.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in England

.NET Developer
UK > England

The median .NET Developer daily rate in England is £495, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 338 226
Rank change year-on-year -97 -112 -35
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 211 182 342
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.65% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.72% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 140 273
10th Percentile £378 £348 £356
25th Percentile £413 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £638
90th Percentile £731 £789 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £47.69 - -
25th Percentile £49.03 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £65.00
75th Percentile £65.88 - -
90th Percentile £73.15 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% -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 42,964 25,407 30,277
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 91.30% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,510 16,379 18,703
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.11%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £735 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,556 1,389 1,420
10th Percentile £14.82 £13.75 £14.84
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.44 £21.37
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -45.54% +2.62%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.50 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -3.37%

.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 24 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing .NET Developer in England over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 24 September 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 -110 92 £580 +20.47% 124
North of England -42 34 £450 +3.45% 67
Yorkshire -7 31 £450 -14.29% 19
Midlands -32 28 £525 +17.32% 39
South East -62 26 £394 -6.03% 70
East Midlands -2 23 £575 +83.71% 12
South West -26 17 £425 -22.73% 18
East of England -25 9 £525 +20.00% 33
West Midlands -46 5 £425 -14.14% 27
North West -54 3 £358 -14.25% 36
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 September 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.

1 211 (100.00%) .NET
2 153 (72.51%) C#
3 98 (46.45%) Azure
4 85 (40.28%) CI/CD
5 73 (34.60%) SQL Server
6 68 (32.23%) SQL
7 59 (27.96%) Microsoft
8 57 (27.01%) .NET Core
8 57 (27.01%) Agile
8 57 (27.01%) REST
9 54 (25.59%) DevOps
10 51 (24.17%) .NET Framework
11 46 (21.80%) Full-Stack Development
12 45 (21.33%) Microservices
13 44 (20.85%) ASP.NET
14 39 (18.48%) AWS
15 38 (18.01%) Azure DevOps
15 38 (18.01%) Kubernetes
16 37 (17.54%) RESTful
17 33 (15.64%) Docker
18 32 (15.17%) Test Automation
19 31 (14.69%) JavaScript
20 29 (13.74%) Git
21 28 (13.27%) SC Cleared
21 28 (13.27%) Security Cleared
22 27 (12.80%) Software Engineering
23 26 (12.32%) AngularJS
23 26 (12.32%) Code Quality
24 25 (11.85%) GitHub
24 25 (11.85%) TypeScript

.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 13 (6.16%) Confluence
2 5 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.42%) IIS
4 2 (0.95%) Apache Superset
4 2 (0.95%) CMS
4 2 (0.95%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.47%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 98 (46.45%) Azure
2 39 (18.48%) AWS
3 38 (18.01%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (11.85%) GitHub
5 14 (6.64%) Azure Service Bus
6 12 (5.69%) Serverless
7 9 (4.27%) Azure Functions
8 8 (3.79%) Azure AKS
8 8 (3.79%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (3.79%) Power Platform
9 7 (3.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (3.32%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.84%) PaaS
11 5 (2.37%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (2.37%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.90%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (1.90%) GCP
12 4 (1.90%) n8n
12 4 (1.90%) Zapier
13 3 (1.42%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.47%) Broadband
1 1 (0.47%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (34.60%) SQL Server
2 17 (8.06%) Relational Database
3 15 (7.11%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.32%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.84%) Power BI
6 5 (2.37%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.90%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.42%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.42%) Db2
8 3 (1.42%) DocumentDB
8 3 (1.42%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.42%) Redis
9 2 (0.95%) Metabase
9 2 (0.95%) Parquet
9 2 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.47%) Metadata
10 1 (0.47%) MySQL
10 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 29 (13.74%) Git
2 13 (6.16%) JIRA
3 9 (4.27%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.27%) Visual Studio
4 7 (3.32%) GitLab
5 6 (2.84%) REST Assured
6 5 (2.37%) SpecFlow
7 4 (1.90%) MSI
7 4 (1.90%) NUnit
7 4 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.95%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.95%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.95%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.95%) Postman
9 2 (0.95%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.47%) Moq
10 1 (0.47%) MSTest
10 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 47 (22.27%) Finance
2 40 (18.96%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.43%) Banking
4 12 (5.69%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.21%) Investment Banking
6 10 (4.74%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.32%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.32%) Front Office
8 4 (1.90%) Legal
9 3 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.95%) Automotive
10 2 (0.95%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.95%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.47%) Military
11 1 (0.47%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (100.00%) .NET
2 57 (27.01%) .NET Core
2 57 (27.01%) REST
3 51 (24.17%) .NET Framework
4 44 (20.85%) ASP.NET
5 37 (17.54%) RESTful
6 26 (12.32%) AngularJS
7 24 (11.37%) WPF
8 21 (9.95%) React
8 21 (9.95%) Web Services
9 19 (9.00%) Terraform
10 18 (8.53%) Entity Framework
11 16 (7.58%) WinForms
12 15 (7.11%) ASP.NET Core
12 15 (7.11%) Kafka
13 11 (5.21%) ASP.NET MVC
13 11 (5.21%) ASP.NET Web API
14 10 (4.74%) SOAP
15 9 (4.27%) Blazor
16 8 (3.79%) NHibernate
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.80%) Cloud Native
2 19 (9.00%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (7.11%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.84%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.37%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.37%) Legacy Code
6 5 (2.37%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.90%) Wiki
8 3 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.95%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.95%) Derivative
9 2 (0.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.47%) IoT
10 1 (0.47%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.47%) NHS
10 1 (0.47%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.06%) Windows
2 3 (1.42%) Linux
3 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (40.28%) CI/CD
2 57 (27.01%) Agile
3 54 (25.59%) DevOps
4 46 (21.80%) Full-Stack Development
5 45 (21.33%) Microservices
6 32 (15.17%) Test Automation
7 27 (12.80%) Software Engineering
8 26 (12.32%) Code Quality
9 23 (10.90%) API Development
9 23 (10.90%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (9.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (9.95%) Event-Driven
11 20 (9.48%) AI
11 20 (9.48%) Design Patterns
11 20 (9.48%) Scrum
12 19 (9.00%) Containerisation
13 18 (8.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 18 (8.53%) MVC
14 17 (8.06%) OO
14 17 (8.06%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 153 (72.51%) C#
2 68 (32.23%) SQL
3 31 (14.69%) JavaScript
4 25 (11.85%) TypeScript
5 24 (11.37%) Python
6 14 (6.64%) T-SQL
7 12 (5.69%) PL/SQL
8 7 (3.32%) Bicep
9 5 (2.37%) XAML
10 4 (1.90%) Java
10 4 (1.90%) VB.NET
10 4 (1.90%) VBA
11 3 (1.42%) VB
12 2 (0.95%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.95%) Rust
12 2 (0.95%) VB6
13 1 (0.47%) C
13 1 (0.47%) C++
13 1 (0.47%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (13.27%) SC Cleared
1 28 (13.27%) Security Cleared
2 5 (2.37%) Degree
3 4 (1.90%) DV Cleared
3 4 (1.90%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.90%) PhD
4 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.69%) QA
2 6 (2.84%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.37%) NCSC
3 5 (2.37%) WCAG
4 2 (0.95%) Basel III
4 2 (0.95%) Data Quality
System Software
1 33 (15.64%) Docker
2 8 (3.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (18.01%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.84%) Ansible
3 2 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (27.96%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.00%) Oracle
3 8 (3.79%) Citrix
4 5 (2.37%) Centrify
4 5 (2.37%) CyberArk
5 3 (1.42%) DevExpress
5 3 (1.42%) IBM
6 2 (0.95%) Adyen
6 2 (0.95%) Databricks
7 1 (0.47%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.47%) SAP
7 1 (0.47%) Telerik