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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 63 48
Rank change year-on-year -58 -15 -13
Contract jobs citing .NET 758 927 1,507
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.33% 3.47% 4.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.57% 15.58% 19.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 658 1,172
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £623 £644 £675
90th Percentile £700 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 24
10th Percentile £56.18 £22.30 £21.36
25th Percentile £62.97 £23.88 £40.88
Median hourly rate £68.21 £26.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +157.40% -59.23% -0.76%
75th Percentile £73.86 £51.85 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.56 £67.05 -
UK median hourly rate £68.21 £26.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +157.40% -59.23% -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 7,170 5,951 7,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.05% 22.26% 21.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,804 3,796 5,699
10th Percentile £356 £363 £363
25th Percentile £415 £427 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.72% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £656 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £543
% change year-on-year -4.21% -1.47% -5.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 78 180
10th Percentile £34.40 £26.25 £26.87
25th Percentile £46.25 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £66.00 £67.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.56 £77.55
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -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 24 January 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 24 January 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 24 January 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 -46 455 £500 -13.04% 221
South East -10 84 £480 -4.00% 377
North of England -56 83 £475 -2.06% 249
East of England +14 47 £550 +17.02% 159
Yorkshire -40 43 £500 -4.76% 69
Midlands -76 42 £515 +3.00% 142
North West -39 35 £450 - 143
West Midlands -68 25 £503 -10.42% 49
South West -45 21 £475 -9.52% 135
East Midlands -30 17 £538 +20.79% 92
North East -17 5 £513 +42.36% 37
.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 40 (5.28%) SharePoint
2 30 (3.96%) Confluence
3 21 (2.77%) CMS
4 18 (2.37%) IIS
5 15 (1.98%) Sitecore CMS
6 13 (1.72%) HCL Notes
7 9 (1.19%) Mendix
8 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.92%) Umbraco
9 6 (0.79%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.66%) Apache
11 3 (0.40%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.40%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.26%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.26%) Documentum
12 2 (0.26%) SAS
12 2 (0.26%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.26%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.13%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 23 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Moqups
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (5.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (2.11%) Endur
3 9 (1.19%) Advent Geneva
4 3 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.26%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.13%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.13%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.13%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft Financials
6 1 (0.13%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 413 (54.49%) Azure
2 194 (25.59%) Azure DevOps
3 111 (14.64%) Serverless
4 109 (14.38%) GitHub
5 103 (13.59%) AWS
6 93 (12.27%) Power Platform
7 86 (11.35%) Azure Functions
8 75 (9.89%) Azure Logic Apps
9 66 (8.71%) Dynamics 365
10 62 (8.18%) Azure Service Bus
11 57 (7.52%) Power Automate
12 56 (7.39%) GitHub Actions
13 51 (6.73%) Azure AKS
13 51 (6.73%) PowerApps
14 50 (6.60%) PaaS
15 45 (5.94%) GCP
16 43 (5.67%) Azure Monitor
17 38 (5.01%) Entra ID
18 34 (4.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 30 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.85%) HTTP
1 14 (1.85%) Internet
2 8 (1.06%) Network Security
3 4 (0.53%) DNS
3 4 (0.53%) SSL
4 3 (0.40%) DHCP
4 3 (0.40%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.26%) RTMP
5 2 (0.26%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.13%) Firewall
6 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.13%) LAN
6 1 (0.13%) Skype
6 1 (0.13%) SMTP
6 1 (0.13%) VPN
6 1 (0.13%) WAN
6 1 (0.13%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (24.80%) SQL Server
2 41 (5.41%) Oracle Database
2 41 (5.41%) Power BI
3 39 (5.15%) Relational Database
4 35 (4.62%) NoSQL
5 33 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 32 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
7 30 (3.96%) MongoDB
8 19 (2.51%) MySQL
8 19 (2.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (1.19%) DB2
9 9 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (1.06%) Big Data
10 8 (1.06%) Redis
11 5 (0.66%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.66%) Metadata
12 4 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.53%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.53%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 85 (11.21%) Git
2 65 (8.58%) JIRA
3 39 (5.15%) Jenkins
4 31 (4.09%) Selenium
5 25 (3.30%) Postman
6 23 (3.03%) Visual Studio
7 19 (2.51%) SpecFlow
8 18 (2.37%) Cucumber
9 14 (1.85%) GitLab
10 12 (1.58%) REST Assured
11 11 (1.45%) Bitbucket
11 11 (1.45%) Team Foundation Server
12 10 (1.32%) SonarQube
13 8 (1.06%) TeamCity
13 8 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (0.92%) Cypress.io
14 7 (0.92%) TestRail
15 6 (0.79%) JMeter
16 5 (0.66%) NUnit
16 5 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 208 (27.44%) Social Skills
2 185 (24.41%) Finance
3 102 (13.46%) Banking
4 74 (9.76%) Public Sector
5 54 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (4.75%) Investment Banking
7 30 (3.96%) Front Office
8 24 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (3.17%) Financial Institution
9 14 (1.85%) Marketing
10 8 (1.06%) Billing
10 8 (1.06%) Health Technology
10 8 (1.06%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.06%) Retail
11 7 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.66%) Back Office
14 4 (0.53%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 434 (57.26%) Developer
2 145 (19.13%) .NET Developer
3 128 (16.89%) C# Developer
4 96 (12.66%) Senior
5 68 (8.97%) Architect
6 67 (8.84%) Software Engineer
7 62 (8.18%) Full-Stack Developer
8 57 (7.52%) Lead
8 57 (7.52%) Senior Developer
9 46 (6.07%) Azure Developer
9 46 (6.07%) C# .NET Developer
10 34 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
11 28 (3.69%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 27 (3.56%) Senior .NET Developer
13 23 (3.03%) .NET Software Engineer
14 22 (2.90%) Angular Developer
15 20 (2.64%) DevOps Engineer
16 19 (2.51%) Software Developer
16 19 (2.51%) Technical Architect
17 18 (2.37%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (18.07%) .NET Framework
2 115 (15.17%) React
3 106 (13.98%) .NET Core
4 97 (12.80%) RESTful
5 91 (12.01%) AngularJS
6 84 (11.08%) REST
7 75 (9.89%) HTML
8 63 (8.31%) ASP.NET
9 55 (7.26%) CSS
10 42 (5.54%) Node.js
11 40 (5.28%) WPF
12 33 (4.35%) Entity Framework
13 28 (3.69%) Playwright
14 27 (3.56%) ASP.NET Web API
14 27 (3.56%) Kafka
14 27 (3.56%) OAuth
15 26 (3.43%) SOAP
16 25 (3.30%) JSON
16 25 (3.30%) Web Services
17 23 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 86 (11.35%) Cloud Native
2 35 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
3 26 (3.43%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (1.98%) Low-Code
6 15 (1.98%) NHS
6 15 (1.98%) Virtual Team
7 14 (1.85%) Algorithms
7 14 (1.85%) Mobile App
8 13 (1.72%) Derivative
9 12 (1.58%) Credit Risk
9 12 (1.58%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.32%) AI Agents
11 10 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.32%) Market Risk
11 10 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.19%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 74 (9.76%) Windows
2 23 (3.03%) Windows Server
3 22 (2.90%) Linux
4 7 (0.92%) Android
4 7 (0.92%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) Unix
5 1 (0.13%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (39.71%) DevOps
2 280 (36.94%) CI/CD
3 267 (35.22%) Agile
4 159 (20.98%) Problem-Solving
5 155 (20.45%) Microservices
6 133 (17.55%) Full-Stack Development
7 132 (17.41%) Software Engineering
8 117 (15.44%) Test Automation
9 104 (13.72%) AI
10 78 (10.29%) Scrum
11 71 (9.37%) Containerisation
12 59 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 59 (7.78%) Migration
13 58 (7.65%) Mentoring
14 57 (7.52%) Business Intelligence
14 57 (7.52%) Unit Testing
15 56 (7.39%) Clean Code
15 56 (7.39%) TDD
16 54 (7.12%) Infrastructure as Code
17 52 (6.86%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 508 (67.02%) C#
2 321 (42.35%) SQL
3 177 (23.35%) JavaScript
4 149 (19.66%) Python
5 98 (12.93%) Java
6 68 (8.97%) TypeScript
7 53 (6.99%) PL/SQL
8 40 (5.28%) T-SQL
9 29 (3.83%) PowerShell
10 26 (3.43%) Bicep
10 26 (3.43%) PHP
11 18 (2.37%) C++
12 17 (2.24%) VB
12 17 (2.24%) VB.NET
12 17 (2.24%) VBA
13 12 (1.58%) Bash
14 10 (1.32%) Formula Language
14 10 (1.32%) LotusScript
15 8 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.66%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 99 (13.06%) Security Cleared
2 72 (9.50%) SC Cleared
3 70 (9.23%) Degree
4 37 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.77%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (1.58%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.58%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.45%) MCP
9 9 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.92%) CISSP
11 5 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (0.66%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.66%) CCSP
11 5 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.53%) ISEB
13 3 (0.40%) CBAP
13 3 (0.40%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.40%) SANS
13 3 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (9.76%) QA
2 21 (2.77%) NIST
3 20 (2.64%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.24%) EU AI Act
5 11 (1.45%) GDPR
5 11 (1.45%) WCAG
6 8 (1.06%) HL7
7 7 (0.92%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.79%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.40%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.40%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.13%) DICOM
11 1 (0.13%) EMIR
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.13%) NCSC
11 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 105 (13.85%) Docker
2 32 (4.22%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.13%) KVM
6 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 90 (11.87%) Kubernetes
2 75 (9.89%) Terraform
3 9 (1.19%) Grafana
4 7 (0.92%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.66%) Ansible
5 5 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.26%) Argo
7 1 (0.13%) Control-M
7 1 (0.13%) Kibana
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Identity Management
7 1 (0.13%) Rancher
Vendors
1 220 (29.02%) Microsoft
2 101 (13.32%) Oracle
3 28 (3.69%) Citrix
4 26 (3.43%) OpenAI
5 22 (2.90%) Sitecore
6 20 (2.64%) Databricks
7 16 (2.11%) Foundry
8 14 (1.85%) Google
9 13 (1.72%) Lotus
10 11 (1.45%) SAP
10 11 (1.45%) UiPath
11 9 (1.19%) Advent
11 9 (1.19%) Kofax
11 9 (1.19%) OpenLink
11 9 (1.19%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.79%) Adobe
12 6 (0.79%) Brio
12 6 (0.79%) DocuSign
12 6 (0.79%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.66%) OutSystems