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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 79 48
Rank change year-on-year -26 -31 +2
Contract jobs citing .NET 1,036 852 1,395
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.31% 3.11% 3.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.24% 13.95% 18.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 715 637 1,061
10th Percentile £400 £355 £363
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.54% -5.31%
75th Percentile £625 £673 £650
90th Percentile £725 £813 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 15
10th Percentile £38.05 £45.72 £20.31
25th Percentile £41.63 £63.63 £34.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £67.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.91% +11.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £73.46 - £75.00
90th Percentile £78.80 - £85.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £63.50 £58.91
% change year-on-year -13.39% +7.80% +17.81%

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 8,465 6,107 7,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.86% 22.27% 21.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,558 4,200 5,303
10th Percentile £363 £355 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £521 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% -5.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £746 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £540
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.56% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 135 248
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.15
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +3.18% -6.96%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%

.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 20 July 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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -31 600 £550 - 194
North of England -26 127 £490 +3.16% 125
South East -30 114 £515 +14.44% 135
Yorkshire -24 68 £483 +1.58% 39
Midlands -40 67 £500 +2.77% 58
South West -2 65 £463 +23.33% 38
North West -29 57 £513 +20.59% 57
East of England -15 37 £538 +10.38% 46
West Midlands -60 37 £458 -8.27% 26
East Midlands -10 29 £525 +10.53% 32
North East - 2 - - 32
.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 41 (3.96%) SharePoint
2 38 (3.67%) IIS
3 32 (3.09%) Confluence
4 19 (1.83%) CMS
5 15 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.87%) Oracle Workflow
6 9 (0.87%) Sitecore CMS
7 6 (0.58%) Appian
8 5 (0.48%) Camunda
8 5 (0.48%) Kentico
8 5 (0.48%) WordPress
9 4 (0.39%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.29%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.29%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle Spatial
12 1 (0.097%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.097%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.097%) MTS
12 1 (0.097%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.48%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.29%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.097%) InDesign
5 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 31 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.77%) Findur
3 6 (0.58%) OpenText MBPM
3 6 (0.58%) Oracle BPM
4 5 (0.48%) Shopify
5 4 (0.39%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.39%) Endur
6 3 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.19%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.097%) Alphatax
8 1 (0.097%) Magento
8 1 (0.097%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.097%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.097%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.097%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.097%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.097%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 524 (50.58%) Azure
2 184 (17.76%) Azure DevOps
3 181 (17.47%) AWS
4 109 (10.52%) GitHub
5 104 (10.04%) Power Platform
6 73 (7.05%) Azure Service Bus
7 70 (6.76%) Serverless
8 68 (6.56%) Dynamics 365
9 54 (5.21%) GitHub Actions
9 54 (5.21%) PowerApps
10 53 (5.12%) Power Automate
11 51 (4.92%) Azure Logic Apps
12 38 (3.67%) Azure Monitor
13 37 (3.57%) Azure Functions
13 37 (3.57%) Entra ID
14 36 (3.47%) Azure AKS
15 32 (3.09%) GCP
16 29 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
17 26 (2.51%) Microsoft Copilot
18 25 (2.41%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.45%) Internet
2 10 (0.97%) 3GPP
3 9 (0.87%) RTP
3 9 (0.87%) Wireshark
4 8 (0.77%) Firewall
4 8 (0.77%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.58%) Intranet
6 5 (0.48%) NAS
6 5 (0.48%) Network Security
6 5 (0.48%) SAN
7 4 (0.39%) DNS
7 4 (0.39%) HTTP
8 3 (0.29%) DHCP
9 2 (0.19%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.19%) Multicast
9 2 (0.19%) RTCP
9 2 (0.19%) XCAP
10 1 (0.097%) Skype
10 1 (0.097%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.097%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 60 (5.79%) Relational Database
3 52 (5.02%) Power BI
4 49 (4.73%) Oracle Database
5 42 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
6 41 (3.96%) NoSQL
7 25 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (2.03%) MongoDB
9 20 (1.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (1.16%) Redis
11 10 (0.97%) Pinecone
11 10 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 10 (0.97%) Weaviate
12 9 (0.87%) DynamoDB
13 8 (0.77%) Crystal Reports
13 8 (0.77%) Geospatial Data
13 8 (0.77%) Metadata
14 7 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
15 6 (0.58%) Data Lake
15 6 (0.58%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 122 (11.78%) Git
2 73 (7.05%) JIRA
3 52 (5.02%) Visual Studio
4 23 (2.22%) Jenkins
5 21 (2.03%) TeamCity
6 16 (1.54%) GitLab
7 14 (1.35%) NUnit
7 14 (1.35%) Selenium
8 13 (1.25%) MSTest
9 11 (1.06%) MSI
10 10 (0.97%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.87%) Claude Code
11 9 (0.87%) Gatling
11 9 (0.87%) JMeter
11 9 (0.87%) Postman
12 8 (0.77%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (0.77%) SpecFlow
13 7 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 7 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 261 (25.19%) Finance
2 234 (22.59%) Social Skills
3 120 (11.58%) Banking
4 93 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
5 64 (6.18%) Public Sector
6 50 (4.83%) Front Office
7 40 (3.86%) Investment Banking
8 22 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.25%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.06%) Retail
12 9 (0.87%) Back Office
13 8 (0.77%) Billing
13 8 (0.77%) Legal
13 8 (0.77%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.68%) Police
15 5 (0.48%) Aviation
15 5 (0.48%) Fire and Rescue
15 5 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 528 (50.97%) Developer
2 212 (20.46%) .NET Developer
3 163 (15.73%) Senior
4 154 (14.86%) C# Developer
5 119 (11.49%) Architect
6 105 (10.14%) Software Engineer
7 101 (9.75%) Lead
8 97 (9.36%) Senior Developer
9 70 (6.76%) Full-Stack Developer
9 70 (6.76%) Solutions Architect
10 68 (6.56%) Software Developer
11 66 (6.37%) C# .NET Developer
12 48 (4.63%) Azure Developer
13 46 (4.44%) Senior .NET Developer
14 32 (3.09%) .NET Software Developer
15 31 (2.99%) SQL Developer
16 30 (2.90%) .NET Software Engineer
17 29 (2.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 29 (2.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 27 (2.61%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (21.14%) .NET Framework
2 179 (17.28%) REST
3 168 (16.22%) React
4 127 (12.26%) ASP.NET
5 122 (11.78%) .NET Core
6 118 (11.39%) RESTful
7 107 (10.33%) AngularJS
8 96 (9.27%) HTML
9 84 (8.11%) CSS
10 63 (6.08%) ASP.NET Core
11 56 (5.41%) Entity Framework
12 50 (4.83%) Web Services
13 45 (4.34%) Node.js
13 45 (4.34%) XML
14 41 (3.96%) JSON
15 40 (3.86%) WPF
16 39 (3.76%) WinForms
17 37 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
18 36 (3.47%) SOAP
19 33 (3.19%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 130 (12.55%) Cloud Native
2 71 (6.85%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (6.18%) Legacy Systems
4 53 (5.12%) Enterprise Software
5 44 (4.25%) AI Agents
6 43 (4.15%) Product Ownership
7 28 (2.70%) Onboarding
7 28 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
8 20 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
9 18 (1.74%) Fixed Income
10 16 (1.54%) Legacy Code
11 15 (1.45%) Data Structures
12 13 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (1.25%) Derivative
12 13 (1.25%) Virtual Team
13 10 (0.97%) Distributed Applications
13 10 (0.97%) Equities
13 10 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (0.77%) IoT
15 7 (0.68%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 102 (9.85%) Windows
2 44 (4.25%) Linux
3 32 (3.09%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.87%) Unix
5 4 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.29%) VMS
7 2 (0.19%) Android
7 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.097%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (42.08%) CI/CD
2 414 (39.96%) DevOps
3 357 (34.46%) Agile
4 204 (19.69%) Microservices
5 191 (18.44%) Software Engineering
6 179 (17.28%) AI
7 164 (15.83%) Full-Stack Development
8 146 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
9 129 (12.45%) Test Automation
10 102 (9.85%) Scrum
11 98 (9.46%) SDLC
12 96 (9.27%) Migration
13 86 (8.30%) Event-Driven
14 85 (8.20%) Containerisation
15 78 (7.53%) Infrastructure as Code
16 77 (7.43%) Technical Leadership
16 77 (7.43%) Unit Testing
17 76 (7.34%) Continuous Improvement
18 72 (6.95%) Mentoring
18 72 (6.95%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 707 (68.24%) C#
2 367 (35.42%) SQL
3 204 (19.69%) Python
4 197 (19.02%) JavaScript
5 119 (11.49%) TypeScript
6 100 (9.65%) Java
7 77 (7.43%) T-SQL
8 63 (6.08%) PL/SQL
8 63 (6.08%) PowerShell
9 34 (3.28%) C++
10 32 (3.09%) Bicep
11 27 (2.61%) VB.NET
12 24 (2.32%) Go
13 18 (1.74%) VBA
14 15 (1.45%) VB
15 11 (1.06%) C
16 10 (0.97%) Bash
16 10 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
16 10 (0.97%) X++
17 6 (0.58%) XPath
Qualifications
1 175 (16.89%) Security Cleared
2 151 (14.58%) SC Cleared
3 87 (8.40%) Degree
4 27 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (1.54%) Azure Certification
5 16 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.25%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.77%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.68%) PhD
11 5 (0.48%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.39%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.29%) CISSP
14 2 (0.19%) CISM
15 1 (0.097%) CEH
15 1 (0.097%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (9.94%) QA
2 32 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.03%) WCAG
4 17 (1.64%) GDPR
5 14 (1.35%) NCSC
6 10 (0.97%) Data Quality
7 9 (0.87%) SLA
8 6 (0.58%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.48%) HL7
9 5 (0.48%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.48%) PSD2
10 4 (0.39%) GRC
11 3 (0.29%) DICOM
11 3 (0.29%) SEPA
11 3 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
12 2 (0.19%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 2 (0.19%) GMP
12 2 (0.19%) GxP
12 2 (0.19%) ISO 13485
12 2 (0.19%) TARGET2
System Software
1 128 (12.36%) Docker
2 24 (2.32%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.29%) Firmware
5 2 (0.19%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.097%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.097%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.097%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 108 (10.42%) Kubernetes
1 108 (10.42%) Terraform
2 29 (2.80%) Ansible
3 13 (1.25%) Grafana
4 12 (1.16%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.58%) Kibana
6 5 (0.48%) Istio
6 5 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (0.29%) Rancher
8 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.19%) SCCM
8 2 (0.19%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.097%) Control-M
9 1 (0.097%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.097%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.097%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.097%) linkerd
Vendors
1 228 (22.01%) Microsoft
2 123 (11.87%) Oracle
3 40 (3.86%) Citrix
4 18 (1.74%) OpenAI
4 18 (1.74%) ServiceNow
5 17 (1.64%) Sitecore
6 16 (1.54%) Databricks
7 12 (1.16%) Google
8 11 (1.06%) Splunk
9 9 (0.87%) InterSystems
9 9 (0.87%) UiPath
10 8 (0.77%) OpenLink
11 7 (0.68%) Foundry
12 6 (0.58%) OpenText
12 6 (0.58%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.48%) ION Trading
13 5 (0.48%) SAP
13 5 (0.48%) VMware
14 4 (0.39%) IBM
14 4 (0.39%) Telerik