.NET Developer Contracts

.NET Developer
UK

The median .NET Developer daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 240 187 140
Rank change year-on-year -53 -47 +3
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 422 795 1,707
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.98% 1.42% 1.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.50% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 654 1,443
10th Percentile £306 £363 £363
25th Percentile £377 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 7
10th Percentile - £33.60 £45.55
25th Percentile - £40.50 £52.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -18.70% +80.88%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £62.93
90th Percentile - £68.50 £63.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.83
% change year-on-year +23.81% -15.08% +81.84%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

.NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured .NET Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Developer in the UK

.NET Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for .NET Developer in the UK

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Developer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Developer in the UK

.NET Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET Developer in the UK

.NET Developer
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England -64 356 £500 - 376
London +2 249 £588 +6.82% 111
Work from Home -44 158 £450 -5.26% 308
UK excluding London -88 128 £400 -15.79% 283
North of England -58 40 £375 -21.05% 108
South East +4 24 £470 +4.44% 47
North West -39 23 £375 -21.05% 55
Scotland +30 20 £416 -12.37% 16
Midlands -4 14 £388 +3.33% 61
Yorkshire -9 14 £350 -27.27% 36
South West -15 12 £350 -41.67% 32
East of England +1 9 £350 -5.08% 11
Wales +13 8 £425 - 7
East Midlands +1 8 £380 +13.43% 26
West Midlands -1 6 £388 -8.82% 35
North East +6 3 £413 -2.94% 19
Northern Ireland 0 2 - - 5

.NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, .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 job ads featuring .NET Developer in the job title.

1 422 (100.00%) .NET
2 330 (78.20%) C#
3 217 (51.42%) Azure
4 137 (32.46%) SQL
5 136 (32.23%) DevOps
6 134 (31.75%) SQL Server
7 119 (28.20%) Full Stack Development
8 116 (27.49%) Agile
9 115 (27.25%) .NET Core
10 112 (26.54%) Finance
11 97 (22.99%) React
12 95 (22.51%) JavaScript
13 94 (22.27%) .NET Framework
14 83 (19.67%) ASP.NET
15 78 (18.48%) AWS
15 78 (18.48%) AngularJS
16 73 (17.30%) Azure DevOps
17 58 (13.74%) Social Skills
18 57 (13.51%) Software Engineering
18 57 (13.51%) Microsoft
19 54 (12.80%) TDD
19 54 (12.80%) Microservices
20 51 (12.09%) MVC
21 49 (11.61%) Oracle
22 48 (11.37%) CI/CD
22 48 (11.37%) Problem-Solving
23 47 (11.14%) TypeScript
24 46 (10.90%) QA
25 44 (10.43%) Front Office
26 43 (10.19%) CSS

.NET Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (4.03%) CMS
2 7 (1.66%) Umbraco
3 3 (0.71%) Kentico
4 2 (0.47%) Confluence
4 2 (0.47%) IIS
4 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.47%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.24%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.24%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (3.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.24%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.24%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Aladdin
1 3 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.71%) NEC Housing
1 3 (0.71%) SimCorp Dimension
2 2 (0.47%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.24%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.24%) Endur
3 1 (0.24%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.24%) OPENHousing
3 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 217 (51.42%) Azure
2 78 (18.48%) AWS
3 73 (17.30%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (7.58%) GCP
5 27 (6.40%) Azure Service Bus
6 25 (5.92%) Serverless
7 15 (3.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 14 (3.32%) Azure AKS
9 12 (2.84%) Azure Functions
10 10 (2.37%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (2.37%) Entra ID
11 8 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (1.90%) GitHub
12 7 (1.66%) NuGet
12 7 (1.66%) PaaS
13 6 (1.42%) Amazon S3
13 6 (1.42%) Azure API Management
13 6 (1.42%) Azure App Service
13 6 (1.42%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (1.18%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.24%) HTTP
1 1 (0.24%) Internet
1 1 (0.24%) Intranet
1 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (31.75%) SQL Server
2 17 (4.03%) Oracle Database
3 16 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (3.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 13 (3.08%) Relational Database
5 13 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 12 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (2.37%) NoSQL
8 9 (2.13%) MySQL
8 9 (2.13%) Redis
9 5 (1.18%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.95%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.95%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.24%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 38 (9.00%) Git
2 14 (3.32%) Visual Studio
3 11 (2.61%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.61%) TeamCity
4 9 (2.13%) Team Foundation Server
5 8 (1.90%) GitLab
6 7 (1.66%) JIRA
6 7 (1.66%) Octopus Deploy
7 6 (1.42%) SpecFlow
8 5 (1.18%) Jasmine
9 4 (0.95%) Selenium
9 4 (0.95%) webpack
10 2 (0.47%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.47%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (0.47%) Mocha
10 2 (0.47%) NUnit
11 1 (0.24%) Gatling
11 1 (0.24%) GoCD
11 1 (0.24%) Hudson
11 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 112 (26.54%) Finance
2 58 (13.74%) Social Skills
3 44 (10.43%) Front Office
4 35 (8.29%) Public Sector
5 28 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (4.74%) Banking
7 12 (2.84%) Back Office
8 11 (2.61%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.66%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.18%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.71%) Electronics
12 3 (0.71%) Law
12 3 (0.71%) Local Government
12 3 (0.71%) Marketing
13 2 (0.47%) Advertising
13 2 (0.47%) Legal
13 2 (0.47%) Retail
14 1 (0.24%) French Language
14 1 (0.24%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 422 (100.00%) .NET
2 115 (27.25%) .NET Core
3 97 (22.99%) React
4 94 (22.27%) .NET Framework
5 83 (19.67%) ASP.NET
6 78 (18.48%) AngularJS
7 43 (10.19%) CSS
8 42 (9.95%) HTML
9 41 (9.72%) Entity Framework
10 26 (6.16%) RESTful
11 24 (5.69%) Blazor
12 23 (5.45%) Redux
13 22 (5.21%) REST
14 21 (4.98%) Vue
14 21 (4.98%) Web Services
15 20 (4.74%) ASP.NET Core
16 18 (4.27%) ASP.NET Web API
17 17 (4.03%) Kafka
18 15 (3.55%) WCF
19 13 (3.08%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.35%) Hedge funds
2 30 (7.11%) Fixed Income
3 29 (6.87%) Equities
4 28 (6.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 27 (6.40%) Product Ownership
6 21 (4.98%) Derivative
7 17 (4.03%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (3.32%) Legacy Applications
9 9 (2.13%) Wiki
10 8 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.66%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.42%) Algorithms
13 5 (1.18%) NHS
14 4 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
14 4 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
15 3 (0.71%) Cloud Native
15 3 (0.71%) Data Structures
15 3 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
15 3 (0.71%) IoT
15 3 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.27%) Windows
2 6 (1.42%) Linux
3 2 (0.47%) Unix
4 1 (0.24%) Android
4 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (32.23%) DevOps
2 119 (28.20%) Full Stack Development
3 116 (27.49%) Agile
4 57 (13.51%) Software Engineering
5 54 (12.80%) Microservices
5 54 (12.80%) TDD
6 51 (12.09%) MVC
7 48 (11.37%) CI/CD
7 48 (11.37%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (9.24%) Fintech
9 37 (8.77%) Asset Management
10 33 (7.82%) Scrum
10 33 (7.82%) User Experience
11 28 (6.64%) Unit Testing
12 27 (6.40%) Code Quality
12 27 (6.40%) Design Patterns
13 26 (6.16%) OO
14 21 (4.98%) Investment Management
14 21 (4.98%) Test Automation
15 18 (4.27%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 330 (78.20%) C#
2 137 (32.46%) SQL
3 95 (22.51%) JavaScript
4 47 (11.14%) TypeScript
5 38 (9.00%) PL/SQL
6 36 (8.53%) PowerShell
7 26 (6.16%) T-SQL
8 21 (4.98%) VB.NET
9 16 (3.79%) VBA
10 14 (3.32%) Bicep
11 13 (3.08%) Python
12 12 (2.84%) VB
13 11 (2.61%) Java
14 4 (0.95%) C
14 4 (0.95%) C++
14 4 (0.95%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.24%) Embedded C++
15 1 (0.24%) Perl
15 1 (0.24%) PHP
15 1 (0.24%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 25 (5.92%) Degree
2 19 (4.50%) Security Cleared
3 18 (4.27%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.24%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (10.90%) QA
2 11 (2.61%) MiFID
3 9 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.42%) EMIR
5 5 (1.18%) Dodd-Frank
6 3 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.71%) WCAG
7 2 (0.47%) GDPR
8 1 (0.24%) HL7
8 1 (0.24%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 12 (2.84%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (5.92%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.50%) Terraform
3 4 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.71%) Ansible
5 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.24%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 57 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 49 (11.61%) Oracle
3 11 (2.61%) Citrix
4 5 (1.18%) Virgin Media
5 4 (0.95%) Optimizely
6 3 (0.71%) Google
6 3 (0.71%) NEC
6 3 (0.71%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.71%) SAP
6 3 (0.71%) SimCorp
6 3 (0.71%) Sitecore
6 3 (0.71%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe
7 1 (0.24%) Atmel
7 1 (0.24%) Capita
7 1 (0.24%) Civica
7 1 (0.24%) IBM
7 1 (0.24%) Informatica
7 1 (0.24%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.24%) Splunk