Senior .NET Developer Contracts

Senior .NET Developer
UK

The median Senior .NET Developer daily rate in the UK is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 608 711
Rank change year-on-year +63 +103 -122
Contract jobs requiring a Senior .NET Developer 55 108 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.18% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.19% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 82 131
10th Percentile £325 £445 £425
25th Percentile £420 £516 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £688
90th Percentile £675 £799 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £586 £500
% change year-on-year -25.34% +17.20% +33.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

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 5 May 2024.

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 10 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 5 May 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 +68 41 £545 -9.17% 54
London +79 31 £584 -8.43% 14
Work from Home +100 20 £513 -10.87% 37
UK excluding London +51 19 £438 -25.34% 45
Scotland +47 10 £438 -27.08% 3
North of England +32 6 £413 -29.61% 14
North West +25 3 £475 -18.94% 9
Yorkshire +22 3 £350 -33.33% 5
South West +21 2 £350 -45.63% 6
East of England - 1 £625 -

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, 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 55 (100.00%) .NET
2 43 (78.18%) C#
3 32 (58.18%) Azure
4 25 (45.45%) DevOps
4 25 (45.45%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (40.00%) SQL Server
6 21 (38.18%) React
7 17 (30.91%) Agile
8 16 (29.09%) Public Sector
9 14 (25.45%) SQL
10 13 (23.64%) Microsoft
10 13 (23.64%) .NET Core
11 12 (21.82%) Product Ownership
12 11 (20.00%) ASP.NET
12 11 (20.00%) Banking
12 11 (20.00%) .NET Framework
12 11 (20.00%) User Experience
13 10 (18.18%) Finance
13 10 (18.18%) JavaScript
13 10 (18.18%) CI/CD
14 9 (16.36%) Legacy Applications
14 9 (16.36%) Scrum
14 9 (16.36%) Microservices
14 9 (16.36%) TypeScript
15 8 (14.55%) Wiki
15 8 (14.55%) PowerShell
15 8 (14.55%) Investment Banking
15 8 (14.55%) Active Directory
15 8 (14.55%) CSS
15 8 (14.55%) HTML

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 4 (7.27%) CMS
2 2 (3.64%) IIS
3 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.82%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 32 (58.18%) Azure
2 25 (45.45%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (10.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 6 (10.91%) Azure Service Bus
3 6 (10.91%) Entra ID
4 4 (7.27%) AWS
5 3 (5.45%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.64%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (3.64%) Contentful
7 1 (1.82%) Azure Service Fabric
7 1 (1.82%) npm
7 1 (1.82%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (3.64%) DTS
4 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.82%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.82%) Redis
4 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (7.27%) Git
2 2 (3.64%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.82%) Ant
3 1 (1.82%) Babel
3 1 (1.82%) JIRA
3 1 (1.82%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.82%) webpack
General
1 16 (29.09%) Public Sector
2 11 (20.00%) Banking
3 10 (18.18%) Finance
4 8 (14.55%) Investment Banking
5 6 (10.91%) Social Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Back Office
7 1 (1.82%) Front Office
7 1 (1.82%) Law
7 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (100.00%) .NET
2 21 (38.18%) React
3 13 (23.64%) .NET Core
4 11 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 11 (20.00%) ASP.NET
5 8 (14.55%) CSS
5 8 (14.55%) HTML
6 7 (12.73%) AngularJS
7 6 (10.91%) XML
8 4 (7.27%) WPF
9 3 (5.45%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (5.45%) CSS3
9 3 (5.45%) HTML5
9 3 (5.45%) jQuery
9 3 (5.45%) REST
9 3 (5.45%) WCF
10 2 (3.64%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (3.64%) Entity Framework
10 2 (3.64%) Node.js
10 2 (3.64%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.82%) Product Ownership
2 9 (16.36%) Legacy Applications
3 8 (14.55%) Wiki
4 2 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.64%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (45.45%) DevOps
2 17 (30.91%) Agile
3 11 (20.00%) User Experience
4 10 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 9 (16.36%) Microservices
5 9 (16.36%) Scrum
6 8 (14.55%) Code Quality
6 8 (14.55%) Knowledge Transfer
7 7 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (10.91%) B2C
9 5 (9.09%) Full Stack Development
9 5 (9.09%) MVC
10 4 (7.27%) Clean Code
11 3 (5.45%) API Management
11 3 (5.45%) Mentoring
11 3 (5.45%) Migration
11 3 (5.45%) SDLC
12 2 (3.64%) API Integration
12 2 (3.64%) Computer Science
12 2 (3.64%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (78.18%) C#
2 14 (25.45%) SQL
3 10 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 9 (16.36%) TypeScript
5 8 (14.55%) PowerShell
6 6 (10.91%) Bicep
7 4 (7.27%) Python
7 4 (7.27%) T-SQL
8 3 (5.45%) VB.NET
9 2 (3.64%) MATLAB
9 2 (3.64%) VBA
10 1 (1.82%) Java
10 1 (1.82%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (3.64%) Degree
1 2 (3.64%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (3.64%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.82%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) Accessibility
1 2 (3.64%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (3.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (14.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (23.64%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.64%) Virgin Media