.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 £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 June 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
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 202 198 151
Rank change year-on-year -4 -47 -34
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 106 155 395
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.09% 1.06% 1.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 1.13% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 122 336
10th Percentile £330 £271 £368
25th Percentile £410 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £750 £550 £600
90th Percentile £850 £650 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £37.80
25th Percentile £55.00 - £40.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -14.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £65.00
90th Percentile - - £77.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% +30.00% -14.53%

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 9,150 13,741 22,645
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.93% 93.60% 95.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,158 9,240 16,067
10th Percentile £331 £325 £357
25th Percentile £413 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £632 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 566 528
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £16.98
25th Percentile £16.00 £22.59 £25.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £43.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.87% -13.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.15
UK median hourly rate £27.40 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.93% -16.67% +80.00%

.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 17 June 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 17 June 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.

1 106 (100.00%) .NET
2 92 (86.79%) C#
3 71 (66.98%) Agile
4 64 (60.38%) Azure
5 48 (45.28%) SQL
6 46 (43.40%) DevOps
7 44 (41.51%) .NET Core
8 33 (31.13%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (31.13%) Social Skills
9 31 (29.25%) JavaScript
10 30 (28.30%) Microsoft
10 30 (28.30%) Design Patterns
11 29 (27.36%) AngularJS
12 28 (26.42%) OO
12 28 (26.42%) TDD
13 26 (24.53%) Finance
14 25 (23.58%) Front Office
14 25 (23.58%) SQL Server
14 25 (23.58%) CI/CD
15 24 (22.64%) .NET Framework
15 24 (22.64%) Microservices
16 23 (21.70%) Continuous Improvement
17 22 (20.75%) Product Ownership
18 20 (18.87%) Public Sector
18 20 (18.87%) Reactive Extensions
18 20 (18.87%) RESTful
19 19 (17.92%) Analytical Skills
19 19 (17.92%) Oracle
20 18 (16.98%) ASP.NET
20 18 (16.98%) User Experience

.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 (3.77%) Umbraco
2 2 (1.89%) CMS
3 1 (0.94%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.94%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.94%) IIS
3 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 64 (60.38%) Azure
2 33 (31.13%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (15.09%) AWS
4 14 (13.21%) Serverless
5 8 (7.55%) Azure Functions
6 7 (6.60%) Entra ID
7 5 (4.72%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (3.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (3.77%) GitHub
9 3 (2.83%) GCP
9 3 (2.83%) SaaS
10 2 (1.89%) Azure API Management
10 2 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.94%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.94%) Azure Event Grid
11 1 (0.94%) Azure Storage
11 1 (0.94%) NuGet
11 1 (0.94%) Sumo Logic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (23.58%) SQL Server
2 9 (8.49%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (8.49%) NoSQL
3 7 (6.60%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.72%) MySQL
5 4 (3.77%) Redis
6 3 (2.83%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.94%) Metadata
8 1 (0.94%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (15.09%) JIRA
2 11 (10.38%) Git
3 9 (8.49%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.49%) NUnit
4 6 (5.66%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (4.72%) Ant
5 5 (4.72%) Maven
5 5 (4.72%) Subversion
6 4 (3.77%) MSTest
6 4 (3.77%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.94%) GitLab
7 1 (0.94%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.94%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.94%) Postman
General
1 33 (31.13%) Social Skills
2 26 (24.53%) Finance
3 25 (23.58%) Front Office
4 20 (18.87%) Public Sector
5 19 (17.92%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (6.60%) Banking
6 7 (6.60%) Electronics
6 7 (6.60%) Manufacturing
6 7 (6.60%) Marketing
6 7 (6.60%) Telecoms
7 5 (4.72%) Wholesale Banking
8 2 (1.89%) Retail
9 1 (0.94%) Billing
9 1 (0.94%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (100.00%) .NET
2 44 (41.51%) .NET Core
3 29 (27.36%) AngularJS
4 24 (22.64%) .NET Framework
5 20 (18.87%) Reactive Extensions
5 20 (18.87%) RESTful
6 18 (16.98%) ASP.NET
7 14 (13.21%) HTML
8 13 (12.26%) CSS
9 12 (11.32%) REST
10 10 (9.43%) Entity Framework
10 10 (9.43%) React
11 9 (8.49%) OAuth
12 8 (7.55%) WCF
12 8 (7.55%) Web Services
13 7 (6.60%) ASP.NET Web API
14 6 (5.66%) ASP.NET Core
14 6 (5.66%) ASP.NET MVC
15 5 (4.72%) Akka.NET
15 5 (4.72%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 22 (20.75%) Product Ownership
2 14 (13.21%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (6.60%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.72%) Derivative
4 5 (4.72%) Equities
4 5 (4.72%) Equity Derivative
4 5 (4.72%) Fixed Income
4 5 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.72%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.83%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.83%) Wiki
7 2 (1.89%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.94%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.94%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.94%) TWAP
8 1 (0.94%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.94%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.49%) Windows
2 5 (4.72%) Android
2 5 (4.72%) Apple iOS
2 5 (4.72%) Linux
2 5 (4.72%) Unix
3 1 (0.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (66.98%) Agile
2 46 (43.40%) DevOps
3 30 (28.30%) Design Patterns
4 28 (26.42%) OO
4 28 (26.42%) TDD
5 25 (23.58%) CI/CD
6 24 (22.64%) Microservices
7 23 (21.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (16.98%) User Experience
9 17 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (15.09%) Containerisation
10 16 (15.09%) Scrum
11 15 (14.15%) BDD
11 15 (14.15%) Electronic Trading
12 14 (13.21%) Full-Stack Development
13 13 (12.26%) Mentoring
13 13 (12.26%) OWASP
14 12 (11.32%) API Development
14 12 (11.32%) Code Quality
14 12 (11.32%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 92 (86.79%) C#
2 48 (45.28%) SQL
3 31 (29.25%) JavaScript
4 16 (15.09%) TypeScript
5 13 (12.26%) Java
5 13 (12.26%) PowerShell
6 5 (4.72%) F#
7 4 (3.77%) Bicep
8 3 (2.83%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.83%) VBA
9 2 (1.89%) C
10 1 (0.94%) C++
10 1 (0.94%) Go
10 1 (0.94%) Python
10 1 (0.94%) RPG
10 1 (0.94%) RPG IV
10 1 (0.94%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.94%) VBScript
10 1 (0.94%) XAML
Qualifications
1 3 (2.83%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.89%) AWS Certification
2 2 (1.89%) Azure Certification
2 2 (1.89%) Degree
2 2 (1.89%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.94%) MCAD
3 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.32%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.72%) QA
3 1 (0.94%) GDPR
3 1 (0.94%) HL7
System Software
1 15 (14.15%) Docker
2 6 (5.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (14.15%) Kubernetes
1 15 (14.15%) Terraform
2 2 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (28.30%) Microsoft
2 19 (17.92%) Oracle
3 7 (6.60%) SAP
4 1 (0.94%) IBM
4 1 (0.94%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.94%) Splunk
4 1 (0.94%) Xamarin