.NET Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring .NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 32 37
Rank change year-on-year +15 +5 +12
Contract jobs citing .NET 22 10 10
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 5.87% 3.32% 2.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 43.14% 17.24% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 9
10th Percentile £378 £350 £275
25th Percentile £444 £409 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £478 £425
Median % change year-on-year +15.18% +12.35% -19.05%
75th Percentile £612 £506 £675
90th Percentile £696 £514 £704
East of England median daily rate £550 £478 £463
% change year-on-year +15.18% +3.24% -11.06%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cambridgeshire

.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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 51 58 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 13.60% 19.27% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 39 50
10th Percentile £363 £400 £348
25th Percentile £409 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £454 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.16% -9.20% -4.76%
75th Percentile £576 £531 £582
90th Percentile £633 £654 £702
East of England median daily rate £550 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -7.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £30.97 - £41.46
25th Percentile £32.69 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £37.25 - £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.05%
75th Percentile £41.36 - £70.88
90th Percentile £42.79 - £83.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% +26.13% -15.27%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing .NET relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

.NET job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in Cambridgeshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 28 February 2026. 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
Cambridge +6 21 £550 +24.29% 9
Peterborough +4 1 £675 +31.07% 3
.NET
East of England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 21 (95.45%) Azure
2 11 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 11 (50.00%) PaaS
3 9 (40.91%) Azure Functions
3 9 (40.91%) GitHub
3 9 (40.91%) GitHub Copilot
3 9 (40.91%) Serverless
4 6 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) Azure API Management
6 1 (4.55%) AWS
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.55%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) JMeter
1 2 (9.09%) Postman
1 2 (9.09%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Senior
2 6 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Developer
3 3 (13.64%) .NET Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Lead
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 2 (9.09%) QA Leader
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Software Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Test Leader
5 1 (4.55%) Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Data Scientist
5 1 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) QA Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Leader
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (59.09%) RESTful
2 9 (40.91%) A2A Protocol
2 9 (40.91%) Model Context Protocol
2 9 (40.91%) PyTorch
2 9 (40.91%) Semantic Kernel
2 9 (40.91%) TensorFlow
3 2 (9.09%) Node.js
3 2 (9.09%) React
3 2 (9.09%) REST
4 1 (4.55%) Blazor
4 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.55%) JSON
4 1 (4.55%) Next.js
4 1 (4.55%) Pandas
4 1 (4.55%) scikit-learn
4 1 (4.55%) SOAP
4 1 (4.55%) XML
4 1 (4.55%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 19 (86.36%) Cloud Native
2 9 (40.91%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (81.82%) AI
2 17 (77.27%) Agile
3 15 (68.18%) Machine Learning
3 15 (68.18%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (63.64%) LLM
4 14 (63.64%) Prompt Engineering
4 14 (63.64%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 14 (63.64%) Test Automation
5 12 (54.55%) Data Privacy
6 11 (50.00%) API Management
6 11 (50.00%) Software Engineering
7 9 (40.91%) Validation
8 8 (36.36%) API Design
8 8 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (36.36%) Deep Learning
8 8 (36.36%) Scrum
9 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
9 7 (31.82%) Data Science
10 6 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (27.27%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Python
2 2 (9.09%) C#
3 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 1 (4.55%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (63.64%) EU AI Act
2 13 (59.09%) NIST
3 4 (18.18%) QA
4 1 (4.55%) GDPR
4 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (81.82%) Microsoft
2 9 (40.91%) Foundry
3 1 (4.55%) Virgin Media