.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 13 May 2026.

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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 288 241
Rank change year-on-year -143 -47 -71
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 161 194 354
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.80% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.87% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 158 302
10th Percentile £368 £385 £319
25th Percentile £450 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.84% +0.15% -2.91%
75th Percentile £611 £674 £669
90th Percentile £703 £838 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -8.65%
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 37,225 22,311 33,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.50% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,137 14,840 22,465
10th Percentile £315 £300 £281
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,565 900 2,436
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.00 £12.87
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £46.80 £30.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.00% -20.00% -14.88%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.85 £28.18 £37.50
% change year-on-year +55.59% -24.85% -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 13 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 13 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 -122 81 £575 +9.52% 62
North of England -52 33 £500 +19.40% 47
Midlands -41 19 £550 +10.55% 21
Yorkshire -37 18 £588 +11.90% 12
South East -57 18 £488 +17.47% 53
North West -28 15 £450 +9.09% 26
East Midlands -17 14 £575 +15.00% 10
South West -31 5 £588 -10.31% 11
West Midlands -55 5 £488 -1.52% 11
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 161 (100.00%) .NET
2 129 (80.12%) C#
3 87 (54.04%) Azure
4 72 (44.72%) CI/CD
5 63 (39.13%) SQL
6 62 (38.51%) SQL Server
7 58 (36.02%) DevOps
8 55 (34.16%) Agile
9 42 (26.09%) .NET Framework
10 37 (22.98%) Microservices
11 34 (21.12%) Azure DevOps
12 30 (18.63%) .NET Core
12 30 (18.63%) Full-Stack Development
12 30 (18.63%) Microsoft
13 29 (18.01%) AngularJS
13 29 (18.01%) RESTful
14 28 (17.39%) ASP.NET
15 25 (15.53%) REST
15 25 (15.53%) Security Cleared
16 24 (14.91%) React
17 23 (14.29%) AWS
17 23 (14.29%) HTML
17 23 (14.29%) JavaScript
17 23 (14.29%) SC Cleared
18 21 (13.04%) Python
19 20 (12.42%) Kubernetes
20 19 (11.80%) Test Automation
21 18 (11.18%) Azure Service Bus
21 18 (11.18%) Docker
21 18 (11.18%) Oracle

.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 6 (3.73%) IIS
2 4 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.86%) Apache Superset
3 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.24%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.24%) Endur
1 2 (1.24%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 87 (54.04%) Azure
2 34 (21.12%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (14.29%) AWS
4 18 (11.18%) Azure Service Bus
5 17 (10.56%) Serverless
6 13 (8.07%) GitHub
7 12 (7.45%) Azure Functions
8 8 (4.97%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (4.35%) Entra ID
10 6 (3.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (3.73%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.48%) Azure AKS
11 4 (2.48%) n8n
11 4 (2.48%) PaaS
11 4 (2.48%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.48%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.48%) Zapier
12 3 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.86%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.62%) DHCP
1 1 (0.62%) DNS
1 1 (0.62%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (38.51%) SQL Server
2 18 (11.18%) Relational Database
3 12 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.97%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (3.73%) Redis
6 5 (3.11%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.48%) Power BI
8 3 (1.86%) Metabase
8 3 (1.86%) Parquet
9 2 (1.24%) DocumentDB
9 2 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.24%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.62%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.62%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (7.45%) Git
2 5 (3.11%) NUnit
2 5 (3.11%) SpecFlow
2 5 (3.11%) Visual Studio
3 4 (2.48%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.48%) MSTest
3 4 (2.48%) TeamCity
4 3 (1.86%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (1.86%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.24%) GitLab
5 2 (1.24%) Jasmine
5 2 (1.24%) JIRA
5 2 (1.24%) Karma Test Runner
5 2 (1.24%) Moq
5 2 (1.24%) Selenium
6 1 (0.62%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.62%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.62%) Mocha
6 1 (0.62%) tSQLt
6 1 (0.62%) webpack
General
1 37 (22.98%) Finance
2 28 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 20 (12.42%) Banking
4 16 (9.94%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.45%) Front Office
6 10 (6.21%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.73%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.86%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.86%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.24%) Back Office
10 1 (0.62%) Automotive
10 1 (0.62%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.62%) Military
10 1 (0.62%) Police
10 1 (0.62%) Retail
10 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (100.00%) .NET
2 42 (26.09%) .NET Framework
3 30 (18.63%) .NET Core
4 29 (18.01%) AngularJS
4 29 (18.01%) RESTful
5 28 (17.39%) ASP.NET
6 25 (15.53%) REST
7 24 (14.91%) React
8 23 (14.29%) HTML
9 13 (8.07%) ASP.NET Web API
10 12 (7.45%) Entity Framework
11 10 (6.21%) ASP.NET Core
11 10 (6.21%) CSS
12 9 (5.59%) ASP.NET MVC
13 8 (4.97%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (4.35%) OAuth
14 7 (4.35%) YAML
15 6 (3.73%) Kafka
16 5 (3.11%) HTML5
16 5 (3.11%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.07%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.83%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.59%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (4.35%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.11%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.48%) IoT
7 3 (1.86%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.86%) Derivative
7 3 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.24%) NHS
8 2 (1.24%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.24%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.62%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.62%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.62%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.62%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.59%) Windows
2 5 (3.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (44.72%) CI/CD
2 58 (36.02%) DevOps
3 55 (34.16%) Agile
4 37 (22.98%) Microservices
5 30 (18.63%) Full-Stack Development
6 19 (11.80%) Test Automation
7 18 (11.18%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (10.56%) AI
8 17 (10.56%) Scrum
8 17 (10.56%) TDD
9 15 (9.32%) Unit Testing
10 13 (8.07%) Performance Tuning
10 13 (8.07%) SOLID
11 12 (7.45%) Event-Driven
11 12 (7.45%) MVC
11 12 (7.45%) SDLC
11 12 (7.45%) Software Engineering
12 11 (6.83%) Clean Code
12 11 (6.83%) Design Patterns
12 11 (6.83%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 129 (80.12%) C#
2 63 (39.13%) SQL
3 23 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 21 (13.04%) Python
5 16 (9.94%) T-SQL
5 16 (9.94%) TypeScript
6 7 (4.35%) PL/SQL
7 4 (2.48%) Bicep
7 4 (2.48%) Java
7 4 (2.48%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.86%) C++
8 3 (1.86%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.86%) MATLAB
8 3 (1.86%) Rust
9 1 (0.62%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 25 (15.53%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.97%) Degree
4 4 (2.48%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.62%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.83%) QA
2 2 (1.24%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.62%) HL7
3 1 (0.62%) NCSC
3 1 (0.62%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (11.18%) Docker
2 2 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (12.42%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.70%) Terraform
3 1 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (18.63%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.18%) Oracle
3 7 (4.35%) Citrix
4 3 (1.86%) ION Trading
5 2 (1.24%) NEC
5 2 (1.24%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.62%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.62%) Google
6 1 (0.62%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.62%) Sybase
6 1 (0.62%) Temenos
6 1 (0.62%) VMware
6 1 (0.62%) Xamarin