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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 44 33
Rank change year-on-year -10 -11 +2
Contract jobs citing .NET 1,521 2,903 5,427
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.51% 4.85% 6.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.14% 20.84% 22.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 2,258 4,230
10th Percentile £325 £396 £381
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £530
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +6.60% +11.58%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £665
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £488 £465
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.84% +10.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 59
10th Percentile £20.77 £30.60 £20.20
25th Percentile £24.38 £45.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £58.91 £60.00 £46.67
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +28.56% +15.95%
75th Percentile £74.38 £85.00 £56.63
90th Percentile £85.00 £87.25 £63.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.91 £55.00 £46.67
% change year-on-year +7.10% +17.85% +15.95%

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 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

.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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 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 -10 1,328 £539 -6.30% 1,375
London +1 902 £575 -11.54% 431
Work from Home -8 591 £500 -9.09% 1,092
UK excluding London -35 448 £450 -7.69% 1,038
North of England -35 104 £420 -11.58% 311
South East -45 102 £500 -4.76% 208
South West +7 89 £566 +2.95% 111
North West -37 61 £450 -5.26% 181
Midlands -40 55 £450 +5.88% 206
Scotland -29 45 £419 -11.84% 77
West Midlands -2 38 £481 -3.75% 117
Yorkshire -14 34 £400 -18.99% 94
East of England +5 33 £475 - 85
Wales -16 18 £425 -20.93% 39
East Midlands -25 17 £350 -17.65% 89
North East +14 9 £278 -40.00% 40
Northern Ireland +5 4 - - 21

.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 53 (3.48%) IIS
2 46 (3.02%) SharePoint
3 44 (2.89%) CMS
4 39 (2.56%) Confluence
5 31 (2.04%) Umbraco
6 13 (0.85%) BizTalk Server
7 10 (0.66%) Apache
8 8 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.39%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.39%) NServiceBus
10 5 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.33%) Drupal
10 5 (0.33%) EPiServer
10 5 (0.33%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.33%) WordPress
11 4 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.26%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.20%) Apache Spark
12 3 (0.20%) Kentico
12 3 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 40 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.13%) Sketch
6 1 (0.066%) InVision
6 1 (0.066%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 43 (2.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.79%) Endur
3 7 (0.46%) NEC Housing
4 6 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.26%) Magento
6 3 (0.20%) Maximo
7 2 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.13%) SAP GTS
7 2 (0.13%) Shopify
8 1 (0.066%) Aareon QL
8 1 (0.066%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.066%) Fidessa
8 1 (0.066%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
8 1 (0.066%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.066%) OPENHousing
8 1 (0.066%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 745 (48.98%) Azure
2 337 (22.16%) Azure DevOps
3 218 (14.33%) AWS
4 108 (7.10%) Azure Service Bus
5 89 (5.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 83 (5.46%) Serverless
7 78 (5.13%) Power Platform
8 71 (4.67%) Entra ID
9 58 (3.81%) Dynamics 365
10 56 (3.68%) Azure Functions
11 53 (3.48%) Azure Monitor
12 51 (3.35%) GCP
13 49 (3.22%) PaaS
14 47 (3.09%) Azure Logic Apps
15 43 (2.83%) PowerApps
16 34 (2.24%) Power Automate
17 33 (2.17%) GitHub
18 31 (2.04%) Azure API Management
19 29 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
20 26 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 22 (1.45%) DNS
2 21 (1.38%) Internet
3 16 (1.05%) TCP/IP
4 14 (0.92%) HTTP
5 13 (0.85%) VPN
6 9 (0.59%) FTP
6 9 (0.59%) Network Security
7 8 (0.53%) DHCP
8 7 (0.46%) Firewall
9 6 (0.39%) SSL
10 5 (0.33%) Intranet
11 4 (0.26%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (0.26%) SSH
11 4 (0.26%) WAN
11 4 (0.26%) Wireshark
12 3 (0.20%) BIG-IP
12 3 (0.20%) LAN
12 3 (0.20%) SAN
12 3 (0.20%) Wireless
13 2 (0.13%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 417 (27.42%) SQL Server
2 65 (4.27%) NoSQL
3 50 (3.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 47 (3.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 40 (2.63%) Relational Database
6 38 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
7 35 (2.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 32 (2.10%) Oracle Database
9 29 (1.91%) MySQL
9 29 (1.91%) Power BI
10 25 (1.64%) MongoDB
11 23 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
12 18 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
13 17 (1.12%) Redis
14 16 (1.05%) Data Lake
15 13 (0.85%) DynamoDB
16 11 (0.72%) Big Data
17 9 (0.59%) GIS
18 7 (0.46%) OLTP
18 7 (0.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 180 (11.83%) Git
2 85 (5.59%) Visual Studio
3 76 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 66 (4.34%) TeamCity
5 63 (4.14%) JIRA
6 58 (3.81%) SpecFlow
7 57 (3.75%) Selenium
8 44 (2.89%) NUnit
9 35 (2.30%) Bitbucket
10 30 (1.97%) Cucumber
10 30 (1.97%) Postman
11 27 (1.78%) WebDriver
12 25 (1.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 21 (1.38%) Moq
14 18 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
15 17 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
16 13 (0.85%) Cypress.io
16 13 (0.85%) REST Assured
16 13 (0.85%) SoapUI
17 12 (0.79%) Appium
General
1 292 (19.20%) Finance
2 264 (17.36%) Social Skills
3 152 (9.99%) Public Sector
4 99 (6.51%) Banking
5 98 (6.44%) Front Office
6 89 (5.85%) Analytical Skills
7 60 (3.94%) Back Office
8 47 (3.09%) Investment Banking
9 30 (1.97%) Local Government
10 21 (1.38%) Manufacturing
10 21 (1.38%) Marketing
11 19 (1.25%) Retail
12 18 (1.18%) Aerospace
13 17 (1.12%) Telecoms
14 14 (0.92%) Electronics
14 14 (0.92%) Law
15 13 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 12 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
17 10 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (0.66%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 960 (63.12%) Developer
2 447 (29.39%) .NET Developer
3 254 (16.70%) C# Developer
4 241 (15.84%) Senior
5 159 (10.45%) Senior Developer
6 130 (8.55%) Full Stack Developer
7 126 (8.28%) C# .NET Developer
8 124 (8.15%) Software Engineer
9 97 (6.38%) Lead
10 94 (6.18%) Architect
11 92 (6.05%) Software Developer
12 85 (5.59%) Azure Developer
13 60 (3.94%) .NET Software Engineer
14 56 (3.68%) Full Stack .NET Developer
15 54 (3.55%) Senior .NET Developer
16 51 (3.35%) DevOps Engineer
17 50 (3.29%) Azure Engineer
18 46 (3.02%) .NET Software Developer
19 45 (2.96%) Analyst
20 42 (2.76%) Angular Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 368 (24.19%) .NET Core
2 288 (18.93%) .NET Framework
3 246 (16.17%) ASP.NET
4 212 (13.94%) React
5 211 (13.87%) AngularJS
6 155 (10.19%) HTML
7 151 (9.93%) CSS
8 124 (8.15%) XML
9 115 (7.56%) REST
10 81 (5.33%) Entity Framework
11 75 (4.93%) Web Services
12 72 (4.73%) RESTful
13 69 (4.54%) Blazor
14 68 (4.47%) ASP.NET Core
15 63 (4.14%) WCF
16 61 (4.01%) ASP.NET Web API
17 57 (3.75%) JSON
18 49 (3.22%) Vue
19 48 (3.16%) ASP.NET MVC
20 47 (3.09%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 79 (5.19%) Product Ownership
2 50 (3.29%) Derivative
3 49 (3.22%) Fixed Income
4 47 (3.09%) Hedge funds
5 44 (2.89%) Greenfield Project
6 43 (2.83%) Equities
7 39 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 33 (2.17%) Cloud Native
9 24 (1.58%) Legacy Applications
10 22 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
11 20 (1.31%) Mobile App
11 20 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (1.12%) Wiki
13 16 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
14 15 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
15 13 (0.85%) Client/Server
15 13 (0.85%) NHS
16 12 (0.79%) Algorithms
17 11 (0.72%) Market Risk
17 11 (0.72%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 115 (7.56%) Windows
2 61 (4.01%) Linux
3 38 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.79%) Android
5 9 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.46%) Unix
7 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.26%) VMS
7 4 (0.26%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.066%) Debian
8 1 (0.066%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.066%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (34.78%) DevOps
2 497 (32.68%) Agile
3 266 (17.49%) CI/CD
4 225 (14.79%) Software Engineering
5 223 (14.66%) Full Stack Development
6 199 (13.08%) TDD
7 185 (12.16%) Microservices
8 179 (11.77%) OO
9 174 (11.44%) Scrum
10 168 (11.05%) MVC
11 164 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
12 137 (9.01%) Test Automation
13 103 (6.77%) Continuous Integration
14 92 (6.05%) Migration
15 88 (5.79%) API Management
16 87 (5.72%) SDLC
17 86 (5.65%) Design Patterns
18 79 (5.19%) SOLID
19 75 (4.93%) Clean Code
20 72 (4.73%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 1,111 (73.04%) C#
2 488 (32.08%) SQL
3 309 (20.32%) JavaScript
4 229 (15.06%) PowerShell
5 134 (8.81%) Python
6 126 (8.28%) Java
7 117 (7.69%) TypeScript
8 87 (5.72%) Bicep
9 76 (5.00%) PL/SQL
10 73 (4.80%) T-SQL
11 62 (4.08%) VB.NET
12 58 (3.81%) C++
13 50 (3.29%) VBA
14 37 (2.43%) VB
15 23 (1.51%) Ruby
16 20 (1.31%) C
17 17 (1.12%) PHP
18 15 (0.99%) Bash
19 13 (0.85%) Go
20 9 (0.59%) Perl
Qualifications
1 150 (9.86%) Security Cleared
2 118 (7.76%) SC Cleared
3 99 (6.51%) Degree
4 30 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (1.18%) DV Cleared
6 13 (0.85%) Master's Degree
7 12 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (0.59%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.33%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.26%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.20%) CISSP
11 3 (0.20%) HNC
11 3 (0.20%) SANS
12 2 (0.13%) HND
12 2 (0.13%) ISEB
12 2 (0.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (7.10%) QA
2 47 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 26 (1.71%) WCAG
4 9 (0.59%) MiFID
5 8 (0.53%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.39%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
6 6 (0.39%) SLA
7 4 (0.26%) EMIR
7 4 (0.26%) GDPR
8 3 (0.20%) Dodd-Frank
8 3 (0.20%) GRC
8 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.13%) HL7
10 1 (0.066%) DICOM
10 1 (0.066%) HIPAA
System Software
1 130 (8.55%) Active Directory
2 72 (4.73%) Docker
3 17 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.92%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.59%) vSphere
7 4 (0.26%) NFS
7 4 (0.26%) Terminal Services
7 4 (0.26%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.066%) Firmware
8 1 (0.066%) GridGain
8 1 (0.066%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 71 (4.67%) Terraform
2 68 (4.47%) Kubernetes
3 60 (3.94%) Ansible
4 24 (1.58%) PowerCLI
5 17 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (1.05%) SCOM
7 10 (0.66%) ITRS Geneos
8 9 (0.59%) BladeLogic
8 9 (0.59%) SCCM
9 6 (0.39%) WSUS
10 5 (0.33%) Puppet
11 3 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.20%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.13%) SCOrch
13 1 (0.066%) Grafana
13 1 (0.066%) Kibana
13 1 (0.066%) logstash
13 1 (0.066%) Packer
13 1 (0.066%) SELinux
13 1 (0.066%) vRealize
Vendors
1 339 (22.29%) Microsoft
2 139 (9.14%) Oracle
3 38 (2.50%) SAP
4 32 (2.10%) Citrix
5 26 (1.71%) Atlassian
6 22 (1.45%) Dell
6 22 (1.45%) HP
7 19 (1.25%) VMware
8 17 (1.12%) MuleSoft
9 16 (1.05%) Salesforce
10 13 (0.85%) Databricks
11 12 (0.79%) Google
11 12 (0.79%) OpenLink
11 12 (0.79%) TIBCO
12 11 (0.72%) F5
13 10 (0.66%) Sitecore
13 10 (0.66%) Xamarin
14 9 (0.59%) Altiris
14 9 (0.59%) Dynatrace
14 9 (0.59%) UiPath