.NET Developer Contracts 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 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 237 165
Rank change year-on-year -59 -72 -35
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 193 371 785
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.79% 1.00% 1.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 1.08% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 314 642
10th Percentile £375 £313 £363
25th Percentile £400 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +4.95%
75th Percentile £678 £650 £650
90th Percentile £838 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £34.20
25th Percentile - - £45.38
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +23.81% -15.53%
75th Percentile - - £71.88
90th Percentile - - £85.83
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% +30.00% -19.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

.NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured .NET Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Developer in England

.NET Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Developer in England.

Daily rate trend for .NET Developer in England

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Developer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Developer in England

.NET Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Developer in England.

Hourly rate trend for .NET Developer 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 1 May 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
London -41 146 £525 -10.64% 61
South East +44 23 £408 -13.30% 63
North of England -11 10 £413 +17.86% 89
North West +2 7 £413 +6.45% 52
South West +37 4 £628 +79.29% 22
Midlands +7 3 £475 +35.71% 41
Yorkshire -5 3 £525 +50.00% 19
East of England +23 2 £388 +10.71% 28
East Midlands +2 2 £363 +7.41% 11
West Midlands +7 1 £475 +26.67% 28
.NET Developer
UK

.NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, .NET Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring .NET Developer in the job title.

1 193 (100.00%) .NET
2 158 (81.87%) C#
3 89 (46.11%) SQL
4 77 (39.90%) .NET Framework
5 73 (37.82%) Azure
6 65 (33.68%) Finance
7 64 (33.16%) Agile
8 48 (24.87%) .NET Core
9 47 (24.35%) SQL Server
9 47 (24.35%) DevOps
10 46 (23.83%) AngularJS
11 45 (23.32%) Full-Stack Development
12 44 (22.80%) Social Skills
13 43 (22.28%) Oracle
14 39 (20.21%) JavaScript
15 37 (19.17%) AWS
16 36 (18.65%) PL/SQL
17 34 (17.62%) CI/CD
18 33 (17.10%) Microsoft
19 32 (16.58%) Windows
20 30 (15.54%) Entity Framework
21 29 (15.03%) Docker
21 29 (15.03%) ASP.NET
22 28 (14.51%) WPF
22 28 (14.51%) Kubernetes
23 26 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
23 26 (13.47%) Design Patterns
23 26 (13.47%) Front Office
23 26 (13.47%) Banking
24 25 (12.95%) Azure DevOps

.NET Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (4.15%) Umbraco
2 4 (2.07%) CMS
2 4 (2.07%) IIS
3 2 (1.04%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.52%) Confluence
4 1 (0.52%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.52%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 17 (8.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.52%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 73 (37.82%) Azure
2 37 (19.17%) AWS
3 25 (12.95%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (5.70%) Serverless
5 9 (4.66%) Azure Functions
6 8 (4.15%) GCP
7 7 (3.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (3.11%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (2.59%) Azure App Service
9 5 (2.59%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (2.59%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (2.59%) Azure Storage
9 5 (2.59%) Entra ID
10 4 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.07%) Azure API Management
11 3 (1.55%) Azure Service Fabric
12 2 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.04%) Azure AKS
12 2 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.04%) Firewall
1 2 (1.04%) HTTP
1 2 (1.04%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (24.35%) SQL Server
2 21 (10.88%) Oracle Database
3 19 (9.84%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (7.25%) Relational Database
5 12 (6.22%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (4.66%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (4.66%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.11%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.59%) MySQL
9 4 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.55%) Redis
11 2 (1.04%) DocumentDB
11 2 (1.04%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.52%) ClickHouse
12 1 (0.52%) MS Access
12 1 (0.52%) Parquet
12 1 (0.52%) Power BI
12 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 16 (8.29%) JIRA
2 14 (7.25%) Git
3 4 (2.07%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.55%) NUnit
4 3 (1.55%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.04%) Postman
5 2 (1.04%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.04%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.52%) Ant
6 1 (0.52%) GitLab
6 1 (0.52%) Maven
6 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.52%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.52%) Subversion
General
1 65 (33.68%) Finance
2 44 (22.80%) Social Skills
3 26 (13.47%) Banking
3 26 (13.47%) Front Office
4 24 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.63%) Investment Banking
6 6 (3.11%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.59%) Billing
8 3 (1.55%) Law
8 3 (1.55%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.04%) Electronics
9 2 (1.04%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.04%) Marketing
9 2 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.04%) Retail
10 1 (0.52%) Back Office
10 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.52%) Police
10 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (100.00%) .NET
2 77 (39.90%) .NET Framework
3 48 (24.87%) .NET Core
4 46 (23.83%) AngularJS
5 30 (15.54%) Entity Framework
6 29 (15.03%) ASP.NET
7 28 (14.51%) WPF
8 22 (11.40%) HTML
9 21 (10.88%) CSS
9 21 (10.88%) React
10 19 (9.84%) Reactive Extensions
11 15 (7.77%) RESTful
12 13 (6.74%) ASP.NET Web API
13 12 (6.22%) ASP.NET Core
14 9 (4.66%) ASP.NET MVC
14 9 (4.66%) Node.js
15 8 (4.15%) Blazor
15 8 (4.15%) RabbitMQ
15 8 (4.15%) REST
16 7 (3.63%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.18%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (3.63%) Market Risk
3 6 (3.11%) Fixed Income
3 6 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.11%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.59%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.55%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.55%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.04%) Derivative
7 2 (1.04%) Equities
7 2 (1.04%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.04%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.04%) NHS
7 2 (1.04%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.04%) Wiki
8 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 32 (16.58%) Windows
2 1 (0.52%) Android
2 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.52%) Linux
2 1 (0.52%) Unix
2 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (33.16%) Agile
2 47 (24.35%) DevOps
3 45 (23.32%) Full-Stack Development
4 34 (17.62%) CI/CD
5 26 (13.47%) Design Patterns
5 26 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (12.44%) TDD
7 23 (11.92%) OO
8 22 (11.40%) Microservices
9 20 (10.36%) MVC
10 17 (8.81%) Test Automation
11 16 (8.29%) Containerisation
11 16 (8.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (6.74%) Electronic Trading
12 13 (6.74%) Unit Testing
13 12 (6.22%) API Development
13 12 (6.22%) Scrum
14 11 (5.70%) Front End Development
15 10 (5.18%) Business Intelligence
15 10 (5.18%) Economics
Programming Languages
1 158 (81.87%) C#
2 89 (46.11%) SQL
3 39 (20.21%) JavaScript
4 36 (18.65%) PL/SQL
5 19 (9.84%) VBA
6 18 (9.33%) VB
6 18 (9.33%) VB.NET
7 16 (8.29%) TypeScript
8 12 (6.22%) Java
9 11 (5.70%) RPG
9 11 (5.70%) RPG IV
10 9 (4.66%) PowerShell
11 8 (4.15%) Python
12 7 (3.63%) T-SQL
13 5 (2.59%) F#
14 3 (1.55%) C++
15 2 (1.04%) Bicep
15 2 (1.04%) Go
16 1 (0.52%) VB6
Qualifications
1 7 (3.63%) SC Cleared
1 7 (3.63%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.55%) Degree
3 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.52%) MCAD
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.59%) QA
2 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.52%) GDPR
2 1 (0.52%) HL7
System Software
1 29 (15.03%) Docker
2 2 (1.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (14.51%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.66%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (22.28%) Oracle
2 33 (17.10%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.07%) Solace
3 4 (2.07%) TIBCO
4 3 (1.55%) Databricks
4 3 (1.55%) Sitecore
4 3 (1.55%) Virgin Media
5 2 (1.04%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.04%) SAP
6 1 (0.52%) Google
6 1 (0.52%) IBM
6 1 (0.52%) Murex
6 1 (0.52%) Rackspace
6 1 (0.52%) Splunk