.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 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 64 52
Rank change year-on-year -58 -12 -13
Contract jobs citing .NET 802 885 1,390
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.18% 3.58% 3.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.21% 15.80% 18.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 585 684 1,084
10th Percentile £382 £385 £336
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £613 £652 £675
90th Percentile £713 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 13
10th Percentile £54.40 £26.84 £20.77
25th Percentile £56.50 £35.24 £22.75
Median hourly rate £68.00 £49.85 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year +36.42% -15.38% -9.72%
75th Percentile £73.46 £63.83 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.41 £71.85 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £26.50 £58.91
% change year-on-year +156.60% -55.01% -10.07%

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 7,858 5,601 7,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.37% 22.64% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,268 3,811 5,400
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £664
90th Percentile £738 £790 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 87 193
10th Percentile £35.03 £27.34 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.78 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £71.13 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.85 £83.38 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

.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 16 March 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 16 March 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 16 March 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 -43 499 £500 -13.04% 209
South East -47 86 £516 +3.20% 183
North of England -56 77 £475 +5.56% 146
East of England +5 47 £550 +13.11% 50
Midlands -73 42 £505 +1.00% 76
North West -41 41 £450 - 79
Yorkshire -52 31 £500 +5.26% 43
South West -53 26 £456 -13.10% 67
West Midlands -67 26 £481 -3.80% 43
East Midlands -35 16 £538 +8.59% 33
North East -14 5 £513 +42.36% 27
.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 48 (5.99%) SharePoint
2 26 (3.24%) IIS
3 23 (2.87%) CMS
4 18 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (2.24%) Sitecore CMS
5 17 (2.12%) Confluence
6 11 (1.37%) HCL Notes
7 10 (1.25%) Mendix
8 7 (0.87%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.62%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.62%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.50%) Apache
11 3 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.25%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.25%) Appian
12 2 (0.25%) Documentum
12 2 (0.25%) Oracle Spatial
12 2 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) InDesign
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 38 (4.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (2.00%) Endur
3 8 (1.00%) Advent Geneva
4 4 (0.50%) Findur
4 4 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.25%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.12%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.12%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.12%) PeopleSoft Financials
6 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 447 (55.74%) Azure
2 198 (24.69%) Azure DevOps
3 128 (15.96%) AWS
4 113 (14.09%) GitHub
5 111 (13.84%) Serverless
6 83 (10.35%) Azure Functions
7 78 (9.73%) Power Platform
8 72 (8.98%) Azure Service Bus
9 69 (8.60%) GitHub Actions
10 67 (8.35%) Azure Logic Apps
11 56 (6.98%) Entra ID
12 55 (6.86%) Azure Monitor
13 51 (6.36%) Dynamics 365
14 49 (6.11%) Azure AKS
15 48 (5.99%) GCP
16 47 (5.86%) PaaS
17 42 (5.24%) Power Automate
18 41 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
19 34 (4.24%) Azure Key Vault
19 34 (4.24%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.12%) HTTP
2 14 (1.75%) Internet
3 8 (1.00%) Network Security
4 4 (0.50%) 3GPP
4 4 (0.50%) SSL
5 3 (0.37%) DNS
6 2 (0.25%) DHCP
6 2 (0.25%) Firewall
6 2 (0.25%) NAS
6 2 (0.25%) RTCP
6 2 (0.25%) RTMP
6 2 (0.25%) RTP
6 2 (0.25%) S/MIME
6 2 (0.25%) SAN
6 2 (0.25%) SMTP
6 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.25%) XCAP
7 1 (0.12%) LAN
7 1 (0.12%) Skype
7 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (26.06%) SQL Server
2 50 (6.23%) Oracle Database
3 41 (5.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 40 (4.99%) Relational Database
5 35 (4.36%) NoSQL
6 32 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
7 31 (3.87%) Power BI
8 25 (3.12%) MongoDB
9 18 (2.24%) MySQL
10 16 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 10 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (1.12%) Redis
13 8 (1.00%) DB2
13 8 (1.00%) Metadata
14 7 (0.87%) Crystal Reports
15 6 (0.75%) DynamoDB
16 5 (0.62%) Big Data
16 5 (0.62%) Data Lake
16 5 (0.62%) GIS
16 5 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 92 (11.47%) Git
2 56 (6.98%) JIRA
3 34 (4.24%) Visual Studio
4 31 (3.87%) Selenium
5 28 (3.49%) Jenkins
6 26 (3.24%) Postman
7 18 (2.24%) Cucumber
8 15 (1.87%) SpecFlow
9 12 (1.50%) GitLab
10 10 (1.25%) MSTest
10 10 (1.25%) Team Foundation Server
10 10 (1.25%) TeamCity
11 9 (1.12%) REST Assured
12 8 (1.00%) NUnit
13 7 (0.87%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.87%) TestRail
14 6 (0.75%) JMeter
14 6 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
15 5 (0.62%) Cypress.io
15 5 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 197 (24.56%) Social Skills
2 189 (23.57%) Finance
3 109 (13.59%) Banking
4 74 (9.23%) Public Sector
5 68 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (4.24%) Investment Banking
7 30 (3.74%) Front Office
8 24 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (2.62%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.12%) Retail
12 8 (1.00%) Health Technology
12 8 (1.00%) Marketing
12 8 (1.00%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.87%) Back Office
13 7 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (0.87%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.75%) Billing
15 5 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 453 (56.48%) Developer
2 149 (18.58%) .NET Developer
3 139 (17.33%) C# Developer
4 112 (13.97%) Senior
5 74 (9.23%) Architect
6 69 (8.60%) Software Engineer
7 64 (7.98%) Full-Stack Developer
8 60 (7.48%) Senior Developer
9 55 (6.86%) Azure Developer
10 54 (6.73%) Lead
11 47 (5.86%) C# .NET Developer
12 40 (4.99%) Solutions Architect
13 32 (3.99%) Senior .NET Developer
14 30 (3.74%) Software Developer
15 22 (2.74%) Azure Engineer
16 20 (2.49%) .NET Software Engineer
16 20 (2.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 20 (2.49%) Technical Architect
17 19 (2.37%) Applications Developer
17 19 (2.37%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (19.58%) .NET Framework
2 134 (16.71%) React
3 112 (13.97%) REST
4 104 (12.97%) AngularJS
5 101 (12.59%) .NET Core
5 101 (12.59%) RESTful
6 91 (11.35%) HTML
7 82 (10.22%) ASP.NET
8 67 (8.35%) CSS
9 48 (5.99%) Node.js
10 36 (4.49%) OAuth
11 35 (4.36%) ASP.NET Core
11 35 (4.36%) WPF
12 33 (4.11%) Entity Framework
13 31 (3.87%) ASP.NET Web API
14 28 (3.49%) Web Services
14 28 (3.49%) XML
15 27 (3.37%) SOAP
16 26 (3.24%) JSON
16 26 (3.24%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 95 (11.85%) Cloud Native
2 44 (5.49%) Legacy Systems
3 34 (4.24%) Enterprise Software
4 28 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.00%) Algorithms
7 15 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (1.87%) NHS
8 14 (1.75%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.75%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.75%) Virtual Team
9 13 (1.62%) Low-Code
9 13 (1.62%) Mobile App
10 12 (1.50%) Credit Risk
11 11 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.37%) Fixed Income
11 11 (1.37%) Legacy Code
12 10 (1.25%) Market Risk
13 9 (1.12%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 78 (9.73%) Windows
2 29 (3.62%) Windows Server
3 24 (2.99%) Linux
4 4 (0.50%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.50%) Unix
5 3 (0.37%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) VMS
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (41.40%) DevOps
2 326 (40.65%) CI/CD
3 264 (32.92%) Agile
4 159 (19.83%) Microservices
5 150 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
6 136 (16.96%) Full-Stack Development
6 136 (16.96%) Software Engineering
7 129 (16.08%) AI
8 127 (15.84%) Test Automation
9 78 (9.73%) Scrum
10 75 (9.35%) Containerisation
11 74 (9.23%) Unit Testing
12 72 (8.98%) Continuous Improvement
13 67 (8.35%) Migration
14 66 (8.23%) Infrastructure as Code
15 62 (7.73%) TDD
16 57 (7.11%) SDLC
17 56 (6.98%) Mentoring
18 49 (6.11%) Analytics
19 48 (5.99%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 532 (66.33%) C#
2 338 (42.14%) SQL
3 180 (22.44%) JavaScript
4 175 (21.82%) Python
5 93 (11.60%) Java
6 81 (10.10%) TypeScript
7 57 (7.11%) PL/SQL
8 49 (6.11%) T-SQL
9 48 (5.99%) PowerShell
10 27 (3.37%) Bicep
11 24 (2.99%) PHP
12 20 (2.49%) C++
13 16 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
14 13 (1.62%) VBA
15 12 (1.50%) VB
16 11 (1.37%) Formula Language
16 11 (1.37%) Go
16 11 (1.37%) LotusScript
16 11 (1.37%) VB.NET
17 10 (1.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 133 (16.58%) Security Cleared
2 106 (13.22%) SC Cleared
3 63 (7.86%) Degree
4 31 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.74%) Azure Certification
6 14 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (1.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 12 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.37%) DV Cleared
10 10 (1.25%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.75%) CISSP
12 5 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.62%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.62%) CCSP
12 5 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.62%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.37%) ISEB
14 3 (0.37%) OSCP
14 3 (0.37%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (11.10%) QA
2 21 (2.62%) Accessibility
2 21 (2.62%) NIST
3 18 (2.24%) GDPR
4 17 (2.12%) EU AI Act
5 11 (1.37%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.37%) WCAG
6 9 (1.12%) HL7
7 6 (0.75%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.62%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.62%) PSD2
9 4 (0.50%) GRC
10 3 (0.37%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.25%) DICOM
11 2 (0.25%) MiFID
11 2 (0.25%) SEPA
11 2 (0.25%) SLA
11 2 (0.25%) TARGET2
12 1 (0.12%) EMIR
System Software
1 108 (13.47%) Docker
2 36 (4.49%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 105 (13.09%) Kubernetes
2 85 (10.60%) Terraform
3 8 (1.00%) Grafana
4 6 (0.75%) Ansible
4 6 (0.75%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.50%) Istio
7 2 (0.25%) Argo
7 2 (0.25%) Rancher
8 1 (0.12%) Control-M
8 1 (0.12%) Kibana
8 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.12%) linkerd
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 215 (26.81%) Microsoft
2 123 (15.34%) Oracle
3 35 (4.36%) Citrix
4 25 (3.12%) OpenAI
5 23 (2.87%) Sitecore
6 21 (2.62%) Databricks
7 17 (2.12%) Foundry
8 14 (1.75%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.50%) OpenLink
10 11 (1.37%) Google
10 11 (1.37%) Lotus
11 10 (1.25%) Kofax
11 10 (1.25%) UiPath
12 8 (1.00%) Advent
12 8 (1.00%) SAP
13 6 (0.75%) Adobe
13 6 (0.75%) Brio
14 5 (0.62%) Rapid7
15 4 (0.50%) PeopleSoft
15 4 (0.50%) Xamarin