.NET Developer Contracts 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 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 234 174
Rank change year-on-year -79 -60 -36
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 191 382 687
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.73% 1.02% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 1.10% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 325 564
10th Percentile £378 £325 £363
25th Percentile £395 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £670 £638 £650
90th Percentile £838 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - £34.80
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% -20.06%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £63.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% +30.00% -18.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 24,051 34,738 44,738
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 92.94% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,688 22,731 31,726
10th Percentile £292 £300 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,129 2,569 1,360
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.88 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.98 £16.86 £19.50
Median hourly rate £28.18 £40.00 £43.93
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% -8.95% +75.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.33% -12.79% +68.63%

.NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured .NET Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Developer in England

.NET Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Developer in England.

Daily rate trend for .NET Developer 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 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Developer in England

.NET Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Developer in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 3 July 2025. 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 -51 142 £523 -9.13% 197
South East +30 20 £445 -6.32% 139
North of England -20 10 £419 +4.69% 138
Midlands +8 8 £313 -22.72% 62
North West -10 7 £400 -3.03% 76
South West +26 6 £655 +87.14% 48
West Midlands +6 4 £495 +17.16% 37
East Midlands -1 4 £269 -29.21% 25
Yorkshire -3 3 £525 +40.00% 44
East of England +18 2 £425 +21.43% 52
.NET Developer
UK

.NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, .NET Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring .NET Developer in the job title.

1 191 (100.00%) .NET
2 160 (83.77%) C#
3 94 (49.21%) SQL
4 80 (41.88%) Finance
5 73 (38.22%) .NET Framework
5 73 (38.22%) Azure
6 70 (36.65%) Agile
7 57 (29.84%) .NET Core
8 54 (28.27%) DevOps
9 47 (24.61%) Oracle
10 44 (23.04%) AngularJS
11 43 (22.51%) Social Skills
12 42 (21.99%) SQL Server
13 41 (21.47%) JavaScript
14 40 (20.94%) AWS
15 39 (20.42%) CI/CD
16 37 (19.37%) Microsoft
17 36 (18.85%) Full-Stack Development
18 35 (18.32%) Azure DevOps
19 34 (17.80%) PL/SQL
20 33 (17.28%) Analytical Skills
21 32 (16.75%) Windows
21 32 (16.75%) WPF
22 30 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
23 29 (15.18%) Design Patterns
24 28 (14.66%) OO
25 27 (14.14%) TDD
25 27 (14.14%) Docker
26 26 (13.61%) Entity Framework
26 26 (13.61%) Front Office

.NET Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.62%) Umbraco
2 2 (1.05%) CMS
2 2 (1.05%) Confluence
2 2 (1.05%) IIS
3 1 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.52%) EPiServer
3 1 (0.52%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.52%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 22 (11.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.52%) Eikon
1 1 (0.52%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 73 (38.22%) Azure
2 40 (20.94%) AWS
3 35 (18.32%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (5.24%) Serverless
5 9 (4.71%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (4.19%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (4.19%) Azure Functions
7 7 (3.66%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (3.14%) Entra ID
8 6 (3.14%) GCP
9 4 (2.09%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.09%) Azure App Service
9 4 (2.09%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (2.09%) Azure Storage
10 3 (1.57%) Azure API Management
10 3 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.57%) SaaS
11 2 (1.05%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.05%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (1.05%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (21.99%) SQL Server
2 20 (10.47%) Oracle Database
3 17 (8.90%) Relational Database
4 16 (8.38%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (6.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (6.28%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (4.19%) MongoDB
7 8 (4.19%) MySQL
8 4 (2.09%) Redis
9 3 (1.57%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.05%) DocumentDB
11 1 (0.52%) ClickHouse
11 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.52%) MS Access
11 1 (0.52%) Parquet
11 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (10.99%) JIRA
2 13 (6.81%) Git
3 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.05%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.05%) NUnit
3 2 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.05%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.05%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.52%) GitLab
4 1 (0.52%) JetBrains Rider
4 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 80 (41.88%) Finance
2 43 (22.51%) Social Skills
3 33 (17.28%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (13.61%) Front Office
5 15 (7.85%) Banking
6 10 (5.24%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.19%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.19%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.66%) Electronics
8 7 (3.66%) Marketing
9 5 (2.62%) Billing
10 4 (2.09%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.52%) Back Office
12 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.52%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (100.00%) .NET
2 73 (38.22%) .NET Framework
3 57 (29.84%) .NET Core
4 44 (23.04%) AngularJS
5 32 (16.75%) WPF
6 26 (13.61%) Entity Framework
7 22 (11.52%) HTML
7 22 (11.52%) React
8 21 (10.99%) ASP.NET
8 21 (10.99%) CSS
8 21 (10.99%) Reactive Extensions
9 14 (7.33%) RESTful
10 12 (6.28%) ASP.NET Web API
11 11 (5.76%) ASP.NET Core
12 10 (5.24%) REST
13 8 (4.19%) Blazor
14 7 (3.66%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (3.66%) Web Services
15 6 (3.14%) WCF
16 5 (2.62%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.24%) Enterprise Software
1 10 (5.24%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.19%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (3.66%) Fixed Income
4 4 (2.09%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (2.09%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.57%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (1.57%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.05%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.05%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.05%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.05%) NHS
6 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.05%) Wiki
7 1 (0.52%) Equities
7 1 (0.52%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.52%) TWAP
7 1 (0.52%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 32 (16.75%) Windows
2 4 (2.09%) Android
2 4 (2.09%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (36.65%) Agile
2 54 (28.27%) DevOps
3 39 (20.42%) CI/CD
4 36 (18.85%) Full-Stack Development
5 30 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (15.18%) Design Patterns
7 28 (14.66%) OO
8 27 (14.14%) TDD
9 23 (12.04%) Microservices
10 20 (10.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (8.38%) Containerisation
12 15 (7.85%) Electronic Trading
12 15 (7.85%) Test Automation
12 15 (7.85%) Unit Testing
13 14 (7.33%) Business Intelligence
13 14 (7.33%) MVC
13 14 (7.33%) Scrum
13 14 (7.33%) SOLID
14 12 (6.28%) Mentoring
15 11 (5.76%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 160 (83.77%) C#
2 94 (49.21%) SQL
3 41 (21.47%) JavaScript
4 34 (17.80%) PL/SQL
5 25 (13.09%) VBA
6 21 (10.99%) TypeScript
6 21 (10.99%) VB.NET
7 20 (10.47%) VB
8 14 (7.33%) PowerShell
9 13 (6.81%) Java
10 11 (5.76%) RPG
10 11 (5.76%) RPG IV
11 7 (3.66%) Python
12 5 (2.62%) Bicep
12 5 (2.62%) F#
13 4 (2.09%) T-SQL
14 2 (1.05%) C++
15 1 (0.52%) Go
15 1 (0.52%) VB6
Qualifications
1 3 (1.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.05%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.52%) Degree
3 1 (0.52%) MCAD
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.19%) QA
2 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.52%) EMIR
2 1 (0.52%) HL7
System Software
1 27 (14.14%) Docker
2 5 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (12.57%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 47 (24.61%) Oracle
2 37 (19.37%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.66%) SAP
4 5 (2.62%) Databricks
4 5 (2.62%) Solace
5 4 (2.09%) TIBCO
5 4 (2.09%) Virgin Media
6 3 (1.57%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.52%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.52%) Google
7 1 (0.52%) IBM
7 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.52%) Murex
7 1 (0.52%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.52%) Reuters
7 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.52%) Splunk