.NET Software Engineer Contracts

.NET Software Engineer
UK

The median .NET Software Engineer daily rate in the UK is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 522 633
Rank change year-on-year +27 +111 +50
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Software Engineer 25 60 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.085% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% 0.15% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 53 75
10th Percentile £325 £458 £550
25th Percentile £450 £563 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £725 £750 £700
90th Percentile £825 £800 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 £450 £420
% change year-on-year -27.78% +7.14% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £80.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

.NET Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured .NET Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Software Engineer in the UK

.NET Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Software Engineer.

Daily rate trend for .NET Software Engineer in the UK

.NET Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Software Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Software Engineer in the UK

.NET Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Software Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for .NET Software Engineer in the UK

.NET Software Engineer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +18 20 £700 +1.82% 85
London +2 17 £700 - 42
UK excluding London +64 7 £325 -27.78% 62
Work from Home +35 7 £325 -30.67% 74
Northern Ireland - 4 £325 - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £525 - 4
North of England - 3 £525 - 25

.NET Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, .NET Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring .NET Software Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) .NET
1 25 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 24 (96.00%) C#
3 12 (48.00%) Azure
4 11 (44.00%) Front Office
5 10 (40.00%) Banking
6 9 (36.00%) Finance
7 8 (32.00%) Agile
7 8 (32.00%) SQL
7 8 (32.00%) Git
8 7 (28.00%) .NET Core
8 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
9 6 (24.00%) Windows
9 6 (24.00%) Linux
9 6 (24.00%) AWS
9 6 (24.00%) Jenkins
9 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
9 6 (24.00%) Design Patterns
10 5 (20.00%) Product Ownership
10 5 (20.00%) High Availability
10 5 (20.00%) Concurrent Programming
10 5 (20.00%) SDLC
10 5 (20.00%) DevOps
10 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
10 5 (20.00%) Subversion
10 5 (20.00%) Maven
10 5 (20.00%) Equities
10 5 (20.00%) Derivative
10 5 (20.00%) Equity Derivative
10 5 (20.00%) Wholesale Banking

.NET Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Stack
3 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.00%) Power BI
3 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Git
2 6 (24.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (20.00%) Ant
3 5 (20.00%) Maven
3 5 (20.00%) Subversion
4 2 (8.00%) JIRA
5 1 (4.00%) GitLab
5 1 (4.00%) ReSharper
5 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (44.00%) Front Office
2 10 (40.00%) Banking
3 9 (36.00%) Finance
4 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (20.00%) Wholesale Banking
5 4 (16.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Advertising
6 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (100.00%) .NET
2 7 (28.00%) .NET Core
3 3 (12.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (8.00%) Entity Framework
4 2 (8.00%) React
5 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET
5 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (4.00%) AWS CDK
5 1 (4.00%) Blazor
5 1 (4.00%) D3.js
5 1 (4.00%) Dapper ORM
5 1 (4.00%) HTML
5 1 (4.00%) htmx
5 1 (4.00%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (4.00%) REST
5 1 (4.00%) RESTful
5 1 (4.00%) WCF
5 1 (4.00%) WinForms
5 1 (4.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Derivative
1 5 (20.00%) Equities
1 5 (20.00%) Equity Derivative
1 5 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (16.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (8.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (8.00%) NHS
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.00%) TWAP
4 1 (4.00%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Linux
1 6 (24.00%) Windows
2 5 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (32.00%) Agile
3 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (24.00%) Design Patterns
4 5 (20.00%) Concurrent Programming
4 5 (20.00%) DevOps
4 5 (20.00%) High Availability
4 5 (20.00%) OO
4 5 (20.00%) OOA/OOD
4 5 (20.00%) SDLC
5 4 (16.00%) Microservices
5 4 (16.00%) Unit Testing
6 3 (12.00%) Code Quality
6 3 (12.00%) Event-Driven
6 3 (12.00%) Low Latency
6 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (8.00%) Clean Code
7 2 (8.00%) Containerisation
7 2 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (8.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 24 (96.00%) C#
2 8 (32.00%) SQL
3 4 (16.00%) Bicep
4 3 (12.00%) Python
5 1 (4.00%) C++
5 1 (4.00%) Go
5 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.00%) VB
5 1 (4.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) Degree
1 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (4.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Databricks