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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 65 52
Rank change year-on-year -61 -13 -13
Contract jobs citing .NET 816 842 1,361
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.17% 3.47% 3.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.39% 15.37% 18.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 600 664 1,058
10th Percentile £393 £375 £325
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £613 £662 £663
90th Percentile £713 £825 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 13
10th Percentile £54.40 £26.84 £20.77
25th Percentile £56.50 £35.24 £22.75
Median hourly rate £68.00 £49.85 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year +36.42% -15.38% -9.38%
75th Percentile £73.46 £63.83 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.41 £71.85 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £27.88 £58.91
% change year-on-year +143.95% -52.68% -9.38%

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 7,852 5,477 7,525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.91% 22.57% 19.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,259 3,768 5,388
10th Percentile £359 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.28% -0.51% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £672
90th Percentile £738 £792 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 86 174
10th Percentile £35.25 £27.30 £20.79
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.56 £39.86
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.53 £75.00
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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -49 494 £500 -13.04% 218
South East -35 89 £525 +5.00% 174
North of England -50 89 £488 +8.33% 164
North West -35 46 £450 - 89
Midlands -65 45 £503 +0.60% 87
East of England +3 43 £550 +13.11% 63
Yorkshire -39 38 £500 +5.26% 48
South West -45 30 £438 -16.67% 64
West Midlands -65 26 £484 -3.15% 50
East Midlands -29 19 £550 +10.00% 37
North East -13 5 £513 +38.51% 33
.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 48 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 30 (3.68%) IIS
3 23 (2.82%) CMS
4 18 (2.21%) Sitecore CMS
5 17 (2.08%) Confluence
5 17 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (1.35%) HCL Notes
7 10 (1.23%) Mendix
8 7 (0.86%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.61%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.61%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.37%) Apache
10 3 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.25%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.25%) Appian
11 2 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.25%) Documentum
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle Spatial
11 2 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) InDesign
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 38 (4.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.96%) Endur
3 8 (0.98%) Advent Geneva
4 6 (0.74%) Findur
5 4 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.25%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.12%) Alphatax
7 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.12%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.12%) PeopleSoft Financials
7 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 452 (55.39%) Azure
2 198 (24.26%) Azure DevOps
3 136 (16.67%) AWS
4 109 (13.36%) GitHub
5 103 (12.62%) Serverless
6 80 (9.80%) Power Platform
7 77 (9.44%) Azure Functions
8 75 (9.19%) Azure Service Bus
9 68 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
9 68 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
10 55 (6.74%) Azure Monitor
11 53 (6.50%) Dynamics 365
12 51 (6.25%) Entra ID
13 49 (6.00%) GCP
14 44 (5.39%) Azure AKS
15 43 (5.27%) PaaS
16 42 (5.15%) Power Automate
17 41 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
18 37 (4.53%) PowerApps
19 33 (4.04%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.08%) HTTP
2 14 (1.72%) Internet
3 8 (0.98%) Network Security
4 4 (0.49%) 3GPP
4 4 (0.49%) SSL
5 3 (0.37%) DNS
6 2 (0.25%) DHCP
6 2 (0.25%) Firewall
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%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.25%) XCAP
7 1 (0.12%) Skype
7 1 (0.12%) SMTP
7 1 (0.12%) VPN
7 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (26.72%) SQL Server
2 51 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 49 (6.00%) Oracle Database
4 41 (5.02%) Azure SQL Database
5 34 (4.17%) NoSQL
6 32 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
7 30 (3.68%) Power BI
8 24 (2.94%) MongoDB
9 17 (2.08%) MySQL
10 16 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 12 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (1.23%) Redis
13 9 (1.10%) Crystal Reports
13 9 (1.10%) DynamoDB
14 8 (0.98%) DB2
14 8 (0.98%) Metadata
15 6 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
16 5 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
16 5 (0.61%) Data Lake
16 5 (0.61%) GIS
Development Applications
1 93 (11.40%) Git
2 60 (7.35%) JIRA
3 33 (4.04%) Visual Studio
4 28 (3.43%) Selenium
5 26 (3.19%) Jenkins
6 21 (2.57%) Postman
7 17 (2.08%) Cucumber
8 15 (1.84%) SpecFlow
9 11 (1.35%) TeamCity
10 10 (1.23%) GitLab
10 10 (1.23%) MSTest
10 10 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
11 9 (1.10%) NUnit
11 9 (1.10%) REST Assured
12 8 (0.98%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.98%) TestRail
13 7 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.61%) Appium
14 5 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
15 4 (0.49%) SonarQube
General
1 205 (25.12%) Social Skills
2 192 (23.53%) Finance
3 110 (13.48%) Banking
4 75 (9.19%) Public Sector
5 73 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (4.04%) Investment Banking
7 30 (3.68%) Front Office
8 23 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (2.70%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (0.98%) Marketing
11 8 (0.98%) Retail
11 8 (0.98%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.86%) Health Technology
12 7 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (0.86%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.74%) Back Office
13 6 (0.74%) Billing
14 5 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 463 (56.74%) Developer
2 158 (19.36%) .NET Developer
3 141 (17.28%) C# Developer
4 111 (13.60%) Senior
5 78 (9.56%) Architect
6 74 (9.07%) Software Engineer
7 65 (7.97%) Full-Stack Developer
8 63 (7.72%) Senior Developer
9 57 (6.99%) Lead
10 54 (6.62%) Azure Developer
11 49 (6.00%) C# .NET Developer
12 45 (5.51%) Solutions Architect
13 38 (4.66%) Software Developer
14 33 (4.04%) Senior .NET Developer
15 28 (3.43%) Azure Engineer
16 21 (2.57%) DevOps Engineer
17 20 (2.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 20 (2.45%) SQL Developer
17 20 (2.45%) Technical Architect
18 19 (2.33%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (19.73%) .NET Framework
2 141 (17.28%) React
3 120 (14.71%) REST
4 107 (13.11%) AngularJS
5 100 (12.25%) RESTful
6 97 (11.89%) .NET Core
7 91 (11.15%) HTML
8 87 (10.66%) ASP.NET
9 67 (8.21%) CSS
10 47 (5.76%) Node.js
11 39 (4.78%) ASP.NET Core
12 36 (4.41%) OAuth
13 34 (4.17%) Entity Framework
14 33 (4.04%) ASP.NET Web API
14 33 (4.04%) WPF
15 27 (3.31%) SOAP
15 27 (3.31%) XML
16 26 (3.19%) WinForms
17 25 (3.06%) JSON
17 25 (3.06%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 92 (11.27%) Cloud Native
2 43 (5.27%) Legacy Systems
3 37 (4.53%) Enterprise Software
4 33 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (3.19%) Product Ownership
6 15 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (1.72%) AI Agents
7 14 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (1.72%) Legacy Code
7 14 (1.72%) NHS
7 14 (1.72%) Virtual Team
8 13 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.47%) Credit Risk
9 12 (1.47%) Fixed Income
9 12 (1.47%) Low-Code
9 12 (1.47%) Mobile App
9 12 (1.47%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.35%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.23%) Derivative
11 10 (1.23%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 80 (9.80%) Windows
2 32 (3.92%) Windows Server
3 23 (2.82%) Linux
4 5 (0.61%) Unix
5 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.25%) Android
6 2 (0.25%) VMS
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (41.91%) DevOps
2 330 (40.44%) CI/CD
3 262 (32.11%) Agile
4 163 (19.98%) Microservices
5 145 (17.77%) Problem-Solving
6 137 (16.79%) Software Engineering
7 133 (16.30%) Full-Stack Development
8 129 (15.81%) AI
9 116 (14.22%) Test Automation
10 75 (9.19%) Continuous Improvement
11 74 (9.07%) Scrum
12 73 (8.95%) Unit Testing
13 72 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
14 68 (8.33%) Containerisation
15 66 (8.09%) Migration
16 63 (7.72%) TDD
17 61 (7.48%) SDLC
18 56 (6.86%) Mentoring
19 49 (6.00%) Clean Code
19 49 (6.00%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 553 (67.77%) C#
2 342 (41.91%) SQL
3 183 (22.43%) Python
4 177 (21.69%) JavaScript
5 94 (11.52%) Java
6 80 (9.80%) TypeScript
7 57 (6.99%) PL/SQL
8 53 (6.50%) T-SQL
9 50 (6.13%) PowerShell
10 24 (2.94%) Bicep
11 22 (2.70%) PHP
12 20 (2.45%) C++
13 16 (1.96%) Kusto Query Language
14 13 (1.59%) VBA
15 12 (1.47%) Go
15 12 (1.47%) VB
16 11 (1.35%) Formula Language
16 11 (1.35%) LotusScript
17 9 (1.10%) Bash
17 9 (1.10%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 140 (17.16%) Security Cleared
2 112 (13.73%) SC Cleared
3 63 (7.72%) Degree
4 31 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.57%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.10%) DV Cleared
9 8 (0.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 7 (0.86%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.74%) CISSP
11 6 (0.74%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.61%) CCSP
12 5 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.49%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.37%) OSCP
14 3 (0.37%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (11.40%) QA
2 18 (2.21%) Accessibility
2 18 (2.21%) GDPR
3 13 (1.59%) NIST
4 11 (1.35%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.23%) WCAG
6 9 (1.10%) EU AI Act
6 9 (1.10%) HL7
7 7 (0.86%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.74%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.74%) PSD2
9 5 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.49%) GRC
11 3 (0.37%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.37%) SEPA
12 2 (0.25%) DICOM
12 2 (0.25%) MiFID
12 2 (0.25%) SLA
12 2 (0.25%) TARGET2
13 1 (0.12%) EMIR
System Software
1 108 (13.24%) Docker
2 31 (3.80%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 103 (12.62%) Kubernetes
2 91 (11.15%) Terraform
3 9 (1.10%) Grafana
4 7 (0.86%) Ansible
4 7 (0.86%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.49%) Istio
7 2 (0.25%) Argo
7 2 (0.25%) Rancher
8 1 (0.12%) Control-M
8 1 (0.12%) Kibana
8 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.12%) linkerd
Vendors
1 204 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 122 (14.95%) Oracle
3 35 (4.29%) Citrix
4 25 (3.06%) OpenAI
5 23 (2.82%) Sitecore
6 20 (2.45%) Databricks
7 16 (1.96%) ServiceNow
8 15 (1.84%) Foundry
9 14 (1.72%) Google
10 13 (1.59%) OpenLink
11 11 (1.35%) Lotus
12 10 (1.23%) Kofax
12 10 (1.23%) UiPath
13 8 (0.98%) Advent
14 7 (0.86%) SAP
15 6 (0.74%) Adobe
15 6 (0.74%) Brio
16 5 (0.61%) Rapid7
17 4 (0.49%) PeopleSoft
17 4 (0.49%) Wind River