.NET Contract Job Trends

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring .NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 97 51
Rank change year-on-year -19 -46 +1
Contract jobs citing .NET 1,258 885 1,426
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.30% 2.68% 3.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.63% 10.32% 15.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 894 621 1,015
10th Percentile £398 £340 £325
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £625 £638
90th Percentile £750 £730 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 11
10th Percentile £37.25 £26.47 £20.00
25th Percentile £38.25 £34.00 £25.60
Median hourly rate £47.15 £64.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% +7.92% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75.75 £67.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £79.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.15 £67.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -29.63% +11.67% -7.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

.NET falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 11,836 8,577 9,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.66% 25.95% 24.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,793 5,714 6,185
10th Percentile £375 £353 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 188 190
10th Percentile £28.96 £31.25 £25.58
25th Percentile £49.75 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% +2.67%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.60 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.34% -11.54% +10.11%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing .NET relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

.NET job vacancy trend in the UK

.NET
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing .NET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing .NET

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET over the 6 months to 27 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the UK

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing .NET.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing .NET

.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing .NET over the 6 months to 27 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for .NET in the UK

.NET
Top 17 Contract Job 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 September 2026. 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 -22 1,046 £515 +5.64% 1,403
London -9 637 £539 +2.62% 547
Work from Home +4 445 £525 +7.69% 767
UK excluding London -30 444 £475 - 989
North of England -29 121 £469 -1.32% 266
South East -37 101 £500 +11.11% 218
South West +14 68 £470 +17.50% 62
Midlands -37 65 £500 +2.04% 163
Yorkshire -29 64 £450 -9.09% 65
North West -38 47 £493 +15.88% 170
Scotland -16 40 £478 +0.63% 88
West Midlands -47 38 £460 -9.36% 84
East of England -30 32 £518 +3.50% 106
East Midlands -14 26 £538 +22.86% 79
Wales -8 16 £325 -35.06% 31
North East -28 10 £513 - 34
Channel Islands - 1 £450 -

.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 54 (4.29%) SharePoint
2 40 (3.18%) Confluence
3 37 (2.94%) IIS
4 17 (1.35%) CMS
5 13 (1.03%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (0.48%) Camunda
7 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.48%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.40%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.40%) Appian
9 4 (0.32%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.32%) Kentico
9 4 (0.32%) nginx
9 4 (0.32%) WordPress
10 3 (0.24%) Mendix
11 2 (0.16%) Skype for Business
11 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.079%) Drupal
12 1 (0.079%) EPiServer
Applications
1 32 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.56%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 51 (4.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.56%) OpenText MBPM
2 7 (0.56%) Oracle BPM
3 6 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.40%) Elite 3E
4 5 (0.40%) Shopify
5 3 (0.24%) Endur
5 3 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.079%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.079%) Findur
7 1 (0.079%) Magento
7 1 (0.079%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.079%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.079%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.079%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 616 (48.97%) Azure
2 253 (20.11%) AWS
3 232 (18.44%) Azure DevOps
4 153 (12.16%) Power Platform
5 151 (12.00%) GitHub
6 133 (10.57%) Serverless
7 92 (7.31%) Dynamics 365
8 91 (7.23%) Azure Service Bus
9 77 (6.12%) PowerApps
10 75 (5.96%) Power Automate
11 66 (5.25%) Azure Logic Apps
12 65 (5.17%) Azure Functions
13 62 (4.93%) GitHub Actions
14 54 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
15 51 (4.05%) Entra ID
16 45 (3.58%) Amazon SQS
17 41 (3.26%) Azure AKS
18 40 (3.18%) Microsoft Copilot
18 40 (3.18%) SaaS
19 35 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.27%) Internet
2 9 (0.72%) HTTP
2 9 (0.72%) TCP/IP
2 9 (0.72%) Wireshark
3 7 (0.56%) DNS
3 7 (0.56%) RTP
4 6 (0.48%) 3GPP
4 6 (0.48%) Firewall
4 6 (0.48%) Intranet
5 5 (0.40%) VPN
6 4 (0.32%) Kerberos
6 4 (0.32%) Network Security
7 3 (0.24%) DHCP
7 3 (0.24%) NAS
7 3 (0.24%) SAN
7 3 (0.24%) VLAN
8 2 (0.16%) Multicast
8 2 (0.16%) OpenVPN
8 2 (0.16%) Skype
9 1 (0.079%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 332 (26.39%) SQL Server
2 68 (5.41%) Power BI
3 67 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
4 65 (5.17%) Relational Database
5 53 (4.21%) NoSQL
6 48 (3.82%) Oracle Database
7 40 (3.18%) Azure SQL Database
8 36 (2.86%) MySQL
9 33 (2.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 30 (2.38%) DynamoDB
11 29 (2.31%) MongoDB
12 24 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
13 21 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
14 18 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 14 (1.11%) Data Lake
15 14 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
16 13 (1.03%) RDBMS
17 12 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
17 12 (0.95%) Geospatial Data
17 12 (0.95%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 182 (14.47%) Git
2 74 (5.88%) JIRA
3 59 (4.69%) Visual Studio
4 53 (4.21%) Jenkins
5 37 (2.94%) Claude Code
6 34 (2.70%) GitLab
7 21 (1.67%) Selenium
7 21 (1.67%) TeamCity
8 16 (1.27%) JMeter
9 15 (1.19%) Gatling
10 14 (1.11%) Postman
11 13 (1.03%) MSI
12 12 (0.95%) Bitbucket
12 12 (0.95%) Cucumber
12 12 (0.95%) SpecFlow
12 12 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
13 11 (0.87%) NUnit
14 10 (0.79%) JUnit
15 9 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
15 9 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 317 (25.20%) Social Skills
2 265 (21.07%) Finance
3 136 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (8.90%) Banking
5 93 (7.39%) Public Sector
6 59 (4.69%) Front Office
7 40 (3.18%) Investment Banking
8 31 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (1.35%) Legal
10 16 (1.27%) Financial Institution
11 14 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (1.03%) Back Office
13 10 (0.79%) Marketing
13 10 (0.79%) Retail
14 6 (0.48%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.48%) Billing
14 6 (0.48%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.48%) Police
15 5 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 604 (48.01%) Developer
2 250 (19.87%) Senior
3 241 (19.16%) .NET Developer
4 144 (11.45%) C# Developer
5 131 (10.41%) Senior Developer
6 122 (9.70%) Architect
7 112 (8.90%) Lead
8 110 (8.74%) Software Engineer
9 83 (6.60%) Full-Stack Developer
10 64 (5.09%) Software Developer
11 63 (5.01%) C# .NET Developer
11 63 (5.01%) Solutions Architect
12 55 (4.37%) Senior .NET Developer
13 52 (4.13%) AWS Engineer
14 49 (3.90%) Azure Developer
15 44 (3.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 38 (3.02%) .NET Software Engineer
16 38 (3.02%) Lead Developer
17 36 (2.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 35 (2.78%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 255 (20.27%) REST
2 241 (19.16%) .NET Framework
3 181 (14.39%) .NET Core
4 173 (13.75%) React
5 144 (11.45%) ASP.NET
6 139 (11.05%) Terraform
7 122 (9.70%) RESTful
8 97 (7.71%) HTML
9 94 (7.47%) AngularJS
10 89 (7.07%) Web Services
10 89 (7.07%) XML
11 82 (6.52%) CSS
12 71 (5.64%) JSON
13 66 (5.25%) Entity Framework
14 64 (5.09%) WPF
15 59 (4.69%) ASP.NET Core
16 57 (4.53%) SOAP
17 54 (4.29%) Middleware
17 54 (4.29%) WinForms
18 47 (3.74%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 158 (12.56%) Cloud Native
2 82 (6.52%) Enterprise Software
3 81 (6.44%) Distributed Systems
4 79 (6.28%) AI Agents
5 75 (5.96%) Product Ownership
6 62 (4.93%) Legacy Systems
7 42 (3.34%) Onboarding
8 30 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
10 17 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
11 16 (1.27%) Low-Code
12 14 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 13 (1.03%) Autonomous Agent
13 13 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (1.03%) Management Information System
13 13 (1.03%) NHS
13 13 (1.03%) Virtual Team
14 12 (0.95%) Data Centre
14 12 (0.95%) Data Structures
14 12 (0.95%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 147 (11.69%) Windows
2 70 (5.56%) Linux
3 47 (3.74%) Windows Server
4 22 (1.75%) Unix
5 9 (0.72%) AIX
6 6 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.079%) Android
7 1 (0.079%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.079%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.079%) VMS
7 1 (0.079%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.079%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 518 (41.18%) CI/CD
2 471 (37.44%) DevOps
3 409 (32.51%) Agile
4 257 (20.43%) AI
5 254 (20.19%) Software Engineering
6 228 (18.12%) Microservices
7 190 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
8 184 (14.63%) Full-Stack Development
9 182 (14.47%) Test Automation
10 139 (11.05%) Event-Driven
11 138 (10.97%) SDLC
12 131 (10.41%) Migration
13 125 (9.94%) Scrum
14 123 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
15 114 (9.06%) Infrastructure as Code
16 111 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
17 106 (8.43%) Containerisation
18 96 (7.63%) Mentoring
19 93 (7.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 93 (7.39%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 861 (68.44%) C#
2 441 (35.06%) SQL
3 259 (20.59%) JavaScript
4 239 (19.00%) Python
5 156 (12.40%) TypeScript
6 127 (10.10%) Java
7 89 (7.07%) T-SQL
8 77 (6.12%) PowerShell
9 67 (5.33%) PL/SQL
10 51 (4.05%) Bicep
11 42 (3.34%) VB.NET
12 35 (2.78%) C++
13 25 (1.99%) VBA
14 18 (1.43%) Go
15 17 (1.35%) Bash
15 17 (1.35%) VB
16 13 (1.03%) XPath
17 12 (0.95%) X++
18 7 (0.56%) C
18 7 (0.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 209 (16.61%) Security Cleared
2 175 (13.91%) SC Cleared
3 104 (8.27%) Degree
4 40 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.31%) Azure Certification
6 27 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (1.35%) Master's Degree
7 17 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (1.19%) DV Cleared
9 10 (0.79%) AWS Certification
9 10 (0.79%) PhD
10 9 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 7 (0.56%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.56%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.32%) ISEB
14 3 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.24%) CISSP
15 2 (0.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.16%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (7.63%) QA
2 41 (3.26%) Accessibility
3 29 (2.31%) WCAG
4 21 (1.67%) Data Quality
5 18 (1.43%) GDPR
6 17 (1.35%) NCSC
7 11 (0.87%) GMP
7 11 (0.87%) GxP
7 11 (0.87%) SLA
8 10 (0.79%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 10 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 4 (0.32%) HL7
10 3 (0.24%) Basel III
10 3 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
11 2 (0.16%) GRC
11 2 (0.16%) IEC 62304
11 2 (0.16%) ISO 13485
11 2 (0.16%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 147 (11.69%) Docker
2 53 (4.21%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.32%) Firmware
6 2 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.079%) KVM
7 1 (0.079%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 123 (9.78%) Kubernetes
2 36 (2.86%) Ansible
3 13 (1.03%) Grafana
4 12 (0.95%) Kibana
5 10 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.72%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.40%) Control-M
7 5 (0.40%) HP Fortify
8 4 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.24%) SCCM
10 2 (0.16%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.16%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.16%) Istio
10 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.16%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.079%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.079%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.079%) Rancher
11 1 (0.079%) SCOM
Vendors
1 339 (26.95%) Microsoft
2 162 (12.88%) Oracle
3 34 (2.70%) Citrix
4 31 (2.46%) OpenAI
5 26 (2.07%) UiPath
6 24 (1.91%) Databricks
7 22 (1.75%) ServiceNow
8 17 (1.35%) IBM
9 15 (1.19%) BeyondTrust
10 13 (1.03%) Foundry
10 13 (1.03%) Google
10 13 (1.03%) SAP
11 11 (0.87%) CyberArk
11 11 (0.87%) VMware
12 10 (0.79%) Okta
12 10 (0.79%) Salesforce
12 10 (0.79%) Splunk
13 8 (0.64%) InterSystems
13 8 (0.64%) Sitecore
14 6 (0.48%) MuleSoft