.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in England

.NET Developer
UK > England

The median .NET Developer daily rate in England is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 262 183
Rank change year-on-year -99 -79 -41
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 172 273 544
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.88% 1.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.95% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 219 428
10th Percentile £360 £354 £350
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £563 £638 £688
90th Percentile £650 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
Median hourly rate £46.00 - £50.00
UK median hourly rate £46.00 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -24.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 27,811 28,713 36,554
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.27% 92.94% 93.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,793 17,552 25,219
10th Percentile £283 £300 £288
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -1.69% -2.91%
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 1,690 1,076 1,408
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.33
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.17 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -12.82% +41.17%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.55 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +50.00%

.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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025. 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 -68 110 £500 -13.04% 58
South East -11 18 £449 -2.92% 65
East of England -9 13 £450 -7.22% 17
Midlands -32 12 £455 -1.09% 31
North of England -51 9 £435 -9.84% 47
East Midlands -9 7 £510 +43.66% 14
West Midlands -25 5 £400 -15.79% 17
North West -25 4 £423 -12.44% 29
Yorkshire -31 4 £475 -5.00% 13
South West -7 3 £550 +25.00% 18
North East -7 1 - - 5
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 November 2025, .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.

1 172 (100.00%) .NET
2 134 (77.91%) C#
3 81 (47.09%) SQL
4 76 (44.19%) Azure
5 64 (37.21%) Agile
6 54 (31.40%) .NET Framework
7 52 (30.23%) DevOps
7 52 (30.23%) SQL Server
8 46 (26.74%) CI/CD
9 41 (23.84%) Full-Stack Development
10 40 (23.26%) .NET Core
11 37 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
12 35 (20.35%) Microservices
13 34 (19.77%) AngularJS
14 30 (17.44%) Oracle
15 29 (16.86%) Microsoft
15 29 (16.86%) WPF
16 27 (15.70%) Azure DevOps
16 27 (15.70%) Windows
17 24 (13.95%) AWS
18 23 (13.37%) Clean Code
18 23 (13.37%) RESTful
19 21 (12.21%) PL/SQL
20 20 (11.63%) Migration
21 19 (11.05%) ASP.NET
21 19 (11.05%) Design Patterns
21 19 (11.05%) Entity Framework
22 18 (10.47%) Scrum
23 17 (9.88%) Unit Testing
24 16 (9.30%) AI

.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 8 (4.65%) Confluence
2 4 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.58%) CMS
4 1 (0.58%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.58%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.58%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.58%) IIS
4 1 (0.58%) Mendix
Applications
1 15 (8.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.58%) Eikon
2 1 (0.58%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 76 (44.19%) Azure
2 27 (15.70%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (13.95%) AWS
4 12 (6.98%) GitHub
4 12 (6.98%) Serverless
5 9 (5.23%) Azure Functions
6 8 (4.65%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (4.65%) PaaS
7 7 (4.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (4.07%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (2.91%) Azure AKS
8 5 (2.91%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (2.91%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.91%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (2.33%) ChatGPT
9 4 (2.33%) Figma
9 4 (2.33%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.33%) DNS
2 3 (1.74%) DHCP
2 3 (1.74%) HTTP
2 3 (1.74%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.58%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (30.23%) SQL Server
2 16 (9.30%) Oracle Database
3 10 (5.81%) Relational Database
4 9 (5.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.49%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.33%) Power BI
8 3 (1.74%) MySQL
9 2 (1.16%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.16%) Redis
10 1 (0.58%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (6.98%) JIRA
2 9 (5.23%) SpecFlow
3 7 (4.07%) Git
4 3 (1.74%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.74%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.58%) JetBrains Rider
5 1 (0.58%) JMeter
5 1 (0.58%) MSTest
5 1 (0.58%) NUnit
5 1 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.58%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 64 (37.21%) Finance
2 36 (20.93%) Social Skills
3 17 (9.88%) Banking
4 16 (9.30%) Public Sector
5 14 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.07%) Front Office
7 5 (2.91%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.33%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.74%) Back Office
9 3 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.74%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.74%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.16%) Electronics
10 2 (1.16%) Marketing
11 1 (0.58%) Advertising
11 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.58%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (100.00%) .NET
2 54 (31.40%) .NET Framework
3 40 (23.26%) .NET Core
4 34 (19.77%) AngularJS
5 29 (16.86%) WPF
6 23 (13.37%) RESTful
7 19 (11.05%) ASP.NET
7 19 (11.05%) Entity Framework
8 16 (9.30%) React
9 15 (8.72%) CSS
10 13 (7.56%) REST
11 12 (6.98%) Blazor
12 10 (5.81%) HTML
13 8 (4.65%) ASP.NET Core
13 8 (4.65%) ASP.NET Web API
13 8 (4.65%) NHibernate
13 8 (4.65%) Playwright
13 8 (4.65%) Web Services
14 7 (4.07%) Middleware
15 6 (3.49%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.40%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.81%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (4.07%) Credit Risk
3 7 (4.07%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (4.07%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (4.07%) Market Risk
4 6 (3.49%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (3.49%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.91%) Hedge funds
5 5 (2.91%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.33%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.74%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.16%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.58%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.58%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.70%) Windows
2 4 (2.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.58%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (37.21%) Agile
2 52 (30.23%) DevOps
3 46 (26.74%) CI/CD
4 41 (23.84%) Full-Stack Development
5 37 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (20.35%) Microservices
7 23 (13.37%) Clean Code
8 20 (11.63%) Migration
9 19 (11.05%) Design Patterns
10 18 (10.47%) Scrum
11 17 (9.88%) Unit Testing
12 16 (9.30%) AI
13 15 (8.72%) OO
13 15 (8.72%) TDD
14 14 (8.14%) MVC
15 13 (7.56%) OOP
15 13 (7.56%) SDLC
15 13 (7.56%) Software Engineering
16 11 (6.40%) Risk Management
17 9 (5.23%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 134 (77.91%) C#
2 81 (47.09%) SQL
3 21 (12.21%) PL/SQL
4 16 (9.30%) VBA
5 15 (8.72%) VB.NET
6 14 (8.14%) JavaScript
6 14 (8.14%) VB
7 13 (7.56%) T-SQL
8 12 (6.98%) Python
9 7 (4.07%) PHP
10 6 (3.49%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.33%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.16%) Bicep
12 2 (1.16%) Java
12 2 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.58%) C++
13 1 (0.58%) Cypher
13 1 (0.58%) Formula Language
13 1 (0.58%) LotusScript
13 1 (0.58%) VB6
Qualifications
1 14 (8.14%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.81%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.91%) Degree
4 4 (2.33%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.23%) QA
2 5 (2.91%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.91%) WCAG
3 3 (1.74%) EMIR
3 3 (1.74%) MiFID
System Software
1 13 (7.56%) Docker
2 4 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (6.98%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.07%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (17.44%) Oracle
2 29 (16.86%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.74%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.74%) Databricks
3 3 (1.74%) VMware
4 2 (1.16%) CQG
4 2 (1.16%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.16%) SAP
4 2 (1.16%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.58%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.58%) Citrix
5 1 (0.58%) DevExpress
5 1 (0.58%) GoldenSource
5 1 (0.58%) Google
5 1 (0.58%) Kofax
5 1 (0.58%) Lotus
5 1 (0.58%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.58%) Reuters
5 1 (0.58%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.58%) Sybase