.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 4 November 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 252 180
Rank change year-on-year -119 -72 -37
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 173 287 562
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.93% 1.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 1.00% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 229 444
10th Percentile £360 £348 £363
25th Percentile £385 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £539
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -2.55% -2.05%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £688
90th Percentile £650 £740 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -6.98%
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 26,776 28,754 37,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.18% 93.00% 93.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,199 17,540 25,863
10th Percentile £281 £300 £300
25th Percentile £403 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
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 1,571 1,092 1,411
10th Percentile £14.05 £15.10 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.74 £21.05 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.66 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -38.15% -11.37% +52.93%
75th Percentile £51.38 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.28 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.54% -17.16% +57.89%

.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 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 4 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 -86 107 £475 -17.39% 90
South East +2 19 £475 +5.56% 98
East of England -5 13 £450 -7.22% 28
Midlands -23 13 £495 +7.61% 27
North of England -50 10 £430 -4.44% 82
East Midlands -9 7 £510 +43.66% 13
West Midlands -25 6 £448 -5.79% 14
North West -29 6 £418 -7.22% 64
South West +1 5 £550 +25.00% 16
Yorkshire -29 3 £500 - 11
North East -13 1 - - 8
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 173 (100.00%) .NET
2 137 (79.19%) C#
3 84 (48.55%) SQL
4 81 (46.82%) Azure
5 67 (38.73%) Agile
6 57 (32.95%) DevOps
7 53 (30.64%) .NET Framework
8 49 (28.32%) SQL Server
9 46 (26.59%) CI/CD
10 44 (25.43%) .NET Core
11 35 (20.23%) Azure DevOps
11 35 (20.23%) Full-Stack Development
11 35 (20.23%) Microservices
11 35 (20.23%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (19.08%) Oracle
13 32 (18.50%) AngularJS
14 31 (17.92%) Microsoft
15 25 (14.45%) WPF
16 24 (13.87%) ASP.NET
17 23 (13.29%) JavaScript
17 23 (13.29%) Windows
18 22 (12.72%) AWS
18 22 (12.72%) Clean Code
18 22 (12.72%) PL/SQL
18 22 (12.72%) RESTful
19 21 (12.14%) CSS
20 19 (10.98%) Entity Framework
20 19 (10.98%) Migration
20 19 (10.98%) Scrum
20 19 (10.98%) VBA

.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 (4.62%) Confluence
2 3 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.58%) CMS
3 1 (0.58%) EPiServer
3 1 (0.58%) HCL Notes
3 1 (0.58%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.58%) Mendix
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (10.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.58%) Eikon
2 1 (0.58%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 81 (46.82%) Azure
2 35 (20.23%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (12.72%) AWS
4 14 (8.09%) Serverless
5 12 (6.94%) Azure Service Bus
5 12 (6.94%) GitHub
6 11 (6.36%) Azure Functions
7 9 (5.20%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (4.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (4.05%) Entra ID
8 7 (4.05%) PaaS
9 6 (3.47%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.89%) Azure AKS
11 4 (2.31%) Azure Event Grid
11 4 (2.31%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (2.31%) Azure Pipelines
11 4 (2.31%) ChatGPT
11 4 (2.31%) Figma
11 4 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.31%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.73%) DNS
1 3 (1.73%) HTTP
2 2 (1.16%) DHCP
2 2 (1.16%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.58%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (28.32%) SQL Server
2 17 (9.83%) Oracle Database
3 14 (8.09%) Relational Database
4 10 (5.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.47%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.31%) MySQL
7 4 (2.31%) Redis
8 2 (1.16%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.16%) Power BI
8 2 (1.16%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.58%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (6.94%) JIRA
2 9 (5.20%) SpecFlow
3 4 (2.31%) Git
4 3 (1.73%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.73%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.58%) JetBrains Rider
5 1 (0.58%) MSTest
5 1 (0.58%) NUnit
5 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 61 (35.26%) Finance
2 30 (17.34%) Social Skills
3 17 (9.83%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.36%) Banking
6 7 (4.05%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.47%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.89%) Electronics
8 5 (2.89%) Front Office
8 5 (2.89%) Marketing
9 3 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.16%) Back Office
10 2 (1.16%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.58%) Advertising
11 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.58%) Publishing
11 1 (0.58%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (100.00%) .NET
2 53 (30.64%) .NET Framework
3 44 (25.43%) .NET Core
4 32 (18.50%) AngularJS
5 25 (14.45%) WPF
6 24 (13.87%) ASP.NET
7 22 (12.72%) RESTful
8 21 (12.14%) CSS
9 19 (10.98%) Entity Framework
10 17 (9.83%) HTML
11 16 (9.25%) React
12 12 (6.94%) ASP.NET Core
12 12 (6.94%) Blazor
13 11 (6.36%) REST
14 8 (4.62%) NHibernate
14 8 (4.62%) Playwright
14 8 (4.62%) Web Services
15 7 (4.05%) ASP.NET Web API
16 6 (3.47%) Kafka
17 5 (2.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.78%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (4.05%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (3.47%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.89%) Hedge funds
6 4 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.73%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.73%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.73%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.16%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.16%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.16%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.58%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.58%) Equities
9 1 (0.58%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 23 (13.29%) Windows
2 4 (2.31%) Android
3 3 (1.73%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (38.73%) Agile
2 57 (32.95%) DevOps
3 46 (26.59%) CI/CD
4 35 (20.23%) Full-Stack Development
4 35 (20.23%) Microservices
4 35 (20.23%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (12.72%) Clean Code
6 19 (10.98%) Migration
6 19 (10.98%) Scrum
7 18 (10.40%) Design Patterns
7 18 (10.40%) OO
7 18 (10.40%) TDD
8 17 (9.83%) Unit Testing
9 14 (8.09%) AI
10 13 (7.51%) Software Engineering
11 12 (6.94%) SOLID
12 10 (5.78%) MVC
12 10 (5.78%) OOP
13 9 (5.20%) Mentoring
13 9 (5.20%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 137 (79.19%) C#
2 84 (48.55%) SQL
3 23 (13.29%) JavaScript
4 22 (12.72%) PL/SQL
5 19 (10.98%) VBA
6 17 (9.83%) VB.NET
7 16 (9.25%) VB
8 12 (6.94%) Python
9 11 (6.36%) T-SQL
10 9 (5.20%) PowerShell
11 7 (4.05%) PHP
11 7 (4.05%) TypeScript
12 5 (2.89%) Bicep
13 2 (1.16%) Java
14 1 (0.58%) C++
14 1 (0.58%) Formula Language
14 1 (0.58%) Go
14 1 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.58%) LotusScript
14 1 (0.58%) VB6
Qualifications
1 13 (7.51%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.20%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.89%) Degree
4 3 (1.73%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.05%) QA
2 5 (2.89%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.89%) WCAG
3 3 (1.73%) EMIR
3 3 (1.73%) MiFID
System Software
1 14 (8.09%) Docker
2 6 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (6.94%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (19.08%) Oracle
2 31 (17.92%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.89%) SAP
4 3 (1.73%) Databricks
5 2 (1.16%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.16%) CQG
5 2 (1.16%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.16%) TOWER Software
5 2 (1.16%) VMware
6 1 (0.58%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.58%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.58%) GoldenSource
6 1 (0.58%) Google
6 1 (0.58%) Kofax
6 1 (0.58%) Lotus
6 1 (0.58%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.58%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.58%) Reuters
6 1 (0.58%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.58%) Virgin Media