.NET Software Engineer Contracts in England

.NET Software Engineer
UK > England

The median .NET Software Engineer daily rate in England is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 483 568
Rank change year-on-year +18 +85 +53
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Software Engineer 20 59 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.082% 0.16% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.17% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 52 75
10th Percentile £450 £466 £550
25th Percentile £541 £563 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £688 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +5.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £763 £750 £700
90th Percentile £825 £800 £738
UK median daily rate £588 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -12.96% +3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 -

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

.NET Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET Software Engineer in England

.NET Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for .NET Software Engineer in England

.NET Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Software Engineer in England

.NET Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET Software Engineer in England

.NET Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 17 £700 - 44
Yorkshire - 3 £525 - 4
North of England - 3 £525 - 24
.NET Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, .NET Software Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) .NET
1 20 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 19 (95.00%) C#
3 11 (55.00%) Azure
4 7 (35.00%) Agile
4 7 (35.00%) Front Office
5 6 (30.00%) Banking
5 6 (30.00%) AWS
5 6 (30.00%) .NET Core
5 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
6 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 5 (25.00%) Finance
7 4 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (20.00%) SQL
7 4 (20.00%) Investment Banking
7 4 (20.00%) Bicep
7 4 (20.00%) Microservices
7 4 (20.00%) DevOps
8 3 (15.00%) Low Latency
8 3 (15.00%) Event-Driven
8 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (15.00%) Docker
8 3 (15.00%) Unit Testing
8 3 (15.00%) Git
8 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
8 3 (15.00%) Python
8 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
8 3 (15.00%) Code Quality
9 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (10.00%) Windows

.NET Software Engineer 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 11 (55.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Stack
3 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (10.00%) Power BI
3 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) Ant
3 1 (5.00%) GitLab
3 1 (5.00%) Maven
3 1 (5.00%) Subversion
General
1 7 (35.00%) Front Office
2 6 (30.00%) Banking
3 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (20.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Advertising
5 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (100.00%) .NET
2 6 (30.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (10.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (10.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CDK
4 1 (5.00%) Blazor
4 1 (5.00%) D3.js
4 1 (5.00%) Dapper ORM
4 1 (5.00%) HTML
4 1 (5.00%) htmx
4 1 (5.00%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (5.00%) React
4 1 (5.00%) REST
4 1 (5.00%) RESTful
4 1 (5.00%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (10.00%) NHS
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Derivative
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (5.00%) Equities
3 1 (5.00%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) TWAP
3 1 (5.00%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (35.00%) Agile
3 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) Microservices
5 3 (15.00%) Code Quality
5 3 (15.00%) Event-Driven
5 3 (15.00%) Low Latency
5 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.00%) Unit Testing
6 2 (10.00%) Backlog Management
6 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (10.00%) Clean Code
6 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (10.00%) Data Development
6 2 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (10.00%) Multithreading
6 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (95.00%) C#
2 4 (20.00%) Bicep
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) C++
4 1 (5.00%) Go
4 1 (5.00%) VB
4 1 (5.00%) VB6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Databricks