.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in England

.NET Developer
UK > England

The median .NET Developer daily rate in England is £490, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 329 222
Rank change year-on-year -89 -107 -24
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 220 186 356
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.67% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.74% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 146 293
10th Percentile £375 £338 £350
25th Percentile £413 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £474 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.43% -8.89% -5.45%
75th Percentile £594 £569 £638
90th Percentile £725 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £473 £475
% change year-on-year +5.82% -0.53% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £65.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% -7.69% +30.00%

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 42,208 25,248 30,773
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 91.56% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,337 16,299 19,707
10th Percentile £325 £281 £303
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £635 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,268 1,358 1,625
10th Percentile £15.18 £13.69 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.34 £21.00
Median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.96% -44.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.74
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

.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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -105 93 £579 +21.79% 125
North of England -39 40 £460 +6.98% 58
Yorkshire -4 36 £468 -10.95% 10
Midlands -38 29 £500 +1.01% 24
South East -60 28 £394 -5.12% 62
East Midlands +5 25 £550 +33.66% 9
South West -22 19 £425 - 14
East of England -20 6 £525 +20.00% 28
West Midlands -52 4 £388 -21.72% 14
North West -58 4 £358 -12.68% 34
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 September 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.

1 220 (100.00%) .NET
2 157 (71.36%) C#
3 100 (45.45%) Azure
4 91 (41.36%) CI/CD
5 80 (36.36%) SQL Server
6 75 (34.09%) SQL
7 62 (28.18%) Agile
8 60 (27.27%) Microsoft
9 58 (26.36%) DevOps
10 57 (25.91%) REST
11 56 (25.45%) .NET Core
12 52 (23.64%) .NET Framework
13 50 (22.73%) Microservices
14 48 (21.82%) Full-Stack Development
15 47 (21.36%) ASP.NET
16 42 (19.09%) RESTful
17 41 (18.64%) Kubernetes
18 40 (18.18%) AWS
19 38 (17.27%) Azure DevOps
20 35 (15.91%) JavaScript
21 34 (15.45%) Docker
22 31 (14.09%) Test Automation
23 30 (13.64%) Git
24 29 (13.18%) AngularJS
24 29 (13.18%) SC Cleared
24 29 (13.18%) Security Cleared
25 26 (11.82%) GitHub
26 25 (11.36%) TypeScript
27 24 (10.91%) API Development
27 24 (10.91%) 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 12 (5.45%) Confluence
2 4 (1.82%) IIS
2 4 (1.82%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.36%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.45%) CMS
4 1 (0.45%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.45%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.45%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 100 (45.45%) Azure
2 40 (18.18%) AWS
3 38 (17.27%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (11.82%) GitHub
5 14 (6.36%) Azure Service Bus
5 14 (6.36%) Serverless
6 11 (5.00%) Azure Functions
7 9 (4.09%) Azure AKS
8 8 (3.64%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (3.18%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.18%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (2.73%) GitHub Copilot
10 6 (2.73%) PaaS
11 5 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (2.27%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.82%) GCP
12 4 (1.82%) n8n
12 4 (1.82%) Zapier
13 3 (1.36%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.45%) Broadband
1 1 (0.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 18 (8.18%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (8.18%) Relational Database
3 9 (4.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (2.73%) Power BI
5 5 (2.27%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.82%) DocumentDB
6 4 (1.82%) Geospatial Data
6 4 (1.82%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.36%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.36%) Metabase
7 3 (1.36%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.36%) Parquet
7 3 (1.36%) Redis
8 2 (0.91%) Db2
8 2 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.45%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.45%) MySQL
9 1 (0.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 30 (13.64%) Git
2 12 (5.45%) JIRA
3 9 (4.09%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.18%) GitLab
5 6 (2.73%) NUnit
5 6 (2.73%) Visual Studio
6 5 (2.27%) REST Assured
6 5 (2.27%) SpecFlow
7 4 (1.82%) MSI
7 4 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.91%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.91%) MSTest
8 2 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.91%) Postman
8 2 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.91%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.45%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.45%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.45%) Moq
9 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 50 (22.73%) Finance
2 37 (16.82%) Social Skills
3 23 (10.45%) Banking
4 13 (5.91%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.00%) Investment Banking
6 10 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.18%) Front Office
8 6 (2.73%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.82%) Legal
10 3 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.91%) Automotive
11 2 (0.91%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.91%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.45%) Military
12 1 (0.45%) Police
12 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (100.00%) .NET
2 57 (25.91%) REST
3 56 (25.45%) .NET Core
4 52 (23.64%) .NET Framework
5 47 (21.36%) ASP.NET
6 42 (19.09%) RESTful
7 29 (13.18%) AngularJS
8 23 (10.45%) React
9 21 (9.55%) Terraform
10 20 (9.09%) WPF
11 18 (8.18%) Web Services
12 16 (7.27%) Entity Framework
13 15 (6.82%) ASP.NET Core
13 15 (6.82%) Kafka
14 14 (6.36%) WinForms
15 12 (5.45%) ASP.NET MVC
15 12 (5.45%) ASP.NET Web API
16 11 (5.00%) HTML
17 10 (4.55%) Blazor
17 10 (4.55%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 29 (13.18%) Cloud Native
2 18 (8.18%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.82%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.27%) Legacy Code
5 5 (2.27%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.27%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.82%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.82%) Wiki
7 3 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.91%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.91%) Derivative
8 2 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.45%) IoT
9 1 (0.45%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.45%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.45%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.36%) Windows
2 3 (1.36%) Linux
3 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (41.36%) CI/CD
2 62 (28.18%) Agile
3 58 (26.36%) DevOps
4 50 (22.73%) Microservices
5 48 (21.82%) Full-Stack Development
6 31 (14.09%) Test Automation
7 24 (10.91%) API Development
7 24 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (10.00%) Code Quality
8 22 (10.00%) Software Engineering
9 21 (9.55%) Containerisation
9 21 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (8.64%) AI
10 19 (8.64%) Event-Driven
10 19 (8.64%) Scrum
10 19 (8.64%) SOLID
11 18 (8.18%) Design Patterns
11 18 (8.18%) OOP
12 17 (7.73%) MVC
13 16 (7.27%) OO
Programming Languages
1 157 (71.36%) C#
2 75 (34.09%) SQL
3 35 (15.91%) JavaScript
4 25 (11.36%) TypeScript
5 24 (10.91%) Python
6 17 (7.73%) T-SQL
7 12 (5.45%) PL/SQL
8 7 (3.18%) Bicep
9 4 (1.82%) VB.NET
9 4 (1.82%) VBA
10 3 (1.36%) Java
10 3 (1.36%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.36%) Rust
10 3 (1.36%) XAML
11 2 (0.91%) VB
12 1 (0.45%) C
12 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.45%) VB6
Qualifications
1 29 (13.18%) SC Cleared
1 29 (13.18%) Security Cleared
2 4 (1.82%) DV Cleared
3 3 (1.36%) Degree
4 2 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.91%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.91%) PhD
5 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.45%) QA
2 7 (3.18%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.27%) NCSC
3 5 (2.27%) WCAG
4 2 (0.91%) Basel III
5 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 34 (15.45%) Docker
2 8 (3.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (18.64%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.73%) Ansible
3 3 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.09%) Oracle
3 8 (3.64%) Citrix
4 5 (2.27%) Centrify
4 5 (2.27%) CyberArk
5 3 (1.36%) DevExpress
5 3 (1.36%) IBM
6 2 (0.91%) Databricks
7 1 (0.45%) Adyen
7 1 (0.45%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.45%) SAP
7 1 (0.45%) Telerik