Hybrid/Remote .NET Software Engineer Contract Job Trends

.NET Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median .NET Software Engineer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £444, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 318 400
Rank change year-on-year +10 +82 +156
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Software Engineer 7 2 8
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.070% 0.017% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.018% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 7
10th Percentile £344 £508 £433
25th Percentile £366 £519 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year -19.32% -21.43% +40.00%
75th Percentile £503 £594 £769
90th Percentile £541 £613 £813
UK median daily rate £490 £575 £700
% change year-on-year -14.78% -17.86% +12.00%

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 remote/hybrid work 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 9,418 11,212 17,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.76% 93.22% 94.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,164 7,053 12,304
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £645
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 193 382
10th Percentile £14.84 £19.36 £17.01
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.50 £25.24
Median hourly rate £41.50 £41.57 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% -16.87% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.28 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.54% -17.16% +57.89%

.NET Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring '.NET Software Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

.NET Software Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

.NET Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid .NET Software Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid .NET Software Engineer job vacancies

.NET Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing .NET Software Engineer over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

.NET Software Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

.NET Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid .NET Software Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid .NET Software Engineer job vacancies

.NET Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 4 November 2025, .NET Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring .NET Software Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) .NET
1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) C#
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) OOP
3 4 (57.14%) SQL
4 3 (42.86%) API Development
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) OO
5 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
5 2 (28.57%) Cash Management
5 2 (28.57%) Docker
5 2 (28.57%) FHIR
5 2 (28.57%) Fintech
5 2 (28.57%) Kafka
5 2 (28.57%) Microservices
5 2 (28.57%) Migration
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Salesforce
5 2 (28.57%) Scrum
5 2 (28.57%) SOLID
5 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
5 2 (28.57%) Terraform
5 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
6 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
6 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
6 1 (14.29%) API Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Ariba

.NET Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MSTest
1 1 (14.29%) Postman
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
2 2 (28.57%) FHIR
2 2 (28.57%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
3 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
3 1 (14.29%) Entity Framework
3 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
3 1 (14.29%) JSON
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) Swagger
3 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
1 1 (14.29%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) OOP
4 3 (42.86%) API Development
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) OO
5 2 (28.57%) Cash Management
5 2 (28.57%) Fintech
5 2 (28.57%) Microservices
5 2 (28.57%) Migration
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Scrum
5 2 (28.57%) SOLID
6 1 (14.29%) API Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Health Informatics
6 1 (14.29%) OOD
6 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
6 1 (14.29%) TDD
6 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C#
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Bicep
4 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) DICOM
1 1 (14.29%) HL7
1 1 (14.29%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) Ariba
2 1 (14.29%) Brio
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) SAP