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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 68 53
Rank change year-on-year -49 -15 -11
Contract jobs citing .NET 862 849 1,330
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.19% 3.47% 3.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.83% 15.49% 17.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 626 673 1,024
10th Percentile £386 £368 £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 £700 £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 13
10th Percentile £47.05 £21.33 £20.77
25th Percentile £56.50 £21.46 £22.75
Median hourly rate £68.11 £23.41 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year +190.92% -60.26% +7.10%
75th Percentile £74.45 £51.17 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.38 £66.78 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £68.11 £27.00 £48.70
% change year-on-year +152.24% -44.56% -25.07%

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 7,961 5,482 7,477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.23% 22.43% 20.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,335 3,802 5,343
10th Percentile £358 £365 £350
25th Percentile £419 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -1.90% -0.57% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 89 178
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.42 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £36.90
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £83.17 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -49 519 £500 -14.53% 189
South East -15 109 £525 +5.00% 173
North of England -47 97 £481 +13.24% 155
Midlands -76 48 £492 +1.86% 68
Yorkshire -31 47 £500 +5.26% 43
North West -34 46 £450 +7.46% 86
South West -39 40 £450 -14.29% 68
East of England -12 28 £550 +14.29% 58
West Midlands -63 27 £481 -3.80% 33
East Midlands -28 21 £550 +12.24% 35
North East -18 4 £475 +28.38% 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 51 (5.92%) SharePoint
2 33 (3.83%) IIS
3 18 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (1.97%) CMS
4 17 (1.97%) Confluence
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%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 17 (1.97%) 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 40 (4.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (2.09%) Endur
3 8 (0.93%) Advent Geneva
4 7 (0.81%) Findur
5 5 (0.58%) 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
7 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 456 (52.90%) Azure
2 191 (22.16%) Azure DevOps
3 143 (16.59%) AWS
4 114 (13.23%) GitHub
5 96 (11.14%) Serverless
6 86 (9.98%) Power Platform
7 77 (8.93%) Azure Service Bus
8 72 (8.35%) GitHub Actions
9 70 (8.12%) Azure Functions
10 69 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
11 57 (6.61%) Azure Monitor
12 55 (6.38%) Dynamics 365
13 51 (5.92%) Entra ID
14 48 (5.57%) GCP
14 48 (5.57%) Power Automate
15 43 (4.99%) Microsoft 365
15 43 (4.99%) PowerApps
16 40 (4.64%) Azure AKS
17 36 (4.18%) PaaS
18 33 (3.83%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.74%) HTTP
2 13 (1.51%) 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
1 230 (26.68%) SQL Server
2 56 (6.50%) Relational Database
3 52 (6.03%) Oracle Database
4 44 (5.10%) 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 14 (1.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (1.16%) Redis
12 9 (1.04%) Crystal Reports
13 8 (0.93%) DB2
13 8 (0.93%) DynamoDB
13 8 (0.93%) Metadata
14 6 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
15 5 (0.58%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.58%) GIS
16 4 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 96 (11.14%) Git
2 58 (6.73%) JIRA
3 33 (3.83%) Visual Studio
4 27 (3.13%) Selenium
5 24 (2.78%) Jenkins
6 20 (2.32%) Postman
7 13 (1.51%) Cucumber
7 13 (1.51%) TeamCity
8 11 (1.28%) NUnit
9 10 (1.16%) MSTest
10 9 (1.04%) REST Assured
11 8 (0.93%) GitLab
11 8 (0.93%) SpecFlow
11 8 (0.93%) TestRail
12 6 (0.70%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (0.58%) Appium
13 5 (0.58%) Cypress.io
14 4 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 202 (23.43%) Finance
2 201 (23.32%) Social Skills
3 105 (12.18%) Banking
4 79 (9.16%) Public Sector
5 73 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (3.94%) Front Office
6 34 (3.94%) Investment Banking
7 27 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
8 22 (2.55%) Financial Institution
9 10 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (0.93%) Retail
11 7 (0.81%) Billing
11 7 (0.81%) Health Technology
11 7 (0.81%) Manufacturing
11 7 (0.81%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.70%) Back Office
12 6 (0.70%) Marketing
13 5 (0.58%) Aviation
13 5 (0.58%) Police
Job Titles
1 471 (54.64%) Developer
2 164 (19.03%) .NET Developer
3 145 (16.82%) C# Developer
4 116 (13.46%) Senior
5 95 (11.02%) Architect
6 89 (10.32%) Software Engineer
7 67 (7.77%) Senior Developer
8 60 (6.96%) Lead
9 57 (6.61%) Full-Stack Developer
10 55 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
11 53 (6.15%) Azure Developer
12 52 (6.03%) C# .NET Developer
13 46 (5.34%) Software Developer
14 36 (4.18%) Senior .NET Developer
15 31 (3.60%) Azure Engineer
16 25 (2.90%) .NET Software Developer
16 25 (2.90%) .NET Software Engineer
17 24 (2.78%) Technical Architect
18 22 (2.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 21 (2.44%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (19.84%) .NET Framework
2 143 (16.59%) React
3 128 (14.85%) REST
4 102 (11.83%) AngularJS
5 98 (11.37%) .NET Core
6 89 (10.32%) RESTful
7 84 (9.74%) HTML
8 81 (9.40%) ASP.NET
9 62 (7.19%) CSS
10 51 (5.92%) Node.js
11 38 (4.41%) ASP.NET Core
12 35 (4.06%) Entity Framework
13 34 (3.94%) OAuth
14 33 (3.83%) ASP.NET Web API
14 33 (3.83%) WPF
15 29 (3.36%) WinForms
16 27 (3.13%) XML
17 26 (3.02%) JSON
17 26 (3.02%) Microsoft Graph
17 26 (3.02%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 93 (10.79%) Cloud Native
2 47 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
3 45 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (4.06%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 22 (2.55%) AI Agents
7 17 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.74%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.62%) Fixed Income
9 14 (1.62%) NHS
10 13 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (1.51%) Legacy Code
10 13 (1.51%) Low-Code
11 12 (1.39%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.28%) Credit Risk
13 10 (1.16%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.16%) Derivative
14 9 (1.04%) IoT
14 9 (1.04%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 85 (9.86%) 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
1 355 (41.18%) CI/CD
2 347 (40.26%) DevOps
3 266 (30.86%) Agile
4 167 (19.37%) Microservices
5 148 (17.17%) Software Engineering
6 135 (15.66%) AI
7 130 (15.08%) Full-Stack Development
8 125 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
9 116 (13.46%) Test Automation
10 77 (8.93%) Infrastructure as Code
11 76 (8.82%) Containerisation
12 73 (8.47%) Scrum
13 72 (8.35%) Unit Testing
14 68 (7.89%) Migration
15 67 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
16 65 (7.54%) SDLC
17 63 (7.31%) TDD
18 55 (6.38%) Mentoring
19 54 (6.26%) Event-Driven
20 52 (6.03%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 589 (68.33%) C#
2 344 (39.91%) SQL
3 189 (21.93%) Python
4 174 (20.19%) JavaScript
5 90 (10.44%) Java
6 83 (9.63%) TypeScript
7 60 (6.96%) PL/SQL
8 57 (6.61%) T-SQL
9 55 (6.38%) PowerShell
10 26 (3.02%) Bicep
11 21 (2.44%) PHP
12 19 (2.20%) C++
13 18 (2.09%) Go
14 17 (1.97%) Kusto Query Language
15 15 (1.74%) VBA
16 12 (1.39%) VB
17 11 (1.28%) Formula Language
17 11 (1.28%) LotusScript
18 9 (1.04%) Bash
19 8 (0.93%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 158 (18.33%) Security Cleared
2 130 (15.08%) SC Cleared
3 64 (7.42%) Degree
4 30 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.32%) 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
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%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.35%) OSCP
12 3 (0.35%) SANS
13 2 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (11.25%) 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%) WCAG
6 6 (0.70%) ISO 20022
6 6 (0.70%) NIST
6 6 (0.70%) PSD2
7 4 (0.46%) GRC
7 4 (0.46%) SLA
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%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.12%) EMIR
10 1 (0.12%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 120 (13.92%) 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
1 101 (11.72%) Terraform
2 100 (11.60%) 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
1 210 (24.36%) Microsoft
2 125 (14.50%) Oracle
3 39 (4.52%) 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%) Lotus
10 10 (1.16%) Foundry
10 10 (1.16%) Kofax
11 8 (0.93%) Advent
11 8 (0.93%) SAP
11 8 (0.93%) UiPath
12 5 (0.58%) Adobe
12 5 (0.58%) Brio
12 5 (0.58%) Rapid7
12 5 (0.58%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.46%) ION Trading