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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 78 49
Rank change year-on-year -25 -29 +1
Contract jobs citing .NET 1,022 845 1,428
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.28% 3.10% 3.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.02% 13.90% 18.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 704 628 1,084
10th Percentile £400 £355 £363
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -4.87%
75th Percentile £620 £675 £650
90th Percentile £722 £813 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 7 15
10th Percentile £38.25 £45.72 £20.31
25th Percentile £45.00 £63.63 £34.00
Median hourly rate £58.00 £67.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.43% +11.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £73.46 - £75.00
90th Percentile £78.38 £71.08 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £58.00 £63.50 £58.91
% change year-on-year -8.66% +7.80% +17.81%

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 8,501 6,080 7,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.96% 22.28% 21.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,604 4,178 5,453
10th Percentile £363 £355 £353
25th Percentile £430 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £780 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.74% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 141 259
10th Percentile £30.30 £31.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £46.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -7.46%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.09
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% +1.82% -12.00%

.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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -35 588 £546 -2.89% 227
North of England -26 124 £500 +5.26% 177
South East -35 114 £515 +8.42% 172
Midlands -37 68 £496 +1.22% 72
Yorkshire -19 66 £490 +3.16% 46
South West 0 64 £450 +20.00% 55
North West -35 56 £513 +20.59% 97
East of England -17 40 £538 +11.82% 63
West Midlands -62 38 £459 -9.61% 36
East Midlands -4 29 £525 +15.07% 36
North East - 2 - - 36
.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 41 (4.01%) SharePoint
2 37 (3.62%) IIS
3 34 (3.33%) Confluence
4 19 (1.86%) CMS
5 14 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
6 9 (0.88%) Sitecore CMS
7 7 (0.68%) Appian
8 5 (0.49%) Camunda
8 5 (0.49%) Kentico
9 4 (0.39%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.39%) WordPress
10 3 (0.29%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.29%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.20%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.20%) Mendix
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Spatial
11 2 (0.20%) SAS
12 1 (0.098%) MTS
Applications
1 22 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.49%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.098%) InDesign
5 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 31 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.78%) Findur
3 6 (0.59%) Endur
3 6 (0.59%) OpenText MBPM
3 6 (0.59%) Oracle BPM
4 5 (0.49%) Shopify
5 4 (0.39%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.098%) Alphatax
8 1 (0.098%) Magento
8 1 (0.098%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.098%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.098%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.098%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.098%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.098%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 522 (51.08%) Azure
2 190 (18.59%) Azure DevOps
3 183 (17.91%) AWS
4 110 (10.76%) GitHub
5 103 (10.08%) Power Platform
6 74 (7.24%) Azure Service Bus
7 71 (6.95%) Serverless
8 66 (6.46%) Dynamics 365
9 55 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
10 54 (5.28%) PowerApps
11 53 (5.19%) Power Automate
12 51 (4.99%) Azure Logic Apps
13 38 (3.72%) Azure Functions
14 37 (3.62%) Azure Monitor
15 36 (3.52%) Azure AKS
15 36 (3.52%) Entra ID
16 35 (3.42%) GCP
17 29 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
18 26 (2.54%) PaaS
18 26 (2.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.37%) Internet
2 10 (0.98%) 3GPP
3 8 (0.78%) Firewall
3 8 (0.78%) RTP
3 8 (0.78%) Wireshark
4 6 (0.59%) Intranet
4 6 (0.59%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.49%) NAS
5 5 (0.49%) Network Security
5 5 (0.49%) SAN
6 4 (0.39%) HTTP
7 3 (0.29%) DHCP
7 3 (0.29%) DNS
8 2 (0.20%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.20%) Multicast
8 2 (0.20%) RTCP
8 2 (0.20%) RTMP
8 2 (0.20%) XCAP
9 1 (0.098%) SSL
9 1 (0.098%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (25.05%) SQL Server
2 66 (6.46%) Relational Database
3 50 (4.89%) Oracle Database
3 50 (4.89%) Power BI
4 41 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
5 40 (3.91%) NoSQL
6 27 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 22 (2.15%) MongoDB
8 20 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (1.27%) Redis
10 10 (0.98%) Pinecone
10 10 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (0.98%) Weaviate
11 9 (0.88%) DynamoDB
12 8 (0.78%) Crystal Reports
12 8 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
12 8 (0.78%) Metadata
13 7 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (0.59%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.49%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 123 (12.04%) Git
2 71 (6.95%) JIRA
3 55 (5.38%) Visual Studio
4 23 (2.25%) Jenkins
5 20 (1.96%) TeamCity
6 16 (1.57%) GitLab
7 15 (1.47%) NUnit
7 15 (1.47%) Selenium
8 13 (1.27%) MSTest
9 11 (1.08%) MSI
10 10 (0.98%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.88%) Gatling
11 9 (0.88%) JMeter
11 9 (0.88%) SpecFlow
12 8 (0.78%) Claude Code
12 8 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (0.78%) Postman
12 8 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 7 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 255 (24.95%) Finance
2 227 (22.21%) Social Skills
3 122 (11.94%) Banking
4 95 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (6.36%) Public Sector
6 51 (4.99%) Front Office
7 44 (4.31%) Investment Banking
8 21 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (1.37%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.08%) Retail
12 9 (0.88%) Back Office
12 9 (0.88%) Telecoms
13 8 (0.78%) Billing
13 8 (0.78%) Legal
13 8 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.68%) Police
15 5 (0.49%) Fire and Rescue
15 5 (0.49%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 523 (51.17%) Developer
2 204 (19.96%) .NET Developer
3 160 (15.66%) Senior
4 155 (15.17%) C# Developer
5 120 (11.74%) Architect
6 105 (10.27%) Software Engineer
7 101 (9.88%) Lead
8 94 (9.20%) Senior Developer
9 72 (7.05%) Solutions Architect
10 68 (6.65%) Software Developer
11 67 (6.56%) Full-Stack Developer
12 65 (6.36%) C# .NET Developer
13 49 (4.79%) Azure Developer
14 46 (4.50%) Senior .NET Developer
15 33 (3.23%) .NET Software Developer
16 31 (3.03%) SQL Developer
17 30 (2.94%) .NET Software Engineer
18 28 (2.74%) Azure Engineer
19 27 (2.64%) React Developer
20 26 (2.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (21.33%) .NET Framework
2 169 (16.54%) REST
3 166 (16.24%) React
4 124 (12.13%) ASP.NET
5 121 (11.84%) .NET Core
6 117 (11.45%) RESTful
7 104 (10.18%) AngularJS
8 97 (9.49%) HTML
9 86 (8.41%) CSS
10 59 (5.77%) ASP.NET Core
11 56 (5.48%) Entity Framework
12 49 (4.79%) Web Services
13 45 (4.40%) Node.js
14 43 (4.21%) XML
15 39 (3.82%) JSON
15 39 (3.82%) WPF
16 37 (3.62%) WinForms
17 36 (3.52%) ASP.NET Web API
18 33 (3.23%) SOAP
19 32 (3.13%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 128 (12.52%) Cloud Native
2 66 (6.46%) Legacy Systems
3 64 (6.26%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (4.50%) Enterprise Software
5 41 (4.01%) Product Ownership
6 40 (3.91%) AI Agents
7 28 (2.74%) Onboarding
7 28 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (1.86%) Fixed Income
10 17 (1.66%) Legacy Code
11 15 (1.47%) Derivative
12 13 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (1.27%) Data Structures
12 13 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 13 (1.27%) Virtual Team
13 10 (0.98%) Equities
14 9 (0.88%) Distributed Applications
15 8 (0.78%) IoT
15 8 (0.78%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 100 (9.78%) Windows
2 41 (4.01%) Linux
3 31 (3.03%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.88%) Unix
5 4 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.29%) VMS
7 2 (0.20%) Android
7 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.098%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (42.27%) CI/CD
2 410 (40.12%) DevOps
3 350 (34.25%) Agile
4 200 (19.57%) Microservices
5 184 (18.00%) Software Engineering
6 176 (17.22%) AI
7 153 (14.97%) Full-Stack Development
8 146 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 125 (12.23%) Test Automation
10 103 (10.08%) Scrum
11 97 (9.49%) SDLC
12 90 (8.81%) Migration
13 89 (8.71%) Containerisation
14 86 (8.41%) Event-Driven
15 82 (8.02%) Infrastructure as Code
16 79 (7.73%) Unit Testing
17 77 (7.53%) Technical Leadership
18 74 (7.24%) Mentoring
19 73 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
20 69 (6.75%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 694 (67.91%) C#
2 363 (35.52%) SQL
3 211 (20.65%) Python
4 192 (18.79%) JavaScript
5 119 (11.64%) TypeScript
6 102 (9.98%) Java
7 77 (7.53%) T-SQL
8 62 (6.07%) PL/SQL
9 57 (5.58%) PowerShell
10 33 (3.23%) C++
11 32 (3.13%) Bicep
12 26 (2.54%) VB.NET
13 24 (2.35%) Go
14 18 (1.76%) VBA
15 14 (1.37%) VB
16 11 (1.08%) C
17 10 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
17 10 (0.98%) X++
18 9 (0.88%) Bash
19 6 (0.59%) XPath
Qualifications
1 173 (16.93%) Security Cleared
2 146 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 90 (8.81%) Degree
4 29 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.47%) Azure Certification
5 15 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.27%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.27%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (0.78%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.68%) PhD
10 5 (0.49%) CISSP
10 5 (0.49%) 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 (0.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.20%) CCSP
12 2 (0.20%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (10.08%) QA
2 28 (2.74%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.86%) WCAG
4 18 (1.76%) GDPR
5 14 (1.37%) NCSC
6 9 (0.88%) Data Quality
6 9 (0.88%) PCI DSS
6 9 (0.88%) SLA
7 5 (0.49%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.49%) PSD2
8 4 (0.39%) GRC
8 4 (0.39%) NIST
9 3 (0.29%) DICOM
9 3 (0.29%) HL7
9 3 (0.29%) SEPA
10 2 (0.20%) Basel III
10 2 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.20%) TARGET2
11 1 (0.098%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 1 (0.098%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 130 (12.72%) Docker
2 24 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.29%) Firmware
5 2 (0.20%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.098%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.098%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.098%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 113 (11.06%) Kubernetes
2 112 (10.96%) Terraform
3 28 (2.74%) Ansible
4 12 (1.17%) Grafana
4 12 (1.17%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.59%) Kibana
6 5 (0.49%) Istio
6 5 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.29%) Rancher
8 2 (0.20%) Control-M
8 2 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.20%) SCCM
8 2 (0.20%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.098%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.098%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.098%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.098%) linkerd
Vendors
1 222 (21.72%) Microsoft
2 124 (12.13%) Oracle
3 40 (3.91%) Citrix
4 19 (1.86%) OpenAI
5 17 (1.66%) Databricks
5 17 (1.66%) ServiceNow
5 17 (1.66%) Sitecore
6 15 (1.47%) Google
7 10 (0.98%) Splunk
8 9 (0.88%) InterSystems
8 9 (0.88%) UiPath
9 8 (0.78%) Foundry
9 8 (0.78%) OpenLink
10 6 (0.59%) OpenText
11 5 (0.49%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.49%) SAP
11 5 (0.49%) VMware
12 4 (0.39%) ION Trading
12 4 (0.39%) Rapid7
12 4 (0.39%) Telerik