Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for .NET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited .NET over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 46 36 34
Rank change year-on-year -10 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing .NET 1,928 4,554 5,492
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.30% 5.93% 6.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.34% 22.74% 20.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,455 3,489 4,309
10th Percentile £350 £400 £355
25th Percentile £425 £463 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +13.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £625
90th Percentile £750 £788 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -5.00% +14.29% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 49 64
10th Percentile £46.22 £47.41 £20.83
25th Percentile £53.38 £65.00 £36.23
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £48.38
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +35.38% +7.52%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £54.69
90th Percentile - £67.50 £62.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year - +34.02% +7.78%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

.NET is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,969 20,027 26,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.21% 26.09% 29.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,082 14,296 19,034
10th Percentile £363 £403 £375
25th Percentile £445 £475 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +8.90% +8.31%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £638
90th Percentile £750 £775 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 213 270
10th Percentile £31.93 £21.87 £20.00
25th Percentile £46.18 £43.68 £35.00
Median hourly rate £53.50 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.69% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £75.00 £76.03
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.89 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -20.17% +32.65% +7.69%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing .NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the UK

.NET
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for .NET in the UK

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the UK

.NET
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET in the UK

.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing .NET over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Hourly rate histogram for .NET in the UK

.NET
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the UK over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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 -11 1,692 £550 -4.35% 1,823
London -8 1,075 £600 -4.00% 549
Work from Home -16 738 £523 -5.00% 1,260
UK excluding London -21 658 £475 -5.00% 1,417
South East -6 163 £525 -4.55% 378
North of England -11 150 £450 -10.00% 428
South West -10 116 £550 +4.76% 140
Midlands +5 100 £450 - 240
North West -19 81 £473 -5.50% 253
West Midlands +29 69 £450 -14.29% 140
Scotland -27 66 £450 - 62
Yorkshire +21 56 £450 -13.25% 108
East of England -8 43 £500 -4.76% 118
East Midlands -7 31 £421 -4.26% 98
Wales -7 23 £225 -50.00% 55
North East +35 13 £375 -21.05% 73
Northern Ireland -14 1 - - 23

.NET
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:

Application Platforms
1 66 (3.42%) Confluence
2 53 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.82%) BizTalk Server
4 34 (1.76%) IIS
5 31 (1.61%) CMS
6 28 (1.45%) Umbraco
7 12 (0.62%) NServiceBus
8 9 (0.47%) Apache
8 9 (0.47%) EPiServer
9 8 (0.41%) Apache Spark
10 6 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
11 5 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
12 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
12 4 (0.21%) Sitefinity
12 4 (0.21%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.21%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.16%) MQSeries
13 3 (0.16%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.16%) WordPress
14 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 49 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.52%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.21%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.16%) Notepad++
5 3 (0.16%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.052%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.052%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.052%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.052%) Fireworks
6 1 (0.052%) InVision
6 1 (0.052%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.052%) Sketch
6 1 (0.052%) SPSS
6 1 (0.052%) Trello
Business Applications
1 73 (3.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (1.30%) Dynamics AX
3 15 (0.78%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.31%) Endur
5 4 (0.21%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 4 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.16%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.16%) Magento
6 3 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.16%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 2 (0.10%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.10%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.10%) SAP GTS
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle 11i
8 1 (0.052%) Orchestrade
8 1 (0.052%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.052%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.052%) SDL Web 8
8 1 (0.052%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 913 (47.35%) Azure
2 314 (16.29%) AWS
3 264 (13.69%) Azure DevOps
4 177 (9.18%) Serverless
5 131 (6.79%) Azure Functions
6 118 (6.12%) Power Platform
7 104 (5.39%) Azure Service Bus
8 103 (5.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 88 (4.56%) Dynamics 365
10 72 (3.73%) Azure Logic Apps
11 60 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
12 59 (3.06%) SaaS
13 58 (3.01%) PowerApps
14 57 (2.96%) GCP
15 49 (2.54%) Azure Storage
16 48 (2.49%) PaaS
17 45 (2.33%) GitHub
18 38 (1.97%) Azure Monitor
19 37 (1.92%) Azure App Service
20 36 (1.87%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 22 (1.14%) Network Security
2 20 (1.04%) DNS
3 14 (0.73%) FTP
4 11 (0.57%) TCP/IP
4 11 (0.57%) VPN
5 9 (0.47%) Internet
5 9 (0.47%) SSL
6 8 (0.41%) Firewall
6 8 (0.41%) HTTP
7 4 (0.21%) SAN
8 3 (0.16%) Intranet
8 3 (0.16%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.16%) Softphone
9 2 (0.10%) AMQP
9 2 (0.10%) BIG-IP
9 2 (0.10%) Cisco IPT
9 2 (0.10%) DHCP
9 2 (0.10%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.10%) VoIP
9 2 (0.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 466 (24.17%) SQL Server
2 82 (4.25%) Oracle Database
3 80 (4.15%) MongoDB
4 76 (3.94%) NoSQL
5 75 (3.89%) Azure SQL Database
6 62 (3.22%) Power BI
7 58 (3.01%) Relational Database
7 58 (3.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 49 (2.54%) MySQL
9 39 (2.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 36 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
11 33 (1.71%) Data Lake
12 32 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
13 28 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
14 23 (1.19%) Redis
15 19 (0.99%) Big Data
16 18 (0.93%) DynamoDB
17 17 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 15 (0.78%) RDBMS
19 12 (0.62%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 232 (12.03%) Git
2 109 (5.65%) JIRA
3 87 (4.51%) Visual Studio
4 77 (3.99%) Selenium
5 74 (3.84%) TeamCity
6 64 (3.32%) NUnit
7 63 (3.27%) SpecFlow
8 60 (3.11%) Jenkins
9 54 (2.80%) Bitbucket
10 38 (1.97%) Octopus Deploy
11 37 (1.92%) Postman
12 31 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
13 28 (1.45%) Moq
14 23 (1.19%) Cucumber
15 21 (1.09%) Subversion
16 20 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 18 (0.93%) SonarQube
18 16 (0.83%) Cypress.io
19 15 (0.78%) GitLab
20 13 (0.67%) Artifactory
General
1 437 (22.67%) Finance
2 279 (14.47%) Social Skills
3 179 (9.28%) Banking
4 130 (6.74%) Public Sector
5 102 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
6 87 (4.51%) Front Office
7 68 (3.53%) Investment Banking
8 47 (2.44%) Marketing
9 31 (1.61%) Telecoms
10 30 (1.56%) Manufacturing
11 27 (1.40%) Electronics
11 27 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 25 (1.30%) Back Office
13 22 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
14 21 (1.09%) Law
15 18 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
16 17 (0.88%) Health Technology
17 12 (0.62%) Automotive
17 12 (0.62%) Legal
18 11 (0.57%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 1,207 (62.60%) Developer
2 600 (31.12%) .NET Developer
3 322 (16.70%) C# Developer
4 215 (11.15%) Senior
5 167 (8.66%) C# .NET Developer
6 165 (8.56%) Full Stack Developer
7 158 (8.20%) Lead
8 141 (7.31%) Senior Developer
9 139 (7.21%) Software Engineer
10 97 (5.03%) Software Developer
11 87 (4.51%) Azure Developer
12 81 (4.20%) Architect
13 79 (4.10%) Senior .NET Developer
14 76 (3.94%) Full Stack .NET Developer
15 68 (3.53%) .NET Software Engineer
16 67 (3.48%) DevOps Engineer
17 63 (3.27%) Azure Engineer
18 59 (3.06%) SQL Developer
19 56 (2.90%) .NET Software Developer
20 50 (2.59%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 436 (22.61%) .NET Core
2 389 (20.18%) .NET Framework
3 310 (16.08%) ASP.NET
4 223 (11.57%) AngularJS
5 211 (10.94%) HTML
6 205 (10.63%) React
7 188 (9.75%) REST
8 178 (9.23%) CSS
9 116 (6.02%) Entity Framework
10 115 (5.96%) WPF
11 111 (5.76%) ASP.NET Web API
12 102 (5.29%) ASP.NET Core
13 81 (4.20%) Blazor
13 81 (4.20%) XML
14 80 (4.15%) Web Services
15 79 (4.10%) Vue
16 76 (3.94%) JSON
16 76 (3.94%) Kafka
17 73 (3.79%) WCF
18 66 (3.42%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 77 (3.99%) Cloud Native
2 74 (3.84%) Greenfield Project
3 71 (3.68%) Derivative
4 66 (3.42%) Fixed Income
4 66 (3.42%) Product Ownership
5 60 (3.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 53 (2.75%) Hedge funds
7 44 (2.28%) Equities
8 42 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
9 35 (1.82%) Mobile App
10 34 (1.76%) Legacy Applications
11 33 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
13 25 (1.30%) Algorithms
14 24 (1.24%) Onboarding
15 23 (1.19%) NHS
16 18 (0.93%) Management Information System
17 16 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
18 15 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
19 13 (0.67%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 212 (11.00%) Windows
2 85 (4.41%) Linux
3 35 (1.82%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.50%) Unix
5 9 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (0.21%) VMS
8 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.16%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.052%) Android
10 1 (0.052%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.052%) Debian
10 1 (0.052%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.052%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.052%) NetWare
10 1 (0.052%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.052%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 594 (30.81%) Agile
2 475 (24.64%) DevOps
3 358 (18.57%) CI/CD
4 291 (15.09%) Microservices
5 284 (14.73%) Software Engineering
6 278 (14.42%) Full Stack Development
7 206 (10.68%) TDD
8 201 (10.43%) Test Automation
9 190 (9.85%) MVC
10 181 (9.39%) Problem-Solving
11 171 (8.87%) Scrum
12 164 (8.51%) SDLC
13 136 (7.05%) OO
14 116 (6.02%) Migration
15 105 (5.45%) Business Intelligence
15 105 (5.45%) Unit Testing
16 99 (5.13%) Design Patterns
17 87 (4.51%) Continuous Integration
17 87 (4.51%) Front End Development
17 87 (4.51%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,270 (65.87%) C#
2 700 (36.31%) SQL
3 442 (22.93%) JavaScript
4 231 (11.98%) Python
5 210 (10.89%) Java
6 155 (8.04%) PowerShell
7 134 (6.95%) PL/SQL
8 131 (6.79%) TypeScript
9 130 (6.74%) T-SQL
10 123 (6.38%) C++
11 85 (4.41%) VB.NET
12 74 (3.84%) VB
13 51 (2.65%) VBA
14 45 (2.33%) C
14 45 (2.33%) Go
15 28 (1.45%) Bash
16 25 (1.30%) Bicep
17 19 (0.99%) VBScript
18 14 (0.73%) Shell Script
19 13 (0.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 191 (9.91%) Security Cleared
2 147 (7.62%) SC Cleared
3 127 (6.59%) Degree
4 47 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (2.33%) DV Cleared
6 27 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 21 (1.09%) Azure Certification
8 13 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
9 12 (0.62%) Master's Degree
10 11 (0.57%) AWS Certification
11 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.41%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.31%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 5 (0.26%) ISEB
15 4 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.21%) CISSP
15 4 (0.21%) RHCE
15 4 (0.21%) RHCSA
16 3 (0.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (6.69%) QA
2 34 (1.76%) Accessibility
3 30 (1.56%) Data Quality
4 20 (1.04%) EMIR
4 20 (1.04%) WCAG
5 17 (0.88%) MiFID
6 5 (0.26%) HL7
7 4 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.21%) GxP
7 4 (0.21%) SLA
8 3 (0.16%) GDPR
9 2 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.052%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.052%) Dodd-Frank
10 1 (0.052%) GRC
10 1 (0.052%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.052%) ISO 9000
10 1 (0.052%) Solvency II
System Software
1 149 (7.73%) Docker
2 80 (4.15%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.62%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.16%) Samba
7 2 (0.10%) NFS
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.10%) Platform Symphony
7 2 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.052%) Firmware
8 1 (0.052%) LXC
8 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.052%) OpenSSH
8 1 (0.052%) Postfix
8 1 (0.052%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.052%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.052%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.052%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 170 (8.82%) Kubernetes
2 109 (5.65%) Terraform
3 37 (1.92%) Ansible
4 11 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
4 11 (0.57%) PowerCLI
5 10 (0.52%) BladeLogic
5 10 (0.52%) Grafana
5 10 (0.52%) SCCM
6 9 (0.47%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.47%) Puppet
6 9 (0.47%) SCOM
7 8 (0.41%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.21%) Dollar Universe
9 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.21%) WSUS
10 3 (0.16%) Kibana
10 3 (0.16%) Nmap
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 385 (19.97%) Microsoft
2 233 (12.09%) Oracle
3 45 (2.33%) SAP
4 41 (2.13%) Atlassian
5 40 (2.07%) MuleSoft
6 39 (2.02%) Citrix
7 38 (1.97%) VMware
8 27 (1.40%) Databricks
9 24 (1.24%) Salesforce
10 21 (1.09%) Sitecore
11 18 (0.93%) Xamarin
12 17 (0.88%) IBM
12 17 (0.88%) ServiceNow
12 17 (0.88%) TIBCO
13 13 (0.67%) OpenLink
14 12 (0.62%) DevExpress
14 12 (0.62%) Dynatrace
14 12 (0.62%) Finsemble
14 12 (0.62%) Murex
14 12 (0.62%) Veracode