.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in England

.NET Developer
UK > England

The median .NET Developer daily rate in England is £549, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 430 296 246
Rank change year-on-year -134 -50 -71
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 171 182 353
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.76% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.82% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 149 301
10th Percentile £362 £381 £319
25th Percentile £422 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.75% - -
75th Percentile £600 £675 £650
90th Percentile £696 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate - £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +36.84%

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 38,613 22,095 34,042
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.34% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,880 14,635 22,555
10th Percentile £322 £294 £285
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -1.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,705 913 2,522
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.80% -22.48% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.99 £37.18
% change year-on-year +51.84% -24.72% -17.38%

.NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring '.NET Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Developer job vacancy trend in England

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in England

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Developer in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Developer in England

.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in England

.NET Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
London -129 77 £580 +11.54% 38
North of England -53 31 £500 +21.21% 53
Midlands -39 25 £550 +10.55% 13
South East -45 25 £425 +2.41% 44
East Midlands -12 18 £575 +41.45% 6
Yorkshire -40 17 £588 +11.90% 11
North West -27 14 £450 +10.77% 30
West Midlands -55 7 £460 -9.80% 7
South West -30 6 £450 -31.30% 8
East of England -28 2 - - 20
.NET Developer
UK

.NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 29 May 2026, .NET Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring .NET Developer in the job title.

1 171 (100.00%) .NET
2 134 (78.36%) C#
3 96 (56.14%) Azure
4 80 (46.78%) CI/CD
5 66 (38.60%) SQL
6 62 (36.26%) DevOps
7 61 (35.67%) SQL Server
8 54 (31.58%) Agile
9 41 (23.98%) .NET Framework
10 39 (22.81%) Microsoft
11 38 (22.22%) Microservices
12 34 (19.88%) RESTful
13 33 (19.30%) .NET Core
13 33 (19.30%) Azure DevOps
14 31 (18.13%) ASP.NET
14 31 (18.13%) Full-Stack Development
15 30 (17.54%) AngularJS
16 27 (15.79%) JavaScript
16 27 (15.79%) REST
17 26 (15.20%) AWS
18 25 (14.62%) React
19 24 (14.04%) Security Cleared
20 23 (13.45%) HTML
21 22 (12.87%) Kubernetes
21 22 (12.87%) Oracle
21 22 (12.87%) SC Cleared
22 21 (12.28%) Python
23 20 (11.70%) Test Automation
24 19 (11.11%) Docker
24 19 (11.11%) Problem-Solving

.NET Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.34%) IIS
2 3 (1.75%) Apache Superset
2 3 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.17%) Confluence
3 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.17%) Endur
1 2 (1.17%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 96 (56.14%) Azure
2 33 (19.30%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (15.20%) AWS
4 18 (10.53%) Azure Service Bus
4 18 (10.53%) Serverless
5 13 (7.60%) Azure Functions
5 13 (7.60%) GitHub
6 8 (4.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (4.09%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (3.51%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (3.51%) Entra ID
8 6 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.92%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.34%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.34%) n8n
10 4 (2.34%) Zapier
11 3 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.75%) Azure API Management
11 3 (1.75%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (35.67%) SQL Server
2 18 (10.53%) Relational Database
3 12 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (3.51%) Redis
6 4 (2.34%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.75%) DocumentDB
7 3 (1.75%) Metabase
7 3 (1.75%) Parquet
8 2 (1.17%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.17%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.17%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.17%) Power BI
8 2 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.58%) MySQL
9 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (9.94%) Git
2 8 (4.68%) NUnit
3 6 (3.51%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.92%) SpecFlow
5 4 (2.34%) MSTest
5 4 (2.34%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.75%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.75%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.17%) GitLab
7 2 (1.17%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.17%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.17%) JIRA
7 2 (1.17%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.17%) Moq
7 2 (1.17%) Selenium
8 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.58%) Mocha
8 1 (0.58%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 36 (21.05%) Finance
2 27 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 16 (9.36%) Banking
4 14 (8.19%) Front Office
4 14 (8.19%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.85%) Investment Banking
6 7 (4.09%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.34%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.34%) Legal
8 3 (1.75%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.17%) Automotive
9 2 (1.17%) Back Office
9 2 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.58%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.58%) Military
10 1 (0.58%) Police
10 1 (0.58%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.58%) Retail
10 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (100.00%) .NET
2 41 (23.98%) .NET Framework
3 34 (19.88%) RESTful
4 33 (19.30%) .NET Core
5 31 (18.13%) ASP.NET
6 30 (17.54%) AngularJS
7 27 (15.79%) REST
8 25 (14.62%) React
9 23 (13.45%) HTML
10 15 (8.77%) Entity Framework
11 13 (7.60%) ASP.NET Web API
12 12 (7.02%) ASP.NET Core
13 10 (5.85%) CSS
14 8 (4.68%) ASP.NET MVC
14 8 (4.68%) OAuth
14 8 (4.68%) RabbitMQ
14 8 (4.68%) YAML
15 7 (4.09%) XML
16 6 (3.51%) Blazor
16 6 (3.51%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.77%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.43%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.09%) AI Agents
4 6 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.92%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.34%) IoT
6 4 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.34%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.75%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.75%) Derivative
8 2 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.17%) NHS
8 2 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.58%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.58%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.58%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.51%) Windows
2 2 (1.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (46.78%) CI/CD
2 62 (36.26%) DevOps
3 54 (31.58%) Agile
4 38 (22.22%) Microservices
5 31 (18.13%) Full-Stack Development
6 20 (11.70%) Test Automation
7 19 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (11.11%) Scrum
7 19 (11.11%) Unit Testing
8 18 (10.53%) AI
8 18 (10.53%) TDD
9 15 (8.77%) SOLID
10 13 (7.60%) Clean Code
10 13 (7.60%) Event-Driven
10 13 (7.60%) Software Engineering
11 12 (7.02%) OOP
12 11 (6.43%) Design Patterns
12 11 (6.43%) Performance Tuning
13 10 (5.85%) Containerisation
13 10 (5.85%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 134 (78.36%) C#
2 66 (38.60%) SQL
3 27 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 21 (12.28%) Python
5 17 (9.94%) TypeScript
6 13 (7.60%) T-SQL
7 5 (2.92%) Java
7 5 (2.92%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.34%) Bicep
9 3 (1.75%) C++
9 3 (1.75%) MATLAB
9 3 (1.75%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.75%) Rust
9 3 (1.75%) VB.NET
9 3 (1.75%) VBA
10 2 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.58%) VB
11 1 (0.58%) VB6
Qualifications
1 24 (14.04%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.87%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.68%) Degree
4 3 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.75%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.58%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.85%) QA
2 2 (1.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.58%) Basel III
3 1 (0.58%) HL7
3 1 (0.58%) NCSC
3 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (12.87%) Kubernetes
2 16 (9.36%) Terraform
3 2 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (22.81%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.87%) Oracle
3 6 (3.51%) Citrix
4 3 (1.75%) ION Trading
5 2 (1.17%) NEC
5 2 (1.17%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.58%) Google
6 1 (0.58%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.58%) SAP
6 1 (0.58%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.58%) Xamarin