.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 1 October 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 350 240
Rank change year-on-year -79 -110 -57
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 205 180 333
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.64% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.71% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 136 263
10th Percentile £402 £338 £363
25th Percentile £417 £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 £684 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
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 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% -7.69% +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 42,912 25,497 30,028
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.18% 91.25% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,400 16,457 18,407
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.11%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £727 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,611 1,389 1,358
10th Percentile £14.65 £13.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £17.33 £21.37
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% -0.46%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -2.82%

.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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -99 96 £572 +20.42% 142
North of England -53 31 £450 +3.45% 77
Yorkshire -16 28 £450 -14.29% 27
Midlands -40 25 £500 -0.50% 45
South East -61 23 £410 -2.15% 73
East Midlands -5 19 £550 +7.84% 13
South West -23 17 £425 -22.73% 20
East of England -21 9 £525 +20.00% 33
West Midlands -39 6 £425 -14.14% 32
North West -51 3 £358 -14.25% 38
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 205 (100.00%) .NET
2 152 (74.15%) C#
3 95 (46.34%) Azure
4 81 (39.51%) CI/CD
5 68 (33.17%) SQL Server
6 67 (32.68%) SQL
7 60 (29.27%) REST
8 58 (28.29%) .NET Core
8 58 (28.29%) Microsoft
9 57 (27.80%) Agile
10 53 (25.85%) DevOps
11 51 (24.88%) .NET Framework
12 48 (23.41%) Full-Stack Development
13 44 (21.46%) Microservices
14 42 (20.49%) ASP.NET
15 38 (18.54%) AWS
15 38 (18.54%) RESTful
16 36 (17.56%) Azure DevOps
17 35 (17.07%) Kubernetes
18 31 (15.12%) Docker
18 31 (15.12%) Test Automation
19 30 (14.63%) JavaScript
20 29 (14.15%) Git
21 28 (13.66%) AngularJS
21 28 (13.66%) Code Quality
21 28 (13.66%) Software Engineering
22 26 (12.68%) SC Cleared
22 26 (12.68%) Security Cleared
22 26 (12.68%) WPF
23 24 (11.71%) 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 (7.32%) Confluence
2 4 (1.95%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.46%) IIS
4 2 (0.98%) CMS
4 2 (0.98%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.49%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 3 (1.46%) 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 95 (46.34%) Azure
2 38 (18.54%) AWS
3 36 (17.56%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (11.22%) GitHub
5 14 (6.83%) Azure Service Bus
6 12 (5.85%) Serverless
7 9 (4.39%) Azure AKS
7 9 (4.39%) Azure Functions
7 9 (4.39%) Azure Key Vault
7 9 (4.39%) Power Platform
8 8 (3.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (2.93%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.93%) PaaS
10 5 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (2.44%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.95%) Azure API Management
11 4 (1.95%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (1.95%) Azure Storage
11 4 (1.95%) GCP
11 4 (1.95%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.49%) Broadband
1 1 (0.49%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (33.17%) SQL Server
2 16 (7.80%) Relational Database
3 13 (6.34%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.90%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.93%) Power BI
7 5 (2.44%) Oracle Database
7 5 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.95%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.46%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.46%) Db2
9 3 (1.46%) DocumentDB
10 2 (0.98%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.98%) Parquet
10 2 (0.98%) Redis
10 2 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.49%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.49%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 29 (14.15%) Git
2 15 (7.32%) JIRA
3 10 (4.88%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.39%) Visual Studio
5 8 (3.90%) GitLab
6 6 (2.93%) REST Assured
7 5 (2.44%) SpecFlow
8 4 (1.95%) MSI
8 4 (1.95%) NUnit
8 4 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.46%) Fiddler
9 3 (1.46%) Postman
9 3 (1.46%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.98%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.49%) Moq
11 1 (0.49%) MSTest
11 1 (0.49%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.49%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 49 (23.90%) Finance
2 38 (18.54%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.73%) Banking
4 11 (5.37%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.88%) Investment Banking
6 8 (3.90%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.41%) Front Office
8 4 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.95%) Legal
9 2 (0.98%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.98%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.49%) Automotive
10 1 (0.49%) Military
10 1 (0.49%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (100.00%) .NET
2 60 (29.27%) REST
3 58 (28.29%) .NET Core
4 51 (24.88%) .NET Framework
5 42 (20.49%) ASP.NET
6 38 (18.54%) RESTful
7 28 (13.66%) AngularJS
8 26 (12.68%) WPF
9 22 (10.73%) React
10 21 (10.24%) Web Services
11 19 (9.27%) Entity Framework
12 16 (7.80%) WinForms
13 15 (7.32%) Kafka
13 15 (7.32%) Terraform
14 13 (6.34%) ASP.NET Core
15 11 (5.37%) ASP.NET MVC
15 11 (5.37%) ASP.NET Web API
15 11 (5.37%) SOAP
16 10 (4.88%) Blazor
17 9 (4.39%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.20%) Cloud Native
2 19 (9.27%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (7.32%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.90%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.93%) Legacy Code
6 5 (2.44%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.44%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.95%) Wiki
8 3 (1.46%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.98%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.49%) Derivative
10 1 (0.49%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.49%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.49%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.49%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.80%) Windows
2 3 (1.46%) Linux
3 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (39.51%) CI/CD
2 57 (27.80%) Agile
3 53 (25.85%) DevOps
4 48 (23.41%) Full-Stack Development
5 44 (21.46%) Microservices
6 31 (15.12%) Test Automation
7 28 (13.66%) Code Quality
7 28 (13.66%) Software Engineering
8 24 (11.71%) API Development
9 22 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (10.73%) Event-Driven
9 22 (10.73%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (9.76%) AI
10 20 (9.76%) Design Patterns
10 20 (9.76%) Scrum
11 19 (9.27%) Containerisation
11 19 (9.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 18 (8.78%) MVC
13 17 (8.29%) OO
13 17 (8.29%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 152 (74.15%) C#
2 67 (32.68%) SQL
3 30 (14.63%) JavaScript
4 24 (11.71%) TypeScript
5 23 (11.22%) Python
6 14 (6.83%) T-SQL
7 13 (6.34%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.39%) Bicep
9 5 (2.44%) XAML
10 4 (1.95%) Java
10 4 (1.95%) VB.NET
10 4 (1.95%) VBA
11 3 (1.46%) VB
12 2 (0.98%) VB6
13 1 (0.49%) C
13 1 (0.49%) C++
13 1 (0.49%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.49%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 26 (12.68%) SC Cleared
1 26 (12.68%) Security Cleared
2 5 (2.44%) Degree
3 4 (1.95%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.95%) PhD
4 2 (0.98%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.34%) QA
2 6 (2.93%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.44%) NCSC
3 5 (2.44%) 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 (15.12%) Docker
2 9 (4.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (17.07%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.93%) Ansible
3 2 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.49%) Kibana
Vendors
1 58 (28.29%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.27%) Oracle
3 8 (3.90%) Citrix
4 5 (2.44%) Centrify
4 5 (2.44%) CyberArk
5 3 (1.46%) DevExpress
5 3 (1.46%) 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%) Telerik