.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 3 February 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 288 200
Rank change year-on-year -121 -88 -45
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 141 196 455
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.75% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.81% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 152 379
10th Percentile £377 £376 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £545
Median % change year-on-year -0.15% -8.12% -0.91%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £672
90th Percentile £650 £711 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £493 £490
% change year-on-year -3.55% +0.51% -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 30,295 24,258 35,635
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.62% 93.06% 93.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,300 14,922 23,999
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £642
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 1,894 726 2,114
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.92 £13.24
25th Percentile £18.73 £21.25 £16.86
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £61.44
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £29.65 £33.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -10.17% -7.04% +1.43%

.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 3 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 3 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 -64 91 £520 -5.45% 73
South East -30 13 £488 +8.33% 53
North of England -60 11 £450 -10.00% 65
East of England -16 9 £450 -1.10% 20
Midlands -56 8 £488 +16.77% 26
North West -34 6 £443 -11.50% 39
East Midlands -27 4 £510 +42.66% 12
West Midlands -36 4 £474 -2.82% 14
Yorkshire -48 4 £513 +2.50% 16
South West -26 2 £550 -15.38% 15
North East -14 1 - - 10
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 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.

1 141 (100.00%) .NET
2 111 (78.72%) C#
3 75 (53.19%) Azure
4 60 (42.55%) SQL
5 51 (36.17%) SQL Server
6 50 (35.46%) Agile
7 44 (31.21%) .NET Framework
8 43 (30.50%) DevOps
9 38 (26.95%) CI/CD
10 34 (24.11%) Full-Stack Development
11 33 (23.40%) .NET Core
12 29 (20.57%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (19.15%) Microservices
14 25 (17.73%) AngularJS
15 24 (17.02%) Microsoft
16 23 (16.31%) Azure DevOps
17 22 (15.60%) RESTful
18 20 (14.18%) ASP.NET
19 19 (13.48%) AI
19 19 (13.48%) Scrum
20 18 (12.77%) AWS
20 18 (12.77%) Oracle
20 18 (12.77%) Windows
21 17 (12.06%) Unit Testing
22 16 (11.35%) Clean Code
22 16 (11.35%) Security Cleared
22 16 (11.35%) WPF
23 15 (10.64%) Design Patterns
23 15 (10.64%) Entity Framework
23 15 (10.64%) Python

.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 (5.67%) Confluence
2 3 (2.13%) IIS
2 3 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.71%) CMS
4 1 (0.71%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 5 (3.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.42%) Endur
1 2 (1.42%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 75 (53.19%) Azure
2 23 (16.31%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (12.77%) AWS
4 13 (9.22%) Serverless
5 11 (7.80%) Azure Functions
6 10 (7.09%) Azure Service Bus
7 9 (6.38%) GitHub
8 8 (5.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (5.67%) PaaS
9 5 (3.55%) Azure AKS
9 5 (3.55%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (3.55%) Entra ID
9 5 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.84%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.84%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.13%) Azure Event Grid
11 3 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.84%) DNS
2 3 (2.13%) DHCP
2 3 (2.13%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.42%) HTTP
4 1 (0.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (36.17%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.51%) Relational Database
3 10 (7.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (6.38%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.13%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.13%) Power BI
5 3 (2.13%) Redis
6 2 (1.42%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (6.38%) JIRA
1 9 (6.38%) SpecFlow
2 8 (5.67%) Git
3 6 (4.26%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.84%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.84%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.42%) Selenium
6 1 (0.71%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.71%) JMeter
6 1 (0.71%) MSTest
6 1 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.71%) TeamCity
General
1 42 (29.79%) Finance
2 29 (20.57%) Social Skills
3 23 (16.31%) Banking
4 14 (9.93%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.67%) Investment Banking
6 7 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.96%) Financial Institution
7 6 (4.26%) Front Office
8 3 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.13%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.71%) Advertising
10 1 (0.71%) Back Office
10 1 (0.71%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (100.00%) .NET
2 44 (31.21%) .NET Framework
3 33 (23.40%) .NET Core
4 25 (17.73%) AngularJS
5 22 (15.60%) RESTful
6 20 (14.18%) ASP.NET
7 16 (11.35%) WPF
8 15 (10.64%) Entity Framework
8 15 (10.64%) React
9 11 (7.80%) REST
10 9 (6.38%) ASP.NET Core
10 9 (6.38%) ASP.NET Web API
11 8 (5.67%) NHibernate
11 8 (5.67%) Playwright
12 7 (4.96%) Middleware
12 7 (4.96%) Web Services
12 7 (4.96%) WinForms
13 6 (4.26%) HTML
14 5 (3.55%) SOAP
15 4 (2.84%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.80%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.38%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (5.67%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (4.96%) Credit Risk
5 6 (4.26%) Market Risk
6 5 (3.55%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.55%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.84%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.13%) Fixed Income
8 3 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.13%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.42%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.42%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.42%) IoT
9 2 (1.42%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.71%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.71%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.71%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.77%) Windows
2 6 (4.26%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.71%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (35.46%) Agile
2 43 (30.50%) DevOps
3 38 (26.95%) CI/CD
4 34 (24.11%) Full-Stack Development
5 29 (20.57%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (19.15%) Microservices
7 19 (13.48%) AI
7 19 (13.48%) Scrum
8 17 (12.06%) Unit Testing
9 16 (11.35%) Clean Code
10 15 (10.64%) Design Patterns
11 14 (9.93%) Migration
11 14 (9.93%) SDLC
12 13 (9.22%) MVC
12 13 (9.22%) Test Automation
13 12 (8.51%) Software Engineering
14 11 (7.80%) OOP
15 10 (7.09%) OO
16 9 (6.38%) Event-Driven
16 9 (6.38%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 111 (78.72%) C#
2 60 (42.55%) SQL
3 15 (10.64%) Python
4 12 (8.51%) PL/SQL
4 12 (8.51%) T-SQL
5 6 (4.26%) TypeScript
5 6 (4.26%) VB
5 6 (4.26%) VB.NET
6 5 (3.55%) VBA
7 4 (2.84%) Bicep
7 4 (2.84%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.84%) PHP
8 3 (2.13%) C++
8 3 (2.13%) Java
9 2 (1.42%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.42%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.71%) Go
10 1 (0.71%) VB6
Qualifications
1 16 (11.35%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.93%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.96%) Degree
4 4 (2.84%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.09%) QA
2 1 (0.71%) HL7
2 1 (0.71%) MiFID
2 1 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (6.38%) Docker
2 4 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (5.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (17.02%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.77%) Oracle
3 4 (2.84%) Citrix
4 3 (2.13%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.13%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.13%) VMware
5 2 (1.42%) ION Trading
5 2 (1.42%) NEC
5 2 (1.42%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.71%) Databricks
6 1 (0.71%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.71%) Sybase
6 1 (0.71%) Temenos
6 1 (0.71%) Xamarin