.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 10 February 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 302 193
Rank change year-on-year -117 -109 -36
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 137 189 456
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.73% 1.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.79% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 145 381
10th Percentile £385 £368 £325
25th Percentile £413 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £669
90th Percentile £650 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -10.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £46.00 - -

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 30,787 24,051 35,510
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.66% 93.06% 93.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,582 14,899 23,862
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,964 708 2,125
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.91 £13.23
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.41 £16.67
Median hourly rate £31.18 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.93% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £72.48
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.45% -4.29% -1.41%

.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 10 February 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 10 February 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 -76 89 £550 - 64
South East -27 11 £488 +8.33% 56
North of England -63 11 £450 -10.00% 66
East of England -15 9 £450 -1.10% 18
Midlands -53 9 £499 +38.54% 22
North West -29 6 £450 -10.00% 39
West Midlands -45 5 £488 +2.63% 13
East Midlands -31 4 £510 +42.66% 9
Yorkshire -53 4 £513 - 15
South West -22 2 £550 -15.38% 20
North East -12 1 - - 12
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 February 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.

1 137 (100.00%) .NET
2 107 (78.10%) C#
3 70 (51.09%) Azure
4 56 (40.88%) SQL
5 47 (34.31%) SQL Server
6 46 (33.58%) Agile
7 42 (30.66%) .NET Framework
8 39 (28.47%) DevOps
9 34 (24.82%) .NET Core
9 34 (24.82%) CI/CD
10 32 (23.36%) Full-Stack Development
11 26 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (17.52%) Microservices
13 23 (16.79%) Microsoft
13 23 (16.79%) RESTful
14 21 (15.33%) AI
14 21 (15.33%) AngularJS
14 21 (15.33%) ASP.NET
14 21 (15.33%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (13.14%) Oracle
16 17 (12.41%) AWS
16 17 (12.41%) Python
16 17 (12.41%) Scrum
16 17 (12.41%) Unit Testing
16 17 (12.41%) Windows
17 16 (11.68%) Clean Code
17 16 (11.68%) React
17 16 (11.68%) Security Cleared
18 15 (10.95%) MVC
19 14 (10.22%) Design Patterns

.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 (5.84%) Confluence
2 3 (2.19%) IIS
3 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.46%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.73%) CMS
4 1 (0.73%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.46%) Endur
1 2 (1.46%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 70 (51.09%) Azure
2 21 (15.33%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (12.41%) AWS
4 12 (8.76%) Serverless
5 10 (7.30%) Azure Functions
6 9 (6.57%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (6.57%) GitHub
7 7 (5.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (5.11%) PaaS
8 6 (4.38%) Entra ID
9 5 (3.65%) Azure AKS
9 5 (3.65%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.92%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.19%) Azure Event Grid
11 3 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.19%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.46%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.92%) DNS
2 3 (2.19%) DHCP
2 3 (2.19%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.46%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (34.31%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.76%) Relational Database
3 9 (6.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (5.84%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.19%) Redis
6 2 (1.46%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.46%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.46%) Power BI
7 1 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.73%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 11 (8.03%) JIRA
2 9 (6.57%) SpecFlow
3 8 (5.84%) Git
4 6 (4.38%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.92%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.92%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.46%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.46%) MSTest
6 2 (1.46%) Selenium
6 2 (1.46%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.73%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.73%) JMeter
7 1 (0.73%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.73%) webpack
General
1 39 (28.47%) Finance
2 28 (20.44%) Social Skills
3 24 (17.52%) Banking
4 15 (10.95%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.57%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.11%) Financial Institution
6 7 (5.11%) Front Office
7 3 (2.19%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.73%) Advertising
9 1 (0.73%) Back Office
9 1 (0.73%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.73%) Retail
9 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (100.00%) .NET
2 42 (30.66%) .NET Framework
3 34 (24.82%) .NET Core
4 23 (16.79%) RESTful
5 21 (15.33%) AngularJS
5 21 (15.33%) ASP.NET
6 16 (11.68%) React
7 14 (10.22%) Entity Framework
7 14 (10.22%) WPF
8 11 (8.03%) REST
9 9 (6.57%) ASP.NET Core
9 9 (6.57%) ASP.NET Web API
10 8 (5.84%) NHibernate
10 8 (5.84%) Playwright
11 7 (5.11%) HTML
11 7 (5.11%) Middleware
11 7 (5.11%) Web Services
11 7 (5.11%) WinForms
12 5 (3.65%) ASP.NET MVC
12 5 (3.65%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.03%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.57%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (5.11%) Credit Risk
3 7 (5.11%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (4.38%) Market Risk
5 5 (3.65%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.65%) Fixed Income
5 5 (3.65%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.19%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.19%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.19%) Legacy Code
6 3 (2.19%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.46%) IoT
7 2 (1.46%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.73%) Derivative
8 1 (0.73%) NHS
8 1 (0.73%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.41%) Windows
2 6 (4.38%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.73%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (33.58%) Agile
2 39 (28.47%) DevOps
3 34 (24.82%) CI/CD
4 32 (23.36%) Full-Stack Development
5 26 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (17.52%) Microservices
7 21 (15.33%) AI
8 17 (12.41%) Scrum
8 17 (12.41%) Unit Testing
9 16 (11.68%) Clean Code
10 15 (10.95%) MVC
11 14 (10.22%) Design Patterns
11 14 (10.22%) Test Automation
12 13 (9.49%) SDLC
13 12 (8.76%) Migration
13 12 (8.76%) Software Engineering
14 10 (7.30%) Event-Driven
15 9 (6.57%) OOP
15 9 (6.57%) Risk Management
16 8 (5.84%) OO
Programming Languages
1 107 (78.10%) C#
2 56 (40.88%) SQL
3 17 (12.41%) Python
4 11 (8.03%) PL/SQL
5 9 (6.57%) T-SQL
6 7 (5.11%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.65%) VB
7 5 (3.65%) VB.NET
8 4 (2.92%) Bicep
8 4 (2.92%) PHP
8 4 (2.92%) VBA
9 3 (2.19%) C++
9 3 (2.19%) Java
9 3 (2.19%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.46%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.46%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.73%) Go
11 1 (0.73%) VB6
Qualifications
1 16 (11.68%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.22%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.11%) Degree
4 4 (2.92%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.30%) QA
2 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.73%) HL7
2 1 (0.73%) MiFID
2 1 (0.73%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (6.57%) Docker
2 4 (2.92%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (5.84%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (16.79%) Microsoft
2 18 (13.14%) Oracle
3 4 (2.92%) Citrix
4 3 (2.19%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.19%) ION Trading
4 3 (2.19%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.19%) VMware
5 2 (1.46%) NEC
6 1 (0.73%) Databricks
6 1 (0.73%) Google
6 1 (0.73%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.73%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.73%) Sybase
6 1 (0.73%) Temenos
6 1 (0.73%) Xamarin