.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 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 247 178 139
Rank change year-on-year -69 -39 +3
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 423 829 1,732
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.99% 1.46% 1.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 1.54% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 684 1,453
10th Percentile £306 £363 £363
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £516 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.99% +3.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £717
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 7
10th Percentile - £34.80 £45.55
25th Percentile - £45.00 £52.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.00 £62.15
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -19.55% +82.79%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £62.88
90th Percentile - £85.55 £63.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £62.15
% change year-on-year +23.81% -15.53% +82.79%

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 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +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 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £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 16 May 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 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
England -70 353 £500 -2.44% 406
London -3 244 £600 +4.35% 130
Work from Home -52 163 £450 -5.26% 380
UK excluding London -91 126 £375 -16.67% 295
North of England -57 41 £363 -23.68% 120
North West -41 25 £375 -21.05% 65
South East +1 22 £470 +7.43% 43
Scotland +25 17 £375 -21.05% 13
Midlands -3 17 £350 -2.78% 62
Yorkshire -12 14 £350 -27.27% 37
South West -16 11 £350 -36.36% 31
East Midlands +1 10 £338 +2.27% 25
East of England +9 9 £350 +3.70% 15
Wales +10 8 £425 - 14
West Midlands +9 7 £375 -11.76% 37
Northern Ireland +3 2 - - 3
North East +1 2 £375 -16.67% 21

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 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.

1 423 (100.00%) .NET
2 338 (79.91%) C#
3 207 (48.94%) Azure
4 140 (33.10%) SQL
5 133 (31.44%) DevOps
6 129 (30.50%) SQL Server
7 119 (28.13%) .NET Core
8 116 (27.42%) Finance
8 116 (27.42%) Full Stack Development
9 114 (26.95%) Agile
10 100 (23.64%) JavaScript
11 99 (23.40%) React
12 88 (20.80%) .NET Framework
13 85 (20.09%) ASP.NET
14 84 (19.86%) AWS
15 78 (18.44%) AngularJS
16 70 (16.55%) Azure DevOps
17 63 (14.89%) Microsoft
18 59 (13.95%) Software Engineering
19 55 (13.00%) MVC
20 54 (12.77%) TDD
20 54 (12.77%) Microservices
20 54 (12.77%) Social Skills
21 49 (11.58%) TypeScript
22 48 (11.35%) QA
23 47 (11.11%) Oracle
23 47 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
24 46 (10.87%) CI/CD
25 43 (10.17%) Fintech
25 43 (10.17%) HTML

.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 (4.02%) CMS
2 7 (1.65%) Umbraco
3 4 (0.95%) IIS
4 3 (0.71%) Kentico
4 3 (0.71%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.47%) Confluence
5 2 (0.47%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.24%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.24%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.24%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.24%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.71%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.47%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.47%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.47%) SAP GTS
2 2 (0.47%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (0.24%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.24%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.24%) OPENHousing
3 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 207 (48.94%) Azure
2 84 (19.86%) AWS
3 70 (16.55%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (8.04%) GCP
5 24 (5.67%) Serverless
6 23 (5.44%) Azure Service Bus
7 15 (3.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 13 (3.07%) Azure AKS
9 10 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (2.13%) Azure Functions
11 8 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (1.89%) Entra ID
12 7 (1.65%) NuGet
13 6 (1.42%) Amazon S3
13 6 (1.42%) Azure API Management
13 6 (1.42%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (1.42%) GitHub
14 5 (1.18%) Azure App Service
14 5 (1.18%) Azure Machine Learning
14 5 (1.18%) PaaS
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
1 129 (30.50%) SQL Server
2 18 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 17 (4.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 16 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (3.31%) Oracle Database
5 14 (3.31%) Relational Database
6 10 (2.36%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.13%) MySQL
8 8 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.18%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.18%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.18%) Redis
10 4 (0.95%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.47%) DTS
12 1 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.24%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.24%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 36 (8.51%) Git
2 15 (3.55%) Visual Studio
3 12 (2.84%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.60%) TeamCity
5 10 (2.36%) Team Foundation Server
6 8 (1.89%) JIRA
7 7 (1.65%) GitLab
7 7 (1.65%) Octopus Deploy
8 6 (1.42%) SpecFlow
9 5 (1.18%) Jasmine
10 4 (0.95%) Selenium
10 4 (0.95%) webpack
11 3 (0.71%) NUnit
12 2 (0.47%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.47%) Karma Test Runner
12 2 (0.47%) Mocha
13 1 (0.24%) Hudson
13 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 1 (0.24%) WebDriver
General
1 116 (27.42%) Finance
2 54 (12.77%) Social Skills
3 42 (9.93%) Front Office
4 33 (7.80%) Public Sector
5 27 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (5.67%) Banking
7 15 (3.55%) Back Office
8 12 (2.84%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.65%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.18%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.95%) Law
12 3 (0.71%) Automotive
12 3 (0.71%) Electronics
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%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 423 (100.00%) .NET
2 119 (28.13%) .NET Core
3 99 (23.40%) React
4 88 (20.80%) .NET Framework
5 85 (20.09%) ASP.NET
6 78 (18.44%) AngularJS
7 43 (10.17%) HTML
8 42 (9.93%) CSS
9 35 (8.27%) Entity Framework
10 25 (5.91%) Redux
11 24 (5.67%) RESTful
12 23 (5.44%) Vue
13 22 (5.20%) ASP.NET Core
13 22 (5.20%) REST
14 21 (4.96%) Blazor
15 20 (4.73%) Web Services
16 18 (4.26%) ASP.NET Web API
17 15 (3.55%) Kafka
18 13 (3.07%) ASP.NET MVC
18 13 (3.07%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.80%) Hedge funds
2 32 (7.57%) Fixed Income
3 31 (7.33%) Equities
4 30 (7.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 25 (5.91%) Product Ownership
6 23 (5.44%) Derivative
7 17 (4.02%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (2.84%) Legacy Applications
9 7 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.65%) Wiki
10 6 (1.42%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.18%) NHS
12 4 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.95%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (0.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 3 (0.71%) Cloud Native
13 3 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.71%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.02%) Windows
2 5 (1.18%) Linux
3 1 (0.24%) Android
3 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.24%) Unix
3 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (31.44%) DevOps
2 116 (27.42%) Full Stack Development
3 114 (26.95%) Agile
4 59 (13.95%) Software Engineering
5 55 (13.00%) MVC
6 54 (12.77%) Microservices
6 54 (12.77%) TDD
7 47 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (10.87%) CI/CD
9 43 (10.17%) Fintech
10 37 (8.75%) Asset Management
11 33 (7.80%) User Experience
12 30 (7.09%) Unit Testing
13 29 (6.86%) OO
13 29 (6.86%) Scrum
14 26 (6.15%) Code Quality
14 26 (6.15%) Design Patterns
15 23 (5.44%) Investment Management
16 19 (4.49%) Continuous Integration
16 19 (4.49%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 338 (79.91%) C#
2 140 (33.10%) SQL
3 100 (23.64%) JavaScript
4 49 (11.58%) TypeScript
5 35 (8.27%) PL/SQL
6 32 (7.57%) PowerShell
7 22 (5.20%) T-SQL
8 20 (4.73%) VB.NET
9 15 (3.55%) Python
9 15 (3.55%) VBA
10 14 (3.31%) Bicep
11 11 (2.60%) Java
11 11 (2.60%) VB
12 4 (0.95%) C
12 4 (0.95%) C++
12 4 (0.95%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.24%) F#
13 1 (0.24%) Go
13 1 (0.24%) R
13 1 (0.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (5.67%) Degree
2 19 (4.49%) Security Cleared
3 18 (4.26%) 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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (11.35%) QA
2 11 (2.60%) MiFID
3 9 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.42%) EMIR
5 5 (1.18%) Dodd-Frank
6 3 (0.71%) WCAG
7 2 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
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 10 (2.36%) Active Directory
1 10 (2.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (4.73%) Terraform
2 18 (4.26%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.71%) Ansible
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.24%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 63 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 47 (11.11%) Oracle
3 9 (2.13%) Citrix
4 7 (1.65%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.18%) SAP
6 4 (0.95%) Optimizely
6 4 (0.95%) Xamarin
7 3 (0.71%) Google
7 3 (0.71%) Murex
7 3 (0.71%) NEC
7 3 (0.71%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.47%) SimCorp
8 2 (0.47%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.24%) Aareon
9 1 (0.24%) Atmel
9 1 (0.24%) Capita
9 1 (0.24%) Cerner
9 1 (0.24%) Civica
9 1 (0.24%) mParticle
9 1 (0.24%) MuleSoft