.NET Software Engineer Contracts

.NET Software Engineer
UK

The median .NET Software Engineer daily rate in the UK is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 531 624 686
Rank change year-on-year +93 +62 -82
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Software Engineer 60 81 161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.14% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.15% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 72 133
10th Percentile £478 £550 £400
25th Percentile £563 £609 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £713
90th Percentile £800 £738 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £420 £400
% change year-on-year +7.14% +5.00% -27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £48.20
25th Percentile £75.00 - £48.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £49.00
75th Percentile £85.00 - £49.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - £49.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.89%

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 39,936 54,901 83,261
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.65% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,997 38,348 58,485
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,536 2,031
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.13 £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
% change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%

.NET Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET Software Engineer in the UK

.NET Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for .NET Software Engineer in the UK

.NET Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Software Engineer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Software Engineer in the UK

.NET Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET Software Engineer in the UK

.NET Software Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +93 59 £675 +3.85% 26
London +69 53 £700 +3.70% 9
Work from Home +108 11 £475 -30.66% 173
UK excluding London +51 6 £450 +7.14% 17
South East +27 3 £450 - 4
South West +16 2 £475 - 1
North of England +29 1 £500 - 6
Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, .NET Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 60 (100.00%) .NET
1 60 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 59 (98.33%) C#
3 42 (70.00%) Azure
4 36 (60.00%) AWS
5 33 (55.00%) DevOps
5 33 (55.00%) JavaScript
6 31 (51.67%) React
7 30 (50.00%) Agile
7 30 (50.00%) TypeScript
8 29 (48.33%) Front Office
9 28 (46.67%) Full Stack Development
10 27 (45.00%) .NET Core
10 27 (45.00%) Finance
11 25 (41.67%) QA
11 25 (41.67%) TDD
11 25 (41.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 25 (41.67%) Fintech
12 24 (40.00%) Redux
12 24 (40.00%) Asset Management
12 24 (40.00%) Derivative
12 24 (40.00%) Fixed Income
12 24 (40.00%) Equities
12 24 (40.00%) Investment Management
12 24 (40.00%) Hedge funds
12 24 (40.00%) GCP
13 16 (26.67%) SQL
14 13 (21.67%) AngularJS
15 12 (20.00%) ASP.NET
16 9 (15.00%) ASP.NET Core

.NET Software Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 42 (70.00%) Azure
2 36 (60.00%) AWS
3 24 (40.00%) GCP
4 7 (11.67%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.33%) PaaS
7 1 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.67%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.67%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.67%) GitHub
7 1 (1.67%) NuGet
7 1 (1.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.67%) Big Data
3 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.67%) MySQL
3 1 (1.67%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Git
2 2 (3.33%) Cypress.io
2 2 (3.33%) Postman
2 2 (3.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.67%) Checkstyle
General
1 29 (48.33%) Front Office
2 27 (45.00%) Finance
3 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.67%) Banking
5 1 (1.67%) Electronics
5 1 (1.67%) Marketing
5 1 (1.67%) Retail
5 1 (1.67%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (100.00%) .NET
2 31 (51.67%) React
3 27 (45.00%) .NET Core
4 24 (40.00%) Redux
5 13 (21.67%) AngularJS
6 12 (20.00%) ASP.NET
7 9 (15.00%) ASP.NET Core
7 9 (15.00%) Vue
8 7 (11.67%) .NET Framework
8 7 (11.67%) CSS
9 4 (6.67%) REST
10 3 (5.00%) XML
11 2 (3.33%) JSON
12 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET MVC
12 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET Web API
12 1 (1.67%) CSS3
12 1 (1.67%) Entity Framework
12 1 (1.67%) HTML5
12 1 (1.67%) jQuery
12 1 (1.67%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 25 (41.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 24 (40.00%) Derivative
2 24 (40.00%) Equities
2 24 (40.00%) Fixed Income
2 24 (40.00%) Hedge funds
3 1 (1.67%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.67%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.67%) IoT
3 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 33 (55.00%) DevOps
3 30 (50.00%) Agile
4 28 (46.67%) Full Stack Development
5 25 (41.67%) Fintech
5 25 (41.67%) TDD
6 24 (40.00%) Asset Management
6 24 (40.00%) Investment Management
7 8 (13.33%) Analytics
8 7 (11.67%) Microservices
9 6 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (10.00%) Data Governance
9 6 (10.00%) LLM
9 6 (10.00%) Machine Learning
10 5 (8.33%) Multithreading
11 4 (6.67%) Test Automation
12 3 (5.00%) CI/CD
12 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 3 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
12 3 (5.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 59 (98.33%) C#
2 33 (55.00%) JavaScript
3 30 (50.00%) TypeScript
4 16 (26.67%) SQL
5 6 (10.00%) T-SQL
6 4 (6.67%) Java
7 2 (3.33%) C++
7 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.67%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.67%) Degree
2 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (41.67%) QA
2 1 (1.67%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Docker
2 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (5.00%) Terraform
2 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.67%) Databricks
2 1 (1.67%) SAP