.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in England

.NET Developer
UK > England

The median .NET Developer daily rate in England is £490, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 266 185
Rank change year-on-year -117 -81 -39
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 165 250 492
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.87% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.94% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 195 395
10th Percentile £363 £352 £325
25th Percentile £400 £397 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £553 £638 £688
90th Percentile £650 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £513
% change year-on-year - -7.32% -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 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 29,026 26,600 34,534
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.34% 92.93% 93.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,504 16,539 23,627
10th Percentile £296 £300 £285
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -0.57% -4.00%
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 1,775 836 1,432
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.74 £14.93
25th Percentile £18.47 £21.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% -22.22% +38.46%
75th Percentile £60.96 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.00 £76.95
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.21% -26.67% +46.39%

.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 26 December 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 26 December 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 -66 104 £500 -9.09% 91
South East -13 18 £449 +0.50% 108
East of England -15 13 £450 -7.22% 40
North of England -62 12 £443 -10.61% 88
Midlands -49 9 £515 +8.42% 53
East Midlands -17 6 £515 +44.06% 21
Yorkshire -37 6 £500 - 25
North West -32 5 £410 -17.17% 53
West Midlands -37 3 £488 +2.63% 30
South West -12 2 £550 +0.92% 32
North East -10 1 - - 10
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 December 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.

1 165 (100.00%) .NET
2 128 (77.58%) C#
3 79 (47.88%) Azure
4 77 (46.67%) SQL
5 62 (37.58%) Agile
6 52 (31.52%) DevOps
7 51 (30.91%) SQL Server
8 49 (29.70%) .NET Framework
9 47 (28.48%) CI/CD
10 41 (24.85%) Full-Stack Development
11 38 (23.03%) .NET Core
12 33 (20.00%) Microservices
13 32 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (18.79%) AngularJS
15 28 (16.97%) Azure DevOps
15 28 (16.97%) Microsoft
16 26 (15.76%) Oracle
17 23 (13.94%) Windows
17 23 (13.94%) WPF
18 21 (12.73%) AWS
18 21 (12.73%) Migration
18 21 (12.73%) RESTful
19 20 (12.12%) Clean Code
20 19 (11.52%) PL/SQL
21 18 (10.91%) Scrum
22 17 (10.30%) AI
22 17 (10.30%) ASP.NET
22 17 (10.30%) Design Patterns
22 17 (10.30%) Entity Framework
23 16 (9.70%) React

.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 (4.24%) Confluence
2 4 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.82%) IIS
4 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.61%) CMS
5 1 (0.61%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.61%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.61%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.61%) Mendix
Applications
1 10 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.21%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.61%) Endur
2 1 (0.61%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 79 (47.88%) Azure
2 28 (16.97%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (12.73%) AWS
4 12 (7.27%) GitHub
4 12 (7.27%) Serverless
5 9 (5.45%) Azure Functions
6 8 (4.85%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (4.85%) PaaS
7 7 (4.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (3.64%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (3.03%) Azure AKS
9 5 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (3.03%) Entra ID
9 5 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.03%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.42%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.42%) Azure Pipelines
10 4 (2.42%) ChatGPT
10 4 (2.42%) Figma
10 4 (2.42%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.42%) DNS
2 3 (1.82%) DHCP
2 3 (1.82%) HTTP
2 3 (1.82%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.61%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (30.91%) SQL Server
2 15 (9.09%) Oracle Database
3 9 (5.45%) Relational Database
4 8 (4.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.64%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.42%) Power BI
7 2 (1.21%) MySQL
7 2 (1.21%) Redis
8 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.61%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.61%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (6.06%) JIRA
2 9 (5.45%) SpecFlow
3 7 (4.24%) Git
4 5 (3.03%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.82%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.21%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.61%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.61%) JMeter
7 1 (0.61%) MSTest
7 1 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.61%) TeamCity
General
1 54 (32.73%) Finance
2 35 (21.21%) Social Skills
3 22 (13.33%) Banking
4 15 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.24%) Financial Institution
5 7 (4.24%) Front Office
6 6 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.64%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.82%) Back Office
7 3 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.61%) Advertising
8 1 (0.61%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.61%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.61%) Publishing
8 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (100.00%) .NET
2 49 (29.70%) .NET Framework
3 38 (23.03%) .NET Core
4 31 (18.79%) AngularJS
5 23 (13.94%) WPF
6 21 (12.73%) RESTful
7 17 (10.30%) ASP.NET
7 17 (10.30%) Entity Framework
8 16 (9.70%) React
9 14 (8.48%) CSS
10 11 (6.67%) Blazor
10 11 (6.67%) HTML
10 11 (6.67%) REST
11 9 (5.45%) ASP.NET Web API
12 8 (4.85%) NHibernate
12 8 (4.85%) Playwright
12 8 (4.85%) Web Services
12 8 (4.85%) WinForms
13 7 (4.24%) ASP.NET Core
13 7 (4.24%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.06%) Cloud Native
1 10 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (5.45%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (4.24%) Credit Risk
4 6 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (3.64%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.64%) Market Risk
5 5 (3.03%) Fixed Income
5 5 (3.03%) Hedge funds
6 4 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.82%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.82%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.82%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.21%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.61%) Derivative
9 1 (0.61%) Equities
9 1 (0.61%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 23 (13.94%) Windows
2 6 (3.64%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.61%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (37.58%) Agile
2 52 (31.52%) DevOps
3 47 (28.48%) CI/CD
4 41 (24.85%) Full-Stack Development
5 33 (20.00%) Microservices
6 32 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (12.73%) Migration
8 20 (12.12%) Clean Code
9 18 (10.91%) Scrum
10 17 (10.30%) AI
10 17 (10.30%) Design Patterns
11 16 (9.70%) SDLC
12 15 (9.09%) Unit Testing
13 14 (8.48%) OO
13 14 (8.48%) OOP
14 13 (7.88%) MVC
14 13 (7.88%) Software Engineering
15 11 (6.67%) TDD
16 9 (5.45%) Data Protection
16 9 (5.45%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 128 (77.58%) C#
2 77 (46.67%) SQL
3 19 (11.52%) PL/SQL
4 14 (8.48%) Python
4 14 (8.48%) T-SQL
5 11 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 11 (6.67%) VB
5 11 (6.67%) VB.NET
6 10 (6.06%) VBA
7 7 (4.24%) PHP
8 5 (3.03%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.42%) Bicep
10 2 (1.21%) C++
10 2 (1.21%) Java
10 2 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.21%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.61%) Formula Language
11 1 (0.61%) Go
11 1 (0.61%) LotusScript
11 1 (0.61%) VB6
Qualifications
1 15 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 12 (7.27%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.64%) Degree
4 4 (2.42%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.06%) QA
2 5 (3.03%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.03%) WCAG
3 3 (1.82%) EMIR
3 3 (1.82%) MiFID
4 1 (0.61%) HL7
System Software
1 15 (9.09%) Docker
2 4 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (7.88%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (16.97%) Microsoft
2 26 (15.76%) Oracle
3 3 (1.82%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.82%) Citrix
3 3 (1.82%) VMware
4 2 (1.21%) CQG
4 2 (1.21%) Databricks
4 2 (1.21%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.21%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.61%) DevExpress
5 1 (0.61%) GoldenSource
5 1 (0.61%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.61%) Kofax
5 1 (0.61%) Lotus
5 1 (0.61%) NEC
5 1 (0.61%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.61%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.61%) Sybase
5 1 (0.61%) Temenos
5 1 (0.61%) Virgin Media