.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in England

.NET Developer
UK > England

The median .NET Developer daily rate in England is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 270 186
Rank change year-on-year -109 -84 -44
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 171 274 519
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.90% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.96% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 216 409
10th Percentile £359 £353 £348
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £638 £688
90th Percentile £650 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
Median hourly rate £46.00 - £50.00
UK median hourly rate £46.00 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -24.00%

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 28,419 28,414 35,414
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 92.93% 93.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,221 17,533 24,351
10th Percentile £285 £300 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,705 993 1,381
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.36 £15.33
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.05 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.08% -16.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.80 £74.69 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +44.15%

.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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 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 -80 108 £500 -10.75% 47
South East -12 19 £475 +2.70% 67
East of England -8 13 £450 -7.22% 16
Midlands -29 12 £510 +7.37% 26
North of England -49 10 £423 -11.05% 59
East Midlands -9 7 £513 +44.37% 12
North West -27 5 £410 -13.68% 37
West Midlands -33 5 £400 -15.79% 14
Yorkshire -31 4 £475 -5.00% 14
South West -12 2 £550 +25.00% 15
North East -9 1 - - 8
.NET Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 December 2025, .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.

1 171 (100.00%) .NET
2 133 (77.78%) C#
3 76 (44.44%) Azure
4 75 (43.86%) SQL
5 62 (36.26%) Agile
6 53 (30.99%) .NET Framework
7 52 (30.41%) DevOps
8 50 (29.24%) SQL Server
9 47 (27.49%) CI/CD
10 43 (25.15%) Full-Stack Development
11 39 (22.81%) .NET Core
12 35 (20.47%) Problem-Solving
13 34 (19.88%) AngularJS
13 34 (19.88%) Microservices
14 28 (16.37%) Microsoft
15 27 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
16 26 (15.20%) Oracle
16 26 (15.20%) WPF
17 25 (14.62%) AWS
18 24 (14.04%) Windows
19 22 (12.87%) Clean Code
19 22 (12.87%) RESTful
20 21 (12.28%) Migration
21 20 (11.70%) PL/SQL
22 19 (11.11%) Entity Framework
23 18 (10.53%) ASP.NET
23 18 (10.53%) Design Patterns
23 18 (10.53%) Scrum
24 16 (9.36%) AI
24 16 (9.36%) Oracle Database

.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 (4.68%) Confluence
2 4 (2.34%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.17%) IIS
3 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.58%) CMS
4 1 (0.58%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.58%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.58%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.58%) Mendix
Applications
1 13 (7.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.17%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.58%) Eikon
2 1 (0.58%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 76 (44.44%) Azure
2 27 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (14.62%) AWS
4 12 (7.02%) GitHub
5 11 (6.43%) Serverless
6 8 (4.68%) Azure Functions
6 8 (4.68%) PaaS
7 7 (4.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (4.09%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (2.92%) Azure AKS
9 5 (2.92%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.92%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.34%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.34%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (2.34%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.34%) Azure Pipelines
10 4 (2.34%) ChatGPT
10 4 (2.34%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.34%) DNS
2 3 (1.75%) DHCP
2 3 (1.75%) HTTP
2 3 (1.75%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.58%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (29.24%) SQL Server
2 16 (9.36%) Oracle Database
3 10 (5.85%) Relational Database
4 8 (4.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.51%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.34%) Power BI
7 2 (1.17%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.17%) MySQL
7 2 (1.17%) Redis
8 1 (0.58%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (6.43%) JIRA
2 9 (5.26%) SpecFlow
3 7 (4.09%) Git
4 4 (2.34%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.75%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.58%) JetBrains Rider
6 1 (0.58%) JMeter
6 1 (0.58%) MSTest
6 1 (0.58%) NUnit
6 1 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.58%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 58 (33.92%) Finance
2 34 (19.88%) Social Skills
3 18 (10.53%) Banking
4 16 (9.36%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.85%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.51%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.51%) Front Office
7 4 (2.34%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.75%) Back Office
8 3 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.58%) Advertising
9 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.58%) Publishing
9 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (100.00%) .NET
2 53 (30.99%) .NET Framework
3 39 (22.81%) .NET Core
4 34 (19.88%) AngularJS
5 26 (15.20%) WPF
6 22 (12.87%) RESTful
7 19 (11.11%) Entity Framework
8 18 (10.53%) ASP.NET
9 16 (9.36%) React
10 14 (8.19%) CSS
11 12 (7.02%) Blazor
11 12 (7.02%) REST
12 9 (5.26%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (5.26%) HTML
13 8 (4.68%) NHibernate
13 8 (4.68%) Playwright
13 8 (4.68%) Web Services
14 7 (4.09%) ASP.NET Core
14 7 (4.09%) Middleware
14 7 (4.09%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.43%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.85%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (4.68%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (4.09%) Credit Risk
5 6 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.51%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.51%) Market Risk
6 5 (2.92%) Hedge funds
7 4 (2.34%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.75%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.75%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.75%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.58%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.58%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (14.04%) Windows
2 5 (2.92%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.58%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (36.26%) Agile
2 52 (30.41%) DevOps
3 47 (27.49%) CI/CD
4 43 (25.15%) Full-Stack Development
5 35 (20.47%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (19.88%) Microservices
7 22 (12.87%) Clean Code
8 21 (12.28%) Migration
9 18 (10.53%) Design Patterns
9 18 (10.53%) Scrum
10 16 (9.36%) AI
11 15 (8.77%) MVC
11 15 (8.77%) SDLC
11 15 (8.77%) Unit Testing
12 13 (7.60%) OO
12 13 (7.60%) OOP
12 13 (7.60%) Software Engineering
12 13 (7.60%) TDD
13 10 (5.85%) Risk Management
14 9 (5.26%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 133 (77.78%) C#
2 75 (43.86%) SQL
3 20 (11.70%) PL/SQL
4 13 (7.60%) Python
4 13 (7.60%) T-SQL
4 13 (7.60%) VB
4 13 (7.60%) VB.NET
4 13 (7.60%) VBA
5 12 (7.02%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.09%) PHP
7 6 (3.51%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.75%) Bicep
9 2 (1.17%) Java
9 2 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.17%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.58%) C++
10 1 (0.58%) Formula Language
10 1 (0.58%) Go
10 1 (0.58%) LotusScript
10 1 (0.58%) VB6
Qualifications
1 15 (8.77%) Security Cleared
2 11 (6.43%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.34%) Degree
3 4 (2.34%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.68%) QA
2 5 (2.92%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.92%) WCAG
3 3 (1.75%) EMIR
3 3 (1.75%) MiFID
System Software
1 15 (8.77%) Docker
2 4 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (7.60%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (16.37%) Microsoft
2 26 (15.20%) Oracle
3 3 (1.75%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.75%) Databricks
3 3 (1.75%) VMware
4 2 (1.17%) Citrix
4 2 (1.17%) CQG
4 2 (1.17%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.17%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.58%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.58%) DevExpress
5 1 (0.58%) GoldenSource
5 1 (0.58%) Google
5 1 (0.58%) Kofax
5 1 (0.58%) Lotus
5 1 (0.58%) Reuters
5 1 (0.58%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.58%) Sybase
5 1 (0.58%) Temenos
5 1 (0.58%) Virgin Media