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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 349 263
Rank change year-on-year -82 -86 +28
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 241 207 354
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.63% 0.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.05% 2.49% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 147 241
10th Percentile £400 £378 £305
25th Percentile £417 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.52%
75th Percentile £583 £550 £600
90th Percentile £668 £700 £725
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 11,739 8,318 9,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.94% 25.33% 24.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,720 5,624 6,459
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £651
90th Percentile £738 £738 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £503 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.79% -5.00% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 181 231
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £45.94 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +22.67% -10.71% +4.35%

.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 20 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 20 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 -91 216 £478 +6.22% 98
London -71 121 £525 +16.67% 35
UK excluding London -79 102 £450 -5.26% 74
Work from Home -72 51 £475 -5.00% 59
South West -3 36 £438 +16.67% 14
South East -42 28 £500 +17.65% 19
North of England -55 16 £454 -4.42% 19
Scotland -12 12 £450 -5.26% 4
Yorkshire -35 11 £451 -5.11% 7
Midlands -58 7 £463 +10.45% 9
West Midlands -55 6 £475 -6.36% 5
North West -41 4 £525 +6.60% 10
East of England -31 3 £345 -31.00% 12
East Midlands -19 1 £450 +43.77% 4
North East - 1 - - 2

.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 34 (14.11%) IIS
2 21 (8.71%) SharePoint
3 20 (8.30%) Confluence
4 14 (5.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (4.15%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (2.07%) Appian
6 5 (2.07%) Camunda
7 4 (1.66%) 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 15 (6.22%) 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 (2.90%) 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 (56.85%) Azure
2 68 (28.22%) Azure DevOps
3 42 (17.43%) GitHub
4 29 (12.03%) AWS
4 29 (12.03%) Azure Monitor
4 29 (12.03%) Entra ID
5 22 (9.13%) Azure App Service
5 22 (9.13%) Azure Key Vault
5 22 (9.13%) GitHub Actions
5 22 (9.13%) PaaS
6 20 (8.30%) Azure Service Bus
7 14 (5.81%) Azure AKS
8 13 (5.39%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (4.56%) Serverless
10 9 (3.73%) Azure WebJobs
10 9 (3.73%) Power Platform
11 8 (3.32%) Azure Functions
11 8 (3.32%) IaaS
12 7 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (2.90%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.98%) 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 (49.38%) SQL Server
2 32 (13.28%) Oracle Database
3 21 (8.71%) Relational Database
4 14 (5.81%) Azure SQL Database
5 13 (5.39%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (4.56%) Geospatial Data
7 10 (4.15%) NoSQL
7 10 (4.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (3.32%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.66%) DocumentDB
10 4 (1.66%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.66%) MySQL
10 4 (1.66%) Power BI
10 4 (1.66%) 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%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 52 (21.58%) Git
2 23 (9.54%) JIRA
3 21 (8.71%) Visual Studio
4 14 (5.81%) MSI
5 10 (4.15%) NUnit
6 6 (2.49%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.07%) GitLab
7 5 (2.07%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.66%) Jenkins
8 4 (1.66%) JetBrains Rider
8 4 (1.66%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (1.24%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.24%) Selenium
10 2 (0.83%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.83%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (0.83%) Moq
10 2 (0.83%) MSTest
10 2 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.83%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 57 (23.65%) Finance
2 56 (23.24%) Social Skills
3 29 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.71%) Banking
5 19 (7.88%) Public Sector
6 4 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.66%) 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
1 153 (63.49%) Developer
2 64 (26.56%) .NET Developer
3 55 (22.82%) C# Developer
4 36 (14.94%) Architect
5 27 (11.20%) Senior
6 26 (10.79%) Full-Stack Developer
7 24 (9.96%) C# .NET Developer
8 22 (9.13%) Solutions Architect
9 21 (8.71%) Senior Developer
10 15 (6.22%) Azure Developer
10 15 (6.22%) Lead
11 11 (4.56%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 11 (4.56%) Software Developer
12 10 (4.15%) Applications Architect
12 10 (4.15%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (4.15%) Senior .NET Developer
13 8 (3.32%) Site Engineer
13 8 (3.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 8 (3.32%) Software Engineer
14 7 (2.90%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (100.00%) .NET
2 72 (29.88%) REST
3 61 (25.31%) .NET Core
4 54 (22.41%) Entity Framework
5 48 (19.92%) ASP.NET
6 39 (16.18%) React
6 39 (16.18%) RESTful
7 34 (14.11%) Terraform
8 30 (12.45%) CSS
9 28 (11.62%) HTML
10 26 (10.79%) WPF
11 25 (10.37%) AngularJS
12 24 (9.96%) Web Services
13 23 (9.54%) SOAP
14 22 (9.13%) XML
15 20 (8.30%) ASP.NET Web API
16 16 (6.64%) WinForms
17 14 (5.81%) ASP.NET Core
17 14 (5.81%) CSS3
17 14 (5.81%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 49 (20.33%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.37%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (7.05%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (6.64%) Onboarding
5 14 (5.81%) Legacy Code
6 13 (5.39%) Product Ownership
7 12 (4.98%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (3.32%) AI Agents
9 8 (3.32%) PKI
9 8 (3.32%) Wiki
10 5 (2.07%) Data Structures
10 5 (2.07%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (2.07%) LIMS
10 5 (2.07%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.66%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 3 (1.24%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 69 (28.63%) Windows
2 28 (11.62%) 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
1 139 (57.68%) DevOps
2 101 (41.91%) Agile
3 99 (41.08%) CI/CD
4 56 (23.24%) AI
5 51 (21.16%) OOP
6 49 (20.33%) Scrum
7 48 (19.92%) Microservices
8 45 (18.67%) Migration
8 45 (18.67%) Test Automation
9 44 (18.26%) Full-Stack Development
10 43 (17.84%) SDLC
11 39 (16.18%) Unit Testing
12 33 (13.69%) Disaster Recovery
12 33 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (13.69%) Software Engineering
13 32 (13.28%) Deployment Automation
14 31 (12.86%) OO
15 29 (12.03%) Data Analysis
16 26 (10.79%) Root Cause Analysis
17 25 (10.37%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 201 (83.40%) C#
2 98 (40.66%) SQL
3 58 (24.07%) JavaScript
4 41 (17.01%) TypeScript
5 40 (16.60%) T-SQL
6 37 (15.35%) PowerShell
7 35 (14.52%) PL/SQL
8 34 (14.11%) Python
9 22 (9.13%) Bicep
10 13 (5.39%) VBA
11 11 (4.56%) VB
12 9 (3.73%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (2.49%) VB.NET
14 4 (1.66%) Java
15 3 (1.24%) C++
16 2 (0.83%) XAML
16 2 (0.83%) XPath
17 1 (0.41%) CodeQL
17 1 (0.41%) VB6
17 1 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 66 (27.39%) Security Cleared
2 52 (21.58%) SC Cleared
3 34 (14.11%) Degree
4 6 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (2.49%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.07%) 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 46 (19.09%) QA
2 14 (5.81%) Accessibility
3 13 (5.39%) WCAG
4 12 (4.98%) 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 (17.43%) Docker
2 17 (7.05%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 39 (16.18%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.41%) Istio
Vendors
1 91 (37.76%) Microsoft
2 57 (23.65%) Oracle
3 31 (12.86%) Citrix
4 6 (2.49%) BeyondTrust
4 6 (2.49%) 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
7 2 (0.83%) ServiceNow
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%) Telerik