.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 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 37 40
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 0
Contract jobs citing .NET 10 4 16
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.58% 1.59% 3.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 25.64% 12.12% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 14
10th Percentile £388 £411 £290
25th Percentile £425 £426 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £479 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.52% +0.79% -15.56%
75th Percentile £661 £510 £644
90th Percentile £719 £518 £693
East of England median daily rate £538 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +10.38% +2.63% -8.65%

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 39 33 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 10.08% 13.10% 16.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 29 50
10th Percentile £400 £413 £325
25th Percentile £410 £415 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £499
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -5.76% -0.25%
75th Percentile £514 £538 £559
90th Percentile £595 £654 £702
East of England median daily rate £550 £479 £495
% change year-on-year +14.88% -3.28% -6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - £50.10
25th Percentile £29.83 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £32.00 - £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +67.95%
75th Percentile £34.17 - £75.00
90th Percentile - - £79.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £75.34 £43.00
% change year-on-year -13.72% +75.20% -33.85%

.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 13 April 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 13 April 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 -3 9 £475 +7.04% 6
Peterborough +10 1 £675 +31.07% 7
.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 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Azure AKS
2 3 (30.00%) PaaS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub Copilot
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure API Management
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) RESTful
2 2 (20.00%) A2A Protocol
2 2 (20.00%) Model Context Protocol
2 2 (20.00%) Node.js
2 2 (20.00%) PyTorch
2 2 (20.00%) React
2 2 (20.00%) REST
2 2 (20.00%) Semantic Kernel
2 2 (20.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (10.00%) Blazor
3 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (10.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) Next.js
3 1 (10.00%) SOAP
3 1 (10.00%) XML
3 1 (10.00%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) AI
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (30.00%) API Management
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Data Privacy
4 3 (30.00%) LLM
4 3 (30.00%) Prompt Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (20.00%) API Design
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (20.00%) Deep Learning
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (20.00%) Validation
6 1 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) C++
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) EU AI Act
1 3 (30.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Foundry
3 1 (10.00%) Virgin Media