.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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 38 45
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 -10
Contract jobs citing .NET 8 5 12
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.31% 1.71% 2.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 25.81% 15.15% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 9
10th Percentile £433 £335 £310
25th Percentile £463 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -15.79% -
75th Percentile £515 £505 £488
90th Percentile £634 £506 £500
East of England median daily rate £526 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +10.79% +2.70% +2.78%

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 31 33 81
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 8.96% 11.26% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 29 53
10th Percentile - £325 £350
25th Percentile £410 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -9.09% +4.21%
75th Percentile £554 £538 £563
90th Percentile £679 £690 £638
East of England median daily rate £538 £490 £485
% change year-on-year +9.69% +1.03% -5.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.83 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £32.00 - £68.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +175.00%
75th Percentile £34.17 - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +62.79% -28.33%

.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 19 June 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 19 June 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 +2 7 £481 +20.31% 5
Peterborough - 1 £675 - 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (25.00%) Power Automate
3 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (25.00%) PowerApps
4 1 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 2 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 2 (25.00%) C# WPF Developer
2 2 (25.00%) WPF Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (25.00%) Entity Framework
1 2 (25.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
1 2 (25.00%) Node.js
1 2 (25.00%) React
1 2 (25.00%) RESTful
1 2 (25.00%) Silverlight
1 2 (25.00%) WCF
1 2 (25.00%) Web Services
1 2 (25.00%) WPF
2 1 (12.50%) Blazor
2 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
2 1 (12.50%) Next.js
2 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) AI Agents
1 2 (25.00%) BYOD
1 2 (25.00%) Low-Code
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Code Quality
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (37.50%) ERP
3 2 (25.00%) Change Management
3 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (25.00%) Escalation Management
3 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) MVC
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) C#
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) X++
3 2 (25.00%) XAML
4 1 (12.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (25.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) SLA
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow