.NET Framework Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft .NET Framework
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 316 251 231
Rank change year-on-year -65 -20 +7
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 78 215 338
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.93% 1.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.40% 5.12% 5.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 155 221
10th Percentile £306 £367 £356
25th Percentile £363 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £525
90th Percentile £643 £688 £613
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -13.64% +2.33% +14.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 17
10th Percentile - £56.00 £48.20
25th Percentile £75.00 £61.25 £48.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +41.41% +10.00%
75th Percentile £86.25 £77.50 £63.60
90th Percentile £88.50 £82.00 £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
UK excluding London

.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 the UK excluding London 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 3,256 4,203 6,055
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.05% 18.27% 19.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,129 3,144 4,310
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £586
90th Percentile £691 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 87 146
10th Percentile £21.96 £22.20 £20.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%
75th Percentile £65.94 £74.13 £65.51
90th Percentile £74.85 £79.19 £76.64
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing .NET Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Framework in the UK excluding London

.NET Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Framework in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for .NET Framework in the UK excluding London

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for .NET Framework in the UK excluding London

.NET Framework
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Framework in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for .NET Framework in the UK excluding London

.NET Framework
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +2 30 £450 -5.26% 93
North West +6 23 £475 - 53
South East -12 14 £450 -12.20% 40
East of England +13 13 £550 +15.79% 17
Midlands -6 9 £425 - 61
South West -10 9 £638 +15.91% 30
West Midlands +12 6 £488 +2.63% 37
Yorkshire +4 6 £400 -21.95% 33
East Midlands -5 3 £307 -27.81% 24
Wales +11 2 - - 8
Scotland +4 2 £375 -11.76% 17
North East +10 1 £375 - 9
.NET Framework
UK

.NET Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (10.26%) SharePoint
2 7 (8.97%) IIS
3 4 (5.13%) CMS
4 3 (3.85%) Confluence
5 2 (2.56%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (1.28%) Apache
6 1 (1.28%) Jadu
6 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.85%) Maximo
2 1 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 43 (55.13%) Azure
2 24 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (19.23%) AWS
4 6 (7.69%) Power Automate
4 6 (7.69%) Serverless
5 5 (6.41%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 4 (5.13%) Azure Functions
6 4 (5.13%) PaaS
6 4 (5.13%) PowerApps
7 3 (3.85%) GCP
7 3 (3.85%) npm
7 3 (3.85%) Yarn
8 2 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.56%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.56%) SaaS
8 2 (2.56%) SonarCloud
9 1 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.41%) HTTP
2 4 (5.13%) TCP/IP
2 4 (5.13%) Wireshark
3 2 (2.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (32.05%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.41%) MySQL
2 5 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.41%) SQLite
3 4 (5.13%) Power BI
4 3 (3.85%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (3.85%) Redis
5 2 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.28%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 16 (20.51%) Git
2 8 (10.26%) Visual Studio
3 5 (6.41%) Checkstyle
3 5 (6.41%) SonarQube
3 5 (6.41%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (5.13%) Fiddler
4 4 (5.13%) JIRA
5 3 (3.85%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.85%) Jasmine
5 3 (3.85%) Karma Test Runner
5 3 (3.85%) Mocha
5 3 (3.85%) NUnit
5 3 (3.85%) webpack
6 2 (2.56%) Moq
6 2 (2.56%) ReSharper
6 2 (2.56%) Selenium
6 2 (2.56%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.28%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.28%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (21.79%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.13%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.85%) Finance
5 2 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.28%) Advertising
6 1 (1.28%) Aviation
6 1 (1.28%) Banking
6 1 (1.28%) Legal
Job Titles
1 54 (69.23%) Developer
2 30 (38.46%) .NET Developer
3 11 (14.10%) Software Engineer
4 8 (10.26%) Senior
5 6 (7.69%) Applications Developer
5 6 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 6 (7.69%) Software Developer
6 5 (6.41%) Senior .NET Developer
7 4 (5.13%) Administrator
7 4 (5.13%) Architect
7 4 (5.13%) Azure Developer
7 4 (5.13%) C# Developer
7 4 (5.13%) Lead
7 4 (5.13%) Power Platform Developer
7 4 (5.13%) SharePoint Administrator
8 3 (3.85%) Lead Developer
8 3 (3.85%) Pega Developer
9 2 (2.56%) C# Software Engineer
9 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Developer
9 2 (2.56%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (100.00%) .NET
2 27 (34.62%) .NET Core
3 26 (33.33%) Entity Framework
4 14 (17.95%) Web Services
4 14 (17.95%) XML
5 13 (16.67%) HTML
5 13 (16.67%) React
6 12 (15.38%) ASP.NET
6 12 (15.38%) JSON
7 11 (14.10%) REST
7 11 (14.10%) RESTful
8 10 (12.82%) CSS
9 9 (11.54%) AngularJS
9 9 (11.54%) ASP.NET Web API
10 7 (8.97%) WCF
11 6 (7.69%) ASP.NET MVC
12 4 (5.13%) Blazor
12 4 (5.13%) jQuery
12 4 (5.13%) SAML
12 4 (5.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.69%) Data Structures
1 6 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.41%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.13%) Algorithms
3 4 (5.13%) Low-Code
3 4 (5.13%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.56%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.56%) PKI
5 2 (2.56%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.56%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.28%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.69%) Windows
2 5 (6.41%) Linux
3 2 (2.56%) Android
4 1 (1.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (53.85%) Agile
2 35 (44.87%) DevOps
3 22 (28.21%) OO
4 17 (21.79%) MVC
4 17 (21.79%) Software Engineering
5 15 (19.23%) Microservices
6 13 (16.67%) Design Patterns
7 12 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (12.82%) CI/CD
8 10 (12.82%) Scrum
9 9 (11.54%) Computer Science
9 9 (11.54%) SDLC
10 8 (10.26%) OOP
10 8 (10.26%) Test Automation
11 7 (8.97%) Full Stack Development
11 7 (8.97%) OOD
12 6 (7.69%) Code Quality
12 6 (7.69%) TDD
12 6 (7.69%) UML
12 6 (7.69%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 63 (80.77%) C#
2 24 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 16 (20.51%) SQL
4 9 (11.54%) PowerShell
5 7 (8.97%) Python
6 5 (6.41%) VB.NET
7 4 (5.13%) Java
7 4 (5.13%) MATLAB
7 4 (5.13%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.13%) VBA
8 3 (3.85%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.56%) Bash
10 1 (1.28%) Bicep
10 1 (1.28%) C++
10 1 (1.28%) PHP
10 1 (1.28%) R
10 1 (1.28%) XAML
Qualifications
1 19 (24.36%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.67%) Degree
2 13 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (6.41%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.13%) Master's Degree
5 3 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.56%) HND
7 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.28%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.13%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.13%) Active Directory
1 4 (5.13%) Docker
2 3 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.56%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (5.13%) SCOM
1 4 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
1 4 (5.13%) Terraform
2 3 (3.85%) Ansible
2 3 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.85%) PowerCLI
3 2 (2.56%) OPNET
4 1 (1.28%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (37.18%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.13%) F5
2 4 (5.13%) Oracle
2 4 (5.13%) SAP
3 3 (3.85%) Atlassian
3 3 (3.85%) Google
3 3 (3.85%) IBM
3 3 (3.85%) Nintex
3 3 (3.85%) Pega
3 3 (3.85%) VMware
3 3 (3.85%) Xamarin
4 2 (2.56%) Cisco
4 2 (2.56%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.28%) Adobe