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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 47 37
Rank change year-on-year -6 -10 -2
Contract jobs citing .NET 1,548 2,636 5,287
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.64% 4.63% 6.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.35% 20.01% 22.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,157 2,055 4,143
10th Percentile £325 £388 £385
25th Percentile £413 £438 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.19% +13.16%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £670
90th Percentile £738 £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 17 18 52
10th Percentile £20.77 £27.75 £20.30
25th Percentile £26.00 £39.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £58.91 £53.99 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% +10.17% +21.74%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.88 £60.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £66.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.45 £55.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +8.10% +12.24% +21.74%

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 8,924 13,173 23,604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.96% 23.13% 26.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,198 9,621 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 £665
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 246 144 237
10th Percentile £21.25 £25.75 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £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 £74.47 £80.25 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
% change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%

.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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 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 -5 1,354 £538 -6.52% 1,522
London +3 919 £575 -11.54% 501
Work from Home 0 604 £500 -9.09% 1,242
UK excluding London -34 455 £450 -7.22% 1,186
North of England -32 107 £425 -10.53% 376
South East -34 98 £500 -4.76% 269
South West +12 92 £553 +0.45% 106
North West -27 68 £445 -6.32% 203
Midlands -28 61 £450 +5.88% 240
Scotland -21 44 £394 -17.11% 70
West Midlands -4 40 £481 -3.75% 153
East of England -5 36 £475 +11.76% 77
Yorkshire -23 32 £400 -15.79% 125
East Midlands -20 23 £410 -0.61% 87
Wales -14 18 £413 -25.00% 46
North East +8 7 £375 -16.67% 52
Northern Ireland +1 4 - - 19

.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 50 (3.23%) IIS
2 47 (3.04%) CMS
3 45 (2.91%) SharePoint
4 36 (2.33%) Confluence
5 32 (2.07%) Umbraco
6 14 (0.90%) BizTalk Server
7 11 (0.71%) Apache
8 6 (0.39%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.39%) WordPress
9 5 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.32%) Drupal
9 5 (0.32%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.26%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.26%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.19%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.19%) Kentico
11 3 (0.19%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.13%) nginx
Applications
1 36 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.13%) Sketch
6 1 (0.065%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.065%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.065%) InVision
6 1 (0.065%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 41 (2.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.10%) Endur
3 8 (0.52%) NEC Housing
4 7 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
5 6 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.32%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.32%) SimCorp Dimension
7 3 (0.19%) Magento
7 3 (0.19%) Maximo
8 2 (0.13%) Fidessa
8 2 (0.13%) SAP GTS
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%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.065%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 797 (51.49%) Azure
2 362 (23.39%) Azure DevOps
3 241 (15.57%) AWS
4 123 (7.95%) Azure Service Bus
5 100 (6.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 86 (5.56%) Serverless
7 83 (5.36%) Entra ID
8 80 (5.17%) Power Platform
9 60 (3.88%) Dynamics 365
10 57 (3.68%) Azure Monitor
11 56 (3.62%) Azure Functions
12 55 (3.55%) GCP
13 52 (3.36%) PaaS
14 49 (3.17%) Azure Logic Apps
15 44 (2.84%) PowerApps
16 39 (2.52%) Power Automate
17 35 (2.26%) GitHub
18 31 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
18 31 (2.00%) Azure AKS
18 31 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.49%) Internet
2 18 (1.16%) DNS
3 16 (1.03%) TCP/IP
4 14 (0.90%) Network Security
4 14 (0.90%) VPN
5 13 (0.84%) HTTP
6 10 (0.65%) Firewall
7 8 (0.52%) FTP
8 6 (0.39%) DHCP
9 5 (0.32%) Intranet
9 5 (0.32%) SSL
9 5 (0.32%) Wireshark
10 4 (0.26%) SSH
10 4 (0.26%) WAN
11 3 (0.19%) BIG-IP
11 3 (0.19%) LAN
11 3 (0.19%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (0.19%) Wireless
12 2 (0.13%) AMQP
12 2 (0.13%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 438 (28.29%) SQL Server
2 65 (4.20%) NoSQL
3 55 (3.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 50 (3.23%) Relational Database
5 48 (3.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 38 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
6 38 (2.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 35 (2.26%) Power BI
8 34 (2.20%) MySQL
9 27 (1.74%) MongoDB
9 27 (1.74%) Redis
10 24 (1.55%) Oracle Database
11 23 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
12 18 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
13 14 (0.90%) DynamoDB
14 13 (0.84%) Data Lake
15 12 (0.78%) Big Data
16 9 (0.58%) GIS
17 8 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
17 8 (0.52%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 196 (12.66%) Git
2 101 (6.52%) Visual Studio
3 77 (4.97%) Jenkins
4 62 (4.01%) TeamCity
5 60 (3.88%) JIRA
6 56 (3.62%) SpecFlow
7 55 (3.55%) Selenium
8 37 (2.39%) NUnit
9 35 (2.26%) Bitbucket
10 31 (2.00%) Postman
11 29 (1.87%) Cucumber
12 27 (1.74%) WebDriver
13 26 (1.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 21 (1.36%) Team Foundation Server
15 19 (1.23%) Moq
16 16 (1.03%) Cypress.io
17 13 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
17 13 (0.84%) REST Assured
17 13 (0.84%) SonarQube
17 13 (0.84%) Subversion
General
1 278 (17.96%) Social Skills
2 277 (17.89%) Finance
3 146 (9.43%) Public Sector
4 102 (6.59%) Front Office
5 98 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
5 98 (6.33%) Banking
6 61 (3.94%) Back Office
7 48 (3.10%) Investment Banking
8 30 (1.94%) Local Government
9 18 (1.16%) Aerospace
10 17 (1.10%) Manufacturing
10 17 (1.10%) Marketing
11 16 (1.03%) Retail
12 14 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (0.78%) Law
13 12 (0.78%) Telecoms
14 11 (0.71%) Financial Institution
15 10 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
16 9 (0.58%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 951 (61.43%) Developer
2 428 (27.65%) .NET Developer
3 252 (16.28%) Senior
4 235 (15.18%) C# Developer
5 164 (10.59%) Senior Developer
6 141 (9.11%) Full Stack Developer
7 128 (8.27%) Software Engineer
8 112 (7.24%) C# .NET Developer
9 105 (6.78%) Lead
10 104 (6.72%) Architect
11 99 (6.40%) Software Developer
12 92 (5.94%) Azure Developer
13 62 (4.01%) Full Stack .NET Developer
14 57 (3.68%) .NET Software Engineer
15 50 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
16 49 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
17 48 (3.10%) Senior .NET Developer
18 46 (2.97%) Analyst
19 44 (2.84%) React Developer
20 43 (2.78%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 370 (23.90%) .NET Core
2 295 (19.06%) .NET Framework
3 241 (15.57%) ASP.NET
4 234 (15.12%) React
5 206 (13.31%) AngularJS
6 170 (10.98%) HTML
7 163 (10.53%) CSS
8 136 (8.79%) XML
9 110 (7.11%) REST
10 85 (5.49%) Web Services
11 82 (5.30%) Entity Framework
12 72 (4.65%) ASP.NET Core
12 72 (4.65%) RESTful
13 70 (4.52%) Blazor
14 62 (4.01%) WCF
15 58 (3.75%) ASP.NET Web API
16 51 (3.29%) Vue
17 49 (3.17%) JSON
18 47 (3.04%) jQuery
19 44 (2.84%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 89 (5.75%) Product Ownership
2 46 (2.97%) Derivative
3 45 (2.91%) Fixed Income
4 42 (2.71%) Hedge funds
5 41 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
6 40 (2.58%) Equities
7 34 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 30 (1.94%) Cloud Native
9 29 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
10 28 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
11 26 (1.68%) Mobile App
12 21 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
13 19 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
14 16 (1.03%) Algorithms
14 16 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
15 15 (0.97%) Data Structures
15 15 (0.97%) Public Cloud
16 14 (0.90%) Onboarding
17 13 (0.84%) Client/Server
18 12 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 127 (8.20%) Windows
2 69 (4.46%) Linux
3 32 (2.07%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.29%) Android
5 17 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.58%) 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
1 560 (36.18%) DevOps
2 537 (34.69%) Agile
3 283 (18.28%) CI/CD
4 230 (14.86%) Software Engineering
5 229 (14.79%) Full Stack Development
6 201 (12.98%) TDD
7 189 (12.21%) Microservices
8 184 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
9 183 (11.82%) OO
9 183 (11.82%) Scrum
10 160 (10.34%) MVC
11 156 (10.08%) Test Automation
12 103 (6.65%) Continuous Integration
13 101 (6.52%) SDLC
14 95 (6.14%) Migration
15 92 (5.94%) Design Patterns
16 90 (5.81%) API Management
17 80 (5.17%) SOLID
18 79 (5.10%) B2C
19 75 (4.84%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,116 (72.09%) C#
2 509 (32.88%) SQL
3 323 (20.87%) JavaScript
4 245 (15.83%) PowerShell
5 141 (9.11%) TypeScript
6 140 (9.04%) Python
7 137 (8.85%) Java
8 104 (6.72%) Bicep
9 71 (4.59%) T-SQL
10 69 (4.46%) PL/SQL
11 63 (4.07%) C++
12 48 (3.10%) VB.NET
13 45 (2.91%) VBA
14 34 (2.20%) VB
15 28 (1.81%) C
16 24 (1.55%) Ruby
17 19 (1.23%) PHP
18 15 (0.97%) Bash
18 15 (0.97%) Go
19 8 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 147 (9.50%) Security Cleared
2 115 (7.43%) SC Cleared
3 112 (7.24%) Degree
4 37 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (1.16%) DV Cleared
6 16 (1.03%) Master's Degree
7 12 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (0.65%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.45%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (0.39%) CISSP
11 5 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.26%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.19%) CISA
13 3 (0.19%) CISM
13 3 (0.19%) HNC
13 3 (0.19%) SANS
14 2 (0.13%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (7.56%) QA
2 49 (3.17%) Accessibility
3 27 (1.74%) WCAG
4 11 (0.71%) MiFID
5 8 (0.52%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.39%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.39%) EMIR
6 6 (0.39%) SLA
7 5 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (0.32%) Dodd-Frank
8 4 (0.26%) GDPR
8 4 (0.26%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.19%) GRC
9 3 (0.19%) HL7
9 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.065%) DICOM
11 1 (0.065%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 140 (9.04%) Active Directory
2 90 (5.81%) Docker
3 18 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.03%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.58%) vSphere
7 4 (0.26%) NFS
7 4 (0.26%) VMware NSX
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 93 (6.01%) Kubernetes
2 74 (4.78%) Terraform
3 62 (4.01%) Ansible
4 25 (1.61%) PowerCLI
5 20 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.97%) SCOM
7 10 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
8 9 (0.58%) BladeLogic
9 7 (0.45%) SCCM
10 5 (0.32%) WSUS
11 4 (0.26%) Puppet
12 3 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.19%) Grafana
12 3 (0.19%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.19%) Prometheus
13 2 (0.13%) OPNET
13 2 (0.13%) SCOrch
14 1 (0.065%) logstash
14 1 (0.065%) Packer
14 1 (0.065%) SELinux
Vendors
1 369 (23.84%) Microsoft
2 146 (9.43%) Oracle
3 37 (2.39%) SAP
4 27 (1.74%) Citrix
5 26 (1.68%) Atlassian
6 22 (1.42%) Dell
6 22 (1.42%) HP
7 20 (1.29%) VMware
8 19 (1.23%) Databricks
8 19 (1.23%) MuleSoft
9 17 (1.10%) OpenLink
10 16 (1.03%) Xamarin
11 14 (0.90%) Google
11 14 (0.90%) Salesforce
12 10 (0.65%) F5
12 10 (0.65%) TIBCO
13 9 (0.58%) Altiris
13 9 (0.58%) Dynatrace
14 8 (0.52%) NEC
15 7 (0.45%) Sitecore