Senior .NET Developer Contracts

Senior .NET Developer
UK

The median Senior .NET Developer daily rate in the UK is £529, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 527 601
Rank change year-on-year +43 +74 +105
Contract jobs requiring a Senior .NET Developer 36 55 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.13% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.14% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 35 90
10th Percentile £406 £325 £466
25th Percentile £450 £426 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -10.42% +9.09%
75th Percentile £663 £600 £719
90th Percentile £731 £675 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £438 £593
% change year-on-year +4.29% -26.22% +18.60%

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Senior .NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior .NET Developer in the UK

Senior .NET Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior .NET Developer in the UK

Senior .NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior .NET Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior .NET Developer in the UK

Senior .NET Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior .NET Developer in the UK

Senior .NET Developer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior .NET Developer 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 +46 30 £574 +1.10% 121
London +30 23 £611 +1.88% 18
Work from Home +36 15 £626 +22.20% 107
UK excluding London +53 9 £456 +4.29% 114
Scotland +6 3 £425 -2.86% 4
South West +46 2 £628 +79.29% 9
North West +16 2 £425 -10.53% 17
North of England +15 2 £425 +3.03% 34
South East - 2 £463 - 27

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior .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 Senior .NET Developer in the job title.

1 36 (100.00%) .NET
2 31 (86.11%) C#
3 27 (75.00%) Azure
4 19 (52.78%) SQL
5 18 (50.00%) DevOps
6 16 (44.44%) Finance
6 16 (44.44%) Agile
7 15 (41.67%) .NET Core
8 13 (36.11%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (30.56%) Kubernetes
9 11 (30.56%) CI/CD
9 11 (30.56%) JavaScript
9 11 (30.56%) SQL Server
9 11 (30.56%) ASP.NET
10 10 (27.78%) CSS
10 10 (27.78%) HTML
10 10 (27.78%) .NET Framework
10 10 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
10 10 (27.78%) Docker
11 9 (25.00%) User Experience
11 9 (25.00%) Containerisation
11 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
11 9 (25.00%) AWS
12 8 (22.22%) OO
12 8 (22.22%) Product Ownership
12 8 (22.22%) ASP.NET Core
13 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (19.44%) SOLID
13 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
13 7 (19.44%) Scrum

Senior .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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.33%) Umbraco
2 1 (2.78%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 27 (75.00%) Azure
2 13 (36.11%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (25.00%) AWS
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Storage
4 3 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 3 (8.33%) Serverless
5 2 (5.56%) Azure App Service
5 2 (5.56%) Azure Functions
5 2 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) Firewall
1 2 (5.56%) HTTP
1 2 (5.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (30.56%) SQL Server
2 6 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (13.89%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (11.11%) MongoDB
5 3 (8.33%) NoSQL
5 3 (8.33%) Redis
6 1 (2.78%) ClickHouse
6 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 2 (5.56%) Git
2 2 (5.56%) MSTest
2 2 (5.56%) NUnit
2 2 (5.56%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (5.56%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.78%) SpecFlow
3 1 (2.78%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (44.44%) Finance
2 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 4 (11.11%) Banking
4 4 (11.11%) Billing
5 3 (8.33%) Front Office
6 2 (5.56%) Electronics
6 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.56%) Marketing
6 2 (5.56%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (100.00%) .NET
2 15 (41.67%) .NET Core
3 11 (30.56%) ASP.NET
4 10 (27.78%) .NET Framework
4 10 (27.78%) CSS
4 10 (27.78%) HTML
5 8 (22.22%) ASP.NET Core
6 7 (19.44%) Entity Framework
7 6 (16.67%) AngularJS
7 6 (16.67%) React
7 6 (16.67%) RESTful
8 5 (13.89%) Web Services
9 4 (11.11%) Node.js
10 3 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web API
10 3 (8.33%) WCF
11 2 (5.56%) ASP.NET MVC
11 2 (5.56%) OAuth
11 2 (5.56%) OpenID
11 2 (5.56%) Vue
11 2 (5.56%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 4 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.33%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (8.33%) Wiki
4 2 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.78%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.78%) NHS
5 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.78%) Reinsurance
5 1 (2.78%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.78%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Windows
2 1 (2.78%) Android
2 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (50.00%) DevOps
2 16 (44.44%) Agile
3 11 (30.56%) CI/CD
4 10 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 9 (25.00%) User Experience
6 8 (22.22%) OO
7 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (19.44%) Scrum
7 7 (19.44%) SOLID
8 6 (16.67%) Microservices
8 6 (16.67%) TDD
9 5 (13.89%) BDD
9 5 (13.89%) Code Quality
9 5 (13.89%) Deployment Automation
9 5 (13.89%) MVC
9 5 (13.89%) Pair Programming
9 5 (13.89%) Project Delivery
9 5 (13.89%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (13.89%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 31 (86.11%) C#
2 19 (52.78%) SQL
3 11 (30.56%) JavaScript
4 5 (13.89%) PL/SQL
5 4 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 3 (8.33%) RPG
6 3 (8.33%) RPG IV
6 3 (8.33%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.56%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.78%) Bicep
8 1 (2.78%) C++
8 1 (2.78%) Go
8 1 (2.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.78%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 10 (27.78%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (30.56%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle
2 2 (5.56%) SAP
3 1 (2.78%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.78%) Murex
3 1 (2.78%) Rackspace
3 1 (2.78%) Solace
3 1 (2.78%) TIBCO