.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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
3 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 60 44
Rank change year-on-year -47 -16 -11
Contract jobs citing .NET 793 1,061 1,706
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.57% 3.48% 4.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.47% 16.01% 20.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 760 1,299
10th Percentile £350 £363 £375
25th Percentile £404 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 23
10th Percentile £58.60 £20.25 £45.68
25th Percentile £65.50 £20.63 £52.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 £22.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +197.78% -65.38% -
75th Percentile - £25.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.85 £25.95 -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £25.60 £65.00
% change year-on-year +161.72% -60.62% -0.76%

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 6,912 6,628 8,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.37% 21.77% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,650 4,219 6,089
10th Percentile £350 £358 £370
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £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 167 98 173
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.43 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +19.27% -16.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.35 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -14.73%

.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 3 December 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 3 December 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 3 December 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 -41 469 £500 -12.28% 185
North of England -48 83 £481 -2.78% 190
South East -11 76 £450 -14.29% 245
East of England +25 61 £550 +83.33% 54
Midlands -40 52 £510 +2.00% 84
Yorkshire -16 46 £495 -6.60% 39
North West -33 35 £450 -3.23% 123
West Midlands -46 27 £503 -4.29% 40
East Midlands -9 25 £518 +15.00% 42
South West -32 19 £475 -9.52% 55
North East -14 2 £600 +71.43% 30
.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 (4.79%) Confluence
2 27 (3.40%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.14%) IIS
4 15 (1.89%) CMS
4 15 (1.89%) WebLogic
4 15 (1.89%) WebSphere
5 10 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (1.13%) Apache
6 9 (1.13%) HCL Notes
6 9 (1.13%) Sitecore CMS
7 7 (0.88%) Umbraco
8 6 (0.76%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.50%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.38%) Mendix
11 3 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.25%) Appian
12 2 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.25%) EPiServer
12 2 (0.25%) Moodle
Applications
1 27 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) Moqups
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 39 (4.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.13%) Advent Geneva
2 9 (1.13%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.88%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.76%) Endur
5 5 (0.63%) OpenText MBPM
5 5 (0.63%) Oracle BPM
6 4 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.50%) thinkFolio
6 4 (0.50%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.25%) Orchestrade
8 1 (0.13%) Eikon
8 1 (0.13%) ION Anvil
8 1 (0.13%) Maximo
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.13%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 399 (50.32%) Azure
2 188 (23.71%) Azure DevOps
3 98 (12.36%) AWS
4 95 (11.98%) GitHub
4 95 (11.98%) Serverless
5 85 (10.72%) Power Platform
6 64 (8.07%) Azure Functions
7 59 (7.44%) Dynamics 365
8 58 (7.31%) PowerApps
9 56 (7.06%) Azure Logic Apps
10 54 (6.81%) Power Automate
11 52 (6.56%) GitHub Actions
12 51 (6.43%) Azure Service Bus
13 49 (6.18%) Azure AKS
14 47 (5.93%) PaaS
15 39 (4.92%) Azure Monitor
16 38 (4.79%) Entra ID
17 34 (4.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 30 (3.78%) GCP
19 24 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.64%) Internet
2 10 (1.26%) HTTP
3 7 (0.88%) Network Security
4 4 (0.50%) DNS
4 4 (0.50%) SSL
5 3 (0.38%) DHCP
5 3 (0.38%) Firewall
5 3 (0.38%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.25%) S/MIME
6 2 (0.25%) X.509
7 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.13%) Intranet
7 1 (0.13%) NAS
7 1 (0.13%) SAN
7 1 (0.13%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (22.19%) SQL Server
2 40 (5.04%) Relational Database
3 38 (4.79%) NoSQL
3 38 (4.79%) Power BI
4 37 (4.67%) Oracle Database
5 29 (3.66%) MongoDB
6 27 (3.40%) Azure SQL Database
6 27 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (2.02%) MySQL
9 14 (1.77%) Big Data
10 12 (1.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (1.13%) DB2
12 8 (1.01%) Redis
13 4 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.50%) DocumentDB
13 4 (0.50%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.50%) Hadoop
14 3 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 89 (11.22%) Git
2 81 (10.21%) JIRA
3 31 (3.91%) Jenkins
4 27 (3.40%) Selenium
5 21 (2.65%) SpecFlow
6 20 (2.52%) Postman
6 20 (2.52%) Visual Studio
7 18 (2.27%) GitLab
8 16 (2.02%) Cucumber
9 14 (1.77%) Artifactory
10 13 (1.64%) Bitbucket
11 12 (1.51%) SonarQube
12 10 (1.26%) Team Foundation Server
13 9 (1.13%) TeamCity
14 8 (1.01%) Cypress.io
15 7 (0.88%) JMeter
16 6 (0.76%) NUnit
16 6 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
17 5 (0.63%) REST Assured
18 4 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 229 (28.88%) Social Skills
2 219 (27.62%) Finance
3 98 (12.36%) Banking
4 75 (9.46%) Public Sector
5 56 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (4.67%) Investment Banking
7 36 (4.54%) Front Office
8 23 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (2.14%) Financial Institution
11 15 (1.89%) Marketing
12 10 (1.26%) Back Office
12 10 (1.26%) Retail
13 8 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.76%) Legal
16 5 (0.63%) Billing
16 5 (0.63%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.50%) Publishing
17 4 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 454 (57.25%) Developer
2 170 (21.44%) .NET Developer
3 121 (15.26%) C# Developer
4 109 (13.75%) Senior
5 72 (9.08%) Software Engineer
6 69 (8.70%) Architect
7 63 (7.94%) Senior Developer
8 60 (7.57%) Full-Stack Developer
9 56 (7.06%) C# .NET Developer
9 56 (7.06%) Lead
10 41 (5.17%) Azure Developer
11 36 (4.54%) Solutions Architect
12 33 (4.16%) Angular Developer
13 27 (3.40%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 27 (3.40%) Senior .NET Developer
14 23 (2.90%) Software Developer
15 22 (2.77%) .NET Software Engineer
15 22 (2.77%) Consultant
15 22 (2.77%) DevOps Engineer
15 22 (2.77%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (21.31%) .NET Framework
2 121 (15.26%) .NET Core
3 118 (14.88%) React
4 116 (14.63%) AngularJS
5 103 (12.99%) RESTful
6 95 (11.98%) HTML
7 93 (11.73%) REST
8 71 (8.95%) CSS
9 59 (7.44%) Node.js
10 56 (7.06%) ASP.NET
11 51 (6.43%) Entity Framework
12 48 (6.05%) WPF
13 41 (5.17%) Web Services
14 38 (4.79%) SOAP
15 37 (4.67%) ASP.NET Web API
15 37 (4.67%) Kafka
16 30 (3.78%) Middleware
17 28 (3.53%) Blazor
17 28 (3.53%) Playwright
18 23 (2.90%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 82 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 36 (4.54%) Legacy Systems
3 29 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (3.66%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 24 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
5 24 (3.03%) Mobile App
6 23 (2.90%) Algorithms
7 20 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (2.14%) Fixed Income
9 16 (2.02%) Virtual Team
10 15 (1.89%) Derivative
10 15 (1.89%) Management Information System
11 13 (1.64%) Hedge funds
12 12 (1.51%) NHS
13 11 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.39%) Onboarding
13 11 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.26%) Data Structures
14 10 (1.26%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 70 (8.83%) Windows
2 22 (2.77%) Linux
3 16 (2.02%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.88%) Android
4 7 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (39.97%) Agile
2 302 (38.08%) DevOps
3 264 (33.29%) CI/CD
4 180 (22.70%) Microservices
5 172 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
6 144 (18.16%) Software Engineering
7 142 (17.91%) Full-Stack Development
8 108 (13.62%) Test Automation
9 97 (12.23%) Scrum
10 82 (10.34%) Containerisation
11 81 (10.21%) AI
12 69 (8.70%) SDLC
13 66 (8.32%) Clean Code
14 65 (8.20%) Computer Science
15 64 (8.07%) Mentoring
16 62 (7.82%) TDD
17 59 (7.44%) Design Patterns
18 57 (7.19%) Business Intelligence
19 56 (7.06%) Migration
20 52 (6.56%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 535 (67.47%) C#
2 301 (37.96%) SQL
3 193 (24.34%) JavaScript
4 128 (16.14%) Python
5 122 (15.38%) Java
6 79 (9.96%) TypeScript
7 48 (6.05%) PL/SQL
8 45 (5.67%) PHP
9 39 (4.92%) C++
10 38 (4.79%) T-SQL
11 30 (3.78%) PowerShell
12 27 (3.40%) VB.NET
13 26 (3.28%) Bicep
14 23 (2.90%) VB
15 22 (2.77%) VBA
16 17 (2.14%) Bash
16 17 (2.14%) C
17 9 (1.13%) Ruby
18 8 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
19 5 (0.63%) X++
Qualifications
1 90 (11.35%) Security Cleared
2 71 (8.95%) Degree
3 70 (8.83%) SC Cleared
4 39 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.02%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.89%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.77%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (1.39%) MCP
9 6 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.76%) CISSP
10 5 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.50%) ISEB
12 3 (0.38%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.38%) CBAP
12 3 (0.38%) CCSP
12 3 (0.38%) PMP
13 2 (0.25%) CEH
13 2 (0.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (9.46%) QA
2 23 (2.90%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.14%) EU AI Act
3 17 (2.14%) NIST
4 12 (1.51%) GDPR
5 10 (1.26%) WCAG
6 9 (1.13%) MiFID
7 7 (0.88%) HL7
8 6 (0.76%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.63%) EMIR
9 5 (0.63%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.63%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.50%) COBIT
11 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.38%) NCSC
12 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.13%) DICOM
13 1 (0.13%) GRC
13 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 110 (13.87%) Docker
2 30 (3.78%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.13%) KVM
6 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 89 (11.22%) Kubernetes
2 71 (8.95%) Terraform
3 7 (0.88%) Ansible
4 6 (0.76%) Grafana
4 6 (0.76%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.25%) Argo
7 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.13%) Kibana
7 1 (0.13%) MIIS
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Identity Management
7 1 (0.13%) Rancher
Vendors
1 230 (29.00%) Microsoft
2 92 (11.60%) Oracle
3 21 (2.65%) Citrix
4 19 (2.40%) Databricks
4 19 (2.40%) OpenAI
5 18 (2.27%) ServiceNow
6 15 (1.89%) Dynatrace
6 15 (1.89%) Foundry
7 13 (1.64%) Salesforce
7 13 (1.64%) Sitecore
7 13 (1.64%) UiPath
8 11 (1.39%) SAP
9 9 (1.13%) Advent
9 9 (1.13%) Google
9 9 (1.13%) Lotus
10 8 (1.01%) Brio
10 8 (1.01%) GoldenSource
11 6 (0.76%) Adobe
11 6 (0.76%) OpenLink
11 6 (0.76%) OpenText
739 .NET jobs in England