.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in England

.NET Developer
UK > England

The median .NET Developer daily rate in England is £495, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 323 219
Rank change year-on-year -83 -104 -21
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 224 197 369
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.71% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.78% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 159 306
10th Percentile £375 £361 £350
25th Percentile £413 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £523
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -9.09% +1.95%
75th Percentile £595 £575 £638
90th Percentile £738 £815 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
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 42,174 25,315 30,946
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 91.60% 92.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,510 16,372 20,290
10th Percentile £325 £285 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,176 1,336 1,796
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.50 £14.21
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.10 £25.32 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.23% -43.73% +7.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.01
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +2.00%

.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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -111 98 £588 +23.68% 99
North of England -34 43 £460 +6.98% 45
Yorkshire -8 36 £460 -12.38% 10
South East -65 28 £400 -5.44% 58
Midlands -34 25 £500 +1.01% 16
East Midlands -6 20 £563 +36.70% 7
South West -30 20 £425 - 14
North West -43 7 £575 +39.82% 26
East of England -18 5 - - 20
West Midlands -53 5 £425 -14.14% 9
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 August 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.

1 224 (100.00%) .NET
2 164 (73.21%) C#
3 108 (48.21%) Azure
4 101 (45.09%) CI/CD
5 80 (35.71%) SQL Server
6 77 (34.38%) SQL
7 73 (32.59%) DevOps
8 71 (31.70%) Agile
9 62 (27.68%) Microsoft
10 57 (25.45%) REST
11 55 (24.55%) .NET Framework
12 54 (24.11%) Microservices
13 53 (23.66%) .NET Core
14 51 (22.77%) Full-Stack Development
15 44 (19.64%) RESTful
16 42 (18.75%) ASP.NET
16 42 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
16 42 (18.75%) JavaScript
17 41 (18.30%) AngularJS
18 40 (17.86%) Kubernetes
19 39 (17.41%) AWS
20 37 (16.52%) Security Cleared
21 36 (16.07%) SC Cleared
22 34 (15.18%) Docker
23 30 (13.39%) Git
23 30 (13.39%) Test Automation
24 29 (12.95%) React
25 27 (12.05%) GitHub
25 27 (12.05%) TypeScript
26 24 (10.71%) Terraform

.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 11 (4.91%) Confluence
2 6 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.23%) IIS
4 3 (1.34%) Apache Superset
5 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.45%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.45%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 108 (48.21%) Azure
2 42 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (17.41%) AWS
4 27 (12.05%) GitHub
5 18 (8.04%) Azure Service Bus
6 16 (7.14%) Serverless
7 10 (4.46%) Azure Functions
7 10 (4.46%) Azure Key Vault
8 9 (4.02%) Azure AKS
8 9 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (3.57%) PaaS
10 7 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (3.13%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.68%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (2.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (2.23%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.23%) GCP
12 5 (2.23%) Power Automate
13 4 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.79%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.45%) Broadband
1 1 (0.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 17 (7.59%) Relational Database
3 16 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.68%) Power BI
6 5 (2.23%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.79%) DocumentDB
7 4 (1.79%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (1.79%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.79%) Redis
8 3 (1.34%) Metabase
8 3 (1.34%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.34%) Parquet
8 3 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.89%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.89%) Db2
10 1 (0.45%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.45%) MySQL
10 1 (0.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 30 (13.39%) Git
2 11 (4.91%) JIRA
3 7 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.13%) NUnit
4 6 (2.68%) GitLab
4 6 (2.68%) SpecFlow
4 6 (2.68%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.23%) REST Assured
6 4 (1.79%) MSI
6 4 (1.79%) MSTest
6 4 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.34%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.34%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.89%) Jasmine
8 2 (0.89%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (0.89%) Postman
9 1 (0.45%) Mocha
9 1 (0.45%) Moq
9 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.45%) tSQLt
General
1 55 (24.55%) Finance
2 34 (15.18%) Social Skills
3 22 (9.82%) Banking
4 16 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.80%) Investment Banking
6 10 (4.46%) Front Office
7 8 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.68%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.79%) Legal
10 3 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.89%) Automotive
11 2 (0.89%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.45%) Back Office
12 1 (0.45%) Military
12 1 (0.45%) Police
12 1 (0.45%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (100.00%) .NET
2 57 (25.45%) REST
3 55 (24.55%) .NET Framework
4 53 (23.66%) .NET Core
5 44 (19.64%) RESTful
6 42 (18.75%) ASP.NET
7 41 (18.30%) AngularJS
8 29 (12.95%) React
9 20 (8.93%) HTML
10 19 (8.48%) Entity Framework
11 17 (7.59%) Web Services
11 17 (7.59%) WPF
12 15 (6.70%) ASP.NET Core
13 14 (6.25%) Kafka
14 13 (5.80%) ASP.NET Web API
14 13 (5.80%) CSS
15 11 (4.91%) WinForms
16 10 (4.46%) Blazor
17 9 (4.02%) ASP.NET MVC
17 9 (4.02%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.61%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (4.02%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.23%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.79%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.79%) Legacy Code
6 4 (1.79%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.79%) Wiki
7 3 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.34%) Derivative
7 3 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.89%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.45%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.45%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.45%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.45%) IoT
9 1 (0.45%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.70%) Windows
2 2 (0.89%) Linux
2 2 (0.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (45.09%) CI/CD
2 73 (32.59%) DevOps
3 71 (31.70%) Agile
4 54 (24.11%) Microservices
5 51 (22.77%) Full-Stack Development
6 30 (13.39%) Test Automation
7 23 (10.27%) API Development
8 21 (9.38%) Containerisation
8 21 (9.38%) Software Engineering
9 20 (8.93%) Code Quality
9 20 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (8.93%) SOLID
10 19 (8.48%) Design Patterns
10 19 (8.48%) OOP
11 18 (8.04%) Event-Driven
12 17 (7.59%) Scrum
12 17 (7.59%) Unit Testing
13 16 (7.14%) AI
13 16 (7.14%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 164 (73.21%) C#
2 77 (34.38%) SQL
3 42 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 27 (12.05%) TypeScript
5 21 (9.38%) Python
6 18 (8.04%) T-SQL
7 11 (4.91%) PL/SQL
8 7 (3.13%) Bicep
9 4 (1.79%) VB.NET
9 4 (1.79%) VBA
10 3 (1.34%) Java
10 3 (1.34%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.34%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.34%) Rust
11 2 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.89%) VB
11 2 (0.89%) XAML
12 1 (0.45%) C
12 1 (0.45%) VB6
Qualifications
1 37 (16.52%) Security Cleared
2 36 (16.07%) SC Cleared
3 4 (1.79%) Degree
3 4 (1.79%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.89%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.89%) PhD
5 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.80%) QA
2 7 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.23%) NCSC
3 5 (2.23%) WCAG
4 1 (0.45%) Basel III
System Software
1 34 (15.18%) Docker
2 7 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (17.86%) Kubernetes
2 24 (10.71%) Terraform
3 5 (2.23%) Ansible
4 3 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (27.68%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.27%) Oracle
3 9 (4.02%) Citrix
4 4 (1.79%) Centrify
4 4 (1.79%) CyberArk
5 3 (1.34%) DevExpress
5 3 (1.34%) IBM
6 1 (0.45%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.45%) SAP
6 1 (0.45%) Telerik