.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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 52 52
Rank change year-on-year -43 0 -13
Contract jobs citing .NET 737 1,274 1,816
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.69% 3.91% 4.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.09% 17.47% 19.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 927 1,387
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £400 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £688
90th Percentile £771 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £488 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 23
10th Percentile £45.72 £19.60 £45.68
25th Percentile £63.63 £29.06 £50.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile - £85.00 £70.00
90th Percentile - £85.50 -
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £49.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year +28.93% -17.92% -7.69%

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 6,097 7,292 9,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.28% 22.37% 21.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,129 4,834 6,898
10th Percentile £350 £357 £375
25th Percentile £410 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £676
90th Percentile £750 £813 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 176 166
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.38 £36.40
25th Percentile £42.88 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.35 £62.93 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -13.63% +2.74% -2.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £73.70
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.47 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -14.77% +2.67% -

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing .NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for .NET 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 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing .NET in England over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

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 September 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 -51 441 £525 -4.55% 281
North of England -29 80 £475 - 256
South East +15 71 £450 -14.29% 261
Midlands -20 60 £490 +3.16% 139
Yorkshire -3 45 £500 -4.53% 67
West Midlands -17 38 £513 +2.50% 74
East of England +14 37 £500 +29.03% 77
North West -34 34 £425 -5.56% 142
East Midlands -6 22 £438 +1.16% 62
South West -7 20 £393 -17.37% 67
North East -5 1 - - 52
.NET
UK

.NET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 32 (4.34%) Confluence
2 20 (2.71%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.44%) IIS
4 15 (2.04%) WebLogic
4 15 (2.04%) WebSphere
5 12 (1.63%) Apache
6 7 (0.95%) Umbraco
7 6 (0.81%) IBM Notes
8 5 (0.68%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.68%) CMS
9 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.54%) nginx
9 4 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.54%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.41%) GemFire
10 3 (0.41%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.27%) Appian
11 2 (0.27%) Camunda
11 2 (0.27%) Moodle
Applications
1 41 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.27%) Trello
4 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.14%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 30 (4.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.22%) Aladdin
3 8 (1.09%) OpenText MBPM
3 8 (1.09%) Oracle BPM
4 7 (0.95%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.54%) Endur
5 4 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.54%) thinkFolio
5 4 (0.54%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.41%) Magento
6 3 (0.41%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.14%) Eikon
7 1 (0.14%) FastStats
7 1 (0.14%) ION Anvil
7 1 (0.14%) Maximo
7 1 (0.14%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.14%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 332 (45.05%) Azure
2 149 (20.22%) Azure DevOps
3 97 (13.16%) AWS
4 77 (10.45%) Power Platform
5 55 (7.46%) Dynamics 365
5 55 (7.46%) Serverless
6 54 (7.33%) GitHub
7 49 (6.65%) PowerApps
8 47 (6.38%) Azure Service Bus
8 47 (6.38%) Power Automate
9 43 (5.83%) Azure Logic Apps
10 36 (4.88%) Azure Functions
11 27 (3.66%) PaaS
12 25 (3.39%) GCP
13 21 (2.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 21 (2.85%) Azure Monitor
14 20 (2.71%) Azure AKS
14 20 (2.71%) GitHub Actions
15 18 (2.44%) Entra ID
15 18 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.63%) DNS
1 12 (1.63%) HTTP
2 11 (1.49%) Internet
3 9 (1.22%) Firewall
3 9 (1.22%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.81%) FTP
4 6 (0.81%) SMTP
4 6 (0.81%) SSL
5 3 (0.41%) DHCP
6 2 (0.27%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.27%) X.509
7 1 (0.14%) Intranet
7 1 (0.14%) NAS
7 1 (0.14%) Network Security
7 1 (0.14%) SAN
7 1 (0.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (25.10%) SQL Server
2 52 (7.06%) Relational Database
3 47 (6.38%) NoSQL
4 41 (5.56%) Power BI
5 38 (5.16%) Oracle Database
6 31 (4.21%) MongoDB
7 27 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
8 23 (3.12%) Azure SQL Database
9 16 (2.17%) MySQL
10 15 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 13 (1.76%) Big Data
12 10 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (1.22%) Redis
14 7 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.68%) Hadoop
15 5 (0.68%) RDBMS
15 5 (0.68%) Tableau
16 4 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
16 4 (0.54%) BigQuery
17 3 (0.41%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 78 (10.58%) JIRA
2 76 (10.31%) Git
3 25 (3.39%) Jenkins
4 24 (3.26%) Visual Studio
5 21 (2.85%) Bitbucket
6 20 (2.71%) Selenium
7 17 (2.31%) SpecFlow
8 16 (2.17%) GitLab
9 15 (2.04%) TeamCity
10 13 (1.76%) Artifactory
11 12 (1.63%) Postman
11 12 (1.63%) SonarQube
12 11 (1.49%) Cypress.io
13 10 (1.36%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.09%) NUnit
15 4 (0.54%) HP UFT
15 4 (0.54%) JUnit
15 4 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
15 4 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
15 4 (0.54%) TestComplete
General
1 223 (30.26%) Social Skills
2 209 (28.36%) Finance
3 95 (12.89%) Banking
4 73 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
5 64 (8.68%) Front Office
6 59 (8.01%) Public Sector
7 44 (5.97%) Investment Banking
8 22 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.90%) Manufacturing
9 14 (1.90%) Marketing
10 13 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.22%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.09%) Electronics
12 8 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.09%) Legal
13 7 (0.95%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.95%) Retail
14 6 (0.81%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 438 (59.43%) Developer
2 182 (24.69%) .NET Developer
3 144 (19.54%) C# Developer
4 96 (13.03%) Senior
5 85 (11.53%) C# .NET Developer
6 73 (9.91%) Senior Developer
7 69 (9.36%) Architect
8 58 (7.87%) Full-Stack Developer
8 58 (7.87%) Lead
9 56 (7.60%) Software Engineer
10 41 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
11 35 (4.75%) Azure Developer
12 33 (4.48%) Angular Developer
12 33 (4.48%) Senior .NET Developer
13 32 (4.34%) C# WPF Developer
13 32 (4.34%) WPF Developer
14 28 (3.80%) Senior C# Developer
15 26 (3.53%) Software Developer
16 23 (3.12%) Dynamics 365 Developer
17 22 (2.99%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (23.07%) .NET Framework
2 118 (16.01%) .NET Core
3 115 (15.60%) HTML
4 114 (15.47%) AngularJS
5 109 (14.79%) React
6 94 (12.75%) CSS
7 79 (10.72%) ASP.NET
8 75 (10.18%) REST
9 73 (9.91%) RESTful
10 61 (8.28%) Node.js
11 58 (7.87%) Entity Framework
12 53 (7.19%) WPF
13 45 (6.11%) ASP.NET Web API
14 41 (5.56%) Web Services
15 36 (4.88%) Kafka
16 32 (4.34%) Blazor
17 25 (3.39%) ASP.NET Core
17 25 (3.39%) jQuery
17 25 (3.39%) Playwright
18 23 (3.12%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 41 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 33 (4.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 30 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (3.66%) Product Ownership
5 26 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
6 23 (3.12%) Fixed Income
7 21 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (2.58%) Mobile App
9 17 (2.31%) Derivative
10 16 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.90%) Hedge funds
11 14 (1.90%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.49%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.36%) Data Structures
14 9 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.09%) N-Tier
15 8 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (1.09%) Virtual Team
16 7 (0.95%) Low-Code
16 7 (0.95%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 75 (10.18%) Windows
2 25 (3.39%) Linux
3 14 (1.90%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.49%) Android
5 10 (1.36%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.27%) CentOS
7 2 (0.27%) Unix
8 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (38.67%) Agile
2 281 (38.13%) DevOps
3 202 (27.41%) CI/CD
4 160 (21.71%) Microservices
5 131 (17.77%) Problem-Solving
6 129 (17.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 114 (15.47%) Software Engineering
8 91 (12.35%) Scrum
9 85 (11.53%) Test Automation
10 75 (10.18%) TDD
11 69 (9.36%) Design Patterns
12 66 (8.96%) Clean Code
13 65 (8.82%) OO
14 62 (8.41%) Computer Science
15 58 (7.87%) OOP
16 57 (7.73%) Business Intelligence
17 56 (7.60%) Containerisation
17 56 (7.60%) SDLC
18 55 (7.46%) MVC
19 52 (7.06%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 535 (72.59%) C#
2 288 (39.08%) SQL
3 197 (26.73%) JavaScript
4 116 (15.74%) Java
5 99 (13.43%) Python
6 74 (10.04%) TypeScript
7 45 (6.11%) PowerShell
8 44 (5.97%) PL/SQL
9 39 (5.29%) C++
10 38 (5.16%) PHP
11 34 (4.61%) T-SQL
12 33 (4.48%) VB
12 33 (4.48%) VBA
13 32 (4.34%) VB.NET
14 26 (3.53%) Bicep
15 20 (2.71%) Bash
16 16 (2.17%) C
17 9 (1.22%) F#
17 9 (1.22%) Ruby
18 7 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 65 (8.82%) Security Cleared
2 63 (8.55%) Degree
3 45 (6.11%) SC Cleared
4 25 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (1.76%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.49%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.22%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.68%) CISSP
9 5 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (0.54%) CEH
10 4 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.54%) PMP
11 3 (0.41%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.41%) MCPD
11 3 (0.41%) MCSD
12 2 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (8.28%) QA
2 21 (2.85%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.36%) GDPR
4 8 (1.09%) MiFID
4 8 (1.09%) WCAG
5 5 (0.68%) EMIR
5 5 (0.68%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.54%) COBIT
6 4 (0.54%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.41%) HL7
7 3 (0.41%) NCSC
8 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.27%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.14%) DICOM
9 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 84 (11.40%) Docker
2 20 (2.71%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.41%) GridGain
5 3 (0.41%) vSphere
6 2 (0.27%) vCloud
6 2 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) KVM
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 80 (10.85%) Kubernetes
2 61 (8.28%) Terraform
3 13 (1.76%) Grafana
4 9 (1.22%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.95%) Kibana
6 6 (0.81%) Ansible
7 5 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.27%) Control-M
8 2 (0.27%) SCOM
9 1 (0.14%) Istio
9 1 (0.14%) MIIS
9 1 (0.14%) OPNET
9 1 (0.14%) Puppet
9 1 (0.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 180 (24.42%) Microsoft
2 99 (13.43%) Oracle
3 19 (2.58%) ServiceNow
4 17 (2.31%) Dynatrace
5 14 (1.90%) SAP
6 13 (1.76%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.63%) Citrix
8 11 (1.49%) UiPath
9 10 (1.36%) Databricks
9 10 (1.36%) Google
9 10 (1.36%) VMware
10 8 (1.09%) GoldenSource
11 7 (0.95%) OpenText
12 6 (0.81%) DocuSign
12 6 (0.81%) Lotus
13 5 (0.68%) Bloomberg
13 5 (0.68%) IBM
13 5 (0.68%) InterSystems
13 5 (0.68%) Reuters
13 5 (0.68%) Workday