.NET Contracts in England

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring .NET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 51 48
Rank change year-on-year -29 -3 -10
Contract jobs citing .NET 799 1,415 2,077
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.09% 3.79% 4.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.78% 17.82% 19.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 610 1,076 1,616
10th Percentile £355 £363 £380
25th Percentile £404 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £538 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -4.87% +2.73%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £700
90th Percentile £813 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 16 16
10th Percentile £27.22 £20.77 £33.00
25th Percentile £35.55 £29.13 £46.75
Median hourly rate £50.30 £59.45 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.39% +18.91% -
75th Percentile £64.18 £70.00 £70.63
90th Percentile £71.99 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £28.13 £58.91 £50.00
% change year-on-year -52.25% +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 5,799 7,942 10,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.44% 21.28% 22.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,003 5,534 7,924
10th Percentile £356 £350 £385
25th Percentile £413 £434 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £800 £798
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 263 138
10th Percentile £30.55 £23.80 £30.53
25th Percentile £49.06 £43.00 £50.31
Median hourly rate £58.88 £58.30 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -10.31% +22.64%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.71 £74.49 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing .NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for .NET in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET in England.

Daily rate trend for .NET in England

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET in England.

Hourly rate trend for .NET in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing .NET in England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

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 2 July 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 -27 530 £563 -2.17% 1,584
South East +26 71 £475 -5.00% 725
North of England -25 69 £475 +6.74% 791
Midlands -3 54 £487 +6.63% 388
North West -15 39 £425 -4.49% 464
West Midlands +3 34 £513 +6.49% 211
South West -13 31 £375 -36.44% 240
Yorkshire -9 30 £475 +9.45% 248
East of England +9 21 £481 +1.32% 269
East Midlands -2 19 £456 +9.28% 174
.NET
UK

.NET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 27 (3.38%) IIS
2 22 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.25%) Confluence
4 13 (1.63%) Apache
5 9 (1.13%) Umbraco
6 8 (1.00%) GemFire
6 8 (1.00%) Oracle Coherence
7 7 (0.88%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.75%) BizTalk Server
8 6 (0.75%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.75%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.63%) CMS
10 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.50%) nginx
10 4 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.38%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.25%) Appian
12 2 (0.25%) Camunda
13 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 47 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.25%) Trello
4 1 (0.13%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 34 (4.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.00%) OpenText MBPM
2 8 (1.00%) Oracle BPM
3 7 (0.88%) Endur
4 3 (0.38%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.38%) Infor CloudSuite
4 3 (0.38%) Magento
4 3 (0.38%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.38%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.25%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.13%) Eikon
6 1 (0.13%) FastStats
6 1 (0.13%) Maximo
6 1 (0.13%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.13%) RMDS
6 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 343 (42.93%) Azure
2 151 (18.90%) AWS
3 128 (16.02%) Azure DevOps
4 77 (9.64%) Power Platform
5 60 (7.51%) Serverless
6 56 (7.01%) Dynamics 365
7 44 (5.51%) PowerApps
8 43 (5.38%) Power Automate
9 42 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
10 38 (4.76%) Azure Functions
10 38 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
11 32 (4.01%) GCP
12 29 (3.63%) GitHub
12 29 (3.63%) SaaS
13 24 (3.00%) Azure Monitor
14 23 (2.88%) Entra ID
15 22 (2.75%) Azure Data Factory
16 19 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
17 18 (2.25%) Azure AKS
18 16 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.13%) DNS
2 15 (1.88%) Firewall
2 15 (1.88%) HTTP
3 12 (1.50%) Internet
4 11 (1.38%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.00%) FTP
6 7 (0.88%) SMTP
6 7 (0.88%) SSL
7 4 (0.50%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.25%) DHCP
8 2 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.13%) Network Security
9 1 (0.13%) Skype
9 1 (0.13%) VSAN
9 1 (0.13%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (24.41%) SQL Server
2 56 (7.01%) Relational Database
3 41 (5.13%) Oracle Database
4 35 (4.38%) MongoDB
4 35 (4.38%) NoSQL
5 33 (4.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 32 (4.01%) Power BI
7 31 (3.88%) Azure SQL Database
8 27 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
9 24 (3.00%) MySQL
10 14 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.00%) Big Data
12 7 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.75%) Redis
14 5 (0.63%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.50%) BigQuery
15 4 (0.50%) DocumentDB
16 3 (0.38%) ClickHouse
16 3 (0.38%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 69 (8.64%) Git
2 62 (7.76%) JIRA
3 33 (4.13%) Jenkins
4 20 (2.50%) Bitbucket
5 17 (2.13%) Selenium
5 17 (2.13%) Visual Studio
6 15 (1.88%) TeamCity
7 12 (1.50%) NUnit
8 11 (1.38%) Cypress.io
9 10 (1.25%) SpecFlow
10 9 (1.13%) Postman
10 9 (1.13%) SonarQube
11 7 (0.88%) GitLab
12 6 (0.75%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.63%) Ant
13 5 (0.63%) Babel
13 5 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
13 5 (0.63%) webpack
14 4 (0.50%) HP UFT
14 4 (0.50%) JUnit
General
1 244 (30.54%) Social Skills
2 220 (27.53%) Finance
3 116 (14.52%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (12.77%) Banking
5 67 (8.39%) Front Office
6 63 (7.88%) Public Sector
7 45 (5.63%) Investment Banking
8 21 (2.63%) Marketing
9 20 (2.50%) Manufacturing
10 19 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (2.25%) Telecoms
12 16 (2.00%) Electronics
13 13 (1.63%) Legal
14 12 (1.50%) Retail
15 10 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (1.00%) Back Office
17 7 (0.88%) Billing
17 7 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 486 (60.83%) Developer
2 188 (23.53%) .NET Developer
3 171 (21.40%) C# Developer
4 113 (14.14%) Senior
5 95 (11.89%) C# .NET Developer
6 82 (10.26%) Senior Developer
7 74 (9.26%) Architect
8 58 (7.26%) Full-Stack Developer
9 56 (7.01%) Software Engineer
10 53 (6.63%) Lead
11 43 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
12 38 (4.76%) WPF Developer
13 37 (4.63%) C# WPF Developer
13 37 (4.63%) Senior .NET Developer
14 33 (4.13%) Azure Developer
15 31 (3.88%) Azure Engineer
16 30 (3.75%) Senior C# Developer
17 26 (3.25%) Applications Developer
18 25 (3.13%) React Developer
19 23 (2.88%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (23.40%) .NET Framework
2 147 (18.40%) .NET Core
3 127 (15.89%) React
4 120 (15.02%) HTML
5 115 (14.39%) AngularJS
6 103 (12.89%) CSS
7 102 (12.77%) ASP.NET
8 71 (8.89%) REST
9 64 (8.01%) Entity Framework
10 63 (7.88%) WPF
11 56 (7.01%) ASP.NET Web API
12 55 (6.88%) RESTful
12 55 (6.88%) Web Services
13 50 (6.26%) WCF
14 44 (5.51%) Node.js
15 38 (4.76%) JSON
16 33 (4.13%) Kafka
17 31 (3.88%) XML
18 30 (3.75%) ASP.NET Core
19 25 (3.13%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 40 (5.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 28 (3.50%) Greenfield Project
2 28 (3.50%) Product Ownership
3 27 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
4 24 (3.00%) Cloud Native
5 20 (2.50%) Mobile App
6 15 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (1.88%) Legacy Applications
7 14 (1.75%) Fixed Income
7 14 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.38%) N-Tier
9 10 (1.25%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.25%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.13%) Derivative
10 9 (1.13%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.13%) PKI
11 8 (1.00%) NHS
11 8 (1.00%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.00%) Virtual Team
12 7 (0.88%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 92 (11.51%) Windows
2 17 (2.13%) Linux
2 17 (2.13%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.88%) Android
3 7 (0.88%) Apple iOS
3 7 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.50%) Unix
5 3 (0.38%) CentOS
6 1 (0.13%) AIX
6 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (35.04%) DevOps
2 270 (33.79%) Agile
3 202 (25.28%) CI/CD
4 146 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
5 133 (16.65%) Microservices
6 127 (15.89%) Full-Stack Development
7 123 (15.39%) Software Engineering
8 102 (12.77%) Test Automation
9 78 (9.76%) Scrum
10 74 (9.26%) TDD
11 72 (9.01%) OO
12 65 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 61 (7.63%) Containerisation
14 60 (7.51%) SDLC
15 59 (7.38%) Business Intelligence
15 59 (7.38%) Infrastructure as Code
16 56 (7.01%) Design Patterns
17 55 (6.88%) Computer Science
18 54 (6.76%) API Development
19 50 (6.26%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 570 (71.34%) C#
2 321 (40.18%) SQL
3 229 (28.66%) JavaScript
4 128 (16.02%) Java
5 127 (15.89%) Python
6 102 (12.77%) TypeScript
7 64 (8.01%) PowerShell
8 54 (6.76%) PL/SQL
9 41 (5.13%) VBA
10 38 (4.76%) T-SQL
11 37 (4.63%) VB
12 36 (4.51%) C++
13 33 (4.13%) VB.NET
14 28 (3.50%) PHP
15 24 (3.00%) Bicep
16 16 (2.00%) Bash
16 16 (2.00%) Ruby
17 12 (1.50%) RPG
18 11 (1.38%) RPG IV
19 8 (1.00%) C
Qualifications
1 65 (8.14%) Degree
1 65 (8.14%) Security Cleared
2 44 (5.51%) SC Cleared
3 24 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (1.88%) Azure Certification
4 15 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.50%) DV Cleared
6 12 (1.50%) Numerate Degree
7 5 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (0.63%) MCPD
7 5 (0.63%) MCSD
8 4 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (0.50%) CEH
8 4 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.50%) CISSP
8 4 (0.50%) PMP
9 3 (0.38%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.25%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (8.26%) QA
2 14 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.00%) GDPR
4 7 (0.88%) EMIR
5 6 (0.75%) MiFID
6 5 (0.63%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.50%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.38%) COBIT
8 3 (0.38%) WCAG
9 2 (0.25%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.25%) NCSC
10 1 (0.13%) HL7
System Software
1 96 (12.02%) Docker
2 29 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.00%) GridGain
4 5 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.38%) vCloud
5 3 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.38%) VMware Workstation
5 3 (0.38%) vSphere
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 110 (13.77%) Kubernetes
2 69 (8.64%) Terraform
3 18 (2.25%) Ansible
4 14 (1.75%) Grafana
5 11 (1.38%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.00%) Kibana
7 5 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.38%) Control-M
8 3 (0.38%) SCOM
8 3 (0.38%) WMI
9 2 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.25%) Puppet
10 1 (0.13%) CA Wily
10 1 (0.13%) Istio
10 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.13%) MIIS
10 1 (0.13%) OPNET
10 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 179 (22.40%) Microsoft
2 128 (16.02%) Oracle
3 30 (3.75%) ServiceNow
4 21 (2.63%) SAP
5 20 (2.50%) Google
6 18 (2.25%) Databricks
7 16 (2.00%) Citrix
8 12 (1.50%) UiPath
9 10 (1.25%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.13%) Dynatrace
10 9 (1.13%) VMware
11 8 (1.00%) AppDynamics
11 8 (1.00%) IBM
11 8 (1.00%) Virgin Media
12 7 (0.88%) Bloomberg
12 7 (0.88%) OpenLink
12 7 (0.88%) OpenText
13 6 (0.75%) Reuters
13 6 (0.75%) Solace
14 5 (0.63%) MuleSoft