.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in England

.NET Developer
UK > England

The median .NET Developer daily rate in England is £490, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 345 240
Rank change year-on-year -78 -105 -57
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 200 178 328
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.64% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.70% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 135 262
10th Percentile £403 £335 £363
25th Percentile £419 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £597 £550 £638
90th Percentile £725 £675 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
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 42,578 25,492 30,053
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.05% 91.10% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,092 16,398 18,391
10th Percentile £325 £277 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,683 1,411 1,311
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.31 £17.31 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -6.70%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.50 £67.63
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +65.84% -40.82% -4.49%

.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 8 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 8 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 8 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 94 £580 +22.05% 144
North of England -41 29 £450 +3.45% 79
Yorkshire -11 27 £450 -14.29% 30
Midlands -41 24 £500 -0.50% 45
South East -63 23 £388 -7.52% 79
South West -26 17 £425 -22.73% 11
East Midlands -5 16 £563 +10.29% 13
East of England -31 9 £525 +20.00% 34
West Midlands -43 8 £450 -9.09% 32
North West -47 2 £358 -14.25% 37
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 200 (100.00%) .NET
2 147 (73.50%) C#
3 96 (48.00%) Azure
4 75 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 67 (33.50%) SQL Server
6 66 (33.00%) SQL
7 63 (31.50%) .NET Core
8 59 (29.50%) REST
9 56 (28.00%) Microsoft
10 54 (27.00%) Agile
11 53 (26.50%) DevOps
12 51 (25.50%) Full-Stack Development
13 47 (23.50%) .NET Framework
14 44 (22.00%) ASP.NET
15 42 (21.00%) Microservices
16 39 (19.50%) AWS
16 39 (19.50%) RESTful
17 36 (18.00%) Azure DevOps
18 33 (16.50%) Kubernetes
19 31 (15.50%) Docker
19 31 (15.50%) JavaScript
19 31 (15.50%) Test Automation
20 30 (15.00%) Git
21 28 (14.00%) AngularJS
21 28 (14.00%) Code Quality
22 27 (13.50%) React
22 27 (13.50%) SC Cleared
22 27 (13.50%) Security Cleared
23 26 (13.00%) WPF
24 25 (12.50%) 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 16 (8.00%) Confluence
2 4 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.50%) IIS
4 2 (1.00%) CMS
4 2 (1.00%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.50%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.50%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 96 (48.00%) Azure
2 39 (19.50%) AWS
3 36 (18.00%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (9.50%) GitHub
5 13 (6.50%) Azure Service Bus
6 12 (6.00%) Serverless
7 10 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 9 (4.50%) Azure Functions
8 9 (4.50%) Power Platform
9 8 (4.00%) Azure AKS
9 8 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (3.00%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (3.00%) PaaS
12 4 (2.00%) Azure API Management
12 4 (2.00%) Azure App Service
12 4 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (2.00%) Azure Storage
12 4 (2.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.50%) Broadband
1 1 (0.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (33.50%) SQL Server
2 15 (7.50%) Relational Database
3 11 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.50%) NoSQL
5 8 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (3.00%) Power BI
7 5 (2.50%) Oracle Database
7 5 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.00%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.50%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.50%) Db2
9 3 (1.50%) DocumentDB
10 2 (1.00%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.50%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.50%) MySQL
11 1 (0.50%) Parquet
11 1 (0.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 30 (15.00%) Git
2 16 (8.00%) JIRA
3 10 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.50%) Visual Studio
5 8 (4.00%) GitLab
6 6 (3.00%) REST Assured
7 5 (2.50%) NUnit
7 5 (2.50%) SpecFlow
8 4 (2.00%) MSI
8 4 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.50%) Fiddler
9 3 (1.50%) Postman
9 3 (1.50%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (1.00%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.00%) Moq
10 2 (1.00%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.50%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 46 (23.00%) Finance
2 38 (19.00%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.50%) Banking
4 12 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.00%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.50%) Investment Banking
6 8 (4.00%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.50%) Front Office
8 4 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.00%) Legal
9 2 (1.00%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.00%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.50%) Automotive
10 1 (0.50%) Local Government
10 1 (0.50%) Military
10 1 (0.50%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (100.00%) .NET
2 63 (31.50%) .NET Core
3 59 (29.50%) REST
4 47 (23.50%) .NET Framework
5 44 (22.00%) ASP.NET
6 39 (19.50%) RESTful
7 28 (14.00%) AngularJS
8 27 (13.50%) React
9 26 (13.00%) WPF
10 21 (10.50%) Web Services
11 19 (9.50%) Entity Framework
12 16 (8.00%) WinForms
13 15 (7.50%) Terraform
14 14 (7.00%) ASP.NET Core
14 14 (7.00%) Kafka
15 12 (6.00%) ASP.NET MVC
16 11 (5.50%) ASP.NET Web API
16 11 (5.50%) SOAP
17 10 (5.00%) Blazor
18 9 (4.50%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 26 (13.00%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.50%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (7.50%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (4.50%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (4.50%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.00%) Legacy Code
6 4 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.00%) Wiki
7 3 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.00%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.50%) Derivative
9 1 (0.50%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.50%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.50%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.50%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.50%) Windows
2 3 (1.50%) Linux
3 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 54 (27.00%) Agile
3 53 (26.50%) DevOps
4 51 (25.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 42 (21.00%) Microservices
6 31 (15.50%) Test Automation
7 28 (14.00%) Code Quality
8 25 (12.50%) API Development
8 25 (12.50%) Software Engineering
9 22 (11.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (11.00%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (10.50%) Event-Driven
11 20 (10.00%) Scrum
12 19 (9.50%) Containerisation
12 19 (9.50%) Design Patterns
12 19 (9.50%) MVC
13 18 (9.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 18 (9.00%) OO
13 18 (9.00%) SOLID
14 17 (8.50%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 147 (73.50%) C#
2 66 (33.00%) SQL
3 31 (15.50%) JavaScript
4 25 (12.50%) Python
5 24 (12.00%) TypeScript
6 14 (7.00%) T-SQL
7 12 (6.00%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.50%) Bicep
9 5 (2.50%) VBA
9 5 (2.50%) XAML
10 4 (2.00%) Java
10 4 (2.00%) VB
10 4 (2.00%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.00%) VB6
12 1 (0.50%) C
12 1 (0.50%) C++
12 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (13.50%) SC Cleared
1 27 (13.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (2.50%) Degree
3 4 (2.00%) Master's Degree
3 4 (2.00%) PhD
4 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.50%) QA
2 6 (3.00%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.50%) NCSC
3 5 (2.50%) WCAG
4 2 (1.00%) Basel III
4 2 (1.00%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.00%) GDPR
5 1 (0.50%) ITGC
System Software
1 31 (15.50%) Docker
2 9 (4.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (16.50%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.00%) Ansible
3 2 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 56 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.00%) Oracle
3 7 (3.50%) Citrix
4 5 (2.50%) Centrify
4 5 (2.50%) CyberArk
5 3 (1.50%) DevExpress
5 3 (1.50%) IBM
6 2 (1.00%) Adyen
6 2 (1.00%) Databricks
7 1 (0.50%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.50%) SAP
7 1 (0.50%) Syncfusion
7 1 (0.50%) Telerik
7 1 (0.50%) TIBCO
7 1 (0.50%) WSO2