.NET Software Engineer Contracts

.NET Software Engineer
UK

The median .NET Software Engineer daily rate in the UK is £688 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
23 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 532 616 686
Rank change year-on-year +84 +70 -92
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Software Engineer 59 91 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.15% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.16% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 81 141
10th Percentile £457 £550 £400
25th Percentile £572 £613 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £713
90th Percentile £800 £775 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £400
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - £47.75
25th Percentile £75.00 - £48.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £49.00
75th Percentile £85.00 - £49.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - £49.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,491 57,026 85,241
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,430 39,779 59,788
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,635 1,621 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.99 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

.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 23 April 2024.

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 6 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 23 April 2024. 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 +82 58 £700 +3.70% 35
London +72 52 £700 +3.70% 12
Work from Home +100 12 £463 -33.21% 179
UK excluding London +56 6 £450 - 25
South East +22 4 £450 - 3
South West +22 2 £475 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, .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 59 (100.00%) .NET
1 59 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 57 (96.61%) C#
3 44 (74.58%) Azure
4 34 (57.63%) AWS
4 34 (57.63%) DevOps
5 31 (52.54%) Agile
6 30 (50.85%) Front Office
7 29 (49.15%) JavaScript
7 29 (49.15%) React
7 29 (49.15%) Full Stack Development
8 28 (47.46%) Finance
9 27 (45.76%) TypeScript
9 27 (45.76%) TDD
10 26 (44.07%) Derivative
10 26 (44.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 26 (44.07%) Fintech
11 25 (42.37%) Redux
11 25 (42.37%) Asset Management
11 25 (42.37%) Fixed Income
11 25 (42.37%) Equities
11 25 (42.37%) GCP
11 25 (42.37%) Hedge funds
11 25 (42.37%) Investment Management
11 25 (42.37%) QA
12 21 (35.59%) .NET Core
13 15 (25.42%) AngularJS
14 13 (22.03%) ASP.NET
15 11 (18.64%) SQL
15 11 (18.64%) ASP.NET Core

.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 44 (74.58%) Azure
2 34 (57.63%) AWS
3 25 (42.37%) GCP
4 7 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.78%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (5.08%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (5.08%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.39%) PaaS
8 1 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.69%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.69%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.69%) GitHub
8 1 (1.69%) NuGet
8 1 (1.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.08%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.69%) Big Data
3 1 (1.69%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.69%) MySQL
3 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.69%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Git
1 2 (3.39%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.69%) Checkstyle
2 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.69%) Postman
General
1 30 (50.85%) Front Office
2 28 (47.46%) Finance
3 3 (5.08%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.39%) Banking
4 2 (3.39%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.69%) Electronics
5 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.69%) Marketing
5 1 (1.69%) Retail
5 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (100.00%) .NET
2 29 (49.15%) React
3 25 (42.37%) Redux
4 21 (35.59%) .NET Core
5 15 (25.42%) AngularJS
6 13 (22.03%) ASP.NET
7 11 (18.64%) ASP.NET Core
7 11 (18.64%) Vue
8 7 (11.86%) .NET Framework
9 5 (8.47%) REST
10 4 (6.78%) CSS
11 3 (5.08%) XML
12 2 (3.39%) CSS3
12 2 (3.39%) HTML
12 2 (3.39%) HTML5
12 2 (3.39%) JSON
12 2 (3.39%) WCF
12 2 (3.39%) WPF
13 1 (1.69%) jQuery
13 1 (1.69%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 26 (44.07%) Derivative
1 26 (44.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 25 (42.37%) Equities
2 25 (42.37%) Fixed Income
2 25 (42.37%) Hedge funds
3 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.69%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.69%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.69%) IoT
4 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.69%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.69%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 34 (57.63%) DevOps
3 31 (52.54%) Agile
4 29 (49.15%) Full Stack Development
5 27 (45.76%) TDD
6 26 (44.07%) Fintech
7 25 (42.37%) Asset Management
7 25 (42.37%) Investment Management
8 7 (11.86%) Microservices
9 5 (8.47%) Multithreading
10 4 (6.78%) Analytics
10 4 (6.78%) MVC
11 3 (5.08%) CI/CD
11 3 (5.08%) SDLC
11 3 (5.08%) Test Automation
12 2 (3.39%) API Management
12 2 (3.39%) Code Quality
12 2 (3.39%) Infrastructure as Code
12 2 (3.39%) LLM
12 2 (3.39%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 57 (96.61%) C#
2 29 (49.15%) JavaScript
3 27 (45.76%) TypeScript
4 11 (18.64%) SQL
5 2 (3.39%) C++
5 2 (3.39%) Java
5 2 (3.39%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.39%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.69%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (3.39%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.39%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.69%) DBS Check
2 1 (1.69%) Degree
2 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (42.37%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.39%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.39%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.39%) Terraform
2 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.69%) Databricks
2 1 (1.69%) SAP
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