.NET Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 42 27
Rank change year-on-year -2 -15 +10
Contract jobs citing .NET 598 1,238 2,908
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 4.08% 5.07% 6.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.43% 20.14% 22.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 982 2,257
10th Percentile £313 £375 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £625
90th Percentile £700 £775 £747
UK median daily rate £525 £563 £540
% change year-on-year -6.67% +4.17% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 35
10th Percentile - £22.50 £20.25
25th Percentile £20.77 £32.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £47.00 £46.67
Median % change year-on-year +27.66% +0.71% +4.88%
75th Percentile £63.75 £85.00 £59.38
90th Percentile £64.25 - £68.05
UK median hourly rate £58.91 £53.99 £49.00
% change year-on-year +9.11% +10.17% +21.74%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

.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 WFH option and 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 3,640 6,146 13,107
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.84% 25.16% 29.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,563 4,576 9,697
10th Percentile £341 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.61% -1.32% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 75 120
10th Percentile £24.23 £22.35 £21.90
25th Percentile - £45.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.15 £75.92
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

.NET
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing .NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

.NET trend for jobs with a WFH option

.NET
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing .NET.

.NET daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing .NET over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

.NET daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing .NET.

.NET hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing .NET over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

.NET hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

.NET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 26 (4.35%) CMS
2 20 (3.34%) Umbraco
3 10 (1.67%) IIS
4 6 (1.00%) Confluence
4 6 (1.00%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.00%) WordPress
5 5 (0.84%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.67%) Apache
6 4 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (0.50%) Kentico
7 3 (0.50%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.50%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.33%) SharePoint 2013
8 2 (0.33%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.17%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 8 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) InVision
4 1 (0.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 15 (2.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.51%) Endur
3 2 (0.33%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.33%) Shopify
4 1 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.17%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 327 (54.68%) Azure
2 134 (22.41%) Azure DevOps
3 77 (12.88%) AWS
4 48 (8.03%) Azure Service Bus
5 40 (6.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 35 (5.85%) Entra ID
6 35 (5.85%) Power Platform
7 33 (5.52%) Serverless
8 26 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
8 26 (4.35%) PaaS
9 24 (4.01%) Azure Functions
10 22 (3.68%) Azure Logic Apps
11 19 (3.18%) Azure API Management
12 17 (2.84%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (2.51%) PowerApps
13 15 (2.51%) SaaS
14 14 (2.34%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (2.17%) IaaS
16 11 (1.84%) GCP
16 11 (1.84%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.51%) DNS
2 7 (1.17%) Network Security
3 5 (0.84%) Intranet
4 4 (0.67%) DHCP
4 4 (0.67%) VPN
5 3 (0.50%) HTTP
6 2 (0.33%) Firewall
6 2 (0.33%) SSL
6 2 (0.33%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.17%) BGP
7 1 (0.17%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.17%) FTP
7 1 (0.17%) Internet
7 1 (0.17%) LAN
7 1 (0.17%) MPLS
7 1 (0.17%) MQTT
7 1 (0.17%) OSPF
7 1 (0.17%) RS-232
7 1 (0.17%) VLAN
7 1 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (26.92%) SQL Server
2 26 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 22 (3.68%) MySQL
3 22 (3.68%) Relational Database
4 16 (2.68%) NoSQL
4 16 (2.68%) Power BI
5 14 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (1.51%) MongoDB
8 8 (1.34%) GIS
9 7 (1.17%) Redis
9 7 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (1.00%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.00%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.84%) DB2
11 5 (0.84%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.67%) Big Data
12 4 (0.67%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 63 (10.54%) Git
2 41 (6.86%) Visual Studio
3 23 (3.85%) SpecFlow
4 16 (2.68%) Selenium
5 15 (2.51%) Team Foundation Server
6 14 (2.34%) Jenkins
7 12 (2.01%) JIRA
7 12 (2.01%) Postman
8 11 (1.84%) TeamCity
9 8 (1.34%) Cypress.io
9 8 (1.34%) NUnit
9 8 (1.34%) WebDriver
10 7 (1.17%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.17%) Moq
11 6 (1.00%) Subversion
12 5 (0.84%) MSI
12 5 (0.84%) WiX
13 4 (0.67%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.67%) SoapUI
13 4 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 112 (18.73%) Finance
2 103 (17.22%) Social Skills
3 78 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 34 (5.69%) Front Office
5 27 (4.52%) Banking
6 21 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (2.51%) Back Office
8 13 (2.17%) Investment Banking
9 11 (1.84%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.67%) Law
10 10 (1.67%) Local Government
11 9 (1.51%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.17%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.17%) Marketing
12 7 (1.17%) Tech for Good
13 6 (1.00%) Electronics
13 6 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 400 (66.89%) Developer
2 161 (26.92%) .NET Developer
3 102 (17.06%) C# Developer
4 94 (15.72%) Senior
5 70 (11.71%) Senior Developer
6 69 (11.54%) Full Stack Developer
7 55 (9.20%) Azure Developer
8 47 (7.86%) Software Developer
9 43 (7.19%) Architect
9 43 (7.19%) C# .NET Developer
10 39 (6.52%) Lead
11 26 (4.35%) Full Stack .NET Developer
12 22 (3.68%) Software Engineer
13 21 (3.51%) Senior C# Developer
13 21 (3.51%) Technical Architect
14 20 (3.34%) Lead Developer
15 19 (3.18%) Analyst
15 19 (3.18%) React Developer
16 17 (2.84%) Senior Software Developer
17 16 (2.68%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (18.06%) .NET Framework
2 105 (17.56%) .NET Core
3 100 (16.72%) ASP.NET
4 79 (13.21%) AngularJS
5 78 (13.04%) React
6 67 (11.20%) CSS
7 65 (10.87%) HTML
8 55 (9.20%) REST
8 55 (9.20%) XML
9 45 (7.53%) Entity Framework
10 41 (6.86%) Web Services
11 28 (4.68%) RESTful
12 27 (4.52%) jQuery
13 25 (4.18%) ASP.NET Core
14 24 (4.01%) Node.js
14 24 (4.01%) Vue
15 23 (3.85%) ASP.NET Web API
16 21 (3.51%) ASP.NET MVC
16 21 (3.51%) JSON
17 20 (3.34%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 33 (5.52%) Product Ownership
2 19 (3.18%) Mobile App
3 16 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (2.34%) Derivative
6 10 (1.67%) Algorithms
7 9 (1.51%) Cloud Native
7 9 (1.51%) Equities
7 9 (1.51%) Legacy Applications
8 8 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.34%) Hedge funds
8 8 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.17%) Client/Server
9 7 (1.17%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.17%) Fixed Income
10 6 (1.00%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.00%) Reinsurance
11 5 (0.84%) Onboarding
11 5 (0.84%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 47 (7.86%) Windows
2 20 (3.34%) Linux
3 17 (2.84%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.17%) Android
5 12 (2.01%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.67%) Unix
7 2 (0.33%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.33%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (31.77%) DevOps
2 178 (29.77%) Agile
3 101 (16.89%) Full Stack Development
4 87 (14.55%) CI/CD
5 80 (13.38%) MVC
6 68 (11.37%) Microservices
7 66 (11.04%) Software Engineering
8 65 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
9 60 (10.03%) TDD
10 59 (9.87%) OO
11 58 (9.70%) Scrum
12 52 (8.70%) Test Automation
13 43 (7.19%) Migration
13 43 (7.19%) SOLID
14 42 (7.02%) Design Patterns
15 41 (6.86%) Unit Testing
16 36 (6.02%) SDLC
17 35 (5.85%) Computer Science
18 32 (5.35%) User Experience
19 31 (5.18%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 416 (69.57%) C#
2 175 (29.26%) SQL
3 123 (20.57%) JavaScript
4 75 (12.54%) PowerShell
5 48 (8.03%) Java
5 48 (8.03%) Python
6 40 (6.69%) TypeScript
7 36 (6.02%) Bicep
8 30 (5.02%) C++
9 20 (3.34%) VB.NET
10 19 (3.18%) T-SQL
11 14 (2.34%) Ruby
11 14 (2.34%) VBA
12 12 (2.01%) C
13 9 (1.51%) VB
14 8 (1.34%) PL/SQL
15 6 (1.00%) PHP
16 4 (0.67%) Bash
16 4 (0.67%) F#
16 4 (0.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 53 (8.86%) Security Cleared
2 51 (8.53%) Degree
3 40 (6.69%) SC Cleared
4 17 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (0.84%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.50%) HNC
8 3 (0.50%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.33%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.33%) CISSP
9 2 (0.33%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.33%) SANS
10 1 (0.17%) ISEB
10 1 (0.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.35%) QA
2 24 (4.01%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.67%) WCAG
4 3 (0.50%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.50%) GDPR
4 3 (0.50%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.33%) GRC
5 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.33%) SLA
6 1 (0.17%) HL7
6 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 45 (7.53%) Active Directory
2 31 (5.18%) Docker
3 11 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.84%) vSphere
6 4 (0.67%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.33%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.17%) GridGain
8 1 (0.17%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 31 (5.18%) Kubernetes
2 28 (4.68%) Terraform
3 12 (2.01%) Ansible
4 5 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.67%) BladeLogic
5 4 (0.67%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.50%) PowerCLI
7 2 (0.33%) Puppet
7 2 (0.33%) SCOM
7 2 (0.33%) WSUS
8 1 (0.17%) Kibana
8 1 (0.17%) logstash
8 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.17%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 135 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 34 (5.69%) Oracle
3 15 (2.51%) SAP
4 14 (2.34%) Xamarin
5 10 (1.67%) Databricks
6 9 (1.51%) OpenLink
7 8 (1.34%) MuleSoft
8 7 (1.17%) VMware
9 6 (1.00%) Sitecore
10 5 (0.84%) Citrix
10 5 (0.84%) Google
10 5 (0.84%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.67%) Altiris
11 4 (0.67%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.50%) Adobe
12 3 (0.50%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.50%) Dell
12 3 (0.50%) HP
12 3 (0.50%) OutSystems
13 2 (0.33%) ESRI