.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in England

.NET Developer
UK > England

The median .NET Developer daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 294 223
Rank change year-on-year -131 -71 -62
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 164 188 402
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.77% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.83% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 161 341
10th Percentile £368 £381 £313
25th Percentile £450 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £689 £813 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £46.00 - -

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 35,066 22,560 34,942
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.94% 92.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,087 15,093 23,351
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,320 837 2,307
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.91 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £41.77 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.07% +6.15% -24.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.95
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.31 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £38.63 £32.50 £32.90
% change year-on-year +18.86% -1.20% -25.00%

.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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -105 93 £563 +8.43% 65
North of England -51 29 £460 +2.22% 54
North West -26 15 £450 +4.35% 32
Yorkshire -43 14 £500 -4.76% 16
South East -59 14 £517 +16.57% 48
Midlands -57 11 £519 +3.75% 19
East of England -29 9 £450 +5.88% 21
East Midlands -31 7 £475 -5.00% 9
South West -27 4 £588 -2.08% 19
West Midlands -53 4 £519 +6.41% 10
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 March 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.

1 164 (100.00%) .NET
2 126 (76.83%) C#
3 97 (59.15%) Azure
4 69 (42.07%) SQL
5 67 (40.85%) CI/CD
6 62 (37.80%) DevOps
7 60 (36.59%) SQL Server
8 57 (34.76%) Agile
9 39 (23.78%) .NET Framework
10 35 (21.34%) .NET Core
11 34 (20.73%) Azure DevOps
11 34 (20.73%) Full-Stack Development
12 33 (20.12%) AngularJS
12 33 (20.12%) RESTful
13 32 (19.51%) Microsoft
14 29 (17.68%) ASP.NET
14 29 (17.68%) Security Cleared
15 28 (17.07%) Microservices
16 27 (16.46%) SC Cleared
17 25 (15.24%) React
18 22 (13.41%) HTML
18 22 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
18 22 (13.41%) Python
18 22 (13.41%) REST
19 21 (12.80%) AWS
20 20 (12.20%) Test Automation
21 19 (11.59%) AI
21 19 (11.59%) JavaScript
21 19 (11.59%) Serverless
22 18 (10.98%) Azure Service Bus

.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 5 (3.05%) IIS
1 5 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.22%) Apache Superset
3 2 (1.22%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.22%) Endur
1 2 (1.22%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 97 (59.15%) Azure
2 34 (20.73%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (12.80%) AWS
4 19 (11.59%) Serverless
5 18 (10.98%) Azure Service Bus
6 15 (9.15%) Azure Functions
7 10 (6.10%) Entra ID
8 9 (5.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 9 (5.49%) PaaS
9 8 (4.88%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (4.88%) GitHub
10 7 (4.27%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (3.05%) Azure AKS
12 5 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (2.44%) Azure App Service
13 4 (2.44%) Azure WebJobs
14 3 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.83%) DNS
2 2 (1.22%) DHCP
2 2 (1.22%) HTTP
2 2 (1.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (36.59%) SQL Server
2 14 (8.54%) Relational Database
3 13 (7.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.66%) Redis
6 4 (2.44%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.22%) Metabase
7 2 (1.22%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.22%) Parquet
7 2 (1.22%) Power BI
7 2 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.61%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (10.37%) Git
2 5 (3.05%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.05%) SpecFlow
2 5 (3.05%) Visual Studio
3 4 (2.44%) MSTest
3 4 (2.44%) NUnit
3 4 (2.44%) TeamCity
3 4 (2.44%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (1.83%) JIRA
4 3 (1.83%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.22%) Jasmine
5 2 (1.22%) Karma Test Runner
5 2 (1.22%) Selenium
6 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.61%) JMeter
6 1 (0.61%) Mocha
6 1 (0.61%) Moq
6 1 (0.61%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.61%) tSQLt
General
1 37 (22.56%) Finance
2 29 (17.68%) Social Skills
3 25 (15.24%) Banking
4 18 (10.98%) Public Sector
5 14 (8.54%) Front Office
6 12 (7.32%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (4.27%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.83%) Back Office
9 3 (1.83%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.22%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.61%) Advertising
11 1 (0.61%) Automotive
11 1 (0.61%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.61%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (100.00%) .NET
2 39 (23.78%) .NET Framework
3 35 (21.34%) .NET Core
4 33 (20.12%) AngularJS
4 33 (20.12%) RESTful
5 29 (17.68%) ASP.NET
6 25 (15.24%) React
7 22 (13.41%) HTML
7 22 (13.41%) REST
8 15 (9.15%) ASP.NET Core
9 12 (7.32%) ASP.NET Web API
10 10 (6.10%) CSS
10 10 (6.10%) Entity Framework
10 10 (6.10%) WPF
11 8 (4.88%) WinForms
11 8 (4.88%) YAML
12 7 (4.27%) ASP.NET MVC
12 7 (4.27%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (4.27%) Web Services
13 6 (3.66%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.93%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.49%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (4.27%) Credit Risk
4 6 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.66%) Fixed Income
4 6 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.66%) Market Risk
5 4 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.44%) IoT
6 3 (1.83%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.83%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.83%) Derivative
6 3 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.83%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.22%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.22%) NHS
7 2 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.61%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.32%) Windows
2 6 (3.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (40.85%) CI/CD
2 62 (37.80%) DevOps
3 57 (34.76%) Agile
4 34 (20.73%) Full-Stack Development
5 28 (17.07%) Microservices
6 22 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (12.20%) Test Automation
8 19 (11.59%) AI
9 18 (10.98%) Design Patterns
9 18 (10.98%) Unit Testing
10 16 (9.76%) Scrum
11 15 (9.15%) MVC
12 14 (8.54%) OOP
12 14 (8.54%) SDLC
12 14 (8.54%) TDD
13 12 (7.32%) Clean Code
14 11 (6.71%) Migration
14 11 (6.71%) Software Engineering
15 10 (6.10%) Performance Tuning
15 10 (6.10%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 126 (76.83%) C#
2 69 (42.07%) SQL
3 22 (13.41%) Python
4 19 (11.59%) JavaScript
5 13 (7.93%) T-SQL
6 12 (7.32%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.05%) PL/SQL
7 5 (3.05%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.44%) Bicep
8 4 (2.44%) Java
8 4 (2.44%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.83%) C++
10 2 (1.22%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.22%) Rust
11 1 (0.61%) VB
11 1 (0.61%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.61%) VB6
Qualifications
1 29 (17.68%) Security Cleared
2 27 (16.46%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.88%) Degree
4 4 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.44%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.61%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.10%) QA
2 2 (1.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.61%) HL7
3 1 (0.61%) MiFID
3 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (7.93%) Docker
2 3 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (9.76%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.54%) Terraform
3 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (19.51%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.15%) Oracle
3 5 (3.05%) Citrix
4 3 (1.83%) ION Trading
5 2 (1.22%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.22%) NEC
5 2 (1.22%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.22%) VMware
6 1 (0.61%) Databricks
6 1 (0.61%) Google
6 1 (0.61%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.61%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.61%) Sybase
6 1 (0.61%) Temenos
6 1 (0.61%) Xamarin