.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in England

.NET Developer
UK > England

The median .NET Developer daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 316 224
Rank change year-on-year -101 -92 -36
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 223 201 376
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.73% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.80% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 163 314
10th Percentile £372 £351 £326
25th Percentile £415 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £516
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.99% +1.23%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £647
90th Percentile £738 £835 £768
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate - £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -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 41,951 25,239 31,602
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 91.71% 92.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,523 16,403 20,840
10th Percentile £329 £288 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,084 1,288 1,943
10th Percentile £15.93 £13.75 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.30 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.10% -38.84% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.04 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +68.99% -40.82% -1.16%

.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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -110 95 £594 +21.79% 57
North of England -36 48 £452 +6.35% 41
Yorkshire -21 36 £460 -12.38% 12
South East -61 28 £420 -0.71% 50
Midlands -37 26 £525 +6.06% 17
East Midlands +2 20 £563 +36.70% 6
South West -28 16 £450 - 8
North West -49 12 £404 -1.46% 22
West Midlands -60 6 £425 -14.14% 11
East of England -17 5 - - 24
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 July 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.

1 223 (100.00%) .NET
2 165 (73.99%) C#
3 110 (49.33%) Azure
4 103 (46.19%) CI/CD
5 80 (35.87%) SQL
6 78 (34.98%) SQL Server
7 72 (32.29%) Agile
7 72 (32.29%) DevOps
8 61 (27.35%) Microsoft
9 58 (26.01%) .NET Framework
10 54 (24.22%) REST
11 51 (22.87%) Full-Stack Development
12 50 (22.42%) .NET Core
12 50 (22.42%) Microservices
13 45 (20.18%) ASP.NET
13 45 (20.18%) RESTful
14 42 (18.83%) JavaScript
15 41 (18.39%) Azure DevOps
16 40 (17.94%) AngularJS
17 39 (17.49%) Kubernetes
18 36 (16.14%) AWS
19 35 (15.70%) Docker
20 34 (15.25%) Security Cleared
21 33 (14.80%) Test Automation
22 32 (14.35%) SC Cleared
23 31 (13.90%) React
24 28 (12.56%) TypeScript
25 27 (12.11%) Git
26 25 (11.21%) GitHub
26 25 (11.21%) Oracle

.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 11 (4.93%) Confluence
2 6 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.24%) IIS
4 3 (1.35%) Apache Superset
5 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.45%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.45%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 110 (49.33%) Azure
2 41 (18.39%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (16.14%) AWS
4 25 (11.21%) GitHub
5 19 (8.52%) Azure Service Bus
6 17 (7.62%) Serverless
7 12 (5.38%) Azure Key Vault
8 11 (4.93%) Azure Functions
9 9 (4.04%) Azure AKS
10 8 (3.59%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (3.59%) Entra ID
10 8 (3.59%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (3.59%) PaaS
11 7 (3.14%) Power Platform
12 6 (2.69%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (2.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 5 (2.24%) GCP
13 5 (2.24%) Power Automate
14 4 (1.79%) Azure App Service
14 4 (1.79%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.45%) Broadband
1 1 (0.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (34.98%) SQL Server
2 17 (7.62%) Relational Database
3 16 (7.17%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (4.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.69%) Power BI
6 5 (2.24%) Oracle Database
6 5 (2.24%) Redis
7 4 (1.79%) DocumentDB
7 4 (1.79%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.35%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (1.35%) Metabase
8 3 (1.35%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.35%) Parquet
8 3 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.90%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.90%) Db2
10 1 (0.45%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.45%) MySQL
10 1 (0.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (12.11%) Git
2 11 (4.93%) JIRA
3 8 (3.59%) NUnit
4 6 (2.69%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.69%) SpecFlow
4 6 (2.69%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.24%) GitLab
5 5 (2.24%) MSTest
5 5 (2.24%) REST Assured
6 4 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.79%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.35%) MSI
7 3 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.90%) Jasmine
8 2 (0.90%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (0.90%) Moq
8 2 (0.90%) Postman
9 1 (0.45%) Mocha
9 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.45%) tSQLt
General
1 57 (25.56%) Finance
2 37 (16.59%) Social Skills
3 20 (8.97%) Banking
4 17 (7.62%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.83%) Investment Banking
6 11 (4.93%) Front Office
7 9 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.69%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.79%) Legal
10 3 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.90%) Automotive
11 2 (0.90%) Back Office
12 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.45%) Military
12 1 (0.45%) Police
12 1 (0.45%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.45%) Retail
12 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (100.00%) .NET
2 58 (26.01%) .NET Framework
3 54 (24.22%) REST
4 50 (22.42%) .NET Core
5 45 (20.18%) ASP.NET
5 45 (20.18%) RESTful
6 40 (17.94%) AngularJS
7 31 (13.90%) React
8 23 (10.31%) HTML
9 21 (9.42%) Entity Framework
10 17 (7.62%) Web Services
11 15 (6.73%) ASP.NET Core
11 15 (6.73%) ASP.NET Web API
11 15 (6.73%) WPF
12 14 (6.28%) CSS
13 12 (5.38%) Kafka
14 11 (4.93%) ASP.NET MVC
15 9 (4.04%) OAuth
15 9 (4.04%) RabbitMQ
15 9 (4.04%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.42%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (7.17%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.24%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.79%) Legacy Code
6 4 (1.79%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.79%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.79%) Wiki
7 3 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.35%) Derivative
7 3 (1.35%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.90%) IoT
8 2 (0.90%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.45%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.83%) Windows
2 2 (0.90%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (46.19%) CI/CD
2 72 (32.29%) Agile
2 72 (32.29%) DevOps
3 51 (22.87%) Full-Stack Development
4 50 (22.42%) Microservices
5 33 (14.80%) Test Automation
6 21 (9.42%) Code Quality
6 21 (9.42%) OOP
6 21 (9.42%) Scrum
6 21 (9.42%) Software Engineering
6 21 (9.42%) SOLID
7 20 (8.97%) AI
7 20 (8.97%) Containerisation
7 20 (8.97%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (8.97%) TDD
7 20 (8.97%) Unit Testing
8 19 (8.52%) API Development
8 19 (8.52%) Design Patterns
9 18 (8.07%) Event-Driven
10 17 (7.62%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 165 (73.99%) C#
2 80 (35.87%) SQL
3 42 (18.83%) JavaScript
4 28 (12.56%) TypeScript
5 23 (10.31%) Python
6 18 (8.07%) T-SQL
7 9 (4.04%) PL/SQL
8 7 (3.14%) Bicep
9 4 (1.79%) Java
9 4 (1.79%) VB.NET
9 4 (1.79%) VBA
10 3 (1.35%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.35%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.35%) Rust
11 2 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.90%) VB
11 2 (0.90%) XAML
12 1 (0.45%) C
12 1 (0.45%) C++
12 1 (0.45%) VB6
Qualifications
1 34 (15.25%) Security Cleared
2 32 (14.35%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.14%) Degree
4 4 (1.79%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.90%) PhD
6 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.83%) QA
2 7 (3.14%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.24%) WCAG
4 4 (1.79%) NCSC
5 1 (0.45%) Basel III
System Software
1 35 (15.70%) Docker
2 8 (3.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (17.49%) Kubernetes
2 22 (9.87%) Terraform
3 5 (2.24%) Ansible
4 3 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (27.35%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.21%) Oracle
3 9 (4.04%) Citrix
4 4 (1.79%) Centrify
4 4 (1.79%) CyberArk
5 3 (1.35%) IBM
6 2 (0.90%) DevExpress
7 1 (0.45%) Google
7 1 (0.45%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.45%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.45%) SAP
7 1 (0.45%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.45%) Telerik