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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 445 351 260
Rank change year-on-year -94 -91 +39
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 242 207 351
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.63% 0.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.05% 2.47% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 146 240
10th Percentile £400 £378 £305
25th Percentile £415 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.52%
75th Percentile £585 £550 £600
90th Percentile £668 £700 £705
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 6
10th Percentile £47.37 £25.93 £17.99
25th Percentile £48.23 £27.00 £33.75
Median hourly rate £50.90 £66.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.88% -17.50% +51.03%
75th Percentile £54.83 £67.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £56.43 - £87.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.90 £67.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -24.03% -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 11,812 8,378 9,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.92% 25.40% 24.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,771 5,661 6,447
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £631 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 292 185 211
10th Percentile £30.00 £30.45 £23.80
25th Percentile £49.75 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.43
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -12.10% -2.49%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £79.48 £74.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +22.67% -12.00% +4.17%

.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 23 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 23 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 -85 216 £478 +2.80% 88
London -78 123 £525 +12.90% 29
UK excluding London -69 100 £450 -5.26% 70
Work from Home -65 52 £475 -5.00% 46
South West -5 36 £438 +16.67% 14
South East -54 27 £500 +17.65% 15
North of England -59 15 £454 -4.42% 17
Scotland -11 12 £450 -5.26% 4
Yorkshire -34 11 £451 -5.11% 6
Midlands -48 7 £463 +10.45% 11
West Midlands -51 6 £475 -6.36% 5
East of England -30 3 £345 -31.00% 10
North West -48 3 £525 +6.60% 8
East Midlands -17 1 £450 +43.77% 6
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 35 (14.46%) IIS
2 21 (8.68%) SharePoint
3 19 (7.85%) Confluence
4 14 (5.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (4.13%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (2.07%) Appian
6 5 (2.07%) Camunda
7 4 (1.65%) CMS
8 2 (0.83%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.41%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 16 (6.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.83%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.41%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (2.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.07%) OpenText MBPM
2 5 (2.07%) Oracle BPM
3 3 (1.24%) Findur
4 1 (0.41%) Endur
4 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.41%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.41%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 137 (56.61%) Azure
2 67 (27.69%) Azure DevOps
3 42 (17.36%) GitHub
4 29 (11.98%) AWS
5 28 (11.57%) Azure Monitor
5 28 (11.57%) Entra ID
6 22 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (8.68%) Azure App Service
7 21 (8.68%) Azure Key Vault
7 21 (8.68%) PaaS
8 19 (7.85%) Azure Service Bus
9 13 (5.37%) Azure AKS
9 13 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (4.55%) Serverless
11 9 (3.72%) Azure WebJobs
11 9 (3.72%) Power Platform
12 8 (3.31%) Azure Functions
13 7 (2.89%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (2.89%) IaaS
13 7 (2.89%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.37%) Internet
2 5 (2.07%) HTTP
3 2 (0.83%) Intranet
3 2 (0.83%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.41%) DHCP
4 1 (0.41%) DNS
4 1 (0.41%) Firewall
4 1 (0.41%) LAN
4 1 (0.41%) SMTP
4 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.41%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (49.17%) SQL Server
2 33 (13.64%) Oracle Database
3 21 (8.68%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.37%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (4.55%) Geospatial Data
6 10 (4.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (3.72%) NoSQL
8 8 (3.31%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.65%) DocumentDB
10 4 (1.65%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.65%) MySQL
10 4 (1.65%) Power BI
10 4 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.24%) Redis
12 2 (0.83%) ClickHouse
12 2 (0.83%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.83%) Db2
12 2 (0.83%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 50 (20.66%) Git
2 22 (9.09%) JIRA
3 21 (8.68%) Visual Studio
4 14 (5.79%) MSI
5 10 (4.13%) NUnit
6 6 (2.48%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.07%) GitLab
7 5 (2.07%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.65%) Jenkins
8 4 (1.65%) JetBrains Rider
8 4 (1.65%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (1.24%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.24%) Selenium
10 2 (0.83%) Fiddler
10 2 (0.83%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.83%) JMeter
10 2 (0.83%) Moq
10 2 (0.83%) MSTest
10 2 (0.83%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 57 (23.55%) Finance
2 55 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 28 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.68%) Banking
5 19 (7.85%) Public Sector
6 4 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.65%) Retail
7 3 (1.24%) Automotive
7 3 (1.24%) Front Office
7 3 (1.24%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.24%) Marketing
8 2 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.83%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.83%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.41%) Military
9 1 (0.41%) Police
9 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 152 (62.81%) Developer
2 63 (26.03%) .NET Developer
3 56 (23.14%) C# Developer
4 37 (15.29%) Architect
5 27 (11.16%) Senior
6 25 (10.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 24 (9.92%) C# .NET Developer
8 22 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
9 20 (8.26%) Senior Developer
10 15 (6.20%) Lead
11 14 (5.79%) Azure Developer
12 11 (4.55%) Applications Architect
12 11 (4.55%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 11 (4.55%) Software Developer
13 10 (4.13%) Azure Engineer
14 9 (3.72%) Senior .NET Developer
15 8 (3.31%) Site Engineer
15 8 (3.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 8 (3.31%) Software Engineer
16 7 (2.89%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 242 (100.00%) .NET
2 70 (28.93%) REST
3 60 (24.79%) .NET Core
4 53 (21.90%) Entity Framework
5 48 (19.83%) ASP.NET
6 38 (15.70%) RESTful
7 37 (15.29%) React
8 32 (13.22%) Terraform
9 30 (12.40%) CSS
10 28 (11.57%) HTML
11 27 (11.16%) WPF
12 25 (10.33%) AngularJS
13 24 (9.92%) Web Services
14 23 (9.50%) SOAP
15 22 (9.09%) XML
16 20 (8.26%) ASP.NET Web API
17 17 (7.02%) WinForms
18 14 (5.79%) ASP.NET Core
18 14 (5.79%) CSS3
18 14 (5.79%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 48 (19.83%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.33%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (6.61%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (6.61%) Onboarding
4 14 (5.79%) Legacy Code
5 13 (5.37%) Product Ownership
6 11 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (3.31%) AI Agents
8 8 (3.31%) PKI
8 8 (3.31%) Wiki
9 5 (2.07%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.07%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (2.07%) LIMS
9 5 (2.07%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (1.24%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 70 (28.93%) Windows
2 28 (11.57%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.07%) Linux
4 2 (0.83%) Unix
5 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (57.02%) DevOps
2 102 (42.15%) Agile
3 97 (40.08%) CI/CD
4 57 (23.55%) AI
5 52 (21.49%) OOP
6 50 (20.66%) Scrum
7 47 (19.42%) Microservices
8 45 (18.60%) Migration
9 44 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
9 44 (18.18%) SDLC
10 43 (17.77%) Test Automation
11 39 (16.12%) Unit Testing
12 34 (14.05%) Disaster Recovery
13 33 (13.64%) Software Engineering
14 32 (13.22%) Deployment Automation
14 32 (13.22%) OO
14 32 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
15 30 (12.40%) Data Analysis
16 26 (10.74%) Root Cause Analysis
17 25 (10.33%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 201 (83.06%) C#
2 98 (40.50%) SQL
3 59 (24.38%) JavaScript
4 41 (16.94%) T-SQL
4 41 (16.94%) TypeScript
5 36 (14.88%) PL/SQL
5 36 (14.88%) PowerShell
6 33 (13.64%) Python
7 21 (8.68%) Bicep
8 14 (5.79%) VBA
9 12 (4.96%) VB
10 9 (3.72%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (2.48%) VB.NET
12 4 (1.65%) Java
13 3 (1.24%) C++
14 2 (0.83%) XAML
14 2 (0.83%) XPath
15 1 (0.41%) Bash
15 1 (0.41%) CodeQL
15 1 (0.41%) VB6
Qualifications
1 66 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 52 (21.49%) SC Cleared
3 34 (14.05%) Degree
4 6 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (2.48%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.65%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.83%) PhD
8 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (19.42%) QA
2 14 (5.79%) Accessibility
3 13 (5.37%) WCAG
4 12 (4.96%) NCSC
5 5 (2.07%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 5 (2.07%) GMP
5 5 (2.07%) GxP
5 5 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 3 (1.24%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (17.36%) Docker
2 16 (6.61%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 39 (16.12%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.41%) Istio
Vendors
1 91 (37.60%) Microsoft
2 58 (23.97%) Oracle
3 32 (13.22%) Citrix
4 6 (2.48%) BeyondTrust
4 6 (2.48%) Okta
5 5 (2.07%) OpenText
6 3 (1.24%) IBM
6 3 (1.24%) OpenLink
6 3 (1.24%) Sitecore
6 3 (1.24%) UiPath
7 2 (0.83%) Databricks
8 1 (0.41%) Adobe
8 1 (0.41%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.41%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.41%) F5
8 1 (0.41%) Google
8 1 (0.41%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.41%) SAP
8 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.41%) Telerik