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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 63 50
Rank change year-on-year -59 -13 -15
Contract jobs citing .NET 739 920 1,476
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.22% 3.54% 3.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.18% 15.80% 18.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 536 654 1,145
10th Percentile £375 £375 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £614 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £813 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 22
10th Percentile £56.18 £22.30 £20.97
25th Percentile £62.97 £23.88 £33.44
Median hourly rate £68.21 £26.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +157.40% -57.60% -4.21%
75th Percentile £73.86 £51.85 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.56 £67.05 -
UK median hourly rate £68.21 £26.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +157.40% -57.60% -4.58%

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 7,262 5,823 7,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.82% 22.38% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,871 3,732 5,612
10th Percentile £358 £363 £355
25th Percentile £415 £430 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £535
% change year-on-year -4.65% +0.47% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 75 182
10th Percentile £34.40 £26.35 £25.85
25th Percentile £50.00 £47.38 £45.96
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69.13 £66.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.60 £76.26 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%

.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 9 February 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 9 February 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 9 February 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 -51 456 £500 -13.04% 196
South East -19 84 £480 -4.00% 191
North of England -64 69 £475 - 174
East of England +9 45 £550 +17.02% 52
Midlands -74 39 £515 +3.00% 73
North West -35 32 £450 - 114
Yorkshire -51 31 £500 -3.61% 36
West Midlands -72 21 £495 -7.43% 31
South West -45 20 £475 -9.52% 65
East Midlands -29 18 £525 +16.67% 42
North East -18 6 £513 +42.36% 25
.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 37 (5.01%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.92%) Confluence
3 23 (3.11%) CMS
4 19 (2.57%) IIS
5 17 (2.30%) Sitecore CMS
6 11 (1.49%) HCL Notes
7 9 (1.22%) Mendix
8 8 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.95%) Umbraco
10 6 (0.81%) Headless CMS
11 5 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.68%) Apache
11 5 (0.68%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.41%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.27%) Documentum
13 2 (0.27%) Oracle Spatial
13 2 (0.27%) SAS
14 1 (0.14%) Kentico
14 1 (0.14%) Sitefinity
14 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (5.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (2.17%) Endur
3 9 (1.22%) Advent Geneva
4 3 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.27%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.14%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.14%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.14%) PeopleSoft Financials
6 1 (0.14%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 402 (54.40%) Azure
2 190 (25.71%) Azure DevOps
3 110 (14.88%) Serverless
4 106 (14.34%) AWS
5 105 (14.21%) GitHub
6 85 (11.50%) Azure Functions
6 85 (11.50%) Power Platform
7 74 (10.01%) Azure Logic Apps
8 64 (8.66%) Azure Service Bus
9 60 (8.12%) Dynamics 365
10 56 (7.58%) GitHub Actions
11 51 (6.90%) Azure AKS
12 50 (6.77%) Power Automate
13 47 (6.36%) PaaS
14 45 (6.09%) Azure Monitor
15 43 (5.82%) PowerApps
16 42 (5.68%) GCP
17 40 (5.41%) Entra ID
18 32 (4.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 30 (4.06%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.89%) HTTP
1 14 (1.89%) Internet
2 8 (1.08%) Network Security
3 4 (0.54%) DNS
3 4 (0.54%) SSL
4 3 (0.41%) DHCP
4 3 (0.41%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.27%) RTMP
5 2 (0.27%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.14%) Firewall
6 1 (0.14%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.14%) LAN
6 1 (0.14%) Skype
6 1 (0.14%) SMTP
6 1 (0.14%) VPN
6 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (25.71%) SQL Server
2 45 (6.09%) Oracle Database
3 38 (5.14%) Power BI
4 36 (4.87%) NoSQL
5 35 (4.74%) Relational Database
6 34 (4.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 32 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
8 29 (3.92%) MongoDB
9 18 (2.44%) MySQL
9 18 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (1.22%) DB2
11 8 (1.08%) Redis
11 8 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.95%) Big Data
12 7 (0.95%) Metadata
13 5 (0.68%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.68%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.54%) GIS
Development Applications
1 75 (10.15%) Git
2 64 (8.66%) JIRA
3 36 (4.87%) Jenkins
4 32 (4.33%) Selenium
5 28 (3.79%) Postman
6 25 (3.38%) Visual Studio
7 19 (2.57%) Cucumber
8 16 (2.17%) SpecFlow
9 14 (1.89%) GitLab
10 13 (1.76%) REST Assured
11 11 (1.49%) Bitbucket
11 11 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
12 10 (1.35%) SonarQube
13 8 (1.08%) MSTest
14 7 (0.95%) TeamCity
14 7 (0.95%) TestRail
14 7 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
15 6 (0.81%) Cypress.io
15 6 (0.81%) JMeter
16 5 (0.68%) NUnit
General
1 202 (27.33%) Social Skills
2 179 (24.22%) Finance
3 99 (13.40%) Banking
4 72 (9.74%) Public Sector
5 60 (8.12%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (4.74%) Investment Banking
7 27 (3.65%) Front Office
8 24 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (2.98%) Financial Institution
10 13 (1.76%) Marketing
11 9 (1.22%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.22%) Retail
12 8 (1.08%) Billing
12 8 (1.08%) Health Technology
13 7 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.81%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.68%) Back Office
15 5 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 419 (56.70%) Developer
2 136 (18.40%) .NET Developer
3 125 (16.91%) C# Developer
4 99 (13.40%) Senior
5 70 (9.47%) Architect
6 66 (8.93%) Software Engineer
7 60 (8.12%) Full-Stack Developer
8 57 (7.71%) Senior Developer
9 50 (6.77%) Lead
10 47 (6.36%) Azure Developer
11 40 (5.41%) C# .NET Developer
12 37 (5.01%) Solutions Architect
13 29 (3.92%) Senior .NET Developer
14 25 (3.38%) Dynamics 365 Developer
15 21 (2.84%) .NET Software Engineer
16 20 (2.71%) Angular Developer
17 19 (2.57%) DevOps Engineer
18 18 (2.44%) Azure Architect
18 18 (2.44%) Azure Engineer
18 18 (2.44%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (19.35%) .NET Framework
2 119 (16.10%) React
3 107 (14.48%) .NET Core
4 96 (12.99%) RESTful
5 93 (12.58%) REST
6 85 (11.50%) AngularJS
7 70 (9.47%) HTML
8 69 (9.34%) ASP.NET
9 54 (7.31%) CSS
10 42 (5.68%) Node.js
11 37 (5.01%) WPF
12 31 (4.19%) Entity Framework
13 28 (3.79%) JSON
13 28 (3.79%) OAuth
14 27 (3.65%) ASP.NET Web API
14 27 (3.65%) SOAP
14 27 (3.65%) Web Services
15 26 (3.52%) XML
16 25 (3.38%) Playwright
17 22 (2.98%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 88 (11.91%) Cloud Native
2 35 (4.74%) Legacy Systems
3 27 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (3.38%) Product Ownership
5 22 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.17%) Virtual Team
7 15 (2.03%) Algorithms
7 15 (2.03%) NHS
8 13 (1.76%) AI Agents
8 13 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (1.76%) Low-Code
8 13 (1.76%) Mobile App
9 12 (1.62%) Credit Risk
10 11 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 11 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.35%) Derivative
11 10 (1.35%) Market Risk
12 9 (1.22%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 74 (10.01%) Windows
2 24 (3.25%) Windows Server
3 23 (3.11%) Linux
4 6 (0.81%) Android
4 6 (0.81%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.41%) Unix
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (40.73%) DevOps
2 271 (36.67%) CI/CD
3 248 (33.56%) Agile
4 159 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
5 150 (20.30%) Microservices
6 130 (17.59%) Software Engineering
7 125 (16.91%) Full-Stack Development
8 115 (15.56%) AI
8 115 (15.56%) Test Automation
9 75 (10.15%) Scrum
10 71 (9.61%) Containerisation
11 61 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
12 58 (7.85%) Unit Testing
13 57 (7.71%) Mentoring
14 56 (7.58%) Business Intelligence
15 54 (7.31%) Infrastructure as Code
15 54 (7.31%) Migration
16 51 (6.90%) Clean Code
16 51 (6.90%) TDD
17 48 (6.50%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 497 (67.25%) C#
2 322 (43.57%) SQL
3 164 (22.19%) JavaScript
4 158 (21.38%) Python
5 91 (12.31%) Java
6 73 (9.88%) TypeScript
7 57 (7.71%) PL/SQL
8 40 (5.41%) T-SQL
9 33 (4.47%) PowerShell
10 24 (3.25%) Bicep
10 24 (3.25%) PHP
11 16 (2.17%) VB
11 16 (2.17%) VBA
12 15 (2.03%) C++
12 15 (2.03%) VB.NET
13 10 (1.35%) Formula Language
13 10 (1.35%) LotusScript
14 9 (1.22%) Bash
14 9 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.68%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 97 (13.13%) Security Cleared
2 72 (9.74%) SC Cleared
3 64 (8.66%) Degree
4 33 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.84%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (1.62%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.49%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 9 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.95%) CISSP
11 5 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (0.68%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.68%) CCSP
11 5 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.54%) ISEB
13 3 (0.41%) CBAP
13 3 (0.41%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.41%) SANS
13 3 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (10.28%) QA
2 21 (2.84%) NIST
3 17 (2.30%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.30%) EU AI Act
4 12 (1.62%) GDPR
5 9 (1.22%) WCAG
6 8 (1.08%) HL7
7 7 (0.95%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.81%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.41%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.41%) MiFID
11 2 (0.27%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.27%) PSD2
12 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.14%) GRC
12 1 (0.14%) NCSC
12 1 (0.14%) SEPA
12 1 (0.14%) TARGET2
System Software
1 104 (14.07%) Docker
2 32 (4.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.14%) KVM
6 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 90 (12.18%) Kubernetes
2 73 (9.88%) Terraform
3 8 (1.08%) Grafana
4 6 (0.81%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.41%) Ansible
7 2 (0.27%) Argo
8 1 (0.14%) Control-M
8 1 (0.14%) Kibana
8 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Identity Management
8 1 (0.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 210 (28.42%) Microsoft
2 110 (14.88%) Oracle
3 31 (4.19%) Citrix
4 26 (3.52%) OpenAI
5 24 (3.25%) Sitecore
6 20 (2.71%) Databricks
7 15 (2.03%) Foundry
8 11 (1.49%) Google
8 11 (1.49%) Lotus
8 11 (1.49%) UiPath
9 10 (1.35%) SAP
10 9 (1.22%) Advent
10 9 (1.22%) Kofax
10 9 (1.22%) OpenLink
10 9 (1.22%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.81%) Brio
11 6 (0.81%) DocuSign
12 5 (0.68%) Adobe
12 5 (0.68%) Rapid7
12 5 (0.68%) VMware