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 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 557 603 721
Rank change year-on-year +46 +118 -111
Contract jobs requiring a Senior .NET Developer 45 92 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.17% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.18% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 71 116
10th Percentile £330 £413 £428
25th Percentile £420 £488 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £586 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.28% +6.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £681 £719
90th Percentile £675 £763 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £394 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -21.25% - +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 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
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% +6.60%
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% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +51 36 £545 -7.00% 58
London +52 28 £600 - 10
Work from Home +81 15 £538 -2.27% 36
UK excluding London +43 15 £394 -21.25% 50
Scotland - 8 £394 - 1
North of England +23 5 £475 -18.94% 22
Yorkshire +14 3 £350 -33.33% 10
South West +12 2 £350 -49.69% 4
North West +9 2 £481 -17.88% 9

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 45 (100.00%) .NET
2 34 (75.56%) C#
3 29 (64.44%) Azure
4 22 (48.89%) DevOps
4 22 (48.89%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (44.44%) SQL Server
6 17 (37.78%) React
7 15 (33.33%) Agile
8 13 (28.89%) SQL
8 13 (28.89%) Microsoft
8 13 (28.89%) Public Sector
9 12 (26.67%) ASP.NET
10 11 (24.44%) JavaScript
10 11 (24.44%) .NET Core
11 10 (22.22%) Product Ownership
11 10 (22.22%) Scrum
11 10 (22.22%) .NET Framework
12 9 (20.00%) TypeScript
12 9 (20.00%) Finance
12 9 (20.00%) HTML
13 8 (17.78%) CSS
13 8 (17.78%) Active Directory
13 8 (17.78%) PowerShell
13 8 (17.78%) CI/CD
14 7 (15.56%) User Experience
14 7 (15.56%) Code Quality
14 7 (15.56%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (15.56%) AngularJS
14 7 (15.56%) Banking
14 7 (15.56%) XML

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 (8.89%) CMS
2 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.22%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (64.44%) Azure
2 22 (48.89%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (13.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 6 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 6 (13.33%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (4.44%) Contentful
6 1 (2.22%) AWS
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Service Fabric
6 1 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.22%) npm
6 1 (2.22%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.22%) MySQL
2 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.22%) Redis
2 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Git
2 2 (4.44%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.22%) Ant
3 1 (2.22%) Babel
3 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (2.22%) webpack
General
1 13 (28.89%) Public Sector
2 9 (20.00%) Finance
3 7 (15.56%) Banking
4 5 (11.11%) Investment Banking
4 5 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Back Office
7 1 (2.22%) Front Office
7 1 (2.22%) Law
7 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (100.00%) .NET
2 17 (37.78%) React
3 12 (26.67%) ASP.NET
4 11 (24.44%) .NET Core
5 10 (22.22%) .NET Framework
6 9 (20.00%) HTML
7 8 (17.78%) CSS
8 7 (15.56%) AngularJS
8 7 (15.56%) XML
9 4 (8.89%) WCF
9 4 (8.89%) WPF
10 3 (6.67%) ASP.NET Core
10 3 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC
10 3 (6.67%) Entity Framework
10 3 (6.67%) jQuery
10 3 (6.67%) Web Services
11 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET Web API
11 2 (4.44%) CSS3
11 2 (4.44%) HTML5
11 2 (4.44%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 7 (15.56%) Legacy Applications
3 6 (13.33%) Wiki
4 2 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.22%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (48.89%) DevOps
2 15 (33.33%) Agile
3 10 (22.22%) Scrum
4 8 (17.78%) CI/CD
5 7 (15.56%) Code Quality
5 7 (15.56%) User Experience
6 6 (13.33%) B2C
6 6 (13.33%) Knowledge Transfer
6 6 (13.33%) MVC
7 5 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
7 5 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (8.89%) Microservices
9 3 (6.67%) API Management
9 3 (6.67%) Clean Code
9 3 (6.67%) OO
9 3 (6.67%) Project Delivery
9 3 (6.67%) Web Development
10 2 (4.44%) Computer Science
10 2 (4.44%) ITIL
10 2 (4.44%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 34 (75.56%) C#
2 13 (28.89%) SQL
3 11 (24.44%) JavaScript
4 9 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 8 (17.78%) PowerShell
6 6 (13.33%) Bicep
7 4 (8.89%) T-SQL
8 3 (6.67%) VB.NET
9 2 (4.44%) MATLAB
9 2 (4.44%) VBA
10 1 (2.22%) Java
10 1 (2.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (6.67%) Degree
2 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.44%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.44%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (4.44%) WCAG
2 1 (2.22%) ISO 15022
2 1 (2.22%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 8 (17.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.22%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (28.89%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.44%) Virgin Media