.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 28 November 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 259 183
Rank change year-on-year -101 -76 -39
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 175 279 537
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.90% 1.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.96% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 222 423
10th Percentile £361 £356 £350
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £556 £638 £688
90th Percentile £650 £749 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £516
% change year-on-year - -7.99% -6.14%
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 28,058 28,947 36,204
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.25% 92.98% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,977 17,729 24,955
10th Percentile £282 £300 £288
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -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 1,071 1,407
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.25 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.23 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +38.46%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +48.33%

.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 28 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 28 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 -62 113 £500 -11.19% 60
South East -9 18 £449 -2.92% 68
East of England -11 13 £450 -7.22% 20
Midlands -23 12 £455 -4.21% 26
North of England -48 10 £423 -11.05% 44
East Midlands -7 7 £510 +43.66% 13
North West -25 5 £410 -13.68% 27
West Midlands -40 5 £400 -15.79% 13
Yorkshire -40 4 £475 -5.00% 11
South West -5 2 £550 +25.00% 17
North East -7 1 - - 6
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 175 (100.00%) .NET
2 137 (78.29%) C#
3 80 (45.71%) SQL
4 78 (44.57%) Azure
5 63 (36.00%) Agile
6 56 (32.00%) .NET Framework
7 54 (30.86%) SQL Server
8 53 (30.29%) DevOps
9 47 (26.86%) CI/CD
10 42 (24.00%) Full-Stack Development
11 40 (22.86%) .NET Core
12 37 (21.14%) Problem-Solving
13 35 (20.00%) Microservices
14 34 (19.43%) AngularJS
15 29 (16.57%) Microsoft
15 29 (16.57%) Oracle
15 29 (16.57%) WPF
16 28 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
17 27 (15.43%) Windows
18 24 (13.71%) AWS
19 23 (13.14%) Clean Code
19 23 (13.14%) RESTful
20 21 (12.00%) Migration
20 21 (12.00%) PL/SQL
21 20 (11.43%) ASP.NET
22 19 (10.86%) Entity Framework
23 18 (10.29%) Design Patterns
23 18 (10.29%) Scrum
24 17 (9.71%) Unit Testing
25 16 (9.14%) 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 (4.57%) Confluence
2 4 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.14%) IIS
3 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.57%) CMS
4 1 (0.57%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.57%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.57%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.57%) Mendix
Applications
1 14 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.57%) Eikon
2 1 (0.57%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 78 (44.57%) Azure
2 28 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (13.71%) AWS
4 12 (6.86%) GitHub
4 12 (6.86%) Serverless
5 9 (5.14%) Azure Functions
6 8 (4.57%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (4.57%) PaaS
7 7 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (2.86%) Azure AKS
8 5 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (2.86%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.86%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.29%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (2.29%) Azure Pipelines
9 4 (2.29%) ChatGPT
9 4 (2.29%) Figma
9 4 (2.29%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.29%) DNS
2 3 (1.71%) DHCP
2 3 (1.71%) HTTP
2 3 (1.71%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (30.86%) SQL Server
2 16 (9.14%) Oracle Database
3 11 (6.29%) Relational Database
4 9 (5.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.43%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.29%) Power BI
8 3 (1.71%) MySQL
9 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.14%) Redis
10 1 (0.57%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.57%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (6.29%) JIRA
2 9 (5.14%) SpecFlow
3 7 (4.00%) Git
4 4 (2.29%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.71%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.57%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.57%) JetBrains Rider
6 1 (0.57%) JMeter
6 1 (0.57%) MSTest
6 1 (0.57%) NUnit
6 1 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.57%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 64 (36.57%) Finance
2 36 (20.57%) Social Skills
3 19 (10.86%) Banking
4 16 (9.14%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.43%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.43%) Front Office
7 4 (2.29%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.71%) Back Office
8 3 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.14%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.14%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.57%) Advertising
10 1 (0.57%) Electronics
10 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.57%) Marketing
10 1 (0.57%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (100.00%) .NET
2 56 (32.00%) .NET Framework
3 40 (22.86%) .NET Core
4 34 (19.43%) AngularJS
5 29 (16.57%) WPF
6 23 (13.14%) RESTful
7 20 (11.43%) ASP.NET
8 19 (10.86%) Entity Framework
9 16 (9.14%) React
10 15 (8.57%) CSS
11 13 (7.43%) REST
12 12 (6.86%) Blazor
13 10 (5.71%) HTML
14 9 (5.14%) ASP.NET Web API
15 8 (4.57%) ASP.NET Core
15 8 (4.57%) NHibernate
15 8 (4.57%) Playwright
15 8 (4.57%) Web Services
16 7 (4.00%) Middleware
16 7 (4.00%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.29%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (4.57%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (4.00%) Credit Risk
4 7 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (4.00%) Market Risk
5 6 (3.43%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (3.43%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.86%) Hedge funds
7 4 (2.29%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.29%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.71%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.71%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.57%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.57%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.43%) Windows
2 5 (2.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.57%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (36.00%) Agile
2 53 (30.29%) DevOps
3 47 (26.86%) CI/CD
4 42 (24.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 37 (21.14%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (20.00%) Microservices
7 23 (13.14%) Clean Code
8 21 (12.00%) Migration
9 18 (10.29%) Design Patterns
9 18 (10.29%) Scrum
10 17 (9.71%) Unit Testing
11 16 (9.14%) AI
12 15 (8.57%) MVC
12 15 (8.57%) OO
12 15 (8.57%) SDLC
13 14 (8.00%) OOP
13 14 (8.00%) TDD
14 13 (7.43%) Software Engineering
15 11 (6.29%) Risk Management
16 9 (5.14%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 137 (78.29%) C#
2 80 (45.71%) SQL
3 21 (12.00%) PL/SQL
4 15 (8.57%) VBA
5 14 (8.00%) T-SQL
5 14 (8.00%) VB.NET
6 13 (7.43%) JavaScript
6 13 (7.43%) VB
7 12 (6.86%) Python
8 7 (4.00%) PHP
9 6 (3.43%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.71%) Bicep
10 3 (1.71%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.14%) Java
11 2 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.57%) C++
12 1 (0.57%) Cypher
12 1 (0.57%) Formula Language
12 1 (0.57%) Go
12 1 (0.57%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 14 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.71%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.86%) Degree
4 4 (2.29%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.71%) QA
2 5 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.86%) WCAG
3 3 (1.71%) EMIR
3 3 (1.71%) MiFID
System Software
1 15 (8.57%) Docker
2 4 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (7.43%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (16.57%) Microsoft
1 29 (16.57%) Oracle
2 3 (1.71%) Atlassian
2 3 (1.71%) Databricks
2 3 (1.71%) VMware
3 2 (1.14%) Citrix
3 2 (1.14%) CQG
3 2 (1.14%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.14%) TOWER Software
4 1 (0.57%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.57%) DevExpress
4 1 (0.57%) Kofax
4 1 (0.57%) Lotus
4 1 (0.57%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.57%) Reuters
4 1 (0.57%) SAP
4 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.57%) Solace
4 1 (0.57%) Sybase
4 1 (0.57%) Temenos