.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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 102 57
Rank change year-on-year -21 -45 -12
Contract jobs citing .NET 1,039 732 1,163
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.23% 2.62% 3.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.49% 10.29% 14.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 707 514 834
10th Percentile £400 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £401 £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 £713 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £498 £520
% change year-on-year +5.53% -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 9,900 7,112 7,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.27% 25.48% 24.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,509 4,807 5,152
10th Percentile £381 £356 £360
25th Percentile £449 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -
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 275 171 159
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £27.60
25th Percentile £53.43 £41.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +9.62%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.00 £73.80
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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -2 656 £550 +10.00% 661
North of England -22 116 £463 -6.57% 288
South East -41 93 £500 +11.11% 217
South West +8 62 £475 +18.75% 59
Yorkshire -19 60 £450 -10.09% 98
Midlands -44 60 £500 -1.48% 157
North West -32 46 £500 +9.89% 141
West Midlands -46 38 £466 -8.28% 93
East of England -46 31 £525 +5.00% 107
East Midlands -17 21 £550 +8.37% 64
North East -32 10 £513 - 54
.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 49 (4.72%) SharePoint
2 42 (4.04%) Confluence
3 26 (2.50%) IIS
4 23 (2.21%) CMS
5 9 (0.87%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.77%) Oracle Workflow
7 7 (0.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (0.67%) Sitecore CMS
8 6 (0.58%) Camunda
8 6 (0.58%) Kentico
8 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.58%) nginx
9 5 (0.48%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.48%) Appian
10 4 (0.38%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.38%) WordPress
11 3 (0.29%) Mendix
12 2 (0.19%) EPiServer
12 2 (0.19%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 29 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.67%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.38%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 45 (4.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.67%) OpenText MBPM
2 7 (0.67%) Oracle BPM
3 6 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.48%) Shopify
5 4 (0.38%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.19%) Endur
7 2 (0.19%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.19%) Temenos T24
8 1 (0.096%) Findur
8 1 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.096%) Sage 50
8 1 (0.096%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.096%) SDL Web 8
8 1 (0.096%) Siebel CRM
8 1 (0.096%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 533 (51.30%) Azure
2 210 (20.21%) Azure DevOps
3 179 (17.23%) AWS
4 142 (13.67%) Power Platform
5 113 (10.88%) GitHub
6 96 (9.24%) Serverless
7 93 (8.95%) Dynamics 365
8 76 (7.31%) Azure Service Bus
9 69 (6.64%) Azure Logic Apps
9 69 (6.64%) Power Automate
9 69 (6.64%) PowerApps
10 62 (5.97%) Azure Functions
11 46 (4.43%) Entra ID
12 43 (4.14%) Microsoft Copilot
13 38 (3.66%) Azure AKS
14 37 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
15 35 (3.37%) Azure API Management
16 34 (3.27%) Azure Monitor
17 33 (3.18%) Copilot Studio
18 31 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.35%) Internet
2 11 (1.06%) DNS
3 10 (0.96%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.77%) VPN
5 7 (0.67%) Wireshark
6 6 (0.58%) Firewall
6 6 (0.58%) Intranet
7 5 (0.48%) RTP
8 4 (0.38%) 3GPP
8 4 (0.38%) HTTP
8 4 (0.38%) Network Security
8 4 (0.38%) OpenVPN
9 3 (0.29%) DHCP
9 3 (0.29%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.29%) NAS
9 3 (0.29%) SAN
9 3 (0.29%) VLAN
10 2 (0.19%) Multicast
10 2 (0.19%) Skype
11 1 (0.096%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 282 (27.14%) SQL Server
2 64 (6.16%) Power BI
3 49 (4.72%) Oracle Database
4 48 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
5 47 (4.52%) NoSQL
6 45 (4.33%) Relational Database
7 35 (3.37%) Azure SQL Database
8 30 (2.89%) MongoDB
9 27 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 18 (1.73%) Data Lake
11 17 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 14 (1.35%) MySQL
13 12 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
13 12 (1.15%) Geospatial Data
14 10 (0.96%) DynamoDB
15 8 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
15 8 (0.77%) Chroma
15 8 (0.77%) Pinecone
15 8 (0.77%) Weaviate
16 7 (0.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 141 (13.57%) Git
2 81 (7.80%) JIRA
3 53 (5.10%) Visual Studio
4 39 (3.75%) Jenkins
5 35 (3.37%) GitLab
6 19 (1.83%) Selenium
6 19 (1.83%) TeamCity
7 16 (1.54%) Gatling
8 15 (1.44%) JMeter
9 14 (1.35%) Claude Code
9 14 (1.35%) Cucumber
10 13 (1.25%) Bitbucket
10 13 (1.25%) MSI
11 11 (1.06%) JUnit
12 10 (0.96%) Postman
13 9 (0.87%) Artifactory
13 9 (0.87%) MSBuild
13 9 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.77%) eggPlant
14 8 (0.77%) NUnit
General
1 273 (26.28%) Social Skills
2 262 (25.22%) Finance
3 123 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (11.26%) Banking
5 60 (5.77%) Public Sector
6 55 (5.29%) Front Office
7 38 (3.66%) Investment Banking
8 31 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (1.73%) Financial Institution
10 16 (1.54%) Retail
11 15 (1.44%) Marketing
12 13 (1.25%) Back Office
13 12 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (1.15%) Legal
14 6 (0.58%) Billing
14 6 (0.58%) Police
14 6 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.48%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.48%) Law
15 5 (0.48%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 508 (48.89%) Developer
2 198 (19.06%) .NET Developer
3 182 (17.52%) Senior
4 125 (12.03%) C# Developer
5 106 (10.20%) Architect
6 99 (9.53%) Senior Developer
7 90 (8.66%) Software Engineer
8 86 (8.28%) Lead
9 79 (7.60%) Full-Stack Developer
10 56 (5.39%) C# .NET Developer
11 53 (5.10%) Solutions Architect
12 44 (4.23%) Senior .NET Developer
13 43 (4.14%) Software Developer
14 38 (3.66%) Azure Developer
15 35 (3.37%) Dynamics 365 Developer
15 35 (3.37%) React Developer
16 34 (3.27%) Applications Support
16 34 (3.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 33 (3.18%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
17 33 (3.18%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (20.98%) REST
2 198 (19.06%) .NET Framework
3 165 (15.88%) React
4 150 (14.44%) .NET Core
5 123 (11.84%) ASP.NET
6 115 (11.07%) Terraform
7 104 (10.01%) RESTful
8 84 (8.08%) HTML
9 80 (7.70%) AngularJS
10 78 (7.51%) Web Services
11 76 (7.31%) CSS
12 66 (6.35%) JSON
13 64 (6.16%) WPF
14 61 (5.87%) Entity Framework
15 57 (5.49%) XML
16 51 (4.91%) ASP.NET Core
17 48 (4.62%) OAuth
18 47 (4.52%) SOAP
19 46 (4.43%) WinForms
20 43 (4.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 129 (12.42%) Cloud Native
2 78 (7.51%) Enterprise Software
3 61 (5.87%) Distributed Systems
4 59 (5.68%) Product Ownership
5 54 (5.20%) AI Agents
6 51 (4.91%) Legacy Systems
7 36 (3.46%) Onboarding
8 31 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (1.73%) Legacy Applications
11 16 (1.54%) Low-Code
12 15 (1.44%) Data Centre
13 14 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 12 (1.15%) Legacy Code
14 12 (1.15%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.06%) Data Structures
15 11 (1.06%) Fixed Income
15 11 (1.06%) Management Information System
16 10 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
16 10 (0.96%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 119 (11.45%) Windows
2 68 (6.54%) Linux
3 35 (3.37%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.25%) Unix
5 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.096%) Android
6 1 (0.096%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.096%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.096%) VMS
6 1 (0.096%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 432 (41.58%) DevOps
3 377 (36.28%) Agile
4 219 (21.08%) AI
5 215 (20.69%) Software Engineering
6 180 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
7 174 (16.75%) Microservices
8 163 (15.69%) Full-Stack Development
9 160 (15.40%) Test Automation
10 135 (12.99%) SDLC
11 127 (12.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 120 (11.55%) Migration
12 120 (11.55%) Scrum
13 119 (11.45%) Stakeholder Management
14 98 (9.43%) Event-Driven
15 91 (8.76%) Infrastructure as Code
16 86 (8.28%) Code Quality
17 83 (7.99%) Mentoring
18 80 (7.70%) Deployment Automation
19 77 (7.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 719 (69.20%) C#
2 385 (37.05%) SQL
3 239 (23.00%) JavaScript
4 217 (20.89%) Python
5 147 (14.15%) TypeScript
6 105 (10.11%) Java
7 81 (7.80%) T-SQL
8 60 (5.77%) PowerShell
9 56 (5.39%) PL/SQL
10 54 (5.20%) Bicep
11 34 (3.27%) C++
12 27 (2.60%) VB.NET
13 18 (1.73%) Bash
14 17 (1.64%) VBA
15 16 (1.54%) VB
16 13 (1.25%) Go
17 10 (0.96%) X++
18 7 (0.67%) C
19 6 (0.58%) PHP
19 6 (0.58%) XPath
Qualifications
1 151 (14.53%) Security Cleared
2 125 (12.03%) SC Cleared
3 95 (9.14%) Degree
4 28 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.12%) Azure Certification
6 19 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.54%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.96%) DV Cleared
8 10 (0.96%) PhD
9 9 (0.87%) AWS Certification
9 9 (0.87%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 7 (0.67%) ISTQB
10 7 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.38%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.38%) ISEB
12 3 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.29%) CSPO
12 3 (0.29%) IIBA
13 2 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (8.37%) QA
2 40 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 34 (3.27%) WCAG
4 16 (1.54%) Data Quality
4 16 (1.54%) NCSC
5 13 (1.25%) GDPR
6 6 (0.58%) SLA
7 4 (0.38%) HL7
8 3 (0.29%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 3 (0.29%) Basel III
8 3 (0.29%) GMP
8 3 (0.29%) GxP
8 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 3 (0.29%) 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 15022
9 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.19%) ITGC
System Software
1 115 (11.07%) Docker
2 39 (3.75%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.096%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 104 (10.01%) Kubernetes
2 35 (3.37%) Ansible
3 14 (1.35%) Grafana
3 14 (1.35%) Kibana
4 9 (0.87%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.48%) HP Fortify
5 5 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (0.38%) Control-M
7 3 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.19%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.19%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.19%) Istio
8 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.19%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.096%) PingFederate
9 1 (0.096%) Rancher
Vendors
1 293 (28.20%) Microsoft
2 143 (13.76%) Oracle
3 31 (2.98%) Citrix
3 31 (2.98%) UiPath
4 26 (2.50%) Databricks
5 25 (2.41%) OpenAI
6 19 (1.83%) ServiceNow
7 15 (1.44%) IBM
8 14 (1.35%) Sitecore
9 11 (1.06%) SAP
9 11 (1.06%) Splunk
10 10 (0.96%) Foundry
10 10 (0.96%) Google
10 10 (0.96%) Salesforce
11 9 (0.87%) CyberArk
12 6 (0.58%) Centrify
12 6 (0.58%) Hitachi
12 6 (0.58%) InterSystems
13 5 (0.48%) OpenText
13 5 (0.48%) VMware