.NET Architect Contracts

Microsoft .NET Architect
UK

The median Microsoft .NET Architect daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 654 798
Rank change year-on-year +79 +144 -127
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Architect 15 34 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.061% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.064% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 37
10th Percentile - £563 £540
25th Percentile £563 £609 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +7.69% +10.64%
75th Percentile £625 £775 £721
90th Percentile £730 £786 £795
UK excluding London median daily rate - £565 £600
% change year-on-year - -5.83% +9.09%

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 40,368 52,724 84,133
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.55% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,997 36,785 59,307
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,898 1,484 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.53
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +15.00%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.00 £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 Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET Architect in the UK

.NET Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for .NET Architect in the UK

.NET Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Architect over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Architect in the UK

.NET Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET Architect in the UK

.NET Architect
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
London +76 15 £575 -20.69% 1
England +76 15 £575 -20.69% 4
Work from Home +112 2 £650 -10.34% 3

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

For the 6 months to 7 June 2024, .NET Architect 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 Architect in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) .NET
2 13 (86.67%) C#
3 11 (73.33%) .NET Core
4 10 (66.67%) Analytics
4 10 (66.67%) Software Engineering
4 10 (66.67%) AWS
5 9 (60.00%) JavaScript
5 9 (60.00%) TypeScript
5 9 (60.00%) React
6 8 (53.33%) Data Governance
6 8 (53.33%) Machine Learning
6 8 (53.33%) LLM
6 8 (53.33%) CSS
6 8 (53.33%) SQL
6 8 (53.33%) T-SQL
6 8 (53.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (26.67%) Java
8 3 (20.00%) Python
8 3 (20.00%) Banking
8 3 (20.00%) Azure
8 3 (20.00%) Microservices
9 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
9 2 (13.33%) NuGet
9 2 (13.33%) Technical Debt
9 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
9 2 (13.33%) Quantitative Research
9 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (13.33%) Portfolio Analytics
9 2 (13.33%) Social Skills

.NET Architect 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 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (6.67%) CMS
1 1 (6.67%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) NuGet
4 1 (6.67%) dbt
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Arrow
1 1 (6.67%) Dremio
1 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
1 2 (13.33%) Git
1 2 (13.33%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (100.00%) .NET
2 11 (73.33%) .NET Core
3 9 (60.00%) React
4 8 (53.33%) CSS
5 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET
6 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
6 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (6.67%) FHIR
6 1 (6.67%) gRPC
6 1 (6.67%) Protocol Buffers
6 1 (6.67%) Redux
6 1 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Derivative
2 1 (6.67%) Equities
2 1 (6.67%) Fixed Income
2 1 (6.67%) Hedge funds
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Analytics
1 10 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 8 (53.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (53.33%) Data Governance
2 8 (53.33%) LLM
2 8 (53.33%) Machine Learning
3 3 (20.00%) Microservices
4 2 (13.33%) Agile
4 2 (13.33%) Dependency Injection
4 2 (13.33%) Portfolio Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) Quantitative Research
4 2 (13.33%) Scrum
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Debt
4 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
5 1 (6.67%) Asset Management
5 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
5 1 (6.67%) Content Management
5 1 (6.67%) CRM
5 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (6.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) C#
2 9 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (60.00%) TypeScript
3 8 (53.33%) SQL
3 8 (53.33%) T-SQL
4 4 (26.67%) Java
5 3 (20.00%) Python
6 2 (13.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) DICOM
1 1 (6.67%) HL7
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.67%) Sitecore
1 1 (6.67%) Virgin Media