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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 67 54
Rank change year-on-year -47 -13 -12
Contract jobs citing .NET 862 856 1,327
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.21% 3.51% 3.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.83% 15.60% 17.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 680 1,022
10th Percentile £381 £376 £325
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 £600 £675 £675
90th Percentile £715 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 14
10th Percentile £47.05 £21.33 £20.77
25th Percentile £56.50 £21.46 £24.49
Median hourly rate £68.11 £23.41 £48.70
Median % change year-on-year +190.92% -51.93% -25.07%
75th Percentile £74.45 £51.17 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.38 £66.78 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £68.11 £27.88 £38.50
% change year-on-year +144.32% -27.60% -40.77%

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 7,963 5,488 7,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.38% 22.51% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,325 3,809 5,299
10th Percentile £358 £367 £350
25th Percentile £419 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 90 170
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.46 £20.74
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £36.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.93 £83.06 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +0.78% +39.67% -28.95%

.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 14 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 14 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for .NET in England

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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 14 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 -46 514 £500 -14.21% 217
South East -14 110 £525 +5.00% 166
North of England -50 98 £488 +11.43% 167
Midlands -71 48 £490 +1.40% 70
Yorkshire -38 47 £500 +5.26% 51
North West -32 46 £450 +5.88% 90
South West -42 39 £463 -11.90% 66
East of England -7 33 £538 +10.38% 57
West Midlands -66 27 £481 -3.80% 36
East Midlands -29 21 £525 +7.14% 34
North East -17 5 £513 +38.51% 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 50 (5.80%) SharePoint
2 34 (3.94%) IIS
3 19 (2.20%) Confluence
4 17 (1.97%) CMS
4 17 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (1.62%) Sitecore CMS
6 11 (1.28%) HCL Notes
7 10 (1.16%) Mendix
8 5 (0.58%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.58%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.35%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.35%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.23%) Apache
10 2 (0.23%) Appian
10 2 (0.23%) Documentum
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.23%) SAS
11 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) InDesign
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 37 (4.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (2.09%) Endur
3 8 (0.93%) Advent Geneva
4 7 (0.81%) Findur
5 4 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.23%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.23%) 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
1 454 (52.67%) Azure
2 197 (22.85%) Azure DevOps
3 144 (16.71%) AWS
4 114 (13.23%) GitHub
5 97 (11.25%) Serverless
6 83 (9.63%) Power Platform
7 76 (8.82%) Azure Service Bus
8 71 (8.24%) Azure Functions
8 71 (8.24%) GitHub Actions
9 69 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
10 56 (6.50%) Azure Monitor
11 52 (6.03%) Dynamics 365
12 51 (5.92%) Entra ID
13 48 (5.57%) GCP
14 46 (5.34%) Power Automate
15 41 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
16 40 (4.64%) Azure AKS
16 40 (4.64%) PowerApps
17 37 (4.29%) PaaS
18 33 (3.83%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.97%) HTTP
2 14 (1.62%) Internet
3 6 (0.70%) 3GPP
3 6 (0.70%) Network Security
4 4 (0.46%) RTP
5 2 (0.23%) DHCP
5 2 (0.23%) DNS
5 2 (0.23%) Firewall
5 2 (0.23%) NAS
5 2 (0.23%) RTCP
5 2 (0.23%) RTMP
5 2 (0.23%) SAN
5 2 (0.23%) SSL
5 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.23%) Wireshark
5 2 (0.23%) XCAP
6 1 (0.12%) Skype
6 1 (0.12%) SMTP
6 1 (0.12%) VPN
6 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (26.45%) SQL Server
2 56 (6.50%) Relational Database
3 51 (5.92%) Oracle Database
4 43 (4.99%) Azure SQL Database
5 36 (4.18%) NoSQL
5 36 (4.18%) PostgreSQL
6 33 (3.83%) Power BI
7 21 (2.44%) MongoDB
8 17 (1.97%) MySQL
9 15 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (1.28%) Redis
10 11 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (1.04%) Crystal Reports
12 8 (0.93%) DB2
12 8 (0.93%) DynamoDB
12 8 (0.93%) Metadata
13 6 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
14 5 (0.58%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.58%) GIS
15 4 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 99 (11.48%) Git
2 59 (6.84%) JIRA
3 33 (3.83%) Visual Studio
4 28 (3.25%) Selenium
5 25 (2.90%) Jenkins
6 21 (2.44%) Postman
7 14 (1.62%) Cucumber
8 13 (1.51%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.28%) NUnit
10 10 (1.16%) MSTest
11 9 (1.04%) REST Assured
12 8 (0.93%) GitLab
12 8 (0.93%) SpecFlow
12 8 (0.93%) TestRail
13 7 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
14 6 (0.70%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
15 5 (0.58%) Appium
15 5 (0.58%) Cypress.io
15 5 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 202 (23.43%) Social Skills
2 198 (22.97%) Finance
3 106 (12.30%) Banking
4 79 (9.16%) Public Sector
5 71 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (4.06%) Investment Banking
7 34 (3.94%) Front Office
8 24 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (2.55%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (0.93%) Retail
11 8 (0.93%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.81%) Billing
12 7 (0.81%) Health Technology
12 7 (0.81%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.70%) Back Office
13 6 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.70%) Marketing
14 5 (0.58%) Aviation
14 5 (0.58%) Police
Job Titles
1 475 (55.10%) Developer
2 168 (19.49%) .NET Developer
3 146 (16.94%) C# Developer
4 117 (13.57%) Senior
5 90 (10.44%) Architect
6 89 (10.32%) Software Engineer
7 68 (7.89%) Senior Developer
8 62 (7.19%) Lead
9 58 (6.73%) Full-Stack Developer
10 53 (6.15%) Azure Developer
10 53 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
11 51 (5.92%) C# .NET Developer
12 47 (5.45%) Software Developer
13 36 (4.18%) Senior .NET Developer
14 31 (3.60%) Azure Engineer
15 25 (2.90%) .NET Software Developer
15 25 (2.90%) .NET Software Engineer
16 22 (2.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 22 (2.55%) Technical Architect
17 20 (2.32%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (19.72%) .NET Framework
2 142 (16.47%) React
3 127 (14.73%) REST
4 103 (11.95%) AngularJS
5 99 (11.48%) .NET Core
6 92 (10.67%) RESTful
7 85 (9.86%) ASP.NET
7 85 (9.86%) HTML
8 63 (7.31%) CSS
9 51 (5.92%) Node.js
10 41 (4.76%) ASP.NET Core
11 35 (4.06%) Entity Framework
11 35 (4.06%) WPF
12 34 (3.94%) ASP.NET Web API
12 34 (3.94%) OAuth
13 30 (3.48%) WinForms
14 29 (3.36%) XML
15 27 (3.13%) JSON
16 26 (3.02%) SOAP
17 25 (2.90%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 94 (10.90%) Cloud Native
2 45 (5.22%) Legacy Systems
3 43 (4.99%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (4.18%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 22 (2.55%) AI Agents
7 15 (1.74%) NHS
7 15 (1.74%) Virtual Team
8 14 (1.62%) Fixed Income
8 14 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (1.51%) Legacy Code
9 13 (1.51%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.39%) Credit Risk
10 12 (1.39%) Low-Code
11 11 (1.28%) Derivative
12 10 (1.16%) Data Structures
13 9 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (1.04%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 86 (9.98%) Windows
2 33 (3.83%) Windows Server
3 29 (3.36%) Linux
4 5 (0.58%) Unix
5 4 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.23%) VMS
7 1 (0.12%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (40.84%) CI/CD
2 346 (40.14%) DevOps
3 268 (31.09%) Agile
4 170 (19.72%) Microservices
5 148 (17.17%) Software Engineering
6 134 (15.55%) AI
7 131 (15.20%) Full-Stack Development
7 131 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
8 114 (13.23%) Test Automation
9 75 (8.70%) Containerisation
9 75 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
10 73 (8.47%) Scrum
11 71 (8.24%) Unit Testing
12 69 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 67 (7.77%) Migration
14 64 (7.42%) TDD
15 59 (6.84%) SDLC
16 58 (6.73%) Mentoring
17 52 (6.03%) Event-Driven
18 51 (5.92%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 591 (68.56%) C#
2 345 (40.02%) SQL
3 192 (22.27%) Python
4 173 (20.07%) JavaScript
5 90 (10.44%) Java
6 83 (9.63%) TypeScript
7 58 (6.73%) PL/SQL
8 56 (6.50%) PowerShell
9 54 (6.26%) T-SQL
10 26 (3.02%) Bicep
11 21 (2.44%) PHP
12 19 (2.20%) C++
13 18 (2.09%) Go
14 16 (1.86%) Kusto Query Language
14 16 (1.86%) VBA
15 13 (1.51%) VB
16 11 (1.28%) Formula Language
16 11 (1.28%) LotusScript
17 9 (1.04%) Bash
18 8 (0.93%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 158 (18.33%) Security Cleared
2 130 (15.08%) SC Cleared
3 61 (7.08%) Degree
4 29 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.20%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.51%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.70%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.58%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.46%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.46%) CISSP
11 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.35%) CCSP
12 3 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.35%) OSCP
12 3 (0.35%) SANS
13 2 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (11.14%) QA
2 17 (1.97%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.74%) GDPR
4 9 (1.04%) HL7
4 9 (1.04%) PCI DSS
5 8 (0.93%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.93%) NIST
5 8 (0.93%) WCAG
6 6 (0.70%) ISO 20022
6 6 (0.70%) PSD2
7 4 (0.46%) GRC
7 4 (0.46%) SLA
8 3 (0.35%) EU AI Act
8 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.35%) SEPA
9 2 (0.23%) DICOM
9 2 (0.23%) NCSC
9 2 (0.23%) TARGET2
10 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 119 (13.81%) Docker
2 31 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.35%) Firmware
5 2 (0.23%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 100 (11.60%) Terraform
2 99 (11.48%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.93%) Grafana
4 7 (0.81%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.70%) Ansible
6 4 (0.46%) Istio
7 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.23%) Argo
8 2 (0.23%) Control-M
8 2 (0.23%) Rancher
8 2 (0.23%) SCCM
9 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.12%) linkerd
Vendors
1 208 (24.13%) Microsoft
2 123 (14.27%) Oracle
3 38 (4.41%) Citrix
4 28 (3.25%) OpenAI
5 21 (2.44%) Databricks
6 19 (2.20%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.09%) Sitecore
8 14 (1.62%) Google
8 14 (1.62%) OpenLink
9 11 (1.28%) Foundry
9 11 (1.28%) Lotus
10 10 (1.16%) Kofax
11 8 (0.93%) Advent
12 7 (0.81%) SAP
12 7 (0.81%) UiPath
13 6 (0.70%) Brio
14 5 (0.58%) Adobe
14 5 (0.58%) Rapid7
14 5 (0.58%) Salesforce
15 4 (0.46%) PeopleSoft