.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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 367 257
Rank change year-on-year -87 -110 +28
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 243 190 356
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.58% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.05% 2.24% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 132 245
10th Percentile £388 £350 £314
25th Percentile £413 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £588 £589 £613
90th Percentile £681 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £481
% change year-on-year - -6.49% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 6
10th Percentile - £27.00 £17.99
25th Percentile - £53.06 £33.75
Median hourly rate £46.80 £66.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.62% -16.88% +14.29%
75th Percentile £52.15 £67.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £55.36 - £87.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.80 £67.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -30.15% -16.25% +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 11,826 8,466 9,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.65% 25.97% 24.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,778 5,636 6,115
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 187 187
10th Percentile £28.64 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.70 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.83% -12.48% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.80 £74.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £58.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.84% -9.62% +10.53%

.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 29 September 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 14 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 29 September 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 -95 205 £500 +6.38% 189
London -61 125 £550 +15.79% 72
UK excluding London -80 88 £450 - 132
Work from Home -58 58 £475 - 108
South West -14 27 £450 +20.00% 9
South East -62 22 £500 +14.29% 30
Scotland -16 15 £450 -5.26% 10
North of England -75 14 £436 -8.16% 39
Yorkshire -36 10 £425 -10.53% 14
East of England -37 5 £345 -31.00% 13
West Midlands -47 5 £450 +5.88% 10
Midlands -48 5 £450 +10.77% 20
North West -56 3 £525 +6.60% 22
North East - 1 - - 4

.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 25 (10.29%) IIS
2 18 (7.41%) Confluence
3 13 (5.35%) SharePoint
4 10 (4.12%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (2.06%) Appian
5 5 (2.06%) Camunda
5 5 (2.06%) CMS
6 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.82%) nginx
7 2 (0.82%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.41%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 16 (6.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (4.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.06%) OpenText MBPM
2 5 (2.06%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.82%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.41%) Findur
4 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.41%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.41%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 130 (53.50%) Azure
2 66 (27.16%) Azure DevOps
3 35 (14.40%) GitHub
4 28 (11.52%) AWS
5 18 (7.41%) Entra ID
6 13 (5.35%) Azure App Service
7 12 (4.94%) Azure AKS
7 12 (4.94%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (4.94%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (4.94%) PaaS
8 11 (4.53%) Azure Key Vault
8 11 (4.53%) Azure Monitor
8 11 (4.53%) Power Platform
9 10 (4.12%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (4.12%) Serverless
10 9 (3.70%) Azure Functions
11 8 (3.29%) Power Automate
12 7 (2.88%) Azure API Management
12 7 (2.88%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (2.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.35%) Internet
2 5 (2.06%) HTTP
3 2 (0.82%) Intranet
3 2 (0.82%) 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%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.41%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.41%) VPN
4 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (43.21%) SQL Server
2 29 (11.93%) Oracle Database
3 24 (9.88%) Relational Database
4 15 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (4.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (4.53%) Geospatial Data
7 10 (4.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (3.29%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (2.88%) NoSQL
9 7 (2.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.06%) MySQL
11 4 (1.65%) Db2
11 4 (1.65%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.65%) Power BI
12 3 (1.23%) DocumentDB
12 3 (1.23%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.23%) Redis
13 2 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 57 (23.46%) Git
2 21 (8.64%) Visual Studio
3 20 (8.23%) JIRA
4 13 (5.35%) MSI
5 8 (3.29%) GitLab
5 8 (3.29%) Jenkins
5 8 (3.29%) NUnit
6 7 (2.88%) TeamCity
7 6 (2.47%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.47%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (1.65%) JetBrains Rider
9 3 (1.23%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.23%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.23%) Selenium
9 3 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.82%) git-flow
10 2 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.82%) Postman
10 2 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.82%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 55 (22.63%) Social Skills
2 52 (21.40%) Finance
3 29 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.05%) Public Sector
5 18 (7.41%) Banking
6 4 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.65%) Marketing
6 4 (1.65%) Retail
7 3 (1.23%) Automotive
7 3 (1.23%) Front Office
7 3 (1.23%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.82%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.41%) Law
9 1 (0.41%) Military
9 1 (0.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 143 (58.85%) Developer
2 61 (25.10%) .NET Developer
3 50 (20.58%) C# Developer
4 40 (16.46%) Architect
5 35 (14.40%) Senior
6 23 (9.47%) Senior Developer
7 22 (9.05%) C# .NET Developer
7 22 (9.05%) Full-Stack Developer
7 22 (9.05%) Solutions Architect
8 19 (7.82%) Lead
9 15 (6.17%) Software Developer
10 14 (5.76%) Applications Architect
10 14 (5.76%) Senior .NET Developer
11 10 (4.12%) Software Engineer
12 9 (3.70%) .NET Software Engineer
12 9 (3.70%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 9 (3.70%) Lead Developer
13 8 (3.29%) .NET Software Developer
13 8 (3.29%) React Developer
14 7 (2.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (100.00%) .NET
2 70 (28.81%) .NET Core
2 70 (28.81%) REST
3 64 (26.34%) Entity Framework
4 50 (20.58%) ASP.NET
5 38 (15.64%) RESTful
6 37 (15.23%) WPF
7 36 (14.81%) React
8 30 (12.35%) CSS
8 30 (12.35%) HTML
8 30 (12.35%) Terraform
9 29 (11.93%) AngularJS
10 28 (11.52%) XML
11 26 (10.70%) ASP.NET Web API
12 21 (8.64%) Web Services
13 18 (7.41%) WinForms
14 16 (6.58%) SOAP
15 14 (5.76%) ASP.NET Core
16 13 (5.35%) COM
16 13 (5.35%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 49 (20.16%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.82%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (7.00%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (6.58%) Onboarding
5 14 (5.76%) Product Ownership
6 11 (4.53%) AI Agents
6 11 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (4.12%) Legacy Code
8 8 (3.29%) Legacy Applications
8 8 (3.29%) PKI
8 8 (3.29%) Wiki
9 7 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (2.47%) LIMS
10 6 (2.47%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 3 (1.23%) Data Centre
13 2 (0.82%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.82%) FMCG
13 2 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 66 (27.16%) Windows
2 19 (7.82%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.47%) Linux
4 2 (0.82%) Unix
5 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (53.91%) DevOps
2 105 (43.21%) Agile
3 102 (41.98%) CI/CD
4 59 (24.28%) AI
5 54 (22.22%) Scrum
6 51 (20.99%) SDLC
7 50 (20.58%) OOP
8 49 (20.16%) Test Automation
9 47 (19.34%) Migration
10 46 (18.93%) Microservices
11 45 (18.52%) Software Engineering
12 44 (18.11%) Full-Stack Development
13 38 (15.64%) Deployment Automation
14 37 (15.23%) OO
15 34 (13.99%) Unit Testing
16 33 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
17 29 (11.93%) SOLID
18 28 (11.52%) Workflow
19 27 (11.11%) Code Quality
20 26 (10.70%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 204 (83.95%) C#
2 93 (38.27%) SQL
3 67 (27.57%) JavaScript
4 44 (18.11%) TypeScript
5 35 (14.40%) Python
6 34 (13.99%) T-SQL
7 30 (12.35%) PL/SQL
8 21 (8.64%) PowerShell
9 20 (8.23%) Bicep
10 14 (5.76%) VBA
11 13 (5.35%) VB
12 7 (2.88%) VB.NET
13 4 (1.65%) Java
13 4 (1.65%) XAML
14 2 (0.82%) C++
14 2 (0.82%) VB6
14 2 (0.82%) XPath
15 1 (0.41%) COBOL
15 1 (0.41%) JCL
15 1 (0.41%) REXX
Qualifications
1 56 (23.05%) Security Cleared
2 41 (16.87%) SC Cleared
3 34 (13.99%) Degree
4 8 (3.29%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 4 (1.65%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.65%) PhD
7 3 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.82%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (17.70%) QA
2 18 (7.41%) Accessibility
3 13 (5.35%) WCAG
4 12 (4.94%) NCSC
5 6 (2.47%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 6 (2.47%) GMP
5 6 (2.47%) GxP
5 6 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 3 (1.23%) SLA
7 1 (0.41%) GDPR
System Software
1 44 (18.11%) Docker
2 16 (6.58%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 35 (14.40%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.23%) Kibana
2 3 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.41%) Control-M
4 1 (0.41%) Istio
Vendors
1 90 (37.04%) Microsoft
2 51 (20.99%) Oracle
3 28 (11.52%) Citrix
4 6 (2.47%) BeyondTrust
4 6 (2.47%) Okta
5 5 (2.06%) OpenText
6 4 (1.65%) IBM
7 3 (1.23%) Sitecore
7 3 (1.23%) UiPath
8 2 (0.82%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.82%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.82%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.82%) Telerik
8 2 (0.82%) Temenos
8 2 (0.82%) WSO2
9 1 (0.41%) Foundry
9 1 (0.41%) JDA
9 1 (0.41%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.41%) SAP
9 1 (0.41%) Syncfusion