.NET Software Engineer Contracts

.NET Software Engineer
UK

The median .NET Software Engineer daily rate in the UK is £663 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 518 613 691
Rank change year-on-year +95 +78 -54
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Software Engineer 57 69 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.13% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 62 124
10th Percentile £500 £550 £400
25th Percentile £563 £616 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £675 £623
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% +8.43% +13.18%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £713
90th Percentile £800 £749 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £390 £413
% change year-on-year +15.38% -5.45% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.00 - £48.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £49.00
75th Percentile £85.00 - £49.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - £49.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.89%

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 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £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 Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured .NET Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Software Engineer in the UK

.NET Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for .NET Software Engineer in the UK

.NET Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for .NET Software Engineer in the UK

.NET Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET Software Engineer in the UK

.NET Software Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Software Engineer 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 +74 56 £675 - 28
London +82 50 £675 - 10
Work from Home +95 9 £475 -31.41% 22
UK excluding London +41 6 £450 +15.38% 20
South East - 3 £450 - 4
South West +7 2 £475 - 3
North of England +23 1 £500 - 4
Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, .NET Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 57 (100.00%) .NET
1 57 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 56 (98.25%) C#
3 41 (71.93%) Azure
4 33 (57.89%) AWS
5 30 (52.63%) DevOps
5 30 (52.63%) JavaScript
6 29 (50.88%) React
6 29 (50.88%) .NET Core
7 28 (49.12%) TypeScript
8 26 (45.61%) Front Office
8 26 (45.61%) Agile
9 25 (43.86%) Full Stack Development
10 24 (42.11%) Finance
11 22 (38.60%) TDD
11 22 (38.60%) QA
11 22 (38.60%) Fintech
12 21 (36.84%) Redux
12 21 (36.84%) Asset Management
12 21 (36.84%) Derivative
12 21 (36.84%) Fixed Income
12 21 (36.84%) Equities
12 21 (36.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 21 (36.84%) GCP
12 21 (36.84%) Hedge funds
12 21 (36.84%) Investment Management
13 17 (29.82%) SQL
14 10 (17.54%) AngularJS
15 9 (15.79%) Analytics
16 8 (14.04%) ASP.NET

.NET Software Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 41 (71.93%) Azure
2 33 (57.89%) AWS
3 21 (36.84%) GCP
4 7 (12.28%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (5.26%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.51%) PaaS
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.75%) GitHub
7 1 (1.75%) NuGet
7 1 (1.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.02%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.51%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.75%) Big Data
3 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.75%) MySQL
3 1 (1.75%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Git
2 2 (3.51%) Cypress.io
2 2 (3.51%) Postman
2 2 (3.51%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.75%) Checkstyle
General
1 26 (45.61%) Front Office
2 24 (42.11%) Finance
3 3 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.51%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.75%) Banking
5 1 (1.75%) Electronics
5 1 (1.75%) Marketing
5 1 (1.75%) Retail
5 1 (1.75%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (100.00%) .NET
2 29 (50.88%) .NET Core
2 29 (50.88%) React
3 21 (36.84%) Redux
4 10 (17.54%) AngularJS
5 8 (14.04%) ASP.NET
6 7 (12.28%) .NET Framework
6 7 (12.28%) CSS
7 6 (10.53%) ASP.NET Core
7 6 (10.53%) Vue
8 3 (5.26%) REST
8 3 (5.26%) XML
9 1 (1.75%) Angular 2
9 1 (1.75%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (1.75%) Entity Framework
9 1 (1.75%) FHIR
9 1 (1.75%) JSON
9 1 (1.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (36.84%) Derivative
1 21 (36.84%) Equities
1 21 (36.84%) Fixed Income
1 21 (36.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 21 (36.84%) Hedge funds
2 1 (1.75%) Client/Server
2 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.75%) IoT
2 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.75%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 30 (52.63%) DevOps
3 26 (45.61%) Agile
4 25 (43.86%) Full Stack Development
5 22 (38.60%) Fintech
5 22 (38.60%) TDD
6 21 (36.84%) Asset Management
6 21 (36.84%) Investment Management
7 9 (15.79%) Analytics
8 8 (14.04%) Microservices
9 7 (12.28%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (12.28%) Data Governance
9 7 (12.28%) LLM
9 7 (12.28%) Machine Learning
10 5 (8.77%) Multithreading
11 4 (7.02%) Infrastructure as Code
11 4 (7.02%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (7.02%) Test Automation
12 3 (5.26%) CI/CD
12 3 (5.26%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 56 (98.25%) C#
2 30 (52.63%) JavaScript
3 28 (49.12%) TypeScript
4 17 (29.82%) SQL
5 7 (12.28%) T-SQL
6 4 (7.02%) Java
7 2 (3.51%) C++
7 2 (3.51%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.75%) C
8 1 (1.75%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.51%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (38.60%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) HL7
System Software
1 4 (7.02%) Docker
2 2 (3.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (7.02%) Kubernetes
1 4 (7.02%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (7.02%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.75%) Databricks
2 1 (1.75%) SAP