%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 198 (83.54%) C#
2 96 (40.51%) SQL
3 56 (23.63%) JavaScript
4 42 (17.72%) TypeScript
5 38 (16.03%) T-SQL
6 37 (15.61%) PowerShell
7 35 (14.77%) PL/SQL
8 33 (13.92%) Python
9 22 (9.28%) Bicep
10 13 (5.49%) VBA
11 11 (4.64%) VB
12 9 (3.80%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (2.53%) VB.NET
14 4 (1.69%) Java
15 3 (1.27%) C++
16 2 (0.84%) XAML
16 2 (0.84%) XPath
17 1 (0.42%) Bash
17 1 (0.42%) CodeQL
17 1 (0.42%) VB6
Qualifications
1 64 (27.00%) Security Cleared
2 52 (21.94%) SC Cleared
3 31 (13.08%) Degree
4 6 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.11%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.27%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.84%) PhD
8 1 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (18.57%) QA
2 14 (5.91%) Accessibility
3 13 (5.49%) WCAG
4 12 (5.06%) NCSC
5 5 (2.11%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 5 (2.11%) GMP
5 5 (2.11%) GxP
5 5 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 3 (1.27%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (17.72%) Docker
2 16 (6.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (16.46%) Kubernetes
2 34 (14.35%) Terraform
3 4 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.42%) Istio
Vendors
1 89 (37.55%) Microsoft
2 57 (24.05%) Oracle
3 31 (13.08%) Citrix
4 6 (2.53%) BeyondTrust
4 6 (2.53%) Okta
5 5 (2.11%) OpenText
6 4 (1.69%) OpenLink
7 3 (1.27%) IBM
7 3 (1.27%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.84%) Databricks
8 2 (0.84%) Google
8 2 (0.84%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.42%) Adobe
9 1 (0.42%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.42%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.42%) F5
9 1 (0.42%) SAP
9 1 (0.42%) Telerik
9 1 (0.42%) UiPath