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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 67 51
Rank change year-on-year -53 -16 -10
Contract jobs citing .NET 824 850 1,380
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.17% 3.48% 3.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.42% 15.43% 18.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 676 1,066
10th Percentile £393 £375 £325
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £613 £673 £674
90th Percentile £713 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 14
10th Percentile £46.00 £21.33 £20.77
25th Percentile £56.50 £21.46 £24.49
Median hourly rate £68.00 £23.41 £48.70
Median % change year-on-year +190.47% -51.93% -25.07%
75th Percentile £73.86 £51.17 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £66.78 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £26.50 £48.70
% change year-on-year +156.60% -45.59% -25.65%

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 7,910 5,507 7,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.86% 22.52% 20.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,296 3,799 5,406
10th Percentile £360 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -1.47% -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 88 170
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.85 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.20 £37.21
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £47.97
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +34.47% -26.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.80 £83.27 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.97
% change year-on-year +4.00% +30.30% -26.21%

.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 30 March 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 30 March 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 30 March 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 -47 494 £500 -13.04% 218
South East -26 97 £525 +5.00% 174
North of England -52 89 £475 +5.56% 164
North West -39 44 £450 - 89
Midlands -72 44 £498 +0.51% 87
East of England +2 43 £550 +13.11% 63
Yorkshire -46 40 £500 +5.26% 48
South West -43 33 £456 -13.10% 64
West Midlands -59 26 £484 -3.15% 50
East Midlands -33 18 £550 +10.00% 37
North East -13 5 £513 +38.51% 33
.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 48 (5.83%) SharePoint
2 30 (3.64%) IIS
3 21 (2.55%) CMS
4 18 (2.18%) Confluence
5 17 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (1.94%) Sitecore CMS
7 11 (1.33%) HCL Notes
8 10 (1.21%) Mendix
9 6 (0.73%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.61%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.49%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.36%) Apache
12 3 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.36%) SAS
13 2 (0.24%) Apache Superset
13 2 (0.24%) Appian
13 2 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.24%) Documentum
13 2 (0.24%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 17 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) InDesign
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 38 (4.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (2.06%) Endur
3 8 (0.97%) Advent Geneva
4 7 (0.85%) Findur
5 4 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.24%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.12%) Alphatax
7 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.12%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.12%) PeopleSoft Financials
7 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 453 (54.98%) Azure
2 201 (24.39%) Azure DevOps
3 134 (16.26%) AWS
4 110 (13.35%) GitHub
5 101 (12.26%) Serverless
6 82 (9.95%) Power Platform
7 77 (9.34%) Azure Functions
8 76 (9.22%) Azure Service Bus
9 70 (8.50%) Azure Logic Apps
9 70 (8.50%) GitHub Actions
10 56 (6.80%) Azure Monitor
11 53 (6.43%) Dynamics 365
12 52 (6.31%) Entra ID
13 47 (5.70%) GCP
14 45 (5.46%) Azure AKS
15 44 (5.34%) PaaS
16 43 (5.22%) Power Automate
17 41 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
18 38 (4.61%) PowerApps
19 34 (4.13%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.06%) HTTP
2 13 (1.58%) Internet
3 6 (0.73%) Network Security
4 4 (0.49%) 3GPP
5 3 (0.36%) DNS
6 2 (0.24%) DHCP
6 2 (0.24%) Firewall
6 2 (0.24%) NAS
6 2 (0.24%) RTCP
6 2 (0.24%) RTMP
6 2 (0.24%) RTP
6 2 (0.24%) SAN
6 2 (0.24%) SSL
6 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.24%) XCAP
7 1 (0.12%) LAN
7 1 (0.12%) Skype
7 1 (0.12%) SMTP
7 1 (0.12%) VPN
7 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (26.70%) SQL Server
2 51 (6.19%) Relational Database
3 50 (6.07%) Oracle Database
4 41 (4.98%) Azure SQL Database
5 34 (4.13%) NoSQL
6 33 (4.00%) Power BI
7 31 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
8 22 (2.67%) MongoDB
9 17 (2.06%) MySQL
10 15 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (1.21%) Redis
13 9 (1.09%) Crystal Reports
14 8 (0.97%) DB2
14 8 (0.97%) Metadata
15 7 (0.85%) DynamoDB
16 6 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
17 5 (0.61%) Data Lake
17 5 (0.61%) GIS
18 3 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 93 (11.29%) Git
2 59 (7.16%) JIRA
3 33 (4.00%) Visual Studio
4 28 (3.40%) Selenium
5 26 (3.16%) Jenkins
6 21 (2.55%) Postman
7 17 (2.06%) Cucumber
8 14 (1.70%) SpecFlow
9 10 (1.21%) MSTest
9 10 (1.21%) TeamCity
10 9 (1.09%) GitLab
10 9 (1.09%) NUnit
10 9 (1.09%) REST Assured
10 9 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
11 8 (0.97%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.97%) TestRail
12 7 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
13 5 (0.61%) Appium
13 5 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
14 4 (0.49%) SonarQube
General
1 198 (24.03%) Social Skills
2 190 (23.06%) Finance
3 109 (13.23%) Banking
4 75 (9.10%) Public Sector
5 70 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (4.13%) Investment Banking
7 30 (3.64%) Front Office
8 23 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (2.67%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (0.97%) Marketing
11 8 (0.97%) Retail
11 8 (0.97%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.85%) Health Technology
12 7 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (0.85%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.73%) Back Office
13 6 (0.73%) Billing
14 4 (0.49%) Legal
14 4 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 468 (56.80%) Developer
2 163 (19.78%) .NET Developer
3 140 (16.99%) C# Developer
4 114 (13.83%) Senior
5 79 (9.59%) Architect
6 75 (9.10%) Software Engineer
7 66 (8.01%) Senior Developer
8 63 (7.65%) Full-Stack Developer
9 59 (7.16%) Lead
10 52 (6.31%) Azure Developer
11 48 (5.83%) C# .NET Developer
11 48 (5.83%) Solutions Architect
12 39 (4.73%) Software Developer
13 36 (4.37%) Senior .NET Developer
14 28 (3.40%) Azure Engineer
15 21 (2.55%) DevOps Engineer
16 20 (2.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 20 (2.43%) SQL Developer
16 20 (2.43%) Technical Architect
17 19 (2.31%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (19.54%) .NET Framework
2 142 (17.23%) React
3 122 (14.81%) REST
4 105 (12.74%) AngularJS
5 101 (12.26%) RESTful
6 98 (11.89%) .NET Core
7 88 (10.68%) HTML
8 87 (10.56%) ASP.NET
9 65 (7.89%) CSS
10 47 (5.70%) Node.js
11 41 (4.98%) ASP.NET Core
12 35 (4.25%) OAuth
13 34 (4.13%) Entity Framework
14 33 (4.00%) ASP.NET Web API
15 32 (3.88%) WPF
16 28 (3.40%) XML
17 27 (3.28%) SOAP
17 27 (3.28%) WinForms
18 26 (3.16%) JSON
19 25 (3.03%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 91 (11.04%) Cloud Native
2 40 (4.85%) Legacy Systems
3 37 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
4 34 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
5 25 (3.03%) Product Ownership
6 15 (1.82%) NHS
7 14 (1.70%) AI Agents
7 14 (1.70%) Legacy Code
7 14 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (1.70%) Virtual Team
8 13 (1.58%) Credit Risk
8 13 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (1.46%) Fixed Income
9 12 (1.46%) Low-Code
10 11 (1.33%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.33%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.33%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.21%) Derivative
11 10 (1.21%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 79 (9.59%) Windows
2 32 (3.88%) Windows Server
3 25 (3.03%) Linux
4 5 (0.61%) Unix
5 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.24%) Android
6 2 (0.24%) VMS
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (41.38%) DevOps
2 338 (41.02%) CI/CD
3 261 (31.67%) Agile
4 162 (19.66%) Microservices
5 141 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
6 136 (16.50%) Software Engineering
7 131 (15.90%) Full-Stack Development
8 127 (15.41%) AI
9 118 (14.32%) Test Automation
10 74 (8.98%) Scrum
11 73 (8.86%) Infrastructure as Code
12 72 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 72 (8.74%) Unit Testing
13 70 (8.50%) Containerisation
14 64 (7.77%) Migration
15 60 (7.28%) TDD
16 57 (6.92%) SDLC
17 55 (6.67%) Mentoring
18 49 (5.95%) Event-Driven
19 48 (5.83%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 560 (67.96%) C#
2 338 (41.02%) SQL
3 187 (22.69%) Python
4 175 (21.24%) JavaScript
5 91 (11.04%) Java
6 80 (9.71%) TypeScript
7 55 (6.67%) PL/SQL
8 52 (6.31%) T-SQL
9 50 (6.07%) PowerShell
10 24 (2.91%) Bicep
11 21 (2.55%) PHP
12 20 (2.43%) C++
13 16 (1.94%) Kusto Query Language
14 14 (1.70%) VBA
15 13 (1.58%) Go
16 12 (1.46%) VB
17 11 (1.33%) Formula Language
17 11 (1.33%) LotusScript
18 10 (1.21%) VB.NET
19 9 (1.09%) Bash
Qualifications
1 144 (17.48%) Security Cleared
2 117 (14.20%) SC Cleared
3 59 (7.16%) Degree
4 28 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.31%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (1.33%) DV Cleared
8 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 6 (0.73%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.61%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.49%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.49%) CISSP
12 3 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.36%) CCSP
12 3 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.36%) OSCP
12 3 (0.36%) SANS
13 2 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (11.29%) QA
2 18 (2.18%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.94%) GDPR
4 13 (1.58%) NIST
5 9 (1.09%) EU AI Act
5 9 (1.09%) HL7
5 9 (1.09%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.09%) WCAG
6 7 (0.85%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.73%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.73%) PSD2
8 4 (0.49%) GRC
9 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.36%) SEPA
10 2 (0.24%) DICOM
10 2 (0.24%) MiFID
10 2 (0.24%) SLA
10 2 (0.24%) TARGET2
11 1 (0.12%) EMIR
11 1 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 108 (13.11%) Docker
2 31 (3.76%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 100 (12.14%) Kubernetes
2 93 (11.29%) Terraform
3 9 (1.09%) Grafana
4 7 (0.85%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.73%) Ansible
6 4 (0.49%) Istio
7 3 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.24%) Argo
8 2 (0.24%) Control-M
8 2 (0.24%) Rancher
9 1 (0.12%) Kibana
9 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.12%) linkerd
Vendors
1 208 (25.24%) Microsoft
2 121 (14.68%) Oracle
3 35 (4.25%) Citrix
4 25 (3.03%) OpenAI
5 22 (2.67%) Databricks
6 21 (2.55%) Sitecore
7 16 (1.94%) ServiceNow
8 15 (1.82%) Foundry
9 14 (1.70%) Google
9 14 (1.70%) OpenLink
10 11 (1.33%) Lotus
11 10 (1.21%) Kofax
11 10 (1.21%) UiPath
12 8 (0.97%) Advent
13 7 (0.85%) SAP
14 6 (0.73%) Brio
15 5 (0.61%) Adobe
15 5 (0.61%) Rapid7
16 4 (0.49%) PeopleSoft
16 4 (0.49%) Wind River