.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in England

.NET Developer
UK > England

The median .NET Developer daily rate in England is £549, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2026.

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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 278 243
Rank change year-on-year -131 -35 -72
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 171 192 355
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.80% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.87% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 155 303
10th Percentile £366 £383 £314
25th Percentile £423 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.75% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £670 £650
90th Percentile £694 £838 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -7.32%
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% +32.65%

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 38,122 22,159 33,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.41% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,649 14,727 22,390
10th Percentile £320 £293 £282
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £642
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,628 898 2,440
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -18.14% -18.13%
75th Percentile £67.50 £62.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £28.15 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.63% -22.88% -18.89%

.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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -117 81 £580 +11.54% 43
North of England -52 31 £500 +19.40% 55
South East -51 25 £425 +4.29% 51
Midlands -50 23 £550 +10.55% 15
East Midlands -10 17 £575 +15.00% 8
Yorkshire -40 16 £588 +11.90% 12
North West -37 15 £450 +9.09% 29
South West -26 6 £450 -31.30% 10
West Midlands -52 6 £474 -4.29% 7
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 May 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.

1 171 (100.00%) .NET
2 135 (78.95%) C#
3 95 (55.56%) Azure
4 78 (45.61%) CI/CD
5 65 (38.01%) SQL
6 62 (36.26%) DevOps
7 61 (35.67%) SQL Server
8 54 (31.58%) Agile
9 42 (24.56%) .NET Framework
10 38 (22.22%) Microservices
11 37 (21.64%) Microsoft
12 33 (19.30%) Azure DevOps
12 33 (19.30%) RESTful
13 32 (18.71%) .NET Core
13 32 (18.71%) Full-Stack Development
14 31 (18.13%) AngularJS
15 30 (17.54%) ASP.NET
16 27 (15.79%) JavaScript
17 25 (14.62%) AWS
17 25 (14.62%) React
17 25 (14.62%) REST
18 24 (14.04%) Security Cleared
19 23 (13.45%) HTML
20 22 (12.87%) Kubernetes
20 22 (12.87%) SC Cleared
21 21 (12.28%) Python
22 20 (11.70%) Docker
22 20 (11.70%) Oracle
23 19 (11.11%) Relational Database
23 19 (11.11%) Test Automation

.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 5 (2.92%) IIS
2 3 (1.75%) Apache Superset
2 3 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.17%) Confluence
3 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (1.17%) Endur
1 2 (1.17%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 95 (55.56%) Azure
2 33 (19.30%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (14.62%) AWS
4 18 (10.53%) Azure Service Bus
4 18 (10.53%) Serverless
5 13 (7.60%) Azure Functions
5 13 (7.60%) GitHub
6 8 (4.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (4.09%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (3.51%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (3.51%) Entra ID
8 6 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.92%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.34%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.34%) n8n
10 4 (2.34%) Zapier
11 3 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.75%) GCP
11 3 (1.75%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (35.67%) SQL Server
2 19 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 12 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (3.51%) Redis
6 4 (2.34%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.75%) DocumentDB
7 3 (1.75%) Metabase
7 3 (1.75%) Parquet
8 2 (1.17%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.17%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.17%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.17%) Power BI
8 2 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (8.19%) Git
2 7 (4.09%) NUnit
3 6 (3.51%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.92%) SpecFlow
5 4 (2.34%) MSTest
5 4 (2.34%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.75%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.75%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.75%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.17%) GitLab
7 2 (1.17%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.17%) JIRA
7 2 (1.17%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.17%) Moq
7 2 (1.17%) Selenium
8 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.58%) Mocha
8 1 (0.58%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 37 (21.64%) Finance
2 27 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 18 (10.53%) Banking
4 15 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.60%) Front Office
6 10 (5.85%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.92%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.34%) Legal
10 3 (1.75%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.17%) Automotive
11 2 (1.17%) Back Office
11 2 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.58%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.58%) Military
12 1 (0.58%) Police
12 1 (0.58%) Retail
12 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (100.00%) .NET
2 42 (24.56%) .NET Framework
3 33 (19.30%) RESTful
4 32 (18.71%) .NET Core
5 31 (18.13%) AngularJS
6 30 (17.54%) ASP.NET
7 25 (14.62%) React
7 25 (14.62%) REST
8 23 (13.45%) HTML
9 14 (8.19%) ASP.NET Web API
9 14 (8.19%) Entity Framework
10 10 (5.85%) ASP.NET Core
10 10 (5.85%) CSS
11 9 (5.26%) ASP.NET MVC
12 8 (4.68%) OAuth
12 8 (4.68%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (4.09%) YAML
14 6 (3.51%) Kafka
14 6 (3.51%) XML
15 5 (2.92%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.19%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.43%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.09%) AI Agents
3 7 (4.09%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.92%) Fixed Income
5 4 (2.34%) IoT
6 3 (1.75%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.75%) Derivative
6 3 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.75%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.17%) NHS
7 2 (1.17%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.58%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.58%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.58%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.58%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.09%) Windows
2 3 (1.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (45.61%) CI/CD
2 62 (36.26%) DevOps
3 54 (31.58%) Agile
4 38 (22.22%) Microservices
5 32 (18.71%) Full-Stack Development
6 19 (11.11%) Test Automation
7 18 (10.53%) AI
7 18 (10.53%) Scrum
7 18 (10.53%) TDD
8 17 (9.94%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (9.36%) Unit Testing
10 15 (8.77%) SOLID
11 13 (7.60%) Clean Code
11 13 (7.60%) Event-Driven
11 13 (7.60%) Software Engineering
12 12 (7.02%) OOP
12 12 (7.02%) Performance Tuning
13 11 (6.43%) Design Patterns
13 11 (6.43%) MVC
13 11 (6.43%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 135 (78.95%) C#
2 65 (38.01%) SQL
3 27 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 21 (12.28%) Python
5 17 (9.94%) TypeScript
6 14 (8.19%) T-SQL
7 6 (3.51%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.92%) Java
9 4 (2.34%) Bicep
10 3 (1.75%) C++
10 3 (1.75%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.75%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.75%) Rust
11 2 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.17%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.58%) VB
12 1 (0.58%) VB6
12 1 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (14.04%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.87%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.68%) Degree
4 3 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.75%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.58%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.43%) QA
2 2 (1.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.58%) HL7
3 1 (0.58%) NCSC
3 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (11.70%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (12.87%) Kubernetes
2 16 (9.36%) Terraform
3 2 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (21.64%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.70%) Oracle
3 7 (4.09%) Citrix
4 3 (1.75%) ION Trading
5 2 (1.17%) NEC
5 2 (1.17%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.58%) Google
6 1 (0.58%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.58%) SAP
6 1 (0.58%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.58%) Temenos
6 1 (0.58%) Xamarin