.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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 63 50
Rank change year-on-year -63 -13 -11
Contract jobs citing .NET 812 853 1,369
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.17% 3.51% 3.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.38% 15.51% 18.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 670 1,062
10th Percentile £393 £374 £325
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -4.78%
75th Percentile £613 £659 £663
90th Percentile £706 £825 £749
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 13
10th Percentile £54.40 £26.84 £20.77
25th Percentile £56.50 £35.24 £22.75
Median hourly rate £68.00 £49.85 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year +36.42% -15.38% -9.38%
75th Percentile £73.46 £63.83 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.41 £71.85 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £27.88 £58.91
% change year-on-year +143.95% -52.68% -9.38%

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 7,821 5,501 7,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.89% 22.62% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,259 3,772 5,366
10th Percentile £358 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 86 180
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.30 £20.82
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.56 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.75 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £82.53 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

.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 24 March 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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -44 493 £500 -13.04% 229
South East -33 90 £525 +5.00% 182
North of England -58 87 £475 +5.56% 154
North West -34 44 £450 - 81
East of England +4 43 £550 +13.11% 65
Midlands -71 43 £503 +1.62% 89
Yorkshire -47 38 £500 +5.26% 50
South West -50 30 £438 -16.67% 64
West Midlands -63 26 £484 -3.15% 50
East Midlands -32 17 £525 +6.06% 39
North East -19 5 £513 +38.51% 29
.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 48 (5.91%) SharePoint
2 30 (3.69%) IIS
3 23 (2.83%) CMS
4 18 (2.22%) Sitecore CMS
5 17 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (1.85%) Confluence
7 11 (1.35%) HCL Notes
8 10 (1.23%) Mendix
9 7 (0.86%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.62%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.62%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.37%) Apache
11 3 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.25%) Appian
12 2 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.25%) Documentum
12 2 (0.25%) Oracle Spatial
12 2 (0.25%) SAS
13 1 (0.12%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 16 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) InDesign
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (4.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.97%) Endur
3 8 (0.99%) Advent Geneva
4 6 (0.74%) Findur
5 4 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.25%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.12%) Alphatax
7 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.12%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.12%) PeopleSoft Financials
7 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 450 (55.42%) Azure
2 196 (24.14%) Azure DevOps
3 133 (16.38%) AWS
4 109 (13.42%) GitHub
5 106 (13.05%) Serverless
6 81 (9.98%) Power Platform
7 79 (9.73%) Azure Functions
8 75 (9.24%) Azure Service Bus
9 69 (8.50%) Azure Logic Apps
10 67 (8.25%) GitHub Actions
11 55 (6.77%) Azure Monitor
12 53 (6.53%) Dynamics 365
13 51 (6.28%) Entra ID
14 49 (6.03%) GCP
15 44 (5.42%) Azure AKS
16 43 (5.30%) PaaS
16 43 (5.30%) Power Automate
17 41 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
18 37 (4.56%) PowerApps
19 33 (4.06%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.09%) HTTP
2 14 (1.72%) Internet
3 8 (0.99%) Network Security
4 4 (0.49%) 3GPP
4 4 (0.49%) SSL
5 3 (0.37%) DNS
6 2 (0.25%) DHCP
6 2 (0.25%) Firewall
6 2 (0.25%) NAS
6 2 (0.25%) RTCP
6 2 (0.25%) RTMP
6 2 (0.25%) RTP
6 2 (0.25%) S/MIME
6 2 (0.25%) SAN
6 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.25%) XCAP
7 1 (0.12%) Skype
7 1 (0.12%) SMTP
7 1 (0.12%) VPN
7 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (26.23%) SQL Server
2 49 (6.03%) Oracle Database
2 49 (6.03%) Relational Database
3 41 (5.05%) Azure SQL Database
4 33 (4.06%) NoSQL
5 31 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
5 31 (3.82%) Power BI
6 23 (2.83%) MongoDB
7 17 (2.09%) MySQL
8 16 (1.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 12 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (1.11%) Crystal Reports
10 9 (1.11%) Redis
11 8 (0.99%) DB2
11 8 (0.99%) Metadata
12 7 (0.86%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
14 5 (0.62%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.62%) DocumentDB
14 5 (0.62%) GIS
Development Applications
1 94 (11.58%) Git
2 58 (7.14%) JIRA
3 33 (4.06%) Visual Studio
4 28 (3.45%) Selenium
5 26 (3.20%) Jenkins
6 21 (2.59%) Postman
7 17 (2.09%) Cucumber
8 14 (1.72%) SpecFlow
9 10 (1.23%) GitLab
9 10 (1.23%) MSTest
9 10 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
9 10 (1.23%) TeamCity
10 9 (1.11%) NUnit
10 9 (1.11%) REST Assured
11 8 (0.99%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.99%) TestRail
12 6 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
13 5 (0.62%) Appium
13 5 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
14 4 (0.49%) SonarQube
General
1 200 (24.63%) Social Skills
2 188 (23.15%) Finance
3 109 (13.42%) Banking
4 75 (9.24%) Public Sector
5 72 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (4.06%) Investment Banking
7 30 (3.69%) Front Office
8 23 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (2.71%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (0.99%) Health Technology
11 8 (0.99%) Marketing
11 8 (0.99%) Retail
11 8 (0.99%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (0.86%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.74%) Back Office
13 6 (0.74%) Billing
14 5 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 463 (57.02%) Developer
2 153 (18.84%) .NET Developer
3 143 (17.61%) C# Developer
4 113 (13.92%) Senior
5 75 (9.24%) Architect
6 73 (8.99%) Software Engineer
7 65 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 65 (8.00%) Senior Developer
8 57 (7.02%) Lead
9 55 (6.77%) Azure Developer
10 48 (5.91%) C# .NET Developer
11 42 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
12 36 (4.43%) Software Developer
13 34 (4.19%) Senior .NET Developer
14 28 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
15 21 (2.59%) DevOps Engineer
16 20 (2.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 20 (2.46%) SQL Developer
16 20 (2.46%) Technical Architect
17 19 (2.34%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (19.83%) .NET Framework
2 141 (17.36%) React
3 117 (14.41%) REST
4 106 (13.05%) AngularJS
5 98 (12.07%) .NET Core
5 98 (12.07%) RESTful
6 91 (11.21%) HTML
7 88 (10.84%) ASP.NET
8 67 (8.25%) CSS
9 49 (6.03%) Node.js
10 39 (4.80%) ASP.NET Core
11 36 (4.43%) OAuth
12 35 (4.31%) Entity Framework
13 34 (4.19%) WPF
14 33 (4.06%) ASP.NET Web API
15 27 (3.33%) SOAP
15 27 (3.33%) XML
16 26 (3.20%) WinForms
17 25 (3.08%) JSON
17 25 (3.08%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 89 (10.96%) Cloud Native
2 43 (5.30%) Legacy Systems
3 37 (4.56%) Enterprise Software
4 31 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
5 25 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 15 (1.85%) Legacy Code
6 15 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (1.72%) AI Agents
7 14 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (1.72%) NHS
7 14 (1.72%) Virtual Team
8 13 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.48%) Credit Risk
9 12 (1.48%) Fixed Income
9 12 (1.48%) Low-Code
9 12 (1.48%) Mobile App
9 12 (1.48%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.35%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.23%) Market Risk
12 9 (1.11%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 80 (9.85%) Windows
2 32 (3.94%) Windows Server
3 22 (2.71%) Linux
4 5 (0.62%) Unix
5 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.25%) Android
6 2 (0.25%) VMS
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (42.00%) DevOps
2 328 (40.39%) CI/CD
3 259 (31.90%) Agile
4 159 (19.58%) Microservices
5 143 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
6 137 (16.87%) Software Engineering
7 134 (16.50%) Full-Stack Development
8 129 (15.89%) AI
9 116 (14.29%) Test Automation
10 75 (9.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 73 (8.99%) Unit Testing
12 72 (8.87%) Scrum
13 71 (8.74%) Infrastructure as Code
14 69 (8.50%) Containerisation
15 67 (8.25%) Migration
16 65 (8.00%) TDD
17 58 (7.14%) SDLC
18 56 (6.90%) Mentoring
19 49 (6.03%) Clean Code
20 48 (5.91%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 550 (67.73%) C#
2 342 (42.12%) SQL
3 181 (22.29%) Python
4 179 (22.04%) JavaScript
5 94 (11.58%) Java
6 77 (9.48%) TypeScript
7 58 (7.14%) PL/SQL
8 52 (6.40%) T-SQL
9 50 (6.16%) PowerShell
10 24 (2.96%) Bicep
10 24 (2.96%) PHP
11 20 (2.46%) C++
12 16 (1.97%) Kusto Query Language
13 13 (1.60%) VBA
14 12 (1.48%) Go
14 12 (1.48%) VB
15 11 (1.35%) Formula Language
15 11 (1.35%) LotusScript
16 9 (1.11%) Bash
16 9 (1.11%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 140 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 112 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 62 (7.64%) Degree
4 31 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.59%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.11%) DV Cleared
9 8 (0.99%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 7 (0.86%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.74%) CISSP
11 6 (0.74%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.62%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.62%) CCSP
12 5 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.37%) OSCP
14 3 (0.37%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (11.45%) QA
2 18 (2.22%) Accessibility
2 18 (2.22%) GDPR
3 13 (1.60%) NIST
4 11 (1.35%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.23%) WCAG
6 9 (1.11%) EU AI Act
6 9 (1.11%) HL7
7 7 (0.86%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.74%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.74%) PSD2
9 5 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.49%) GRC
11 3 (0.37%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.37%) SEPA
12 2 (0.25%) DICOM
12 2 (0.25%) MiFID
12 2 (0.25%) SLA
12 2 (0.25%) TARGET2
13 1 (0.12%) EMIR
System Software
1 108 (13.30%) Docker
2 31 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 102 (12.56%) Kubernetes
2 89 (10.96%) Terraform
3 9 (1.11%) Grafana
4 7 (0.86%) Ansible
4 7 (0.86%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.49%) Istio
7 2 (0.25%) Argo
7 2 (0.25%) Rancher
8 1 (0.12%) Control-M
8 1 (0.12%) Kibana
8 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.12%) linkerd
Vendors
1 204 (25.12%) Microsoft
2 124 (15.27%) Oracle
3 35 (4.31%) Citrix
4 25 (3.08%) OpenAI
5 23 (2.83%) Sitecore
6 20 (2.46%) Databricks
7 15 (1.85%) Foundry
8 14 (1.72%) Google
8 14 (1.72%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.60%) OpenLink
10 11 (1.35%) Lotus
11 10 (1.23%) Kofax
11 10 (1.23%) UiPath
12 8 (0.99%) Advent
13 7 (0.86%) SAP
14 6 (0.74%) Adobe
14 6 (0.74%) Brio
15 5 (0.62%) Rapid7
16 4 (0.49%) PeopleSoft
16 4 (0.49%) Wind River