.NET Software Engineer Contracts

.NET Software Engineer
UK

The median .NET Software Engineer daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 July 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 523 536 616
Rank change year-on-year +13 +80 +122
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Software Engineer 25 49 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.078% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.12% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 45 59
10th Percentile £325 £500 £550
25th Percentile £469 £563 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £685
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -8.76% +14.17%
75th Percentile £725 £750 £703
90th Percentile £825 £800 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £475 £445
% change year-on-year +2.89% +6.74% -1.11%
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 29,294 40,276 53,656
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.97% 93.01% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,671 25,908 37,253
10th Percentile £287 £285 £313
25th Percentile £400 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.13%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,326 2,804 1,565
10th Percentile £13.75 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.36 £16.65 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.45 £37.50 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -29.47% -14.05% +74.52%
75th Percentile £55.25 £62.96 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £74.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% - +100.00%

.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 6 July 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 9 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 6 July 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 +26 21 £675 +8.00% 49
London +8 14 £700 +12.00% 13
UK excluding London +51 10 £489 +2.89% 42
Work from Home +33 7 £406 -18.75% 35
Yorkshire +10 6 £500 - 5
North of England +8 6 £500 - 14
Northern Ireland - 2 £325 -
Scotland - 1 £488 - 9
East of England - 1 £325 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 6 July 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 23 (92.00%) C#
3 15 (60.00%) Azure
4 9 (36.00%) Agile
5 7 (28.00%) Banking
5 7 (28.00%) Front Office
6 6 (24.00%) AWS
6 6 (24.00%) DevOps
7 5 (20.00%) .NET Core
7 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
7 5 (20.00%) Git
7 5 (20.00%) SQL
8 4 (16.00%) Finance
8 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
8 4 (16.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (16.00%) NHS
8 4 (16.00%) Investment Banking
8 4 (16.00%) .NET Framework
8 4 (16.00%) Bicep
8 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
8 4 (16.00%) Terraform
8 4 (16.00%) Microservices
9 3 (12.00%) Docker
9 3 (12.00%) React
9 3 (12.00%) Entity Framework
9 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
9 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (12.00%) Public Sector

.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 15 (60.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Stack
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Power BI
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Git
2 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.00%) Ant
3 2 (8.00%) JIRA
3 2 (8.00%) Maven
3 2 (8.00%) Subversion
4 1 (4.00%) GitLab
4 1 (4.00%) ReSharper
4 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (28.00%) Banking
1 7 (28.00%) Front Office
2 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.00%) Investment Banking
4 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.00%) Wholesale Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (20.00%) .NET Core
3 4 (16.00%) .NET Framework
4 3 (12.00%) Entity Framework
4 3 (12.00%) React
5 2 (8.00%) FHIR
5 2 (8.00%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (4.00%) AWS CDK
6 1 (4.00%) D3.js
6 1 (4.00%) Dapper ORM
6 1 (4.00%) Next.js
6 1 (4.00%) Node.js
6 1 (4.00%) REST
6 1 (4.00%) RESTful
6 1 (4.00%) WCF
6 1 (4.00%) WinForms
6 1 (4.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (16.00%) NHS
2 3 (12.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (8.00%) Derivative
3 2 (8.00%) Equities
3 2 (8.00%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (4.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
1 2 (8.00%) Unix
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 9 (36.00%) Agile
3 6 (24.00%) DevOps
4 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (16.00%) Microservices
5 3 (12.00%) Clean Code
5 3 (12.00%) Design Patterns
5 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (12.00%) OO
5 3 (12.00%) OOP
5 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (12.00%) Unit Testing
6 2 (8.00%) Backlog Management
6 2 (8.00%) Code Quality
6 2 (8.00%) Concurrent Programming
6 2 (8.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (8.00%) Event-Driven
6 2 (8.00%) OOA/OOD
6 2 (8.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 23 (92.00%) C#
2 5 (20.00%) SQL
3 4 (16.00%) Bicep
4 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.00%) Python
4 1 (4.00%) VB
4 1 (4.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (4.00%) Degree
1 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (4.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (8.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) DICOM
2 1 (4.00%) HL7
2 1 (4.00%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Brio