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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 93 52
Rank change year-on-year -21 -41 0
Contract jobs citing .NET 1,057 748 1,281
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.30% 2.71% 3.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.84% 10.82% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 725 532 932
10th Percentile £400 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -7.14% -6.04%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £759 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £489 £520
% change year-on-year +7.42% -6.01% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 7 10
10th Percentile £37.25 £45.72 £19.60
25th Percentile £38.25 £63.63 £29.06
Median hourly rate £45.00 £67.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.84% +7.20% +4.17%
75th Percentile £69.47 - £85.00
90th Percentile £78.38 - £85.50
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £63.50 £49.25
% change year-on-year -29.13% +28.93% -17.92%

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 9,755 6,911 8,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.21% 25.08% 24.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,401 4,714 5,512
10th Percentile £380 £354 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 160 177
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £27.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.27 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% -13.60% -3.10%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.46
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -1.44%

.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 September 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 September 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 14 September 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 -11 635 £545 +3.81% 952
North of England -35 128 £490 +3.16% 354
South East -21 109 £500 +11.11% 288
Yorkshire -11 69 £450 -10.00% 86
Midlands -37 69 £500 +3.09% 184
South West -1 68 £450 +17.26% 95
North West -37 49 £525 +23.53% 205
West Midlands -50 35 £460 -9.36% 98
East Midlands -6 33 £525 +20.00% 85
East of England -41 27 £510 +2.00% 110
North East -30 10 £513 - 66
.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 47 (4.45%) SharePoint
2 40 (3.78%) Confluence
3 33 (3.12%) IIS
4 15 (1.42%) CMS
5 7 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.57%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.47%) Apache Solr
7 5 (0.47%) Appian
7 5 (0.47%) Camunda
8 4 (0.38%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.38%) Kentico
8 4 (0.38%) WordPress
9 3 (0.28%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.28%) Mendix
10 2 (0.19%) nginx
10 2 (0.19%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.095%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 28 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.47%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.38%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 41 (3.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.66%) OpenText MBPM
2 7 (0.66%) Oracle BPM
3 6 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.47%) Shopify
5 4 (0.38%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.38%) Endur
5 4 (0.38%) Findur
6 3 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.19%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.095%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.095%) Magento
8 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.095%) Sage 50
8 1 (0.095%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.095%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 526 (49.76%) Azure
2 199 (18.83%) Azure DevOps
3 184 (17.41%) AWS
4 135 (12.77%) Power Platform
5 121 (11.45%) GitHub
6 92 (8.70%) Serverless
7 83 (7.85%) Dynamics 365
8 79 (7.47%) Azure Service Bus
9 67 (6.34%) Power Automate
10 65 (6.15%) PowerApps
11 63 (5.96%) Azure Logic Apps
12 58 (5.49%) Azure Functions
13 44 (4.16%) GitHub Actions
14 38 (3.60%) Entra ID
15 37 (3.50%) Azure AKS
16 35 (3.31%) Azure Monitor
17 34 (3.22%) Microsoft Copilot
18 29 (2.74%) Azure API Management
19 26 (2.46%) GitHub Copilot
20 25 (2.37%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.51%) Internet
2 9 (0.85%) TCP/IP
2 9 (0.85%) Wireshark
3 7 (0.66%) RTP
4 6 (0.57%) 3GPP
4 6 (0.57%) DNS
4 6 (0.57%) Firewall
4 6 (0.57%) Intranet
5 4 (0.38%) Network Security
6 3 (0.28%) DHCP
6 3 (0.28%) HTTP
6 3 (0.28%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.28%) NAS
6 3 (0.28%) SAN
6 3 (0.28%) VPN
7 2 (0.19%) Multicast
7 2 (0.19%) Skype
7 2 (0.19%) VLAN
8 1 (0.095%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.095%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 275 (26.02%) SQL Server
2 66 (6.24%) Power BI
3 57 (5.39%) Relational Database
4 49 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
5 47 (4.45%) NoSQL
6 45 (4.26%) Oracle Database
7 30 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
8 26 (2.46%) MongoDB
9 23 (2.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 16 (1.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 14 (1.32%) DynamoDB
11 14 (1.32%) MySQL
12 13 (1.23%) Data Lake
13 12 (1.14%) Geospatial Data
14 10 (0.95%) Chroma
14 10 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (0.95%) Pinecone
14 10 (0.95%) Weaviate
15 8 (0.76%) Redis
16 7 (0.66%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 138 (13.06%) Git
2 76 (7.19%) JIRA
3 44 (4.16%) Visual Studio
4 35 (3.31%) Jenkins
5 25 (2.37%) GitLab
6 21 (1.99%) Selenium
7 20 (1.89%) TeamCity
8 15 (1.42%) JMeter
9 13 (1.23%) Claude Code
9 13 (1.23%) Gatling
9 13 (1.23%) MSI
10 12 (1.14%) Bitbucket
11 11 (1.04%) Cucumber
11 11 (1.04%) Postman
12 10 (0.95%) NUnit
13 9 (0.85%) JUnit
13 9 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.76%) eggPlant
15 7 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
15 7 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 277 (26.21%) Social Skills
2 255 (24.12%) Finance
3 116 (10.97%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (10.88%) Banking
5 64 (6.05%) Public Sector
6 58 (5.49%) Front Office
7 41 (3.88%) Investment Banking
8 29 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.32%) Financial Institution
10 12 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.04%) Back Office
11 11 (1.04%) Legal
12 10 (0.95%) Marketing
12 10 (0.95%) Retail
13 7 (0.66%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.57%) Billing
14 6 (0.57%) Police
15 5 (0.47%) Fire and Rescue
15 5 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 520 (49.20%) Developer
2 214 (20.25%) .NET Developer
3 179 (16.93%) Senior
4 122 (11.54%) C# Developer
5 119 (11.26%) Architect
6 106 (10.03%) Software Engineer
7 103 (9.74%) Senior Developer
8 92 (8.70%) Lead
9 71 (6.72%) Full-Stack Developer
10 67 (6.34%) Solutions Architect
11 54 (5.11%) Software Developer
12 50 (4.73%) C# .NET Developer
13 46 (4.35%) Senior .NET Developer
14 38 (3.60%) Azure Developer
15 35 (3.31%) .NET Software Engineer
16 32 (3.03%) Dynamics 365 Developer
17 30 (2.84%) .NET Software Developer
17 30 (2.84%) React Developer
18 29 (2.74%) Azure Engineer
19 28 (2.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (19.21%) REST
2 202 (19.11%) .NET Framework
3 156 (14.76%) React
4 144 (13.62%) .NET Core
5 122 (11.54%) Terraform
6 119 (11.26%) ASP.NET
7 108 (10.22%) RESTful
8 85 (8.04%) AngularJS
9 84 (7.95%) HTML
10 78 (7.38%) CSS
11 71 (6.72%) Web Services
12 60 (5.68%) JSON
13 56 (5.30%) XML
14 51 (4.82%) ASP.NET Core
14 51 (4.82%) Entity Framework
15 49 (4.64%) WPF
16 45 (4.26%) Kafka
16 45 (4.26%) OAuth
16 45 (4.26%) SOAP
17 40 (3.78%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 138 (13.06%) Cloud Native
2 72 (6.81%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (6.43%) Enterprise Software
4 57 (5.39%) Legacy Systems
5 53 (5.01%) Product Ownership
6 48 (4.54%) AI Agents
7 32 (3.03%) Onboarding
8 26 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (1.42%) Legacy Code
10 14 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
10 14 (1.32%) Virtual Team
11 13 (1.23%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.23%) Fixed Income
12 12 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (1.04%) Low-Code
14 10 (0.95%) Derivative
14 10 (0.95%) Distributed Applications
14 10 (0.95%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 110 (10.41%) Windows
2 67 (6.34%) Linux
3 30 (2.84%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.32%) Unix
5 6 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.19%) VMS
7 1 (0.095%) Android
7 1 (0.095%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.095%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.095%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (40.40%) CI/CD
2 406 (38.41%) DevOps
3 365 (34.53%) Agile
4 218 (20.62%) Software Engineering
5 213 (20.15%) AI
6 191 (18.07%) Microservices
7 172 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
8 161 (15.23%) Full-Stack Development
9 142 (13.43%) Test Automation
10 121 (11.45%) SDLC
11 111 (10.50%) Migration
12 106 (10.03%) Scrum
13 105 (9.93%) Event-Driven
14 104 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
15 95 (8.99%) Stakeholder Management
16 90 (8.51%) Containerisation
16 90 (8.51%) Infrastructure as Code
17 85 (8.04%) Mentoring
17 85 (8.04%) Technical Leadership
18 80 (7.57%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 726 (68.68%) C#
2 392 (37.09%) SQL
3 230 (21.76%) Python
4 222 (21.00%) JavaScript
5 139 (13.15%) TypeScript
6 111 (10.50%) Java
7 78 (7.38%) T-SQL
8 64 (6.05%) PowerShell
9 60 (5.68%) PL/SQL
10 49 (4.64%) Bicep
11 31 (2.93%) C++
12 30 (2.84%) VB.NET
13 18 (1.70%) Go
13 18 (1.70%) VBA
14 15 (1.42%) VB
15 14 (1.32%) Bash
16 12 (1.14%) X++
17 7 (0.66%) C
18 6 (0.57%) PHP
18 6 (0.57%) XPath
Qualifications
1 173 (16.37%) Security Cleared
2 146 (13.81%) SC Cleared
3 93 (8.80%) Degree
4 30 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (1.80%) Azure Certification
6 18 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.32%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.32%) Master's Degree
9 9 (0.85%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.76%) ISTQB
10 8 (0.76%) PhD
11 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 6 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.38%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.38%) ISEB
13 3 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.19%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (8.33%) QA
2 33 (3.12%) Accessibility
3 27 (2.55%) WCAG
4 17 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 17 (1.61%) NCSC
5 11 (1.04%) GDPR
6 8 (0.76%) SLA
7 4 (0.38%) HL7
8 3 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 3 (0.28%) Basel III
8 3 (0.28%) GMP
8 3 (0.28%) GxP
8 3 (0.28%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 3 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.19%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.19%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.19%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 128 (12.11%) Docker
2 37 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.28%) Firmware
6 2 (0.19%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.095%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 110 (10.41%) Kubernetes
2 37 (3.50%) Ansible
3 13 (1.23%) Grafana
4 10 (0.95%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.76%) Kibana
6 5 (0.47%) Control-M
6 5 (0.47%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.19%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.19%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.19%) Istio
9 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.19%) SCCM
9 2 (0.19%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.095%) PingFederate
10 1 (0.095%) Rancher
Vendors
1 283 (26.77%) Microsoft
2 124 (11.73%) Oracle
3 34 (3.22%) Citrix
4 26 (2.46%) Databricks
5 22 (2.08%) UiPath
6 21 (1.99%) OpenAI
7 19 (1.80%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.23%) IBM
9 12 (1.14%) SAP
9 12 (1.14%) Splunk
10 11 (1.04%) Google
11 10 (0.95%) Salesforce
12 8 (0.76%) CyberArk
12 8 (0.76%) InterSystems
13 7 (0.66%) Foundry
13 7 (0.66%) Sitecore
14 6 (0.57%) Centrify
14 6 (0.57%) Hitachi
15 5 (0.47%) OpenText
15 5 (0.47%) VMware