.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 25 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
25 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 329 231
Rank change year-on-year -95 -98 -40
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 210 182 343
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.65% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.72% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 140 273
10th Percentile £378 £348 £356
25th Percentile £413 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £638
90th Percentile £725 £789 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £47.69 - -
25th Percentile £49.03 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £65.00
75th Percentile £65.88 - -
90th Percentile £73.15 - -
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 42,921 25,440 30,511
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.23% 91.33% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,465 16,413 18,833
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.11%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £735 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,560 1,395 1,422
10th Percentile £14.82 £13.76 £14.84
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.44 £21.37
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -45.54% +2.62%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -3.37%

.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 25 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing .NET Developer in England over the 6 months to 25 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for .NET Developer 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 25 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 -120 92 £580 +20.47% 132
North of England -37 34 £450 +3.45% 61
Yorkshire -10 31 £450 -14.29% 18
Midlands -32 27 £500 +11.73% 39
South East -69 26 £394 -6.03% 68
East Midlands +3 21 £550 +75.72% 11
South West -25 17 £425 -22.73% 13
East of England -28 9 £525 +20.00% 33
West Midlands -40 6 £425 -14.14% 28
North West -56 3 £358 -14.25% 33
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 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.

1 210 (100.00%) .NET
2 152 (72.38%) C#
3 95 (45.24%) Azure
4 82 (39.05%) CI/CD
5 71 (33.81%) SQL Server
6 66 (31.43%) SQL
7 59 (28.10%) Microsoft
8 58 (27.62%) .NET Core
9 57 (27.14%) REST
10 56 (26.67%) Agile
11 52 (24.76%) .NET Framework
12 51 (24.29%) DevOps
13 46 (21.90%) Full-Stack Development
14 45 (21.43%) ASP.NET
15 44 (20.95%) Microservices
16 39 (18.57%) AWS
17 36 (17.14%) Kubernetes
17 36 (17.14%) RESTful
18 35 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
19 33 (15.71%) Docker
19 33 (15.71%) Test Automation
20 31 (14.76%) JavaScript
21 29 (13.81%) Git
22 28 (13.33%) SC Cleared
22 28 (13.33%) Security Cleared
22 28 (13.33%) Software Engineering
23 26 (12.38%) AngularJS
23 26 (12.38%) Code Quality
24 25 (11.90%) API Development
24 25 (11.90%) GitHub

.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 14 (6.67%) Confluence
2 5 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.43%) IIS
4 2 (0.95%) Apache Superset
4 2 (0.95%) CMS
4 2 (0.95%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.48%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 95 (45.24%) Azure
2 39 (18.57%) AWS
3 35 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (11.90%) GitHub
5 14 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
6 12 (5.71%) Serverless
7 9 (4.29%) Azure Functions
8 8 (3.81%) Azure AKS
8 8 (3.81%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (3.81%) Power Platform
9 7 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.86%) PaaS
11 5 (2.38%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (2.38%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.90%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (1.90%) GCP
12 4 (1.90%) n8n
12 4 (1.90%) Zapier
13 3 (1.43%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.48%) Broadband
1 1 (0.48%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (33.81%) SQL Server
2 17 (8.10%) Relational Database
3 13 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.86%) Power BI
6 5 (2.38%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.90%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.43%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.43%) Db2
8 3 (1.43%) DocumentDB
8 3 (1.43%) Redis
9 2 (0.95%) Metabase
9 2 (0.95%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.95%) Parquet
9 2 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.48%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 29 (13.81%) Git
2 14 (6.67%) JIRA
3 9 (4.29%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.29%) Visual Studio
4 7 (3.33%) GitLab
5 6 (2.86%) REST Assured
6 4 (1.90%) MSI
6 4 (1.90%) NUnit
6 4 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.90%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.95%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.95%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.95%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.95%) Postman
8 2 (0.95%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.48%) Moq
9 1 (0.48%) MSTest
9 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 47 (22.38%) Finance
2 38 (18.10%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.48%) Banking
4 12 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.24%) Investment Banking
6 10 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.33%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.86%) Front Office
9 4 (1.90%) Legal
10 3 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.95%) Automotive
11 2 (0.95%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.95%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.48%) Military
12 1 (0.48%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 210 (100.00%) .NET
2 58 (27.62%) .NET Core
3 57 (27.14%) REST
4 52 (24.76%) .NET Framework
5 45 (21.43%) ASP.NET
6 36 (17.14%) RESTful
7 26 (12.38%) AngularJS
8 24 (11.43%) WPF
9 22 (10.48%) React
10 21 (10.00%) Web Services
11 19 (9.05%) Entity Framework
12 18 (8.57%) Terraform
13 16 (7.62%) WinForms
14 15 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
14 15 (7.14%) Kafka
15 11 (5.24%) ASP.NET MVC
15 11 (5.24%) ASP.NET Web API
16 10 (4.76%) SOAP
17 8 (3.81%) Blazor
17 8 (3.81%) NHibernate
Miscellaneous
1 28 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 19 (9.05%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.81%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.38%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.38%) Legacy Code
5 5 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.90%) Wiki
7 3 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.95%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.95%) Derivative
8 2 (0.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.48%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.48%) IoT
9 1 (0.48%) NHS
9 1 (0.48%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.10%) Windows
2 3 (1.43%) Linux
3 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (39.05%) CI/CD
2 56 (26.67%) Agile
3 51 (24.29%) DevOps
4 46 (21.90%) Full-Stack Development
5 44 (20.95%) Microservices
6 33 (15.71%) Test Automation
7 28 (13.33%) Software Engineering
8 26 (12.38%) Code Quality
9 25 (11.90%) API Development
10 21 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (10.00%) Event-Driven
10 21 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (9.52%) AI
11 20 (9.52%) Design Patterns
11 20 (9.52%) Scrum
12 19 (9.05%) Containerisation
13 18 (8.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 18 (8.57%) MVC
14 17 (8.10%) OOP
14 17 (8.10%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 152 (72.38%) C#
2 66 (31.43%) SQL
3 31 (14.76%) JavaScript
4 24 (11.43%) TypeScript
5 22 (10.48%) Python
6 14 (6.67%) T-SQL
7 12 (5.71%) PL/SQL
8 7 (3.33%) Bicep
9 5 (2.38%) XAML
10 4 (1.90%) Java
10 4 (1.90%) VB.NET
10 4 (1.90%) VBA
11 3 (1.43%) VB
12 2 (0.95%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.95%) Rust
12 2 (0.95%) VB6
13 1 (0.48%) C
13 1 (0.48%) C++
13 1 (0.48%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 28 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (2.38%) Degree
3 4 (1.90%) DV Cleared
3 4 (1.90%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.90%) PhD
4 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.71%) QA
2 6 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.38%) NCSC
3 5 (2.38%) WCAG
4 2 (0.95%) Basel III
4 2 (0.95%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.48%) GDPR
System Software
1 33 (15.71%) Docker
2 8 (3.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (17.14%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.86%) Ansible
3 2 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (28.10%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.05%) Oracle
3 8 (3.81%) Citrix
4 5 (2.38%) Centrify
4 5 (2.38%) CyberArk
5 3 (1.43%) DevExpress
5 3 (1.43%) IBM
6 2 (0.95%) Adyen
6 2 (0.95%) Databricks
7 1 (0.48%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.48%) SAP
7 1 (0.48%) Telerik
345 .NET Developer jobs in England