.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 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 29 31 34
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 +15
Contract jobs citing .NET 15 14 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 4.27% 3.23% 3.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 30.00% 23.33% 37.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 14
10th Percentile £330 £274 £378
25th Percentile £338 - £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £300 £488
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -38.46% +20.00%
75th Percentile £375 £488 £550
90th Percentile £390 - £573
East of England median daily rate £500 £388 £500
% change year-on-year +29.03% -22.50% -

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 50 60 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 14.25% 13.82% 8.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 34 34
10th Percentile £325 £300 £413
25th Percentile £366 £340 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £420 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.12% -11.58% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £550
90th Percentile £683 £619 £630
East of England median daily rate £503 £413 £500
% change year-on-year +21.82% -17.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.25 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 - £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.34%
75th Percentile £43.75 - £16.50
90th Percentile £49.80 - -
East of England median hourly rate £63.00 £43.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +46.51% -28.33% -7.69%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in Cambridgeshire

.NET
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

.NET
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

.NET
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 18 September 2025. 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 14 £375 +25.00% 6
.NET
East of England

.NET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (86.67%) WebLogic
1 13 (86.67%) WebSphere
2 1 (6.67%) CMS
2 1 (6.67%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Functions
2 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Consultant
2 1 (6.67%) .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) C# Software Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Developer
2 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (86.67%) HTML
1 13 (86.67%) Middleware
1 13 (86.67%) Node.js
2 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
2 2 (13.33%) Entity Framework
3 1 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (20.00%) ITSM
2 3 (20.00%) Knowledge Management
2 3 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
2 3 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (6.67%) Content Management
3 1 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (6.67%) Front End Development
3 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (6.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (6.67%) Microservices
3 1 (6.67%) MVC
3 1 (6.67%) OOP
3 1 (6.67%) Process Improvement
3 1 (6.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (6.67%) User Experience
3 1 (6.67%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) C
1 13 (86.67%) C++
1 13 (86.67%) Java
1 13 (86.67%) PHP
2 2 (13.33%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) Dynatrace