.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in England

.NET Developer
UK > England

The median .NET Developer daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 290 224
Rank change year-on-year -125 -66 -69
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 158 186 402
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.77% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.82% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 158 342
10th Percentile £375 £380 £313
25th Percentile £452 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.60% -1.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £650
90th Percentile £694 £804 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
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 34,605 22,569 34,968
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 93.01% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,827 15,098 23,383
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,272 812 2,294
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.62 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £34.06 £32.70
Median % change year-on-year +17.46% +4.15% -23.68%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £76.25 £72.33
UK median hourly rate £37.20 £32.50 £32.95
% change year-on-year +14.46% -1.36% -24.26%

.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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -82 95 £563 +8.70% 65
North of England -49 26 £457 +1.56% 54
North West -31 15 £450 +4.35% 32
Yorkshire -45 11 £500 -4.76% 16
Midlands -54 11 £499 -0.25% 19
South East -62 10 £550 +24.01% 48
East of England -22 9 £450 +5.88% 21
East Midlands -27 7 £443 -11.50% 9
West Midlands -60 4 £519 +6.41% 10
South West -27 3 £725 +20.83% 19
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 March 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.

1 158 (100.00%) .NET
2 124 (78.48%) C#
3 93 (58.86%) Azure
4 70 (44.30%) SQL
5 62 (39.24%) CI/CD
6 60 (37.97%) DevOps
7 59 (37.34%) SQL Server
8 57 (36.08%) Agile
9 38 (24.05%) .NET Framework
10 34 (21.52%) AngularJS
10 34 (21.52%) Full-Stack Development
11 33 (20.89%) .NET Core
11 33 (20.89%) RESTful
12 32 (20.25%) Azure DevOps
13 30 (18.99%) Microservices
14 29 (18.35%) Microsoft
15 26 (16.46%) ASP.NET
16 25 (15.82%) Security Cleared
17 23 (14.56%) React
17 23 (14.56%) SC Cleared
18 22 (13.92%) HTML
18 22 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
18 22 (13.92%) Python
18 22 (13.92%) REST
19 20 (12.66%) AI
19 20 (12.66%) AWS
19 20 (12.66%) Unit Testing
20 19 (12.03%) Design Patterns
20 19 (12.03%) Serverless
21 17 (10.76%) Azure Service Bus

.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 5 (3.16%) IIS
2 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.90%) Confluence
4 2 (1.27%) Apache Superset
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Endur
1 2 (1.27%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 93 (58.86%) Azure
2 32 (20.25%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (12.66%) AWS
4 19 (12.03%) Serverless
5 17 (10.76%) Azure Service Bus
6 15 (9.49%) Azure Functions
7 10 (6.33%) Entra ID
8 9 (5.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (5.06%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (5.06%) GitHub
9 8 (5.06%) PaaS
10 7 (4.43%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (3.16%) Azure AKS
11 5 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (2.53%) Azure App Service
12 4 (2.53%) Azure WebJobs
13 3 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.90%) DNS
2 2 (1.27%) DHCP
2 2 (1.27%) HTTP
2 2 (1.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (37.34%) SQL Server
2 14 (8.86%) Relational Database
3 13 (8.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.80%) Redis
6 4 (2.53%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.27%) Metabase
7 2 (1.27%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.27%) Parquet
7 2 (1.27%) Power BI
7 2 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.63%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.63%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (10.13%) Git
2 7 (4.43%) SpecFlow
3 5 (3.16%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.16%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.53%) JIRA
4 4 (2.53%) MSTest
4 4 (2.53%) NUnit
4 4 (2.53%) TeamCity
4 4 (2.53%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (1.90%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.27%) Jasmine
6 2 (1.27%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (1.27%) Selenium
7 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.63%) JMeter
7 1 (0.63%) Mocha
7 1 (0.63%) Moq
7 1 (0.63%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.63%) tSQLt
General
1 38 (24.05%) Finance
2 30 (18.99%) Social Skills
3 25 (15.82%) Banking
4 16 (10.13%) Public Sector
5 14 (8.86%) Front Office
6 12 (7.59%) Investment Banking
7 8 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (4.43%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.90%) Back Office
9 3 (1.90%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.63%) Advertising
11 1 (0.63%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.63%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (100.00%) .NET
2 38 (24.05%) .NET Framework
3 34 (21.52%) AngularJS
4 33 (20.89%) .NET Core
4 33 (20.89%) RESTful
5 26 (16.46%) ASP.NET
6 23 (14.56%) React
7 22 (13.92%) HTML
7 22 (13.92%) REST
8 13 (8.23%) ASP.NET Core
9 12 (7.59%) ASP.NET Web API
10 10 (6.33%) CSS
10 10 (6.33%) Entity Framework
10 10 (6.33%) WPF
11 8 (5.06%) YAML
12 7 (4.43%) ASP.NET MVC
12 7 (4.43%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (4.43%) Web Services
12 7 (4.43%) WinForms
13 6 (3.80%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.96%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.33%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (4.43%) Credit Risk
3 7 (4.43%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.80%) Fixed Income
4 6 (3.80%) Market Risk
5 4 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.90%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.90%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.90%) Derivative
6 3 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.90%) IoT
7 2 (1.27%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.27%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.27%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.63%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.96%) Windows
2 6 (3.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (39.24%) CI/CD
2 60 (37.97%) DevOps
3 57 (36.08%) Agile
4 34 (21.52%) Full-Stack Development
5 30 (18.99%) Microservices
6 22 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (12.66%) AI
7 20 (12.66%) Unit Testing
8 19 (12.03%) Design Patterns
9 17 (10.76%) Scrum
9 17 (10.76%) Test Automation
10 15 (9.49%) MVC
11 14 (8.86%) OOP
11 14 (8.86%) SDLC
11 14 (8.86%) TDD
12 12 (7.59%) Clean Code
12 12 (7.59%) Migration
13 11 (6.96%) Software Engineering
14 10 (6.33%) Performance Tuning
15 9 (5.70%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 124 (78.48%) C#
2 70 (44.30%) SQL
3 22 (13.92%) Python
4 17 (10.76%) JavaScript
5 13 (8.23%) T-SQL
6 10 (6.33%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.80%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.53%) Bicep
8 4 (2.53%) Java
8 4 (2.53%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (2.53%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.90%) C++
10 2 (1.27%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.27%) Rust
11 1 (0.63%) PHP
11 1 (0.63%) VB
11 1 (0.63%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.63%) VB6
Qualifications
1 25 (15.82%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.56%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.06%) Degree
4 4 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.63%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.33%) QA
2 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.63%) HL7
3 1 (0.63%) MiFID
3 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (6.33%) Docker
2 3 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (9.49%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.33%) Terraform
3 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (18.35%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.13%) Oracle
3 5 (3.16%) Citrix
4 3 (1.90%) ION Trading
5 2 (1.27%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.27%) NEC
5 2 (1.27%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.27%) VMware
6 1 (0.63%) Databricks
6 1 (0.63%) Google
6 1 (0.63%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.63%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.63%) Sybase
6 1 (0.63%) Temenos
6 1 (0.63%) Xamarin