.NET Contracts in England

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 44 33
Rank change year-on-year -10 -11 +2
Contract jobs citing .NET 1,328 2,462 4,468
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.59% 4.87% 6.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.82% 21.02% 23.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,024 1,910 3,530
10th Percentile £325 £393 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £651 £700 £687
90th Percentile £749 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £565 £530
% change year-on-year -7.08% +6.60% +11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 18 53
10th Percentile £20.77 £27.75 £20.05
25th Percentile £24.88 £39.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £58.91 £55.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.10% +13.40% +8.99%
75th Percentile £79.69 £81.88 £55.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £87.58 £63.31
UK median hourly rate £58.91 £60.00 £46.67
% change year-on-year -1.83% +28.56% +15.95%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.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 advertised in England 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 7,454 11,713 19,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.17% 23.17% 27.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,302 8,672 14,430
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 138 214
10th Percentile £21.63 £28.73 £21.30
25th Percentile £40.31 £48.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing .NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for .NET in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for .NET in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing .NET in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for .NET in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +1 902 £575 -11.54% 431
North of England -35 104 £420 -11.58% 311
South East -45 102 £500 -4.76% 208
South West +7 89 £566 +2.95% 111
North West -37 61 £450 -5.26% 181
Midlands -40 55 £450 +5.88% 206
West Midlands -2 38 £481 -3.75% 117
Yorkshire -14 34 £400 -18.99% 94
East of England +5 33 £475 - 85
East Midlands -25 17 £350 -17.65% 89
North East +14 9 £278 -40.00% 40
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UK

.NET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 45 (3.39%) IIS
2 41 (3.09%) CMS
3 34 (2.56%) Confluence
3 34 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 30 (2.26%) Umbraco
5 13 (0.98%) BizTalk Server
6 7 (0.53%) Apache
6 7 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.45%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.38%) Drupal
8 5 (0.38%) WordPress
9 4 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.23%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.23%) EPiServer
11 2 (0.15%) Jadu
11 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.075%) Site Server
Applications
1 40 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.075%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.075%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.075%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 35 (2.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.90%) Endur
3 6 (0.45%) NEC Housing
3 6 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.30%) Magento
5 3 (0.23%) Maximo
6 2 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.15%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.075%) Aareon QL
7 1 (0.075%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.075%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.075%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 1 (0.075%) MIS ActiveH
7 1 (0.075%) OPENHousing
7 1 (0.075%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 646 (48.64%) Azure
2 306 (23.04%) Azure DevOps
3 198 (14.91%) AWS
4 103 (7.76%) Azure Service Bus
5 85 (6.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 76 (5.72%) Serverless
7 68 (5.12%) Entra ID
8 64 (4.82%) Power Platform
9 55 (4.14%) Azure Functions
10 53 (3.99%) Azure Monitor
11 50 (3.77%) GCP
12 46 (3.46%) Azure Logic Apps
13 45 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
14 39 (2.94%) PaaS
15 34 (2.56%) PowerApps
16 32 (2.41%) Power Automate
17 28 (2.11%) Azure API Management
17 28 (2.11%) GitHub
18 26 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
19 25 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.51%) Internet
2 18 (1.36%) DNS
3 15 (1.13%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.98%) HTTP
5 12 (0.90%) VPN
6 9 (0.68%) FTP
7 8 (0.60%) Network Security
8 7 (0.53%) DHCP
8 7 (0.53%) Firewall
9 6 (0.45%) SSL
10 5 (0.38%) Intranet
11 4 (0.30%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (0.30%) SSH
11 4 (0.30%) Wireshark
12 2 (0.15%) BIG-IP
12 2 (0.15%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (0.15%) Cisco Nexus
12 2 (0.15%) MQTT
12 2 (0.15%) SAN
12 2 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 387 (29.14%) SQL Server
2 62 (4.67%) NoSQL
3 46 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
4 44 (3.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 33 (2.48%) Relational Database
6 32 (2.41%) Oracle Database
7 30 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
7 30 (2.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 25 (1.88%) Power BI
9 23 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
9 23 (1.73%) MongoDB
10 18 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (1.13%) Redis
12 14 (1.05%) Data Lake
13 12 (0.90%) DynamoDB
13 12 (0.90%) MySQL
14 11 (0.83%) Big Data
15 9 (0.68%) GIS
16 7 (0.53%) OLTP
17 6 (0.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 167 (12.58%) Git
2 79 (5.95%) Visual Studio
3 69 (5.20%) Jenkins
4 60 (4.52%) TeamCity
5 53 (3.99%) SpecFlow
6 51 (3.84%) JIRA
6 51 (3.84%) Selenium
7 38 (2.86%) NUnit
8 34 (2.56%) Bitbucket
9 28 (2.11%) Postman
10 25 (1.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 25 (1.88%) Cucumber
11 23 (1.73%) WebDriver
12 21 (1.58%) Moq
13 17 (1.28%) Octopus Deploy
14 14 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
15 13 (0.98%) SoapUI
16 12 (0.90%) Appium
16 12 (0.90%) JUnit
16 12 (0.90%) SonarQube
General
1 269 (20.26%) Finance
2 228 (17.17%) Social Skills
3 103 (7.76%) Public Sector
4 98 (7.38%) Front Office
5 96 (7.23%) Banking
6 86 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
7 60 (4.52%) Back Office
8 47 (3.54%) Investment Banking
9 30 (2.26%) Local Government
10 21 (1.58%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.51%) Marketing
12 18 (1.36%) Aerospace
12 18 (1.36%) Retail
13 15 (1.13%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.05%) Electronics
14 14 (1.05%) Law
15 13 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 11 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.68%) Financial Institution
18 8 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 836 (62.95%) Developer
2 373 (28.09%) .NET Developer
3 234 (17.62%) C# Developer
4 213 (16.04%) Senior
5 140 (10.54%) Senior Developer
6 123 (9.26%) Software Engineer
7 118 (8.89%) C# .NET Developer
8 113 (8.51%) Full Stack Developer
9 87 (6.55%) Software Developer
10 84 (6.33%) Lead
11 76 (5.72%) Azure Developer
12 75 (5.65%) Architect
13 59 (4.44%) .NET Software Engineer
14 50 (3.77%) Full Stack .NET Developer
15 46 (3.46%) Azure Engineer
15 46 (3.46%) DevOps Engineer
16 44 (3.31%) .NET Software Developer
17 40 (3.01%) Senior .NET Developer
18 39 (2.94%) Senior Software Developer
19 37 (2.79%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 339 (25.53%) .NET Core
2 264 (19.88%) .NET Framework
3 221 (16.64%) ASP.NET
4 186 (14.01%) AngularJS
5 176 (13.25%) React
6 133 (10.02%) HTML
7 124 (9.34%) CSS
8 117 (8.81%) XML
9 105 (7.91%) REST
10 71 (5.35%) Entity Framework
11 65 (4.89%) RESTful
12 63 (4.74%) Blazor
12 63 (4.74%) Web Services
13 59 (4.44%) ASP.NET Core
14 58 (4.37%) WCF
15 51 (3.84%) ASP.NET Web API
15 51 (3.84%) JSON
16 44 (3.31%) ASP.NET MVC
17 40 (3.01%) jQuery
18 38 (2.86%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 65 (4.89%) Product Ownership
2 50 (3.77%) Derivative
3 49 (3.69%) Fixed Income
4 47 (3.54%) Hedge funds
5 43 (3.24%) Equities
6 40 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
7 39 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 33 (2.48%) Cloud Native
9 19 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (1.36%) Mobile App
10 18 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (0.83%) Algorithms
12 11 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
12 11 (0.83%) Market Risk
13 9 (0.68%) Onboarding
14 8 (0.60%) Client/Server
14 8 (0.60%) NHS
14 8 (0.60%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 105 (7.91%) Windows
2 56 (4.22%) Linux
3 34 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.75%) Android
5 6 (0.45%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.45%) Unix
6 4 (0.30%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.30%) VMS
6 4 (0.30%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.075%) Debian
7 1 (0.075%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.075%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 475 (35.77%) DevOps
2 454 (34.19%) Agile
3 246 (18.52%) CI/CD
4 218 (16.42%) Software Engineering
5 194 (14.61%) Full Stack Development
5 194 (14.61%) TDD
6 176 (13.25%) Microservices
7 167 (12.58%) OO
8 162 (12.20%) Scrum
9 144 (10.84%) Problem-Solving
10 141 (10.62%) MVC
11 123 (9.26%) Test Automation
12 99 (7.45%) Continuous Integration
13 83 (6.25%) API Management
14 80 (6.02%) Design Patterns
15 77 (5.80%) Migration
15 77 (5.80%) SDLC
16 71 (5.35%) SOLID
17 70 (5.27%) Clean Code
18 68 (5.12%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 1,011 (76.13%) C#
2 454 (34.19%) SQL
3 276 (20.78%) JavaScript
4 215 (16.19%) PowerShell
5 126 (9.49%) Python
6 109 (8.21%) TypeScript
7 107 (8.06%) Java
8 86 (6.48%) Bicep
9 74 (5.57%) PL/SQL
10 71 (5.35%) T-SQL
11 58 (4.37%) VB.NET
12 55 (4.14%) C++
13 47 (3.54%) VBA
14 37 (2.79%) VB
15 20 (1.51%) C
16 18 (1.36%) Ruby
17 16 (1.20%) PHP
18 15 (1.13%) Bash
19 13 (0.98%) Go
20 8 (0.60%) Perl
Qualifications
1 123 (9.26%) Security Cleared
2 98 (7.38%) SC Cleared
3 85 (6.40%) Degree
4 24 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (1.36%) DV Cleared
6 11 (0.83%) Master's Degree
7 9 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (0.60%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.38%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.23%) HNC
12 2 (0.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.15%) CCNP
12 2 (0.15%) HND
13 1 (0.075%) CISSP
13 1 (0.075%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.075%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.075%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (7.08%) QA
2 38 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 24 (1.81%) WCAG
4 9 (0.68%) MiFID
5 8 (0.60%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.45%) SLA
7 4 (0.30%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.30%) EMIR
7 4 (0.30%) GDPR
8 3 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
8 3 (0.23%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.075%) DICOM
9 1 (0.075%) GRC
9 1 (0.075%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.075%) HL7
System Software
1 126 (9.49%) Active Directory
2 68 (5.12%) Docker
3 13 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.83%) Hyper-V
4 11 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.60%) vSphere
6 4 (0.30%) NFS
6 4 (0.30%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.075%) Firmware
8 1 (0.075%) GridGain
8 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.075%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.075%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 65 (4.89%) Kubernetes
2 59 (4.44%) Ansible
3 56 (4.22%) Terraform
4 24 (1.81%) PowerCLI
5 14 (1.05%) SCOM
5 14 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.75%) ITRS Geneos
7 9 (0.68%) BladeLogic
7 9 (0.68%) SCCM
8 6 (0.45%) WSUS
9 5 (0.38%) Puppet
10 3 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.23%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.15%) SCOrch
12 1 (0.075%) Grafana
12 1 (0.075%) Kibana
12 1 (0.075%) logstash
12 1 (0.075%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.075%) SELinux
12 1 (0.075%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 306 (23.04%) Microsoft
2 125 (9.41%) Oracle
3 32 (2.41%) Citrix
4 29 (2.18%) SAP
5 26 (1.96%) Atlassian
6 22 (1.66%) Dell
6 22 (1.66%) HP
7 15 (1.13%) MuleSoft
7 15 (1.13%) VMware
8 14 (1.05%) Salesforce
9 12 (0.90%) Databricks
9 12 (0.90%) OpenLink
9 12 (0.90%) TIBCO
10 11 (0.83%) Google
11 10 (0.75%) F5
12 9 (0.68%) Altiris
12 9 (0.68%) Dynatrace
12 9 (0.68%) Sitecore
12 9 (0.68%) UiPath
12 9 (0.68%) Xamarin