.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 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 299 303 241
Rank change year-on-year +4 -62 +48
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 306 471 1,062
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.71% 0.84% 1.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.38% 3.66% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 375 815
10th Percentile £325 £400 £377
25th Percentile £395 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £641
90th Percentile £686 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 16
10th Percentile £39.59 £48.50 £48.50
25th Percentile £75.00 £51.88 £49.06
Median hourly rate £80.00 £62.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% +6.38% +32.02%
75th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £63.95
90th Percentile £88.00 - £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £62.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +28.00% +8.70% +27.78%

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 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 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 1 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram 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 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 -4 276 £475 -9.52% 328
London +66 190 £500 -9.09% 95
Work from Home +1 109 £475 - 232
UK excluding London -68 86 £450 -10.00% 256
North of England 0 29 £450 -5.26% 76
North West +7 22 £475 - 41
East of England +10 15 £550 +15.79% 18
South East -16 14 £450 -10.00% 41
South West -14 11 £638 +15.91% 32
Midlands -7 10 £425 - 60
West Midlands +3 7 £488 +2.63% 33
Yorkshire +10 6 £400 -20.00% 24
Scotland +22 5 £420 -11.58% 19
Wales +12 3 - - 8
East Midlands -6 3 £307 -27.81% 27
North East +11 1 £375 - 14

.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 (8.82%) IIS
2 17 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.96%) CMS
4 5 (1.63%) Confluence
5 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.98%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.65%) Apache
7 2 (0.65%) Jadu
8 1 (0.33%) Umbraco
Applications
1 29 (9.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.33%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 18 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.98%) Maximo
3 2 (0.65%) Endur
3 2 (0.65%) Shopify
4 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 201 (65.69%) Azure
2 111 (36.27%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (12.09%) AWS
4 31 (10.13%) Entra ID
5 23 (7.52%) Power Platform
6 21 (6.86%) Azure Service Bus
7 17 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
8 16 (5.23%) Serverless
9 15 (4.90%) Power Automate
9 15 (4.90%) PowerApps
10 13 (4.25%) Azure Functions
11 12 (3.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 12 (3.92%) GitHub
12 11 (3.59%) Azure Key Vault
12 11 (3.59%) PaaS
13 10 (3.27%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (1.63%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (1.63%) GCP
15 4 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
15 4 (1.31%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.21%) Internet
2 6 (1.96%) HTTP
3 5 (1.63%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.63%) Wireshark
4 4 (1.31%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (47.06%) SQL Server
2 24 (7.84%) Oracle Database
3 14 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (4.25%) Power BI
5 12 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (3.92%) MySQL
5 12 (3.92%) Relational Database
6 11 (3.59%) Redis
7 8 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (2.29%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.63%) SQLite
11 4 (1.31%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (1.31%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.65%) Big Data
13 2 (0.65%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.65%) MongoDB
14 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 57 (18.63%) Git
2 36 (11.76%) SpecFlow
3 35 (11.44%) Visual Studio
4 28 (9.15%) Selenium
5 23 (7.52%) WebDriver
6 13 (4.25%) Cucumber
6 13 (4.25%) Postman
7 12 (3.92%) JIRA
7 12 (3.92%) NUnit
8 11 (3.59%) REST Assured
8 11 (3.59%) SoapUI
8 11 (3.59%) TeamCity
9 10 (3.27%) Appium
10 9 (2.94%) eggPlant
10 9 (2.94%) JUnit
10 9 (2.94%) Moq
10 9 (2.94%) SOAtest
10 9 (2.94%) TestNG
11 8 (2.61%) SonarQube
11 8 (2.61%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 84 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 43 (14.05%) Finance
3 30 (9.80%) Public Sector
4 25 (8.17%) Banking
5 24 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (4.58%) Front Office
7 11 (3.59%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.96%) Back Office
8 6 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.63%) Local Government
10 4 (1.31%) Retail
11 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Advertising
12 1 (0.33%) Aviation
12 1 (0.33%) Billing
12 1 (0.33%) Law
12 1 (0.33%) Legal
12 1 (0.33%) Marketing
12 1 (0.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 211 (68.95%) Developer
2 94 (30.72%) .NET Developer
3 74 (24.18%) C# Developer
4 63 (20.59%) Senior
5 46 (15.03%) Software Developer
6 43 (14.05%) Senior Developer
7 31 (10.13%) Full Stack Developer
8 30 (9.80%) Azure Developer
8 30 (9.80%) Software Engineer
9 29 (9.48%) C# .NET Developer
10 28 (9.15%) Senior Software Developer
11 23 (7.52%) Architect
12 18 (5.88%) Full Stack .NET Developer
13 13 (4.25%) Analyst
13 13 (4.25%) Lead
14 12 (3.92%) C# WPF Developer
14 12 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (3.92%) WPF Developer
15 11 (3.59%) C# WCF Developer
15 11 (3.59%) WCF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 306 (100.00%) .NET
2 75 (24.51%) Entity Framework
3 67 (21.90%) AngularJS
4 65 (21.24%) .NET Core
4 65 (21.24%) XML
5 49 (16.01%) ASP.NET
6 44 (14.38%) React
7 41 (13.40%) HTML
8 35 (11.44%) CSS
9 34 (11.11%) WCF
10 33 (10.78%) Web Services
11 26 (8.50%) REST
12 22 (7.19%) ASP.NET Web API
12 22 (7.19%) Blazor
12 22 (7.19%) RESTful
13 19 (6.21%) JSON
14 17 (5.56%) WPF
15 15 (4.90%) jQuery
16 13 (4.25%) WinForms
17 11 (3.59%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.15%) Product Ownership
2 11 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (2.61%) Cloud Native
3 8 (2.61%) Derivative
3 8 (2.61%) Mobile App
4 7 (2.29%) Data Structures
5 6 (1.96%) Replication
6 5 (1.63%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.63%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.31%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 4 (1.31%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.31%) PKI
7 4 (1.31%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.31%) Security Posture
8 3 (0.98%) Fixed Income
8 3 (0.98%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.98%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 38 (12.42%) Windows
2 8 (2.61%) Linux
3 3 (0.98%) Android
4 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (51.96%) DevOps
2 152 (49.67%) Agile
3 86 (28.10%) CI/CD
4 73 (23.86%) Scrum
5 59 (19.28%) Test Automation
6 54 (17.65%) Software Engineering
7 45 (14.71%) MVC
8 44 (14.38%) Full Stack Development
9 41 (13.40%) SDLC
10 38 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
11 36 (11.76%) OO
12 34 (11.11%) Microservices
13 32 (10.46%) TDD
14 30 (9.80%) BDD
14 30 (9.80%) Design Patterns
15 29 (9.48%) B2C
16 28 (9.15%) Continuous Integration
17 24 (7.84%) Unit Testing
18 23 (7.52%) Software Testing
19 22 (7.19%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 268 (87.58%) C#
2 111 (36.27%) SQL
3 79 (25.82%) PowerShell
4 69 (22.55%) JavaScript
5 30 (9.80%) VBA
6 28 (9.15%) PL/SQL
7 27 (8.82%) T-SQL
8 24 (7.84%) VB
9 22 (7.19%) Java
10 20 (6.54%) Python
10 20 (6.54%) VB.NET
11 14 (4.58%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.31%) C++
12 4 (1.31%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.65%) Bash
13 2 (0.65%) C
13 2 (0.65%) PHP
13 2 (0.65%) R
14 1 (0.33%) Bicep
14 1 (0.33%) XAML
Qualifications
1 39 (12.75%) Security Cleared
2 36 (11.76%) Degree
3 31 (10.13%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.29%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.63%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.65%) HND
9 1 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.44%) QA
2 3 (0.98%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (11.44%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.27%) Docker
3 5 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.31%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (3.27%) Terraform
2 9 (2.94%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.96%) SCOM
3 6 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.63%) Ansible
4 5 (1.63%) PowerCLI
5 4 (1.31%) OPNET
6 2 (0.65%) SCOrch
7 1 (0.33%) Kibana
7 1 (0.33%) logstash
7 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 128 (41.83%) Microsoft
2 55 (17.97%) Oracle
3 17 (5.56%) Citrix
4 8 (2.61%) SAP
5 7 (2.29%) Xamarin
6 6 (1.96%) Google
7 5 (1.63%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.63%) F5
7 5 (1.63%) VMware
8 4 (1.31%) Cisco
8 4 (1.31%) IBM
8 4 (1.31%) Nintex
9 3 (0.98%) Pega
9 3 (0.98%) Sitecore
10 2 (0.65%) OpenLink
10 2 (0.65%) Optimizely
10 2 (0.65%) TIBCO
11 1 (0.33%) Adobe
11 1 (0.33%) Databricks