.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 13 February 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 295 197
Rank change year-on-year -121 -98 -44
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 146 192 450
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.74% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.79% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 149 375
10th Percentile £380 £362 £319
25th Percentile £410 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -8.26% -0.91%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £653
90th Percentile £668 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £483
% change year-on-year - -1.55% -12.27%
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 31,296 24,249 35,198
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.70% 93.05% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,862 15,146 23,628
10th Percentile £300 £300 £272
25th Percentile £408 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,999 708 2,116
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.98 £13.17
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.54
Median hourly rate £31.46 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% - -7.03%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.73 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.00 £72.39
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.52 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.50% -4.23% -2.23%

.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 13 February 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 13 February 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 -61 92 £550 - 62
North of England -54 15 £450 -10.00% 60
South East -46 12 £494 +9.72% 55
North West -31 10 £419 -16.25% 36
East of England -20 9 £450 -1.10% 20
Midlands -53 9 £499 +38.54% 20
West Midlands -46 5 £488 +2.63% 13
East Midlands -30 4 £510 +42.66% 7
Yorkshire -60 4 £513 - 15
South West -21 2 £550 -15.38% 21
North East -14 1 - - 9
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 February 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.

1 146 (100.00%) .NET
2 116 (79.45%) C#
3 75 (51.37%) Azure
4 63 (43.15%) SQL
5 51 (34.93%) Agile
6 49 (33.56%) SQL Server
7 44 (30.14%) .NET Framework
8 42 (28.77%) DevOps
9 40 (27.40%) CI/CD
10 35 (23.97%) .NET Core
11 34 (23.29%) Full-Stack Development
12 27 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (17.12%) Microsoft
13 25 (17.12%) RESTful
14 24 (16.44%) Microservices
15 23 (15.75%) AI
15 23 (15.75%) ASP.NET
15 23 (15.75%) Azure DevOps
16 22 (15.07%) Scrum
17 21 (14.38%) AngularJS
18 20 (13.70%) Unit Testing
19 19 (13.01%) Oracle
20 18 (12.33%) AWS
20 18 (12.33%) Python
21 17 (11.64%) Design Patterns
21 17 (11.64%) React
21 17 (11.64%) Security Cleared
21 17 (11.64%) Test Automation
21 17 (11.64%) Windows
22 16 (10.96%) Clean Code

.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 (6.16%) Confluence
2 3 (2.05%) IIS
3 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.37%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.68%) CMS
4 1 (0.68%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.37%) Endur
1 2 (1.37%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 75 (51.37%) Azure
2 23 (15.75%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (12.33%) AWS
4 13 (8.90%) Serverless
5 11 (7.53%) Azure Functions
5 11 (7.53%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (6.16%) GitHub
7 8 (5.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 8 (5.48%) Entra ID
8 7 (4.79%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (4.79%) PaaS
9 6 (4.11%) Azure AKS
10 5 (3.42%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.05%) Azure Event Grid
11 3 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.05%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.37%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (1.37%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.74%) DNS
2 3 (2.05%) DHCP
2 3 (2.05%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.37%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (33.56%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.22%) Relational Database
3 11 (7.53%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (5.48%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.74%) Redis
6 2 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.37%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.37%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.37%) Power BI
7 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 11 (7.53%) JIRA
2 9 (6.16%) Git
2 9 (6.16%) SpecFlow
3 6 (4.11%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.74%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.74%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.37%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.37%) MSTest
5 2 (1.37%) Selenium
5 2 (1.37%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.68%) JMeter
6 1 (0.68%) Moq
6 1 (0.68%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.68%) NUnit
6 1 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.68%) Serilog
6 1 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 41 (28.08%) Finance
2 31 (21.23%) Social Skills
3 24 (16.44%) Banking
4 16 (10.96%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.16%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.48%) Front Office
7 7 (4.79%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.79%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.05%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.37%) Back Office
9 2 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.68%) Advertising
10 1 (0.68%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Retail
10 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (100.00%) .NET
2 44 (30.14%) .NET Framework
3 35 (23.97%) .NET Core
4 25 (17.12%) RESTful
5 23 (15.75%) ASP.NET
6 21 (14.38%) AngularJS
7 17 (11.64%) React
8 15 (10.27%) Entity Framework
8 15 (10.27%) WPF
9 13 (8.90%) REST
10 10 (6.85%) ASP.NET Core
10 10 (6.85%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (6.16%) HTML
12 8 (5.48%) NHibernate
12 8 (5.48%) Playwright
13 7 (4.79%) Middleware
13 7 (4.79%) Web Services
13 7 (4.79%) WinForms
14 6 (4.11%) ASP.NET MVC
15 5 (3.42%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.22%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (7.53%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.79%) Credit Risk
3 7 (4.79%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (4.11%) Market Risk
5 5 (3.42%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.42%) Fixed Income
5 5 (3.42%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.05%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.05%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.05%) IoT
6 3 (2.05%) Legacy Code
6 3 (2.05%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.37%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.68%) Derivative
8 1 (0.68%) NHS
8 1 (0.68%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.64%) Windows
2 6 (4.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.68%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (34.93%) Agile
2 42 (28.77%) DevOps
3 40 (27.40%) CI/CD
4 34 (23.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 27 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (16.44%) Microservices
7 23 (15.75%) AI
8 22 (15.07%) Scrum
9 20 (13.70%) Unit Testing
10 17 (11.64%) Design Patterns
10 17 (11.64%) Test Automation
11 16 (10.96%) Clean Code
11 16 (10.96%) MVC
12 15 (10.27%) SDLC
13 13 (8.90%) OOP
13 13 (8.90%) Software Engineering
14 12 (8.22%) Migration
15 10 (6.85%) Event-Driven
16 9 (6.16%) Risk Management
16 9 (6.16%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 116 (79.45%) C#
2 63 (43.15%) SQL
3 18 (12.33%) Python
4 11 (7.53%) PL/SQL
5 9 (6.16%) T-SQL
6 8 (5.48%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.42%) Bicep
7 5 (3.42%) VB
7 5 (3.42%) VB.NET
8 4 (2.74%) C++
8 4 (2.74%) Java
8 4 (2.74%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.74%) PHP
8 4 (2.74%) VBA
9 2 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.37%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.68%) Go
10 1 (0.68%) VB6
Qualifications
1 17 (11.64%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.59%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.16%) Degree
4 4 (2.74%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.85%) QA
2 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.68%) HL7
2 1 (0.68%) MiFID
2 1 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (6.85%) Docker
2 5 (3.42%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.05%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (6.16%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.42%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (17.12%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.01%) Oracle
3 4 (2.74%) Citrix
4 3 (2.05%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.05%) ION Trading
4 3 (2.05%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.05%) VMware
5 2 (1.37%) NEC
6 1 (0.68%) Databricks
6 1 (0.68%) Google
6 1 (0.68%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.68%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.68%) Sybase
6 1 (0.68%) Temenos
6 1 (0.68%) Xamarin