.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 9 July 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 309 225
Rank change year-on-year -116 -84 -54
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 202 198 396
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.73% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.80% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 162 334
10th Percentile £371 £356 £325
25th Percentile £423 £386 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.28% +1.30%
75th Percentile £600 £668 £647
90th Percentile £731 £838 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.81% -2.25%
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 41,323 24,840 34,624
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 92.06% 92.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,324 16,186 22,692
10th Percentile £325 £293 £300
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £738 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,956 1,184 2,511
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.76 £12.88
25th Percentile £22.08 £17.87 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -30.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £26.39 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.87% -29.64% -12.79%

.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 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 9 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 -128 88 £588 +12.98% 56
North of England -45 44 £460 +9.85% 52
Yorkshire -23 30 £475 -9.52% 15
Midlands -41 27 £500 +59.74% 14
South East -52 24 £410 -1.20% 52
East Midlands +3 20 £563 +109.11% 4
North West -34 14 £450 +12.50% 23
South West -32 8 £450 -31.30% 8
West Midlands -61 7 £460 -7.07% 10
East of England -20 5 - - 22
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 202 (100.00%) .NET
2 153 (75.74%) C#
3 106 (52.48%) Azure
4 91 (45.05%) CI/CD
5 78 (38.61%) SQL
6 75 (37.13%) SQL Server
7 65 (32.18%) DevOps
8 63 (31.19%) Agile
9 50 (24.75%) .NET Framework
10 49 (24.26%) Microsoft
11 45 (22.28%) Microservices
12 44 (21.78%) .NET Core
13 42 (20.79%) ASP.NET
13 42 (20.79%) RESTful
14 39 (19.31%) Full-Stack Development
15 38 (18.81%) REST
16 37 (18.32%) AngularJS
17 36 (17.82%) AWS
17 36 (17.82%) Azure DevOps
18 34 (16.83%) Kubernetes
19 32 (15.84%) JavaScript
20 29 (14.36%) Docker
20 29 (14.36%) React
21 27 (13.37%) Test Automation
22 24 (11.88%) Oracle
23 23 (11.39%) Security Cleared
23 23 (11.39%) TypeScript
24 22 (10.89%) HTML
24 22 (10.89%) Python
24 22 (10.89%) Scrum

.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 8 (3.96%) Confluence
2 4 (1.98%) IIS
3 3 (1.49%) Apache Superset
3 3 (1.49%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.50%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.50%) Endur
1 1 (0.50%) NEC Housing
1 1 (0.50%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 106 (52.48%) Azure
2 36 (17.82%) AWS
2 36 (17.82%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (9.90%) GitHub
4 18 (8.91%) Azure Service Bus
5 15 (7.43%) Serverless
6 9 (4.46%) Azure Functions
7 7 (3.47%) Azure AKS
7 7 (3.47%) Azure Key Vault
7 7 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (2.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (2.97%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (2.97%) Entra ID
8 6 (2.97%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.48%) GCP
9 5 (2.48%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.98%) n8n
10 4 (1.98%) Zapier
11 3 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (37.13%) SQL Server
2 21 (10.40%) Relational Database
3 15 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.46%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.97%) Redis
6 5 (2.48%) Power BI
7 4 (1.98%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.49%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.49%) DocumentDB
8 3 (1.49%) Metabase
8 3 (1.49%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.49%) Parquet
9 2 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.99%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.50%) MySQL
10 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (10.40%) Git
2 8 (3.96%) JIRA
2 8 (3.96%) NUnit
3 7 (3.47%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.47%) Visual Studio
4 6 (2.97%) SpecFlow
5 5 (2.48%) MSTest
6 4 (1.98%) GitLab
6 4 (1.98%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.98%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.49%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.99%) Jasmine
8 2 (0.99%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (0.99%) Moq
9 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.50%) Mocha
9 1 (0.50%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.50%) tSQLt
General
1 49 (24.26%) Finance
2 32 (15.84%) Social Skills
3 19 (9.41%) Banking
4 15 (7.43%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.44%) Front Office
6 12 (5.94%) Investment Banking
7 7 (3.47%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.48%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.98%) Legal
10 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.99%) Automotive
11 2 (0.99%) Back Office
11 2 (0.99%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.50%) Military
12 1 (0.50%) Police
12 1 (0.50%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.50%) Retail
12 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (100.00%) .NET
2 50 (24.75%) .NET Framework
3 44 (21.78%) .NET Core
4 42 (20.79%) ASP.NET
4 42 (20.79%) RESTful
5 38 (18.81%) REST
6 37 (18.32%) AngularJS
7 29 (14.36%) React
8 22 (10.89%) HTML
9 17 (8.42%) Entity Framework
10 14 (6.93%) ASP.NET Web API
10 14 (6.93%) Web Services
11 12 (5.94%) ASP.NET Core
12 11 (5.45%) CSS
13 10 (4.95%) Kafka
13 10 (4.95%) RabbitMQ
13 10 (4.95%) WPF
14 9 (4.46%) ASP.NET MVC
15 8 (3.96%) OAuth
15 8 (3.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.41%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.93%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.94%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.47%) AI Agents
4 7 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.48%) Legacy Code
6 4 (1.98%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.98%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.49%) Derivative
7 3 (1.49%) IoT
7 3 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.99%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.99%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.50%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.50%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.50%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.95%) Windows
2 2 (0.99%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (45.05%) CI/CD
2 65 (32.18%) DevOps
3 63 (31.19%) Agile
4 45 (22.28%) Microservices
5 39 (19.31%) Full-Stack Development
6 27 (13.37%) Test Automation
7 22 (10.89%) Scrum
7 22 (10.89%) Unit Testing
8 21 (10.40%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (9.90%) TDD
10 18 (8.91%) AI
10 18 (8.91%) SOLID
11 17 (8.42%) Design Patterns
11 17 (8.42%) OOP
12 16 (7.92%) Containerisation
12 16 (7.92%) Event-Driven
13 15 (7.43%) MVC
13 15 (7.43%) Software Engineering
14 14 (6.93%) Code Quality
14 14 (6.93%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 153 (75.74%) C#
2 78 (38.61%) SQL
3 32 (15.84%) JavaScript
4 23 (11.39%) TypeScript
5 22 (10.89%) Python
6 17 (8.42%) T-SQL
7 7 (3.47%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.48%) Bicep
9 4 (1.98%) Java
10 3 (1.49%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.49%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.49%) Rust
10 3 (1.49%) VB.NET
10 3 (1.49%) VBA
11 2 (0.99%) C++
11 2 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.99%) XAML
12 1 (0.50%) C
12 1 (0.50%) VB
12 1 (0.50%) VB6
Qualifications
1 23 (11.39%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.40%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.96%) Degree
4 4 (1.98%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.99%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.99%) PhD
6 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.94%) QA
2 4 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.99%) NCSC
3 2 (0.99%) WCAG
4 1 (0.50%) Basel III
System Software
1 29 (14.36%) Docker
2 6 (2.97%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (16.83%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.41%) Terraform
3 5 (2.48%) Ansible
4 3 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (24.26%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.88%) Oracle
3 8 (3.96%) Citrix
4 4 (1.98%) Centrify
4 4 (1.98%) CyberArk
5 2 (0.99%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.50%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.50%) Google
6 1 (0.50%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.50%) NEC
6 1 (0.50%) SAP
6 1 (0.50%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.50%) Telerik
6 1 (0.50%) Xamarin