.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 21 January 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 287 195
Rank change year-on-year -119 -92 -42
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 144 205 460
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.77% 1.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.83% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 160 378
10th Percentile £369 £374 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% -6.59% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £675
90th Percentile £649 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -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 29,573 24,778 34,297
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.60% 92.97% 93.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,910 15,317 23,207
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,816 751 1,779
10th Percentile £14.50 £16.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £28.65 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.16% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.73 £63.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% -18.75% +17.65%

.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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -75 91 £515 -8.53% 61
South East -28 14 £494 +9.72% 61
East of England -14 12 £425 -12.37% 20
North of England -50 12 £450 -10.00% 57
Midlands -48 7 £499 +5.00% 23
North West -33 6 £443 -11.50% 38
Yorkshire -50 5 £513 +2.50% 11
East Midlands -29 4 £510 +42.66% 10
West Midlands -40 3 £488 -2.50% 13
South West -17 2 £550 +0.92% 12
North East -14 1 - - 8
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 January 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.

1 144 (100.00%) .NET
2 114 (79.17%) C#
3 78 (54.17%) Azure
4 60 (41.67%) SQL
5 53 (36.81%) Agile
6 48 (33.33%) SQL Server
7 45 (31.25%) DevOps
8 43 (29.86%) .NET Framework
9 40 (27.78%) CI/CD
10 36 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
11 31 (21.53%) .NET Core
12 30 (20.83%) Microservices
13 29 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (17.36%) AngularJS
14 25 (17.36%) Azure DevOps
14 25 (17.36%) Microsoft
15 21 (14.58%) RESTful
16 20 (13.89%) Windows
17 19 (13.19%) AWS
17 19 (13.19%) Oracle
17 19 (13.19%) WPF
18 18 (12.50%) ASP.NET
18 18 (12.50%) Scrum
19 17 (11.81%) Clean Code
20 16 (11.11%) AI
20 16 (11.11%) Python
20 16 (11.11%) Security Cleared
20 16 (11.11%) Unit Testing
21 15 (10.42%) Entity Framework
21 15 (10.42%) React

.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 (5.56%) Confluence
2 3 (2.08%) IIS
2 3 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.69%) CMS
4 1 (0.69%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 7 (4.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Endur
1 2 (1.39%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 78 (54.17%) Azure
2 25 (17.36%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (13.19%) AWS
4 14 (9.72%) Serverless
5 11 (7.64%) Azure Functions
6 10 (6.94%) Azure Service Bus
7 9 (6.25%) GitHub
8 8 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (5.56%) PaaS
9 5 (3.47%) Azure AKS
9 5 (3.47%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (3.47%) Entra ID
9 5 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.78%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.08%) Azure Event Grid
11 3 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.78%) DNS
2 3 (2.08%) DHCP
2 3 (2.08%) HTTP
2 3 (2.08%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.64%) Oracle Database
3 9 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.08%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.08%) Power BI
4 3 (2.08%) Redis
5 2 (1.39%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.69%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (6.25%) JIRA
1 9 (6.25%) SpecFlow
2 8 (5.56%) Git
3 6 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.78%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.39%) Selenium
6 1 (0.69%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.69%) JMeter
6 1 (0.69%) MSTest
6 1 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.69%) TeamCity
General
1 45 (31.25%) Finance
2 29 (20.14%) Social Skills
3 23 (15.97%) Banking
4 13 (9.03%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.86%) Financial Institution
5 7 (4.86%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.47%) Front Office
8 3 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.39%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.69%) Advertising
10 1 (0.69%) Back Office
10 1 (0.69%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (100.00%) .NET
2 43 (29.86%) .NET Framework
3 31 (21.53%) .NET Core
4 25 (17.36%) AngularJS
5 21 (14.58%) RESTful
6 19 (13.19%) WPF
7 18 (12.50%) ASP.NET
8 15 (10.42%) Entity Framework
8 15 (10.42%) React
9 10 (6.94%) REST
10 9 (6.25%) ASP.NET Core
11 8 (5.56%) NHibernate
11 8 (5.56%) Playwright
11 8 (5.56%) WinForms
12 7 (4.86%) ASP.NET Web API
12 7 (4.86%) Middleware
12 7 (4.86%) Web Services
13 6 (4.17%) HTML
14 5 (3.47%) SOAP
15 4 (2.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (4.86%) Credit Risk
5 6 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (4.17%) Market Risk
6 5 (3.47%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.08%) Legacy Code
7 3 (2.08%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.39%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.39%) IoT
8 2 (1.39%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.69%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.69%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.69%) Derivative
9 1 (0.69%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.69%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 20 (13.89%) Windows
2 6 (4.17%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.69%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (36.81%) Agile
2 45 (31.25%) DevOps
3 40 (27.78%) CI/CD
4 36 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 30 (20.83%) Microservices
6 29 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (12.50%) Scrum
8 17 (11.81%) Clean Code
9 16 (11.11%) AI
9 16 (11.11%) Unit Testing
10 15 (10.42%) SDLC
11 14 (9.72%) Design Patterns
11 14 (9.72%) Migration
12 12 (8.33%) OOP
12 12 (8.33%) Test Automation
13 11 (7.64%) MVC
13 11 (7.64%) OO
13 11 (7.64%) Software Engineering
14 9 (6.25%) Risk Management
14 9 (6.25%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 114 (79.17%) C#
2 60 (41.67%) SQL
3 16 (11.11%) Python
4 14 (9.72%) PL/SQL
5 12 (8.33%) T-SQL
6 8 (5.56%) VB
6 8 (5.56%) VB.NET
7 7 (4.86%) VBA
8 6 (4.17%) TypeScript
9 5 (3.47%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.78%) Bicep
10 4 (2.78%) PHP
11 3 (2.08%) C++
11 3 (2.08%) Java
12 2 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.39%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.69%) Cypher
13 1 (0.69%) Go
13 1 (0.69%) VB6
Qualifications
1 16 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.72%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.86%) Degree
4 4 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (0.69%) HL7
2 1 (0.69%) MiFID
2 1 (0.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (6.94%) Docker
2 4 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.19%) Oracle
3 3 (2.08%) Atlassian
3 3 (2.08%) Citrix
3 3 (2.08%) OpenAI
3 3 (2.08%) VMware
4 2 (1.39%) NEC
4 2 (1.39%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.69%) Databricks
5 1 (0.69%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.69%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.69%) Sybase
5 1 (0.69%) Temenos