.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in England

.NET Developer
UK > England

The median .NET Developer daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 319 220
Rank change year-on-year -100 -99 -36
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 216 204 377
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.74% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.81% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 166 315
10th Percentile £368 £353 £326
25th Percentile £416 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £636 £644
90th Percentile £725 £838 £765
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -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 41,654 25,335 31,942
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 91.78% 92.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,384 16,465 21,086
10th Percentile £325 £288 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,020 1,281 2,007
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.75 £13.86
25th Percentile £22.20 £17.79 £19.22
Median hourly rate £45.25 £26.30 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.05% -38.84% -1.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +70.97% -40.16% -2.26%

.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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -109 91 £588 +17.50% 45
North of England -39 48 £452 +7.94% 45
Yorkshire -16 36 £460 -12.38% 17
Midlands -36 27 £500 +1.01% 21
South East -69 27 £420 +0.24% 50
East Midlands +2 20 £563 +36.70% 8
South West -31 13 £450 -45.45% 14
North West -44 12 £404 -0.25% 17
West Midlands -49 7 £425 -14.14% 13
East of England -17 5 - - 25
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 July 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.

1 216 (100.00%) .NET
2 161 (74.54%) C#
3 109 (50.46%) Azure
4 99 (45.83%) CI/CD
5 80 (37.04%) SQL
6 76 (35.19%) SQL Server
7 71 (32.87%) DevOps
8 69 (31.94%) Agile
9 60 (27.78%) Microsoft
10 57 (26.39%) .NET Framework
11 52 (24.07%) REST
12 49 (22.69%) .NET Core
12 49 (22.69%) Full-Stack Development
12 49 (22.69%) Microservices
13 44 (20.37%) ASP.NET
14 43 (19.91%) RESTful
15 41 (18.98%) JavaScript
16 40 (18.52%) AngularJS
16 40 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
17 36 (16.67%) Kubernetes
18 34 (15.74%) AWS
18 34 (15.74%) Docker
19 31 (14.35%) React
19 31 (14.35%) Security Cleared
19 31 (14.35%) Test Automation
20 29 (13.43%) SC Cleared
21 27 (12.50%) TypeScript
22 25 (11.57%) Git
23 23 (10.65%) GitHub
23 23 (10.65%) HTML

.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 11 (5.09%) Confluence
2 5 (2.31%) IIS
2 5 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.39%) Apache Superset
4 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.46%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.46%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 109 (50.46%) Azure
2 40 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (15.74%) AWS
4 23 (10.65%) GitHub
5 19 (8.80%) Azure Service Bus
6 16 (7.41%) Serverless
7 11 (5.09%) Azure Key Vault
8 10 (4.63%) Azure Functions
9 9 (4.17%) Azure AKS
10 8 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (3.70%) Entra ID
11 7 (3.24%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (3.24%) PaaS
12 6 (2.78%) Power Platform
13 5 (2.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 5 (2.31%) GCP
13 5 (2.31%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (2.31%) Power Automate
14 4 (1.85%) Azure App Service
14 4 (1.85%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.46%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (35.19%) SQL Server
2 16 (7.41%) Relational Database
3 15 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (4.63%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (2.31%) Oracle Database
5 5 (2.31%) Power BI
5 5 (2.31%) Redis
6 4 (1.85%) DocumentDB
7 3 (1.39%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (1.39%) Metabase
7 3 (1.39%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.39%) Parquet
7 3 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.93%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.93%) Db2
8 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.46%) MySQL
9 1 (0.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (11.57%) Git
2 10 (4.63%) JIRA
3 8 (3.70%) NUnit
4 6 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.78%) SpecFlow
4 6 (2.78%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.31%) MSTest
6 4 (1.85%) GitLab
6 4 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.85%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.39%) MSI
7 3 (1.39%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.39%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.93%) Jasmine
8 2 (0.93%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (0.93%) Moq
8 2 (0.93%) Postman
9 1 (0.46%) Mocha
9 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.46%) tSQLt
General
1 53 (24.54%) Finance
2 37 (17.13%) Social Skills
3 17 (7.87%) Banking
3 17 (7.87%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.09%) Front Office
5 10 (4.63%) Investment Banking
6 8 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.31%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.85%) Legal
9 3 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.93%) Automotive
10 2 (0.93%) Back Office
11 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.46%) Military
11 1 (0.46%) Police
11 1 (0.46%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.46%) Retail
11 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (100.00%) .NET
2 57 (26.39%) .NET Framework
3 52 (24.07%) REST
4 49 (22.69%) .NET Core
5 44 (20.37%) ASP.NET
6 43 (19.91%) RESTful
7 40 (18.52%) AngularJS
8 31 (14.35%) React
9 23 (10.65%) HTML
10 21 (9.72%) Entity Framework
11 16 (7.41%) Web Services
12 15 (6.94%) ASP.NET Core
12 15 (6.94%) ASP.NET Web API
13 14 (6.48%) CSS
13 14 (6.48%) WPF
14 10 (4.63%) ASP.NET MVC
14 10 (4.63%) Kafka
15 9 (4.17%) Blazor
15 9 (4.17%) OAuth
15 9 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.26%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (6.94%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.31%) AI Agents
4 5 (2.31%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.85%) Legacy Code
5 4 (1.85%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.39%) Derivative
6 3 (1.39%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.39%) Wiki
7 2 (0.93%) IoT
7 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.46%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.46%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.46%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.46%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.02%) Windows
2 2 (0.93%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.46%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (45.83%) CI/CD
2 71 (32.87%) DevOps
3 69 (31.94%) Agile
4 49 (22.69%) Full-Stack Development
4 49 (22.69%) Microservices
5 31 (14.35%) Test Automation
6 21 (9.72%) Scrum
6 21 (9.72%) Unit Testing
7 20 (9.26%) Code Quality
7 20 (9.26%) OOP
7 20 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (9.26%) SOLID
7 20 (9.26%) TDD
8 19 (8.80%) API Development
9 18 (8.33%) Containerisation
9 18 (8.33%) Design Patterns
10 17 (7.87%) AI
11 16 (7.41%) Event-Driven
11 16 (7.41%) MVC
11 16 (7.41%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 161 (74.54%) C#
2 80 (37.04%) SQL
3 41 (18.98%) JavaScript
4 27 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 22 (10.19%) Python
6 18 (8.33%) T-SQL
7 9 (4.17%) PL/SQL
8 7 (3.24%) Bicep
9 4 (1.85%) VB.NET
9 4 (1.85%) VBA
10 3 (1.39%) Java
10 3 (1.39%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.39%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.39%) Rust
11 2 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.93%) VB
11 2 (0.93%) XAML
12 1 (0.46%) C
12 1 (0.46%) C++
12 1 (0.46%) VB6
Qualifications
1 31 (14.35%) Security Cleared
2 29 (13.43%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.24%) Degree
4 4 (1.85%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.93%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.93%) PhD
6 1 (0.46%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.48%) QA
2 7 (3.24%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.31%) WCAG
4 4 (1.85%) NCSC
5 1 (0.46%) Basel III
System Software
1 34 (15.74%) Docker
2 8 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.19%) Terraform
3 5 (2.31%) Ansible
4 3 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.65%) Oracle
3 9 (4.17%) Citrix
4 4 (1.85%) Centrify
4 4 (1.85%) CyberArk
5 3 (1.39%) IBM
6 2 (0.93%) DevExpress
7 1 (0.46%) Google
7 1 (0.46%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.46%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.46%) SAP
7 1 (0.46%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.46%) Telerik