.NET Developer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

.NET Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median .NET Developer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £488, 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 208 177 124
Rank change year-on-year -31 -53 -10
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 96 175 504
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.97% 1.14% 1.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 1.22% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 132 422
10th Percentile £325 £288 £363
25th Percentile £410 £313 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £444 £494
Median % change year-on-year +9.86% -10.13% +3.95%
75th Percentile £713 £576 £625
90th Percentile £850 £667 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £39.60
25th Percentile £55.00 - £45.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +32.65% -11.71%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £67.50
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% +30.00% -19.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

.NET Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured .NET Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

.NET Developer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing .NET Developer.

.NET Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing .NET Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

.NET Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing .NET Developer.

.NET Developer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

.NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, .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 jobs with a WFH option featuring .NET Developer in the job title.

1 96 (100.00%) .NET
2 81 (84.38%) C#
3 58 (60.42%) Agile
4 54 (56.25%) Azure
5 44 (45.83%) SQL
6 37 (38.54%) DevOps
7 31 (32.29%) .NET Core
7 31 (32.29%) Social Skills
8 29 (30.21%) AngularJS
9 28 (29.17%) .NET Framework
10 26 (27.08%) JavaScript
10 26 (27.08%) Design Patterns
11 24 (25.00%) SQL Server
11 24 (25.00%) Front Office
12 23 (23.96%) Microsoft
13 22 (22.92%) OO
13 22 (22.92%) Microservices
14 20 (20.83%) RESTful
14 20 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
14 20 (20.83%) TDD
15 18 (18.75%) Oracle
15 18 (18.75%) Reactive Extensions
15 18 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (17.71%) Kubernetes
16 17 (17.71%) Finance
16 17 (17.71%) Full-Stack Development
16 17 (17.71%) CI/CD
17 16 (16.67%) Product Ownership
17 16 (16.67%) ASP.NET
17 16 (16.67%) Docker

.NET Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (4.17%) Umbraco
2 3 (3.13%) IIS
3 2 (2.08%) CMS
4 1 (1.04%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.04%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 54 (56.25%) Azure
2 20 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (15.63%) AWS
3 15 (15.63%) Serverless
4 9 (9.38%) Azure Functions
5 6 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (5.21%) Azure Service Fabric
6 5 (5.21%) GCP
7 4 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (4.17%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.13%) Azure API Management
9 2 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.08%) GitHub
9 2 (2.08%) SaaS
10 1 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.04%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (1.04%) Cloudflare
10 1 (1.04%) NuGet
10 1 (1.04%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.08%) Firewall
1 2 (2.08%) HTTP
1 2 (2.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 7 (7.29%) MongoDB
4 6 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (5.21%) MySQL
6 4 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.13%) Redis
8 2 (2.08%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.04%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.04%) Informix
9 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (15.63%) JIRA
2 10 (10.42%) Git
3 7 (7.29%) NUnit
4 6 (6.25%) Jenkins
5 5 (5.21%) Ant
5 5 (5.21%) Maven
5 5 (5.21%) Subversion
6 4 (4.17%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (3.13%) Visual Studio
8 2 (2.08%) MSTest
9 1 (1.04%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (1.04%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (1.04%) Postman
9 1 (1.04%) SpecFlow
General
1 31 (32.29%) Social Skills
2 24 (25.00%) Front Office
3 17 (17.71%) Finance
4 15 (15.63%) Public Sector
5 13 (13.54%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (9.38%) Banking
7 5 (5.21%) Wholesale Banking
8 2 (2.08%) Electronics
8 2 (2.08%) Law
8 2 (2.08%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.08%) Marketing
8 2 (2.08%) Retail
8 2 (2.08%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.04%) Billing
9 1 (1.04%) French Language
9 1 (1.04%) German Language
9 1 (1.04%) Legal
9 1 (1.04%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (100.00%) .NET
2 31 (32.29%) .NET Core
3 29 (30.21%) AngularJS
4 28 (29.17%) .NET Framework
5 20 (20.83%) RESTful
6 18 (18.75%) Reactive Extensions
7 16 (16.67%) ASP.NET
8 13 (13.54%) Entity Framework
9 12 (12.50%) HTML
10 11 (11.46%) CSS
11 10 (10.42%) React
12 9 (9.38%) OAuth
13 7 (7.29%) ADO
13 7 (7.29%) ASP.NET Web API
13 7 (7.29%) OpenID
13 7 (7.29%) REST
13 7 (7.29%) WCF
14 6 (6.25%) Web Services
15 5 (5.21%) ASP.NET MVC
15 5 (5.21%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 14 (14.58%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.21%) Derivative
4 5 (5.21%) Equities
4 5 (5.21%) Equity Derivative
4 5 (5.21%) Fixed Income
5 4 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (3.13%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.13%) Wiki
7 1 (1.04%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.04%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.04%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.04%) NHS
7 1 (1.04%) TWAP
7 1 (1.04%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.46%) Windows
2 5 (5.21%) Linux
2 5 (5.21%) Unix
3 1 (1.04%) Android
3 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (60.42%) Agile
2 37 (38.54%) DevOps
3 26 (27.08%) Design Patterns
4 22 (22.92%) Microservices
4 22 (22.92%) OO
5 20 (20.83%) TDD
6 18 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (17.71%) CI/CD
7 17 (17.71%) Full-Stack Development
8 15 (15.63%) User Experience
9 14 (14.58%) Containerisation
10 13 (13.54%) API Development
10 13 (13.54%) Electronic Trading
10 13 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (11.46%) Scrum
11 11 (11.46%) Software Engineering
12 10 (10.42%) Economics
12 10 (10.42%) Low Latency
13 9 (9.38%) BDD
13 9 (9.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 81 (84.38%) C#
2 44 (45.83%) SQL
3 26 (27.08%) JavaScript
4 13 (13.54%) TypeScript
5 11 (11.46%) Java
6 10 (10.42%) PowerShell
7 5 (5.21%) F#
7 5 (5.21%) PL/SQL
8 4 (4.17%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.04%) Bicep
9 1 (1.04%) C++
9 1 (1.04%) Go
9 1 (1.04%) Python
9 1 (1.04%) RPG
9 1 (1.04%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 5 (5.21%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.17%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.08%) Degree
4 1 (1.04%) MCAD
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.46%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.17%) QA
3 1 (1.04%) GDPR
3 1 (1.04%) HL7
System Software
1 16 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (17.71%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.42%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (23.96%) Microsoft
2 18 (18.75%) Oracle
3 2 (2.08%) SAP
4 1 (1.04%) IBM
4 1 (1.04%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.04%) Splunk
4 1 (1.04%) Telerik