.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in England

.NET Developer
UK > England

The median .NET Developer daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 287 214
Rank change year-on-year -128 -73 -51
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 152 191 429
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.77% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.83% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 159 364
10th Percentile £382 £385 £314
25th Percentile £452 £400 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.10%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £46.00 - -

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 33,435 22,971 35,338
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 93.06% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,101 15,046 23,620
10th Percentile £310 £300 £270
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,197 756 2,290
10th Percentile £15.45 £15.44 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.34 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £36.32 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +7.69% -23.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.79 £77.35 £71.76
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £33.40 £32.69
% change year-on-year +4.79% +2.17% -22.84%

.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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -74 100 £555 +7.25% 75
North of England -59 20 £450 - 58
North West -29 14 £450 - 35
East of England -19 9 £450 +5.88% 21
South East -54 9 £550 +24.01% 56
Midlands -61 8 £510 +2.00% 21
Yorkshire -64 6 £480 -8.57% 16
East Midlands -31 4 £510 +2.00% 9
West Midlands -55 4 £519 +6.41% 12
South West -23 2 £725 +11.54% 26
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 March 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.

1 152 (100.00%) .NET
2 122 (80.26%) C#
3 91 (59.87%) Azure
4 67 (44.08%) SQL
5 56 (36.84%) Agile
5 56 (36.84%) DevOps
6 55 (36.18%) CI/CD
7 51 (33.55%) SQL Server
8 41 (26.97%) .NET Framework
9 34 (22.37%) .NET Core
10 33 (21.71%) Full-Stack Development
11 31 (20.39%) AngularJS
12 28 (18.42%) Azure DevOps
13 27 (17.76%) Microservices
14 26 (17.11%) ASP.NET
14 26 (17.11%) Microsoft
14 26 (17.11%) RESTful
15 24 (15.79%) Security Cleared
16 23 (15.13%) Unit Testing
17 22 (14.47%) AI
17 22 (14.47%) React
17 22 (14.47%) SC Cleared
18 20 (13.16%) AWS
18 20 (13.16%) Design Patterns
18 20 (13.16%) HTML
18 20 (13.16%) Scrum
19 19 (12.50%) Oracle
19 19 (12.50%) Python
19 19 (12.50%) REST
20 18 (11.84%) Problem-Solving

.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 (3.29%) IIS
2 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.97%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Endur
1 2 (1.32%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 91 (59.87%) Azure
2 28 (18.42%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (13.16%) AWS
4 17 (11.18%) Azure Service Bus
4 17 (11.18%) Serverless
5 13 (8.55%) Azure Functions
6 11 (7.24%) Entra ID
7 9 (5.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 9 (5.92%) Azure Key Vault
7 9 (5.92%) PaaS
8 8 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (5.26%) GitHub
9 6 (3.95%) Azure AKS
9 6 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (2.63%) Azure App Service
11 4 (2.63%) Azure WebJobs
12 3 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.97%) Azure Event Grid
12 3 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.97%) DNS
2 2 (1.32%) DHCP
2 2 (1.32%) HTTP
2 2 (1.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (33.55%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (7.24%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.95%) Oracle Database
5 5 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.29%) Redis
6 2 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.32%) Power BI
7 1 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.66%) DocumentDB
7 1 (0.66%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.66%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (9.21%) Git
2 8 (5.26%) SpecFlow
3 6 (3.95%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.29%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.63%) JIRA
5 4 (2.63%) MSTest
5 4 (2.63%) NUnit
5 4 (2.63%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.97%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.32%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.32%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.32%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.32%) Selenium
8 1 (0.66%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.66%) JMeter
8 1 (0.66%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.66%) Postman
8 1 (0.66%) Serilog
8 1 (0.66%) webpack
General
1 42 (27.63%) Finance
2 27 (17.76%) Banking
2 27 (17.76%) Social Skills
3 15 (9.87%) Public Sector
4 12 (7.89%) Front Office
5 11 (7.24%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.61%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.97%) Back Office
8 3 (1.97%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.66%) Advertising
10 1 (0.66%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (100.00%) .NET
2 41 (26.97%) .NET Framework
3 34 (22.37%) .NET Core
4 31 (20.39%) AngularJS
5 26 (17.11%) ASP.NET
5 26 (17.11%) RESTful
6 22 (14.47%) React
7 20 (13.16%) HTML
8 19 (12.50%) REST
9 13 (8.55%) ASP.NET Core
10 12 (7.89%) ASP.NET Web API
10 12 (7.89%) Entity Framework
10 12 (7.89%) WPF
11 9 (5.92%) CSS
12 8 (5.26%) Web Services
13 7 (4.61%) WinForms
13 7 (4.61%) YAML
14 6 (3.95%) ASP.NET MVC
14 6 (3.95%) Middleware
14 6 (3.95%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.58%) Cloud Native
1 10 (6.58%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (4.61%) Credit Risk
2 7 (4.61%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.95%) Fixed Income
3 6 (3.95%) Market Risk
4 4 (2.63%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.97%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.97%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.97%) IoT
5 3 (1.97%) Legacy Code
5 3 (1.97%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.32%) Derivative
6 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.66%) NHS
7 1 (0.66%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.21%) Windows
2 6 (3.95%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.66%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (36.84%) Agile
1 56 (36.84%) DevOps
2 55 (36.18%) CI/CD
3 33 (21.71%) Full-Stack Development
4 27 (17.76%) Microservices
5 23 (15.13%) Unit Testing
6 22 (14.47%) AI
7 20 (13.16%) Design Patterns
7 20 (13.16%) Scrum
8 18 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (10.53%) Test Automation
10 15 (9.87%) OOP
10 15 (9.87%) SDLC
11 14 (9.21%) Clean Code
11 14 (9.21%) Migration
12 13 (8.55%) MVC
12 13 (8.55%) TDD
13 11 (7.24%) Software Engineering
14 10 (6.58%) Performance Tuning
15 9 (5.92%) OO
Programming Languages
1 122 (80.26%) C#
2 67 (44.08%) SQL
3 19 (12.50%) Python
4 15 (9.87%) JavaScript
5 11 (7.24%) T-SQL
6 9 (5.92%) PL/SQL
6 9 (5.92%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.29%) Bicep
8 4 (2.63%) C++
8 4 (2.63%) Java
8 4 (2.63%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (2.63%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.32%) PHP
9 2 (1.32%) VB
9 2 (1.32%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.66%) VB6
10 1 (0.66%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.47%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.26%) Degree
4 4 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.92%) QA
2 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.66%) HL7
3 1 (0.66%) MiFID
3 1 (0.66%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (6.58%) Docker
2 4 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (7.24%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.92%) Terraform
3 1 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (17.11%) Microsoft
2 19 (12.50%) Oracle
3 5 (3.29%) Citrix
4 3 (1.97%) ION Trading
4 3 (1.97%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.32%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.32%) NEC
5 2 (1.32%) VMware
6 1 (0.66%) Databricks
6 1 (0.66%) Google
6 1 (0.66%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.66%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.66%) Sybase
6 1 (0.66%) Temenos
6 1 (0.66%) Xamarin