.NET Contracts

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring .NET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 50 38
Rank change year-on-year -2 -12 -2
Contract jobs citing .NET 1,540 2,246 5,164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.83% 4.13% 5.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.73% 18.42% 21.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,154 1,713 4,059
10th Percentile £325 £375 £396
25th Percentile £413 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £694 £675
90th Percentile £738 £790 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -7.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 46
10th Percentile £21.68 £31.80 £21.79
25th Percentile £32.63 £39.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £59.45 £50.00 £54.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.91% -7.83% +27.68%
75th Percentile £80.00 £52.23 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £66.25 £69.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £50.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.91% +28.36%

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 8,687 12,195 23,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.63% 22.44% 26.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,934 8,797 17,534
10th Percentile £350 £375 £405
25th Percentile £428 £456 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £664 £675 £675
90th Percentile £800 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 155 224
10th Percentile £22.70 £32.45 £20.78
25th Percentile £43.00 £46.22 £35.07
Median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.44 £78.75 £75.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.30 £58.59 £57.18
% change year-on-year -0.49% +2.47% +36.14%

.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 26 July 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 26 July 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for .NET in the UK

.NET
Top 16 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 26 July 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 +2 1,351 £538 -5.49% 646
London +9 945 £557 -10.96% 132
Work from Home +3 573 £500 -9.09% 479
UK excluding London -23 437 £465 -7.00% 605
North of England -35 101 £450 -5.26% 177
South East -24 96 £523 -2.79% 146
South West -1 83 £595 +8.18% 57
North West -21 63 £450 -5.26% 88
Midlands -27 58 £450 - 105
Scotland +8 48 £425 -10.53% 34
Yorkshire -14 34 £455 -6.67% 62
West Midlands -27 34 £475 -3.06% 55
East of England +1 32 £475 +2.70% 63
East Midlands +6 26 £433 +20.14% 50
Wales +17 24 £260 -53.98% 15
North East -6 4 £375 -16.67% 30

.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 48 (3.12%) CMS
2 44 (2.86%) IIS
3 42 (2.73%) SharePoint
4 35 (2.27%) Confluence
5 31 (2.01%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (0.52%) Apache
8 8 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
9 6 (0.39%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.32%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.32%) Drupal
11 3 (0.19%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.19%) nginx
12 2 (0.13%) Appian
12 2 (0.13%) JBoss
12 2 (0.13%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.13%) WildFly
13 1 (0.065%) Ethereum
Applications
1 57 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.065%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.065%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.065%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.065%) Sketch
5 1 (0.065%) Trello
Business Applications
1 51 (3.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.43%) Endur
3 8 (0.52%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.52%) NEC Housing
3 8 (0.52%) SimCorp Dimension
4 7 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.19%) Findur
5 3 (0.19%) Magento
6 2 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.13%) Shopify
7 1 (0.065%) Aareon QL
7 1 (0.065%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.065%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.065%) MIS ActiveH
7 1 (0.065%) OPENHousing
7 1 (0.065%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 817 (53.05%) Azure
2 376 (24.42%) Azure DevOps
3 216 (14.03%) AWS
4 131 (8.51%) Azure Service Bus
5 111 (7.21%) Serverless
6 105 (6.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 88 (5.71%) Power Platform
8 86 (5.58%) Entra ID
9 77 (5.00%) Azure Functions
10 72 (4.68%) Dynamics 365
11 57 (3.70%) GCP
12 53 (3.44%) Azure Monitor
13 51 (3.31%) PowerApps
14 50 (3.25%) PaaS
15 44 (2.86%) GitHub
16 43 (2.79%) SaaS
17 42 (2.73%) Azure Logic Apps
18 37 (2.40%) Power Automate
19 36 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
20 31 (2.01%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.56%) Internet
2 14 (0.91%) Network Security
3 13 (0.84%) Firewall
4 12 (0.78%) FTP
5 7 (0.45%) DNS
5 7 (0.45%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.45%) VPN
6 5 (0.32%) HTTP
7 4 (0.26%) Intranet
7 4 (0.26%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.26%) SSL
8 3 (0.19%) AMQP
8 3 (0.19%) DHCP
8 3 (0.19%) LAN
8 3 (0.19%) WAN
8 3 (0.19%) Wireless
8 3 (0.19%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.13%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.13%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.13%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 501 (32.53%) SQL Server
2 86 (5.58%) Azure SQL Database
3 57 (3.70%) Relational Database
4 56 (3.64%) NoSQL
5 53 (3.44%) Oracle Database
6 49 (3.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 43 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
8 42 (2.73%) Power BI
9 41 (2.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 38 (2.47%) Redis
11 33 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
12 28 (1.82%) MongoDB
12 28 (1.82%) MySQL
13 17 (1.10%) Big Data
13 17 (1.10%) Data Lake
14 12 (0.78%) DB2
14 12 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (0.58%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.52%) Crystal Reports
16 8 (0.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 202 (13.12%) Git
2 108 (7.01%) Visual Studio
3 69 (4.48%) SpecFlow
4 58 (3.77%) JIRA
5 56 (3.64%) Jenkins
6 48 (3.12%) TeamCity
7 44 (2.86%) Selenium
8 34 (2.21%) Bitbucket
9 32 (2.08%) NUnit
10 28 (1.82%) Team Foundation Server
11 22 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 22 (1.43%) Postman
12 17 (1.10%) Cypress.io
13 16 (1.04%) Visual Studio Team System
14 15 (0.97%) WebDriver
15 13 (0.84%) Moq
15 13 (0.84%) SonarQube
16 12 (0.78%) Cucumber
17 11 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
18 10 (0.65%) webpack
General
1 309 (20.06%) Social Skills
2 281 (18.25%) Finance
3 156 (10.13%) Public Sector
4 113 (7.34%) Banking
5 107 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
6 93 (6.04%) Front Office
7 68 (4.42%) Back Office
8 48 (3.12%) Investment Banking
9 22 (1.43%) Local Government
10 18 (1.17%) Aerospace
11 17 (1.10%) Marketing
12 16 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
13 15 (0.97%) Manufacturing
13 15 (0.97%) Retail
14 14 (0.91%) Law
15 13 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 12 (0.78%) Financial Institution
17 11 (0.71%) Telecoms
18 10 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
19 9 (0.58%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 980 (63.64%) Developer
2 448 (29.09%) .NET Developer
3 247 (16.04%) Senior
4 245 (15.91%) C# Developer
5 180 (11.69%) Senior Developer
6 138 (8.96%) Full Stack Developer
7 121 (7.86%) C# .NET Developer
8 120 (7.79%) Architect
9 113 (7.34%) Software Engineer
10 112 (7.27%) Lead
11 105 (6.82%) Software Developer
12 84 (5.45%) Azure Developer
13 61 (3.96%) Full Stack .NET Developer
14 55 (3.57%) React Developer
15 53 (3.44%) Analyst
16 52 (3.38%) Senior .NET Developer
17 48 (3.12%) Azure Engineer
18 45 (2.92%) .NET Software Engineer
19 43 (2.79%) Backend Developer
20 40 (2.60%) Angular Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 362 (23.51%) .NET Core
2 353 (22.92%) .NET Framework
3 253 (16.43%) React
4 229 (14.87%) ASP.NET
5 213 (13.83%) AngularJS
6 193 (12.53%) HTML
7 187 (12.14%) CSS
8 149 (9.68%) XML
9 109 (7.08%) RESTful
10 98 (6.36%) Entity Framework
11 89 (5.78%) REST
12 83 (5.39%) Web Services
13 71 (4.61%) WCF
14 65 (4.22%) WPF
15 57 (3.70%) Blazor
16 55 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
17 52 (3.38%) Kafka
18 47 (3.05%) JSON
18 47 (3.05%) WinForms
19 40 (2.60%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 91 (5.91%) Product Ownership
2 41 (2.66%) Derivative
2 41 (2.66%) Fixed Income
3 39 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
4 32 (2.08%) Cloud Native
4 32 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
5 31 (2.01%) Hedge funds
6 27 (1.75%) Mobile App
6 27 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (1.62%) Equities
7 25 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 23 (1.49%) Public Cloud
9 21 (1.36%) Data Structures
10 20 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
10 20 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
11 19 (1.23%) Algorithms
12 17 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
12 17 (1.10%) Onboarding
13 12 (0.78%) Client/Server
13 12 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 130 (8.44%) Windows
2 67 (4.35%) Linux
3 23 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.17%) Android
5 15 (0.97%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.71%) Unix
7 3 (0.19%) VMS
8 2 (0.13%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.065%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 561 (36.43%) Agile
2 549 (35.65%) DevOps
3 303 (19.68%) CI/CD
4 214 (13.90%) Full Stack Development
5 211 (13.70%) Software Engineering
6 205 (13.31%) Scrum
7 202 (13.12%) Problem-Solving
8 199 (12.92%) Microservices
9 182 (11.82%) TDD
10 173 (11.23%) Test Automation
11 167 (10.84%) OO
12 136 (8.83%) MVC
13 117 (7.60%) SDLC
14 108 (7.01%) Design Patterns
15 99 (6.43%) Unit Testing
16 94 (6.10%) Migration
17 89 (5.78%) Clean Code
18 86 (5.58%) Continuous Integration
19 82 (5.32%) API Management
19 82 (5.32%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 1,130 (73.38%) C#
2 554 (35.97%) SQL
3 333 (21.62%) JavaScript
4 223 (14.48%) PowerShell
5 143 (9.29%) TypeScript
6 132 (8.57%) Python
7 123 (7.99%) Java
8 96 (6.23%) T-SQL
9 93 (6.04%) Bicep
10 78 (5.06%) PL/SQL
11 74 (4.81%) VB.NET
12 57 (3.70%) VBA
13 53 (3.44%) VB
14 48 (3.12%) C++
15 37 (2.40%) C
16 14 (0.91%) Bash
16 14 (0.91%) PHP
16 14 (0.91%) R
17 13 (0.84%) Ruby
18 8 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 159 (10.32%) Security Cleared
2 121 (7.86%) Degree
3 118 (7.66%) SC Cleared
4 44 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (1.95%) Azure Certification
6 25 (1.62%) DV Cleared
7 17 (1.10%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
9 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (0.45%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.39%) CISSP
12 5 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.19%) CISA
13 3 (0.19%) CISM
13 3 (0.19%) ISEB
13 3 (0.19%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (6.95%) QA
2 43 (2.79%) Accessibility
3 26 (1.69%) WCAG
4 13 (0.84%) MiFID
5 10 (0.65%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.52%) EMIR
7 7 (0.45%) HL7
8 6 (0.39%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.39%) GDPR
9 5 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.32%) Dodd-Frank
9 5 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.19%) GRC
10 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 2 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.13%) SLA
12 1 (0.065%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.065%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 129 (8.38%) Active Directory
2 116 (7.53%) Docker
3 15 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.32%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.19%) Firmware
7 3 (0.19%) vSphere
8 1 (0.065%) GridGain
8 1 (0.065%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 133 (8.64%) Kubernetes
2 70 (4.55%) Terraform
3 49 (3.18%) Ansible
4 23 (1.49%) PowerCLI
5 19 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.65%) SCOM
7 4 (0.26%) Grafana
7 4 (0.26%) OPNET
7 4 (0.26%) SCCM
8 3 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.19%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.19%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.19%) Puppet
9 2 (0.13%) BladeLogic
9 2 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.13%) SCOrch
9 2 (0.13%) WSUS
10 1 (0.065%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.065%) WMI
Vendors
1 413 (26.82%) Microsoft
2 150 (9.74%) Oracle
3 29 (1.88%) Citrix
4 25 (1.62%) OpenLink
5 24 (1.56%) Atlassian
5 24 (1.56%) SAP
6 20 (1.30%) HP
7 19 (1.23%) Dell
7 19 (1.23%) Xamarin
8 16 (1.04%) Databricks
8 16 (1.04%) Google
8 16 (1.04%) VMware
9 10 (0.65%) MuleSoft
10 9 (0.58%) Cisco
10 9 (0.58%) Salesforce
10 9 (0.58%) Virgin Media
11 8 (0.52%) NEC
11 8 (0.52%) SimCorp
11 8 (0.52%) TIBCO
12 7 (0.45%) Optimizely