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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 61 51
Rank change year-on-year -59 -10 -13
Contract jobs citing .NET 804 941 1,438
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.21% 3.66% 3.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.26% 16.17% 18.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 589 703 1,125
10th Percentile £381 £385 £344
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -6.26%
75th Percentile £619 £651 £675
90th Percentile £713 £823 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 16
10th Percentile £54.40 £22.30 £20.77
25th Percentile £56.50 £23.88 £27.98
Median hourly rate £68.00 £26.50 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year +156.60% -55.01% -9.72%
75th Percentile £73.46 £51.85 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.41 £67.05 -
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 7,840 5,821 7,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.53% 22.65% 20.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,265 3,854 5,485
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £419 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £674
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 84 209
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.22 £21.16
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.40 £81.88 £76.53
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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -47 496 £500 -13.04% 229
South East -34 86 £515 +3.00% 203
North of England -66 80 £475 -4.04% 164
East of England +11 47 £550 +15.18% 53
Midlands -85 46 £505 +1.00% 84
North West -34 43 £450 - 94
Yorkshire -62 31 £500 -1.96% 45
West Midlands -71 27 £484 -6.88% 51
South West -57 22 £500 -4.76% 85
East Midlands -33 19 £525 +6.06% 32
North East -14 6 £513 +42.36% 29
.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 (5.72%) SharePoint
2 23 (2.86%) CMS
3 22 (2.74%) IIS
4 18 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (2.24%) Sitecore CMS
5 17 (2.11%) Confluence
6 11 (1.37%) HCL Notes
7 10 (1.24%) Mendix
8 7 (0.87%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.62%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.62%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.50%) Apache
11 3 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.25%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.25%) Appian
12 2 (0.25%) Documentum
12 2 (0.25%) Oracle Spatial
12 2 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) InDesign
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (4.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.99%) Endur
3 9 (1.12%) 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 (0.12%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.12%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.12%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.12%) PeopleSoft Financials
6 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 444 (55.22%) Azure
2 200 (24.88%) Azure DevOps
3 126 (15.67%) AWS
4 114 (14.18%) GitHub
5 107 (13.31%) Serverless
6 81 (10.07%) Power Platform
7 80 (9.95%) Azure Functions
8 74 (9.20%) Azure Service Bus
9 70 (8.71%) GitHub Actions
10 68 (8.46%) Azure Logic Apps
11 54 (6.72%) Entra ID
12 53 (6.59%) Dynamics 365
13 51 (6.34%) Azure Monitor
14 49 (6.09%) Azure AKS
14 49 (6.09%) GCP
15 48 (5.97%) PaaS
16 44 (5.47%) Power Automate
17 40 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
18 36 (4.48%) PowerApps
19 34 (4.23%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.11%) HTTP
2 14 (1.74%) Internet
3 8 (1.00%) Network Security
4 4 (0.50%) 3GPP
4 4 (0.50%) DNS
4 4 (0.50%) SSL
5 3 (0.37%) DHCP
5 3 (0.37%) TCP/IP
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%) XCAP
7 1 (0.12%) Firewall
7 1 (0.12%) Skype
7 1 (0.12%) VPN
7 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (26.00%) SQL Server
2 50 (6.22%) Oracle Database
3 41 (5.10%) Relational Database
4 40 (4.98%) Azure SQL Database
5 37 (4.60%) NoSQL
6 34 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
7 33 (4.10%) Power BI
8 27 (3.36%) MongoDB
9 19 (2.36%) MySQL
10 18 (2.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (1.37%) Redis
12 10 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (1.12%) DB2
14 8 (1.00%) Metadata
15 7 (0.87%) Crystal Reports
16 6 (0.75%) DynamoDB
17 5 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
17 5 (0.62%) Data Lake
17 5 (0.62%) DocumentDB
17 5 (0.62%) GIS
Development Applications
1 90 (11.19%) Git
2 55 (6.84%) JIRA
3 33 (4.10%) Visual Studio
4 31 (3.86%) Selenium
5 30 (3.73%) Jenkins
6 26 (3.23%) Postman
7 17 (2.11%) Cucumber
8 16 (1.99%) SpecFlow
9 14 (1.74%) GitLab
10 10 (1.24%) Team Foundation Server
10 10 (1.24%) TeamCity
11 9 (1.12%) MSTest
11 9 (1.12%) REST Assured
12 8 (1.00%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.00%) NUnit
13 7 (0.87%) TestRail
14 6 (0.75%) Cypress.io
14 6 (0.75%) JMeter
14 6 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
15 5 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 202 (25.12%) Social Skills
2 192 (23.88%) Finance
3 106 (13.18%) Banking
4 78 (9.70%) Public Sector
5 68 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (4.10%) Investment Banking
7 29 (3.61%) Front Office
8 24 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
9 23 (2.86%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.24%) Marketing
10 10 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.12%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.12%) Retail
11 9 (1.12%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.00%) Health Technology
13 7 (0.87%) Back Office
13 7 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.75%) Billing
15 5 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 461 (57.34%) Developer
2 157 (19.53%) .NET Developer
3 142 (17.66%) C# Developer
4 110 (13.68%) Senior
5 74 (9.20%) Architect
6 68 (8.46%) Software Engineer
7 61 (7.59%) Full-Stack Developer
8 59 (7.34%) Senior Developer
9 55 (6.84%) Azure Developer
10 53 (6.59%) Lead
11 51 (6.34%) C# .NET Developer
12 41 (5.10%) Solutions Architect
13 31 (3.86%) Senior .NET Developer
13 31 (3.86%) Software Developer
14 21 (2.61%) Dynamics 365 Developer
15 20 (2.49%) .NET Software Engineer
15 20 (2.49%) DevOps Engineer
15 20 (2.49%) Technical Architect
16 19 (2.36%) Applications Developer
16 19 (2.36%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (19.53%) .NET Framework
2 135 (16.79%) React
3 106 (13.18%) .NET Core
3 106 (13.18%) REST
4 100 (12.44%) AngularJS
5 99 (12.31%) RESTful
6 92 (11.44%) HTML
7 81 (10.07%) ASP.NET
8 64 (7.96%) CSS
9 47 (5.85%) Node.js
10 38 (4.73%) WPF
11 37 (4.60%) Entity Framework
12 33 (4.10%) ASP.NET Core
12 33 (4.10%) OAuth
13 30 (3.73%) ASP.NET Web API
13 30 (3.73%) Web Services
14 28 (3.48%) SOAP
14 28 (3.48%) XML
15 27 (3.36%) JSON
16 26 (3.23%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 95 (11.82%) Cloud Native
2 39 (4.85%) Legacy Systems
3 33 (4.10%) Enterprise Software
4 28 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
5 25 (3.11%) Product Ownership
6 16 (1.99%) Algorithms
6 16 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (1.87%) NHS
7 15 (1.87%) Virtual Team
8 14 (1.74%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.74%) Mobile App
8 14 (1.74%) Onboarding
9 13 (1.62%) Low-Code
10 12 (1.49%) Credit Risk
10 12 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.24%) Derivative
11 10 (1.24%) Market Risk
12 9 (1.12%) Fixed Income
12 9 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 80 (9.95%) Windows
2 27 (3.36%) Windows Server
3 26 (3.23%) Linux
4 5 (0.62%) Android
4 5 (0.62%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.50%) Unix
6 1 (0.12%) VMS
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (41.79%) DevOps
2 329 (40.92%) CI/CD
3 267 (33.21%) Agile
4 161 (20.02%) Microservices
5 151 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
6 137 (17.04%) Software Engineering
7 134 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 128 (15.92%) Test Automation
9 127 (15.80%) AI
10 84 (10.45%) Scrum
11 77 (9.58%) Containerisation
12 75 (9.33%) Unit Testing
13 74 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 65 (8.08%) Infrastructure as Code
15 64 (7.96%) Migration
16 61 (7.59%) TDD
17 59 (7.34%) Mentoring
18 58 (7.21%) SDLC
19 49 (6.09%) Business Intelligence
20 48 (5.97%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 542 (67.41%) C#
2 341 (42.41%) SQL
3 177 (22.01%) JavaScript
4 172 (21.39%) Python
5 92 (11.44%) Java
6 82 (10.20%) TypeScript
7 60 (7.46%) PL/SQL
8 51 (6.34%) T-SQL
9 43 (5.35%) PowerShell
10 27 (3.36%) Bicep
11 26 (3.23%) PHP
12 21 (2.61%) C++
13 16 (1.99%) Kusto Query Language
14 15 (1.87%) VBA
15 14 (1.74%) VB
16 13 (1.62%) VB.NET
17 11 (1.37%) Formula Language
17 11 (1.37%) Go
17 11 (1.37%) LotusScript
18 10 (1.24%) Bash
Qualifications
1 130 (16.17%) Security Cleared
2 102 (12.69%) SC Cleared
3 63 (7.84%) Degree
4 31 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.86%) Azure Certification
6 14 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.49%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 10 (1.24%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.75%) CISSP
11 5 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (0.62%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.62%) CCSP
11 5 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.50%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.37%) ISEB
13 3 (0.37%) OSCP
13 3 (0.37%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (10.82%) QA
2 21 (2.61%) NIST
3 20 (2.49%) Accessibility
4 19 (2.36%) GDPR
5 17 (2.11%) EU AI Act
6 11 (1.37%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.37%) WCAG
7 9 (1.12%) HL7
8 6 (0.75%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.62%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.62%) PSD2
10 4 (0.50%) GRC
11 3 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.25%) DICOM
12 2 (0.25%) MiFID
12 2 (0.25%) SEPA
12 2 (0.25%) SLA
12 2 (0.25%) TARGET2
13 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 113 (14.05%) Docker
2 37 (4.60%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 108 (13.43%) Kubernetes
2 85 (10.57%) Terraform
3 9 (1.12%) Grafana
4 7 (0.87%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.62%) Ansible
7 4 (0.50%) Istio
8 3 (0.37%) Rancher
9 2 (0.25%) Argo
10 1 (0.12%) Control-M
10 1 (0.12%) Kibana
10 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.12%) linkerd
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 215 (26.74%) Microsoft
2 123 (15.30%) Oracle
3 35 (4.35%) Citrix
4 26 (3.23%) OpenAI
5 23 (2.86%) Sitecore
6 21 (2.61%) Databricks
7 15 (1.87%) Foundry
8 14 (1.74%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.49%) Google
9 12 (1.49%) OpenLink
10 11 (1.37%) Lotus
11 10 (1.24%) Kofax
11 10 (1.24%) SAP
11 10 (1.24%) UiPath
12 9 (1.12%) Advent
13 6 (0.75%) Adobe
13 6 (0.75%) Brio
14 5 (0.62%) Rapid7
15 4 (0.50%) PeopleSoft
15 4 (0.50%) Wind River