.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 2 October 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 341 236
Rank change year-on-year -97 -105 -51
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 204 181 334
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.65% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.71% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 136 264
10th Percentile £402 £338 £363
25th Percentile £421 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £594 £550 £638
90th Percentile £725 £678 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -1.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £47.69 - -
25th Percentile £49.03 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £65.00
75th Percentile £65.88 - -
90th Percentile £73.15 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 42,886 25,528 30,220
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 91.21% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,349 16,462 18,545
10th Percentile £325 £279 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.11%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £730 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,627 1,402 1,358
10th Percentile £14.59 £13.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £17.31 £21.37
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% -1.20%
75th Percentile £67.87 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -3.37%

.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 2 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing .NET Developer in England over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for .NET Developer 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 2 October 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 -101 96 £572 +20.42% 142
North of England -52 31 £450 +3.45% 74
Yorkshire -9 28 £450 -14.29% 26
Midlands -44 25 £500 -0.50% 46
South East -66 22 £400 -4.53% 72
East Midlands -4 19 £550 +7.84% 14
South West -23 17 £425 -22.73% 19
East of England -21 9 £525 +20.00% 37
West Midlands -41 6 £425 -14.14% 32
North West -53 3 £358 -14.25% 36
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 October 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.

1 204 (100.00%) .NET
2 150 (73.53%) C#
3 96 (47.06%) Azure
4 82 (40.20%) CI/CD
5 69 (33.82%) SQL Server
6 66 (32.35%) SQL
7 60 (29.41%) REST
8 59 (28.92%) .NET Core
8 59 (28.92%) Microsoft
9 58 (28.43%) Agile
10 54 (26.47%) DevOps
11 51 (25.00%) .NET Framework
12 47 (23.04%) Full-Stack Development
13 44 (21.57%) Microservices
14 43 (21.08%) ASP.NET
15 39 (19.12%) AWS
15 39 (19.12%) RESTful
16 37 (18.14%) Azure DevOps
17 35 (17.16%) Kubernetes
18 31 (15.20%) Docker
18 31 (15.20%) Test Automation
19 30 (14.71%) JavaScript
20 29 (14.22%) Git
21 28 (13.73%) AngularJS
21 28 (13.73%) Code Quality
21 28 (13.73%) Software Engineering
22 27 (13.24%) SC Cleared
22 27 (13.24%) Security Cleared
23 26 (12.75%) WPF
24 24 (11.76%) API Development

.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 15 (7.35%) Confluence
2 4 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.47%) IIS
4 2 (0.98%) CMS
4 2 (0.98%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.49%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.49%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 96 (47.06%) Azure
2 39 (19.12%) AWS
3 37 (18.14%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (11.76%) GitHub
5 14 (6.86%) Azure Service Bus
6 13 (6.37%) Serverless
7 10 (4.90%) Azure Functions
7 10 (4.90%) Azure Key Vault
8 9 (4.41%) Azure AKS
8 9 (4.41%) Power Platform
9 8 (3.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (2.94%) PaaS
12 5 (2.45%) Power Automate
13 4 (1.96%) Azure App Service
13 4 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (1.96%) Azure Storage
13 4 (1.96%) GCP
13 4 (1.96%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.49%) Broadband
1 1 (0.49%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (33.82%) SQL Server
2 16 (7.84%) Relational Database
3 13 (6.37%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (3.92%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.94%) Power BI
6 5 (2.45%) Oracle Database
6 5 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.96%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (1.47%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.47%) Db2
8 3 (1.47%) DocumentDB
9 2 (0.98%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.98%) Parquet
9 2 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.49%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.49%) MySQL
10 1 (0.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (14.22%) Git
2 15 (7.35%) JIRA
3 10 (4.90%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.41%) Visual Studio
5 8 (3.92%) GitLab
6 6 (2.94%) REST Assured
7 5 (2.45%) SpecFlow
8 4 (1.96%) MSI
8 4 (1.96%) NUnit
8 4 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.47%) Fiddler
9 3 (1.47%) Postman
9 3 (1.47%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.98%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.49%) ClearCase
11 1 (0.49%) Moq
11 1 (0.49%) MSTest
11 1 (0.49%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.49%) Rational Robot
11 1 (0.49%) TeamCity
General
1 49 (24.02%) Finance
2 38 (18.63%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.29%) Banking
4 12 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.41%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.92%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.43%) Front Office
9 4 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.96%) Legal
10 2 (0.98%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.98%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.49%) Automotive
11 1 (0.49%) Local Government
11 1 (0.49%) Military
11 1 (0.49%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (100.00%) .NET
2 60 (29.41%) REST
3 59 (28.92%) .NET Core
4 51 (25.00%) .NET Framework
5 43 (21.08%) ASP.NET
6 39 (19.12%) RESTful
7 28 (13.73%) AngularJS
8 26 (12.75%) WPF
9 24 (11.76%) React
10 21 (10.29%) Web Services
11 19 (9.31%) Entity Framework
12 16 (7.84%) WinForms
13 15 (7.35%) Kafka
13 15 (7.35%) Terraform
14 13 (6.37%) ASP.NET Core
15 12 (5.88%) ASP.NET MVC
16 11 (5.39%) ASP.NET Web API
16 11 (5.39%) SOAP
17 10 (4.90%) Blazor
18 9 (4.41%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.24%) Cloud Native
2 18 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (7.35%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.92%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.94%) Legacy Code
7 5 (2.45%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.45%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.96%) Wiki
9 3 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.98%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.49%) Derivative
11 1 (0.49%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.49%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.49%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.49%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.35%) Windows
2 3 (1.47%) Linux
3 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (40.20%) CI/CD
2 58 (28.43%) Agile
3 54 (26.47%) DevOps
4 47 (23.04%) Full-Stack Development
5 44 (21.57%) Microservices
6 31 (15.20%) Test Automation
7 28 (13.73%) Code Quality
7 28 (13.73%) Software Engineering
8 24 (11.76%) API Development
9 22 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (10.78%) Event-Driven
9 22 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (10.29%) AI
11 20 (9.80%) Scrum
12 19 (9.31%) Containerisation
12 19 (9.31%) Design Patterns
12 19 (9.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 19 (9.31%) MVC
13 17 (8.33%) OOP
13 17 (8.33%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 150 (73.53%) C#
2 66 (32.35%) SQL
3 30 (14.71%) JavaScript
4 24 (11.76%) TypeScript
5 23 (11.27%) Python
6 14 (6.86%) T-SQL
7 12 (5.88%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.41%) Bicep
9 5 (2.45%) VBA
9 5 (2.45%) XAML
10 4 (1.96%) Java
10 4 (1.96%) VB
10 4 (1.96%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.98%) VB6
12 1 (0.49%) C
12 1 (0.49%) C++
12 1 (0.49%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.49%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 27 (13.24%) SC Cleared
1 27 (13.24%) Security Cleared
2 5 (2.45%) Degree
3 4 (1.96%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.96%) PhD
4 2 (0.98%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.37%) QA
2 6 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.45%) NCSC
3 5 (2.45%) WCAG
4 2 (0.98%) Basel III
4 2 (0.98%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.98%) GDPR
5 1 (0.49%) ITGC
System Software
1 31 (15.20%) Docker
2 9 (4.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (17.16%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.94%) Ansible
3 2 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.49%) Kibana
Vendors
1 59 (28.92%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.82%) Oracle
3 7 (3.43%) Citrix
4 5 (2.45%) Centrify
4 5 (2.45%) CyberArk
5 3 (1.47%) DevExpress
5 3 (1.47%) IBM
6 2 (0.98%) Adyen
6 2 (0.98%) Databricks
7 1 (0.49%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.49%) SAP
7 1 (0.49%) Syncfusion
7 1 (0.49%) Telerik
7 1 (0.49%) WSO2