.NET Framework Contracts in England

Microsoft .NET Framework
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for .NET Framework skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited .NET Framework over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 295 290 227
Rank change year-on-year -5 -63 +58
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 263 428 902
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.72% 0.89% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.51% 3.87% 4.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 335 692
10th Percentile £343 £379 £375
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +0.92% +14.74%
75th Percentile £588 £694 £650
90th Percentile £700 £806 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -13.64% +2.33% +14.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 18
10th Percentile - £52.83 £48.27
25th Percentile £75.00 £60.12 £48.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 £49.74
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +50.78% +11.16%
75th Percentile £86.25 £85.63 £63.01
90th Percentile £88.50 £87.58 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 £51.74
% change year-on-year - +54.61% +21.75%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Framework is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,485 11,072 18,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.57% 22.98% 26.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,308 8,225 14,183
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £568
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -1.32% +13.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 132 215
10th Percentile £22.50 £26.18 £23.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing .NET Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Framework in England

.NET Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Framework in England.

Daily rate trend for .NET Framework in England

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Framework in England

.NET Framework
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Framework in England.

Hourly rate trend for .NET Framework in England

.NET Framework
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Framework within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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
London +52 183 £500 -16.67% 80
North of England +2 30 £450 -5.26% 92
North West +6 23 £475 - 52
South East -12 14 £450 -12.20% 41
East of England +13 13 £550 +15.79% 17
Midlands -6 9 £425 - 61
South West -10 9 £638 +15.91% 31
West Midlands +12 6 £488 +2.63% 37
Yorkshire +4 6 £400 -21.95% 33
East Midlands -5 3 £307 -27.81% 24
North East +10 1 £375 - 9
.NET Framework
UK

.NET Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 25 (9.51%) IIS
2 17 (6.46%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.28%) CMS
4 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.14%) Confluence
5 3 (1.14%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.76%) Apache
6 2 (0.76%) Jadu
Applications
1 25 (9.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 14 (5.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.14%) Maximo
3 2 (0.76%) Endur
4 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 167 (63.50%) Azure
2 101 (38.40%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (12.17%) AWS
4 28 (10.65%) Entra ID
5 17 (6.46%) Power Platform
6 15 (5.70%) Azure Service Bus
6 15 (5.70%) Serverless
7 12 (4.56%) Azure Functions
7 12 (4.56%) Power Automate
8 11 (4.18%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (3.80%) PowerApps
10 8 (3.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (2.66%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (2.66%) GitHub
12 6 (2.28%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (2.28%) PaaS
13 5 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (1.52%) Azure API Management
15 3 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
15 3 (1.14%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.46%) Internet
2 6 (2.28%) HTTP
3 5 (1.90%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.90%) Wireshark
4 2 (0.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (47.91%) SQL Server
2 20 (7.60%) Oracle Database
3 12 (4.56%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.42%) Power BI
5 8 (3.04%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (2.66%) MySQL
6 7 (2.66%) Redis
6 7 (2.66%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (2.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.90%) SQLite
8 4 (1.52%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.14%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.76%) Big Data
10 2 (0.76%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.76%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.76%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 49 (18.63%) Git
2 35 (13.31%) SpecFlow
3 29 (11.03%) Visual Studio
4 28 (10.65%) Selenium
5 21 (7.98%) WebDriver
6 14 (5.32%) NUnit
7 13 (4.94%) TeamCity
8 11 (4.18%) Cucumber
8 11 (4.18%) Postman
8 11 (4.18%) SoapUI
9 10 (3.80%) Appium
9 10 (3.80%) JIRA
10 9 (3.42%) eggPlant
10 9 (3.42%) JUnit
10 9 (3.42%) Moq
10 9 (3.42%) REST Assured
10 9 (3.42%) SOAtest
10 9 (3.42%) TestNG
11 8 (3.04%) SonarQube
12 6 (2.28%) GitLab
General
1 68 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 37 (14.07%) Finance
3 26 (9.89%) Public Sector
4 25 (9.51%) Banking
5 15 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.18%) Investment Banking
7 10 (3.80%) Front Office
8 6 (2.28%) Back Office
8 6 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.52%) Local Government
9 4 (1.52%) Retail
10 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Advertising
11 1 (0.38%) Aviation
11 1 (0.38%) Billing
11 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.38%) Law
11 1 (0.38%) Legal
11 1 (0.38%) Marketing
11 1 (0.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 178 (67.68%) Developer
2 77 (29.28%) .NET Developer
3 67 (25.48%) C# Developer
4 59 (22.43%) Senior
5 45 (17.11%) Software Developer
6 41 (15.59%) Senior Developer
7 28 (10.65%) Software Engineer
8 27 (10.27%) Azure Developer
8 27 (10.27%) C# .NET Developer
8 27 (10.27%) Senior Software Developer
9 23 (8.75%) Full Stack Developer
10 17 (6.46%) Architect
11 12 (4.56%) Analyst
11 12 (4.56%) Full Stack .NET Developer
11 12 (4.56%) Lead
12 11 (4.18%) Senior Analyst
12 11 (4.18%) Senior Test Analyst
12 11 (4.18%) Test Analyst
13 10 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (3.80%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 263 (100.00%) .NET
2 63 (23.95%) XML
3 62 (23.57%) AngularJS
4 60 (22.81%) Entity Framework
5 53 (20.15%) .NET Core
6 44 (16.73%) ASP.NET
7 37 (14.07%) React
8 33 (12.55%) HTML
9 29 (11.03%) WCF
10 28 (10.65%) Web Services
11 23 (8.75%) CSS
11 23 (8.75%) REST
12 19 (7.22%) JSON
12 19 (7.22%) RESTful
13 18 (6.84%) ASP.NET Web API
13 18 (6.84%) Blazor
14 14 (5.32%) WPF
15 12 (4.56%) jQuery
16 11 (4.18%) HTML5
16 11 (4.18%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.51%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (3.04%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.04%) Derivative
4 6 (2.28%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.28%) Replication
5 5 (1.90%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (1.90%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.52%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 4 (1.52%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.52%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.14%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.14%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.76%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (0.76%) Market Risk
8 2 (0.76%) PKI
8 2 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (11.79%) Windows
2 6 (2.28%) Linux
3 2 (0.76%) Android
4 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (53.61%) DevOps
2 134 (50.95%) Agile
3 78 (29.66%) CI/CD
4 68 (25.86%) Scrum
5 51 (19.39%) Test Automation
6 50 (19.01%) Software Engineering
7 36 (13.69%) Full Stack Development
7 36 (13.69%) MVC
8 33 (12.55%) SDLC
8 33 (12.55%) TDD
9 31 (11.79%) Microservices
10 29 (11.03%) B2C
10 29 (11.03%) OO
11 28 (10.65%) BDD
12 26 (9.89%) Continuous Integration
12 26 (9.89%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (9.13%) Design Patterns
14 23 (8.75%) Software Testing
15 21 (7.98%) Unit Testing
16 17 (6.46%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 232 (88.21%) C#
2 93 (35.36%) SQL
3 72 (27.38%) PowerShell
4 57 (21.67%) JavaScript
5 26 (9.89%) PL/SQL
5 26 (9.89%) VBA
6 22 (8.37%) T-SQL
7 21 (7.98%) Java
8 20 (7.60%) VB
9 17 (6.46%) VB.NET
10 15 (5.70%) Python
11 11 (4.18%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.52%) C++
12 4 (1.52%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.76%) Bash
13 2 (0.76%) C
13 2 (0.76%) PHP
14 1 (0.38%) Bicep
14 1 (0.38%) R
14 1 (0.38%) XAML
Qualifications
1 33 (12.55%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.65%) Degree
3 26 (9.89%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.90%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.52%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.76%) HND
9 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.27%) QA
2 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (12.55%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.04%) Docker
3 3 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.76%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
1 6 (2.28%) Terraform
2 5 (1.90%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.90%) SCOM
3 3 (1.14%) Ansible
3 3 (1.14%) PowerCLI
4 2 (0.76%) OPNET
4 2 (0.76%) SCOrch
5 1 (0.38%) Kibana
5 1 (0.38%) logstash
5 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 109 (41.44%) Microsoft
2 49 (18.63%) Oracle
3 15 (5.70%) Citrix
4 6 (2.28%) SAP
5 5 (1.90%) F5
6 4 (1.52%) Google
6 4 (1.52%) IBM
6 4 (1.52%) Nintex
7 3 (1.14%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.14%) Pega
7 3 (1.14%) Sitecore
7 3 (1.14%) VMware
8 2 (0.76%) Cisco
8 2 (0.76%) OpenLink
8 2 (0.76%) Optimizely
8 2 (0.76%) TIBCO
8 2 (0.76%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.38%) Cerner
9 1 (0.38%) Databricks