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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 327 293
Rank change year-on-year -105 -34 +16
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 201 198 306
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.68% 0.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.09% 2.97% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 152 212
10th Percentile £363 - £325
25th Percentile £415 £385 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £474 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% -0.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £573 £551 £575
90th Percentile £671 £688 £686
UK excluding London median daily rate £452 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -4.84% +5.56% -10.00%
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% +14.29%
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% +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 9,605 6,671 9,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.63% 22.90% 21.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,310 4,572 6,280
10th Percentile £363 £360 £350
25th Percentile £421 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £521 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% -3.07% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 117 257
10th Percentile £31.03 £29.18 £21.89
25th Percentile £52.00 £39.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.15 £74.46
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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -94 183 £475 - 108
London -82 112 £490 +3.43% 39
UK excluding London -68 72 £452 -4.84% 78
Work from Home -36 57 £475 - 73
South East -54 21 £525 +10.53% 22
South West -10 20 £438 -27.08% 8
Midlands -51 13 £463 -7.50% 8
West Midlands -49 11 £463 -22.79% 3
North of England -76 11 £475 +18.75% 29
Yorkshire -57 5 £457 +74.10% 7
North West -51 4 £650 +60.00% 16
Scotland -9 3 £358 -24.63% 7
East Midlands -30 2 £488 +19.93% 5
East of England -32 2 £345 -18.82% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
North East - 2 £475 - 6

.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 (14.43%) IIS
2 17 (8.46%) SharePoint
3 15 (7.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.99%) Confluence
5 4 (1.99%) CMS
5 4 (1.99%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (1.49%) Appian
6 3 (1.49%) Camunda
6 3 (1.49%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (6.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.50%) InDesign
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.99%) Findur
2 3 (1.49%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (1.49%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.50%) Endur
4 1 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.50%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 111 (55.22%) Azure
2 51 (25.37%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (18.41%) GitHub
4 26 (12.94%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (12.44%) AWS
6 22 (10.95%) Azure Monitor
7 21 (10.45%) Azure Service Bus
8 18 (8.96%) Azure Key Vault
9 15 (7.46%) Entra ID
10 14 (6.97%) Azure App Service
10 14 (6.97%) PaaS
11 12 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (5.47%) Azure WebJobs
13 9 (4.48%) Azure AKS
14 8 (3.98%) Power Platform
14 8 (3.98%) Serverless
15 7 (3.48%) Azure Logic Apps
16 6 (2.99%) Azure Functions
16 6 (2.99%) Power Automate
17 5 (2.49%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.47%) Internet
2 6 (2.99%) 3GPP
3 5 (2.49%) HTTP
4 4 (1.99%) RTCP
4 4 (1.99%) RTP
4 4 (1.99%) XCAP
5 1 (0.50%) SMTP
5 1 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (49.25%) SQL Server
2 32 (15.92%) Oracle Database
3 15 (7.46%) Relational Database
4 9 (4.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (3.98%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.99%) Power BI
9 3 (1.49%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (1.49%) DocumentDB
9 3 (1.49%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (1.00%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.50%) GIS
11 1 (0.50%) MS Access
11 1 (0.50%) MySQL
11 1 (0.50%) Parquet
11 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (12.44%) Git
2 20 (9.95%) JIRA
2 20 (9.95%) Visual Studio
3 12 (5.97%) NUnit
4 5 (2.49%) MSTest
5 4 (1.99%) Jasmine
5 4 (1.99%) Karma Test Runner
5 4 (1.99%) Postman
6 3 (1.49%) GitLab
6 3 (1.49%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.49%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.00%) git-flow
7 2 (1.00%) JMeter
7 2 (1.00%) Moq
7 2 (1.00%) MSI
8 1 (0.50%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.50%) TestRail
8 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Coded UI
8 1 (0.50%) webpack
General
1 52 (25.87%) Finance
2 40 (19.90%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.95%) Banking
4 10 (4.98%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.99%) Retail
6 4 (1.99%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.49%) Automotive
7 3 (1.49%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.49%) Police
8 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.00%) Front Office
8 2 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.50%) Military
9 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 138 (68.66%) Developer
2 64 (31.84%) C# Developer
3 47 (23.38%) .NET Developer
4 27 (13.43%) Architect
5 22 (10.95%) Senior
6 20 (9.95%) Full-Stack Developer
7 19 (9.45%) C# .NET Developer
7 19 (9.45%) Solutions Architect
8 16 (7.96%) Azure Developer
9 15 (7.46%) Senior Developer
10 13 (6.47%) Software Engineer
11 12 (5.97%) Applications Developer
12 10 (4.98%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (4.48%) Microsoft 365 Developer
14 8 (3.98%) C# Application Developer
14 8 (3.98%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 8 (3.98%) Senior .NET Developer
14 8 (3.98%) Site Engineer
14 8 (3.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 7 (3.48%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (100.00%) .NET
2 48 (23.88%) .NET Core
2 48 (23.88%) Entity Framework
3 44 (21.89%) React
4 43 (21.39%) ASP.NET
5 31 (15.42%) REST
6 30 (14.93%) CSS
7 26 (12.94%) HTML
8 24 (11.94%) RESTful
9 22 (10.95%) AngularJS
10 20 (9.95%) ASP.NET Web API
11 16 (7.96%) WinForms
11 16 (7.96%) WPF
12 14 (6.97%) Web Services
13 13 (6.47%) SOAP
13 13 (6.47%) XML
14 12 (5.97%) ASP.NET Core
14 12 (5.97%) ASP.NET MVC
15 11 (5.47%) Microsoft Graph
16 8 (3.98%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.95%) Cloud Native
2 21 (10.45%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (4.98%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (4.48%) Legacy Code
5 8 (3.98%) AI Agents
5 8 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.49%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.99%) Wiki
9 3 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.00%) FMCG
10 2 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.00%) Media Streaming
11 1 (0.50%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.50%) Derivative
11 1 (0.50%) Equity Derivative
11 1 (0.50%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 51 (25.37%) Windows
2 27 (13.43%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.50%) Linux
3 1 (0.50%) Unix
3 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (53.23%) DevOps
2 84 (41.79%) Agile
3 75 (37.31%) CI/CD
4 44 (21.89%) AI
5 41 (20.40%) Unit Testing
6 40 (19.90%) Disaster Recovery
7 34 (16.92%) OOP
8 33 (16.42%) Data Analysis
8 33 (16.42%) Microservices
9 30 (14.93%) Test Automation
10 29 (14.43%) Scrum
11 28 (13.93%) Full-Stack Development
12 27 (13.43%) Software Engineering
13 26 (12.94%) SDLC
14 25 (12.44%) Migration
15 22 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
16 21 (10.45%) Change Management
17 20 (9.95%) MVC
18 18 (8.96%) Business Intelligence
18 18 (8.96%) OO
Programming Languages
1 173 (86.07%) C#
2 90 (44.78%) SQL
3 40 (19.90%) T-SQL
4 36 (17.91%) PL/SQL
5 35 (17.41%) JavaScript
6 29 (14.43%) TypeScript
7 24 (11.94%) PowerShell
8 21 (10.45%) Python
9 13 (6.47%) VBA
10 12 (5.97%) VB
11 11 (5.47%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (3.98%) Bicep
13 5 (2.49%) VB.NET
14 4 (1.99%) Java
15 2 (1.00%) C++
15 2 (1.00%) XPath
16 1 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.50%) VB6
16 1 (0.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 41 (20.40%) Security Cleared
2 34 (16.92%) Degree
3 33 (16.42%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.48%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.50%) CISSP
7 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.50%) MBA
7 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (25.37%) QA
2 5 (2.49%) WCAG
3 3 (1.49%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.50%) EMIR
4 1 (0.50%) GDPR
4 1 (0.50%) MiFID
4 1 (0.50%) NCSC
4 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (17.41%) Docker
2 2 (1.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (12.94%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.96%) Terraform
3 2 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 60 (29.85%) Oracle
2 44 (21.89%) Microsoft
3 35 (17.41%) Citrix
4 7 (3.48%) Google
5 4 (1.99%) OpenLink
5 4 (1.99%) OpenText
5 4 (1.99%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.00%) Adobe
6 2 (1.00%) Databricks
6 2 (1.00%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.00%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.50%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.50%) BMC
7 1 (0.50%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.50%) Okta
7 1 (0.50%) Remedy
7 1 (0.50%) SAP
7 1 (0.50%) Serena
7 1 (0.50%) Telerik
7 1 (0.50%) UiPath