.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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 62 49
Rank change year-on-year -63 -13 -12
Contract jobs citing .NET 752 927 1,466
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.17% 3.61% 3.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.02% 15.97% 18.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 680 1,145
10th Percentile £376 £385 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £619 £662 £675
90th Percentile £700 £814 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 19
10th Percentile £54.40 £22.30 £20.77
25th Percentile £56.50 £23.88 £28.25
Median hourly rate £68.00 £26.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +156.60% -55.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £73.46 £51.85 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.41 £67.05 -
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £26.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +156.60% -55.83% -8.40%

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 7,508 5,806 7,721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.64% 22.63% 20.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,049 3,791 5,510
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £416 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -2.38% -1.87% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 78 206
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.92 £22.12
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.44 £43.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £72.00 £67.88 £66.25
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.30 £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 23 February 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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -51 461 £500 -13.04% 208
South East -33 78 £521 +4.20% 200
North of England -56 78 £475 -4.04% 156
East of England +4 47 £550 +13.40% 45
Midlands -78 43 £508 +1.50% 68
North West -32 41 £450 - 96
Yorkshire -54 31 £500 -3.61% 36
West Midlands -75 24 £480 -8.57% 39
East Midlands -28 19 £525 +7.14% 29
South West -46 19 £475 -9.52% 65
North East -20 6 £513 +42.36% 26
.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 38 (5.05%) SharePoint
2 23 (3.06%) CMS
3 22 (2.93%) Confluence
4 19 (2.53%) IIS
5 18 (2.39%) Sitecore CMS
6 10 (1.33%) HCL Notes
7 9 (1.20%) Mendix
8 8 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.93%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.66%) Apache
10 5 (0.66%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.66%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.40%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.27%) Appian
12 2 (0.27%) Documentum
12 2 (0.27%) Oracle Spatial
12 2 (0.27%) SAS
13 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
13 1 (0.13%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 20 (2.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 38 (5.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (2.13%) Endur
3 9 (1.20%) Advent Geneva
4 4 (0.53%) Findur
4 4 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.27%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.13%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft Financials
6 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 408 (54.26%) Azure
2 187 (24.87%) Azure DevOps
3 118 (15.69%) AWS
4 109 (14.49%) GitHub
5 106 (14.10%) Serverless
6 81 (10.77%) Power Platform
7 80 (10.64%) Azure Functions
8 68 (9.04%) Azure Logic Apps
9 67 (8.91%) Azure Service Bus
10 60 (7.98%) GitHub Actions
11 56 (7.45%) Dynamics 365
12 49 (6.52%) GCP
13 47 (6.25%) Azure AKS
14 45 (5.98%) Power Automate
15 44 (5.85%) Azure Monitor
15 44 (5.85%) PaaS
16 43 (5.72%) Entra ID
17 37 (4.92%) PowerApps
18 30 (3.99%) Microsoft 365
19 29 (3.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.13%) HTTP
2 14 (1.86%) Internet
3 7 (0.93%) Network Security
4 4 (0.53%) 3GPP
4 4 (0.53%) DNS
4 4 (0.53%) SSL
5 3 (0.40%) DHCP
5 3 (0.40%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.27%) RTCP
6 2 (0.27%) RTMP
6 2 (0.27%) RTP
6 2 (0.27%) S/MIME
6 2 (0.27%) XCAP
7 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.13%) LAN
7 1 (0.13%) Skype
7 1 (0.13%) SMTP
7 1 (0.13%) VPN
7 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (26.33%) SQL Server
2 45 (5.98%) Oracle Database
3 40 (5.32%) Relational Database
4 36 (4.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 34 (4.52%) Power BI
6 33 (4.39%) NoSQL
6 33 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (3.46%) MongoDB
8 19 (2.53%) MySQL
9 18 (2.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (1.20%) DB2
10 9 (1.20%) Redis
11 8 (1.06%) Metadata
11 8 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.80%) Big Data
12 6 (0.80%) Crystal Reports
13 5 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.66%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.66%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 83 (11.04%) Git
2 62 (8.24%) JIRA
3 31 (4.12%) Jenkins
4 29 (3.86%) Selenium
5 27 (3.59%) Postman
6 26 (3.46%) Visual Studio
7 18 (2.39%) SpecFlow
8 16 (2.13%) Cucumber
9 13 (1.73%) GitLab
10 10 (1.33%) Team Foundation Server
11 9 (1.20%) REST Assured
12 8 (1.06%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.06%) MSTest
12 8 (1.06%) SonarQube
12 8 (1.06%) TeamCity
13 7 (0.93%) TestRail
13 7 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
14 6 (0.80%) Cypress.io
14 6 (0.80%) JMeter
14 6 (0.80%) NUnit
General
1 198 (26.33%) Social Skills
2 173 (23.01%) Finance
3 95 (12.63%) Banking
4 72 (9.57%) Public Sector
5 65 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (4.12%) Investment Banking
7 27 (3.59%) Front Office
8 25 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (2.93%) Financial Institution
10 11 (1.46%) Marketing
11 9 (1.20%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.20%) Retail
12 8 (1.06%) Billing
12 8 (1.06%) Health Technology
12 8 (1.06%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.93%) Back Office
13 7 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 419 (55.72%) Developer
2 139 (18.48%) .NET Developer
3 128 (17.02%) C# Developer
4 104 (13.83%) Senior
5 75 (9.97%) Architect
6 68 (9.04%) Software Engineer
7 61 (8.11%) Full-Stack Developer
8 57 (7.58%) Senior Developer
9 56 (7.45%) Lead
10 46 (6.12%) Azure Developer
11 44 (5.85%) Solutions Architect
12 43 (5.72%) C# .NET Developer
13 28 (3.72%) Senior .NET Developer
14 23 (3.06%) Dynamics 365 Developer
15 21 (2.79%) DevOps Engineer
16 20 (2.66%) .NET Software Engineer
17 19 (2.53%) Angular Developer
17 19 (2.53%) Technical Architect
18 18 (2.39%) Applications Developer
18 18 (2.39%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (20.08%) .NET Framework
2 130 (17.29%) React
3 105 (13.96%) .NET Core
4 97 (12.90%) RESTful
5 94 (12.50%) REST
6 86 (11.44%) AngularJS
7 78 (10.37%) HTML
8 75 (9.97%) ASP.NET
9 62 (8.24%) CSS
10 43 (5.72%) Node.js
11 39 (5.19%) Entity Framework
11 39 (5.19%) WPF
12 32 (4.26%) OAuth
13 29 (3.86%) ASP.NET Web API
13 29 (3.86%) XML
14 28 (3.72%) Playwright
15 27 (3.59%) ASP.NET Core
16 26 (3.46%) JSON
17 25 (3.32%) Web Services
18 23 (3.06%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 90 (11.97%) Cloud Native
2 37 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
3 32 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (3.32%) Product Ownership
5 22 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.13%) Algorithms
7 15 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (1.99%) NHS
8 14 (1.86%) Virtual Team
9 13 (1.73%) AI Agents
9 13 (1.73%) Low-Code
9 13 (1.73%) Mobile App
10 12 (1.60%) Credit Risk
11 10 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.33%) Market Risk
12 9 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (1.20%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.06%) Derivative
13 8 (1.06%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 70 (9.31%) Windows
2 24 (3.19%) Linux
3 23 (3.06%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.66%) Android
4 5 (0.66%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.40%) Unix
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (40.56%) DevOps
2 296 (39.36%) CI/CD
3 253 (33.64%) Agile
4 156 (20.74%) Microservices
5 155 (20.61%) Problem-Solving
6 132 (17.55%) Software Engineering
7 131 (17.42%) Full-Stack Development
8 123 (16.36%) AI
9 120 (15.96%) Test Automation
10 83 (11.04%) Scrum
11 76 (10.11%) Containerisation
12 65 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 65 (8.64%) Unit Testing
13 63 (8.38%) Infrastructure as Code
13 63 (8.38%) Mentoring
14 60 (7.98%) Migration
15 58 (7.71%) TDD
16 51 (6.78%) SDLC
17 49 (6.52%) Business Intelligence
18 47 (6.25%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 510 (67.82%) C#
2 317 (42.15%) SQL
3 167 (22.21%) JavaScript
4 165 (21.94%) Python
5 90 (11.97%) Java
6 78 (10.37%) TypeScript
7 55 (7.31%) PL/SQL
8 41 (5.45%) T-SQL
9 34 (4.52%) PowerShell
10 26 (3.46%) Bicep
11 24 (3.19%) PHP
12 15 (1.99%) C++
12 15 (1.99%) VB
12 15 (1.99%) VBA
13 13 (1.73%) VB.NET
14 10 (1.33%) Formula Language
14 10 (1.33%) LotusScript
15 9 (1.20%) Bash
15 9 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.80%) Go
Qualifications
1 102 (13.56%) Security Cleared
2 77 (10.24%) SC Cleared
3 65 (8.64%) Degree
4 32 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.06%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (1.73%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.46%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 7 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.80%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.80%) CISSP
11 5 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (0.66%) CCSP
11 5 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.40%) ISEB
13 3 (0.40%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.40%) OSCP
13 3 (0.40%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (10.51%) QA
2 21 (2.79%) Accessibility
2 21 (2.79%) NIST
3 17 (2.26%) EU AI Act
4 16 (2.13%) GDPR
5 11 (1.46%) WCAG
6 9 (1.20%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.93%) HL7
8 5 (0.66%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.66%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.66%) PSD2
9 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.40%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.27%) GRC
11 2 (0.27%) MiFID
11 2 (0.27%) SEPA
11 2 (0.27%) SLA
11 2 (0.27%) TARGET2
12 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 110 (14.63%) Docker
2 33 (4.39%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 98 (13.03%) Kubernetes
2 81 (10.77%) Terraform
3 8 (1.06%) Grafana
4 6 (0.80%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.53%) Ansible
7 2 (0.27%) Argo
7 2 (0.27%) Rancher
8 1 (0.13%) Control-M
8 1 (0.13%) Istio
8 1 (0.13%) Kibana
8 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 201 (26.73%) Microsoft
2 111 (14.76%) Oracle
3 31 (4.12%) Citrix
4 26 (3.46%) OpenAI
5 25 (3.32%) Sitecore
6 20 (2.66%) Databricks
7 14 (1.86%) Foundry
8 12 (1.60%) Google
8 12 (1.60%) OpenLink
8 12 (1.60%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.46%) UiPath
10 10 (1.33%) Lotus
10 10 (1.33%) SAP
11 9 (1.20%) Advent
11 9 (1.20%) Kofax
12 6 (0.80%) Brio
13 5 (0.66%) Adobe
13 5 (0.66%) Rapid7
14 4 (0.53%) VMware
14 4 (0.53%) Xamarin