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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 82 49
Rank change year-on-year -22 -33 +2
Contract jobs citing .NET 1,066 826 1,303
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.34% 2.97% 3.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.60% 13.37% 17.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 740 612 986
10th Percentile £392 £352 £363
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £536
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.76% -2.50%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £786 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 12
10th Percentile £37.25 £45.72 £21.13
25th Percentile £38.25 £63.63 £35.38
Median hourly rate £45.90 £67.00 £59.45
Median % change year-on-year -31.49% +12.70% +12.24%
75th Percentile £73.46 - £85.00
90th Percentile £78.78 - -
UK median hourly rate £45.90 £63.50 £58.91
% change year-on-year -27.72% +7.80% +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 8,461 6,180 7,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.57% 22.21% 22.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,535 4,246 5,039
10th Percentile £363 £350 £359
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £641 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 152 226
10th Percentile £28.22 £31.25 £24.09
25th Percentile £45.63 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -3.08% -9.20%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.91 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%

.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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -30 621 £550 +4.76% 413
North of England -21 134 £490 +3.16% 159
South East -24 121 £500 +11.11% 204
South West +4 76 £450 +20.00% 43
Yorkshire -20 71 £460 -7.07% 43
Midlands -47 64 £468 -4.59% 93
North West -22 56 £525 +23.53% 88
West Midlands -53 36 £450 -11.33% 43
East Midlands -5 27 £525 +10.53% 50
East of England -29 27 £510 +2.00% 66
North East - 7 £513 - 31
.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 42 (3.94%) Confluence
1 42 (3.94%) SharePoint
2 38 (3.56%) IIS
3 14 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.03%) CMS
5 9 (0.84%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.47%) Appian
6 5 (0.47%) Camunda
7 4 (0.38%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.38%) Kentico
7 4 (0.38%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.38%) WordPress
8 3 (0.28%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.28%) Apache Superset
8 3 (0.28%) Mendix
9 2 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.094%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.094%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.094%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 25 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.094%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 37 (3.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.75%) Findur
3 7 (0.66%) OpenText MBPM
3 7 (0.66%) Oracle BPM
4 5 (0.47%) Shopify
5 4 (0.38%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.38%) Endur
6 3 (0.28%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.19%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.094%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.094%) Alphatax
8 1 (0.094%) Magento
8 1 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.094%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.094%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 550 (51.59%) Azure
2 205 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
3 183 (17.17%) AWS
4 122 (11.44%) Power Platform
5 117 (10.98%) GitHub
6 78 (7.32%) Azure Service Bus
7 77 (7.22%) Serverless
8 76 (7.13%) Dynamics 365
9 60 (5.63%) Power Automate
10 59 (5.53%) PowerApps
11 56 (5.25%) Azure Logic Apps
12 55 (5.16%) GitHub Actions
13 45 (4.22%) Azure AKS
13 45 (4.22%) Azure Functions
14 44 (4.13%) Entra ID
15 42 (3.94%) Azure Monitor
16 32 (3.00%) Azure Key Vault
16 32 (3.00%) GCP
17 29 (2.72%) PaaS
18 28 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.41%) Internet
2 9 (0.84%) 3GPP
2 9 (0.84%) RTP
2 9 (0.84%) Wireshark
3 8 (0.75%) Firewall
3 8 (0.75%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.56%) Intranet
5 5 (0.47%) HTTP
5 5 (0.47%) NAS
5 5 (0.47%) Network Security
5 5 (0.47%) SAN
6 4 (0.38%) DNS
7 3 (0.28%) DHCP
7 3 (0.28%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.19%) Multicast
8 2 (0.19%) RTCP
8 2 (0.19%) XCAP
9 1 (0.094%) Skype
9 1 (0.094%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.094%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 261 (24.48%) SQL Server
2 62 (5.82%) Power BI
3 58 (5.44%) Relational Database
4 45 (4.22%) Oracle Database
5 42 (3.94%) NoSQL
6 40 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
7 30 (2.81%) Azure SQL Database
8 26 (2.44%) MongoDB
9 21 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (1.13%) Geospatial Data
10 12 (1.13%) Redis
10 12 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 10 (0.94%) Pinecone
11 10 (0.94%) Weaviate
12 9 (0.84%) DynamoDB
13 8 (0.75%) Crystal Reports
14 7 (0.66%) Metadata
14 7 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
15 6 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
16 5 (0.47%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 144 (13.51%) Git
2 75 (7.04%) JIRA
3 48 (4.50%) Visual Studio
4 26 (2.44%) Jenkins
5 22 (2.06%) TeamCity
6 21 (1.97%) GitLab
7 16 (1.50%) Selenium
8 14 (1.31%) MSI
9 13 (1.22%) NUnit
10 12 (1.13%) Cucumber
10 12 (1.13%) Gatling
11 10 (0.94%) Claude Code
11 10 (0.94%) JMeter
12 9 (0.84%) MSTest
12 9 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
12 9 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (0.75%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.75%) SpecFlow
14 7 (0.66%) MSBuild
14 7 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 268 (25.14%) Finance
2 247 (23.17%) Social Skills
3 125 (11.73%) Banking
4 92 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
5 70 (6.57%) Public Sector
6 55 (5.16%) Front Office
7 43 (4.03%) Investment Banking
8 26 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.31%) Financial Institution
10 11 (1.03%) Back Office
11 10 (0.94%) Legal
11 10 (0.94%) Retail
12 7 (0.66%) Marketing
13 6 (0.56%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.56%) Billing
13 6 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.56%) Police
14 5 (0.47%) Aviation
14 5 (0.47%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 541 (50.75%) Developer
2 228 (21.39%) .NET Developer
3 175 (16.42%) Senior
4 143 (13.41%) C# Developer
5 120 (11.26%) Architect
6 109 (10.23%) Software Engineer
7 105 (9.85%) Senior Developer
8 97 (9.10%) Lead
9 73 (6.85%) Solutions Architect
10 68 (6.38%) Full-Stack Developer
11 66 (6.19%) C# .NET Developer
12 65 (6.10%) Software Developer
13 50 (4.69%) Senior .NET Developer
14 46 (4.32%) Azure Developer
15 32 (3.00%) .NET Software Developer
15 32 (3.00%) .NET Software Engineer
16 29 (2.72%) Azure Engineer
16 29 (2.72%) Dynamics 365 Developer
16 29 (2.72%) React Developer
17 28 (2.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (20.54%) .NET Framework
2 195 (18.29%) REST
3 157 (14.73%) React
4 131 (12.29%) .NET Core
5 120 (11.26%) ASP.NET
6 119 (11.16%) RESTful
7 101 (9.47%) AngularJS
8 85 (7.97%) HTML
9 73 (6.85%) CSS
10 59 (5.53%) Entity Framework
11 58 (5.44%) Web Services
12 55 (5.16%) ASP.NET Core
13 50 (4.69%) JSON
14 45 (4.22%) XML
15 43 (4.03%) WPF
16 41 (3.85%) WinForms
17 39 (3.66%) ASP.NET Web API
17 39 (3.66%) SOAP
18 37 (3.47%) Kafka
19 36 (3.38%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 135 (12.66%) Cloud Native
2 74 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (6.00%) Legacy Systems
4 58 (5.44%) Enterprise Software
5 43 (4.03%) AI Agents
5 43 (4.03%) Product Ownership
6 32 (3.00%) Onboarding
7 29 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (1.69%) Data Structures
9 17 (1.59%) Legacy Code
10 15 (1.41%) Fixed Income
11 14 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (1.13%) Derivative
13 12 (1.13%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 10 (0.94%) Distributed Applications
15 10 (0.94%) Equities
16 9 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
16 9 (0.84%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 109 (10.23%) Windows
2 54 (5.07%) Linux
3 31 (2.91%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.66%) Unix
5 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.28%) VMS
7 1 (0.094%) Android
7 1 (0.094%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.094%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.094%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (42.21%) CI/CD
2 430 (40.34%) DevOps
3 377 (35.37%) Agile
4 207 (19.42%) Software Engineering
5 202 (18.95%) Microservices
6 186 (17.45%) AI
7 169 (15.85%) Full-Stack Development
8 145 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
9 140 (13.13%) Test Automation
10 111 (10.41%) Migration
11 110 (10.32%) SDLC
12 102 (9.57%) Scrum
13 97 (9.10%) Containerisation
14 93 (8.72%) Event-Driven
15 91 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
16 85 (7.97%) Infrastructure as Code
17 81 (7.60%) Technical Leadership
18 79 (7.41%) Unit Testing
19 78 (7.32%) Mentoring
20 76 (7.13%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 727 (68.20%) C#
2 374 (35.08%) SQL
3 219 (20.54%) JavaScript
4 207 (19.42%) Python
5 125 (11.73%) TypeScript
6 99 (9.29%) Java
7 77 (7.22%) T-SQL
8 72 (6.75%) PowerShell
9 58 (5.44%) PL/SQL
10 43 (4.03%) Bicep
11 37 (3.47%) C++
12 27 (2.53%) VB.NET
13 24 (2.25%) Go
14 19 (1.78%) VBA
15 15 (1.41%) Bash
15 15 (1.41%) VB
16 11 (1.03%) X++
17 10 (0.94%) C
18 9 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
19 6 (0.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 194 (18.20%) Security Cleared
2 166 (15.57%) SC Cleared
3 88 (8.26%) Degree
4 29 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (1.78%) Azure Certification
6 16 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (1.31%) DV Cleared
8 10 (0.94%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.75%) PhD
10 7 (0.66%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.47%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 5 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.38%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.19%) CISM
13 2 (0.19%) CISSP
14 1 (0.094%) CEH
14 1 (0.094%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (8.82%) QA
2 36 (3.38%) Accessibility
3 25 (2.35%) WCAG
4 17 (1.59%) GDPR
4 17 (1.59%) NCSC
5 14 (1.31%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.75%) SLA
7 5 (0.47%) HL7
7 5 (0.47%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.38%) GRC
8 4 (0.38%) PSD2
9 3 (0.28%) DICOM
9 3 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
10 2 (0.19%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.19%) Basel III
10 2 (0.19%) GMP
10 2 (0.19%) GxP
10 2 (0.19%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 133 (12.48%) Docker
2 32 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.28%) Firmware
5 2 (0.19%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.094%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.094%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.094%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 122 (11.44%) Kubernetes
2 118 (11.07%) Terraform
3 35 (3.28%) Ansible
4 14 (1.31%) Grafana
5 13 (1.22%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.56%) Istio
6 6 (0.56%) Kibana
7 4 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.28%) Rancher
9 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.19%) SCCM
9 2 (0.19%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.094%) Control-M
10 1 (0.094%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.094%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.094%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.094%) linkerd
Vendors
1 258 (24.20%) Microsoft
2 117 (10.98%) Oracle
3 38 (3.56%) Citrix
4 21 (1.97%) ServiceNow
5 17 (1.59%) OpenAI
6 16 (1.50%) Databricks
6 16 (1.50%) UiPath
7 12 (1.13%) Google
8 11 (1.03%) Splunk
9 9 (0.84%) InterSystems
9 9 (0.84%) Salesforce
10 8 (0.75%) OpenLink
10 8 (0.75%) Sitecore
11 7 (0.66%) Foundry
11 7 (0.66%) IBM
12 6 (0.56%) CyberArk
12 6 (0.56%) SAP
13 5 (0.47%) Centrify
13 5 (0.47%) OpenText
13 5 (0.47%) VMware