.NET Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 105 56
Rank change year-on-year -19 -49 -11
Contract jobs citing .NET 1,056 744 1,164
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.25% 2.64% 3.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.56% 10.35% 14.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 717 524 836
10th Percentile £400 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.59% -6.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £710 £744
UK median daily rate £523 £498 £520
% change year-on-year +5.03% -4.33% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 6 6
10th Percentile £37.25 £63.63 £17.99
25th Percentile £38.25 £65.88 £21.63
Median hourly rate £46.80 £67.00 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year -30.15% +54.91% -33.46%
75th Percentile £73.84 - £64.38
90th Percentile £78.70 - £75.00
UK median hourly rate £46.80 £66.50 £26.05
% change year-on-year -29.62% +155.28% -59.92%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,997 7,191 7,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.34% 25.54% 24.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,576 4,855 5,186
10th Percentile £381 £358 £361
25th Percentile £447 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -5.91% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 171 157
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £32.10
25th Percentile £53.90 £41.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +10.94%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.00 £73.85
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £50.72 £65.00
% change year-on-year +28.15% -21.97% +10.11%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing .NET relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET job vacancy trend in England

.NET
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in England over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in England

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET

.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing .NET in England over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for .NET in England

.NET
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 15 October 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 -5 667 £550 +10.00% 660
North of England -29 122 £460 -7.07% 280
South East -43 94 £500 +11.11% 208
Yorkshire -22 63 £450 -10.09% 92
South West +2 61 £475 +18.75% 60
Midlands -49 60 £475 -6.40% 146
North West -30 48 £485 +6.59% 144
West Midlands -40 38 £466 -8.28% 87
East of England -51 31 £525 +5.00% 113
East Midlands -17 21 £525 +3.45% 59
North East -26 11 £513 - 49
.NET
UK

.NET
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 51 (4.83%) SharePoint
2 42 (3.98%) Confluence
3 26 (2.46%) IIS
4 23 (2.18%) CMS
5 9 (0.85%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.76%) Oracle Workflow
7 7 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (0.66%) Sitecore CMS
8 6 (0.57%) Camunda
8 6 (0.57%) Kentico
8 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.57%) nginx
9 5 (0.47%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.47%) Appian
10 4 (0.38%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.38%) WordPress
11 3 (0.28%) Mendix
12 2 (0.19%) EPiServer
12 2 (0.19%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 29 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.66%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.38%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 44 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.66%) OpenText MBPM
2 7 (0.66%) Oracle BPM
3 6 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.47%) Shopify
5 4 (0.38%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.19%) Endur
7 2 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.19%) Temenos T24
8 1 (0.095%) Findur
8 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.095%) Sage 50
8 1 (0.095%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.095%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.095%) SDL Web 8
8 1 (0.095%) Siebel CRM
8 1 (0.095%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 542 (51.33%) Azure
2 216 (20.45%) Azure DevOps
3 183 (17.33%) AWS
4 145 (13.73%) Power Platform
5 119 (11.27%) GitHub
6 100 (9.47%) Serverless
7 93 (8.81%) Dynamics 365
8 77 (7.29%) Azure Service Bus
9 71 (6.72%) PowerApps
10 70 (6.63%) Azure Logic Apps
10 70 (6.63%) Power Automate
11 65 (6.16%) Azure Functions
12 46 (4.36%) Entra ID
13 44 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
14 40 (3.79%) GitHub Actions
15 38 (3.60%) Azure AKS
16 36 (3.41%) Azure API Management
17 34 (3.22%) Azure Monitor
17 34 (3.22%) Copilot Studio
17 34 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.33%) Internet
2 11 (1.04%) DNS
3 10 (0.95%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.76%) VPN
5 7 (0.66%) Wireshark
6 6 (0.57%) Firewall
6 6 (0.57%) Intranet
7 5 (0.47%) RTP
8 4 (0.38%) 3GPP
8 4 (0.38%) HTTP
8 4 (0.38%) Network Security
8 4 (0.38%) OpenVPN
9 3 (0.28%) DHCP
9 3 (0.28%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.28%) NAS
9 3 (0.28%) SAN
9 3 (0.28%) VLAN
10 2 (0.19%) Multicast
10 2 (0.19%) Skype
11 1 (0.095%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 283 (26.80%) SQL Server
2 65 (6.16%) Power BI
3 49 (4.64%) Oracle Database
4 48 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
5 47 (4.45%) NoSQL
6 45 (4.26%) Relational Database
7 36 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
8 31 (2.94%) MongoDB
9 27 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 19 (1.80%) Data Lake
11 17 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 14 (1.33%) MySQL
13 12 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
13 12 (1.14%) Geospatial Data
14 10 (0.95%) DynamoDB
15 8 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
16 7 (0.66%) Chroma
16 7 (0.66%) Metadata
16 7 (0.66%) Pinecone
16 7 (0.66%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 144 (13.64%) Git
2 81 (7.67%) JIRA
3 52 (4.92%) Visual Studio
4 40 (3.79%) Jenkins
5 35 (3.31%) GitLab
6 21 (1.99%) TeamCity
7 19 (1.80%) Selenium
8 16 (1.52%) Gatling
9 15 (1.42%) JMeter
10 14 (1.33%) Claude Code
10 14 (1.33%) Cucumber
11 13 (1.23%) Bitbucket
11 13 (1.23%) MSI
12 11 (1.04%) Artifactory
12 11 (1.04%) JUnit
13 10 (0.95%) Postman
14 9 (0.85%) MSBuild
14 9 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (0.76%) eggPlant
General
1 281 (26.61%) Social Skills
2 269 (25.47%) Finance
3 123 (11.65%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (11.08%) Banking
5 62 (5.87%) Public Sector
6 54 (5.11%) Front Office
7 37 (3.50%) Investment Banking
8 32 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (1.80%) Financial Institution
10 18 (1.70%) Retail
11 15 (1.42%) Marketing
12 14 (1.33%) Legal
13 13 (1.23%) Back Office
14 12 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.57%) Billing
15 6 (0.57%) Law
15 6 (0.57%) Police
15 6 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.47%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 514 (48.67%) Developer
2 198 (18.75%) .NET Developer
3 188 (17.80%) Senior
4 127 (12.03%) C# Developer
5 107 (10.13%) Architect
6 101 (9.56%) Senior Developer
7 91 (8.62%) Software Engineer
8 89 (8.43%) Lead
9 80 (7.58%) Full-Stack Developer
10 57 (5.40%) C# .NET Developer
11 53 (5.02%) Solutions Architect
12 45 (4.26%) Senior .NET Developer
13 44 (4.17%) Software Developer
14 38 (3.60%) Azure Developer
15 35 (3.31%) Applications Support
15 35 (3.31%) Dynamics 365 Developer
15 35 (3.31%) React Developer
16 34 (3.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 34 (3.22%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
17 33 (3.13%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (21.21%) REST
2 197 (18.66%) .NET Framework
3 169 (16.00%) React
4 154 (14.58%) .NET Core
5 125 (11.84%) ASP.NET
6 119 (11.27%) Terraform
7 107 (10.13%) RESTful
8 85 (8.05%) HTML
9 82 (7.77%) AngularJS
10 79 (7.48%) Web Services
11 77 (7.29%) CSS
12 66 (6.25%) JSON
13 64 (6.06%) WPF
14 62 (5.87%) Entity Framework
15 57 (5.40%) XML
16 51 (4.83%) ASP.NET Core
17 50 (4.73%) OAuth
18 47 (4.45%) SOAP
19 46 (4.36%) WinForms
20 44 (4.17%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 132 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 82 (7.77%) Enterprise Software
3 64 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
4 62 (5.87%) Product Ownership
5 53 (5.02%) AI Agents
6 51 (4.83%) Legacy Systems
7 36 (3.41%) Onboarding
8 31 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (1.70%) Legacy Applications
11 15 (1.42%) Data Centre
11 15 (1.42%) Low-Code
12 14 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 12 (1.14%) Legacy Code
13 12 (1.14%) Management Information System
13 12 (1.14%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.04%) Data Structures
14 11 (1.04%) Distributed Applications
14 11 (1.04%) Fixed Income
15 10 (0.95%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 120 (11.36%) Windows
2 69 (6.53%) Linux
3 35 (3.31%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.23%) Unix
5 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.095%) Android
6 1 (0.095%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.095%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.095%) VMS
6 1 (0.095%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 447 (42.33%) DevOps
2 445 (42.14%) CI/CD
3 383 (36.27%) Agile
4 225 (21.31%) AI
5 219 (20.74%) Software Engineering
6 183 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
7 176 (16.67%) Microservices
8 166 (15.72%) Full-Stack Development
9 163 (15.44%) Test Automation
10 139 (13.16%) SDLC
11 131 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
12 125 (11.84%) Migration
13 123 (11.65%) Scrum
14 121 (11.46%) Stakeholder Management
15 100 (9.47%) Event-Driven
16 92 (8.71%) Infrastructure as Code
17 89 (8.43%) Code Quality
18 86 (8.14%) Mentoring
19 81 (7.67%) Deployment Automation
20 80 (7.58%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 734 (69.51%) C#
2 392 (37.12%) SQL
3 247 (23.39%) JavaScript
4 221 (20.93%) Python
5 152 (14.39%) TypeScript
6 109 (10.32%) Java
7 81 (7.67%) T-SQL
8 63 (5.97%) PowerShell
9 56 (5.30%) PL/SQL
10 54 (5.11%) Bicep
11 34 (3.22%) C++
12 27 (2.56%) VB.NET
13 19 (1.80%) Bash
14 17 (1.61%) VBA
15 16 (1.52%) VB
16 14 (1.33%) Go
17 10 (0.95%) X++
18 7 (0.66%) C
19 6 (0.57%) PHP
19 6 (0.57%) XPath
Qualifications
1 153 (14.49%) Security Cleared
2 126 (11.93%) SC Cleared
3 95 (9.00%) Degree
4 28 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.08%) Azure Certification
6 19 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.52%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.95%) AWS Certification
8 10 (0.95%) DV Cleared
8 10 (0.95%) PhD
9 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 7 (0.66%) ISTQB
10 7 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.38%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.38%) ISEB
12 3 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.28%) CSPO
12 3 (0.28%) IIBA
13 2 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (8.24%) QA
2 40 (3.79%) Accessibility
3 34 (3.22%) WCAG
4 16 (1.52%) Data Quality
4 16 (1.52%) NCSC
5 13 (1.23%) GDPR
6 6 (0.57%) SLA
7 4 (0.38%) HL7
8 3 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 3 (0.28%) Basel III
8 3 (0.28%) GMP
8 3 (0.28%) GxP
8 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 3 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.19%) GRC
9 2 (0.19%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.19%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.19%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.19%) ITGC
System Software
1 118 (11.17%) Docker
2 39 (3.69%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.095%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 105 (9.94%) Kubernetes
2 35 (3.31%) Ansible
3 15 (1.42%) Grafana
4 14 (1.33%) Kibana
5 10 (0.95%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.47%) HP Fortify
6 5 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (0.38%) Control-M
8 3 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.19%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.19%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.19%) Istio
9 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.19%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.095%) PingFederate
10 1 (0.095%) Rancher
Vendors
1 296 (28.03%) Microsoft
2 143 (13.54%) Oracle
3 32 (3.03%) UiPath
4 31 (2.94%) Citrix
5 29 (2.75%) Databricks
6 26 (2.46%) OpenAI
7 21 (1.99%) ServiceNow
8 15 (1.42%) IBM
9 14 (1.33%) Sitecore
10 12 (1.14%) Splunk
11 10 (0.95%) Foundry
11 10 (0.95%) Google
11 10 (0.95%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.95%) SAP
12 9 (0.85%) CyberArk
13 6 (0.57%) Centrify
13 6 (0.57%) Hitachi
13 6 (0.57%) InterSystems
14 5 (0.47%) OpenText
14 5 (0.47%) VMware