.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 10 June 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 301 240
Rank change year-on-year -127 -61 -65
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 173 186 355
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.76% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.82% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 154 301
10th Percentile £362 £378 £325
25th Percentile £423 £393 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.55% -0.50% -
75th Percentile £606 £675 £650
90th Percentile £728 £846 £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 39,011 22,600 34,789
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.37% 92.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,059 14,872 22,778
10th Percentile £325 £290 £288
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -4.76% -2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,743 986 2,652
10th Percentile £15.79 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.80% -24.49% -14.44%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.70 £37.50
% change year-on-year +53.43% -26.13% -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 10 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 10 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 -131 81 £588 +12.98% 52
North of England -56 29 £500 +17.65% 52
Midlands -43 26 £525 +29.95% 10
South East -64 24 £423 +1.81% 42
East Midlands -11 19 £575 +83.71% 5
Yorkshire -43 15 £588 +11.90% 10
North West -32 14 £450 +10.77% 30
West Midlands -48 7 £460 -7.07% 5
South West -22 6 £450 -31.30% 8
East of England -24 2 - - 18
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 173 (100.00%) .NET
2 135 (78.03%) C#
3 97 (56.07%) Azure
4 82 (47.40%) CI/CD
5 66 (38.15%) SQL
6 62 (35.84%) SQL Server
7 59 (34.10%) DevOps
8 54 (31.21%) Agile
9 41 (23.70%) Microservices
10 40 (23.12%) .NET Framework
11 38 (21.97%) Microsoft
12 35 (20.23%) RESTful
13 33 (19.08%) .NET Core
14 32 (18.50%) Full-Stack Development
15 31 (17.92%) ASP.NET
15 31 (17.92%) Azure DevOps
16 30 (17.34%) AngularJS
17 29 (16.76%) AWS
17 29 (16.76%) JavaScript
18 28 (16.18%) REST
19 26 (15.03%) React
20 23 (13.29%) Kubernetes
20 23 (13.29%) Security Cleared
21 22 (12.72%) HTML
22 21 (12.14%) Python
22 21 (12.14%) SC Cleared
22 21 (12.14%) Test Automation
23 20 (11.56%) Docker
23 20 (11.56%) Oracle
23 20 (11.56%) Problem-Solving

.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 (1.73%) Apache Superset
1 3 (1.73%) IIS
1 3 (1.73%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.16%) Confluence
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Endur
2 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.58%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 97 (56.07%) Azure
2 31 (17.92%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (16.76%) AWS
4 19 (10.98%) Azure Service Bus
5 18 (10.40%) Serverless
6 14 (8.09%) GitHub
7 13 (7.51%) Azure Functions
8 8 (4.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (4.05%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (3.47%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (3.47%) Entra ID
11 5 (2.89%) Azure AKS
11 5 (2.89%) Power Automate
11 5 (2.89%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.31%) GCP
12 4 (2.31%) n8n
12 4 (2.31%) Zapier
13 3 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.73%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (35.84%) SQL Server
2 19 (10.98%) Relational Database
3 13 (7.51%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (5.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (3.47%) Redis
6 4 (2.31%) Power BI
7 3 (1.73%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.73%) DocumentDB
7 3 (1.73%) Metabase
7 3 (1.73%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.73%) Parquet
8 2 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.16%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.16%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.58%) MySQL
9 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (9.83%) Git
2 8 (4.62%) NUnit
3 6 (3.47%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.89%) SpecFlow
5 4 (2.31%) MSTest
5 4 (2.31%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.73%) GitLab
6 3 (1.73%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.73%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.16%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.16%) JIRA
7 2 (1.16%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.16%) Moq
7 2 (1.16%) Selenium
8 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.58%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.58%) Mocha
8 1 (0.58%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 39 (22.54%) Finance
2 27 (15.61%) Social Skills
3 16 (9.25%) Banking
4 14 (8.09%) Front Office
5 13 (7.51%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.36%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.31%) Legal
9 3 (1.73%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.16%) Automotive
10 2 (1.16%) Back Office
10 2 (1.16%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.58%) Military
11 1 (0.58%) Police
11 1 (0.58%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.58%) Retail
11 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (100.00%) .NET
2 40 (23.12%) .NET Framework
3 35 (20.23%) RESTful
4 33 (19.08%) .NET Core
5 31 (17.92%) ASP.NET
6 30 (17.34%) AngularJS
7 28 (16.18%) REST
8 26 (15.03%) React
9 22 (12.72%) HTML
10 15 (8.67%) Entity Framework
11 13 (7.51%) ASP.NET Web API
12 12 (6.94%) ASP.NET Core
13 10 (5.78%) CSS
14 9 (5.20%) RabbitMQ
15 8 (4.62%) ASP.NET MVC
15 8 (4.62%) Kafka
15 8 (4.62%) OAuth
15 8 (4.62%) YAML
16 6 (3.47%) Blazor
16 6 (3.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.25%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.51%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.05%) AI Agents
4 6 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.89%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.31%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.73%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.73%) Derivative
7 3 (1.73%) IoT
8 2 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.58%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.58%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.58%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.58%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.58%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.89%) Windows
2 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (47.40%) CI/CD
2 59 (34.10%) DevOps
3 54 (31.21%) Agile
4 41 (23.70%) Microservices
5 32 (18.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 21 (12.14%) Test Automation
7 20 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (11.56%) Scrum
8 19 (10.98%) TDD
8 19 (10.98%) Unit Testing
9 17 (9.83%) AI
10 16 (9.25%) SOLID
11 15 (8.67%) Event-Driven
12 13 (7.51%) Clean Code
12 13 (7.51%) Software Engineering
13 12 (6.94%) Design Patterns
13 12 (6.94%) OOP
13 12 (6.94%) Performance Tuning
14 11 (6.36%) Containerisation
15 10 (5.78%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 135 (78.03%) C#
2 66 (38.15%) SQL
3 29 (16.76%) JavaScript
4 21 (12.14%) Python
5 19 (10.98%) TypeScript
6 14 (8.09%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.31%) Bicep
7 4 (2.31%) Java
7 4 (2.31%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.73%) MATLAB
8 3 (1.73%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.73%) Rust
8 3 (1.73%) VB.NET
8 3 (1.73%) VBA
9 2 (1.16%) C++
9 2 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.58%) VB
10 1 (0.58%) VB6
Qualifications
1 23 (13.29%) Security Cleared
2 21 (12.14%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.05%) Degree
4 3 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.73%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.58%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.20%) QA
2 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.58%) Basel III
3 1 (0.58%) NCSC
3 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (11.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (13.29%) Kubernetes
2 16 (9.25%) Terraform
3 2 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (21.97%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.56%) Oracle
3 5 (2.89%) Citrix
4 3 (1.73%) ION Trading
5 2 (1.16%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.58%) Google
6 1 (0.58%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.58%) NEC
6 1 (0.58%) SAP
6 1 (0.58%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.58%) Xamarin