.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in England

.NET Developer
UK > England

The median .NET Developer daily rate in England is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 264 180
Rank change year-on-year -103 -84 -34
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 173 279 538
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.90% 1.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.97% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 220 424
10th Percentile £363 £355 £350
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £569 £638 £688
90th Percentile £650 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £513
% change year-on-year - -7.32% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
Median hourly rate £46.00 - £50.00
UK median hourly rate £46.00 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -24.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 28,020 28,803 36,436
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 92.97% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,973 17,652 25,097
10th Percentile £282 £300 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,685 1,059 1,413
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.22 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.32 £39.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.08% -13.33% +38.46%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +48.33%

.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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 -54 112 £500 -11.19% 53
South East -6 18 £449 -2.92% 63
East of England -9 13 £450 -7.22% 18
Midlands -33 11 £510 +7.37% 22
North of England -49 10 £423 -11.05% 46
East Midlands -9 6 £513 +44.37% 10
West Midlands -28 5 £400 -15.79% 12
North West -31 5 £410 -13.68% 27
Yorkshire -28 4 £475 -5.00% 12
South West +2 2 £550 +25.00% 14
North East -7 1 - - 7
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 November 2025, .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.

1 173 (100.00%) .NET
2 135 (78.03%) C#
3 79 (45.66%) SQL
4 78 (45.09%) Azure
5 63 (36.42%) Agile
6 55 (31.79%) .NET Framework
7 53 (30.64%) DevOps
8 52 (30.06%) SQL Server
9 47 (27.17%) CI/CD
10 42 (24.28%) Full-Stack Development
11 40 (23.12%) .NET Core
12 36 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
13 35 (20.23%) Microservices
14 34 (19.65%) AngularJS
15 29 (16.76%) Microsoft
16 28 (16.18%) Azure DevOps
16 28 (16.18%) WPF
17 27 (15.61%) Oracle
18 26 (15.03%) Windows
19 24 (13.87%) AWS
20 23 (13.29%) RESTful
21 22 (12.72%) Clean Code
22 21 (12.14%) Migration
22 21 (12.14%) PL/SQL
23 19 (10.98%) ASP.NET
23 19 (10.98%) Entity Framework
24 18 (10.40%) Design Patterns
24 18 (10.40%) Scrum
25 16 (9.25%) AI
25 16 (9.25%) Oracle Database

.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 (4.62%) Confluence
2 4 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.16%) IIS
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.58%) CMS
4 1 (0.58%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.58%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.58%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.58%) Mendix
Applications
1 14 (8.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.58%) Eikon
2 1 (0.58%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 78 (45.09%) Azure
2 28 (16.18%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (13.87%) AWS
4 12 (6.94%) GitHub
4 12 (6.94%) Serverless
5 9 (5.20%) Azure Functions
6 8 (4.62%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (4.62%) PaaS
7 7 (4.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (4.05%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (2.89%) Azure AKS
8 5 (2.89%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (2.89%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.89%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.31%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (2.31%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (2.31%) Azure Pipelines
9 4 (2.31%) ChatGPT
9 4 (2.31%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.31%) DNS
2 3 (1.73%) DHCP
2 3 (1.73%) HTTP
2 3 (1.73%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.58%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (30.06%) SQL Server
2 16 (9.25%) Oracle Database
3 11 (6.36%) Relational Database
4 9 (5.20%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.47%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.31%) Power BI
8 2 (1.16%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.16%) MySQL
8 2 (1.16%) Redis
9 1 (0.58%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (6.36%) JIRA
2 9 (5.20%) SpecFlow
3 7 (4.05%) Git
4 4 (2.31%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.73%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.58%) JetBrains Rider
6 1 (0.58%) JMeter
6 1 (0.58%) MSTest
6 1 (0.58%) NUnit
6 1 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.58%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 63 (36.42%) Finance
2 35 (20.23%) Social Skills
3 19 (10.98%) Banking
4 16 (9.25%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.47%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.47%) Front Office
7 4 (2.31%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.73%) Back Office
8 3 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.58%) Advertising
10 1 (0.58%) Electronics
10 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.58%) Marketing
10 1 (0.58%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (100.00%) .NET
2 55 (31.79%) .NET Framework
3 40 (23.12%) .NET Core
4 34 (19.65%) AngularJS
5 28 (16.18%) WPF
6 23 (13.29%) RESTful
7 19 (10.98%) ASP.NET
7 19 (10.98%) Entity Framework
8 16 (9.25%) React
9 14 (8.09%) CSS
10 13 (7.51%) REST
11 12 (6.94%) Blazor
12 9 (5.20%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (5.20%) HTML
13 8 (4.62%) ASP.NET Core
13 8 (4.62%) NHibernate
13 8 (4.62%) Playwright
13 8 (4.62%) Web Services
14 7 (4.05%) Kafka
14 7 (4.05%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.36%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.78%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (4.05%) Credit Risk
4 7 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (4.05%) Market Risk
5 6 (3.47%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (3.47%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.89%) Hedge funds
7 4 (2.31%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.31%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.73%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.73%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.58%) Derivative
10 1 (0.58%) Equities
10 1 (0.58%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (15.03%) Windows
2 5 (2.89%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.58%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (36.42%) Agile
2 53 (30.64%) DevOps
3 47 (27.17%) CI/CD
4 42 (24.28%) Full-Stack Development
5 36 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (20.23%) Microservices
7 22 (12.72%) Clean Code
8 21 (12.14%) Migration
9 18 (10.40%) Design Patterns
9 18 (10.40%) Scrum
10 16 (9.25%) AI
10 16 (9.25%) Unit Testing
11 15 (8.67%) MVC
11 15 (8.67%) OO
12 14 (8.09%) OOP
12 14 (8.09%) SDLC
12 14 (8.09%) TDD
13 13 (7.51%) Software Engineering
14 11 (6.36%) Risk Management
15 9 (5.20%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 135 (78.03%) C#
2 79 (45.66%) SQL
3 21 (12.14%) PL/SQL
4 15 (8.67%) VBA
5 14 (8.09%) T-SQL
6 13 (7.51%) VB
6 13 (7.51%) VB.NET
7 12 (6.94%) JavaScript
7 12 (6.94%) Python
8 7 (4.05%) PHP
9 6 (3.47%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.73%) Bicep
10 3 (1.73%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.16%) Java
11 2 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.58%) C++
12 1 (0.58%) Cypher
12 1 (0.58%) Formula Language
12 1 (0.58%) Go
12 1 (0.58%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 14 (8.09%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.78%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.31%) Degree
3 4 (2.31%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.20%) QA
2 5 (2.89%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.89%) WCAG
3 3 (1.73%) EMIR
3 3 (1.73%) MiFID
System Software
1 15 (8.67%) Docker
2 4 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.73%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (7.51%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (16.76%) Microsoft
2 27 (15.61%) Oracle
3 3 (1.73%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.73%) Databricks
3 3 (1.73%) VMware
4 2 (1.16%) Citrix
4 2 (1.16%) CQG
4 2 (1.16%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.16%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.58%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.58%) DevExpress
5 1 (0.58%) Kofax
5 1 (0.58%) Lotus
5 1 (0.58%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.58%) Reuters
5 1 (0.58%) SAP
5 1 (0.58%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.58%) Solace
5 1 (0.58%) Sybase
5 1 (0.58%) Temenos