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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 61 49
Rank change year-on-year -59 -12 -10
Contract jobs citing .NET 799 900 1,422
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.20% 3.65% 3.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.25% 16.02% 18.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 686 1,110
10th Percentile £381 £385 £340
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.43%
75th Percentile £618 £655 £675
90th Percentile £714 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 14
10th Percentile £54.40 £26.84 £20.77
25th Percentile £56.50 £35.24 £24.49
Median hourly rate £68.00 £49.85 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year +36.42% -15.38% -10.07%
75th Percentile £73.46 £63.83 £68.44
90th Percentile £74.41 £71.85 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £26.50 £58.91
% change year-on-year +156.60% -55.01% -10.07%

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 7,793 5,618 7,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.47% 22.76% 20.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,231 3,773 5,433
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £419 £428 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £669
90th Percentile £738 £788 £769
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 85 206
10th Percentile £35.18 £27.26 £21.04
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.06 £40.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +31.36% -25.05%
75th Percentile £71.13 £68.75 £65.94
90th Percentile £79.60 £81.80 £75.77
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

.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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -46 501 £500 -13.04% 237
South East -44 84 £516 +3.20% 191
North of England -71 77 £475 -2.06% 152
East of England +10 47 £550 +13.40% 48
Midlands -89 44 £505 +1.00% 82
North West -35 42 £450 - 87
Yorkshire -68 30 £500 -1.96% 41
West Midlands -71 25 £484 -7.76% 50
South West -47 21 £488 -7.14% 72
East Midlands -37 19 £525 +6.06% 32
North East -15 5 £513 +42.36% 27
.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 (6.01%) SharePoint
2 23 (2.88%) CMS
2 23 (2.88%) IIS
3 18 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (2.25%) Sitecore CMS
4 17 (2.13%) Confluence
5 11 (1.38%) HCL Notes
6 10 (1.25%) Mendix
7 7 (0.88%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.63%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.63%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.50%) Apache
10 3 (0.38%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.25%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.25%) Appian
11 2 (0.25%) Documentum
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle Spatial
11 2 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) InDesign
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 38 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (2.00%) Endur
3 8 (1.00%) Advent Geneva
4 4 (0.50%) Findur
4 4 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.25%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.13%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.13%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft Financials
6 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 446 (55.82%) Azure
2 197 (24.66%) Azure DevOps
3 125 (15.64%) AWS
4 113 (14.14%) GitHub
5 109 (13.64%) Serverless
6 81 (10.14%) Azure Functions
7 78 (9.76%) Power Platform
8 74 (9.26%) Azure Service Bus
9 69 (8.64%) GitHub Actions
10 67 (8.39%) Azure Logic Apps
11 56 (7.01%) Entra ID
12 53 (6.63%) Azure Monitor
13 51 (6.38%) Dynamics 365
14 49 (6.13%) Azure AKS
14 49 (6.13%) GCP
15 47 (5.88%) PaaS
16 42 (5.26%) Power Automate
17 40 (5.01%) Microsoft 365
18 34 (4.26%) Azure Key Vault
18 34 (4.26%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.13%) HTTP
2 14 (1.75%) Internet
3 8 (1.00%) Network Security
4 4 (0.50%) 3GPP
4 4 (0.50%) SSL
5 3 (0.38%) DNS
6 2 (0.25%) DHCP
6 2 (0.25%) NAS
6 2 (0.25%) RTCP
6 2 (0.25%) RTMP
6 2 (0.25%) RTP
6 2 (0.25%) S/MIME
6 2 (0.25%) SAN
6 2 (0.25%) SMTP
6 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.25%) XCAP
7 1 (0.13%) LAN
7 1 (0.13%) Skype
7 1 (0.13%) VPN
7 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (25.78%) SQL Server
2 50 (6.26%) Oracle Database
3 40 (5.01%) Azure SQL Database
3 40 (5.01%) Relational Database
4 36 (4.51%) NoSQL
5 35 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
6 32 (4.01%) Power BI
7 26 (3.25%) MongoDB
8 18 (2.25%) MySQL
9 16 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (1.25%) Redis
10 10 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (1.00%) DB2
11 8 (1.00%) Metadata
12 7 (0.88%) Crystal Reports
13 6 (0.75%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.63%) Big Data
14 5 (0.63%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.63%) GIS
14 5 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 92 (11.51%) Git
2 55 (6.88%) JIRA
3 34 (4.26%) Visual Studio
4 30 (3.75%) Selenium
5 29 (3.63%) Jenkins
6 26 (3.25%) Postman
7 18 (2.25%) Cucumber
8 16 (2.00%) SpecFlow
9 12 (1.50%) GitLab
10 10 (1.25%) MSTest
10 10 (1.25%) Team Foundation Server
10 10 (1.25%) TeamCity
11 9 (1.13%) REST Assured
12 8 (1.00%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.00%) NUnit
13 7 (0.88%) TestRail
14 6 (0.75%) JMeter
14 6 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
15 5 (0.63%) Cypress.io
15 5 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 198 (24.78%) Social Skills
2 193 (24.16%) Finance
3 108 (13.52%) Banking
4 74 (9.26%) Public Sector
5 67 (8.39%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (4.13%) Investment Banking
7 29 (3.63%) Front Office
8 24 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
9 23 (2.88%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.13%) Retail
12 8 (1.00%) Health Technology
12 8 (1.00%) Marketing
12 8 (1.00%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.88%) Back Office
13 7 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (0.88%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.75%) Billing
15 5 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 457 (57.20%) Developer
2 152 (19.02%) .NET Developer
3 143 (17.90%) C# Developer
4 111 (13.89%) Senior
5 74 (9.26%) Architect
6 70 (8.76%) Software Engineer
7 62 (7.76%) Full-Stack Developer
8 60 (7.51%) Senior Developer
9 57 (7.13%) Azure Developer
10 53 (6.63%) Lead
11 50 (6.26%) C# .NET Developer
12 40 (5.01%) Solutions Architect
13 32 (4.01%) Senior .NET Developer
14 31 (3.88%) Software Developer
15 20 (2.50%) .NET Software Engineer
15 20 (2.50%) Azure Engineer
15 20 (2.50%) Dynamics 365 Developer
15 20 (2.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 20 (2.50%) Technical Architect
16 18 (2.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (19.52%) .NET Framework
2 133 (16.65%) React
3 111 (13.89%) REST
4 105 (13.14%) .NET Core
5 103 (12.89%) AngularJS
6 101 (12.64%) RESTful
7 92 (11.51%) HTML
8 82 (10.26%) ASP.NET
9 67 (8.39%) CSS
10 47 (5.88%) Node.js
11 36 (4.51%) Entity Framework
11 36 (4.51%) OAuth
11 36 (4.51%) WPF
12 34 (4.26%) ASP.NET Core
13 31 (3.88%) ASP.NET Web API
14 29 (3.63%) Web Services
15 28 (3.50%) XML
16 27 (3.38%) JSON
16 27 (3.38%) SOAP
17 26 (3.25%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 93 (11.64%) Cloud Native
2 41 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
3 33 (4.13%) Enterprise Software
4 28 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
5 25 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.00%) Algorithms
6 16 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (1.88%) NHS
8 14 (1.75%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.75%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.75%) Virtual Team
9 13 (1.63%) Low-Code
9 13 (1.63%) Mobile App
9 13 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.50%) Credit Risk
11 11 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.25%) Fixed Income
12 10 (1.25%) Market Risk
13 9 (1.13%) Derivative
13 9 (1.13%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 77 (9.64%) Windows
2 26 (3.25%) Windows Server
3 24 (3.00%) Linux
4 4 (0.50%) Android
4 4 (0.50%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.50%) Unix
5 1 (0.13%) VMS
5 1 (0.13%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (41.30%) DevOps
2 326 (40.80%) CI/CD
3 268 (33.54%) Agile
4 161 (20.15%) Microservices
5 150 (18.77%) Problem-Solving
6 138 (17.27%) Software Engineering
7 135 (16.90%) Full-Stack Development
8 129 (16.15%) AI
9 126 (15.77%) Test Automation
10 82 (10.26%) Scrum
11 75 (9.39%) Unit Testing
12 74 (9.26%) Containerisation
13 73 (9.14%) Continuous Improvement
14 66 (8.26%) Infrastructure as Code
14 66 (8.26%) Migration
15 62 (7.76%) TDD
16 59 (7.38%) Mentoring
17 57 (7.13%) SDLC
18 49 (6.13%) Analytics
18 49 (6.13%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 537 (67.21%) C#
2 339 (42.43%) SQL
3 177 (22.15%) JavaScript
4 174 (21.78%) Python
5 92 (11.51%) Java
6 82 (10.26%) TypeScript
7 58 (7.26%) PL/SQL
8 49 (6.13%) T-SQL
9 46 (5.76%) PowerShell
10 27 (3.38%) Bicep
11 24 (3.00%) PHP
12 21 (2.63%) C++
13 16 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
14 14 (1.75%) VBA
15 13 (1.63%) VB
16 12 (1.50%) VB.NET
17 11 (1.38%) Formula Language
17 11 (1.38%) Go
17 11 (1.38%) LotusScript
18 10 (1.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 129 (16.15%) Security Cleared
2 102 (12.77%) SC Cleared
3 62 (7.76%) Degree
4 30 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.88%) Azure Certification
6 13 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (1.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 12 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.38%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.25%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.75%) CISSP
11 5 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (0.63%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.63%) CCSP
11 5 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.50%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.38%) ISEB
13 3 (0.38%) OSCP
13 3 (0.38%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (10.89%) QA
2 21 (2.63%) Accessibility
2 21 (2.63%) NIST
3 18 (2.25%) GDPR
4 17 (2.13%) EU AI Act
5 11 (1.38%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.38%) WCAG
6 9 (1.13%) HL7
7 5 (0.63%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.63%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.63%) PSD2
8 4 (0.50%) GRC
9 3 (0.38%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.25%) DICOM
10 2 (0.25%) MiFID
10 2 (0.25%) SEPA
10 2 (0.25%) SLA
10 2 (0.25%) TARGET2
11 1 (0.13%) EMIR
System Software
1 109 (13.64%) Docker
2 36 (4.51%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 105 (13.14%) Kubernetes
2 84 (10.51%) Terraform
3 8 (1.00%) Grafana
4 6 (0.75%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.63%) Ansible
6 4 (0.50%) Istio
7 2 (0.25%) Argo
7 2 (0.25%) Rancher
8 1 (0.13%) Control-M
8 1 (0.13%) Kibana
8 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.13%) linkerd
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 212 (26.53%) Microsoft
2 123 (15.39%) Oracle
3 35 (4.38%) Citrix
4 26 (3.25%) OpenAI
5 23 (2.88%) Sitecore
6 21 (2.63%) Databricks
7 17 (2.13%) Foundry
8 14 (1.75%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.50%) OpenLink
10 11 (1.38%) Google
10 11 (1.38%) Lotus
11 10 (1.25%) Kofax
11 10 (1.25%) UiPath
12 8 (1.00%) Advent
12 8 (1.00%) SAP
13 6 (0.75%) Adobe
13 6 (0.75%) Brio
14 5 (0.63%) Rapid7
15 4 (0.50%) PeopleSoft
15 4 (0.50%) Xamarin