.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in England

.NET Developer
UK > England

The median .NET Developer daily rate in England is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 February 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 289 199
Rank change year-on-year -123 -90 -41
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 140 195 458
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.77% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.83% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 156 379
10th Percentile £384 £385 £319
25th Percentile £438 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £603 £638 £650
90th Percentile £675 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.06% -10.83%
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 32,138 23,598 35,085
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.87% 92.97% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,392 14,950 23,516
10th Percentile £305 £300 £272
25th Percentile £410 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £746
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,058 716 2,160
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.24 £13.23
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.00 £16.30
Median hourly rate £33.34 £36.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.04% +3.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.68 £75.38 £71.87
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.57% - -10.88%

.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 24 February 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 24 February 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 -87 90 £550 +4.76% 62
North of England -64 17 £450 -10.00% 61
North West -29 12 £450 -10.00% 37
East of England -17 9 £450 +5.88% 18
Midlands -52 9 £499 +2.31% 20
South East -46 6 £534 +19.42% 55
West Midlands -53 5 £488 +2.63% 13
East Midlands -26 4 £510 +2.00% 7
Yorkshire -54 4 £513 -2.38% 15
South West -26 2 £550 -15.38% 22
North East -15 1 - - 9
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 February 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.

1 140 (100.00%) .NET
2 112 (80.00%) C#
3 74 (52.86%) Azure
4 60 (42.86%) SQL
5 50 (35.71%) SQL Server
6 48 (34.29%) Agile
7 42 (30.00%) .NET Framework
8 40 (28.57%) CI/CD
8 40 (28.57%) DevOps
9 33 (23.57%) .NET Core
10 32 (22.86%) Full-Stack Development
11 23 (16.43%) ASP.NET
11 23 (16.43%) Microsoft
11 23 (16.43%) Scrum
12 22 (15.71%) AI
12 22 (15.71%) Azure DevOps
12 22 (15.71%) Microservices
12 22 (15.71%) RESTful
13 21 (15.00%) AngularJS
13 21 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (14.29%) React
14 20 (14.29%) Unit Testing
15 19 (13.57%) AWS
16 18 (12.86%) Test Automation
17 17 (12.14%) Design Patterns
17 17 (12.14%) Entity Framework
17 17 (12.14%) Oracle
17 17 (12.14%) Python
18 16 (11.43%) MVC
18 16 (11.43%) Windows

.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 (3.57%) Confluence
2 3 (2.14%) IIS
3 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.43%) Endur
1 2 (1.43%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 74 (52.86%) Azure
2 22 (15.71%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (13.57%) AWS
4 13 (9.29%) Azure Service Bus
4 13 (9.29%) Serverless
5 11 (7.86%) Azure Functions
6 9 (6.43%) GitHub
7 8 (5.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 8 (5.71%) Entra ID
8 7 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (5.00%) PaaS
9 5 (3.57%) Azure AKS
9 5 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.14%) Azure Event Grid
10 3 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.14%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.43%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.86%) DNS
2 3 (2.14%) DHCP
2 3 (2.14%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.57%) Relational Database
3 11 (7.86%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (5.00%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.86%) Redis
6 2 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.43%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.43%) Power BI
7 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.71%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (7.86%) Git
2 9 (6.43%) SpecFlow
3 7 (5.00%) JIRA
4 6 (4.29%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.86%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.43%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.43%) MSTest
6 2 (1.43%) Selenium
6 2 (1.43%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.71%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.71%) JMeter
7 1 (0.71%) Moq
7 1 (0.71%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.71%) NUnit
7 1 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.71%) Serilog
7 1 (0.71%) webpack
General
1 35 (25.00%) Finance
2 28 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 24 (17.14%) Banking
4 16 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.43%) Front Office
5 9 (6.43%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.00%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.14%) Back Office
7 3 (2.14%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.71%) Advertising
9 1 (0.71%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Retail
9 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (100.00%) .NET
2 42 (30.00%) .NET Framework
3 33 (23.57%) .NET Core
4 23 (16.43%) ASP.NET
5 22 (15.71%) RESTful
6 21 (15.00%) AngularJS
7 20 (14.29%) React
8 17 (12.14%) Entity Framework
9 15 (10.71%) WPF
10 13 (9.29%) REST
11 11 (7.86%) ASP.NET Core
12 10 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web API
12 10 (7.14%) HTML
13 8 (5.71%) NHibernate
13 8 (5.71%) Playwright
14 7 (5.00%) Middleware
14 7 (5.00%) Web Services
14 7 (5.00%) WinForms
14 7 (5.00%) YAML
15 6 (4.29%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (7.86%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.00%) Credit Risk
3 7 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (4.29%) Market Risk
5 5 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.57%) Fixed Income
5 5 (3.57%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.14%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.14%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.14%) IoT
6 3 (2.14%) Legacy Code
6 3 (2.14%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.71%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.71%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.71%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.43%) Windows
2 6 (4.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.71%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (34.29%) Agile
2 40 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 40 (28.57%) DevOps
3 32 (22.86%) Full-Stack Development
4 23 (16.43%) Scrum
5 22 (15.71%) AI
5 22 (15.71%) Microservices
6 21 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (14.29%) Unit Testing
8 18 (12.86%) Test Automation
9 17 (12.14%) Design Patterns
10 16 (11.43%) MVC
11 15 (10.71%) Clean Code
11 15 (10.71%) SDLC
12 13 (9.29%) OOP
13 12 (8.57%) Migration
13 12 (8.57%) Software Engineering
13 12 (8.57%) TDD
14 9 (6.43%) OO
14 9 (6.43%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 112 (80.00%) C#
2 60 (42.86%) SQL
3 17 (12.14%) Python
4 10 (7.14%) PL/SQL
5 9 (6.43%) T-SQL
6 7 (5.00%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.57%) Bicep
8 4 (2.86%) C++
8 4 (2.86%) Java
8 4 (2.86%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.86%) PHP
8 4 (2.86%) VB
8 4 (2.86%) VB.NET
9 3 (2.14%) VBA
10 2 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.43%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.71%) VB6
Qualifications
1 15 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.29%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.43%) Degree
4 3 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.14%) QA
2 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.71%) HL7
2 1 (0.71%) MiFID
2 1 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (7.14%) Docker
2 5 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (6.43%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (16.43%) Microsoft
2 17 (12.14%) Oracle
3 4 (2.86%) Citrix
4 3 (2.14%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.14%) ION Trading
4 3 (2.14%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.14%) VMware
5 2 (1.43%) NEC
6 1 (0.71%) Databricks
6 1 (0.71%) Google
6 1 (0.71%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.71%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.71%) Sybase
6 1 (0.71%) Temenos
6 1 (0.71%) Xamarin