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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 63 51
Rank change year-on-year -59 -12 -9
Contract jobs citing .NET 841 857 1,348
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.18% 3.52% 3.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.55% 15.62% 18.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 681 1,041
10th Percentile £381 £365 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -5.22%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £675
90th Percentile £715 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 11
10th Percentile £47.05 £21.33 £20.77
25th Percentile £56.50 £21.46 £21.76
Median hourly rate £68.11 £23.41 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +190.92% -27.97% -50.00%
75th Percentile £74.45 £51.17 £62.96
90th Percentile £78.38 £66.78 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £68.11 £27.88 £31.11
% change year-on-year +144.32% -10.40% -52.14%

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 7,975 5,487 7,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.63% 22.51% 19.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,347 3,797 5,356
10th Percentile £359 £363 £349
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 88 158
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.85 £20.69
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.19 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.55
90th Percentile £78.93 £83.27 £72.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

.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 6 April 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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -48 505 £500 -13.04% 218
South East -20 101 £521 +4.20% 174
North of England -54 95 £475 +5.56% 164
North West -37 47 £450 +5.88% 89
Midlands -76 45 £488 -0.51% 87
Yorkshire -35 43 £500 +5.26% 48
East of England -3 38 £538 +10.38% 63
South West -37 36 £450 -14.29% 64
West Midlands -61 28 £484 -3.15% 50
East Midlands -32 17 £525 +6.06% 37
North East -13 5 £513 +38.51% 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 49 (5.83%) SharePoint
2 33 (3.92%) IIS
3 19 (2.26%) CMS
4 18 (2.14%) Confluence
5 17 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (1.78%) Sitecore CMS
7 11 (1.31%) HCL Notes
8 10 (1.19%) Mendix
9 5 (0.59%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.59%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.36%) Apache
10 3 (0.36%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.36%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.36%) SAS
11 2 (0.24%) Appian
11 2 (0.24%) Documentum
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle Spatial
12 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) InDesign
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 38 (4.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (2.02%) Endur
3 8 (0.95%) Advent Geneva
4 7 (0.83%) Findur
5 4 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.24%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.12%) Alphatax
7 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.12%) Magento
7 1 (0.12%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.12%) PeopleSoft Financials
7 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 450 (53.51%) Azure
2 198 (23.54%) Azure DevOps
3 140 (16.65%) AWS
4 110 (13.08%) GitHub
5 102 (12.13%) Serverless
6 84 (9.99%) Power Platform
7 77 (9.16%) Azure Service Bus
8 76 (9.04%) Azure Functions
9 72 (8.56%) GitHub Actions
10 70 (8.32%) Azure Logic Apps
11 56 (6.66%) Azure Monitor
12 54 (6.42%) Dynamics 365
13 51 (6.06%) Entra ID
14 45 (5.35%) GCP
15 44 (5.23%) Power Automate
16 42 (4.99%) Azure AKS
16 42 (4.99%) PaaS
17 41 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
18 40 (4.76%) PowerApps
19 34 (4.04%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.02%) HTTP
2 13 (1.55%) Internet
3 6 (0.71%) Network Security
4 4 (0.48%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.24%) DHCP
5 2 (0.24%) DNS
5 2 (0.24%) Firewall
5 2 (0.24%) NAS
5 2 (0.24%) RTCP
5 2 (0.24%) RTMP
5 2 (0.24%) RTP
5 2 (0.24%) SAN
5 2 (0.24%) SSL
5 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.24%) XCAP
6 1 (0.12%) LAN
6 1 (0.12%) Skype
6 1 (0.12%) SMTP
6 1 (0.12%) VPN
6 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 224 (26.63%) SQL Server
2 54 (6.42%) Relational Database
3 51 (6.06%) Oracle Database
4 42 (4.99%) Azure SQL Database
5 35 (4.16%) NoSQL
6 34 (4.04%) Power BI
7 33 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
8 22 (2.62%) MongoDB
9 17 (2.02%) MySQL
10 15 (1.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (1.19%) Redis
13 9 (1.07%) Crystal Reports
14 8 (0.95%) DB2
14 8 (0.95%) DynamoDB
14 8 (0.95%) Metadata
15 6 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
16 5 (0.59%) Data Lake
16 5 (0.59%) GIS
17 4 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 91 (10.82%) Git
2 58 (6.90%) JIRA
3 33 (3.92%) Visual Studio
4 29 (3.45%) Selenium
5 26 (3.09%) Jenkins
6 21 (2.50%) Postman
7 16 (1.90%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.31%) TeamCity
9 10 (1.19%) MSTest
10 9 (1.07%) GitLab
10 9 (1.07%) REST Assured
10 9 (1.07%) SpecFlow
11 8 (0.95%) NUnit
11 8 (0.95%) TestRail
12 7 (0.83%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
13 6 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.59%) Appium
14 5 (0.59%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 203 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 194 (23.07%) Finance
3 111 (13.20%) Banking
4 77 (9.16%) Public Sector
5 72 (8.56%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (4.40%) Investment Banking
7 33 (3.92%) Front Office
8 23 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (2.62%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (0.95%) Marketing
11 8 (0.95%) Retail
11 8 (0.95%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.83%) Health Technology
12 7 (0.83%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.71%) Billing
13 6 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.59%) Back Office
15 4 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 469 (55.77%) Developer
2 164 (19.50%) .NET Developer
3 144 (17.12%) C# Developer
4 112 (13.32%) Senior
5 85 (10.11%) Architect
6 80 (9.51%) Software Engineer
7 65 (7.73%) Senior Developer
8 63 (7.49%) Lead
9 59 (7.02%) Full-Stack Developer
10 53 (6.30%) Azure Developer
11 52 (6.18%) Solutions Architect
12 50 (5.95%) C# .NET Developer
13 39 (4.64%) Software Developer
14 35 (4.16%) Senior .NET Developer
15 30 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
16 20 (2.38%) .NET Software Engineer
16 20 (2.38%) DevOps Engineer
16 20 (2.38%) Dynamics 365 Developer
16 20 (2.38%) SQL Developer
16 20 (2.38%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (19.14%) .NET Framework
2 144 (17.12%) React
3 128 (15.22%) REST
4 104 (12.37%) AngularJS
5 96 (11.41%) .NET Core
6 95 (11.30%) RESTful
7 86 (10.23%) ASP.NET
7 86 (10.23%) HTML
8 63 (7.49%) CSS
9 49 (5.83%) Node.js
10 41 (4.88%) ASP.NET Core
11 35 (4.16%) ASP.NET Web API
12 34 (4.04%) Entity Framework
12 34 (4.04%) OAuth
13 33 (3.92%) WPF
14 29 (3.45%) WinForms
15 28 (3.33%) JSON
15 28 (3.33%) XML
16 27 (3.21%) SOAP
17 25 (2.97%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 96 (11.41%) Cloud Native
2 43 (5.11%) Legacy Systems
3 37 (4.40%) Enterprise Software
4 35 (4.16%) Distributed Systems
5 25 (2.97%) Product Ownership
6 15 (1.78%) AI Agents
6 15 (1.78%) NHS
6 15 (1.78%) Virtual Team
7 14 (1.66%) Legacy Code
7 14 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.55%) Credit Risk
8 13 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.55%) Fixed Income
8 13 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (1.43%) Low-Code
9 12 (1.43%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.19%) Derivative
10 10 (1.19%) Market Risk
11 9 (1.07%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.07%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 83 (9.87%) Windows
2 33 (3.92%) Windows Server
3 27 (3.21%) Linux
4 5 (0.59%) Unix
5 4 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.24%) VMS
8 1 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (40.55%) DevOps
2 340 (40.43%) CI/CD
3 261 (31.03%) Agile
4 161 (19.14%) Microservices
5 141 (16.77%) Software Engineering
6 138 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
7 131 (15.58%) Full-Stack Development
8 129 (15.34%) AI
9 114 (13.56%) Test Automation
10 75 (8.92%) Scrum
11 73 (8.68%) Infrastructure as Code
12 71 (8.44%) Continuous Improvement
13 70 (8.32%) Containerisation
14 69 (8.20%) Unit Testing
15 65 (7.73%) Migration
16 59 (7.02%) TDD
17 58 (6.90%) SDLC
18 56 (6.66%) Mentoring
19 51 (6.06%) Clean Code
19 51 (6.06%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 574 (68.25%) C#
2 344 (40.90%) SQL
3 188 (22.35%) Python
4 177 (21.05%) JavaScript
5 94 (11.18%) Java
6 83 (9.87%) TypeScript
7 57 (6.78%) PL/SQL
8 54 (6.42%) PowerShell
8 54 (6.42%) T-SQL
9 24 (2.85%) Bicep
10 21 (2.50%) PHP
11 20 (2.38%) C++
12 16 (1.90%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (1.78%) VBA
14 13 (1.55%) Go
15 12 (1.43%) VB
16 11 (1.31%) Formula Language
16 11 (1.31%) LotusScript
17 9 (1.07%) Bash
18 7 (0.83%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 149 (17.72%) Security Cleared
2 123 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 60 (7.13%) Degree
4 29 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.26%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.43%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (0.71%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.59%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (0.48%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.48%) CISSP
11 3 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.36%) CCSP
11 3 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.36%) OSCP
11 3 (0.36%) SANS
12 2 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (11.41%) QA
2 17 (2.02%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.90%) GDPR
4 10 (1.19%) NIST
5 9 (1.07%) HL7
5 9 (1.07%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.07%) WCAG
6 8 (0.95%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.71%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.71%) PSD2
8 5 (0.59%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.48%) GRC
10 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.36%) SEPA
10 3 (0.36%) SLA
11 2 (0.24%) DICOM
11 2 (0.24%) MiFID
11 2 (0.24%) TARGET2
12 1 (0.12%) EMIR
12 1 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 112 (13.32%) Docker
2 31 (3.69%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 100 (11.89%) Kubernetes
2 98 (11.65%) Terraform
3 9 (1.07%) Grafana
4 7 (0.83%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.71%) Ansible
6 4 (0.48%) Istio
7 3 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.24%) Argo
8 2 (0.24%) Control-M
8 2 (0.24%) Rancher
9 1 (0.12%) Kibana
9 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.12%) linkerd
Vendors
1 210 (24.97%) Microsoft
2 124 (14.74%) Oracle
3 37 (4.40%) Citrix
4 26 (3.09%) OpenAI
5 22 (2.62%) Databricks
6 20 (2.38%) Sitecore
7 18 (2.14%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.66%) Google
8 14 (1.66%) OpenLink
9 12 (1.43%) Foundry
10 11 (1.31%) Lotus
11 10 (1.19%) Kofax
12 9 (1.07%) UiPath
13 8 (0.95%) Advent
14 7 (0.83%) SAP
15 6 (0.71%) Brio
16 5 (0.59%) Adobe
16 5 (0.59%) Rapid7
17 4 (0.48%) PeopleSoft
17 4 (0.48%) Salesforce