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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 80 48
Rank change year-on-year -27 -32 +2
Contract jobs citing .NET 1,034 841 1,351
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.30% 3.05% 3.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.22% 13.72% 18.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 718 624 1,031
10th Percentile £393 £355 £363
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -5.49%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £809 £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 13
10th Percentile £38.05 £45.72 £22.25
25th Percentile £38.25 £63.63 £36.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £67.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.10% +11.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £73.46 - £85.00
90th Percentile £78.80 - -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £63.50 £59.45
% change year-on-year -25.20% +6.81% +18.91%

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 8,459 6,129 7,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.79% 22.20% 21.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,555 4,226 5,157
10th Percentile £363 £350 £360
25th Percentile £430 £413 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £803
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 142 233
10th Percentile £29.44 £31.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £50.75 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.92 £79.87 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £52.50
% change year-on-year +18.45% +4.52% -12.50%

.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 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 27 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 27 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 -25 597 £550 - 225
North of England -26 128 £495 +4.21% 144
South East -25 120 £500 +11.11% 161
South West -2 68 £470 +25.33% 47
Yorkshire -19 68 £468 -1.58% 36
Midlands -46 67 £487 +0.72% 76
North West -29 55 £525 +23.53% 72
West Midlands -49 37 £450 -7.98% 37
East Midlands -8 29 £525 +8.81% 39
East of England -28 29 £518 +3.50% 66
North East - 5 £513 - 39
.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 42 (4.06%) SharePoint
2 38 (3.68%) IIS
3 37 (3.58%) Confluence
4 15 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (1.16%) CMS
6 9 (0.87%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.58%) Appian
8 5 (0.48%) Camunda
9 4 (0.39%) Kentico
9 4 (0.39%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.39%) WordPress
10 3 (0.29%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.29%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.19%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.19%) Mendix
12 1 (0.097%) Drupal
12 1 (0.097%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.097%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.097%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 24 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.48%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.097%) InDesign
5 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 31 (3.00%) 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%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.097%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.097%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.097%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.097%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 538 (52.03%) Azure
2 196 (18.96%) Azure DevOps
3 177 (17.12%) AWS
4 110 (10.64%) Power Platform
5 108 (10.44%) GitHub
6 75 (7.25%) Azure Service Bus
7 73 (7.06%) Serverless
8 69 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
9 56 (5.42%) PowerApps
10 55 (5.32%) Power Automate
11 53 (5.13%) Azure Logic Apps
12 51 (4.93%) GitHub Actions
13 44 (4.26%) Entra ID
14 43 (4.16%) Azure Monitor
15 42 (4.06%) Azure AKS
16 41 (3.97%) Azure Functions
17 32 (3.09%) GCP
18 31 (3.00%) Azure Key Vault
19 29 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
19 29 (2.80%) PaaS
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%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 255 (24.66%) SQL Server
2 57 (5.51%) Power BI
3 56 (5.42%) Relational Database
4 48 (4.64%) Oracle Database
5 41 (3.97%) NoSQL
6 39 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
7 31 (3.00%) 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%) Geospatial Data
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
14 7 (0.68%) Metadata
14 7 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
15 6 (0.58%) MySQL
16 5 (0.48%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 129 (12.48%) Git
2 73 (7.06%) JIRA
3 49 (4.74%) Visual Studio
4 23 (2.22%) Jenkins
5 22 (2.13%) TeamCity
6 16 (1.55%) GitLab
7 14 (1.35%) Selenium
8 13 (1.26%) MSTest
8 13 (1.26%) NUnit
9 12 (1.16%) MSI
10 10 (0.97%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.87%) Claude Code
11 9 (0.87%) Gatling
11 9 (0.87%) JMeter
12 8 (0.77%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.77%) MSBuild
12 8 (0.77%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (0.77%) SpecFlow
13 7 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 265 (25.63%) Finance
2 235 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 118 (11.41%) Banking
4 90 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (6.29%) Public Sector
6 51 (4.93%) Front Office
7 39 (3.77%) Investment Banking
8 23 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.26%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.06%) Retail
12 9 (0.87%) Back Office
12 9 (0.87%) Legal
13 7 (0.68%) Police
14 6 (0.58%) Billing
14 6 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.58%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.48%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.48%) Fire and Rescue
15 5 (0.48%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 525 (50.77%) Developer
2 216 (20.89%) .NET Developer
3 163 (15.76%) Senior
4 146 (14.12%) C# Developer
5 116 (11.22%) Architect
6 107 (10.35%) Software Engineer
7 98 (9.48%) Lead
7 98 (9.48%) Senior Developer
8 70 (6.77%) Solutions Architect
9 68 (6.58%) Full-Stack Developer
9 68 (6.58%) Software Developer
10 65 (6.29%) C# .NET Developer
11 48 (4.64%) Azure Developer
12 46 (4.45%) Senior .NET Developer
13 32 (3.09%) .NET Software Developer
13 32 (3.09%) .NET Software Engineer
14 30 (2.90%) React Developer
15 29 (2.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 28 (2.71%) Azure Engineer
16 28 (2.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (21.57%) .NET Framework
2 184 (17.79%) REST
3 159 (15.38%) React
4 127 (12.28%) .NET Core
5 120 (11.61%) ASP.NET
6 118 (11.41%) RESTful
7 102 (9.86%) AngularJS
8 88 (8.51%) HTML
9 77 (7.45%) CSS
10 62 (6.00%) Entity Framework
11 57 (5.51%) ASP.NET Core
12 53 (5.13%) Web Services
13 43 (4.16%) XML
14 42 (4.06%) JSON
15 39 (3.77%) WPF
16 38 (3.68%) ASP.NET Web API
16 38 (3.68%) Node.js
16 38 (3.68%) WinForms
17 37 (3.58%) OAuth
17 37 (3.58%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 130 (12.57%) Cloud Native
2 71 (6.87%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (6.19%) Legacy Systems
4 54 (5.22%) Enterprise Software
5 43 (4.16%) AI Agents
5 43 (4.16%) Product Ownership
6 29 (2.80%) Onboarding
7 28 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
9 18 (1.74%) Fixed Income
10 17 (1.64%) Legacy Code
11 16 (1.55%) Data Structures
12 13 (1.26%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (1.16%) Derivative
14 10 (0.97%) Distributed Applications
14 10 (0.97%) Equities
14 10 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 8 (0.77%) Low-Code
16 7 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 101 (9.77%) Windows
2 46 (4.45%) Linux
3 31 (3.00%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.58%) Unix
5 4 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.29%) VMS
7 1 (0.097%) Android
7 1 (0.097%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.097%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.097%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (42.46%) CI/CD
2 421 (40.72%) DevOps
3 359 (34.72%) Agile
4 199 (19.25%) Microservices
4 199 (19.25%) Software Engineering
5 182 (17.60%) AI
6 164 (15.86%) Full-Stack Development
7 142 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
8 134 (12.96%) Test Automation
9 101 (9.77%) SDLC
10 99 (9.57%) Migration
11 98 (9.48%) Scrum
12 89 (8.61%) Containerisation
13 87 (8.41%) Event-Driven
14 83 (8.03%) Continuous Improvement
15 82 (7.93%) Infrastructure as Code
16 77 (7.45%) Technical Leadership
16 77 (7.45%) Unit Testing
17 74 (7.16%) OOP
18 70 (6.77%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 708 (68.47%) C#
2 362 (35.01%) SQL
3 207 (20.02%) Python
4 199 (19.25%) JavaScript
5 120 (11.61%) TypeScript
6 94 (9.09%) Java
7 76 (7.35%) T-SQL
8 70 (6.77%) PowerShell
9 57 (5.51%) PL/SQL
10 39 (3.77%) Bicep
11 33 (3.19%) C++
12 27 (2.61%) VB.NET
13 24 (2.32%) Go
14 19 (1.84%) VBA
15 15 (1.45%) VB
16 12 (1.16%) Bash
17 11 (1.06%) C
17 11 (1.06%) X++
18 10 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
19 6 (0.58%) XPath
Qualifications
1 180 (17.41%) Security Cleared
2 156 (15.09%) SC Cleared
3 86 (8.32%) Degree
4 27 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (1.74%) Azure Certification
6 16 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.35%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.68%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.68%) PhD
10 5 (0.48%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.39%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.19%) CISM
12 2 (0.19%) CISSP
13 1 (0.097%) CEH
13 1 (0.097%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (9.28%) QA
2 32 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.03%) WCAG
4 17 (1.64%) GDPR
5 15 (1.45%) NCSC
6 12 (1.16%) Data Quality
7 9 (0.87%) SLA
8 5 (0.48%) HL7
8 5 (0.48%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.48%) PSD2
9 4 (0.39%) GRC
10 3 (0.29%) DICOM
10 3 (0.29%) SEPA
10 3 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
11 2 (0.19%) Basel III
11 2 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.19%) GxP
11 2 (0.19%) ISO 13485
11 2 (0.19%) TARGET2
System Software
1 128 (12.38%) Docker
2 29 (2.80%) 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
1 114 (11.03%) Terraform
2 109 (10.54%) Kubernetes
3 30 (2.90%) Ansible
4 14 (1.35%) Grafana
5 13 (1.26%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.58%) Kibana
7 5 (0.48%) Istio
8 4 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.29%) Rancher
10 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.19%) SCCM
10 2 (0.19%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.097%) Control-M
11 1 (0.097%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.097%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.097%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.097%) linkerd
Vendors
1 240 (23.21%) Microsoft
2 117 (11.32%) Oracle
3 39 (3.77%) Citrix
4 20 (1.93%) ServiceNow
5 18 (1.74%) OpenAI
6 16 (1.55%) Databricks
7 13 (1.26%) Google
8 12 (1.16%) UiPath
9 11 (1.06%) Splunk
10 10 (0.97%) Sitecore
11 9 (0.87%) InterSystems
12 8 (0.77%) OpenLink
13 7 (0.68%) Foundry
13 7 (0.68%) Salesforce
14 5 (0.48%) CyberArk
14 5 (0.48%) IBM
14 5 (0.48%) OpenText
14 5 (0.48%) SAP
14 5 (0.48%) VMware
15 4 (0.39%) ION Trading