.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 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 270 278
Rank change year-on-year -95 +8 -64
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 196 316 421
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.87% 0.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.50% 3.99% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 216 314
10th Percentile £355 £325 £385
25th Percentile £393 £385 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £542 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.40% +3.28% -4.55%
75th Percentile £594 £627 £647
90th Percentile £695 £738 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £475
% change year-on-year -3.55% +3.68% -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 13
10th Percentile £63.63 £16.38 -
25th Percentile £65.88 £16.99 £50.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £17.99 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +272.43% -74.30% +9.99%
75th Percentile - £19.00 -
90th Percentile - £19.60 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £17.99 £70.00
% change year-on-year +272.43% -74.30% +13.82%

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 7,853 7,917 10,518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.90% 21.80% 22.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,206 5,015 7,535
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £549 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.94% -0.26% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £723 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 119 187
10th Percentile £29.60 £23.44 £36.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £40.63 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.09 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -3.85% +19.13% -16.06%

.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 3 November 2025.

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 3 November 2025. 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 -104 174 £475 -13.64% 204
London -76 97 £475 -17.39% 58
UK excluding London -53 74 £475 -3.55% 174
Work from Home -59 57 £475 -2.76% 157
East of England -12 18 £500 +72.41% 22
South East +6 17 £438 -16.67% 64
Midlands -25 14 £425 -25.04% 19
North of England -49 14 £475 -4.04% 31
East Midlands -5 9 £550 +29.41% 5
North West -32 8 £493 +3.68% 21
Yorkshire -32 6 £475 -15.82% 8
Scotland -4 5 £475 +10.72% 4
West Midlands -37 5 £406 -28.35% 14
South West -1 4 £375 -31.51% 25
Wales +5 3 £519 - 10

.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 13 (6.63%) IIS
2 9 (4.59%) Confluence
3 8 (4.08%) CMS
4 7 (3.57%) Umbraco
5 4 (2.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (2.04%) Headless CMS
5 4 (2.04%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (1.53%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (1.53%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.51%) Appian
7 1 (0.51%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.51%) Camunda
7 1 (0.51%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 24 (12.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (6.12%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.55%) Fidessa
3 4 (2.04%) thinkFolio
4 3 (1.53%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (1.02%) OpenText MBPM
5 2 (1.02%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.51%) Eikon
6 1 (0.51%) Maximo
6 1 (0.51%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 77 (39.29%) Azure
2 35 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (10.20%) GitHub
4 15 (7.65%) AWS
4 15 (7.65%) Serverless
5 12 (6.12%) Power Platform
6 10 (5.10%) Azure Service Bus
7 9 (4.59%) npm
8 8 (4.08%) Azure Functions
8 8 (4.08%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (3.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (3.06%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (3.06%) Entra ID
10 6 (3.06%) Kontent
11 5 (2.55%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.55%) Power Automate
11 5 (2.55%) PowerApps
12 4 (2.04%) Contentful
13 3 (1.53%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.61%) Internet
2 2 (1.02%) HTTP
2 2 (1.02%) SSL
3 1 (0.51%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (41.84%) SQL Server
2 26 (13.27%) Oracle Database
3 10 (5.10%) Relational Database
4 8 (4.08%) Power BI
5 3 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.02%) MySQL
7 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.51%) GIS
7 1 (0.51%) Metadata
7 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.51%) Redis
7 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (13.78%) JIRA
2 26 (13.27%) Git
3 17 (8.67%) SpecFlow
4 14 (7.14%) Visual Studio
5 11 (5.61%) Artifactory
6 9 (4.59%) GitLab
7 8 (4.08%) Postman
8 6 (3.06%) Cypress.io
8 6 (3.06%) Jenkins
9 4 (2.04%) MSTest
9 4 (2.04%) Selenium
10 3 (1.53%) NUnit
11 2 (1.02%) Bitbucket
11 2 (1.02%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.02%) JMeter
12 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 65 (33.16%) Finance
2 59 (30.10%) Social Skills
3 22 (11.22%) Public Sector
4 19 (9.69%) Banking
5 16 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.08%) Front Office
6 8 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.55%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.55%) Legal
9 4 (2.04%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.02%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.02%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.02%) Retail
11 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.51%) Back Office
11 1 (0.51%) Billing
11 1 (0.51%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.51%) Law
11 1 (0.51%) Police
Job Titles
1 132 (67.35%) Developer
2 58 (29.59%) .NET Developer
3 55 (28.06%) C# Developer
4 32 (16.33%) C# .NET Developer
5 26 (13.27%) Angular Developer
5 26 (13.27%) Senior
6 24 (12.24%) C# WPF Developer
6 24 (12.24%) Full-Stack Developer
6 24 (12.24%) WPF Developer
7 22 (11.22%) Senior Developer
8 16 (8.16%) Software Engineer
9 15 (7.65%) Architect
10 10 (5.10%) Senior .NET Developer
11 9 (4.59%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 9 (4.59%) Senior C# Developer
12 8 (4.08%) C# WCF Developer
12 8 (4.08%) Lead
12 8 (4.08%) WCF Developer
13 7 (3.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 7 (3.57%) Full-Stack C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (100.00%) .NET
2 66 (33.67%) Entity Framework
3 55 (28.06%) AngularJS
4 43 (21.94%) ASP.NET
4 43 (21.94%) RESTful
5 42 (21.43%) CSS
5 42 (21.43%) HTML
6 40 (20.41%) REST
7 36 (18.37%) React
8 34 (17.35%) .NET Core
9 28 (14.29%) WPF
10 25 (12.76%) NHibernate
11 23 (11.73%) Playwright
12 16 (8.16%) ASP.NET MVC
12 16 (8.16%) Vue
13 13 (6.63%) SOAP
14 11 (5.61%) jQuery
15 10 (5.10%) ASP.NET Core
15 10 (5.10%) Node.js
15 10 (5.10%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (6.63%) Mobile App
3 11 (5.61%) Algorithms
3 11 (5.61%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (5.61%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.10%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.10%) Fixed Income
4 10 (5.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (4.59%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.57%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.06%) Hedge funds
8 5 (2.55%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.04%) Derivative
10 3 (1.53%) N-Tier
11 2 (1.02%) Client/Server
11 2 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.02%) Low-Code
11 2 (1.02%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 33 (16.84%) Windows
2 10 (5.10%) Linux
3 3 (1.53%) Android
4 2 (1.02%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.02%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.51%) AIX
5 1 (0.51%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (41.33%) Agile
2 64 (32.65%) DevOps
3 63 (32.14%) Microservices
4 59 (30.10%) CI/CD
5 55 (28.06%) Full-Stack Development
6 47 (23.98%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (17.86%) Software Engineering
8 28 (14.29%) Clean Code
8 28 (14.29%) MVC
8 28 (14.29%) Scrum
9 27 (13.78%) Design Patterns
9 27 (13.78%) TDD
10 25 (12.76%) Containerisation
10 25 (12.76%) OOP
10 25 (12.76%) Unit Testing
11 22 (11.22%) Test Automation
12 20 (10.20%) API Development
13 19 (9.69%) SDLC
14 18 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (8.67%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 163 (83.16%) C#
2 94 (47.96%) SQL
3 63 (32.14%) JavaScript
4 28 (14.29%) PL/SQL
5 24 (12.24%) VBA
6 23 (11.73%) VB
7 22 (11.22%) VB.NET
8 18 (9.18%) TypeScript
9 15 (7.65%) T-SQL
10 9 (4.59%) C++
11 8 (4.08%) PowerShell
12 7 (3.57%) Python
13 5 (2.55%) Java
14 2 (1.02%) Bash
14 2 (1.02%) Bicep
14 2 (1.02%) PHP
15 1 (0.51%) Korn
15 1 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.51%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.51%) Swift
Qualifications
1 17 (8.67%) Degree
2 15 (7.65%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.59%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.06%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.53%) PMP
7 2 (1.02%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.69%) QA
2 12 (6.12%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.06%) WCAG
4 5 (2.55%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.55%) MiFID
5 2 (1.02%) GDPR
6 1 (0.51%) EMIR
6 1 (0.51%) NCSC
6 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (15.31%) Docker
2 4 (2.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (7.65%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.06%) Terraform
3 2 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.51%) SCOM
Vendors
1 53 (27.04%) Microsoft
2 42 (21.43%) Oracle
3 9 (4.59%) Citrix
4 7 (3.57%) Sitecore
5 4 (2.04%) Adobe
5 4 (2.04%) Bloomberg
5 4 (2.04%) Murex
5 4 (2.04%) Portware
6 3 (1.53%) FactSet
6 3 (1.53%) Marketo
6 3 (1.53%) OneTrust
6 3 (1.53%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.02%) GoldenSource
7 2 (1.02%) Okta
7 2 (1.02%) OpenText
8 1 (0.51%) CQG
8 1 (0.51%) ESRI
8 1 (0.51%) Google
8 1 (0.51%) Telerik
8 1 (0.51%) VMware