.NET Software Developer Contracts in England

.NET Software Developer
UK > England

The median .NET Software Developer daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 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
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 489 524 600
Rank change year-on-year +35 +76 +65
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Software Developer 6 35 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.023% 0.094% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.10% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 32 31
10th Percentile £456 £500 £350
25th Percentile £475 £568 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £688 £550
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +25.00% -12.00%
75th Percentile £547 £800 £703
90th Percentile £650 - £750
UK median daily rate £500 £675 £500
% change year-on-year -25.93% +35.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £75.00
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +25.79%

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 24,278 34,696 45,028
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 92.91% 94.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,841 22,709 31,930
10th Percentile £293 £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 1,141 2,561 1,374
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.88 £14.42
25th Percentile £17.98 £17.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £43.69
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -8.45% +74.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.75 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.80% -12.21% +68.63%

.NET Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET Software Developer in England

.NET Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for .NET Software Developer in England

.NET Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Software Developer in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Software Developer in England

.NET Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET Software Developer in England

.NET Software 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 Software Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 4 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 +2 2 £600 -14.29% 17
Yorkshire - 2 £525 - 3
South East - 2 £513 - 13
North of England - 2 £525 - 7
.NET Software Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 July 2025, .NET Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (50.00%) Code Quality
4 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (50.00%) SQL
4 3 (50.00%) SaaS
4 3 (50.00%) DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) .NET Core
5 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (33.33%) REST
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (33.33%) Finance
5 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (33.33%) Terraform
5 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
5 2 (33.33%) ARM Templates
6 1 (16.67%) Technology Transformation
6 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
6 1 (16.67%) JIRA
6 1 (16.67%) QA
6 1 (16.67%) Wiki
6 1 (16.67%) WCF
6 1 (16.67%) TDD

.NET Software 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (33.33%) ARM Templates
3 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (33.33%) REST
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
4 1 (16.67%) CSS
4 1 (16.67%) CSS3
4 1 (16.67%) Dapper ORM
4 1 (16.67%) Entity Framework
4 1 (16.67%) HTML
4 1 (16.67%) HTML5
4 1 (16.67%) WCF
4 1 (16.67%) Web Services
4 1 (16.67%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (16.67%) NHS
1 1 (16.67%) Reinsurance
1 1 (16.67%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) API Development
5 1 (16.67%) API Integration
5 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
5 1 (16.67%) Backlog Management
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Speech Recognition
5 1 (16.67%) TDD
5 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (16.67%) Technology Transformation
5 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) VB
3 1 (16.67%) VB6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft