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

 6 months to
29 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 80 51
Rank change year-on-year -31 -29 -4
Contract jobs citing .NET 999 789 1,412
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.29% 3.10% 3.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.01% 13.78% 17.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 687 604 1,072
10th Percentile £392 £355 £363
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -4.66%
75th Percentile £625 £682 £650
90th Percentile £725 £822 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 2 16
10th Percentile £38.25 £27.22 £20.77
25th Percentile £45.00 £35.55 £29.13
Median hourly rate £58.00 £50.30 £59.45
Median % change year-on-year +15.31% -15.39% +18.91%
75th Percentile £73.46 £64.18 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.38 £71.99 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £58.00 £28.13 £58.91
% change year-on-year +106.22% -52.25% +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 8,316 5,724 7,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.08% 22.48% 21.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,478 3,950 5,529
10th Percentile £363 £357 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £538
% change year-on-year +2.14% -4.37% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 121 266
10th Percentile £30.40 £30.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £46.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.15
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +3.18% -10.54%
75th Percentile £74.63 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.89 £81.01 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%

.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 29 June 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 29 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for .NET in England

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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 29 June 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 -32 580 £540 -6.09% 164
South East -21 120 £515 +8.42% 150
North of England -33 110 £500 +11.11% 130
Midlands -42 67 £496 +2.69% 68
South West -8 58 £450 +20.00% 37
North West -29 54 £481 +13.24% 60
Yorkshire -25 52 £524 +10.26% 41
East of England -4 40 £526 +9.35% 43
West Midlands -54 37 £459 -8.93% 37
East Midlands -2 29 £525 +15.07% 31
North East - 4 £513 - 32
.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 46 (4.60%) SharePoint
2 35 (3.50%) IIS
3 30 (3.00%) Confluence
4 19 (1.90%) CMS
5 14 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.90%) Oracle Workflow
6 9 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
7 7 (0.70%) Appian
8 5 (0.50%) Camunda
8 5 (0.50%) Kentico
9 4 (0.40%) HCL Notes
9 4 (0.40%) Mendix
9 4 (0.40%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.40%) WordPress
10 3 (0.30%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.30%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.30%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Spatial
11 2 (0.20%) SAS
12 1 (0.10%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 20 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) InDesign
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 31 (3.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.80%) Endur
2 8 (0.80%) Findur
3 5 (0.50%) OpenText MBPM
3 5 (0.50%) Oracle BPM
3 5 (0.50%) Shopify
4 4 (0.40%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.10%) Alphatax
7 1 (0.10%) Magento
7 1 (0.10%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.10%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.10%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 520 (52.05%) Azure
2 186 (18.62%) Azure DevOps
3 179 (17.92%) AWS
4 109 (10.91%) GitHub
5 99 (9.91%) Power Platform
6 78 (7.81%) Serverless
7 71 (7.11%) Azure Service Bus
8 61 (6.11%) Dynamics 365
9 54 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
9 54 (5.41%) Power Automate
10 51 (5.11%) PowerApps
11 49 (4.90%) Azure Logic Apps
12 47 (4.70%) Azure Functions
13 36 (3.60%) Azure AKS
13 36 (3.60%) Azure Monitor
13 36 (3.60%) GCP
14 33 (3.30%) Entra ID
15 31 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
16 26 (2.60%) PaaS
17 23 (2.30%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.40%) Internet
2 10 (1.00%) 3GPP
3 8 (0.80%) Firewall
3 8 (0.80%) RTP
3 8 (0.80%) Wireshark
4 6 (0.60%) Intranet
4 6 (0.60%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.50%) HTTP
5 5 (0.50%) NAS
5 5 (0.50%) SAN
6 3 (0.30%) DHCP
6 3 (0.30%) DNS
6 3 (0.30%) Network Security
7 2 (0.20%) Multicast
7 2 (0.20%) RTCP
7 2 (0.20%) RTMP
7 2 (0.20%) XCAP
8 1 (0.10%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.10%) SSL
8 1 (0.10%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 246 (24.62%) SQL Server
2 65 (6.51%) Relational Database
3 51 (5.11%) Oracle Database
4 44 (4.40%) Power BI
5 41 (4.10%) NoSQL
6 40 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
7 29 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 23 (2.30%) MongoDB
9 19 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 13 (1.30%) Redis
11 10 (1.00%) Pinecone
11 10 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 10 (1.00%) Weaviate
12 9 (0.90%) Crystal Reports
12 9 (0.90%) Metadata
13 8 (0.80%) DynamoDB
14 7 (0.70%) Data Lake
14 7 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
15 5 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
15 5 (0.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 117 (11.71%) Git
2 62 (6.21%) JIRA
3 54 (5.41%) Visual Studio
4 20 (2.00%) TeamCity
5 19 (1.90%) Jenkins
6 15 (1.50%) NUnit
6 15 (1.50%) Selenium
7 14 (1.40%) GitLab
8 12 (1.20%) MSTest
9 9 (0.90%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.90%) JMeter
9 9 (0.90%) SpecFlow
10 8 (0.80%) Claude Code
10 8 (0.80%) Gatling
10 8 (0.80%) MSI
10 8 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
10 8 (0.80%) Postman
11 7 (0.70%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 7 (0.70%) webpack
General
1 253 (25.33%) Finance
2 222 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 122 (12.21%) Banking
4 94 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (6.11%) Public Sector
6 50 (5.01%) Front Office
7 43 (4.30%) Investment Banking
8 21 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (1.60%) Financial Institution
10 15 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.10%) Retail
12 9 (0.90%) Billing
12 9 (0.90%) Telecoms
13 8 (0.80%) Back Office
13 8 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.70%) Legal
14 7 (0.70%) Police
15 6 (0.60%) Aviation
16 5 (0.50%) Fire and Rescue
16 5 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 507 (50.75%) Developer
2 188 (18.82%) .NET Developer
3 158 (15.82%) C# Developer
4 152 (15.22%) Senior
5 117 (11.71%) Architect
6 106 (10.61%) Software Engineer
7 101 (10.11%) Lead
8 93 (9.31%) Senior Developer
9 71 (7.11%) Solutions Architect
10 67 (6.71%) Full-Stack Developer
10 67 (6.71%) Software Developer
11 63 (6.31%) C# .NET Developer
12 49 (4.90%) Azure Developer
13 45 (4.50%) Senior .NET Developer
14 33 (3.30%) .NET Software Developer
15 31 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
15 31 (3.10%) SQL Developer
16 28 (2.80%) .NET Software Engineer
17 27 (2.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 27 (2.70%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (20.42%) .NET Framework
2 169 (16.92%) React
3 160 (16.02%) REST
4 113 (11.31%) .NET Core
4 113 (11.31%) ASP.NET
5 112 (11.21%) RESTful
6 105 (10.51%) AngularJS
7 95 (9.51%) HTML
8 84 (8.41%) CSS
9 57 (5.71%) ASP.NET Core
10 54 (5.41%) Entity Framework
11 47 (4.70%) Web Services
12 45 (4.50%) Node.js
13 42 (4.20%) XML
14 39 (3.90%) JSON
15 35 (3.50%) ASP.NET Web API
15 35 (3.50%) OAuth
15 35 (3.50%) WPF
16 34 (3.40%) WinForms
17 32 (3.20%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 123 (12.31%) Cloud Native
2 61 (6.11%) Legacy Systems
3 59 (5.91%) Distributed Systems
4 43 (4.30%) Enterprise Software
5 40 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 36 (3.60%) AI Agents
7 26 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
8 25 (2.50%) Onboarding
9 20 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
10 19 (1.90%) Fixed Income
11 16 (1.60%) Derivative
12 14 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 13 (1.30%) Data Structures
13 13 (1.30%) Legacy Code
14 12 (1.20%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
15 11 (1.10%) Equities
16 10 (1.00%) Low-Code
17 9 (0.90%) Distributed Applications
18 8 (0.80%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 95 (9.51%) Windows
2 41 (4.10%) Linux
3 30 (3.00%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.90%) Unix
5 4 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.30%) VMS
7 1 (0.10%) Android
7 1 (0.10%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (41.84%) CI/CD
2 396 (39.64%) DevOps
3 332 (33.23%) Agile
4 190 (19.02%) Microservices
5 187 (18.72%) Software Engineering
6 169 (16.92%) AI
7 152 (15.22%) Full-Stack Development
8 145 (14.51%) Problem-Solving
9 115 (11.51%) Test Automation
10 99 (9.91%) Scrum
11 90 (9.01%) SDLC
12 84 (8.41%) Containerisation
13 81 (8.11%) Event-Driven
13 81 (8.11%) Migration
13 81 (8.11%) Unit Testing
14 77 (7.71%) Infrastructure as Code
15 74 (7.41%) Mentoring
16 73 (7.31%) Technical Leadership
17 66 (6.61%) Continuous Improvement
18 62 (6.21%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 689 (68.97%) C#
2 362 (36.24%) SQL
3 209 (20.92%) Python
4 193 (19.32%) JavaScript
5 112 (11.21%) TypeScript
6 96 (9.61%) Java
7 73 (7.31%) T-SQL
8 62 (6.21%) PL/SQL
9 57 (5.71%) PowerShell
10 33 (3.30%) C++
11 29 (2.90%) Bicep
12 24 (2.40%) Go
12 24 (2.40%) VB.NET
13 17 (1.70%) VBA
14 14 (1.40%) VB
15 11 (1.10%) C
16 10 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
16 10 (1.00%) X++
17 9 (0.90%) Bash
18 5 (0.50%) XPath
Qualifications
1 162 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 136 (13.61%) SC Cleared
3 89 (8.91%) Degree
4 27 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (1.60%) Azure Certification
6 13 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.30%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.20%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.80%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.70%) PhD
11 5 (0.50%) CISSP
11 5 (0.50%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.40%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.20%) CCSP
13 2 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.20%) CISM
13 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (10.41%) QA
2 25 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 18 (1.80%) GDPR
4 16 (1.60%) WCAG
5 11 (1.10%) NCSC
6 9 (0.90%) Data Quality
6 9 (0.90%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.80%) SLA
8 5 (0.50%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.50%) PSD2
9 4 (0.40%) GRC
9 4 (0.40%) NIST
10 3 (0.30%) DICOM
10 3 (0.30%) HL7
10 3 (0.30%) SEPA
11 2 (0.20%) Basel III
11 2 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.20%) TARGET2
12 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 130 (13.01%) Docker
2 22 (2.20%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.30%) Firmware
5 2 (0.20%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 111 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 111 (11.11%) Terraform
2 25 (2.50%) Ansible
3 13 (1.30%) Grafana
3 13 (1.30%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.60%) Kibana
5 5 (0.50%) Istio
5 5 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.30%) Rancher
7 2 (0.20%) Control-M
7 2 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.20%) SCCM
7 2 (0.20%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.10%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.10%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.10%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.10%) linkerd
Vendors
1 213 (21.32%) Microsoft
2 120 (12.01%) Oracle
3 39 (3.90%) Citrix
4 21 (2.10%) OpenAI
5 20 (2.00%) Databricks
6 18 (1.80%) Sitecore
7 15 (1.50%) Google
7 15 (1.50%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.00%) Splunk
9 9 (0.90%) InterSystems
9 9 (0.90%) OpenLink
10 8 (0.80%) UiPath
11 7 (0.70%) Foundry
11 7 (0.70%) SAP
12 6 (0.60%) OpenText
13 5 (0.50%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.50%) VMware
14 4 (0.40%) ION Trading
14 4 (0.40%) Kofax
14 4 (0.40%) PeopleSoft
534 .NET jobs in England