.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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 63 45
Rank change year-on-year -43 -18 -8
Contract jobs citing .NET 792 1,065 1,808
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.62% 3.41% 4.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.47% 15.68% 20.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 763 1,378
10th Percentile £350 £351 £375
25th Percentile £404 £423 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £618 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -7.14% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 24
10th Percentile £58.60 £17.19 £46.22
25th Percentile £65.50 £19.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £23.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +188.17% -64.23% -
75th Percentile - £35.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.85 £51.70 -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £25.60 £65.00
% change year-on-year +161.72% -60.62% -

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 6,904 6,790 8,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.83% 21.74% 22.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,663 4,337 6,387
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £634 £666 £675
90th Percentile £737 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 99 183
10th Percentile £30.75 £26.25 £36.37
25th Percentile £43.00 £41.88 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.47%

.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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 -43 473 £500 -13.04% 418
North of England -41 82 £488 -1.52% 269
East of England +24 63 £525 +75.00% 84
South East -20 62 £450 -12.83% 261
Midlands -45 53 £510 +2.00% 142
Yorkshire -25 45 £500 -6.54% 65
North West -24 35 £450 -3.23% 170
West Midlands -52 27 £480 -8.57% 82
East Midlands -11 26 £515 +24.85% 58
South West -29 25 £419 -16.25% 96
North East -17 2 £600 +50.00% 34
.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 39 (4.92%) Confluence
2 25 (3.16%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.27%) IIS
4 15 (1.89%) CMS
4 15 (1.89%) WebLogic
4 15 (1.89%) WebSphere
5 9 (1.14%) Sitecore CMS
5 9 (1.14%) Umbraco
6 8 (1.01%) Apache
6 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.88%) HCL Notes
8 6 (0.76%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.76%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.25%) Camunda
11 2 (0.25%) Documentum
11 2 (0.25%) EPiServer
11 2 (0.25%) Moodle
Applications
1 36 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.13%) Moqups
3 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 43 (5.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.14%) Aladdin
3 8 (1.01%) Advent Geneva
4 7 (0.88%) Fidessa
5 6 (0.76%) OpenText MBPM
5 6 (0.76%) Oracle BPM
6 4 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.51%) thinkFolio
6 4 (0.51%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.25%) Orchestrade
8 1 (0.13%) Eikon
8 1 (0.13%) Endur
8 1 (0.13%) ION Anvil
8 1 (0.13%) Maximo
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.13%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 400 (50.51%) Azure
2 184 (23.23%) Azure DevOps
3 95 (11.99%) AWS
4 92 (11.62%) GitHub
5 89 (11.24%) Power Platform
6 87 (10.98%) Serverless
7 61 (7.70%) Dynamics 365
8 59 (7.45%) Azure Functions
8 59 (7.45%) Azure Logic Apps
9 57 (7.20%) PowerApps
10 56 (7.07%) Power Automate
11 50 (6.31%) Azure Service Bus
12 45 (5.68%) GitHub Actions
13 43 (5.43%) PaaS
14 41 (5.18%) Azure AKS
15 34 (4.29%) Azure Monitor
15 34 (4.29%) Entra ID
16 30 (3.79%) GCP
17 29 (3.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 23 (2.90%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.77%) Internet
2 8 (1.01%) HTTP
3 6 (0.76%) Network Security
4 4 (0.51%) SSL
5 3 (0.38%) DNS
5 3 (0.38%) Firewall
6 2 (0.25%) DHCP
6 2 (0.25%) S/MIME
6 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.25%) X.509
7 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.13%) Intranet
7 1 (0.13%) NAS
7 1 (0.13%) SAN
7 1 (0.13%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (23.61%) SQL Server
2 44 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 38 (4.80%) Oracle Database
4 37 (4.67%) NoSQL
5 36 (4.55%) Power BI
6 28 (3.54%) MongoDB
7 24 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
8 22 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 22 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 17 (2.15%) MySQL
10 13 (1.64%) Big Data
11 10 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (1.14%) DB2
12 9 (1.14%) Redis
13 5 (0.63%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.51%) DocumentDB
14 4 (0.51%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.51%) Hadoop
15 3 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 89 (11.24%) Git
2 86 (10.86%) JIRA
3 28 (3.54%) Jenkins
4 27 (3.41%) Selenium
5 24 (3.03%) SpecFlow
6 23 (2.90%) Visual Studio
7 21 (2.65%) GitLab
8 20 (2.53%) Postman
9 16 (2.02%) Cucumber
10 15 (1.89%) Bitbucket
11 14 (1.77%) Artifactory
12 12 (1.52%) SonarQube
13 9 (1.14%) Team Foundation Server
13 9 (1.14%) TeamCity
14 8 (1.01%) Cypress.io
15 7 (0.88%) JMeter
16 6 (0.76%) NUnit
16 6 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
17 5 (0.63%) REST Assured
17 5 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 240 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 223 (28.16%) Finance
3 100 (12.63%) Banking
4 71 (8.96%) Public Sector
5 69 (8.71%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (5.18%) Front Office
7 38 (4.80%) Investment Banking
8 24 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.89%) Marketing
11 13 (1.64%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.39%) Retail
13 10 (1.26%) Back Office
14 8 (1.01%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.63%) Billing
16 5 (0.63%) Legal
16 5 (0.63%) Local Government
16 5 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 468 (59.09%) Developer
2 172 (21.72%) .NET Developer
3 133 (16.79%) C# Developer
4 106 (13.38%) Senior
5 70 (8.84%) Senior Developer
6 66 (8.33%) Architect
7 65 (8.21%) C# .NET Developer
8 64 (8.08%) Full-Stack Developer
9 62 (7.83%) Software Engineer
10 61 (7.70%) Lead
11 41 (5.18%) Azure Developer
12 36 (4.55%) Angular Developer
13 35 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
14 31 (3.91%) Senior .NET Developer
15 27 (3.41%) Dynamics 365 Developer
16 26 (3.28%) C# WPF Developer
16 26 (3.28%) WPF Developer
17 25 (3.16%) Software Developer
18 23 (2.90%) Consultant
18 23 (2.90%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (23.36%) .NET Framework
2 123 (15.53%) .NET Core
3 117 (14.77%) AngularJS
4 113 (14.27%) React
5 110 (13.89%) RESTful
6 107 (13.51%) HTML
7 93 (11.74%) REST
8 85 (10.73%) CSS
9 72 (9.09%) ASP.NET
10 60 (7.58%) Node.js
11 59 (7.45%) Entity Framework
12 54 (6.82%) WPF
13 43 (5.43%) Web Services
14 37 (4.67%) Kafka
15 35 (4.42%) ASP.NET Web API
16 34 (4.29%) SOAP
17 31 (3.91%) Playwright
18 29 (3.66%) Blazor
18 29 (3.66%) Middleware
19 27 (3.41%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 79 (9.97%) Cloud Native
2 34 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
3 32 (4.04%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
5 25 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
5 25 (3.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 25 (3.16%) Mobile App
6 23 (2.90%) Algorithms
7 20 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (2.15%) Fixed Income
9 15 (1.89%) Derivative
9 15 (1.89%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.64%) Hedge funds
11 12 (1.52%) Virtual Team
12 11 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.26%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.26%) NHS
13 10 (1.26%) Onboarding
14 9 (1.14%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 67 (8.46%) Windows
2 18 (2.27%) Linux
3 11 (1.39%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.14%) Android
4 9 (1.14%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.25%) Unix
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (40.66%) Agile
2 307 (38.76%) DevOps
3 254 (32.07%) CI/CD
4 186 (23.48%) Problem-Solving
5 177 (22.35%) Microservices
6 143 (18.06%) Full-Stack Development
7 137 (17.30%) Software Engineering
8 111 (14.02%) Test Automation
9 103 (13.01%) Scrum
10 78 (9.85%) Containerisation
11 74 (9.34%) Clean Code
12 68 (8.59%) AI
13 67 (8.46%) Design Patterns
13 67 (8.46%) Mentoring
13 67 (8.46%) SDLC
13 67 (8.46%) TDD
14 62 (7.83%) Computer Science
15 56 (7.07%) Continuous Improvement
16 55 (6.94%) Business Intelligence
16 55 (6.94%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 548 (69.19%) C#
2 308 (38.89%) SQL
3 204 (25.76%) JavaScript
4 122 (15.40%) Python
5 115 (14.52%) Java
6 78 (9.85%) TypeScript
7 47 (5.93%) PL/SQL
8 38 (4.80%) C++
8 38 (4.80%) PHP
9 36 (4.55%) T-SQL
10 33 (4.17%) PowerShell
10 33 (4.17%) VB.NET
11 27 (3.41%) VBA
12 26 (3.28%) VB
13 24 (3.03%) Bicep
14 17 (2.15%) Bash
14 17 (2.15%) C
15 9 (1.14%) Ruby
16 6 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 82 (10.35%) Security Cleared
2 66 (8.33%) Degree
3 63 (7.95%) SC Cleared
4 35 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.02%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (1.77%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.77%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.39%) MCP
9 7 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.63%) CISSP
11 4 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.51%) PMP
12 3 (0.38%) CBAP
12 3 (0.38%) ISEB
13 2 (0.25%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.25%) CCSP
13 2 (0.25%) CEH
13 2 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (8.96%) QA
2 23 (2.90%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.15%) EU AI Act
4 16 (2.02%) NIST
5 10 (1.26%) GDPR
5 10 (1.26%) WCAG
6 9 (1.14%) MiFID
7 5 (0.63%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.63%) EMIR
7 5 (0.63%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.63%) HL7
7 5 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.51%) COBIT
9 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.25%) NCSC
10 1 (0.13%) DICOM
10 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.13%) SLA
10 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 99 (12.50%) Docker
2 28 (3.54%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.13%) KVM
5 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 83 (10.48%) Kubernetes
2 70 (8.84%) Terraform
3 7 (0.88%) Grafana
3 7 (0.88%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.76%) Ansible
4 6 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.25%) Control-M
6 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.13%) Istio
6 1 (0.13%) Kibana
6 1 (0.13%) MIIS
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.13%) Rancher
Vendors
1 220 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 96 (12.12%) Oracle
3 18 (2.27%) Citrix
4 17 (2.15%) ServiceNow
4 17 (2.15%) UiPath
5 16 (2.02%) Databricks
6 15 (1.89%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.77%) Foundry
7 14 (1.77%) OpenAI
8 13 (1.64%) Sitecore
9 12 (1.52%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.52%) SAP
10 8 (1.01%) Advent
10 8 (1.01%) GoldenSource
10 8 (1.01%) Google
11 7 (0.88%) Brio
11 7 (0.88%) Lotus
11 7 (0.88%) OpenText
12 6 (0.76%) Adobe
12 6 (0.76%) DocuSign