.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in England

.NET Developer
UK > England

The median .NET Developer daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 317 236
Rank change year-on-year -103 -81 -60
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 194 183 372
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.72% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.78% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 149 315
10th Percentile £366 £378 £325
25th Percentile £424 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +1.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £675 £638
90th Percentile £738 £840 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £481 £488
% change year-on-year +6.49% -1.28% -2.50%
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 40,429 23,502 34,503
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.38% 92.15% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,779 15,373 22,543
10th Percentile £325 £293 £298
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,896 1,093 2,589
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.93 £17.87 £16.74
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -27.94% -9.83%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.51
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £27.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +59.26% -28.00% -12.79%

.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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -132 86 £588 +11.90% 58
North of England -46 40 £475 +13.43% 49
Midlands -41 27 £500 +59.74% 15
Yorkshire -29 26 £490 -6.67% 13
South East -60 25 £420 -11.58% 52
East Midlands 0 20 £563 +109.11% 5
North West -39 14 £450 +12.50% 20
South West -28 7 £450 -31.30% 8
West Midlands -52 7 £460 -7.07% 10
East of England -24 4 - - 19
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 June 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.

1 194 (100.00%) .NET
2 149 (76.80%) C#
3 104 (53.61%) Azure
4 87 (44.85%) CI/CD
5 73 (37.63%) SQL
6 71 (36.60%) SQL Server
7 61 (31.44%) DevOps
8 59 (30.41%) Agile
9 48 (24.74%) .NET Framework
10 45 (23.20%) Microsoft
11 43 (22.16%) Microservices
12 40 (20.62%) .NET Core
12 40 (20.62%) ASP.NET
13 39 (20.10%) RESTful
14 38 (19.59%) Full-Stack Development
15 36 (18.56%) AngularJS
16 35 (18.04%) AWS
17 34 (17.53%) REST
18 33 (17.01%) Azure DevOps
19 31 (15.98%) JavaScript
19 31 (15.98%) Kubernetes
20 29 (14.95%) React
21 27 (13.92%) Docker
21 27 (13.92%) Test Automation
22 24 (12.37%) Security Cleared
23 22 (11.34%) SC Cleared
23 22 (11.34%) Scrum
23 22 (11.34%) TypeScript
23 22 (11.34%) Unit Testing
24 21 (10.82%) HTML

.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 (3.09%) Confluence
2 3 (1.55%) Apache Superset
2 3 (1.55%) IIS
2 3 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.52%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.52%) Endur
1 1 (0.52%) NEC Housing
1 1 (0.52%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 104 (53.61%) Azure
2 35 (18.04%) AWS
3 33 (17.01%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (9.79%) Azure Service Bus
5 18 (9.28%) GitHub
6 17 (8.76%) Serverless
7 11 (5.67%) Azure Functions
8 7 (3.61%) Azure AKS
8 7 (3.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (3.61%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (3.09%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (3.09%) Entra ID
9 6 (3.09%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.58%) GCP
10 5 (2.58%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.06%) n8n
11 4 (2.06%) Zapier
12 3 (1.55%) Azure API Management
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (36.60%) SQL Server
2 21 (10.82%) Relational Database
3 14 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (3.09%) Redis
6 5 (2.58%) Power BI
7 3 (1.55%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.55%) DocumentDB
7 3 (1.55%) Metabase
7 3 (1.55%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.55%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.55%) Parquet
8 2 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.03%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.52%) MySQL
9 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (9.79%) Git
2 8 (4.12%) NUnit
2 8 (4.12%) Visual Studio
3 6 (3.09%) JIRA
3 6 (3.09%) SpecFlow
4 5 (2.58%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.06%) MSTest
5 4 (2.06%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.55%) GitLab
6 3 (1.55%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.03%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.03%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.03%) Moq
7 2 (1.03%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.52%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 46 (23.71%) Finance
2 29 (14.95%) Social Skills
3 18 (9.28%) Banking
4 15 (7.73%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.70%) Front Office
6 11 (5.67%) Investment Banking
7 7 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.06%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.06%) Legal
9 3 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.03%) Automotive
10 2 (1.03%) Back Office
10 2 (1.03%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.52%) Military
11 1 (0.52%) Police
11 1 (0.52%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.52%) Retail
11 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (100.00%) .NET
2 48 (24.74%) .NET Framework
3 40 (20.62%) .NET Core
3 40 (20.62%) ASP.NET
4 39 (20.10%) RESTful
5 36 (18.56%) AngularJS
6 34 (17.53%) REST
7 29 (14.95%) React
8 21 (10.82%) HTML
9 17 (8.76%) Entity Framework
10 13 (6.70%) ASP.NET Web API
11 12 (6.19%) Web Services
12 11 (5.67%) ASP.NET Core
13 10 (5.15%) CSS
13 10 (5.15%) RabbitMQ
14 9 (4.64%) ASP.NET MVC
14 9 (4.64%) Kafka
15 8 (4.12%) OAuth
15 8 (4.12%) WPF
15 8 (4.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.76%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.70%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.67%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.61%) AI Agents
5 6 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.58%) Legacy Code
7 4 (2.06%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.06%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.55%) Derivative
8 3 (1.55%) IoT
8 3 (1.55%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.03%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.03%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.52%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.52%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.61%) Windows
2 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (44.85%) CI/CD
2 61 (31.44%) DevOps
3 59 (30.41%) Agile
4 43 (22.16%) Microservices
5 38 (19.59%) Full-Stack Development
6 27 (13.92%) Test Automation
7 22 (11.34%) Scrum
7 22 (11.34%) Unit Testing
8 20 (10.31%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (10.31%) TDD
9 18 (9.28%) AI
10 17 (8.76%) SOLID
11 15 (7.73%) Design Patterns
11 15 (7.73%) Event-Driven
11 15 (7.73%) Software Engineering
12 14 (7.22%) Code Quality
12 14 (7.22%) Containerisation
12 14 (7.22%) MVC
12 14 (7.22%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (6.70%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 149 (76.80%) C#
2 73 (37.63%) SQL
3 31 (15.98%) JavaScript
4 22 (11.34%) TypeScript
5 21 (10.82%) Python
6 16 (8.25%) T-SQL
7 6 (3.09%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.06%) Bicep
8 4 (2.06%) Java
9 3 (1.55%) MATLAB
9 3 (1.55%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.55%) Rust
9 3 (1.55%) VB.NET
9 3 (1.55%) VBA
10 2 (1.03%) C++
10 2 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.03%) XAML
11 1 (0.52%) C
11 1 (0.52%) VB
11 1 (0.52%) VB6
Qualifications
1 24 (12.37%) Security Cleared
2 22 (11.34%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.12%) Degree
4 4 (2.06%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.03%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.03%) PhD
6 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.19%) QA
2 3 (1.55%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.52%) Basel III
3 1 (0.52%) NCSC
3 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (13.92%) Docker
2 5 (2.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (15.98%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.76%) Terraform
3 4 (2.06%) Ansible
4 3 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (23.20%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.82%) Oracle
3 6 (3.09%) Citrix
4 4 (2.06%) Centrify
4 4 (2.06%) CyberArk
5 2 (1.03%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.52%) Google
6 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.52%) NEC
6 1 (0.52%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.52%) SAP
6 1 (0.52%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.52%) Xamarin