.NET Framework Contracts

Microsoft .NET Framework
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 301 294 241
Rank change year-on-year -7 -53 +50
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 293 514 1,078
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.69% 0.90% 1.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.29% 3.88% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 399 819
10th Percentile £325 £400 £365
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +2.33% +14.36%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £650
90th Percentile £688 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £460
% change year-on-year -5.26% +3.26% +8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 19
10th Percentile - £52.50 £48.35
25th Percentile £75.00 £57.74 £48.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year - +49.53% +25.88%
75th Percentile £86.25 £85.00 £63.60
90th Percentile £88.50 £87.50 £65.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year +14.29% +41.41% +10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

.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 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 8,901 13,257 23,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.92% 23.22% 26.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,172 9,669 17,311
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 150 242
10th Percentile £21.25 £29.58 £22.75
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £74.80 £81.13 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year -26.36% +28.36% +11.67%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET Framework in the UK

.NET Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for .NET Framework in the UK

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Framework in the UK

.NET Framework
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET Framework in the UK

.NET Framework
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 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 -9 264 £475 -13.64% 323
London +53 184 £500 -16.67% 75
Work from Home -8 110 £475 -5.00% 350
UK excluding London -74 78 £450 -5.26% 274
North of England -3 30 £450 -5.26% 93
North West +6 23 £475 - 52
South East -4 15 £438 -14.63% 41
East of England +15 12 £550 +15.79% 19
South West -3 9 £638 +15.91% 33
Midlands -4 9 £425 - 58
Yorkshire +10 6 £400 -21.95% 33
West Midlands +2 6 £488 +2.63% 36
East Midlands -3 3 £307 -27.81% 22
Wales +16 2 - - 9
Scotland +16 2 £375 -11.76% 17
North East +11 1 £375 - 9

.NET Framework
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 27 (9.22%) IIS
2 18 (6.14%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.05%) CMS
4 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.02%) Confluence
5 3 (1.02%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.68%) Apache
6 2 (0.68%) Jadu
7 1 (0.34%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 26 (8.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.34%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 17 (5.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.02%) Maximo
3 2 (0.68%) Endur
3 2 (0.68%) Shopify
4 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 187 (63.82%) Azure
2 107 (36.52%) Azure DevOps
3 35 (11.95%) AWS
4 29 (9.90%) Entra ID
5 21 (7.17%) Power Platform
6 18 (6.14%) Azure Service Bus
7 16 (5.46%) Dynamics 365
8 15 (5.12%) Serverless
9 13 (4.44%) Power Automate
9 13 (4.44%) PowerApps
10 12 (4.10%) Azure Functions
11 11 (3.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 10 (3.41%) GitHub
13 9 (3.07%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (2.73%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (2.39%) PaaS
16 5 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
17 4 (1.37%) Azure API Management
17 4 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
18 3 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.80%) Internet
2 6 (2.05%) HTTP
3 5 (1.71%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.71%) Wireshark
4 2 (0.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (47.44%) SQL Server
2 21 (7.17%) Oracle Database
3 14 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (4.10%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.75%) MySQL
6 10 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (3.41%) Power BI
7 9 (3.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (2.73%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (2.39%) Redis
10 5 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.71%) SQLite
11 4 (1.37%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.02%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.68%) Big Data
13 2 (0.68%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.68%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.68%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 54 (18.43%) Git
2 36 (12.29%) SpecFlow
3 32 (10.92%) Visual Studio
4 29 (9.90%) Selenium
5 23 (7.85%) WebDriver
6 14 (4.78%) Cucumber
6 14 (4.78%) NUnit
7 13 (4.44%) Postman
7 13 (4.44%) TeamCity
8 11 (3.75%) JIRA
8 11 (3.75%) REST Assured
8 11 (3.75%) SoapUI
9 10 (3.41%) Appium
10 9 (3.07%) eggPlant
10 9 (3.07%) JUnit
10 9 (3.07%) Moq
10 9 (3.07%) SOAtest
10 9 (3.07%) TestNG
11 8 (2.73%) SonarQube
11 8 (2.73%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 77 (26.28%) Social Skills
2 42 (14.33%) Finance
3 30 (10.24%) Public Sector
4 25 (8.53%) Banking
5 21 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.75%) Investment Banking
7 10 (3.41%) Front Office
8 6 (2.05%) Back Office
8 6 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.37%) Local Government
9 4 (1.37%) Retail
10 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Advertising
11 1 (0.34%) Aviation
11 1 (0.34%) Billing
11 1 (0.34%) Law
11 1 (0.34%) Legal
11 1 (0.34%) Marketing
11 1 (0.34%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 202 (68.94%) Developer
2 90 (30.72%) .NET Developer
3 74 (25.26%) C# Developer
4 65 (22.18%) Senior
5 46 (15.70%) Software Developer
6 45 (15.36%) Senior Developer
7 30 (10.24%) Azure Developer
7 30 (10.24%) C# .NET Developer
8 28 (9.56%) Senior Software Developer
8 28 (9.56%) Software Engineer
9 24 (8.19%) Full Stack Developer
10 21 (7.17%) Architect
11 12 (4.10%) Analyst
11 12 (4.10%) Full Stack .NET Developer
11 12 (4.10%) Lead
11 12 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (3.75%) Senior Analyst
12 11 (3.75%) Senior Test Analyst
12 11 (3.75%) Test Analyst
13 10 (3.41%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 293 (100.00%) .NET
2 71 (24.23%) Entity Framework
3 70 (23.89%) AngularJS
4 64 (21.84%) .NET Core
4 64 (21.84%) XML
5 50 (17.06%) ASP.NET
6 45 (15.36%) React
7 40 (13.65%) HTML
8 32 (10.92%) CSS
9 31 (10.58%) WCF
10 30 (10.24%) Web Services
11 26 (8.87%) REST
12 23 (7.85%) ASP.NET Web API
13 20 (6.83%) JSON
13 20 (6.83%) RESTful
14 19 (6.48%) Blazor
15 15 (5.12%) WPF
16 14 (4.78%) jQuery
17 12 (4.10%) HTML5
18 11 (3.75%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.87%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (2.73%) Cloud Native
3 8 (2.73%) Derivative
4 6 (2.05%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.05%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.05%) Replication
5 5 (1.71%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (1.71%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.37%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 4 (1.37%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.37%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.02%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.02%) N-Tier
8 2 (0.68%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (0.68%) Market Risk
8 2 (0.68%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 34 (11.60%) Windows
2 6 (2.05%) Linux
3 3 (1.02%) Android
4 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (52.22%) DevOps
2 147 (50.17%) Agile
3 82 (27.99%) CI/CD
4 70 (23.89%) Scrum
5 58 (19.80%) Test Automation
6 51 (17.41%) Software Engineering
7 44 (15.02%) MVC
8 40 (13.65%) SDLC
9 37 (12.63%) Full Stack Development
9 37 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (12.29%) Microservices
11 34 (11.60%) TDD
12 32 (10.92%) OO
13 31 (10.58%) BDD
13 31 (10.58%) Design Patterns
14 30 (10.24%) Continuous Integration
15 29 (9.90%) B2C
16 24 (8.19%) Software Testing
16 24 (8.19%) Unit Testing
17 20 (6.83%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 259 (88.40%) C#
2 101 (34.47%) SQL
3 75 (25.60%) PowerShell
4 67 (22.87%) JavaScript
5 27 (9.22%) PL/SQL
5 27 (9.22%) VBA
6 23 (7.85%) T-SQL
7 21 (7.17%) Java
7 21 (7.17%) VB
8 19 (6.48%) VB.NET
9 17 (5.80%) Python
10 13 (4.44%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.37%) C++
11 4 (1.37%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.68%) Bash
12 2 (0.68%) C
12 2 (0.68%) PHP
13 1 (0.34%) Bicep
13 1 (0.34%) R
13 1 (0.34%) XAML
Qualifications
1 37 (12.63%) Security Cleared
2 34 (11.60%) Degree
3 29 (9.90%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.71%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.71%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.68%) HND
8 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.34%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.34%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (11.60%) QA
2 3 (1.02%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (11.26%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.73%) Docker
3 3 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.68%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (2.73%) Terraform
2 6 (2.05%) SCOM
2 6 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (1.71%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.02%) Ansible
4 3 (1.02%) PowerCLI
5 2 (0.68%) OPNET
5 2 (0.68%) SCOrch
6 1 (0.34%) Kibana
6 1 (0.34%) logstash
6 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 123 (41.98%) Microsoft
2 53 (18.09%) Oracle
3 16 (5.46%) Citrix
4 8 (2.73%) SAP
5 5 (1.71%) F5
5 5 (1.71%) Xamarin
6 4 (1.37%) Google
6 4 (1.37%) IBM
6 4 (1.37%) Nintex
7 3 (1.02%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.02%) Pega
7 3 (1.02%) Sitecore
7 3 (1.02%) VMware
8 2 (0.68%) Cisco
8 2 (0.68%) OpenLink
8 2 (0.68%) Optimizely
8 2 (0.68%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.34%) Adobe
9 1 (0.34%) Cerner
9 1 (0.34%) Databricks