.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 4 January 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 280 185
Rank change year-on-year -110 -95 -40
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 157 228 468
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.83% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.89% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 175 379
10th Percentile £364 £344 £325
25th Percentile £400 £389 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £571 £628 £688
90th Percentile £642 £733 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% -6.82%
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 28,766 25,517 33,884
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.44% 92.85% 93.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,412 15,793 23,116
10th Percentile £300 £300 £280
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,738 801 1,461
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.92 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.30 £21.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £44.78
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -21.83% +33.66%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.49 £74.87 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.46% -26.97% +36.92%

.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 4 January 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 4 January 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 -66 96 £500 -9.09% 71
South East -18 19 £488 +9.12% 70
East of England -8 12 £425 -12.37% 31
North of England -53 12 £443 -10.61% 70
Midlands -45 9 £515 +8.42% 49
East Midlands -21 6 £515 +44.06% 24
Yorkshire -43 6 £500 - 22
North West -26 5 £410 -17.17% 41
West Midlands -47 3 £488 +2.63% 23
South West -12 2 £550 +0.92% 25
North East -12 1 - - 7
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 January 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.

1 157 (100.00%) .NET
2 122 (77.71%) C#
3 77 (49.04%) Azure
4 70 (44.59%) SQL
5 61 (38.85%) Agile
6 50 (31.85%) DevOps
7 48 (30.57%) SQL Server
8 46 (29.30%) .NET Framework
9 44 (28.03%) CI/CD
10 36 (22.93%) Full-Stack Development
11 33 (21.02%) .NET Core
12 32 (20.38%) Microservices
13 31 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (17.20%) AngularJS
14 27 (17.20%) Microsoft
15 26 (16.56%) Azure DevOps
16 25 (15.92%) Oracle
17 22 (14.01%) Windows
17 22 (14.01%) WPF
18 21 (13.38%) Migration
18 21 (13.38%) RESTful
19 20 (12.74%) AWS
20 18 (11.46%) AI
20 18 (11.46%) Clean Code
20 18 (11.46%) PL/SQL
20 18 (11.46%) Security Cleared
21 17 (10.83%) ASP.NET
21 17 (10.83%) Scrum
22 16 (10.19%) Design Patterns
22 16 (10.19%) Entity Framework

.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 7 (4.46%) Confluence
2 4 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.91%) IIS
4 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.64%) CMS
5 1 (0.64%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.64%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.64%) Mendix
Applications
1 9 (5.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Endur
1 1 (0.64%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.64%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 77 (49.04%) Azure
2 26 (16.56%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (12.74%) AWS
4 14 (8.92%) Serverless
5 12 (7.64%) GitHub
6 11 (7.01%) Azure Functions
7 10 (6.37%) Azure Service Bus
8 8 (5.10%) PaaS
9 7 (4.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (3.82%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (3.18%) Azure AKS
11 5 (3.18%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (3.18%) Entra ID
11 5 (3.18%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (3.18%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.55%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (2.55%) ChatGPT
12 4 (2.55%) Figma
12 4 (2.55%) GitHub Copilot
13 3 (1.91%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.55%) DNS
2 3 (1.91%) DHCP
2 3 (1.91%) HTTP
2 3 (1.91%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.64%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (30.57%) SQL Server
2 14 (8.92%) Oracle Database
3 9 (5.73%) Relational Database
4 8 (5.10%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.55%) Power BI
6 3 (1.91%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.27%) MySQL
7 2 (1.27%) Redis
8 1 (0.64%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.64%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.64%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (5.73%) JIRA
1 9 (5.73%) SpecFlow
2 7 (4.46%) Git
3 5 (3.18%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.55%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.91%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.27%) Selenium
7 1 (0.64%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.64%) JMeter
7 1 (0.64%) MSTest
7 1 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.64%) TeamCity
General
1 50 (31.85%) Finance
2 34 (21.66%) Social Skills
3 21 (13.38%) Banking
4 17 (10.83%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.46%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.82%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.18%) Front Office
8 3 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.27%) Back Office
10 1 (0.64%) Advertising
10 1 (0.64%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.64%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.64%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.64%) Publishing
10 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (100.00%) .NET
2 46 (29.30%) .NET Framework
3 33 (21.02%) .NET Core
4 27 (17.20%) AngularJS
5 22 (14.01%) WPF
6 21 (13.38%) RESTful
7 17 (10.83%) ASP.NET
8 16 (10.19%) Entity Framework
9 15 (9.55%) React
10 11 (7.01%) CSS
10 11 (7.01%) REST
11 8 (5.10%) ASP.NET Core
11 8 (5.10%) ASP.NET Web API
11 8 (5.10%) Blazor
11 8 (5.10%) HTML
11 8 (5.10%) NHibernate
11 8 (5.10%) Playwright
11 8 (5.10%) Web Services
11 8 (5.10%) WinForms
12 7 (4.46%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.37%) Cloud Native
1 10 (6.37%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (5.73%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (4.46%) Credit Risk
4 6 (3.82%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.82%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.82%) Market Risk
5 4 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.91%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.91%) Legacy Code
6 3 (1.91%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.27%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.27%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.64%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.01%) Windows
2 6 (3.82%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.64%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (38.85%) Agile
2 50 (31.85%) DevOps
3 44 (28.03%) CI/CD
4 36 (22.93%) Full-Stack Development
5 32 (20.38%) Microservices
6 31 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (13.38%) Migration
8 18 (11.46%) AI
8 18 (11.46%) Clean Code
9 17 (10.83%) Scrum
10 16 (10.19%) Design Patterns
10 16 (10.19%) SDLC
11 15 (9.55%) Unit Testing
12 14 (8.92%) OOP
13 13 (8.28%) MVC
13 13 (8.28%) OO
14 12 (7.64%) Software Engineering
15 11 (7.01%) Test Automation
16 10 (6.37%) TDD
17 9 (5.73%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (77.71%) C#
2 70 (44.59%) SQL
3 18 (11.46%) PL/SQL
4 14 (8.92%) Python
5 13 (8.28%) T-SQL
6 10 (6.37%) VB
6 10 (6.37%) VB.NET
7 9 (5.73%) JavaScript
7 9 (5.73%) VBA
8 7 (4.46%) PHP
9 5 (3.18%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.55%) Bicep
11 2 (1.27%) C++
11 2 (1.27%) Java
11 2 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.27%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.64%) Formula Language
12 1 (0.64%) Go
12 1 (0.64%) LotusScript
12 1 (0.64%) VB6
Qualifications
1 18 (11.46%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.55%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.82%) Degree
4 4 (2.55%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.64%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.37%) QA
2 5 (3.18%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.18%) WCAG
3 2 (1.27%) MiFID
4 1 (0.64%) EMIR
4 1 (0.64%) HL7
System Software
1 14 (8.92%) Docker
2 4 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.91%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (7.64%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (17.20%) Microsoft
2 25 (15.92%) Oracle
3 3 (1.91%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.91%) Citrix
3 3 (1.91%) OpenAI
3 3 (1.91%) VMware
4 2 (1.27%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.64%) CQG
5 1 (0.64%) Databricks
5 1 (0.64%) GoldenSource
5 1 (0.64%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.64%) Kofax
5 1 (0.64%) Lotus
5 1 (0.64%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.64%) NEC
5 1 (0.64%) Sybase
5 1 (0.64%) Temenos
5 1 (0.64%) TOWER Software