.NET Contracts

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for .NET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited .NET over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 48 38
Rank change year-on-year -5 -10 -2
Contract jobs citing .NET 1,544 2,480 5,216
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.59% 4.42% 5.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.05% 19.27% 22.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,155 1,940 4,089
10th Percentile £325 £388 £385
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.19% +13.16%
75th Percentile £647 £700 £669
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £485 £475
% change year-on-year -7.22% +2.11% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 46
10th Percentile £20.77 £33.00 £20.25
25th Percentile £23.56 £43.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £58.91 £53.99 £49.74
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% +8.53% +22.82%
75th Percentile £64.69 £70.63 £63.26
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £69.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.91 £55.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year +7.10% +11.11% +22.22%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

.NET 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 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 9,058 12,870 23,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.04% 22.96% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 9,398 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 147 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.45 £25.05
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.55 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -25.49% +17.65% +22.78%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the UK

.NET
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for .NET in the UK

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the UK

.NET
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET in the UK

.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing .NET over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for .NET in the UK

.NET
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 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 -5 1,357 £538 -6.52% 1,276
London +7 924 £575 -8.73% 387
Work from Home 0 595 £500 -9.09% 858
UK excluding London -34 459 £450 -7.22% 949
North of England -37 106 £436 -8.21% 299
South West +16 96 £585 +6.36% 102
South East -50 94 £490 -4.16% 182
North West -30 63 £445 -6.32% 172
Midlands -29 61 £450 +4.65% 211
Scotland -12 48 £423 -11.05% 52
West Midlands -18 40 £481 -3.75% 125
East of England 0 36 £475 +4.11% 73
Yorkshire -17 36 £420 -11.63% 86
East Midlands -20 23 £410 -0.61% 86
Wales -9 19 £413 -28.26% 28
North East +9 7 £375 -14.29% 45
Northern Ireland -1 4 - - 17

.NET
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 47 (3.04%) CMS
1 47 (3.04%) IIS
2 44 (2.85%) SharePoint
3 36 (2.33%) Confluence
4 32 (2.07%) Umbraco
5 11 (0.71%) BizTalk Server
6 9 (0.58%) Apache
7 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.32%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.32%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.32%) Drupal
8 5 (0.32%) WordPress
9 4 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.19%) Kentico
10 3 (0.19%) nginx
10 3 (0.19%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.13%) EPiServer
11 2 (0.13%) Jadu
Applications
1 40 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.065%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.065%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.065%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.065%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 42 (2.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.17%) Endur
3 8 (0.52%) NEC Housing
4 7 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
5 6 (0.39%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.39%) SimCorp Dimension
6 4 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.19%) Magento
7 3 (0.19%) Maximo
8 2 (0.13%) Fidessa
8 2 (0.13%) Shopify
9 1 (0.065%) Aareon QL
9 1 (0.065%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.065%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
9 1 (0.065%) MIS ActiveH
9 1 (0.065%) OPENHousing
9 1 (0.065%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 807 (52.27%) Azure
2 359 (23.25%) Azure DevOps
3 231 (14.96%) AWS
4 126 (8.16%) Azure Service Bus
5 97 (6.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 88 (5.70%) Entra ID
7 81 (5.25%) Power Platform
8 80 (5.18%) Serverless
9 60 (3.89%) Dynamics 365
10 57 (3.69%) GCP
11 54 (3.50%) PaaS
12 52 (3.37%) Azure Functions
12 52 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
13 47 (3.04%) PowerApps
14 46 (2.98%) Azure Logic Apps
15 44 (2.85%) Power Automate
16 36 (2.33%) GitHub
17 33 (2.14%) Azure AKS
18 32 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
19 30 (1.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.55%) Internet
2 14 (0.91%) DNS
2 14 (0.91%) Network Security
3 13 (0.84%) TCP/IP
3 13 (0.84%) VPN
4 11 (0.71%) HTTP
5 9 (0.58%) Firewall
6 8 (0.52%) FTP
7 6 (0.39%) DHCP
8 5 (0.32%) SSL
8 5 (0.32%) Wireshark
9 4 (0.26%) Intranet
10 3 (0.19%) AMQP
10 3 (0.19%) LAN
10 3 (0.19%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.19%) SSH
10 3 (0.19%) WAN
10 3 (0.19%) Wireless
11 2 (0.13%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (0.13%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 446 (28.89%) SQL Server
2 64 (4.15%) NoSQL
3 55 (3.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 50 (3.24%) Relational Database
5 40 (2.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 39 (2.53%) Power BI
7 37 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
8 34 (2.20%) Oracle Database
8 34 (2.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 33 (2.14%) MySQL
10 30 (1.94%) Redis
11 25 (1.62%) MongoDB
12 22 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
13 19 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
14 13 (0.84%) Data Lake
15 12 (0.78%) Big Data
16 10 (0.65%) DynamoDB
17 9 (0.58%) BusinessObjects
17 9 (0.58%) GIS
18 8 (0.52%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 197 (12.76%) Git
2 99 (6.41%) Visual Studio
3 75 (4.86%) Jenkins
4 60 (3.89%) JIRA
4 60 (3.89%) TeamCity
5 59 (3.82%) SpecFlow
6 54 (3.50%) Selenium
7 37 (2.40%) Bitbucket
8 34 (2.20%) NUnit
9 31 (2.01%) Postman
10 27 (1.75%) Cucumber
10 27 (1.75%) WebDriver
11 26 (1.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 20 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
13 19 (1.23%) Moq
14 18 (1.17%) Cypress.io
15 13 (0.84%) GitLab
15 13 (0.84%) Subversion
16 12 (0.78%) Appium
16 12 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 278 (18.01%) Social Skills
2 272 (17.62%) Finance
3 152 (9.84%) Public Sector
4 104 (6.74%) Front Office
5 101 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
6 96 (6.22%) Banking
7 58 (3.76%) Back Office
8 48 (3.11%) Investment Banking
9 30 (1.94%) Local Government
10 18 (1.17%) Aerospace
11 16 (1.04%) Manufacturing
11 16 (1.04%) Retail
12 15 (0.97%) Marketing
13 12 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (0.71%) Financial Institution
14 11 (0.71%) Law
14 11 (0.71%) Telecoms
15 9 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
16 8 (0.52%) Electronics
16 8 (0.52%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 954 (61.79%) Developer
2 422 (27.33%) .NET Developer
3 249 (16.13%) Senior
4 236 (15.28%) C# Developer
5 163 (10.56%) Senior Developer
6 145 (9.39%) Full Stack Developer
7 133 (8.61%) Software Engineer
8 108 (6.99%) C# .NET Developer
8 108 (6.99%) Lead
9 102 (6.61%) Architect
10 99 (6.41%) Software Developer
11 89 (5.76%) Azure Developer
12 65 (4.21%) Full Stack .NET Developer
13 57 (3.69%) .NET Software Engineer
14 49 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
14 49 (3.17%) React Developer
15 45 (2.91%) Analyst
15 45 (2.91%) DevOps Engineer
16 44 (2.85%) Senior .NET Developer
17 43 (2.78%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 364 (23.58%) .NET Core
2 306 (19.82%) .NET Framework
3 239 (15.48%) React
4 238 (15.41%) ASP.NET
5 207 (13.41%) AngularJS
6 174 (11.27%) HTML
7 169 (10.95%) CSS
8 133 (8.61%) XML
9 105 (6.80%) REST
10 86 (5.57%) Entity Framework
11 84 (5.44%) Web Services
12 78 (5.05%) RESTful
13 69 (4.47%) ASP.NET Core
14 67 (4.34%) Blazor
15 65 (4.21%) WCF
16 57 (3.69%) ASP.NET Web API
17 47 (3.04%) jQuery
18 46 (2.98%) Vue
19 45 (2.91%) Kafka
19 45 (2.91%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 92 (5.96%) Product Ownership
2 45 (2.91%) Derivative
3 43 (2.78%) Fixed Income
3 43 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
4 39 (2.53%) Hedge funds
5 36 (2.33%) Equities
6 32 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 27 (1.75%) Cloud Native
7 27 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (1.75%) Mobile App
8 25 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
9 24 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
11 17 (1.10%) Public Cloud
12 16 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
13 15 (0.97%) Data Structures
13 15 (0.97%) Onboarding
14 14 (0.91%) Algorithms
15 13 (0.84%) Client/Server
16 12 (0.78%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 130 (8.42%) Windows
2 73 (4.73%) Linux
3 32 (2.07%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.30%) Android
5 18 (1.17%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.71%) Unix
7 4 (0.26%) VMS
8 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.19%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.065%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 556 (36.01%) DevOps
2 541 (35.04%) Agile
3 285 (18.46%) CI/CD
4 232 (15.03%) Software Engineering
5 230 (14.90%) Full Stack Development
6 200 (12.95%) TDD
7 187 (12.11%) Microservices
8 183 (11.85%) Problem-Solving
8 183 (11.85%) Scrum
9 175 (11.33%) OO
10 157 (10.17%) Test Automation
11 154 (9.97%) MVC
12 102 (6.61%) Continuous Integration
13 101 (6.54%) SDLC
14 92 (5.96%) Design Patterns
15 88 (5.70%) API Management
15 88 (5.70%) Migration
16 79 (5.12%) B2C
17 77 (4.99%) SOLID
18 75 (4.86%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,114 (72.15%) C#
2 499 (32.32%) SQL
3 323 (20.92%) JavaScript
4 245 (15.87%) PowerShell
5 147 (9.52%) TypeScript
6 135 (8.74%) Java
6 135 (8.74%) Python
7 102 (6.61%) Bicep
8 73 (4.73%) T-SQL
9 70 (4.53%) PL/SQL
10 62 (4.02%) C++
11 52 (3.37%) VB.NET
12 47 (3.04%) VBA
13 38 (2.46%) VB
14 30 (1.94%) C
15 22 (1.42%) Ruby
16 19 (1.23%) PHP
17 15 (0.97%) Bash
18 12 (0.78%) Go
19 8 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 152 (9.84%) Security Cleared
2 118 (7.64%) SC Cleared
3 111 (7.19%) Degree
4 36 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (1.30%) DV Cleared
6 18 (1.17%) Master's Degree
7 11 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (0.65%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.45%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.32%) CISSP
12 4 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.19%) CISA
13 3 (0.19%) CISM
13 3 (0.19%) HNC
13 3 (0.19%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.13%) CCNP
14 2 (0.13%) HND
14 2 (0.13%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (7.38%) QA
2 47 (3.04%) Accessibility
3 26 (1.68%) WCAG
4 11 (0.71%) MiFID
5 8 (0.52%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
7 6 (0.39%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.39%) EMIR
7 6 (0.39%) SLA
8 5 (0.32%) Dodd-Frank
9 4 (0.26%) GDPR
9 4 (0.26%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.19%) GRC
10 3 (0.19%) HL7
10 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.065%) DICOM
11 1 (0.065%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 141 (9.13%) Active Directory
2 95 (6.15%) Docker
3 20 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.97%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.58%) vSphere
7 6 (0.39%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.19%) NFS
8 3 (0.19%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.065%) Firmware
9 1 (0.065%) GridGain
9 1 (0.065%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 105 (6.80%) Kubernetes
2 75 (4.86%) Terraform
3 63 (4.08%) Ansible
4 27 (1.75%) PowerCLI
5 21 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (0.91%) SCOM
7 10 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
8 9 (0.58%) BladeLogic
9 6 (0.39%) SCCM
10 5 (0.32%) WSUS
11 4 (0.26%) Grafana
11 4 (0.26%) OPNET
11 4 (0.26%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.26%) Puppet
12 3 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.19%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.13%) SCOrch
14 1 (0.065%) Kibana
14 1 (0.065%) logstash
Vendors
1 367 (23.77%) Microsoft
2 149 (9.65%) Oracle
3 32 (2.07%) SAP
4 31 (2.01%) Citrix
5 28 (1.81%) Atlassian
6 22 (1.42%) Dell
6 22 (1.42%) HP
6 22 (1.42%) VMware
7 18 (1.17%) MuleSoft
7 18 (1.17%) OpenLink
8 17 (1.10%) Databricks
9 16 (1.04%) Google
9 16 (1.04%) Xamarin
10 10 (0.65%) TIBCO
11 9 (0.58%) Altiris
11 9 (0.58%) Dynatrace
11 9 (0.58%) F5
11 9 (0.58%) Salesforce
12 8 (0.52%) NEC
12 8 (0.52%) Virgin Media