.NET Developer Contract Job Trends 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 11 July 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 317 225
Rank change year-on-year -98 -92 -44
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 203 198 391
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.73% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.79% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 161 329
10th Percentile £372 £355 £325
25th Percentile £421 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £668 £638
90th Percentile £730 £838 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -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 41,629 24,950 34,308
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 92.04% 92.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,507 16,246 22,465
10th Percentile £325 £293 £300
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £738 £740 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,975 1,206 2,466
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.77 £13.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.90 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.69% -29.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67.86 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £43.25 £26.50 £39.53
% change year-on-year +63.21% -32.95% -8.08%

.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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -108 88 £588 +12.98% 60
North of England -40 44 £460 +11.52% 49
Yorkshire -23 30 £475 -9.52% 13
Midlands -39 27 £500 +59.74% 16
South East -59 24 £410 -1.20% 49
East Midlands -4 20 £563 +109.11% 4
North West -45 14 £450 +11.11% 22
South West -31 9 £438 -33.21% 8
West Midlands -62 7 £460 -7.07% 12
East of England -22 5 - - 23
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 July 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.

1 203 (100.00%) .NET
2 154 (75.86%) C#
3 107 (52.71%) Azure
4 92 (45.32%) CI/CD
5 78 (38.42%) SQL
6 75 (36.95%) SQL Server
7 66 (32.51%) DevOps
8 64 (31.53%) Agile
9 51 (25.12%) .NET Framework
10 50 (24.63%) Microsoft
11 46 (22.66%) Microservices
12 45 (22.17%) .NET Core
13 43 (21.18%) RESTful
14 42 (20.69%) ASP.NET
15 40 (19.70%) Full-Stack Development
16 39 (19.21%) REST
17 37 (18.23%) AngularJS
17 37 (18.23%) Azure DevOps
18 36 (17.73%) AWS
19 35 (17.24%) Kubernetes
20 33 (16.26%) JavaScript
21 30 (14.78%) Docker
22 29 (14.29%) React
23 28 (13.79%) Test Automation
24 24 (11.82%) Oracle
24 24 (11.82%) Security Cleared
24 24 (11.82%) TypeScript
25 23 (11.33%) HTML
25 23 (11.33%) Python
26 22 (10.84%) Git

.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 9 (4.43%) Confluence
2 4 (1.97%) IIS
3 3 (1.48%) Apache Superset
3 3 (1.48%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.49%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.49%) Endur
1 1 (0.49%) NEC Housing
1 1 (0.49%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 107 (52.71%) Azure
2 37 (18.23%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (17.73%) AWS
4 20 (9.85%) GitHub
5 18 (8.87%) Azure Service Bus
6 15 (7.39%) Serverless
7 9 (4.43%) Azure Functions
8 7 (3.45%) Azure AKS
8 7 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (2.96%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (2.96%) Entra ID
9 6 (2.96%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.46%) GCP
10 5 (2.46%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.97%) n8n
11 4 (1.97%) Zapier
12 3 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (36.95%) SQL Server
2 21 (10.34%) Relational Database
3 15 (7.39%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.96%) Redis
6 5 (2.46%) Power BI
7 4 (1.97%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.48%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.48%) DocumentDB
8 3 (1.48%) Metabase
8 3 (1.48%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.48%) Parquet
9 2 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.99%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.99%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.49%) MySQL
10 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (10.84%) Git
2 9 (4.43%) JIRA
3 8 (3.94%) NUnit
4 7 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.45%) Visual Studio
5 6 (2.96%) SpecFlow
6 5 (2.46%) MSTest
7 4 (1.97%) GitLab
7 4 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.97%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.48%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.48%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.99%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.99%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (0.99%) Moq
9 2 (0.99%) MSI
10 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.49%) Mocha
10 1 (0.49%) MSBuild
General
1 49 (24.14%) Finance
2 32 (15.76%) Social Skills
3 19 (9.36%) Banking
4 16 (7.88%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.40%) Front Office
6 12 (5.91%) Investment Banking
7 7 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.46%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.97%) Legal
10 3 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.99%) Automotive
11 2 (0.99%) Back Office
11 2 (0.99%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.49%) Military
12 1 (0.49%) Police
12 1 (0.49%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.49%) Retail
12 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (100.00%) .NET
2 51 (25.12%) .NET Framework
3 45 (22.17%) .NET Core
4 43 (21.18%) RESTful
5 42 (20.69%) ASP.NET
6 39 (19.21%) REST
7 37 (18.23%) AngularJS
8 29 (14.29%) React
9 23 (11.33%) HTML
10 17 (8.37%) Entity Framework
11 14 (6.90%) ASP.NET Web API
11 14 (6.90%) Web Services
12 12 (5.91%) ASP.NET Core
12 12 (5.91%) CSS
13 11 (5.42%) WPF
14 10 (4.93%) Kafka
14 10 (4.93%) RabbitMQ
15 9 (4.43%) ASP.NET MVC
16 8 (3.94%) OAuth
16 8 (3.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.85%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.91%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.94%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.45%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.46%) Legacy Code
7 4 (1.97%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.97%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.48%) Derivative
8 3 (1.48%) IoT
8 3 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.48%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.99%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.49%) NHS
10 1 (0.49%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.42%) Windows
2 2 (0.99%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (45.32%) CI/CD
2 66 (32.51%) DevOps
3 64 (31.53%) Agile
4 46 (22.66%) Microservices
5 40 (19.70%) Full-Stack Development
6 28 (13.79%) Test Automation
7 22 (10.84%) Scrum
7 22 (10.84%) Unit Testing
8 21 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (9.85%) TDD
10 19 (9.36%) SOLID
11 18 (8.87%) AI
11 18 (8.87%) Design Patterns
11 18 (8.87%) OOP
12 17 (8.37%) Containerisation
13 16 (7.88%) Event-Driven
14 15 (7.39%) MVC
14 15 (7.39%) Software Engineering
15 14 (6.90%) Code Quality
15 14 (6.90%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 154 (75.86%) C#
2 78 (38.42%) SQL
3 33 (16.26%) JavaScript
4 24 (11.82%) TypeScript
5 23 (11.33%) Python
6 17 (8.37%) T-SQL
7 7 (3.45%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.96%) Bicep
9 4 (1.97%) Java
10 3 (1.48%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.48%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.48%) Rust
10 3 (1.48%) VB.NET
10 3 (1.48%) VBA
11 2 (0.99%) C++
11 2 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.99%) XAML
12 1 (0.49%) C
12 1 (0.49%) VB
12 1 (0.49%) VB6
Qualifications
1 24 (11.82%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.84%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.94%) Degree
4 4 (1.97%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.99%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.99%) PhD
6 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.91%) QA
2 5 (2.46%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.48%) NCSC
3 3 (1.48%) WCAG
4 1 (0.49%) Basel III
System Software
1 30 (14.78%) Docker
2 6 (2.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (17.24%) Kubernetes
2 20 (9.85%) Terraform
3 5 (2.46%) Ansible
4 3 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (24.63%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.82%) Oracle
3 8 (3.94%) Citrix
4 4 (1.97%) Centrify
4 4 (1.97%) CyberArk
5 2 (0.99%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.49%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.49%) Google
6 1 (0.49%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.49%) NEC
6 1 (0.49%) SAP
6 1 (0.49%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.49%) Telerik
6 1 (0.49%) Xamarin