.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in England

.NET Developer
UK > England

The median .NET Developer daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 299 241
Rank change year-on-year -115 -58 -67
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 179 186 358
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.75% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.81% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 153 305
10th Percentile £363 £378 £325
25th Percentile £423 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £606 £673 £638
90th Percentile £738 £838 £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% +30.00%

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 39,807 22,960 35,034
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.31% 92.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,488 15,102 22,819
10th Percentile £325 £294 £288
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £638
90th Percentile £733 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,805 1,027 2,691
10th Percentile £15.93 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.35 £18.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £45.50 £28.75 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +58.26% -27.31% -12.11%
75th Percentile £67.84 £58.75 £63.19
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £43.69 £27.21 £37.50
% change year-on-year +60.57% -27.44% -16.67%

.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 19 June 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 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
London -123 82 £586 +12.74% 55
North of England -50 29 £500 +17.65% 44
Midlands -39 26 £525 +67.73% 12
South East -57 26 £423 -5.06% 45
East Midlands -2 19 £575 +113.75% 4
Yorkshire -47 15 £588 +11.90% 10
North West -30 14 £450 +10.77% 23
South West -22 7 £450 -31.30% 8
West Midlands -57 7 £460 -7.07% 8
East of England -26 4 - - 17
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 June 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.

1 179 (100.00%) .NET
2 140 (78.21%) C#
3 99 (55.31%) Azure
4 82 (45.81%) CI/CD
5 66 (36.87%) SQL
6 63 (35.20%) SQL Server
7 60 (33.52%) DevOps
8 55 (30.73%) Agile
9 42 (23.46%) .NET Framework
10 41 (22.91%) Microservices
11 39 (21.79%) Microsoft
12 38 (21.23%) RESTful
13 35 (19.55%) .NET Core
13 35 (19.55%) Full-Stack Development
14 32 (17.88%) Azure DevOps
15 31 (17.32%) AngularJS
15 31 (17.32%) ASP.NET
16 30 (16.76%) AWS
16 30 (16.76%) JavaScript
17 28 (15.64%) REST
18 27 (15.08%) React
19 23 (12.85%) Kubernetes
19 23 (12.85%) Security Cleared
20 22 (12.29%) Scrum
21 21 (11.73%) HTML
21 21 (11.73%) Oracle
21 21 (11.73%) Python
21 21 (11.73%) SC Cleared
21 21 (11.73%) Unit Testing
22 20 (11.17%) Docker

.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 3 (1.68%) Apache Superset
1 3 (1.68%) IIS
1 3 (1.68%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.12%) Confluence
2 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.56%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.56%) Endur
1 1 (0.56%) NEC Housing
1 1 (0.56%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 99 (55.31%) Azure
2 32 (17.88%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (16.76%) AWS
4 18 (10.06%) Azure Service Bus
4 18 (10.06%) Serverless
5 14 (7.82%) GitHub
6 13 (7.26%) Azure Functions
7 8 (4.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (3.91%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (3.35%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (3.35%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (3.35%) Entra ID
9 6 (3.35%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.79%) Azure AKS
10 5 (2.79%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.23%) GCP
11 4 (2.23%) n8n
11 4 (2.23%) Zapier
12 3 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (35.20%) SQL Server
2 19 (10.61%) Relational Database
3 13 (7.26%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (3.35%) Redis
6 5 (2.79%) Power BI
7 3 (1.68%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.68%) DocumentDB
7 3 (1.68%) Metabase
7 3 (1.68%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.68%) Parquet
8 2 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.12%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.12%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.56%) MySQL
9 1 (0.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (10.61%) Git
2 8 (4.47%) NUnit
2 8 (4.47%) Visual Studio
3 5 (2.79%) SpecFlow
4 4 (2.23%) MSTest
4 4 (2.23%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.68%) GitLab
5 3 (1.68%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.68%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.12%) Jasmine
6 2 (1.12%) JIRA
6 2 (1.12%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (1.12%) Moq
6 2 (1.12%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.12%) Selenium
7 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.56%) Mocha
7 1 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 41 (22.91%) Finance
2 26 (14.53%) Social Skills
3 16 (8.94%) Banking
4 15 (8.38%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.26%) Front Office
6 10 (5.59%) Investment Banking
7 7 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.23%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.23%) Legal
9 3 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.12%) Automotive
10 2 (1.12%) Back Office
10 2 (1.12%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.56%) Military
11 1 (0.56%) Police
11 1 (0.56%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.56%) Retail
11 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (100.00%) .NET
2 42 (23.46%) .NET Framework
3 38 (21.23%) RESTful
4 35 (19.55%) .NET Core
5 31 (17.32%) AngularJS
5 31 (17.32%) ASP.NET
6 28 (15.64%) REST
7 27 (15.08%) React
8 21 (11.73%) HTML
9 17 (9.50%) Entity Framework
10 13 (7.26%) ASP.NET Web API
11 12 (6.70%) ASP.NET Core
12 10 (5.59%) CSS
13 9 (5.03%) RabbitMQ
14 8 (4.47%) ASP.NET MVC
14 8 (4.47%) Kafka
14 8 (4.47%) OAuth
14 8 (4.47%) Web Services
14 8 (4.47%) YAML
15 7 (3.91%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.94%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.91%) AI Agents
4 6 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.23%) Fixed Income
5 4 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.23%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.68%) Derivative
6 3 (1.68%) IoT
7 2 (1.12%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.56%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.56%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.56%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.91%) Windows
2 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (45.81%) CI/CD
2 60 (33.52%) DevOps
3 55 (30.73%) Agile
4 41 (22.91%) Microservices
5 35 (19.55%) Full-Stack Development
6 22 (12.29%) Scrum
7 21 (11.73%) Unit Testing
8 20 (11.17%) Test Automation
9 19 (10.61%) AI
9 19 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (10.61%) TDD
10 16 (8.94%) SOLID
11 15 (8.38%) Software Engineering
12 14 (7.82%) Design Patterns
12 14 (7.82%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (7.26%) Clean Code
13 13 (7.26%) Event-Driven
13 13 (7.26%) MVC
13 13 (7.26%) OOP
14 11 (6.15%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 140 (78.21%) C#
2 66 (36.87%) SQL
3 30 (16.76%) JavaScript
4 21 (11.73%) Python
5 20 (11.17%) TypeScript
6 16 (8.94%) T-SQL
7 5 (2.79%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.23%) Java
9 3 (1.68%) Bicep
9 3 (1.68%) MATLAB
9 3 (1.68%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.68%) Rust
9 3 (1.68%) VB.NET
9 3 (1.68%) VBA
10 2 (1.12%) C++
10 2 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.12%) XAML
11 1 (0.56%) C
11 1 (0.56%) VB
11 1 (0.56%) VB6
Qualifications
1 23 (12.85%) Security Cleared
2 21 (11.73%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.47%) Degree
4 3 (1.68%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.12%) PhD
6 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.03%) QA
2 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.56%) Basel III
3 1 (0.56%) NCSC
3 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (11.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (12.85%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.38%) Terraform
3 2 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (21.79%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.73%) Oracle
3 6 (3.35%) Citrix
4 2 (1.12%) ION Trading
4 2 (1.12%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.56%) Google
5 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.56%) NEC
5 1 (0.56%) SAP
5 1 (0.56%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.56%) Xamarin