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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 66 50
Rank change year-on-year -56 -16 -8
Contract jobs citing .NET 854 851 1,355
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.18% 3.49% 3.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.65% 15.53% 18.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 680 1,048
10th Percentile £381 £381 £325
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -5.22%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £675
90th Percentile £715 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 11
10th Percentile £47.05 £21.33 £20.77
25th Percentile £56.50 £21.46 £21.76
Median hourly rate £68.11 £23.41 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +190.92% -27.97% -45.83%
75th Percentile £74.45 £51.17 £62.96
90th Percentile £78.38 £66.78 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £68.11 £27.88 £31.11
% change year-on-year +144.32% -10.40% -52.14%

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 8,020 5,479 7,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.50% 22.50% 19.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,365 3,800 5,372
10th Percentile £358 £367 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -3.51%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 89 162
10th Percentile £34.00 £27.42 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £35.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £62.96
90th Percentile £78.85 £83.17 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

.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 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 9 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 9 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 -47 511 £500 -14.53% 218
South East -18 104 £525 +5.00% 174
North of England -47 97 £475 +5.56% 164
North West -28 47 £450 +5.88% 89
Midlands -69 47 £484 -1.17% 87
Yorkshire -35 45 £500 +5.26% 48
South West -38 38 £450 -14.29% 64
East of England -10 36 £558 +14.36% 63
West Midlands -64 28 £481 -3.80% 50
East Midlands -30 19 £500 +1.01% 37
North East -15 5 £513 +38.51% 33
.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 (5.85%) SharePoint
2 33 (3.86%) IIS
3 19 (2.22%) Confluence
4 17 (1.99%) CMS
4 17 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (1.64%) Sitecore CMS
6 11 (1.29%) HCL Notes
7 10 (1.17%) Mendix
8 5 (0.59%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.59%) 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 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.47%) 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 39 (4.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (2.11%) Endur
3 8 (0.94%) Advent Geneva
4 7 (0.82%) Findur
5 4 (0.47%) 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
1 453 (53.04%) Azure
2 198 (23.19%) Azure DevOps
3 143 (16.74%) AWS
4 116 (13.58%) GitHub
5 100 (11.71%) Serverless
6 85 (9.95%) Power Platform
7 77 (9.02%) Azure Service Bus
8 74 (8.67%) Azure Functions
9 71 (8.31%) GitHub Actions
10 70 (8.20%) Azure Logic Apps
11 56 (6.56%) Azure Monitor
12 55 (6.44%) Dynamics 365
13 51 (5.97%) Entra ID
14 48 (5.62%) Power Automate
15 47 (5.50%) GCP
16 42 (4.92%) Azure AKS
17 41 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
18 40 (4.68%) PowerApps
19 39 (4.57%) PaaS
20 33 (3.86%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.99%) HTTP
2 13 (1.52%) Internet
3 6 (0.70%) Network Security
4 5 (0.59%) 3GPP
5 3 (0.35%) RTP
6 2 (0.23%) DHCP
6 2 (0.23%) DNS
6 2 (0.23%) Firewall
6 2 (0.23%) NAS
6 2 (0.23%) RTCP
6 2 (0.23%) RTMP
6 2 (0.23%) SAN
6 2 (0.23%) SSL
6 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.23%) XCAP
7 1 (0.12%) Skype
7 1 (0.12%) SMTP
7 1 (0.12%) VPN
7 1 (0.12%) WAN
7 1 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (26.70%) SQL Server
2 56 (6.56%) Relational Database
3 51 (5.97%) Oracle Database
4 41 (4.80%) Azure SQL Database
5 36 (4.22%) NoSQL
6 35 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
7 34 (3.98%) Power BI
8 22 (2.58%) MongoDB
9 17 (1.99%) MySQL
10 15 (1.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (1.17%) Redis
13 9 (1.05%) Crystal Reports
14 8 (0.94%) DB2
14 8 (0.94%) DynamoDB
14 8 (0.94%) Metadata
15 6 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
16 5 (0.59%) Data Lake
16 5 (0.59%) GIS
17 4 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 93 (10.89%) Git
2 59 (6.91%) JIRA
3 33 (3.86%) Visual Studio
4 29 (3.40%) Selenium
5 25 (2.93%) Jenkins
6 21 (2.46%) Postman
7 15 (1.76%) Cucumber
8 12 (1.41%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.29%) NUnit
10 10 (1.17%) MSTest
11 9 (1.05%) GitLab
11 9 (1.05%) REST Assured
11 9 (1.05%) SpecFlow
12 8 (0.94%) TestRail
13 7 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
14 6 (0.70%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
15 5 (0.59%) Appium
15 5 (0.59%) Cypress.io
15 5 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 207 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 201 (23.54%) Finance
3 109 (12.76%) Banking
4 77 (9.02%) Public Sector
5 73 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (4.10%) Investment Banking
7 33 (3.86%) Front Office
8 24 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
9 23 (2.69%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (0.94%) Billing
11 8 (0.94%) Marketing
11 8 (0.94%) Retail
11 8 (0.94%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.82%) Health Technology
12 7 (0.82%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.59%) Back Office
15 4 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 472 (55.27%) Developer
2 166 (19.44%) .NET Developer
3 145 (16.98%) C# Developer
4 116 (13.58%) Senior
5 89 (10.42%) Architect
6 87 (10.19%) Software Engineer
7 67 (7.85%) Senior Developer
8 63 (7.38%) Lead
9 57 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
10 53 (6.21%) Solutions Architect
11 52 (6.09%) Azure Developer
12 50 (5.85%) C# .NET Developer
13 45 (5.27%) Software Developer
14 36 (4.22%) Senior .NET Developer
15 31 (3.63%) Azure Engineer
16 24 (2.81%) .NET Software Engineer
17 23 (2.69%) .NET Software Developer
18 22 (2.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 22 (2.58%) Technical Architect
19 21 (2.46%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (20.02%) .NET Framework
2 143 (16.74%) React
3 128 (14.99%) REST
4 103 (12.06%) AngularJS
5 99 (11.59%) .NET Core
6 92 (10.77%) RESTful
7 85 (9.95%) ASP.NET
7 85 (9.95%) HTML
8 62 (7.26%) CSS
9 50 (5.85%) Node.js
10 41 (4.80%) ASP.NET Core
11 36 (4.22%) Entity Framework
12 35 (4.10%) ASP.NET Web API
13 34 (3.98%) OAuth
14 33 (3.86%) WPF
15 29 (3.40%) WinForms
16 28 (3.28%) JSON
16 28 (3.28%) XML
17 27 (3.16%) SOAP
18 25 (2.93%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 97 (11.36%) Cloud Native
2 45 (5.27%) Legacy Systems
3 38 (4.45%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (4.33%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (2.81%) Product Ownership
6 21 (2.46%) AI Agents
7 15 (1.76%) NHS
7 15 (1.76%) Virtual Team
8 14 (1.64%) Fixed Income
8 14 (1.64%) Legacy Code
8 14 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (1.52%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.41%) Credit Risk
10 12 (1.41%) Low-Code
11 10 (1.17%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.17%) Derivative
12 9 (1.05%) Market Risk
13 8 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 84 (9.84%) Windows
2 33 (3.86%) Windows Server
3 28 (3.28%) Linux
4 5 (0.59%) Unix
5 4 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.23%) VMS
8 1 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (41.10%) CI/CD
2 345 (40.40%) DevOps
3 270 (31.62%) Agile
4 166 (19.44%) Microservices
5 147 (17.21%) Software Engineering
6 137 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
7 135 (15.81%) AI
8 131 (15.34%) Full-Stack Development
9 118 (13.82%) Test Automation
10 76 (8.90%) Containerisation
10 76 (8.90%) Scrum
11 75 (8.78%) Infrastructure as Code
12 72 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 71 (8.31%) Unit Testing
14 66 (7.73%) Migration
15 62 (7.26%) TDD
16 58 (6.79%) SDLC
17 56 (6.56%) Mentoring
18 54 (6.32%) Event-Driven
19 51 (5.97%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 585 (68.50%) C#
2 345 (40.40%) SQL
3 186 (21.78%) Python
4 175 (20.49%) JavaScript
5 91 (10.66%) Java
6 83 (9.72%) TypeScript
7 57 (6.67%) PL/SQL
8 55 (6.44%) PowerShell
9 54 (6.32%) T-SQL
10 26 (3.04%) Bicep
11 21 (2.46%) PHP
12 19 (2.22%) C++
13 16 (1.87%) Kusto Query Language
14 15 (1.76%) VBA
15 13 (1.52%) Go
16 12 (1.41%) VB
17 11 (1.29%) Formula Language
17 11 (1.29%) LotusScript
18 9 (1.05%) Bash
19 7 (0.82%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 152 (17.80%) Security Cleared
2 124 (14.52%) SC Cleared
3 62 (7.26%) Degree
4 29 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (1.29%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.70%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.59%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.47%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.47%) 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%) OSCP
12 3 (0.35%) SANS
13 2 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (11.24%) QA
2 18 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.87%) GDPR
4 10 (1.17%) NIST
5 9 (1.05%) HL7
5 9 (1.05%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.05%) WCAG
6 8 (0.94%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.70%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.70%) PSD2
8 5 (0.59%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.47%) GRC
10 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.35%) SEPA
10 3 (0.35%) SLA
11 2 (0.23%) DICOM
11 2 (0.23%) MiFID
11 2 (0.23%) TARGET2
12 1 (0.12%) EMIR
12 1 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 118 (13.82%) Docker
2 31 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.23%) Firmware
4 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.12%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 101 (11.83%) Kubernetes
2 100 (11.71%) Terraform
3 9 (1.05%) Grafana
4 7 (0.82%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.70%) Ansible
6 4 (0.47%) Istio
7 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.23%) Argo
8 2 (0.23%) Control-M
8 2 (0.23%) Rancher
9 1 (0.12%) Kibana
9 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.12%) linkerd
9 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 213 (24.94%) Microsoft
2 124 (14.52%) Oracle
3 37 (4.33%) Citrix
4 27 (3.16%) OpenAI
5 21 (2.46%) Databricks
6 19 (2.22%) Sitecore
7 18 (2.11%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.64%) Google
8 14 (1.64%) OpenLink
9 12 (1.41%) Foundry
10 11 (1.29%) Lotus
11 10 (1.17%) Kofax
12 8 (0.94%) Advent
12 8 (0.94%) UiPath
13 7 (0.82%) SAP
14 6 (0.70%) Brio
15 5 (0.59%) Adobe
15 5 (0.59%) Rapid7
16 4 (0.47%) PeopleSoft
16 4 (0.47%) Salesforce