.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in England

.NET Developer
UK > England

The median .NET Developer daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 285 221
Rank change year-on-year -146 -64 -56
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 166 190 393
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.78% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.84% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 160 331
10th Percentile £369 £385 £313
25th Percentile £450 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £610 £675 £650
90th Percentile £688 £815 £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 36,122 22,602 34,731
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.81% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,747 15,141 23,178
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,403 844 2,344
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.84 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.42 £20.41 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.61 £33.00 £34.11
Median % change year-on-year +32.15% -3.24% -21.71%
75th Percentile £66.38 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £40.54 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year +27.64% -9.26% -21.40%

.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 9 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 9 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 -106 91 £560 +7.69% 65
North of England -50 31 £474 +9.86% 54
South East -56 17 £521 +15.01% 48
North West -22 16 £450 +9.09% 32
Yorkshire -43 15 £513 -2.38% 16
Midlands -52 14 £500 - 19
East Midlands -24 10 £500 - 9
East of England -32 5 - - 21
South West -26 4 £588 -2.08% 19
West Midlands -57 4 £519 +6.41% 10
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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
2 132 (79.52%) C#
3 91 (54.82%) Azure
4 71 (42.77%) CI/CD
5 66 (39.76%) SQL
6 61 (36.75%) SQL Server
7 59 (35.54%) Agile
8 58 (34.94%) DevOps
9 43 (25.90%) .NET Framework
10 33 (19.88%) .NET Core
11 32 (19.28%) Full-Stack Development
11 32 (19.28%) Microsoft
12 31 (18.67%) AngularJS
12 31 (18.67%) Azure DevOps
12 31 (18.67%) Microservices
13 30 (18.07%) RESTful
14 28 (16.87%) ASP.NET
14 28 (16.87%) Security Cleared
15 26 (15.66%) SC Cleared
16 24 (14.46%) React
17 23 (13.86%) REST
18 22 (13.25%) HTML
19 21 (12.65%) AWS
19 21 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
19 21 (12.65%) Test Automation
20 20 (12.05%) AI
21 19 (11.45%) Python
22 18 (10.84%) Azure Service Bus
22 18 (10.84%) JavaScript
23 17 (10.24%) Git

.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 5 (3.01%) IIS
1 5 (3.01%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.81%) Apache Superset
4 2 (1.20%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Endur
1 2 (1.20%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 91 (54.82%) Azure
2 31 (18.67%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (12.65%) AWS
4 18 (10.84%) Azure Service Bus
5 17 (10.24%) Serverless
6 13 (7.83%) Azure Functions
7 12 (7.23%) GitHub
8 9 (5.42%) Entra ID
9 8 (4.82%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (4.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (3.61%) PaaS
12 5 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (2.41%) Azure AKS
13 4 (2.41%) Azure App Service
13 4 (2.41%) Azure WebJobs
13 4 (2.41%) n8n
13 4 (2.41%) Power Automate
13 4 (2.41%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.20%) DHCP
1 2 (1.20%) DNS
1 2 (1.20%) HTTP
1 2 (1.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (36.75%) SQL Server
2 16 (9.64%) Relational Database
3 12 (7.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.61%) Redis
6 4 (2.41%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.81%) Metabase
7 3 (1.81%) Parquet
8 2 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.20%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.20%) Power BI
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 17 (10.24%) Git
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%) SpecFlow
3 4 (2.41%) TeamCity
3 4 (2.41%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (1.81%) JIRA
4 3 (1.81%) Octopus Deploy
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%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.60%) JMeter
6 1 (0.60%) Mocha
6 1 (0.60%) Moq
6 1 (0.60%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.60%) tSQLt
General
1 41 (24.70%) Finance
2 31 (18.67%) Social Skills
3 25 (15.06%) Banking
4 18 (10.84%) Public Sector
5 14 (8.43%) Front Office
6 12 (7.23%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (4.22%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.81%) Back Office
9 3 (1.81%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.20%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.60%) Automotive
11 1 (0.60%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.60%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (100.00%) .NET
2 43 (25.90%) .NET Framework
3 33 (19.88%) .NET Core
4 31 (18.67%) AngularJS
5 30 (18.07%) RESTful
6 28 (16.87%) ASP.NET
7 24 (14.46%) React
8 23 (13.86%) REST
9 22 (13.25%) HTML
10 14 (8.43%) ASP.NET Core
11 12 (7.23%) ASP.NET Web API
12 10 (6.02%) CSS
12 10 (6.02%) Entity Framework
12 10 (6.02%) WPF
13 8 (4.82%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (4.82%) WinForms
14 7 (4.22%) ASP.NET MVC
14 7 (4.22%) Web Services
14 7 (4.22%) YAML
15 6 (3.61%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.23%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.42%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.22%) AI Agents
5 6 (3.61%) Credit Risk
5 6 (3.61%) Fixed Income
6 5 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.01%) Market Risk
7 4 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.41%) IoT
8 3 (1.81%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.81%) Derivative
8 3 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.81%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.20%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.20%) NHS
9 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.83%) Windows
2 6 (3.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (42.77%) CI/CD
2 59 (35.54%) Agile
3 58 (34.94%) DevOps
4 32 (19.28%) Full-Stack Development
5 31 (18.67%) Microservices
6 21 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (12.65%) Test Automation
7 20 (12.05%) AI
8 16 (9.64%) Design Patterns
8 16 (9.64%) Scrum
8 16 (9.64%) Unit Testing
9 15 (9.04%) MVC
9 15 (9.04%) TDD
10 14 (8.43%) OOP
10 14 (8.43%) SDLC
11 13 (7.83%) Software Engineering
12 12 (7.23%) Clean Code
13 10 (6.02%) Migration
13 10 (6.02%) Performance Tuning
13 10 (6.02%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 132 (79.52%) C#
2 66 (39.76%) SQL
3 19 (11.45%) Python
4 18 (10.84%) JavaScript
5 14 (8.43%) T-SQL
6 12 (7.23%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.61%) PL/SQL
8 5 (3.01%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.41%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.81%) Bicep
10 3 (1.81%) C++
10 3 (1.81%) Java
10 3 (1.81%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.81%) Rust
Qualifications
1 28 (16.87%) Security Cleared
2 26 (15.66%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.82%) Degree
4 4 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.41%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.60%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.63%) QA
2 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.60%) HL7
3 1 (0.60%) MiFID
3 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (7.83%) Docker
2 3 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (9.04%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.83%) Terraform
3 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (19.28%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.64%) Oracle
3 6 (3.61%) Citrix
4 3 (1.81%) ION Trading
5 2 (1.20%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.20%) NEC
5 2 (1.20%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.20%) VMware
6 1 (0.60%) Google
6 1 (0.60%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.60%) Sybase
6 1 (0.60%) Temenos
6 1 (0.60%) Xamarin