Lead .NET Developer Contracts

Lead .NET Developer
UK

The median Lead .NET Developer daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 573 675
Rank change year-on-year +65 +102 +130
Contract jobs requiring a Lead .NET Developer 18 17 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.040% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.043% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 14
10th Percentile £460 £364 £510
25th Percentile - £394 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £576
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -21.91% +4.77%
75th Percentile £668 £528 £692
90th Percentile £672 £684 £717
UK excluding London median daily rate £655 £465 £510
% change year-on-year +40.86% -8.82% +2.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 27,042 39,900 54,705
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 92.78% 94.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,611 25,963 38,196
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,049 2,673 1,532
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.22 £16.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £28.60 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.73% -16.67% +88.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.90 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £40.00 £42.43
% change year-on-year -31.25% -5.73% +112.16%

Lead .NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Lead .NET Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Lead .NET Developer in the UK

Lead .NET Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Lead .NET Developer in the UK

Lead .NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead .NET Developer over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead .NET Developer in the UK

Lead .NET Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead .NET Developer in the UK

Lead .NET Developer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead .NET Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 May 2025. 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 +67 12 £655 +51.45% 26
Work from Home +50 11 £500 +11.11% 19
London +36 9 £581 +50.00% 7
UK excluding London +45 3 £655 +40.86% 21
South West +43 2 £740 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £500 -
Midlands - 1 £500 -

Lead .NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 May 2025, Lead .NET Developer 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 Lead .NET Developer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) .NET
2 17 (94.44%) C#
3 13 (72.22%) Azure
4 11 (61.11%) Agile
4 11 (61.11%) DevOps
4 11 (61.11%) .NET Core
5 10 (55.56%) ASP.NET
6 9 (50.00%) .NET Framework
7 8 (44.44%) RESTful
7 8 (44.44%) SQL Server
7 8 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
8 7 (38.89%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (38.89%) SOLID
8 7 (38.89%) TDD
8 7 (38.89%) MVC
9 6 (33.33%) BDD
9 6 (33.33%) Terraform
9 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
9 6 (33.33%) AngularJS
9 6 (33.33%) Product Ownership
10 5 (27.78%) NoSQL
10 5 (27.78%) Microservices
10 5 (27.78%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (27.78%) AWS
10 5 (27.78%) OWASP
10 5 (27.78%) Scrum
10 5 (27.78%) OO
10 5 (27.78%) SQL
11 4 (22.22%) JavaScript

Lead .NET Developer 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 13 (72.22%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) AWS
4 3 (16.67%) Serverless
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 5 (27.78%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.56%) Redis
3 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) NUnit
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (22.22%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Electronics
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 2 (11.11%) Marketing
3 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.56%) Law
4 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (100.00%) .NET
2 11 (61.11%) .NET Core
3 10 (55.56%) ASP.NET
4 9 (50.00%) .NET Framework
5 8 (44.44%) RESTful
6 6 (33.33%) AngularJS
7 5 (27.78%) ASP.NET MVC
8 4 (22.22%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (16.67%) CSS
9 3 (16.67%) HTML
9 3 (16.67%) OAuth
10 2 (11.11%) ARM Templates
10 2 (11.11%) Node.js
10 2 (11.11%) OpenID
10 2 (11.11%) Vue
10 2 (11.11%) Web Services
11 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
11 1 (5.56%) OpenAPI
11 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (22.22%) Market Risk
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.56%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Android
1 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Agile
1 11 (61.11%) DevOps
2 8 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
3 7 (38.89%) MVC
3 7 (38.89%) SOLID
3 7 (38.89%) TDD
4 6 (33.33%) BDD
5 5 (27.78%) Microservices
5 5 (27.78%) OO
5 5 (27.78%) OWASP
5 5 (27.78%) Scrum
6 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 4 (22.22%) Pair Programming
6 4 (22.22%) User Experience
6 4 (22.22%) UX Design
7 3 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (16.67%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 17 (94.44%) C#
2 5 (27.78%) SQL
3 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.56%) Bicep
4 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Terraform
2 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) SAP