.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in England

.NET Developer
UK > England

The median .NET Developer daily rate in England is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 226 196
Rank change year-on-year -104 -30 -59
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 186 353 547
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.67% 1.07% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 1.15% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 284 436
10th Percentile £335 £357 £363
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £688
90th Percentile £795 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £40.00
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% -21.38%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £53.75
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% +30.00% -20.06%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 25,377 30,623 39,527
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 92.98% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,381 19,128 27,584
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,363 1,485 1,349
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.60 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.31 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%
75th Percentile £54.88 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.49 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

.NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured .NET Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Developer 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 -83 120 £488 -15.22% 75
South East +21 25 £419 -19.42% 72
Midlands -17 14 £448 -2.72% 32
North of England -26 12 £430 -4.44% 64
East Midlands -2 7 £313 -13.06% 19
West Midlands -11 7 £495 +4.21% 12
North West -24 7 £410 -11.35% 37
South West +22 5 £550 +37.50% 12
East of England +2 4 £438 +12.90% 30
Yorkshire -18 4 £525 +16.67% 14
North East -1 1 - - 13
.NET Developer
UK

.NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, .NET Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring .NET Developer in the job title.

1 186 (100.00%) .NET
2 160 (86.02%) C#
3 94 (50.54%) SQL
4 74 (39.78%) Agile
4 74 (39.78%) Azure
5 66 (35.48%) Finance
6 62 (33.33%) .NET Framework
7 58 (31.18%) DevOps
8 51 (27.42%) SQL Server
9 48 (25.81%) .NET Core
10 45 (24.19%) Oracle
11 43 (23.12%) CI/CD
12 42 (22.58%) Social Skills
13 37 (19.89%) Microservices
13 37 (19.89%) AngularJS
14 36 (19.35%) JavaScript
15 35 (18.82%) Microsoft
16 34 (18.28%) Azure DevOps
17 32 (17.20%) Full-Stack Development
18 31 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
19 30 (16.13%) WPF
20 29 (15.59%) Windows
21 28 (15.05%) AWS
22 27 (14.52%) CSS
22 27 (14.52%) PL/SQL
23 26 (13.98%) TDD
23 26 (13.98%) Design Patterns
24 24 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
24 24 (12.90%) VBA
24 24 (12.90%) OO

.NET Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (3.76%) Confluence
2 2 (1.08%) CMS
2 2 (1.08%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.08%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.54%) EPiServer
3 1 (0.54%) HCL Notes
3 1 (0.54%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.54%) Mendix
3 1 (0.54%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 23 (12.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.54%) Eikon
2 1 (0.54%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 74 (39.78%) Azure
2 34 (18.28%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (15.05%) AWS
4 11 (5.91%) Azure Service Bus
4 11 (5.91%) Serverless
5 10 (5.38%) Azure Logic Apps
6 7 (3.76%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (3.76%) Azure Functions
6 7 (3.76%) GitHub
7 5 (2.69%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.15%) Figma
8 4 (2.15%) GCP
9 3 (1.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (1.61%) Azure Pipelines
9 3 (1.61%) ChatGPT
9 3 (1.61%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (1.61%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.61%) SaaS
10 2 (1.08%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.54%) DHCP
1 1 (0.54%) DNS
1 1 (0.54%) HTTP
1 1 (0.54%) Internet
1 1 (0.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (27.42%) SQL Server
2 21 (11.29%) Oracle Database
3 17 (9.14%) Relational Database
4 11 (5.91%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (4.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (3.23%) MySQL
6 6 (3.23%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.15%) Redis
8 3 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.08%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.08%) Power BI
9 2 (1.08%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.54%) ClickHouse
10 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.54%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (10.22%) JIRA
2 7 (3.76%) Git
3 5 (2.69%) SpecFlow
4 3 (1.61%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.61%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.08%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.08%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.54%) JetBrains Rider
6 1 (0.54%) MSTest
6 1 (0.54%) NUnit
6 1 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 66 (35.48%) Finance
2 42 (22.58%) Social Skills
3 24 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (11.29%) Front Office
5 15 (8.06%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.91%) Banking
7 7 (3.76%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.23%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.69%) Electronics
9 5 (2.69%) Marketing
10 3 (1.61%) Back Office
10 3 (1.61%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.54%) Billing
12 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.54%) Publishing
12 1 (0.54%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (100.00%) .NET
2 62 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 48 (25.81%) .NET Core
4 37 (19.89%) AngularJS
5 30 (16.13%) WPF
6 27 (14.52%) CSS
7 23 (12.37%) HTML
8 22 (11.83%) ASP.NET
9 20 (10.75%) Entity Framework
10 16 (8.60%) React
10 16 (8.60%) RESTful
11 15 (8.06%) Reactive Extensions
12 13 (6.99%) Blazor
13 12 (6.45%) REST
14 9 (4.84%) ASP.NET Core
15 8 (4.30%) ASP.NET Web API
15 8 (4.30%) Kafka
15 8 (4.30%) Web Services
16 6 (3.23%) Tailwind CSS
17 5 (2.69%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.84%) Fixed Income
2 7 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (3.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (3.76%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.69%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.69%) Hedge funds
5 4 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.15%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.61%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.08%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.08%) N-Tier
7 2 (1.08%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.08%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.54%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.54%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (15.59%) Windows
2 5 (2.69%) Android
3 4 (2.15%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (39.78%) Agile
2 58 (31.18%) DevOps
3 43 (23.12%) CI/CD
4 37 (19.89%) Microservices
5 32 (17.20%) Full-Stack Development
6 31 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (13.98%) Design Patterns
7 26 (13.98%) TDD
8 24 (12.90%) OO
9 21 (11.29%) Scrum
10 20 (10.75%) Clean Code
11 14 (7.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (6.99%) Migration
12 13 (6.99%) Unit Testing
13 12 (6.45%) Containerisation
13 12 (6.45%) MVC
13 12 (6.45%) SOLID
14 11 (5.91%) API Development
14 11 (5.91%) OOP
14 11 (5.91%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 160 (86.02%) C#
2 94 (50.54%) SQL
3 36 (19.35%) JavaScript
4 27 (14.52%) PL/SQL
5 24 (12.90%) VBA
6 22 (11.83%) VB.NET
7 20 (10.75%) VB
8 16 (8.60%) TypeScript
9 10 (5.38%) PowerShell
10 8 (4.30%) T-SQL
11 7 (3.76%) Java
12 5 (2.69%) F#
12 5 (2.69%) PHP
12 5 (2.69%) Python
13 4 (2.15%) Bicep
14 2 (1.08%) C++
14 2 (1.08%) RPG
14 2 (1.08%) RPG IV
15 1 (0.54%) Formula Language
15 1 (0.54%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 8 (4.30%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.15%) Degree
2 4 (2.15%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (1.08%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.84%) QA
2 5 (2.69%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.69%) WCAG
3 3 (1.61%) EMIR
4 2 (1.08%) MiFID
System Software
1 20 (10.75%) Docker
2 5 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (8.06%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.84%) Terraform
Vendors
1 45 (24.19%) Oracle
2 35 (18.82%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.69%) SAP
4 4 (2.15%) Databricks
5 3 (1.61%) Solace
6 2 (1.08%) CQG
6 2 (1.08%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.08%) TIBCO
6 2 (1.08%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.54%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.54%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.54%) DevExpress
7 1 (0.54%) GoldenSource
7 1 (0.54%) Google
7 1 (0.54%) IBM
7 1 (0.54%) Kofax
7 1 (0.54%) Lotus
7 1 (0.54%) Reuters
7 1 (0.54%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.54%) VMware