Senior .NET Developer Contracts

Senior .NET Developer
UK

The median Senior .NET Developer daily rate in the UK is £538 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 531 591 700
Rank change year-on-year +60 +109 -91
Contract jobs requiring a Senior .NET Developer 44 91 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.17% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 71 119
10th Percentile £325 £413 £430
25th Percentile £420 £475 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £703
90th Percentile £675 £750 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +21.21%

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%

Senior .NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior .NET Developer in the UK

Senior .NET Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior .NET Developer in the UK

Senior .NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior .NET Developer in the UK

Senior .NET Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior .NET Developer in the UK

Senior .NET Developer
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior .NET Developer 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 +42 35 £545 -6.03% 61
London +61 26 £600 - 11
UK excluding London +39 16 £438 -12.50% 52
Work from Home +82 13 £538 -2.27% 42
Scotland - 8 £394 - 1
North of England +21 5 £475 -18.94% 24
Yorkshire +20 3 £350 -33.33% 11
North West +17 2 £481 -17.88% 11
South West +6 2 £350 -49.69% 4
East of England - 1 £625 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Senior .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 Senior .NET Developer in the job title.

1 44 (100.00%) .NET
2 33 (75.00%) C#
3 29 (65.91%) Azure
4 22 (50.00%) DevOps
4 22 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (40.91%) SQL Server
6 17 (38.64%) React
7 15 (34.09%) Agile
8 13 (29.55%) Microsoft
9 12 (27.27%) SQL
9 12 (27.27%) Public Sector
10 11 (25.00%) .NET Core
10 11 (25.00%) ASP.NET
11 10 (22.73%) Finance
11 10 (22.73%) Product Ownership
12 9 (20.45%) Scrum
12 9 (20.45%) .NET Framework
12 9 (20.45%) JavaScript
12 9 (20.45%) TypeScript
13 8 (18.18%) PowerShell
13 8 (18.18%) Active Directory
13 8 (18.18%) CI/CD
14 7 (15.91%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (15.91%) CSS
14 7 (15.91%) XML
14 7 (15.91%) HTML
14 7 (15.91%) Banking
14 7 (15.91%) AngularJS
14 7 (15.91%) User Experience
15 6 (13.64%) Entra ID

Senior .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 4 (9.09%) CMS
2 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.27%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (65.91%) Azure
2 22 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (13.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 6 (13.64%) Azure Service Bus
3 6 (13.64%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.82%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (4.55%) Contentful
6 1 (2.27%) AWS
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Service Fabric
6 1 (2.27%) npm
6 1 (2.27%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (40.91%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.27%) Redis
2 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Git
2 2 (4.55%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.27%) Ant
3 1 (2.27%) Babel
3 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.27%) webpack
General
1 12 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 10 (22.73%) Finance
3 7 (15.91%) Banking
4 6 (13.64%) Social Skills
5 5 (11.36%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.55%) Back Office
7 1 (2.27%) Front Office
7 1 (2.27%) Law
7 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (100.00%) .NET
2 17 (38.64%) React
3 11 (25.00%) .NET Core
3 11 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 9 (20.45%) .NET Framework
5 7 (15.91%) AngularJS
5 7 (15.91%) CSS
5 7 (15.91%) HTML
5 7 (15.91%) XML
6 4 (9.09%) WCF
6 4 (9.09%) WPF
7 3 (6.82%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (6.82%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (6.82%) jQuery
7 3 (6.82%) Web Services
8 2 (4.55%) CSS3
8 2 (4.55%) Entity Framework
8 2 (4.55%) HTML5
8 2 (4.55%) RESTful
8 2 (4.55%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.73%) Product Ownership
2 7 (15.91%) Legacy Applications
3 6 (13.64%) Wiki
4 2 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.27%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (50.00%) DevOps
2 15 (34.09%) Agile
3 9 (20.45%) Scrum
4 8 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 7 (15.91%) User Experience
6 6 (13.64%) B2C
6 6 (13.64%) Code Quality
6 6 (13.64%) Full Stack Development
6 6 (13.64%) Knowledge Transfer
7 5 (11.36%) Microservices
7 5 (11.36%) MVC
7 5 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (6.82%) API Management
8 3 (6.82%) Project Delivery
8 3 (6.82%) SDLC
9 2 (4.55%) Clean Code
9 2 (4.55%) Deployment Automation
9 2 (4.55%) Front End Development
9 2 (4.55%) Re-Platforming
9 2 (4.55%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 33 (75.00%) C#
2 12 (27.27%) SQL
3 9 (20.45%) JavaScript
3 9 (20.45%) TypeScript
4 8 (18.18%) PowerShell
5 6 (13.64%) Bicep
6 3 (6.82%) T-SQL
7 2 (4.55%) MATLAB
7 2 (4.55%) Python
7 2 (4.55%) VB.NET
7 2 (4.55%) VBA
8 1 (2.27%) Java
8 1 (2.27%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (4.55%) Degree
1 2 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (4.55%) WCAG
2 1 (2.27%) ISO 15022
2 1 (2.27%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 8 (18.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (29.55%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.55%) Virgin Media