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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 330 302
Rank change year-on-year -108 -28 +2
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 208 205 314
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.69% 0.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.12% 3.03% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 160 219
10th Percentile £374 £378 £325
25th Percentile £415 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -1.32% -8.65%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £676 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -7.69%
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 9,799 6,764 9,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.47% 22.79% 21.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,435 4,614 6,310
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -3.74% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £767 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 126 272
10th Percentile £30.50 £29.16 £22.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.84 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% +8.70% -20.38%
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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -107 190 £475 +0.53% 381
London -84 113 £508 +10.93% 43
UK excluding London -74 78 £450 -5.26% 447
Work from Home -42 55 £475 -3.80% 450
South West -5 25 £438 -27.08% 40
South East -48 23 £525 +10.53% 101
Midlands -53 13 £463 -7.50% 52
West Midlands -48 11 £463 -22.17% 24
North of England -72 10 £468 +16.88% 98
North West -45 4 £650 +60.00% 44
Yorkshire -56 4 £454 +72.95% 32
Scotland -18 3 £358 -24.63% 45
East Midlands -22 2 £488 +55.75% 28
East of England -29 2 £345 -18.82% 59
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 27
North East - 2 £475 - 22

.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 29 (13.94%) IIS
2 18 (8.65%) SharePoint
3 15 (7.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (5.29%) Confluence
5 5 (2.40%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (1.92%) Appian
6 4 (1.92%) Camunda
6 4 (1.92%) CMS
7 3 (1.44%) Umbraco
Applications
1 13 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.96%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.96%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.48%) InDesign
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.92%) Findur
1 4 (1.92%) OpenText MBPM
1 4 (1.92%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.48%) Endur
3 1 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.48%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.48%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 117 (56.25%) Azure
2 56 (26.92%) Azure DevOps
3 38 (18.27%) GitHub
4 27 (12.98%) AWS
5 26 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (10.58%) Azure Monitor
7 21 (10.10%) Azure Service Bus
8 18 (8.65%) Azure Key Vault
9 15 (7.21%) Entra ID
10 14 (6.73%) Azure App Service
10 14 (6.73%) PaaS
11 13 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (5.29%) Azure WebJobs
13 10 (4.81%) Azure AKS
14 8 (3.85%) Power Platform
14 8 (3.85%) Serverless
15 6 (2.88%) Azure Functions
15 6 (2.88%) Azure Logic Apps
15 6 (2.88%) Power Automate
16 5 (2.40%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.29%) Internet
2 6 (2.88%) 3GPP
3 5 (2.40%) HTTP
4 4 (1.92%) RTCP
4 4 (1.92%) RTP
4 4 (1.92%) XCAP
5 1 (0.48%) Intranet
5 1 (0.48%) SMTP
5 1 (0.48%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (48.08%) SQL Server
2 32 (15.38%) Oracle Database
3 18 (8.65%) Relational Database
4 9 (4.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.40%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (1.92%) Power BI
9 3 (1.44%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (1.44%) DocumentDB
9 3 (1.44%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.44%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.96%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.96%) MySQL
11 1 (0.48%) GIS
11 1 (0.48%) MS Access
11 1 (0.48%) Parquet
11 1 (0.48%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (13.94%) Git
2 25 (12.02%) JIRA
3 19 (9.13%) Visual Studio
4 12 (5.77%) NUnit
5 7 (3.37%) MSI
6 5 (2.40%) MSTest
7 4 (1.92%) GitLab
7 4 (1.92%) Jasmine
7 4 (1.92%) Karma Test Runner
7 4 (1.92%) Postman
8 3 (1.44%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.44%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.96%) git-flow
9 2 (0.96%) JMeter
9 2 (0.96%) Moq
9 2 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.96%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.48%) ClearCase
10 1 (0.48%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.48%) Selenium
General
1 52 (25.00%) Finance
2 43 (20.67%) Social Skills
3 23 (11.06%) Banking
4 13 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.92%) Retail
6 4 (1.92%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.44%) Automotive
7 3 (1.44%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.44%) Police
8 2 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Front Office
9 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.48%) Military
9 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 143 (68.75%) Developer
2 64 (30.77%) C# Developer
3 46 (22.12%) .NET Developer
4 28 (13.46%) Architect
5 25 (12.02%) Senior
6 21 (10.10%) Full-Stack Developer
7 20 (9.62%) Solutions Architect
8 19 (9.13%) C# .NET Developer
8 19 (9.13%) Senior Developer
9 15 (7.21%) Azure Developer
10 13 (6.25%) Software Engineer
11 11 (5.29%) Applications Developer
12 10 (4.81%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (4.81%) Lead
13 9 (4.33%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 9 (4.33%) Microsoft 365 Developer
14 8 (3.85%) Senior .NET Developer
14 8 (3.85%) Site Engineer
14 8 (3.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 7 (3.37%) Full-Stack C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (100.00%) .NET
2 53 (25.48%) .NET Core
3 49 (23.56%) Entity Framework
4 46 (22.12%) React
5 44 (21.15%) ASP.NET
6 39 (18.75%) REST
7 37 (17.79%) CSS
8 33 (15.87%) HTML
9 29 (13.94%) RESTful
10 23 (11.06%) AngularJS
11 21 (10.10%) ASP.NET Web API
12 19 (9.13%) WPF
13 15 (7.21%) Web Services
14 14 (6.73%) SOAP
14 14 (6.73%) WinForms
14 14 (6.73%) XML
15 12 (5.77%) ASP.NET Core
15 12 (5.77%) ASP.NET MVC
16 11 (5.29%) Microsoft Graph
17 9 (4.33%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 29 (13.94%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.29%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.33%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (4.33%) Legacy Code
4 9 (4.33%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.85%) AI Agents
5 8 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.88%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.40%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.92%) Wiki
9 3 (1.44%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.96%) FMCG
10 2 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.96%) Media Streaming
11 1 (0.48%) Derivative
11 1 (0.48%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 55 (26.44%) Windows
2 26 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.96%) Linux
3 2 (0.96%) Unix
4 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (55.29%) DevOps
2 93 (44.71%) Agile
3 81 (38.94%) CI/CD
4 48 (23.08%) AI
5 42 (20.19%) Unit Testing
6 40 (19.23%) Microservices
7 39 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
8 38 (18.27%) OOP
9 34 (16.35%) Full-Stack Development
10 33 (15.87%) Data Analysis
10 33 (15.87%) Scrum
10 33 (15.87%) Test Automation
11 28 (13.46%) Software Engineering
12 27 (12.98%) Migration
13 26 (12.50%) SDLC
14 23 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (10.58%) Containerisation
16 21 (10.10%) Change Management
16 21 (10.10%) MVC
17 20 (9.62%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 178 (85.58%) C#
2 89 (42.79%) SQL
3 43 (20.67%) JavaScript
4 39 (18.75%) T-SQL
5 36 (17.31%) PL/SQL
5 36 (17.31%) TypeScript
6 30 (14.42%) Python
7 25 (12.02%) PowerShell
8 13 (6.25%) Bicep
9 12 (5.77%) VBA
10 11 (5.29%) Kusto Query Language
10 11 (5.29%) VB
11 5 (2.40%) Java
11 5 (2.40%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.96%) C++
12 2 (0.96%) XPath
13 1 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.48%) VB6
13 1 (0.48%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 48 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 40 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 37 (17.79%) Degree
4 7 (3.37%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.96%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.48%) CISSP
7 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.48%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.48%) MBA
7 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (24.52%) QA
2 10 (4.81%) WCAG
3 9 (4.33%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.88%) NCSC
5 1 (0.48%) GDPR
5 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (20.19%) Docker
2 2 (0.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.58%) Terraform
3 2 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 60 (28.85%) Oracle
2 50 (24.04%) Microsoft
3 34 (16.35%) Citrix
4 7 (3.37%) Google
5 5 (2.40%) OpenText
5 5 (2.40%) Sitecore
6 4 (1.92%) OpenLink
7 2 (0.96%) Adobe
7 2 (0.96%) Databricks
7 2 (0.96%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.48%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.48%) BMC
8 1 (0.48%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.48%) Okta
8 1 (0.48%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.48%) Remedy
8 1 (0.48%) SAP
8 1 (0.48%) Serena
8 1 (0.48%) Telerik
8 1 (0.48%) UiPath