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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 436 334 297
Rank change year-on-year -102 -37 +3
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 197 191 295
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.66% 0.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.08% 2.91% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 145 207
10th Percentile £367 - £325
25th Percentile £415 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% - -11.63%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £575
90th Percentile £649 £695 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £452 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -4.84% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £49.08 £22.73 -
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% +14.29%
75th Percentile £59.50 - £86.25
90th Percentile £62.80 - £88.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.00 £23.41 £80.00
% change year-on-year +147.76% -70.74% +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 9,479 6,553 8,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.58% 22.76% 20.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,231 4,491 6,213
10th Percentile £363 £361 £346
25th Percentile £420 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £736 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 106 250
10th Percentile £30.61 £27.45 £21.68
25th Percentile £51.25 £38.16 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.50 £68.75 £65.95
90th Percentile £79.80 £81.35 £74.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.43
% change year-on-year - +34.21% -25.49%

.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 25 May 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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -111 178 £475 - 98
London -87 111 £489 +2.89% 38
UK excluding London -89 69 £452 -4.84% 67
Work from Home -25 56 £475 -3.80% 56
South West -14 20 £438 -28.28% 8
South East -52 19 £525 +10.53% 23
Midlands -60 13 £463 -7.50% 7
West Midlands -59 11 £463 -22.17% 2
North of England -83 10 £475 +20.63% 22
Scotland -5 4 £358 -24.63% 2
North West -48 4 £650 +62.50% 14
Yorkshire -60 4 £457 +74.10% 4
East Midlands -25 2 £488 -2.50% 5
North East - 2 £475 - 4
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
East of England -32 1 - - 5

.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 30 (15.23%) IIS
2 17 (8.63%) SharePoint
3 15 (7.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.54%) Confluence
5 3 (1.52%) CMS
5 3 (1.52%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (1.02%) Appian
6 2 (1.02%) Camunda
6 2 (1.02%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (7.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.02%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.51%) InDesign
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.52%) Findur
3 2 (1.02%) OpenText MBPM
3 2 (1.02%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.02%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.51%) Endur
4 1 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.51%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.51%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 109 (55.33%) Azure
2 53 (26.90%) Azure DevOps
3 38 (19.29%) GitHub
4 27 (13.71%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (12.69%) AWS
6 22 (11.17%) Azure Monitor
6 22 (11.17%) Azure Service Bus
7 19 (9.64%) Azure Key Vault
8 15 (7.61%) Entra ID
9 14 (7.11%) Azure App Service
9 14 (7.11%) PaaS
10 12 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (5.58%) Azure WebJobs
12 9 (4.57%) Azure AKS
12 9 (4.57%) Serverless
13 8 (4.06%) Power Platform
14 7 (3.55%) Azure Logic Apps
15 6 (3.05%) Azure Functions
15 6 (3.05%) Power Automate
16 5 (2.54%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.09%) Internet
2 6 (3.05%) 3GPP
3 5 (2.54%) HTTP
4 4 (2.03%) RTCP
4 4 (2.03%) RTP
4 4 (2.03%) XCAP
5 1 (0.51%) SMTP
5 1 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (50.25%) SQL Server
2 31 (15.74%) Oracle Database
3 15 (7.61%) Relational Database
4 9 (4.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (4.57%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.03%) Power BI
8 3 (1.52%) DocumentDB
8 3 (1.52%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.02%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (1.02%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.51%) GIS
10 1 (0.51%) MS Access
10 1 (0.51%) Parquet
10 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (12.18%) Git
2 22 (11.17%) Visual Studio
3 18 (9.14%) JIRA
4 13 (6.60%) NUnit
5 5 (2.54%) MSTest
6 4 (2.03%) Jasmine
6 4 (2.03%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.03%) Karma Test Runner
6 4 (2.03%) Postman
7 3 (1.52%) GitLab
7 3 (1.52%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.52%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (1.02%) git-flow
8 2 (1.02%) JMeter
8 2 (1.02%) Moq
8 2 (1.02%) MSI
9 1 (0.51%) ClearCase
9 1 (0.51%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.51%) Selenium
9 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 51 (25.89%) Finance
2 36 (18.27%) Social Skills
3 22 (11.17%) Banking
4 12 (6.09%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.06%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.52%) Automotive
6 3 (1.52%) Police
6 3 (1.52%) Retail
6 3 (1.52%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.02%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.02%) Front Office
7 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.51%) Military
8 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 137 (69.54%) Developer
2 65 (32.99%) C# Developer
3 50 (25.38%) .NET Developer
4 25 (12.69%) Architect
5 23 (11.68%) Senior
6 20 (10.15%) C# .NET Developer
6 20 (10.15%) Full-Stack Developer
7 18 (9.14%) Solutions Architect
8 16 (8.12%) Azure Developer
8 16 (8.12%) Senior Developer
9 13 (6.60%) Software Engineer
10 12 (6.09%) Applications Developer
11 10 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (4.57%) C# Application Developer
12 9 (4.57%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 9 (4.57%) Senior .NET Developer
13 8 (4.06%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 8 (4.06%) Site Engineer
13 8 (4.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 7 (3.55%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (100.00%) .NET
2 48 (24.37%) .NET Core
3 47 (23.86%) Entity Framework
4 44 (22.34%) React
5 43 (21.83%) ASP.NET
6 30 (15.23%) REST
7 29 (14.72%) CSS
8 26 (13.20%) HTML
9 23 (11.68%) RESTful
10 21 (10.66%) AngularJS
10 21 (10.66%) ASP.NET Web API
11 18 (9.14%) WinForms
12 17 (8.63%) WPF
13 14 (7.11%) ASP.NET MVC
14 13 (6.60%) SOAP
14 13 (6.60%) Web Services
14 13 (6.60%) XML
15 12 (6.09%) ASP.NET Core
16 11 (5.58%) Microsoft Graph
17 8 (4.06%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.17%) Cloud Native
2 20 (10.15%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (5.08%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.57%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (4.57%) Legacy Code
5 8 (4.06%) AI Agents
6 7 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.54%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.03%) Wiki
10 3 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.02%) Media Streaming
12 1 (0.51%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.51%) Derivative
12 1 (0.51%) Equity Derivative
12 1 (0.51%) IoT
12 1 (0.51%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 50 (25.38%) Windows
2 28 (14.21%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.51%) Linux
3 1 (0.51%) Unix
3 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (52.28%) DevOps
2 79 (40.10%) Agile
3 75 (38.07%) CI/CD
4 42 (21.32%) Unit Testing
5 41 (20.81%) Disaster Recovery
6 40 (20.30%) AI
7 33 (16.75%) Data Analysis
8 32 (16.24%) Microservices
9 31 (15.74%) OOP
10 30 (15.23%) Test Automation
11 29 (14.72%) Full-Stack Development
12 26 (13.20%) Scrum
13 25 (12.69%) Software Engineering
14 24 (12.18%) Migration
14 24 (12.18%) SDLC
15 21 (10.66%) Change Management
15 21 (10.66%) MVC
16 20 (10.15%) Business Intelligence
16 20 (10.15%) Problem-Solving
17 18 (9.14%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 170 (86.29%) C#
2 89 (45.18%) SQL
3 41 (20.81%) T-SQL
4 37 (18.78%) PL/SQL
5 35 (17.77%) JavaScript
6 29 (14.72%) TypeScript
7 24 (12.18%) PowerShell
8 21 (10.66%) Python
9 13 (6.60%) VB
9 13 (6.60%) VBA
10 11 (5.58%) Kusto Query Language
11 8 (4.06%) Bicep
12 4 (2.03%) Java
12 4 (2.03%) VB.NET
13 2 (1.02%) C++
13 2 (1.02%) XPath
14 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.51%) VB6
14 1 (0.51%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 40 (20.30%) Security Cleared
2 33 (16.75%) Degree
3 32 (16.24%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.55%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.51%) CISSP
7 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.51%) MBA
7 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (26.40%) QA
2 4 (2.03%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.03%) WCAG
3 1 (0.51%) EMIR
3 1 (0.51%) GDPR
3 1 (0.51%) MiFID
3 1 (0.51%) NCSC
3 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (17.77%) Docker
2 2 (1.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (12.69%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.12%) Terraform
3 2 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 59 (29.95%) Oracle
2 43 (21.83%) Microsoft
3 35 (17.77%) Citrix
4 7 (3.55%) Google
5 4 (2.03%) Sitecore
6 3 (1.52%) OpenLink
6 3 (1.52%) OpenText
7 2 (1.02%) Adobe
7 2 (1.02%) Databricks
7 2 (1.02%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.02%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.51%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.51%) BMC
8 1 (0.51%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.51%) Okta
8 1 (0.51%) Remedy
8 1 (0.51%) SAP
8 1 (0.51%) Serena
8 1 (0.51%) Telerik