NuGet Contracts

Microsoft NuGet
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring NuGet skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NuGet over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 558 687
Rank change year-on-year +42 +129 +95
Contract jobs citing NuGet 4 24 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.055% 0.052%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.036% 0.17% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 17 25
10th Percentile - £375 £438
25th Percentile £413 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% +18.18% -11.65%
75th Percentile £438 £688 £700
90th Percentile - £708 £795
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £506 £550
% change year-on-year -16.05% -7.95% +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK

NuGet falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

NuGet
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for NuGet in the UK

NuGet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for NuGet in the UK

NuGet
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NuGet within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +39 4 £425 -34.62% 9
Work from Home +34 4 £425 -34.62% 6
UK excluding London +61 2 £425 -16.05% 7
London +22 2 - - 2
Yorkshire - 2 £425 -
North of England - 2 £425 - 2

NuGet
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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Functions
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
3 2 (50.00%) Azure API Management
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (50.00%) PaaS
4 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (50.00%) JMeter
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
1 2 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Architect
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) Sass
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (25.00%) WCF
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Master Data Management
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) OO
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) SOLID
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) Bicep
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 2 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (50.00%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk