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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 77 51
Rank change year-on-year -35 -26 -5
Contract jobs citing .NET 953 779 1,381
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.22% 3.15% 3.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.64% 13.99% 17.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 607 1,050
10th Percentile £386 £358 £350
25th Percentile £415 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -6.52%
75th Percentile £619 £678 £650
90th Percentile £725 £825 £738
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 17
10th Percentile £38.15 £27.22 £20.77
25th Percentile £44.25 £35.55 £22.75
Median hourly rate £61.50 £50.30 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% -14.61% +17.81%
75th Percentile £73.84 £64.18 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.78 £71.99 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £28.13 £58.91
% change year-on-year +118.67% -52.25% +14.41%

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 8,187 5,568 7,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.11% 22.55% 20.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,405 3,861 5,474
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £518 £535
% change year-on-year +1.32% -3.14% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 110 257
10th Percentile £30.40 £32.10 £22.75
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.05 £74.70
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year +13.04% +11.11% -20.38%

.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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -37 564 £525 -8.70% 222
South East -13 121 £515 +8.42% 145
North of England -55 97 £500 +11.11% 142
Midlands -50 59 £492 +1.86% 70
South West -6 52 £450 +20.00% 52
North West -37 52 £475 +11.76% 82
Yorkshire -42 40 £525 +10.53% 28
East of England -7 38 £526 +10.79% 44
West Midlands -65 30 £455 -9.68% 41
East Midlands -13 28 £525 +15.07% 29
North East - 5 £475 - 33
.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 47 (4.93%) SharePoint
2 32 (3.36%) IIS
3 22 (2.31%) Confluence
4 19 (1.99%) CMS
5 14 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.94%) Sitecore CMS
7 7 (0.73%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.63%) HCL Notes
8 6 (0.63%) Mendix
9 5 (0.52%) Appian
9 5 (0.52%) Kentico
10 4 (0.42%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.42%) Umbraco
10 4 (0.42%) WordPress
11 3 (0.31%) Apache Superset
11 3 (0.31%) Camunda
12 2 (0.21%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.21%) Oracle Spatial
12 2 (0.21%) SAS
13 1 (0.10%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 17 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.10%) InDesign
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 29 (3.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.26%) Endur
3 8 (0.84%) Findur
4 4 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.42%) Shopify
5 3 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.31%) OpenText MBPM
5 3 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
5 3 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.21%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.21%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.10%) Alphatax
7 1 (0.10%) Magento
7 1 (0.10%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.10%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.10%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 495 (51.94%) Azure
2 179 (18.78%) Azure DevOps
3 169 (17.73%) AWS
4 104 (10.91%) GitHub
5 97 (10.18%) Power Platform
6 76 (7.97%) Serverless
7 66 (6.93%) Azure Service Bus
8 58 (6.09%) Dynamics 365
9 54 (5.67%) GitHub Actions
10 53 (5.56%) Power Automate
11 49 (5.14%) Azure Functions
11 49 (5.14%) Azure Logic Apps
12 48 (5.04%) PowerApps
13 37 (3.88%) GCP
14 34 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
15 33 (3.46%) Microsoft 365
16 32 (3.36%) Azure AKS
17 27 (2.83%) Entra ID
18 25 (2.62%) PaaS
19 23 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.47%) Internet
2 10 (1.05%) 3GPP
3 8 (0.84%) RTP
4 7 (0.73%) Firewall
4 7 (0.73%) HTTP
4 7 (0.73%) Wireshark
5 5 (0.52%) Intranet
5 5 (0.52%) NAS
5 5 (0.52%) SAN
5 5 (0.52%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.21%) DHCP
6 2 (0.21%) DNS
6 2 (0.21%) Multicast
6 2 (0.21%) RTCP
6 2 (0.21%) RTMP
6 2 (0.21%) XCAP
7 1 (0.10%) Network Security
7 1 (0.10%) Skype
7 1 (0.10%) SMTP
7 1 (0.10%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (23.82%) SQL Server
2 58 (6.09%) Relational Database
3 50 (5.25%) Oracle Database
4 40 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (4.09%) NoSQL
6 38 (3.99%) Power BI
7 28 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (1.89%) MongoDB
9 16 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (1.26%) Redis
11 11 (1.15%) Metadata
12 10 (1.05%) Crystal Reports
12 10 (1.05%) Pinecone
12 10 (1.05%) Weaviate
13 9 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (0.84%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.73%) DynamoDB
15 7 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
16 6 (0.63%) GIS
17 5 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 103 (10.81%) Git
2 53 (5.56%) JIRA
3 46 (4.83%) Visual Studio
4 19 (1.99%) TeamCity
5 15 (1.57%) Selenium
6 14 (1.47%) NUnit
7 13 (1.36%) GitLab
8 11 (1.15%) Jenkins
8 11 (1.15%) MSTest
9 9 (0.94%) Postman
10 8 (0.84%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.84%) JMeter
10 8 (0.84%) SpecFlow
11 7 (0.73%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
11 7 (0.73%) webpack
12 6 (0.63%) Gatling
12 6 (0.63%) Mocha
12 6 (0.63%) Moq
12 6 (0.63%) tSQLt
General
1 241 (25.29%) Finance
2 213 (22.35%) Social Skills
3 114 (11.96%) Banking
4 87 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (6.82%) Public Sector
6 49 (5.14%) Front Office
7 43 (4.51%) Investment Banking
8 19 (1.99%) Financial Institution
8 19 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (1.05%) Retail
11 9 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (0.94%) Telecoms
12 8 (0.84%) Billing
12 8 (0.84%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.73%) Aviation
13 7 (0.73%) Back Office
13 7 (0.73%) Legal
13 7 (0.73%) Police
14 5 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 492 (51.63%) Developer
2 176 (18.47%) .NET Developer
3 161 (16.89%) C# Developer
4 145 (15.22%) Senior
5 114 (11.96%) Architect
6 104 (10.91%) Software Engineer
7 93 (9.76%) Senior Developer
8 91 (9.55%) Lead
9 70 (7.35%) Solutions Architect
10 66 (6.93%) Full-Stack Developer
11 61 (6.40%) Software Developer
12 60 (6.30%) C# .NET Developer
13 47 (4.93%) Azure Developer
14 45 (4.72%) Senior .NET Developer
15 32 (3.36%) .NET Software Developer
16 30 (3.15%) SQL Developer
17 29 (3.04%) .NET Software Engineer
18 28 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
19 26 (2.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
20 24 (2.52%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (19.73%) .NET Framework
2 156 (16.37%) React
3 144 (15.11%) REST
4 107 (11.23%) RESTful
5 105 (11.02%) ASP.NET
6 102 (10.70%) AngularJS
7 96 (10.07%) .NET Core
7 96 (10.07%) HTML
8 82 (8.60%) CSS
9 55 (5.77%) ASP.NET Core
10 50 (5.25%) Entity Framework
11 46 (4.83%) Node.js
12 37 (3.88%) JSON
12 37 (3.88%) XML
13 36 (3.78%) Web Services
14 35 (3.67%) ASP.NET Web API
15 33 (3.46%) OAuth
16 32 (3.36%) WinForms
17 31 (3.25%) WPF
18 28 (2.94%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 107 (11.23%) Cloud Native
2 57 (5.98%) Legacy Systems
3 54 (5.67%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (3.78%) Product Ownership
5 32 (3.36%) AI Agents
5 32 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
7 22 (2.31%) Onboarding
8 19 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
9 18 (1.89%) Fixed Income
10 15 (1.57%) Derivative
11 13 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 12 (1.26%) Legacy Code
12 12 (1.26%) Low-Code
13 11 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.15%) Data Structures
14 10 (1.05%) Equities
14 10 (1.05%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.94%) Distributed Applications
15 9 (0.94%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 88 (9.23%) Windows
2 42 (4.41%) Linux
3 30 (3.15%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.73%) Unix
5 4 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.31%) VMS
7 1 (0.10%) Android
7 1 (0.10%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (41.24%) CI/CD
2 372 (39.03%) DevOps
3 305 (32.00%) Agile
4 179 (18.78%) Microservices
4 179 (18.78%) Software Engineering
5 157 (16.47%) AI
6 146 (15.32%) Full-Stack Development
7 143 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
8 110 (11.54%) Test Automation
9 88 (9.23%) Scrum
10 80 (8.39%) Containerisation
11 78 (8.18%) Unit Testing
12 75 (7.87%) Infrastructure as Code
12 75 (7.87%) SDLC
13 73 (7.66%) Event-Driven
14 72 (7.56%) Migration
15 70 (7.35%) Mentoring
16 66 (6.93%) Technical Leadership
17 62 (6.51%) Continuous Improvement
18 61 (6.40%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 659 (69.15%) C#
2 348 (36.52%) SQL
3 206 (21.62%) Python
4 183 (19.20%) JavaScript
5 97 (10.18%) TypeScript
6 96 (10.07%) Java
7 62 (6.51%) T-SQL
8 60 (6.30%) PL/SQL
9 54 (5.67%) PowerShell
10 30 (3.15%) C++
11 22 (2.31%) Bicep
11 22 (2.31%) Go
12 18 (1.89%) VB.NET
13 16 (1.68%) VBA
14 14 (1.47%) VB
15 10 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
16 9 (0.94%) C
16 9 (0.94%) X++
17 8 (0.84%) Bash
18 6 (0.63%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 161 (16.89%) Security Cleared
2 131 (13.75%) SC Cleared
3 77 (8.08%) Degree
4 26 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (1.78%) Azure Certification
7 12 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (1.15%) DV Cleared
9 9 (0.94%) AWS Certification
9 9 (0.94%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.52%) CISSP
10 5 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.42%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.42%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.31%) PhD
13 2 (0.21%) CCSP
13 2 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.21%) CISM
13 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (10.07%) QA
2 23 (2.41%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.99%) GDPR
4 14 (1.47%) WCAG
5 9 (0.94%) NCSC
5 9 (0.94%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.84%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.84%) SLA
7 6 (0.63%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.63%) PSD2
8 4 (0.42%) GRC
8 4 (0.42%) HL7
8 4 (0.42%) NIST
9 3 (0.31%) DICOM
9 3 (0.31%) SEPA
10 2 (0.21%) Basel III
10 2 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.21%) TARGET2
11 1 (0.10%) EMIR
11 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 125 (13.12%) Docker
2 15 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.31%) Firmware
5 2 (0.21%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 103 (10.81%) Terraform
2 102 (10.70%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.89%) Ansible
4 12 (1.26%) Grafana
4 12 (1.26%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.52%) Istio
5 5 (0.52%) Kibana
6 4 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.31%) Rancher
8 2 (0.21%) Control-M
8 2 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.21%) SCCM
8 2 (0.21%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.10%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.10%) linkerd
9 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 196 (20.57%) Microsoft
2 125 (13.12%) Oracle
3 37 (3.88%) Citrix
4 20 (2.10%) OpenAI
5 17 (1.78%) Databricks
5 17 (1.78%) Sitecore
6 15 (1.57%) Google
7 14 (1.47%) ServiceNow
8 9 (0.94%) InterSystems
8 9 (0.94%) OpenLink
8 9 (0.94%) Splunk
9 8 (0.84%) Foundry
9 8 (0.84%) SAP
10 7 (0.73%) UiPath
11 6 (0.63%) Kofax
11 6 (0.63%) Lotus
12 5 (0.52%) ION Trading
12 5 (0.52%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.52%) VMware
13 4 (0.42%) OpenText