.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in England

.NET Developer
UK > England

The median .NET Developer daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2026.

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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 290 237
Rank change year-on-year -133 -53 -72
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 168 192 368
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.79% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.85% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 159 315
10th Percentile £375 £385 £313
25th Percentile £454 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% +1.50% -3.85%
75th Percentile £612 £675 £650
90th Percentile £713 £838 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate - £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -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 37,464 22,563 34,184
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.55% 92.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,380 15,022 22,706
10th Percentile £313 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £643
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,544 910 2,433
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.86 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £30.62 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.52% -16.12% -18.03%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.82
UK median hourly rate £44.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.72% -20.55% -18.89%

.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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -109 88 £575 +10.05% 50
North of England -36 33 £500 +21.21% 52
South East -60 19 £481 +15.96% 43
Yorkshire -32 18 £588 +11.90% 9
Midlands -57 18 £550 +10.00% 15
North West -27 15 £450 +9.09% 30
East Midlands -22 14 £575 +15.00% 6
South West -36 5 £588 -10.31% 11
West Midlands -56 4 £519 +3.75% 9
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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.

1 168 (100.00%) .NET
2 135 (80.36%) C#
3 92 (54.76%) Azure
4 76 (45.24%) CI/CD
5 67 (39.88%) SQL
5 67 (39.88%) SQL Server
6 61 (36.31%) DevOps
7 57 (33.93%) Agile
8 45 (26.79%) .NET Framework
9 37 (22.02%) Microservices
10 34 (20.24%) .NET Core
11 32 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
11 32 (19.05%) Microsoft
11 32 (19.05%) RESTful
12 31 (18.45%) Full-Stack Development
13 30 (17.86%) AngularJS
14 28 (16.67%) ASP.NET
15 26 (15.48%) AWS
15 26 (15.48%) Security Cleared
16 25 (14.88%) REST
17 24 (14.29%) React
17 24 (14.29%) SC Cleared
18 23 (13.69%) HTML
19 22 (13.10%) JavaScript
20 20 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
20 20 (11.90%) Python
21 19 (11.31%) AI
21 19 (11.31%) Kubernetes
21 19 (11.31%) Test Automation
22 18 (10.71%) 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 6 (3.57%) IIS
2 4 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.79%) Apache Superset
3 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.19%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.19%) Endur
1 2 (1.19%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 92 (54.76%) Azure
2 32 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (15.48%) AWS
4 18 (10.71%) Azure Service Bus
5 17 (10.12%) Serverless
6 12 (7.14%) Azure Functions
6 12 (7.14%) GitHub
7 8 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (4.17%) Entra ID
9 6 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (2.98%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (2.98%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.38%) Azure AKS
11 4 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (2.38%) n8n
11 4 (2.38%) PaaS
11 4 (2.38%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.38%) Zapier
12 3 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.79%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.60%) DHCP
1 1 (0.60%) DNS
1 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (39.88%) SQL Server
2 18 (10.71%) Relational Database
3 11 (6.55%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (4.17%) Redis
6 5 (2.98%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.79%) Metabase
7 3 (1.79%) Parquet
7 3 (1.79%) Power BI
8 2 (1.19%) DocumentDB
8 2 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.19%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (9.52%) Git
2 5 (2.98%) NUnit
2 5 (2.98%) SpecFlow
2 5 (2.98%) TeamCity
2 5 (2.98%) Visual Studio
3 4 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.38%) MSTest
3 4 (2.38%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (1.79%) JIRA
4 3 (1.79%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.19%) Jasmine
5 2 (1.19%) Karma Test Runner
5 2 (1.19%) Moq
5 2 (1.19%) Selenium
6 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.60%) GitLab
6 1 (0.60%) Mocha
6 1 (0.60%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.60%) tSQLt
6 1 (0.60%) webpack
General
1 42 (25.00%) Finance
2 33 (19.64%) Social Skills
3 23 (13.69%) Banking
4 17 (10.12%) Public Sector
5 15 (8.93%) Front Office
6 12 (7.14%) Investment Banking
7 7 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.57%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.79%) Back Office
9 3 (1.79%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.60%) Automotive
11 1 (0.60%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.60%) Military
11 1 (0.60%) Police
11 1 (0.60%) Retail
11 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (100.00%) .NET
2 45 (26.79%) .NET Framework
3 34 (20.24%) .NET Core
4 32 (19.05%) RESTful
5 30 (17.86%) AngularJS
6 28 (16.67%) ASP.NET
7 25 (14.88%) REST
8 24 (14.29%) React
9 23 (13.69%) HTML
10 13 (7.74%) ASP.NET Web API
11 12 (7.14%) Entity Framework
12 11 (6.55%) CSS
13 10 (5.95%) ASP.NET Core
14 9 (5.36%) ASP.NET MVC
14 9 (5.36%) WPF
15 8 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
15 8 (4.76%) WinForms
16 7 (4.17%) OAuth
16 7 (4.17%) YAML
17 5 (2.98%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.74%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.36%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (4.17%) AI Agents
5 6 (3.57%) Fixed Income
5 6 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.98%) Credit Risk
6 5 (2.98%) Market Risk
7 4 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.38%) Derivative
7 4 (2.38%) IoT
8 3 (1.79%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.79%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.19%) NHS
9 2 (1.19%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.60%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.74%) Windows
2 5 (2.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (45.24%) CI/CD
2 61 (36.31%) DevOps
3 57 (33.93%) Agile
4 37 (22.02%) Microservices
5 31 (18.45%) Full-Stack Development
6 20 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (11.31%) AI
7 19 (11.31%) Test Automation
8 17 (10.12%) Scrum
8 17 (10.12%) TDD
9 16 (9.52%) Design Patterns
9 16 (9.52%) MVC
9 16 (9.52%) Unit Testing
10 15 (8.93%) OOP
10 15 (8.93%) SDLC
11 13 (7.74%) Clean Code
11 13 (7.74%) SOLID
12 12 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (7.14%) Software Engineering
13 11 (6.55%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 135 (80.36%) C#
2 67 (39.88%) SQL
3 22 (13.10%) JavaScript
4 20 (11.90%) Python
5 15 (8.93%) T-SQL
5 15 (8.93%) TypeScript
6 7 (4.17%) PL/SQL
7 4 (2.38%) Bicep
7 4 (2.38%) Java
7 4 (2.38%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.79%) C++
8 3 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.79%) MATLAB
8 3 (1.79%) Rust
Qualifications
1 26 (15.48%) Security Cleared
2 24 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.76%) Degree
4 4 (2.38%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.60%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.14%) QA
2 2 (1.19%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.60%) HL7
3 1 (0.60%) NCSC
3 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (10.12%) Docker
2 2 (1.19%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (11.31%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.93%) Terraform
3 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.71%) Oracle
3 7 (4.17%) Citrix
4 3 (1.79%) ION Trading
5 2 (1.19%) NEC
5 2 (1.19%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.60%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.60%) Google
6 1 (0.60%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.60%) Sybase
6 1 (0.60%) Temenos
6 1 (0.60%) VMware
6 1 (0.60%) Xamarin