.NET Framework Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft .NET Framework
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 260 230
Rank change year-on-year -52 -30 +10
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 86 201 317
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.88% 1.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.57% 4.83% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 147 220
10th Percentile £306 £373 £356
25th Percentile £363 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +7.14%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £525
90th Percentile £640 £688 £575
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 13
10th Percentile £39.59 £50.75 £48.50
25th Percentile £75.00 £51.88 £49.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £62.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% +8.70% +27.78%
75th Percentile £85.00 £73.75 £63.60
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £62.50 £58.75
% change year-on-year +28.00% +6.38% +31.28%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

.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 advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3,346 4,165 6,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.05% 18.17% 19.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,186 3,106 4,353
10th Percentile £325 £350 £362
25th Percentile £406 £420 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £588
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 87 136
10th Percentile £22.70 £22.39 £19.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.49% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £68.38 £75.00 £67.52
90th Percentile £74.45 £79.19 £77.16
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing .NET Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Framework in the UK excluding London

.NET Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Framework in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for .NET Framework in the UK excluding London

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Framework in the UK excluding London

.NET Framework
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Framework in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for .NET Framework in the UK excluding London

.NET Framework
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing .NET Framework in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for .NET Framework in the UK excluding London

.NET Framework
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +6 29 £450 -5.26% 84
North West +2 22 £475 - 46
East of England +13 15 £550 +15.79% 18
South East -16 14 £450 -12.20% 49
South West -10 11 £638 +15.91% 31
Midlands -5 10 £425 - 61
West Midlands +4 7 £488 +2.63% 34
Yorkshire +13 6 £400 -20.00% 26
Scotland +26 5 £420 -11.58% 21
Wales +12 3 - - 12
East Midlands -8 3 £307 -27.81% 27
North East +11 1 £375 - 15
.NET Framework
UK

.NET Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (9.30%) SharePoint
2 7 (8.14%) IIS
3 5 (5.81%) Confluence
4 4 (4.65%) CMS
5 2 (2.33%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (1.16%) Apache
6 1 (1.16%) Jadu
6 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (1.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.49%) Maximo
2 1 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (56.98%) Azure
2 27 (31.40%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (20.93%) AWS
4 8 (9.30%) PaaS
4 8 (9.30%) Serverless
5 7 (8.14%) Power Automate
5 7 (8.14%) Power Platform
6 6 (6.98%) Azure Functions
7 5 (5.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (5.81%) GCP
7 5 (5.81%) PowerApps
8 4 (4.65%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (4.65%) OpenShift
9 3 (3.49%) npm
9 3 (3.49%) Yarn
10 2 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.33%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.33%) GitHub
10 2 (2.33%) SaaS
10 2 (2.33%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.81%) HTTP
2 4 (4.65%) TCP/IP
2 4 (4.65%) VPN
2 4 (4.65%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (32.56%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.98%) MySQL
2 6 (6.98%) Power BI
3 5 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.81%) SQLite
4 4 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (4.65%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (3.49%) Redis
5 3 (3.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (3.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.16%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.16%) MS Access
7 1 (1.16%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.16%) SAP HANA
7 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 19 (22.09%) Git
2 11 (12.79%) Visual Studio
3 6 (6.98%) JIRA
4 5 (5.81%) Bitbucket
4 5 (5.81%) Checkstyle
4 5 (5.81%) SonarQube
4 5 (5.81%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (4.65%) Fiddler
6 3 (3.49%) Jasmine
6 3 (3.49%) Karma Test Runner
6 3 (3.49%) Mocha
6 3 (3.49%) NUnit
6 3 (3.49%) ReSharper
6 3 (3.49%) webpack
7 2 (2.33%) Moq
7 2 (2.33%) Selenium
7 2 (2.33%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.16%) MSTest
8 1 (1.16%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (22.09%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.98%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.49%) Finance
5 2 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.16%) Advertising
6 1 (1.16%) Aviation
6 1 (1.16%) Banking
6 1 (1.16%) Legal
6 1 (1.16%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 59 (68.60%) Developer
2 32 (37.21%) .NET Developer
3 12 (13.95%) Software Engineer
4 8 (9.30%) Senior
5 6 (6.98%) Applications Developer
5 6 (6.98%) Architect
5 6 (6.98%) Senior Developer
5 6 (6.98%) Software Developer
6 5 (5.81%) Power Platform Developer
6 5 (5.81%) Senior .NET Developer
7 4 (4.65%) Administrator
7 4 (4.65%) Automation Architect
7 4 (4.65%) Azure Developer
7 4 (4.65%) C# Developer
7 4 (4.65%) Lead
7 4 (4.65%) SharePoint Administrator
8 3 (3.49%) Full Stack Developer
8 3 (3.49%) Lead Developer
8 3 (3.49%) Office Automation Architect
8 3 (3.49%) Pega Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (100.00%) .NET
2 30 (34.88%) .NET Core
3 29 (33.72%) Entity Framework
4 17 (19.77%) Web Services
5 15 (17.44%) XML
6 14 (16.28%) React
7 13 (15.12%) HTML
7 13 (15.12%) RESTful
8 12 (13.95%) CSS
8 12 (13.95%) JSON
9 11 (12.79%) ASP.NET
9 11 (12.79%) REST
10 10 (11.63%) AngularJS
11 9 (10.47%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (10.47%) WCF
12 6 (6.98%) ASP.NET MVC
12 6 (6.98%) jQuery
12 6 (6.98%) SOAP
13 4 (4.65%) SAML
13 4 (4.65%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.30%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.14%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.81%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.65%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.65%) Low-Code
4 4 (4.65%) PKI
4 4 (4.65%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.65%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.16%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.14%) Linux
2 6 (6.98%) Windows
3 2 (2.33%) Android
4 1 (1.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (54.65%) Agile
2 38 (44.19%) DevOps
3 23 (26.74%) OO
4 19 (22.09%) MVC
5 18 (20.93%) Software Engineering
6 15 (17.44%) Microservices
7 14 (16.28%) CI/CD
7 14 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (15.12%) Design Patterns
9 11 (12.79%) Computer Science
9 11 (12.79%) Scrum
10 9 (10.47%) SDLC
11 8 (9.30%) Full Stack Development
11 8 (9.30%) OOD
11 8 (9.30%) OOP
11 8 (9.30%) Test Automation
12 7 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (8.14%) UML
12 7 (8.14%) Unit Testing
13 6 (6.98%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 68 (79.07%) C#
2 26 (30.23%) JavaScript
3 20 (23.26%) SQL
4 13 (15.12%) PowerShell
5 10 (11.63%) Python
6 6 (6.98%) VB.NET
7 5 (5.81%) T-SQL
8 4 (4.65%) Java
8 4 (4.65%) MATLAB
8 4 (4.65%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.65%) VBA
9 2 (2.33%) Bash
9 2 (2.33%) R
10 1 (1.16%) Bicep
10 1 (1.16%) C++
10 1 (1.16%) PHP
10 1 (1.16%) XAML
Qualifications
1 21 (24.42%) Security Cleared
2 15 (17.44%) Degree
2 15 (17.44%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.98%) Master's Degree
4 5 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.81%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.49%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.33%) HND
7 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.81%) QA
2 1 (1.16%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (6.98%) Active Directory
1 6 (6.98%) Docker
2 5 (5.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.65%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.16%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (6.98%) Terraform
2 5 (5.81%) Ansible
2 5 (5.81%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.81%) PowerCLI
3 4 (4.65%) OPNET
3 4 (4.65%) SCOM
3 4 (4.65%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.16%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (38.37%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.81%) Atlassian
2 5 (5.81%) Google
2 5 (5.81%) Oracle
2 5 (5.81%) VMware
3 4 (4.65%) Cisco
3 4 (4.65%) F5
3 4 (4.65%) SAP
3 4 (4.65%) Xamarin
4 3 (3.49%) IBM
4 3 (3.49%) Nintex
4 3 (3.49%) Pega
5 2 (2.33%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.16%) Adobe