.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 17 May 2026.

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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 286 244
Rank change year-on-year -142 -42 -70
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 167 198 353
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.81% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.88% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 160 300
10th Percentile £364 £385 £313
25th Percentile £450 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £603 £669 £656
90th Percentile £698 £838 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -7.99%
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 37,948 22,606 33,748
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.41% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,576 15,046 22,372
10th Percentile £318 £296 £283
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,610 912 2,431
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.56 £30.00 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +51.85% -19.31% -17.38%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £28.17 £36.58
% change year-on-year +51.55% -22.99% -18.72%

.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 17 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 17 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 -123 82 £575 +10.58% 54
North of England -46 33 £500 +21.21% 49
Midlands -51 21 £550 +10.55% 18
South East -62 20 £475 +14.46% 47
Yorkshire -43 18 £588 +11.90% 9
East Midlands -11 16 £575 +15.00% 8
North West -31 15 £450 +9.09% 27
South West -31 6 £450 -31.30% 11
West Midlands -58 5 £488 -1.52% 10
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 167 (100.00%) .NET
2 135 (80.84%) C#
3 91 (54.49%) Azure
4 75 (44.91%) CI/CD
5 67 (40.12%) SQL
6 62 (37.13%) SQL Server
7 60 (35.93%) DevOps
8 56 (33.53%) Agile
9 44 (26.35%) .NET Framework
10 37 (22.16%) Microservices
11 34 (20.36%) Azure DevOps
11 34 (20.36%) Microsoft
12 31 (18.56%) .NET Core
12 31 (18.56%) Full-Stack Development
12 31 (18.56%) RESTful
13 30 (17.96%) ASP.NET
14 28 (16.77%) AngularJS
15 27 (16.17%) JavaScript
16 26 (15.57%) React
16 26 (15.57%) REST
17 25 (14.97%) AWS
17 25 (14.97%) Security Cleared
18 23 (13.77%) HTML
18 23 (13.77%) SC Cleared
19 22 (13.17%) Kubernetes
20 21 (12.57%) Python
21 20 (11.98%) Docker
21 20 (11.98%) Oracle
21 20 (11.98%) Test Automation
22 19 (11.38%) 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 6 (3.59%) IIS
2 4 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.80%) Apache Superset
3 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.20%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Endur
1 2 (1.20%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.60%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 91 (54.49%) Azure
2 34 (20.36%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (14.97%) AWS
4 19 (11.38%) Azure Service Bus
5 17 (10.18%) Serverless
6 13 (7.78%) GitHub
7 12 (7.19%) Azure Functions
8 8 (4.79%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (4.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (4.19%) Entra ID
10 6 (3.59%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (3.59%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.99%) Power Automate
11 5 (2.99%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.40%) Azure AKS
12 4 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (2.40%) n8n
12 4 (2.40%) PaaS
12 4 (2.40%) Zapier
13 3 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.60%) DHCP
1 1 (0.60%) DNS
1 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (37.13%) SQL Server
2 19 (11.38%) Relational Database
3 12 (7.19%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (3.59%) Redis
6 5 (2.99%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.40%) Power BI
8 3 (1.80%) DocumentDB
8 3 (1.80%) Metabase
8 3 (1.80%) Parquet
9 2 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.20%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.20%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (8.38%) Git
2 7 (4.19%) NUnit
3 5 (2.99%) SpecFlow
3 5 (2.99%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.40%) MSTest
4 4 (2.40%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.80%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.80%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.20%) GitLab
6 2 (1.20%) Jasmine
6 2 (1.20%) JIRA
6 2 (1.20%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (1.20%) Moq
6 2 (1.20%) Selenium
7 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.60%) Mocha
7 1 (0.60%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.60%) tSQLt
General
1 38 (22.75%) Finance
2 28 (16.77%) Social Skills
3 20 (11.98%) Banking
4 16 (9.58%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.78%) Front Office
6 10 (5.99%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.59%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.40%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.80%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.20%) Automotive
10 2 (1.20%) Back Office
11 1 (0.60%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.60%) Military
11 1 (0.60%) Police
11 1 (0.60%) Retail
11 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (100.00%) .NET
2 44 (26.35%) .NET Framework
3 31 (18.56%) .NET Core
3 31 (18.56%) RESTful
4 30 (17.96%) ASP.NET
5 28 (16.77%) AngularJS
6 26 (15.57%) React
6 26 (15.57%) REST
7 23 (13.77%) HTML
8 15 (8.98%) ASP.NET Web API
9 14 (8.38%) Entity Framework
10 10 (5.99%) ASP.NET Core
10 10 (5.99%) CSS
11 9 (5.39%) ASP.NET MVC
12 8 (4.79%) OAuth
12 8 (4.79%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (4.19%) YAML
14 6 (3.59%) Kafka
14 6 (3.59%) Web Services
15 5 (2.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.78%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.59%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.39%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (4.19%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.99%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.40%) IoT
7 3 (1.80%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.80%) Derivative
7 3 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.20%) NHS
8 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.20%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.60%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.60%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.39%) Windows
2 5 (2.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (44.91%) CI/CD
2 60 (35.93%) DevOps
3 56 (33.53%) Agile
4 37 (22.16%) Microservices
5 31 (18.56%) Full-Stack Development
6 20 (11.98%) Test Automation
7 19 (11.38%) Scrum
7 19 (11.38%) TDD
8 17 (10.18%) AI
8 17 (10.18%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (9.58%) Unit Testing
10 15 (8.98%) SOLID
11 13 (7.78%) Clean Code
11 13 (7.78%) Performance Tuning
11 13 (7.78%) Software Engineering
12 12 (7.19%) Event-Driven
12 12 (7.19%) MVC
12 12 (7.19%) OOP
12 12 (7.19%) SDLC
13 11 (6.59%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 135 (80.84%) C#
2 67 (40.12%) SQL
3 27 (16.17%) JavaScript
4 21 (12.57%) Python
5 17 (10.18%) TypeScript
6 16 (9.58%) T-SQL
7 7 (4.19%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.40%) Bicep
8 4 (2.40%) Java
8 4 (2.40%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.80%) C++
9 3 (1.80%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.80%) MATLAB
9 3 (1.80%) Rust
10 1 (0.60%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 25 (14.97%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.77%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.79%) Degree
4 4 (2.40%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.60%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.59%) QA
2 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.60%) HL7
3 1 (0.60%) NCSC
3 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (11.98%) Docker
2 2 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (13.17%) Kubernetes
2 16 (9.58%) Terraform
3 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (20.36%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.98%) Oracle
3 7 (4.19%) Citrix
4 3 (1.80%) ION Trading
5 2 (1.20%) NEC
5 2 (1.20%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.60%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.60%) Google
6 1 (0.60%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.60%) SAP
6 1 (0.60%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.60%) Temenos
6 1 (0.60%) VMware
6 1 (0.60%) Xamarin