.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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 58 43
Rank change year-on-year -42 -15 -8
Contract jobs citing .NET 750 1,147 1,882
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.65% 3.59% 4.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.67% 16.24% 20.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 526 821 1,445
10th Percentile £341 £363 £375
25th Percentile £400 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £688
90th Percentile £701 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 24
10th Percentile £63.63 £17.99 £46.22
25th Percentile £65.88 £21.63 £50.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £43.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.91% -33.46% -
75th Percentile - £64.38 £70.00
90th Percentile - £75.00 -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £26.05 £65.00
% change year-on-year +157.20% -59.92% -0.38%

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 6,429 7,064 9,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.76% 22.13% 22.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,307 4,510 6,736
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 148 196
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.53 £38.80
25th Percentile £42.50 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £56.95
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +14.14% -12.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.40 £73.83 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £51.97 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -20.05% +13.04% -11.54%

.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 18 October 2025.

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
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 18 October 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 -49 434 £500 -10.71% 256
North of England -41 74 £500 +5.26% 255
South East -6 66 £450 -12.83% 276
Midlands -26 62 £504 +6.05% 111
East of England +27 60 £525 +75.00% 94
Yorkshire -13 45 £501 -5.57% 60
West Midlands -29 34 £503 -4.29% 59
East Midlands -9 28 £505 +13.48% 51
North West -32 27 £475 +5.56% 150
South West -6 23 £400 -20.00% 64
North East -8 2 £600 +50.00% 48
.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 38 (5.07%) Confluence
2 18 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.27%) IIS
4 15 (2.00%) WebLogic
4 15 (2.00%) WebSphere
5 10 (1.33%) CMS
6 7 (0.93%) Apache
6 7 (0.93%) Umbraco
7 6 (0.80%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.80%) HCL Notes
8 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.53%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.40%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.40%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.27%) Appian
11 2 (0.27%) Camunda
11 2 (0.27%) Moodle
11 2 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 37 (4.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) Moqups
4 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 29 (3.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.20%) Aladdin
3 8 (1.07%) OpenText MBPM
3 8 (1.07%) Oracle BPM
4 7 (0.93%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.67%) Endur
6 4 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.53%) thinkFolio
6 4 (0.53%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.27%) Orchestrade
8 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.13%) Eikon
8 1 (0.13%) ION Anvil
8 1 (0.13%) Maximo
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.13%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 375 (50.00%) Azure
2 164 (21.87%) Azure DevOps
3 101 (13.47%) AWS
4 73 (9.73%) Power Platform
5 72 (9.60%) GitHub
5 72 (9.60%) Serverless
6 50 (6.67%) Azure Functions
7 48 (6.40%) Dynamics 365
8 47 (6.27%) PowerApps
9 46 (6.13%) Power Automate
10 42 (5.60%) Azure Logic Apps
10 42 (5.60%) Azure Service Bus
11 38 (5.07%) PaaS
12 30 (4.00%) Azure AKS
12 30 (4.00%) GCP
13 27 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (2.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 22 (2.93%) Entra ID
15 19 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
16 18 (2.40%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.60%) Internet
2 6 (0.80%) HTTP
3 4 (0.53%) DNS
4 3 (0.40%) Firewall
4 3 (0.40%) Network Security
5 2 (0.27%) DHCP
5 2 (0.27%) S/MIME
5 2 (0.27%) SSL
5 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.27%) X.509
6 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.13%) Intranet
6 1 (0.13%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.13%) NAS
6 1 (0.13%) SAN
6 1 (0.13%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (23.60%) SQL Server
2 44 (5.87%) Relational Database
3 42 (5.60%) NoSQL
4 36 (4.80%) Power BI
5 35 (4.67%) Oracle Database
6 28 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
7 27 (3.60%) MongoDB
8 20 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 15 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 14 (1.87%) MySQL
11 12 (1.60%) Big Data
12 10 (1.33%) Redis
12 10 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.80%) Tableau
14 5 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.67%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.67%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.53%) BigQuery
16 3 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
16 3 (0.40%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 81 (10.80%) Git
2 79 (10.53%) JIRA
3 25 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 25 (3.33%) SpecFlow
4 24 (3.20%) Visual Studio
5 23 (3.07%) Selenium
6 21 (2.80%) GitLab
7 17 (2.27%) Postman
8 15 (2.00%) Bitbucket
8 15 (2.00%) Cucumber
9 14 (1.87%) Artifactory
10 12 (1.60%) SonarQube
11 9 (1.20%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.93%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.80%) NUnit
13 6 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
15 4 (0.53%) JMeter
15 4 (0.53%) REST Assured
General
1 218 (29.07%) Social Skills
2 213 (28.40%) Finance
3 91 (12.13%) Banking
4 61 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (8.13%) Public Sector
5 41 (5.47%) Front Office
6 37 (4.93%) Investment Banking
7 19 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (2.00%) Marketing
9 14 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.73%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.20%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.07%) Back Office
13 8 (1.07%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.93%) Electronics
15 6 (0.80%) Legal
15 6 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.67%) Local Government
16 5 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 437 (58.27%) Developer
2 181 (24.13%) .NET Developer
3 130 (17.33%) C# Developer
4 104 (13.87%) Senior
5 75 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 72 (9.60%) C# .NET Developer
7 66 (8.80%) Lead
8 65 (8.67%) Architect
9 59 (7.87%) Software Engineer
10 58 (7.73%) Full-Stack Developer
11 38 (5.07%) Angular Developer
12 37 (4.93%) Azure Developer
12 37 (4.93%) Senior .NET Developer
13 34 (4.53%) Solutions Architect
14 28 (3.73%) Senior C# Developer
15 26 (3.47%) C# WPF Developer
15 26 (3.47%) Software Developer
15 26 (3.47%) WPF Developer
16 22 (2.93%) Consultant
16 22 (2.93%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (22.53%) .NET Framework
2 122 (16.27%) .NET Core
3 109 (14.53%) AngularJS
3 109 (14.53%) React
4 107 (14.27%) HTML
5 100 (13.33%) RESTful
6 84 (11.20%) CSS
7 78 (10.40%) REST
8 74 (9.87%) ASP.NET
9 59 (7.87%) Entity Framework
10 56 (7.47%) Node.js
11 49 (6.53%) WPF
12 41 (5.47%) Web Services
13 36 (4.80%) ASP.NET Web API
14 35 (4.67%) Kafka
15 34 (4.53%) Blazor
16 30 (4.00%) Playwright
17 27 (3.60%) jQuery
17 27 (3.60%) Middleware
17 27 (3.60%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 70 (9.33%) Cloud Native
2 31 (4.13%) Product Ownership
3 30 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 27 (3.60%) Greenfield Project
5 26 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (3.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 23 (3.07%) Mobile App
7 21 (2.80%) Algorithms
8 17 (2.27%) Management Information System
9 16 (2.13%) Derivative
10 15 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (2.00%) Fixed Income
11 13 (1.73%) Hedge funds
12 11 (1.47%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (1.20%) Data Structures
14 9 (1.20%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.07%) Low-Code
15 8 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
16 7 (0.93%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 63 (8.40%) Windows
2 20 (2.67%) Linux
3 13 (1.73%) Android
3 13 (1.73%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.47%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.27%) Unix
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (40.80%) Agile
2 286 (38.13%) DevOps
3 234 (31.20%) CI/CD
4 170 (22.67%) Microservices
5 163 (21.73%) Problem-Solving
6 138 (18.40%) Full-Stack Development
7 132 (17.60%) Software Engineering
8 102 (13.60%) Scrum
9 97 (12.93%) Test Automation
10 74 (9.87%) Containerisation
11 71 (9.47%) Clean Code
12 65 (8.67%) TDD
13 64 (8.53%) Design Patterns
13 64 (8.53%) Mentoring
14 62 (8.27%) SDLC
15 58 (7.73%) Computer Science
16 55 (7.33%) Business Intelligence
17 52 (6.93%) OO
18 51 (6.80%) Continuous Improvement
18 51 (6.80%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 522 (69.60%) C#
2 297 (39.60%) SQL
3 189 (25.20%) JavaScript
4 116 (15.47%) Python
5 113 (15.07%) Java
6 68 (9.07%) TypeScript
7 42 (5.60%) PL/SQL
8 39 (5.20%) C++
9 38 (5.07%) PowerShell
10 36 (4.80%) VB.NET
11 35 (4.67%) PHP
12 30 (4.00%) T-SQL
13 29 (3.87%) VB
13 29 (3.87%) VBA
14 24 (3.20%) Bicep
15 18 (2.40%) Bash
16 17 (2.27%) C
17 8 (1.07%) Ruby
18 6 (0.80%) Shell Script
19 5 (0.67%) X++
Qualifications
1 67 (8.93%) Security Cleared
2 62 (8.27%) Degree
3 47 (6.27%) SC Cleared
4 30 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.87%) Azure Certification
5 14 (1.87%) DV Cleared
5 14 (1.87%) Master's Degree
6 13 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (1.33%) MCP
8 9 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.67%) CISSP
10 4 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (0.53%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.53%) PMP
11 3 (0.40%) CBAP
11 3 (0.40%) ISEB
11 3 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.27%) CCSP
12 2 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (8.67%) QA
2 23 (3.07%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.13%) EU AI Act
4 15 (2.00%) NIST
5 11 (1.47%) GDPR
6 10 (1.33%) WCAG
7 9 (1.20%) MiFID
8 5 (0.67%) EMIR
8 5 (0.67%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.67%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.53%) COBIT
10 3 (0.40%) HL7
11 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.27%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.27%) NCSC
12 1 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 94 (12.53%) Docker
2 21 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.13%) KVM
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 86 (11.47%) Kubernetes
2 64 (8.53%) Terraform
3 10 (1.33%) Grafana
4 8 (1.07%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.80%) Ansible
5 6 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.27%) Control-M
7 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.13%) Istio
7 1 (0.13%) Kibana
7 1 (0.13%) MIIS
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Identity Management
7 1 (0.13%) Rancher
7 1 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 192 (25.60%) Microsoft
2 95 (12.67%) Oracle
3 16 (2.13%) Dynatrace
3 16 (2.13%) ServiceNow
4 15 (2.00%) SAP
5 13 (1.73%) Foundry
5 13 (1.73%) UiPath
6 12 (1.60%) Databricks
6 12 (1.60%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.47%) Citrix
8 9 (1.20%) Google
9 8 (1.07%) GoldenSource
9 8 (1.07%) Sitecore
10 7 (0.93%) OpenText
11 6 (0.80%) DocuSign
11 6 (0.80%) Lotus
12 5 (0.67%) InterSystems
12 5 (0.67%) OpenLink
12 5 (0.67%) VMware
12 5 (0.67%) Workday