.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in England

.NET Developer
UK > England

The median .NET Developer daily rate in England is £495, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 330 221
Rank change year-on-year -80 -109 -20
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 226 191 354
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.69% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.76% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 150 296
10th Percentile £375 £348 £350
25th Percentile £413 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -8.65% -0.95%
75th Percentile £594 £550 £638
90th Percentile £738 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
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 42,222 25,226 30,892
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 91.56% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,437 16,285 19,969
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
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 £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,228 1,378 1,700
10th Percentile £15.10 £13.68 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.15 £17.44 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.60%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.07 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -1.44%

.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 26 August 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 26 August 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 98 £588 +23.68% 28
North of England -40 43 £460 +6.98% 15
Yorkshire -4 38 £460 -12.38% 8
South East -70 28 £400 -3.61% 21
Midlands -38 26 £500 -0.50% 8
East Midlands +1 22 £563 +36.70% 3
South West -27 20 £425 - 2
East of England -22 6 £525 +20.00% 9
North West -51 5 £467 +13.78% 3
West Midlands -60 4 £388 -24.02% 4
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 August 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.

1 226 (100.00%) .NET
2 164 (72.57%) C#
3 107 (47.35%) Azure
4 97 (42.92%) CI/CD
5 82 (36.28%) SQL Server
6 79 (34.96%) SQL
7 69 (30.53%) Agile
8 67 (29.65%) DevOps
9 64 (28.32%) Microsoft
10 59 (26.11%) REST
11 57 (25.22%) .NET Framework
12 55 (24.34%) .NET Core
13 51 (22.57%) Microservices
14 50 (22.12%) Full-Stack Development
15 45 (19.91%) ASP.NET
16 44 (19.47%) RESTful
17 41 (18.14%) Azure DevOps
18 40 (17.70%) JavaScript
18 40 (17.70%) Kubernetes
19 39 (17.26%) AWS
20 37 (16.37%) AngularJS
21 35 (15.49%) Security Cleared
22 34 (15.04%) Docker
22 34 (15.04%) SC Cleared
23 31 (13.72%) Test Automation
24 30 (13.27%) Git
25 28 (12.39%) GitHub
26 27 (11.95%) TypeScript
27 26 (11.50%) React
28 24 (10.62%) API Development

.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 (5.31%) Confluence
2 6 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.21%) IIS
4 3 (1.33%) Apache Superset
5 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.44%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.44%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 107 (47.35%) Azure
2 41 (18.14%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (17.26%) AWS
4 28 (12.39%) GitHub
5 16 (7.08%) Azure Service Bus
6 14 (6.19%) Serverless
7 10 (4.42%) Azure Functions
7 10 (4.42%) Azure Key Vault
8 9 (3.98%) Azure AKS
8 9 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (3.54%) PaaS
10 7 (3.10%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (3.10%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.65%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (2.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (2.21%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.21%) Power Automate
13 4 (1.77%) Azure App Service
13 4 (1.77%) GCP
13 4 (1.77%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.44%) Broadband
1 1 (0.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (36.28%) SQL Server
2 18 (7.96%) Relational Database
3 16 (7.08%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.98%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.65%) Power BI
6 5 (2.21%) Oracle Database
6 5 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.77%) DocumentDB
7 4 (1.77%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (1.77%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.77%) Redis
8 3 (1.33%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.33%) Metabase
8 3 (1.33%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.33%) Parquet
9 2 (0.88%) Db2
9 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.44%) MySQL
10 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 30 (13.27%) Git
2 12 (5.31%) JIRA
3 8 (3.54%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.10%) NUnit
5 6 (2.65%) GitLab
5 6 (2.65%) Visual Studio
6 5 (2.21%) REST Assured
6 5 (2.21%) SpecFlow
7 4 (1.77%) MSI
7 4 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.33%) MSTest
8 3 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.33%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.88%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.88%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.88%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (0.88%) Postman
10 1 (0.44%) Moq
10 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 56 (24.78%) Finance
2 38 (16.81%) Social Skills
3 23 (10.18%) Banking
4 13 (5.75%) Investment Banking
4 13 (5.75%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.42%) Front Office
6 6 (2.65%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.77%) Legal
8 3 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.88%) Automotive
9 2 (0.88%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.88%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.44%) Military
10 1 (0.44%) Police
10 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (100.00%) .NET
2 59 (26.11%) REST
3 57 (25.22%) .NET Framework
4 55 (24.34%) .NET Core
5 45 (19.91%) ASP.NET
6 44 (19.47%) RESTful
7 37 (16.37%) AngularJS
8 26 (11.50%) React
9 21 (9.29%) Terraform
10 20 (8.85%) Web Services
11 17 (7.52%) Entity Framework
12 16 (7.08%) HTML
12 16 (7.08%) WPF
13 14 (6.19%) ASP.NET Core
13 14 (6.19%) Kafka
14 12 (5.31%) ASP.NET Web API
15 11 (4.87%) ASP.NET MVC
15 11 (4.87%) CSS
15 11 (4.87%) WinForms
16 10 (4.42%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.95%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.64%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (3.98%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.21%) Legacy Code
5 5 (2.21%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.21%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.77%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.77%) Wiki
7 3 (1.33%) Derivative
7 3 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.88%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.88%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.44%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.44%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.64%) Windows
2 2 (0.88%) Linux
2 2 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (42.92%) CI/CD
2 69 (30.53%) Agile
3 67 (29.65%) DevOps
4 51 (22.57%) Microservices
5 50 (22.12%) Full-Stack Development
6 31 (13.72%) Test Automation
7 24 (10.62%) API Development
8 23 (10.18%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (9.73%) Software Engineering
10 21 (9.29%) Code Quality
10 21 (9.29%) Containerisation
11 20 (8.85%) OOP
12 19 (8.41%) AI
12 19 (8.41%) SOLID
13 18 (7.96%) Design Patterns
13 18 (7.96%) Event-Driven
13 18 (7.96%) Scrum
14 17 (7.52%) OO
14 17 (7.52%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 164 (72.57%) C#
2 79 (34.96%) SQL
3 40 (17.70%) JavaScript
4 27 (11.95%) TypeScript
5 24 (10.62%) Python
6 19 (8.41%) T-SQL
7 12 (5.31%) PL/SQL
8 7 (3.10%) Bicep
9 4 (1.77%) VB.NET
9 4 (1.77%) VBA
10 3 (1.33%) Java
10 3 (1.33%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.33%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.33%) Rust
11 2 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.88%) VB
11 2 (0.88%) XAML
12 1 (0.44%) C
12 1 (0.44%) VB6
Qualifications
1 35 (15.49%) Security Cleared
2 34 (15.04%) SC Cleared
3 4 (1.77%) Degree
3 4 (1.77%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.88%) PhD
5 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.19%) QA
2 7 (3.10%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.21%) NCSC
3 5 (2.21%) WCAG
4 2 (0.88%) Basel III
System Software
1 34 (15.04%) Docker
2 8 (3.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (17.70%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.65%) Ansible
3 3 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (28.32%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.18%) Oracle
3 9 (3.98%) Citrix
4 5 (2.21%) Centrify
4 5 (2.21%) CyberArk
5 3 (1.33%) DevExpress
5 3 (1.33%) IBM
6 2 (0.88%) Databricks
7 1 (0.44%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.44%) SAP
7 1 (0.44%) Telerik