.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 8 May 2026.

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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 289 244
Rank change year-on-year -125 -45 -78
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 168 188 360
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.78% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.84% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 157 309
10th Percentile £375 £385 £313
25th Percentile £450 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% +1.50% -3.85%
75th Percentile £610 £675 £650
90th Percentile £715 £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 37,387 22,434 34,163
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 92.58% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,316 14,918 22,678
10th Percentile £313 £300 £281
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,544 909 2,434
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.11 £12.94
25th Percentile £20.98 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £30.40 £36.58
Median % change year-on-year +54.61% -16.88% -17.86%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.49
UK median hourly rate £44.00 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +53.04% -21.23% -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 8 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 8 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 -110 88 £569 +8.33% 54
North of England -39 33 £500 +21.21% 45
Yorkshire -33 18 £588 +11.90% 9
Midlands -57 18 £550 +10.55% 20
South East -70 18 £488 +17.47% 44
North West -31 15 £450 +9.09% 24
East Midlands -17 14 £575 +15.00% 9
South West -35 5 £588 -10.31% 13
West Midlands -55 4 £519 +4.80% 11
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 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
2 136 (80.95%) C#
3 93 (55.36%) Azure
4 78 (46.43%) CI/CD
5 67 (39.88%) SQL Server
6 66 (39.29%) SQL
7 63 (37.50%) DevOps
8 58 (34.52%) Agile
9 46 (27.38%) .NET Framework
10 38 (22.62%) Microservices
11 35 (20.83%) .NET Core
12 34 (20.24%) Azure DevOps
13 33 (19.64%) RESTful
14 32 (19.05%) Full-Stack Development
14 32 (19.05%) Microsoft
15 30 (17.86%) AngularJS
16 28 (16.67%) ASP.NET
16 28 (16.67%) AWS
17 26 (15.48%) React
17 26 (15.48%) REST
17 26 (15.48%) Security Cleared
18 24 (14.29%) SC Cleared
19 23 (13.69%) HTML
19 23 (13.69%) JavaScript
20 21 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
20 21 (12.50%) Python
21 20 (11.90%) Kubernetes
22 19 (11.31%) Relational Database
22 19 (11.31%) Test Automation
23 18 (10.71%) AI

.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 93 (55.36%) Azure
2 34 (20.24%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (16.67%) AWS
4 18 (10.71%) Azure Service Bus
5 17 (10.12%) Serverless
6 13 (7.74%) GitHub
7 12 (7.14%) Azure Functions
8 8 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (4.17%) Entra ID
10 6 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (3.57%) 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%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.38%) Zapier
12 3 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
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 19 (11.31%) Relational Database
3 12 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (3.57%) Redis
6 5 (2.98%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.38%) Power BI
8 3 (1.79%) Metabase
8 3 (1.79%) Parquet
9 2 (1.19%) DocumentDB
9 2 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.19%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
10 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%) Visual Studio
3 4 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.38%) MSTest
3 4 (2.38%) TeamCity
4 3 (1.79%) JIRA
4 3 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (1.79%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.19%) GitLab
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%) Mocha
6 1 (0.60%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.60%) tSQLt
6 1 (0.60%) webpack
General
1 43 (25.60%) Finance
2 33 (19.64%) Social Skills
3 22 (13.10%) Banking
4 17 (10.12%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.74%) Front Office
6 11 (6.55%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.57%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.79%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.19%) Back Office
11 1 (0.60%) Automotive
11 1 (0.60%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
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 46 (27.38%) .NET Framework
3 35 (20.83%) .NET Core
4 33 (19.64%) RESTful
5 30 (17.86%) AngularJS
6 28 (16.67%) ASP.NET
7 26 (15.48%) React
7 26 (15.48%) REST
8 23 (13.69%) HTML
9 13 (7.74%) ASP.NET Web API
10 12 (7.14%) Entity Framework
11 11 (6.55%) CSS
12 10 (5.95%) ASP.NET Core
13 9 (5.36%) ASP.NET MVC
14 8 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
14 8 (4.76%) WinForms
14 8 (4.76%) WPF
15 7 (4.17%) OAuth
15 7 (4.17%) YAML
16 6 (3.57%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.14%) 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%) IoT
8 3 (1.79%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.79%) Derivative
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 78 (46.43%) CI/CD
2 63 (37.50%) DevOps
3 58 (34.52%) Agile
4 38 (22.62%) Microservices
5 32 (19.05%) Full-Stack Development
6 21 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (11.31%) Test Automation
8 18 (10.71%) AI
8 18 (10.71%) Scrum
9 17 (10.12%) TDD
10 16 (9.52%) Design Patterns
10 16 (9.52%) MVC
10 16 (9.52%) Unit Testing
11 15 (8.93%) OOP
11 15 (8.93%) SDLC
12 13 (7.74%) Performance Tuning
12 13 (7.74%) SOLID
13 12 (7.14%) Clean Code
13 12 (7.14%) Event-Driven
13 12 (7.14%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 136 (80.95%) C#
2 66 (39.29%) SQL
3 23 (13.69%) JavaScript
4 21 (12.50%) Python
5 17 (10.12%) TypeScript
6 16 (9.52%) T-SQL
7 7 (4.17%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.38%) Bicep
8 4 (2.38%) Java
8 4 (2.38%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.79%) C++
9 3 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.79%) MATLAB
9 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 11 (6.55%) QA
2 2 (1.19%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.60%) HL7
3 1 (0.60%) NCSC
3 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (10.71%) Docker
2 2 (1.19%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (11.90%) 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