.NET Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring .NET skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 19 25
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 +2
Contract jobs citing .NET 14 9 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 7.87% 5.00% 2.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 35.90% 20.93% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £355 £286 £406
25th Percentile £363 £295 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £300 £550
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -45.45% +12.82%
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile £395 - £559
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £350 £300 £488
% change year-on-year +16.67% -38.46% +20.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cambridge

.NET falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 39 43 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 21.91% 23.89% 11.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 25 17
10th Percentile £343 £300 £393
25th Percentile £400 £340 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £363 £495
Median % change year-on-year +27.59% -26.77% -5.71%
75th Percentile £538 £430 £550
90th Percentile £574 £603 £650
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £463 £420 £475
% change year-on-year +10.12% -11.58% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.55 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £54.70 - £16.00
75th Percentile £55.85 - £16.50
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £37.50 - £16.00
% change year-on-year - - +10.34%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in Cambridge

.NET
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing .NET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing .NET

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing .NET.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing .NET

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 13 (92.86%) WebLogic
1 13 (92.86%) WebSphere
2 1 (7.14%) CMS
2 1 (7.14%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
1 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) Developer
2 1 (7.14%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (92.86%) HTML
1 13 (92.86%) Middleware
1 13 (92.86%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
2 1 (7.14%) Entity Framework
2 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
2 3 (21.43%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (21.43%) ITSM
2 3 (21.43%) Knowledge Management
2 3 (21.43%) Performance Metrics
2 3 (21.43%) Performance Testing
3 1 (7.14%) Content Management
3 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (7.14%) Front End Development
3 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
3 1 (7.14%) MVC
3 1 (7.14%) Process Improvement
3 1 (7.14%) User Experience
3 1 (7.14%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) C
1 13 (92.86%) C++
1 13 (92.86%) Java
1 13 (92.86%) PHP
2 1 (7.14%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) Dynatrace