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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 62 46
Rank change year-on-year -38 -16 -9
Contract jobs citing .NET 810 1,073 1,724
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.63% 3.44% 4.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.61% 15.74% 20.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 771 1,311
10th Percentile £354 £363 £375
25th Percentile £404 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.22% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £496 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -5.52% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 24
10th Percentile £58.60 £16.78 £46.22
25th Percentile £65.50 £17.99 £50.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £20.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +235.00% -69.23% -
75th Percentile - £23.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.85 £25.20 -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £25.60 £65.00
% change year-on-year +161.72% -60.62% -0.38%

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 6,974 6,817 8,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.68% 21.84% 21.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,691 4,331 6,167
10th Percentile £350 £360 £369
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.55% - -4.70%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 107 178
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £35.18
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +20.93% -17.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.40 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £54.78
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.66% -13.05%

.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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -42 486 £500 -12.66% 184
North of England -36 83 £488 -2.01% 138
South East -20 71 £450 -13.46% 245
East of England +28 62 £538 +79.17% 53
Midlands -42 53 £507 +1.30% 87
Yorkshire -23 47 £495 -6.60% 30
North West -28 34 £463 -2.63% 90
West Midlands -49 27 £491 -6.43% 44
East Midlands -3 26 £515 +14.44% 40
South West -30 22 £475 -6.86% 58
North East -15 2 £600 +71.43% 18
.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 38 (4.69%) Confluence
2 28 (3.46%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.10%) IIS
4 15 (1.85%) CMS
4 15 (1.85%) WebLogic
4 15 (1.85%) WebSphere
5 10 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (1.11%) Apache
6 9 (1.11%) Sitecore CMS
7 8 (0.99%) Umbraco
8 7 (0.86%) HCL Notes
9 6 (0.74%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.49%) Apache Spark
12 3 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.25%) Camunda
13 2 (0.25%) Documentum
13 2 (0.25%) EPiServer
13 2 (0.25%) Moodle
Applications
1 32 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.12%) Moqups
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 43 (5.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.11%) Advent Geneva
2 9 (1.11%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.86%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.74%) OpenText MBPM
4 6 (0.74%) Oracle BPM
5 4 (0.49%) Endur
5 4 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.49%) thinkFolio
5 4 (0.49%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.25%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.12%) Eikon
7 1 (0.12%) ION Anvil
7 1 (0.12%) Maximo
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.12%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 405 (50.00%) Azure
2 190 (23.46%) Azure DevOps
3 98 (12.10%) AWS
3 98 (12.10%) GitHub
4 97 (11.98%) Serverless
5 92 (11.36%) Power Platform
6 66 (8.15%) Azure Functions
7 63 (7.78%) Dynamics 365
8 59 (7.28%) Azure Logic Apps
8 59 (7.28%) PowerApps
9 57 (7.04%) Power Automate
10 53 (6.54%) Azure Service Bus
11 52 (6.42%) GitHub Actions
12 49 (6.05%) Azure AKS
13 48 (5.93%) PaaS
14 39 (4.81%) Azure Monitor
15 37 (4.57%) Entra ID
16 32 (3.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 30 (3.70%) GCP
18 26 (3.21%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.60%) Internet
2 10 (1.23%) HTTP
3 7 (0.86%) Network Security
4 4 (0.49%) DNS
4 4 (0.49%) SSL
5 3 (0.37%) DHCP
5 3 (0.37%) Firewall
5 3 (0.37%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.25%) S/MIME
6 2 (0.25%) X.509
7 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.12%) Intranet
7 1 (0.12%) NAS
7 1 (0.12%) SAN
7 1 (0.12%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (22.96%) SQL Server
2 43 (5.31%) Relational Database
3 40 (4.94%) Power BI
4 39 (4.81%) NoSQL
5 36 (4.44%) Oracle Database
6 29 (3.58%) MongoDB
7 27 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
8 24 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
9 22 (2.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 18 (2.22%) MySQL
11 14 (1.73%) Big Data
12 12 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (1.11%) DB2
14 8 (0.99%) Redis
15 4 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
15 4 (0.49%) DocumentDB
15 4 (0.49%) DynamoDB
15 4 (0.49%) Hadoop
16 3 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
16 3 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 92 (11.36%) Git
2 82 (10.12%) JIRA
3 30 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 26 (3.21%) Selenium
5 24 (2.96%) Visual Studio
6 21 (2.59%) SpecFlow
7 20 (2.47%) GitLab
8 19 (2.35%) Postman
9 16 (1.98%) Cucumber
10 15 (1.85%) Bitbucket
11 14 (1.73%) Artifactory
12 12 (1.48%) SonarQube
13 9 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
13 9 (1.11%) TeamCity
14 7 (0.86%) Cypress.io
14 7 (0.86%) JMeter
15 6 (0.74%) NUnit
15 6 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
16 5 (0.62%) REST Assured
17 4 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 238 (29.38%) Social Skills
2 230 (28.40%) Finance
3 102 (12.59%) Banking
4 75 (9.26%) Public Sector
5 64 (7.90%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (4.57%) Front Office
6 37 (4.57%) Investment Banking
7 26 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
8 21 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.10%) Marketing
10 14 (1.73%) Financial Institution
11 10 (1.23%) Back Office
12 9 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.11%) Retail
13 8 (0.99%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.74%) Legal
15 6 (0.74%) Publishing
16 5 (0.62%) Billing
16 5 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 476 (58.77%) Developer
2 174 (21.48%) .NET Developer
3 128 (15.80%) C# Developer
4 109 (13.46%) Senior
5 71 (8.77%) Software Engineer
6 67 (8.27%) Senior Developer
7 65 (8.02%) Architect
8 63 (7.78%) Full-Stack Developer
9 61 (7.53%) C# .NET Developer
10 59 (7.28%) Lead
11 43 (5.31%) Azure Developer
12 36 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
13 34 (4.20%) Angular Developer
14 31 (3.83%) Senior .NET Developer
15 27 (3.33%) Dynamics 365 Developer
16 23 (2.84%) C# WPF Developer
16 23 (2.84%) Consultant
16 23 (2.84%) Software Developer
16 23 (2.84%) WPF Developer
17 22 (2.72%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (22.22%) .NET Framework
2 126 (15.56%) .NET Core
3 117 (14.44%) AngularJS
4 116 (14.32%) React
5 107 (13.21%) RESTful
6 105 (12.96%) HTML
7 101 (12.47%) REST
8 81 (10.00%) CSS
9 67 (8.27%) ASP.NET
10 61 (7.53%) Node.js
11 54 (6.67%) Entity Framework
11 54 (6.67%) WPF
12 44 (5.43%) Web Services
13 38 (4.69%) ASP.NET Web API
14 37 (4.57%) Kafka
14 37 (4.57%) SOAP
15 30 (3.70%) Middleware
16 29 (3.58%) Blazor
17 27 (3.33%) Playwright
18 25 (3.09%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 81 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 36 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
3 30 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (3.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 25 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
7 24 (2.96%) Mobile App
8 23 (2.84%) Algorithms
9 21 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (2.10%) Fixed Income
11 16 (1.98%) Virtual Team
12 15 (1.85%) Derivative
12 15 (1.85%) Management Information System
13 13 (1.60%) Hedge funds
14 11 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (1.36%) NHS
14 11 (1.36%) Onboarding
14 11 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (1.23%) Data Structures
16 9 (1.11%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 75 (9.26%) Windows
2 22 (2.72%) Linux
3 17 (2.10%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.86%) Android
4 7 (0.86%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.12%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (40.49%) Agile
2 311 (38.40%) DevOps
3 258 (31.85%) CI/CD
4 180 (22.22%) Microservices
4 180 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 146 (18.02%) Full-Stack Development
6 145 (17.90%) Software Engineering
7 110 (13.58%) Test Automation
8 98 (12.10%) Scrum
9 82 (10.12%) Containerisation
10 80 (9.88%) AI
11 70 (8.64%) SDLC
12 69 (8.52%) Clean Code
12 69 (8.52%) Mentoring
13 66 (8.15%) TDD
14 64 (7.90%) Computer Science
15 63 (7.78%) Design Patterns
16 60 (7.41%) Business Intelligence
17 56 (6.91%) Migration
18 55 (6.79%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 559 (69.01%) C#
2 314 (38.77%) SQL
3 204 (25.19%) JavaScript
4 129 (15.93%) Python
5 120 (14.81%) Java
6 80 (9.88%) TypeScript
7 48 (5.93%) PL/SQL
8 45 (5.56%) PHP
9 40 (4.94%) T-SQL
10 39 (4.81%) C++
11 35 (4.32%) PowerShell
12 30 (3.70%) VB.NET
13 25 (3.09%) Bicep
14 24 (2.96%) VBA
15 23 (2.84%) VB
16 18 (2.22%) Bash
17 17 (2.10%) C
18 9 (1.11%) Ruby
19 8 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
20 5 (0.62%) X++
Qualifications
1 88 (10.86%) Security Cleared
2 68 (8.40%) Degree
2 68 (8.40%) SC Cleared
3 37 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (2.10%) Azure Certification
5 16 (1.98%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (1.73%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.36%) MCP
9 6 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.74%) CISSP
10 5 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.49%) PMP
12 3 (0.37%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.37%) CBAP
12 3 (0.37%) CCSP
12 3 (0.37%) ISEB
13 2 (0.25%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (9.14%) QA
2 24 (2.96%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.10%) EU AI Act
3 17 (2.10%) NIST
4 12 (1.48%) GDPR
5 10 (1.23%) WCAG
6 9 (1.11%) MiFID
7 6 (0.74%) HL7
7 6 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.62%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.62%) EMIR
8 5 (0.62%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.49%) COBIT
10 3 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.37%) NCSC
11 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.12%) DICOM
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) SLA
12 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 109 (13.46%) Docker
2 29 (3.58%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.12%) KVM
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 90 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 74 (9.14%) Terraform
3 7 (0.86%) Ansible
3 7 (0.86%) Grafana
3 7 (0.86%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.12%) Argo
5 1 (0.12%) Istio
5 1 (0.12%) Kibana
5 1 (0.12%) MIIS
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Identity Management
5 1 (0.12%) Rancher
Vendors
1 231 (28.52%) Microsoft
2 97 (11.98%) Oracle
3 22 (2.72%) Citrix
4 19 (2.35%) Databricks
4 19 (2.35%) OpenAI
4 19 (2.35%) UiPath
5 17 (2.10%) ServiceNow
6 15 (1.85%) Dynatrace
6 15 (1.85%) Foundry
7 13 (1.60%) Sitecore
8 12 (1.48%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.48%) SAP
9 9 (1.11%) Advent
9 9 (1.11%) Google
10 8 (0.99%) Brio
10 8 (0.99%) GoldenSource
11 7 (0.86%) Lotus
11 7 (0.86%) OpenText
12 6 (0.74%) Adobe
12 6 (0.74%) VMware