.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 11 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 66 45
Rank change year-on-year -41 -21 -8
Contract jobs citing .NET 774 1,036 1,822
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.60% 3.38% 4.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.42% 15.59% 20.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 546 737 1,391
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £404 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.52% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £680
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 24
10th Percentile £57.03 £17.19 £46.22
25th Percentile £64.56 £19.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £23.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +188.17% -64.23% -
75th Percentile - £35.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £69.18 £51.70 -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £25.60 £65.00
% change year-on-year +161.72% -60.62% -

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 6,779 6,644 8,808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.81% 21.67% 22.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,585 4,235 6,445
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £737 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 94 182
10th Percentile £30.15 £26.33 £36.86
25th Percentile £43.00 £42.75 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £73.93 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -13.60% +13.64% -12.47%

.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 11 November 2025.

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 11 November 2025.

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 11 November 2025. 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 -42 460 £500 -13.04% 428
North of England -31 80 £500 +1.01% 285
East of England +22 63 £525 +75.00% 86
South East -10 62 £450 -12.20% 252
Midlands -44 52 £510 +2.00% 139
Yorkshire -27 45 £500 -6.76% 63
North West -24 33 £475 +4.40% 187
East Midlands -9 26 £515 +24.85% 52
West Midlands -52 26 £480 -8.57% 86
South West -24 24 £406 -14.47% 78
North East -17 2 £600 +50.00% 35
.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 39 (5.04%) Confluence
2 25 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.20%) IIS
4 15 (1.94%) CMS
4 15 (1.94%) WebLogic
4 15 (1.94%) WebSphere
5 9 (1.16%) Sitecore CMS
5 9 (1.16%) Umbraco
6 8 (1.03%) Apache
6 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.90%) HCL Notes
8 6 (0.78%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.78%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.26%) Camunda
11 2 (0.26%) Documentum
11 2 (0.26%) EPiServer
11 2 (0.26%) Moodle
Applications
1 34 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.13%) Moqups
3 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 40 (5.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.16%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.90%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.78%) OpenText MBPM
4 6 (0.78%) Oracle BPM
5 4 (0.52%) Advent Geneva
5 4 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.52%) thinkFolio
5 4 (0.52%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.26%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.13%) Eikon
7 1 (0.13%) Endur
7 1 (0.13%) ION Anvil
7 1 (0.13%) Maximo
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.13%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 397 (51.29%) Azure
2 184 (23.77%) Azure DevOps
3 95 (12.27%) AWS
4 92 (11.89%) GitHub
5 87 (11.24%) Power Platform
6 83 (10.72%) Serverless
7 58 (7.49%) Dynamics 365
8 57 (7.36%) Azure Functions
9 56 (7.24%) PowerApps
10 54 (6.98%) Azure Logic Apps
10 54 (6.98%) Power Automate
11 48 (6.20%) Azure Service Bus
12 45 (5.81%) GitHub Actions
13 43 (5.56%) PaaS
14 38 (4.91%) Azure AKS
15 32 (4.13%) Entra ID
16 31 (4.01%) Azure Monitor
17 30 (3.88%) GCP
18 28 (3.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 23 (2.97%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.68%) Internet
2 6 (0.78%) HTTP
2 6 (0.78%) Network Security
3 4 (0.52%) SSL
4 3 (0.39%) DNS
4 3 (0.39%) Firewall
5 2 (0.26%) DHCP
5 2 (0.26%) S/MIME
5 2 (0.26%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.26%) X.509
6 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.13%) Intranet
6 1 (0.13%) NAS
6 1 (0.13%) SAN
6 1 (0.13%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 39 (5.04%) Relational Database
3 36 (4.65%) NoSQL
3 36 (4.65%) Oracle Database
4 35 (4.52%) Power BI
5 27 (3.49%) MongoDB
6 23 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
6 23 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (2.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 13 (1.68%) Big Data
8 13 (1.68%) MySQL
9 9 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (1.03%) Redis
11 5 (0.65%) DB2
11 5 (0.65%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.52%) DocumentDB
12 4 (0.52%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.52%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 84 (10.85%) Git
2 82 (10.59%) JIRA
3 28 (3.62%) Jenkins
4 26 (3.36%) Selenium
5 24 (3.10%) SpecFlow
6 22 (2.84%) Visual Studio
7 21 (2.71%) GitLab
8 20 (2.58%) Postman
9 16 (2.07%) Cucumber
10 15 (1.94%) Bitbucket
11 14 (1.81%) Artifactory
12 12 (1.55%) SonarQube
13 9 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
13 9 (1.16%) TeamCity
14 7 (0.90%) Cypress.io
14 7 (0.90%) JMeter
15 6 (0.78%) NUnit
15 6 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
16 5 (0.65%) REST Assured
16 5 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 234 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 218 (28.17%) Finance
3 93 (12.02%) Banking
4 72 (9.30%) Public Sector
5 65 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (5.04%) Front Office
7 36 (4.65%) Investment Banking
8 22 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (2.20%) Marketing
11 12 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.42%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.29%) Back Office
13 10 (1.29%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.29%) Retail
14 8 (1.03%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.90%) Electronics
16 6 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.65%) Billing
17 5 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 450 (58.14%) Developer
2 170 (21.96%) .NET Developer
3 132 (17.05%) C# Developer
4 107 (13.82%) Senior
5 72 (9.30%) Senior Developer
6 68 (8.79%) C# .NET Developer
7 67 (8.66%) Architect
8 65 (8.40%) Lead
9 63 (8.14%) Full-Stack Developer
10 62 (8.01%) Software Engineer
11 42 (5.43%) Azure Developer
12 36 (4.65%) Angular Developer
13 35 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
14 33 (4.26%) Senior .NET Developer
15 26 (3.36%) Senior C# Developer
16 25 (3.23%) C# WPF Developer
16 25 (3.23%) Software Developer
16 25 (3.23%) WPF Developer
17 24 (3.10%) Dynamics 365 Developer
18 23 (2.97%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (23.39%) .NET Framework
2 124 (16.02%) .NET Core
3 118 (15.25%) AngularJS
4 113 (14.60%) React
5 106 (13.70%) HTML
5 106 (13.70%) RESTful
6 90 (11.63%) REST
7 84 (10.85%) CSS
8 72 (9.30%) ASP.NET
9 59 (7.62%) Entity Framework
9 59 (7.62%) Node.js
10 49 (6.33%) WPF
11 42 (5.43%) Web Services
12 36 (4.65%) Kafka
13 34 (4.39%) ASP.NET Web API
13 34 (4.39%) SOAP
14 30 (3.88%) Blazor
14 30 (3.88%) Playwright
15 28 (3.62%) Middleware
16 27 (3.49%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 76 (9.82%) Cloud Native
2 34 (4.39%) Product Ownership
3 32 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
5 25 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 25 (3.23%) Mobile App
6 24 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
7 23 (2.97%) Algorithms
8 20 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (2.07%) Fixed Income
10 15 (1.94%) Derivative
10 15 (1.94%) Management Information System
11 13 (1.68%) Hedge funds
12 11 (1.42%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.29%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.29%) NHS
13 10 (1.29%) Onboarding
14 9 (1.16%) Low-Code
14 9 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 61 (7.88%) Windows
2 18 (2.33%) Linux
3 10 (1.29%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.16%) Android
4 9 (1.16%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.26%) Unix
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (41.34%) Agile
2 302 (39.02%) DevOps
3 249 (32.17%) CI/CD
4 180 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
5 175 (22.61%) Microservices
6 143 (18.48%) Full-Stack Development
7 138 (17.83%) Software Engineering
8 108 (13.95%) Test Automation
9 103 (13.31%) Scrum
10 76 (9.82%) Containerisation
11 73 (9.43%) Clean Code
12 70 (9.04%) TDD
13 69 (8.91%) Mentoring
14 66 (8.53%) AI
15 64 (8.27%) Design Patterns
15 64 (8.27%) SDLC
16 61 (7.88%) Computer Science
17 55 (7.11%) Business Intelligence
17 55 (7.11%) Continuous Improvement
18 53 (6.85%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 532 (68.73%) C#
2 298 (38.50%) SQL
3 197 (25.45%) JavaScript
4 122 (15.76%) Python
5 115 (14.86%) Java
6 72 (9.30%) TypeScript
7 43 (5.56%) PL/SQL
8 38 (4.91%) C++
8 38 (4.91%) PHP
9 37 (4.78%) PowerShell
10 33 (4.26%) T-SQL
10 33 (4.26%) VB.NET
11 26 (3.36%) VBA
12 25 (3.23%) VB
13 22 (2.84%) Bicep
14 18 (2.33%) Bash
15 17 (2.20%) C
16 9 (1.16%) Ruby
17 6 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 77 (9.95%) Security Cleared
2 64 (8.27%) Degree
3 59 (7.62%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.81%) Azure Certification
5 14 (1.81%) DV Cleared
5 14 (1.81%) Master's Degree
6 13 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (1.42%) MCP
8 8 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.65%) CISSP
10 4 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.52%) PMP
11 3 (0.39%) CBAP
11 3 (0.39%) ISEB
12 2 (0.26%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.26%) CCSP
12 2 (0.26%) CEH
12 2 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (8.66%) QA
2 23 (2.97%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.20%) EU AI Act
4 16 (2.07%) NIST
5 10 (1.29%) GDPR
5 10 (1.29%) WCAG
6 9 (1.16%) MiFID
7 5 (0.65%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.65%) EMIR
7 5 (0.65%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.65%) HL7
7 5 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.52%) COBIT
9 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.26%) NCSC
10 1 (0.13%) DICOM
10 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.13%) SLA
10 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 99 (12.79%) Docker
2 26 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.13%) KVM
5 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 82 (10.59%) Kubernetes
2 72 (9.30%) Terraform
3 6 (0.78%) Ansible
3 6 (0.78%) Grafana
3 6 (0.78%) Prometheus
3 6 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.26%) Control-M
5 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.13%) Istio
5 1 (0.13%) Kibana
5 1 (0.13%) MIIS
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Identity Management
5 1 (0.13%) Rancher
Vendors
1 214 (27.65%) Microsoft
2 91 (11.76%) Oracle
3 17 (2.20%) Databricks
3 17 (2.20%) ServiceNow
4 15 (1.94%) Dynatrace
4 15 (1.94%) SAP
5 14 (1.81%) Foundry
5 14 (1.81%) OpenAI
5 14 (1.81%) UiPath
6 13 (1.68%) Citrix
6 13 (1.68%) Sitecore
7 12 (1.55%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.03%) GoldenSource
8 8 (1.03%) Google
9 7 (0.90%) Brio
9 7 (0.90%) Lotus
9 7 (0.90%) OpenText
10 6 (0.78%) Adobe
10 6 (0.78%) DocuSign
11 5 (0.65%) Workday