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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 369 260
Rank change year-on-year -88 -109 +13
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 242 188 352
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.57% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.05% 2.19% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 128 238
10th Percentile £385 £344 £304
25th Percentile £413 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £588 £591 £617
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £463 £488
% change year-on-year +1.62% -5.13% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 6
10th Percentile - £27.00 £17.99
25th Percentile - £53.06 £33.75
Median hourly rate £46.80 £66.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.62% -16.88% +14.29%
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 11,832 8,601 9,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.68% 25.97% 24.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,764 5,716 6,059
10th Percentile £380 £357 £355
25th Percentile £440 £413 £425
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% -3.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 293 188 181
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.18 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.72 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.15% -21.97% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.60 £74.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.67% -15.38% +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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -84 198 £500 +5.26% 223
London -58 123 £575 +17.95% 101
UK excluding London -79 84 £470 +1.62% 135
Work from Home -57 60 £470 -1.05% 112
South West -9 22 £470 +25.33% 14
South East -59 22 £500 +14.29% 34
Scotland -13 16 £450 -5.26% 9
North of England -73 15 £436 -8.16% 41
Yorkshire -23 11 £425 -10.53% 20
East of England -37 5 £345 -31.00% 16
West Midlands -50 4 £500 +23.08% 10
Midlands -52 4 £500 +21.21% 12
North West -54 3 £525 +6.60% 19
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 23 (9.50%) IIS
2 20 (8.26%) Confluence
3 11 (4.55%) SharePoint
4 10 (4.13%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (2.07%) Appian
5 5 (2.07%) Camunda
5 5 (2.07%) CMS
5 5 (2.07%) nginx
6 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.83%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.41%) SAS
8 1 (0.41%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 14 (5.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (5.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.07%) OpenText MBPM
2 5 (2.07%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.83%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.41%) Findur
4 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.41%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.41%) SDL Web 8
4 1 (0.41%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 132 (54.55%) Azure
2 71 (29.34%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (13.22%) GitHub
4 29 (11.98%) AWS
5 21 (8.68%) Entra ID
6 16 (6.61%) Azure App Service
7 14 (5.79%) Azure AKS
7 14 (5.79%) Azure Key Vault
8 13 (5.37%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (5.37%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (5.37%) PaaS
9 12 (4.96%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (4.55%) Power Platform
11 10 (4.13%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (3.72%) Azure API Management
12 9 (3.72%) IaaS
12 9 (3.72%) Serverless
13 8 (3.31%) Azure Functions
14 7 (2.89%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (2.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.55%) Internet
2 5 (2.07%) HTTP
3 4 (1.65%) OpenVPN
3 4 (1.65%) VPN
4 2 (0.83%) Intranet
4 2 (0.83%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.41%) DHCP
5 1 (0.41%) DNS
5 1 (0.41%) Firewall
5 1 (0.41%) LAN
5 1 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.41%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (42.98%) SQL Server
2 27 (11.16%) Oracle Database
3 24 (9.92%) Relational Database
4 18 (7.44%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (6.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (4.55%) Geospatial Data
6 11 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (3.31%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.31%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (2.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.07%) MySQL
10 4 (1.65%) Db2
10 4 (1.65%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.65%) Power BI
11 3 (1.24%) DocumentDB
11 3 (1.24%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 60 (24.79%) Git
2 23 (9.50%) JIRA
3 22 (9.09%) Visual Studio
4 13 (5.37%) MSI
5 12 (4.96%) Jenkins
6 11 (4.55%) GitLab
7 9 (3.72%) TeamCity
8 8 (3.31%) NUnit
9 6 (2.48%) Bitbucket
9 6 (2.48%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (1.65%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.65%) JetBrains Rider
11 3 (1.24%) Claude Code
11 3 (1.24%) MSTest
11 3 (1.24%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (1.24%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.24%) Selenium
11 3 (1.24%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.83%) Fiddler
12 2 (0.83%) JMeter
General
1 58 (23.97%) Social Skills
2 48 (19.83%) Finance
3 32 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.92%) Public Sector
5 20 (8.26%) Banking
6 4 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.65%) Marketing
6 4 (1.65%) Retail
7 3 (1.24%) Front Office
7 3 (1.24%) Law
7 3 (1.24%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.24%) Police
8 2 (0.83%) Automotive
8 2 (0.83%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.83%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.41%) Back Office
9 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 140 (57.85%) Developer
2 56 (23.14%) .NET Developer
3 47 (19.42%) C# Developer
4 39 (16.12%) Senior
5 37 (15.29%) Architect
6 26 (10.74%) Senior Developer
7 25 (10.33%) Full-Stack Developer
8 21 (8.68%) C# .NET Developer
8 21 (8.68%) Lead
9 19 (7.85%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (6.61%) Applications Architect
10 16 (6.61%) Senior .NET Developer
11 11 (4.55%) Software Developer
12 10 (4.13%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 9 (3.72%) Lead Developer
13 9 (3.72%) React Developer
14 7 (2.89%) Applications Developer
14 7 (2.89%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 7 (2.89%) Support Engineer
15 6 (2.48%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 242 (100.00%) .NET
2 77 (31.82%) REST
3 73 (30.17%) .NET Core
4 70 (28.93%) Entity Framework
5 51 (21.07%) ASP.NET
6 44 (18.18%) React
7 40 (16.53%) RESTful
8 39 (16.12%) WPF
9 34 (14.05%) Terraform
10 31 (12.81%) AngularJS
10 31 (12.81%) CSS
10 31 (12.81%) HTML
11 28 (11.57%) XML
12 27 (11.16%) ASP.NET Web API
13 21 (8.68%) Web Services
14 16 (6.61%) SOAP
14 16 (6.61%) WinForms
15 15 (6.20%) ASP.NET Core
15 15 (6.20%) Vue
16 13 (5.37%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 45 (18.60%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.85%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (6.61%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (6.61%) Onboarding
4 14 (5.79%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.55%) Legacy Code
6 10 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (3.31%) Legacy Applications
7 8 (3.31%) PKI
7 8 (3.31%) Wiki
8 7 (2.89%) AI Agents
8 7 (2.89%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (2.89%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.48%) LIMS
10 5 (2.07%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 3 (1.24%) Data Centre
13 2 (0.83%) FMCG
13 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 67 (27.69%) Windows
2 19 (7.85%) Windows Server
3 10 (4.13%) Linux
4 2 (0.83%) Unix
5 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (56.61%) DevOps
2 106 (43.80%) CI/CD
3 105 (43.39%) Agile
4 56 (23.14%) AI
4 56 (23.14%) Scrum
5 53 (21.90%) Test Automation
6 51 (21.07%) SDLC
7 49 (20.25%) Migration
7 49 (20.25%) OOP
8 47 (19.42%) Full-Stack Development
8 47 (19.42%) Microservices
9 42 (17.36%) Deployment Automation
10 40 (16.53%) Software Engineering
11 38 (15.70%) OO
12 37 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
13 34 (14.05%) Unit Testing
14 30 (12.40%) SOLID
15 28 (11.57%) Code Quality
16 27 (11.16%) MVC
17 26 (10.74%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 200 (82.64%) C#
2 94 (38.84%) SQL
3 69 (28.51%) JavaScript
4 45 (18.60%) TypeScript
5 41 (16.94%) Python
6 31 (12.81%) T-SQL
7 27 (11.16%) PL/SQL
8 22 (9.09%) PowerShell
9 20 (8.26%) Bicep
10 12 (4.96%) VBA
11 11 (4.55%) VB
12 7 (2.89%) VB.NET
13 4 (1.65%) Java
13 4 (1.65%) XAML
14 3 (1.24%) Groovy
15 2 (0.83%) Bash
15 2 (0.83%) C++
15 2 (0.83%) CodeQL
15 2 (0.83%) VB6
15 2 (0.83%) XPath
Qualifications
1 54 (22.31%) Security Cleared
2 39 (16.12%) SC Cleared
3 32 (13.22%) Degree
4 8 (3.31%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.48%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 4 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.65%) PhD
8 3 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.83%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (17.36%) QA
2 21 (8.68%) Accessibility
3 13 (5.37%) WCAG
4 11 (4.55%) NCSC
5 6 (2.48%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 6 (2.48%) GMP
5 6 (2.48%) GxP
5 6 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 3 (1.24%) SLA
7 1 (0.41%) GDPR
System Software
1 45 (18.60%) Docker
2 18 (7.44%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (14.88%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.48%) Kibana
3 3 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.41%) Control-M
5 1 (0.41%) Istio
Vendors
1 87 (35.95%) Microsoft
2 48 (19.83%) Oracle
3 25 (10.33%) Citrix
4 6 (2.48%) BeyondTrust
4 6 (2.48%) Okta
4 6 (2.48%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.07%) OpenText
6 4 (1.65%) IBM
7 3 (1.24%) Sitecore
7 3 (1.24%) Snow
7 3 (1.24%) Telerik
7 3 (1.24%) UiPath
7 3 (1.24%) WSO2
8 2 (0.83%) CyberArk
8 2 (0.83%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.83%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.83%) Syncfusion
8 2 (0.83%) Temenos
9 1 (0.41%) SAP
9 1 (0.41%) Siebel