.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in England

.NET Developer
UK > England

The median .NET Developer daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 April 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 298 231
Rank change year-on-year -122 -67 -63
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 166 193 373
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.79% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.85% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 161 317
10th Percentile £375 £381 £313
25th Percentile £452 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £611 £675 £650
90th Percentile £699 £838 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £46.00 £60.00 -
% change year-on-year -23.33% - -

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 37,090 22,661 34,277
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 92.65% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,200 15,114 22,756
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -3.00% -1.82% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,526 899 2,410
10th Percentile £15.77 £14.20 £12.92
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.59 £31.76 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year +43.53% -10.91% -20.78%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.54
UK median hourly rate £43.39 £29.25 £35.83
% change year-on-year +48.35% -18.36% -20.38%

.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 April 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 28 April 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 -115 88 £563 +8.17% 55
North of England -53 32 £500 +21.21% 53
South East -67 18 £488 +11.11% 47
Yorkshire -47 17 £556 +5.95% 10
Midlands -53 17 £550 +12.82% 16
North West -25 15 £450 +9.09% 32
East Midlands -25 13 £575 +58.62% 8
South West -35 5 £588 -6.37% 11
West Midlands -58 4 £519 +6.41% 8
East of England -32 1 - - 20
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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.

1 166 (100.00%) .NET
2 133 (80.12%) C#
3 94 (56.63%) Azure
4 74 (44.58%) CI/CD
5 66 (39.76%) SQL Server
6 65 (39.16%) SQL
7 62 (37.35%) DevOps
8 57 (34.34%) Agile
9 45 (27.11%) .NET Framework
10 36 (21.69%) Microservices
11 34 (20.48%) .NET Core
11 34 (20.48%) Azure DevOps
12 33 (19.88%) Microsoft
13 31 (18.67%) AngularJS
13 31 (18.67%) Full-Stack Development
13 31 (18.67%) RESTful
14 27 (16.27%) ASP.NET
14 27 (16.27%) Security Cleared
15 25 (15.06%) REST
15 25 (15.06%) SC Cleared
16 24 (14.46%) AWS
16 24 (14.46%) React
17 23 (13.86%) HTML
18 21 (12.65%) JavaScript
19 20 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
19 20 (12.05%) Python
20 19 (11.45%) AI
20 19 (11.45%) Azure Service Bus
20 19 (11.45%) Test Automation
21 18 (10.84%) Relational Database

.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 6 (3.61%) IIS
2 5 (3.01%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.81%) Apache Superset
5 2 (1.20%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Endur
1 2 (1.20%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 94 (56.63%) Azure
2 34 (20.48%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (14.46%) AWS
4 19 (11.45%) Azure Service Bus
5 18 (10.84%) Serverless
6 13 (7.83%) Azure Functions
6 13 (7.83%) GitHub
7 9 (5.42%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (4.82%) Entra ID
9 7 (4.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (3.01%) PaaS
12 4 (2.41%) Azure AKS
12 4 (2.41%) Azure App Service
12 4 (2.41%) Azure WebJobs
12 4 (2.41%) n8n
12 4 (2.41%) Power Automate
12 4 (2.41%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.60%) DHCP
1 1 (0.60%) DNS
1 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (39.76%) SQL Server
2 18 (10.84%) Relational Database
3 11 (6.63%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (6.02%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (4.22%) Redis
6 5 (3.01%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.81%) Metabase
7 3 (1.81%) Parquet
7 3 (1.81%) Power BI
8 2 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.20%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.60%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (9.04%) Git
2 5 (3.01%) SpecFlow
2 5 (3.01%) TeamCity
2 5 (3.01%) Visual Studio
3 4 (2.41%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.41%) MSTest
3 4 (2.41%) NUnit
3 4 (2.41%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (1.81%) JIRA
4 3 (1.81%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.20%) Jasmine
5 2 (1.20%) Karma Test Runner
5 2 (1.20%) Selenium
6 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.60%) GitLab
6 1 (0.60%) Mocha
6 1 (0.60%) Moq
6 1 (0.60%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.60%) tSQLt
6 1 (0.60%) webpack
General
1 41 (24.70%) Finance
2 33 (19.88%) Social Skills
3 23 (13.86%) Banking
4 18 (10.84%) Public Sector
5 15 (9.04%) Front Office
6 12 (7.23%) Investment Banking
7 7 (4.22%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.61%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.81%) Back Office
9 3 (1.81%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.60%) Automotive
11 1 (0.60%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.60%) Military
11 1 (0.60%) Police
11 1 (0.60%) Retail
11 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (100.00%) .NET
2 45 (27.11%) .NET Framework
3 34 (20.48%) .NET Core
4 31 (18.67%) AngularJS
4 31 (18.67%) RESTful
5 27 (16.27%) ASP.NET
6 25 (15.06%) REST
7 24 (14.46%) React
8 23 (13.86%) HTML
9 11 (6.63%) ASP.NET Core
9 11 (6.63%) ASP.NET Web API
9 11 (6.63%) CSS
10 10 (6.02%) Entity Framework
11 9 (5.42%) ASP.NET MVC
11 9 (5.42%) WPF
12 8 (4.82%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (4.82%) WinForms
13 7 (4.22%) YAML
14 6 (3.61%) OAuth
14 6 (3.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.83%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.63%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.82%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (4.22%) AI Agents
5 6 (3.61%) Fixed Income
5 6 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.01%) Credit Risk
6 5 (3.01%) Market Risk
7 4 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.41%) Derivative
7 4 (2.41%) IoT
8 3 (1.81%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.81%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.20%) NHS
9 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.60%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.83%) Windows
2 5 (3.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (44.58%) CI/CD
2 62 (37.35%) DevOps
3 57 (34.34%) Agile
4 36 (21.69%) Microservices
5 31 (18.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 20 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (11.45%) AI
7 19 (11.45%) Test Automation
8 16 (9.64%) Design Patterns
8 16 (9.64%) MVC
8 16 (9.64%) Scrum
8 16 (9.64%) TDD
9 15 (9.04%) OOP
9 15 (9.04%) Unit Testing
10 14 (8.43%) SDLC
11 12 (7.23%) Software Engineering
12 11 (6.63%) Clean Code
12 11 (6.63%) Performance Tuning
12 11 (6.63%) SOLID
13 10 (6.02%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 133 (80.12%) C#
2 65 (39.16%) SQL
3 21 (12.65%) JavaScript
4 20 (12.05%) Python
5 14 (8.43%) TypeScript
6 13 (7.83%) T-SQL
7 7 (4.22%) PL/SQL
8 5 (3.01%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.41%) Bicep
9 4 (2.41%) Java
9 4 (2.41%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.81%) C++
10 3 (1.81%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.81%) Rust
Qualifications
1 27 (16.27%) Security Cleared
2 25 (15.06%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.82%) Degree
4 4 (2.41%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.60%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.23%) QA
2 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.60%) HL7
3 1 (0.60%) NCSC
3 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (9.04%) Docker
2 2 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (10.24%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.43%) Terraform
3 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (19.88%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.24%) Oracle
3 7 (4.22%) Citrix
4 3 (1.81%) ION Trading
5 2 (1.20%) NEC
5 2 (1.20%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.60%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.60%) Google
6 1 (0.60%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.60%) Sybase
6 1 (0.60%) Temenos
6 1 (0.60%) VMware
6 1 (0.60%) Xamarin