.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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 71 53
Rank change year-on-year -45 -18 -7
Contract jobs citing .NET 883 796 1,350
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.17% 3.29% 3.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.26% 14.75% 18.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 623 1,031
10th Percentile £378 £363 £340
25th Percentile £415 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £613 £688 £650
90th Percentile £720 £825 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -6.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 15
10th Percentile £37.55 £21.33 £20.77
25th Percentile £49.23 £21.46 £27.00
Median hourly rate £66.61 £23.41 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year +184.52% -60.26% +7.10%
75th Percentile £74.61 £51.17 £75.00
90th Percentile £77.63 £66.78 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £66.61 £27.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +146.69% -54.16% -1.83%

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 7,843 5,398 7,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.26% 22.31% 20.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,194 3,735 5,309
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 100 227
10th Percentile £32.06 £33.25 £22.19
25th Percentile £52.38 £51.20 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.64
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.43 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

.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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -36 531 £513 -14.23% 211
South East -19 114 £525 +10.53% 164
North of England -45 94 £500 +17.65% 153
Midlands -69 52 £502 +2.35% 73
Yorkshire -32 49 £500 +5.26% 38
South West -20 44 £450 -14.29% 43
North West -39 41 £481 +14.93% 85
East of England -16 28 £550 +14.29% 56
West Midlands -67 27 £478 -4.40% 36
East Midlands -24 24 £525 +7.14% 37
North East -18 4 £475 +28.38% 31
.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 49 (5.55%) SharePoint
2 34 (3.85%) IIS
3 18 (2.04%) CMS
4 17 (1.93%) Confluence
5 16 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (1.13%) HCL Notes
6 10 (1.13%) Mendix
7 9 (1.02%) Sitecore CMS
8 5 (0.57%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.57%) Kentico
9 4 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.45%) WordPress
10 3 (0.34%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.23%) Appian
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Spatial
11 2 (0.23%) SAS
11 2 (0.23%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.11%) Sitefinity
12 1 (0.11%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 17 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) InDesign
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 29 (3.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.93%) Endur
3 7 (0.79%) Findur
4 5 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.23%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.11%) Alphatax
7 1 (0.11%) Magento
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.11%) PeopleSoft Financials
7 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.11%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 463 (52.43%) Azure
2 185 (20.95%) Azure DevOps
3 158 (17.89%) AWS
4 107 (12.12%) GitHub
5 89 (10.08%) Serverless
6 84 (9.51%) Power Platform
7 77 (8.72%) Azure Service Bus
8 63 (7.13%) GitHub Actions
9 61 (6.91%) Azure Functions
9 61 (6.91%) Azure Logic Apps
10 50 (5.66%) Dynamics 365
11 47 (5.32%) Power Automate
12 44 (4.98%) GCP
13 43 (4.87%) PowerApps
14 40 (4.53%) Azure Monitor
15 37 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
16 36 (4.08%) Azure AKS
17 35 (3.96%) Entra ID
18 34 (3.85%) PaaS
19 28 (3.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.59%) Internet
2 12 (1.36%) HTTP
3 8 (0.91%) 3GPP
4 6 (0.68%) Firewall
4 6 (0.68%) RTP
5 5 (0.57%) Wireshark
6 4 (0.45%) NAS
6 4 (0.45%) SAN
7 3 (0.34%) Network Security
8 2 (0.23%) Intranet
8 2 (0.23%) RTCP
8 2 (0.23%) RTMP
8 2 (0.23%) XCAP
9 1 (0.11%) DHCP
9 1 (0.11%) LAN
9 1 (0.11%) Multicast
9 1 (0.11%) Skype
9 1 (0.11%) SMTP
9 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (24.35%) SQL Server
2 53 (6.00%) Oracle Database
3 50 (5.66%) Relational Database
4 41 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
5 36 (4.08%) NoSQL
6 35 (3.96%) Azure SQL Database
7 34 (3.85%) Power BI
8 19 (2.15%) MongoDB
9 13 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (1.13%) Metadata
10 10 (1.13%) Redis
11 9 (1.02%) Crystal Reports
11 9 (1.02%) MySQL
12 8 (0.91%) DynamoDB
12 8 (0.91%) Pinecone
12 8 (0.91%) Weaviate
13 6 (0.68%) GIS
13 6 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 92 (10.42%) Git
2 58 (6.57%) JIRA
3 37 (4.19%) Visual Studio
4 22 (2.49%) Selenium
5 21 (2.38%) Jenkins
6 17 (1.93%) TeamCity
7 16 (1.81%) Postman
8 15 (1.70%) GitLab
9 13 (1.47%) Cucumber
9 13 (1.47%) NUnit
10 10 (1.13%) MSTest
11 8 (0.91%) REST Assured
11 8 (0.91%) SpecFlow
11 8 (0.91%) TestRail
12 6 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
13 5 (0.57%) Appium
13 5 (0.57%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.57%) Mocha
13 5 (0.57%) Moq
13 5 (0.57%) tSQLt
General
1 222 (25.14%) Finance
2 188 (21.29%) Social Skills
3 108 (12.23%) Banking
4 76 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (7.36%) Public Sector
6 41 (4.64%) Front Office
7 38 (4.30%) Investment Banking
8 22 (2.49%) Financial Institution
9 16 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.02%) Manufacturing
12 8 (0.91%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.79%) Aviation
14 6 (0.68%) Back Office
14 6 (0.68%) Billing
14 6 (0.68%) Police
15 5 (0.57%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.45%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 460 (52.10%) Developer
2 165 (18.69%) .NET Developer
3 148 (16.76%) C# Developer
4 128 (14.50%) Senior
5 100 (11.33%) Architect
6 95 (10.76%) Software Engineer
7 76 (8.61%) Senior Developer
8 71 (8.04%) Lead
9 58 (6.57%) Solutions Architect
10 56 (6.34%) Full-Stack Developer
11 54 (6.12%) C# .NET Developer
12 53 (6.00%) Software Developer
13 46 (5.21%) Azure Developer
14 37 (4.19%) Senior .NET Developer
15 32 (3.62%) .NET Software Engineer
16 30 (3.40%) Azure Engineer
17 28 (3.17%) .NET Software Developer
17 28 (3.17%) Technical Architect
18 24 (2.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 23 (2.60%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (19.25%) .NET Framework
2 147 (16.65%) React
3 124 (14.04%) REST
4 98 (11.10%) AngularJS
5 94 (10.65%) RESTful
6 93 (10.53%) .NET Core
7 92 (10.42%) HTML
8 87 (9.85%) ASP.NET
9 71 (8.04%) CSS
10 45 (5.10%) Node.js
11 43 (4.87%) Entity Framework
12 42 (4.76%) ASP.NET Core
13 35 (3.96%) ASP.NET Web API
14 32 (3.62%) JSON
15 30 (3.40%) OAuth
16 29 (3.28%) WinForms
16 29 (3.28%) WPF
16 29 (3.28%) XML
17 26 (2.94%) Web Services
18 25 (2.83%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 97 (10.99%) Cloud Native
2 54 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (5.78%) Legacy Systems
4 29 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (2.94%) AI Agents
5 26 (2.94%) Product Ownership
6 16 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (1.70%) Legacy Code
7 15 (1.70%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.59%) Fixed Income
8 14 (1.59%) Virtual Team
9 13 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.47%) Low-Code
10 11 (1.25%) Derivative
10 11 (1.25%) NHS
11 9 (1.02%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (1.02%) IoT
12 8 (0.91%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 82 (9.29%) Windows
2 34 (3.85%) Linux
3 33 (3.74%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.57%) Unix
5 4 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.34%) VMS
7 1 (0.11%) Android
7 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (40.66%) CI/CD
2 353 (39.98%) DevOps
3 271 (30.69%) Agile
4 173 (19.59%) Microservices
5 154 (17.44%) Software Engineering
6 136 (15.40%) AI
7 130 (14.72%) Full-Stack Development
8 121 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
9 118 (13.36%) Test Automation
10 76 (8.61%) Containerisation
10 76 (8.61%) Migration
11 75 (8.49%) Infrastructure as Code
11 75 (8.49%) Scrum
12 73 (8.27%) Unit Testing
13 67 (7.59%) Event-Driven
14 66 (7.47%) SDLC
15 64 (7.25%) TDD
16 61 (6.91%) Mentoring
17 60 (6.80%) Continuous Improvement
18 55 (6.23%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 601 (68.06%) C#
2 340 (38.51%) SQL
3 196 (22.20%) Python
4 175 (19.82%) JavaScript
5 85 (9.63%) Java
6 80 (9.06%) TypeScript
7 58 (6.57%) PL/SQL
7 58 (6.57%) T-SQL
8 53 (6.00%) PowerShell
9 26 (2.94%) Bicep
10 23 (2.60%) C++
11 20 (2.27%) Go
12 18 (2.04%) PHP
13 15 (1.70%) VB
13 15 (1.70%) VBA
14 12 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
15 10 (1.13%) Formula Language
15 10 (1.13%) LotusScript
15 10 (1.13%) VB.NET
16 9 (1.02%) Bash
Qualifications
1 154 (17.44%) Security Cleared
2 125 (14.16%) SC Cleared
3 67 (7.59%) Degree
4 26 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.04%) Azure Certification
5 18 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.36%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.79%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.68%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.57%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.45%) CISSP
11 4 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.34%) CCSP
12 3 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.34%) OSCP
12 3 (0.34%) SANS
13 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (11.21%) QA
2 21 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.04%) GDPR
4 11 (1.25%) WCAG
5 10 (1.13%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.91%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.91%) HL7
7 6 (0.68%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.68%) PSD2
7 6 (0.68%) SLA
8 5 (0.57%) GRC
8 5 (0.57%) NIST
9 4 (0.45%) NCSC
10 3 (0.34%) DICOM
10 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.34%) SEPA
11 2 (0.23%) TARGET2
12 1 (0.11%) Basel III
12 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.11%) EMIR
System Software
1 126 (14.27%) Docker
2 18 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.34%) Firmware
5 2 (0.23%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 105 (11.89%) Kubernetes
2 103 (11.66%) Terraform
3 14 (1.59%) Ansible
4 10 (1.13%) Grafana
5 9 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.57%) Istio
7 3 (0.34%) Rancher
8 2 (0.23%) Argo
8 2 (0.23%) Control-M
8 2 (0.23%) SCCM
8 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.11%) Kibana
9 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.11%) linkerd
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 188 (21.29%) Microsoft
2 125 (14.16%) Oracle
3 37 (4.19%) Citrix
4 24 (2.72%) OpenAI
5 18 (2.04%) ServiceNow
6 16 (1.81%) Databricks
7 14 (1.59%) Google
7 14 (1.59%) Sitecore
8 13 (1.47%) OpenLink
9 10 (1.13%) Kofax
9 10 (1.13%) Lotus
10 9 (1.02%) Foundry
10 9 (1.02%) SAP
11 8 (0.91%) InterSystems
12 6 (0.68%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.57%) Rapid7
13 5 (0.57%) UiPath
14 4 (0.45%) PeopleSoft
14 4 (0.45%) Splunk
14 4 (0.45%) Workday