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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 100 52
Rank change year-on-year -20 -48 -1
Contract jobs citing .NET 1,043 745 1,229
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.25% 2.70% 3.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.61% 10.61% 15.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 711 525 880
10th Percentile £400 £328 £363
25th Percentile £424 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £488 £535
Median % change year-on-year +5.64% -8.88% -4.25%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 6 9
10th Percentile £37.25 £63.63 £19.20
25th Percentile £38.25 £65.88 £26.50
Median hourly rate £46.80 £67.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.15% +3.08% -
75th Percentile £75.00 - £85.00
90th Percentile £79.00 - £86.00
UK median hourly rate £46.80 £66.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -29.09% +10.00% -7.69%

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 9,826 7,020 8,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.21% 25.48% 24.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,471 4,762 5,262
10th Percentile £380 £355 £363
25th Percentile £447 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -0.90%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £666
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 170 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.57 £35.50
25th Percentile £54.37 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £66.66 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.20% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.68
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.70 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.83% -12.48% +4.17%

.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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -11 641 £543 +3.33% 545
North of England -41 119 £469 -1.32% 276
South East -42 99 £488 +8.33% 207
South West +5 66 £470 +17.50% 65
Midlands -40 65 £500 +1.52% 167
Yorkshire -25 62 £450 -9.09% 68
North West -35 47 £493 +15.88% 173
West Midlands -45 38 £460 -10.24% 87
East of England -36 32 £518 +3.50% 114
East Midlands -15 26 £538 +22.86% 80
North East -31 10 £513 - 39
.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 45 (4.31%) SharePoint
2 37 (3.55%) Confluence
3 29 (2.78%) IIS
4 16 (1.53%) CMS
5 7 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.58%) Camunda
6 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.58%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.48%) Apache Solr
7 5 (0.48%) Appian
8 4 (0.38%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.38%) Kentico
8 4 (0.38%) WordPress
9 3 (0.29%) Mendix
9 3 (0.29%) nginx
10 2 (0.19%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.096%) Drupal
11 1 (0.096%) EPiServer
Applications
1 28 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.38%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 41 (3.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.67%) OpenText MBPM
2 7 (0.67%) Oracle BPM
3 6 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.48%) Shopify
5 4 (0.38%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.29%) Endur
6 3 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.19%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.19%) Temenos T24
8 1 (0.096%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.096%) Findur
8 1 (0.096%) Magento
8 1 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.096%) Sage 50
8 1 (0.096%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.096%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 517 (49.57%) Azure
2 197 (18.89%) Azure DevOps
3 183 (17.55%) AWS
4 133 (12.75%) Power Platform
5 117 (11.22%) GitHub
6 95 (9.11%) Serverless
7 84 (8.05%) Dynamics 365
8 77 (7.38%) Azure Service Bus
9 67 (6.42%) Power Automate
10 64 (6.14%) PowerApps
11 61 (5.85%) Azure Logic Apps
12 60 (5.75%) Azure Functions
13 39 (3.74%) Entra ID
14 38 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
14 38 (3.64%) Microsoft Copilot
15 34 (3.26%) Azure AKS
16 29 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
17 28 (2.68%) Azure API Management
17 28 (2.68%) Copilot Studio
18 26 (2.49%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.53%) Internet
2 9 (0.86%) TCP/IP
2 9 (0.86%) Wireshark
3 7 (0.67%) DNS
3 7 (0.67%) RTP
4 6 (0.58%) 3GPP
4 6 (0.58%) Firewall
4 6 (0.58%) Intranet
5 4 (0.38%) Network Security
5 4 (0.38%) VPN
6 3 (0.29%) DHCP
6 3 (0.29%) HTTP
6 3 (0.29%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.29%) NAS
6 3 (0.29%) SAN
7 2 (0.19%) Multicast
7 2 (0.19%) Skype
7 2 (0.19%) VLAN
8 1 (0.096%) DMZ
8 1 (0.096%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 273 (26.17%) SQL Server
2 62 (5.94%) Power BI
3 47 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (4.51%) Relational Database
4 46 (4.41%) NoSQL
4 46 (4.41%) Oracle Database
5 29 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 29 (2.78%) MongoDB
6 23 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 14 (1.34%) Data Lake
8 14 (1.34%) MySQL
9 12 (1.15%) Geospatial Data
10 11 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (1.05%) DynamoDB
11 10 (0.96%) Chroma
11 10 (0.96%) Pinecone
11 10 (0.96%) Weaviate
12 7 (0.67%) Metadata
12 7 (0.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 146 (14.00%) Git
2 73 (7.00%) JIRA
3 52 (4.99%) Visual Studio
4 36 (3.45%) Jenkins
5 31 (2.97%) GitLab
6 21 (2.01%) Selenium
7 20 (1.92%) TeamCity
8 15 (1.44%) Gatling
8 15 (1.44%) JMeter
9 14 (1.34%) Claude Code
10 13 (1.25%) MSI
11 12 (1.15%) Bitbucket
11 12 (1.15%) Cucumber
12 11 (1.05%) Postman
13 10 (0.96%) JUnit
14 9 (0.86%) NUnit
14 9 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (0.77%) eggPlant
15 8 (0.77%) MSBuild
15 8 (0.77%) REST Assured
General
1 269 (25.79%) Social Skills
2 255 (24.45%) Finance
3 114 (10.93%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (10.83%) Banking
5 59 (5.66%) Front Office
5 59 (5.66%) Public Sector
6 41 (3.93%) Investment Banking
7 30 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (1.44%) Financial Institution
9 13 (1.25%) Back Office
10 12 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.05%) Legal
12 10 (0.96%) Marketing
12 10 (0.96%) Retail
13 6 (0.58%) Billing
13 6 (0.58%) Police
14 5 (0.48%) Aviation
14 5 (0.48%) Fire and Rescue
14 5 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 511 (48.99%) Developer
2 204 (19.56%) .NET Developer
3 180 (17.26%) Senior
4 119 (11.41%) C# Developer
5 111 (10.64%) Architect
6 102 (9.78%) Software Engineer
7 101 (9.68%) Senior Developer
8 83 (7.96%) Lead
9 73 (7.00%) Full-Stack Developer
10 58 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
11 50 (4.79%) C# .NET Developer
12 47 (4.51%) Software Developer
13 44 (4.22%) Senior .NET Developer
14 39 (3.74%) .NET Software Engineer
15 38 (3.64%) Azure Developer
16 34 (3.26%) Dynamics 365 Developer
17 32 (3.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 32 (3.07%) React Developer
18 30 (2.88%) Applications Support
19 29 (2.78%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (19.75%) REST
2 205 (19.65%) .NET Framework
3 159 (15.24%) React
4 147 (14.09%) .NET Core
5 120 (11.51%) ASP.NET
6 109 (10.45%) Terraform
7 105 (10.07%) RESTful
8 84 (8.05%) HTML
9 83 (7.96%) AngularJS
10 77 (7.38%) CSS
11 76 (7.29%) Web Services
12 62 (5.94%) JSON
13 60 (5.75%) WPF
14 57 (5.47%) XML
15 56 (5.37%) Entity Framework
16 49 (4.70%) ASP.NET Core
17 47 (4.51%) SOAP
18 46 (4.41%) WinForms
19 44 (4.22%) OAuth
20 43 (4.12%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 132 (12.66%) Cloud Native
2 73 (7.00%) Enterprise Software
3 69 (6.62%) Distributed Systems
4 56 (5.37%) AI Agents
5 54 (5.18%) Legacy Systems
6 53 (5.08%) Product Ownership
7 37 (3.55%) Onboarding
8 28 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
10 15 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
11 14 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 14 (1.34%) Low-Code
12 13 (1.25%) Data Centre
12 13 (1.25%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.15%) Data Structures
13 12 (1.15%) Fixed Income
14 11 (1.05%) Legacy Code
15 10 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
15 10 (0.96%) Derivative
15 10 (0.96%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 119 (11.41%) Windows
2 66 (6.33%) Linux
3 32 (3.07%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.25%) Unix
5 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.096%) Android
6 1 (0.096%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.096%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.096%) VMS
6 1 (0.096%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (40.75%) CI/CD
2 405 (38.83%) DevOps
3 370 (35.47%) Agile
4 221 (21.19%) Software Engineering
5 219 (21.00%) AI
6 184 (17.64%) Microservices
7 171 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
8 161 (15.44%) Full-Stack Development
9 152 (14.57%) Test Automation
10 128 (12.27%) SDLC
11 114 (10.93%) Scrum
12 113 (10.83%) Migration
13 111 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
14 104 (9.97%) Stakeholder Management
15 102 (9.78%) Event-Driven
16 84 (8.05%) Infrastructure as Code
17 83 (7.96%) Mentoring
18 82 (7.86%) Containerisation
19 80 (7.67%) Code Quality
20 79 (7.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 721 (69.13%) C#
2 382 (36.63%) SQL
3 229 (21.96%) JavaScript
4 212 (20.33%) Python
5 144 (13.81%) TypeScript
6 109 (10.45%) Java
7 80 (7.67%) T-SQL
8 60 (5.75%) PowerShell
9 58 (5.56%) PL/SQL
10 50 (4.79%) Bicep
11 34 (3.26%) C++
12 30 (2.88%) VB.NET
13 18 (1.73%) VBA
14 17 (1.63%) Go
14 17 (1.63%) VB
15 15 (1.44%) Bash
16 11 (1.05%) X++
17 7 (0.67%) C
18 6 (0.58%) PHP
18 6 (0.58%) XPath
Qualifications
1 161 (15.44%) Security Cleared
2 135 (12.94%) SC Cleared
3 93 (8.92%) Degree
4 29 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (1.63%) Azure Certification
5 17 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (1.53%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.15%) DV Cleared
8 10 (0.96%) PhD
9 9 (0.86%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 7 (0.67%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.38%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.38%) ISEB
14 3 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.19%) CISSP
15 2 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (8.34%) QA
2 36 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 30 (2.88%) WCAG
4 17 (1.63%) NCSC
5 16 (1.53%) Data Quality
6 12 (1.15%) GDPR
7 8 (0.77%) SLA
8 4 (0.38%) HL7
9 3 (0.29%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 3 (0.29%) Basel III
9 3 (0.29%) GMP
9 3 (0.29%) GxP
9 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 3 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
10 2 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.19%) GRC
10 2 (0.19%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.19%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.19%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 120 (11.51%) Docker
2 37 (3.55%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.29%) Firmware
6 2 (0.19%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.096%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 104 (9.97%) Kubernetes
2 35 (3.36%) Ansible
3 12 (1.15%) Grafana
4 11 (1.05%) Kibana
5 9 (0.86%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.48%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.38%) Control-M
7 4 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.29%) 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 (0.096%) PingFederate
10 1 (0.096%) Rancher
Vendors
1 285 (27.33%) Microsoft
2 133 (12.75%) Oracle
3 34 (3.26%) Citrix
4 26 (2.49%) UiPath
5 23 (2.21%) Databricks
5 23 (2.21%) OpenAI
6 17 (1.63%) ServiceNow
7 15 (1.44%) IBM
8 12 (1.15%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.05%) SAP
10 10 (0.96%) Google
10 10 (0.96%) Splunk
11 8 (0.77%) CyberArk
12 7 (0.67%) Sitecore
13 6 (0.58%) Centrify
13 6 (0.58%) Foundry
13 6 (0.58%) Hitachi
13 6 (0.58%) InterSystems
14 5 (0.48%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.48%) OpenText