.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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 62 44
Rank change year-on-year -50 -18 -8
Contract jobs citing .NET 784 1,015 1,657
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.50% 3.50% 4.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.20% 16.01% 20.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 724 1,272
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £514 £550
% change year-on-year -2.68% -6.59% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 21
10th Percentile £58.60 £20.25 £44.60
25th Percentile £65.50 £20.63 £57.50
Median hourly rate £67.00 £22.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +197.78% -65.38% -
75th Percentile - £25.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.85 £25.95 -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £25.60 £67.50
% change year-on-year +161.72% -62.07% +3.85%

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 6,997 6,338 8,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.33% 21.83% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,682 4,059 5,962
10th Percentile £350 £357 £375
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £630 £666 £675
90th Percentile £731 £800 £770
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 85 167
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £33.80
25th Percentile £43.75 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +14.68% -16.15%

.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 16 December 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 16 December 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 16 December 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 -42 465 £500 -10.51% 182
North of England -38 85 £475 -4.04% 196
South East -15 77 £450 -12.20% 249
East of England +17 58 £538 +79.17% 67
Yorkshire -23 50 £500 -6.54% 50
Midlands -60 48 £513 +2.50% 88
North West -41 33 £450 -2.70% 123
East Midlands -12 24 £520 +15.56% 45
West Midlands -54 24 £503 -4.29% 41
South West -40 19 £488 -7.14% 54
North East -18 2 £600 +66.67% 24
.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 32 (4.08%) SharePoint
2 30 (3.83%) Confluence
3 17 (2.17%) IIS
4 15 (1.91%) CMS
4 15 (1.91%) WebLogic
4 15 (1.91%) WebSphere
5 11 (1.40%) HCL Notes
5 11 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (1.15%) Sitecore CMS
7 8 (1.02%) Apache
8 7 (0.89%) Umbraco
9 6 (0.77%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.64%) Mendix
11 4 (0.51%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.26%) Appian
12 2 (0.26%) Camunda
12 2 (0.26%) Documentum
12 2 (0.26%) EPiServer
12 2 (0.26%) Moodle
Applications
1 25 (3.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) Moqups
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 42 (5.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.15%) Advent Geneva
3 8 (1.02%) Endur
4 7 (0.89%) Aladdin
4 7 (0.89%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.51%) thinkFolio
5 4 (0.51%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.38%) OpenText MBPM
6 3 (0.38%) Oracle BPM
7 2 (0.26%) Orchestrade
8 1 (0.13%) ION Anvil
8 1 (0.13%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 406 (51.79%) Azure
2 193 (24.62%) Azure DevOps
3 103 (13.14%) Serverless
4 100 (12.76%) AWS
5 99 (12.63%) GitHub
6 84 (10.71%) Power Platform
7 72 (9.18%) Azure Functions
8 69 (8.80%) Azure Logic Apps
9 59 (7.53%) Dynamics 365
10 56 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
10 56 (7.14%) Power Automate
11 55 (7.02%) PowerApps
12 53 (6.76%) Azure Service Bus
13 51 (6.51%) Azure AKS
14 50 (6.38%) PaaS
15 42 (5.36%) Entra ID
16 41 (5.23%) Azure Monitor
17 40 (5.10%) GCP
18 36 (4.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 27 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.79%) HTTP
2 13 (1.66%) Internet
3 8 (1.02%) Network Security
4 4 (0.51%) DNS
4 4 (0.51%) SSL
5 3 (0.38%) DHCP
5 3 (0.38%) Firewall
5 3 (0.38%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.26%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.13%) Intranet
7 1 (0.13%) LAN
7 1 (0.13%) NAS
7 1 (0.13%) SAN
7 1 (0.13%) Skype
7 1 (0.13%) SMTP
7 1 (0.13%) VPN
7 1 (0.13%) WAN
7 1 (0.13%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (23.09%) SQL Server
2 41 (5.23%) Power BI
2 41 (5.23%) Relational Database
3 40 (5.10%) NoSQL
3 40 (5.10%) Oracle Database
4 32 (4.08%) MongoDB
5 29 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
6 27 (3.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 22 (2.81%) MySQL
8 20 (2.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 13 (1.66%) Big Data
10 12 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (1.15%) DB2
12 8 (1.02%) Redis
13 5 (0.64%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.51%) DocumentDB
14 4 (0.51%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.51%) Tableau
15 3 (0.38%) GIS
Development Applications
1 92 (11.73%) Git
2 79 (10.08%) JIRA
3 39 (4.97%) Jenkins
4 32 (4.08%) Selenium
5 25 (3.19%) Postman
6 23 (2.93%) GitLab
7 21 (2.68%) Cucumber
8 20 (2.55%) SpecFlow
8 20 (2.55%) Visual Studio
9 13 (1.66%) Artifactory
10 12 (1.53%) Bitbucket
11 11 (1.40%) REST Assured
11 11 (1.40%) Team Foundation Server
11 11 (1.40%) TeamCity
12 10 (1.28%) SonarQube
13 9 (1.15%) Cypress.io
14 7 (0.89%) JMeter
15 6 (0.77%) Octopus Deploy
15 6 (0.77%) TestRail
16 5 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 225 (28.70%) Social Skills
2 214 (27.30%) Finance
3 104 (13.27%) Banking
4 69 (8.80%) Public Sector
5 49 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (4.72%) Front Office
6 37 (4.72%) Investment Banking
7 22 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
8 20 (2.55%) Financial Institution
9 15 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.91%) Marketing
10 10 (1.28%) Back Office
10 10 (1.28%) Retail
11 7 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (0.89%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.64%) Billing
13 5 (0.64%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.51%) Publishing
14 4 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 442 (56.38%) Developer
2 165 (21.05%) .NET Developer
3 119 (15.18%) C# Developer
4 105 (13.39%) Senior
5 71 (9.06%) Architect
6 69 (8.80%) Software Engineer
7 61 (7.78%) Full-Stack Developer
7 61 (7.78%) Senior Developer
8 56 (7.14%) Lead
9 55 (7.02%) C# .NET Developer
10 46 (5.87%) Azure Developer
11 34 (4.34%) Solutions Architect
12 31 (3.95%) Angular Developer
13 27 (3.44%) Senior .NET Developer
14 26 (3.32%) Dynamics 365 Developer
15 24 (3.06%) Software Developer
16 23 (2.93%) DevOps Engineer
17 22 (2.81%) .NET Software Engineer
17 22 (2.81%) Consultant
18 21 (2.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (20.15%) .NET Framework
2 119 (15.18%) .NET Core
3 114 (14.54%) React
4 105 (13.39%) AngularJS
5 104 (13.27%) RESTful
6 96 (12.24%) HTML
7 81 (10.33%) REST
8 69 (8.80%) CSS
9 58 (7.40%) Node.js
10 56 (7.14%) ASP.NET
11 47 (5.99%) WPF
12 42 (5.36%) Entity Framework
13 37 (4.72%) Kafka
14 34 (4.34%) ASP.NET Web API
14 34 (4.34%) Web Services
15 32 (4.08%) SOAP
16 29 (3.70%) Middleware
17 28 (3.57%) Blazor
17 28 (3.57%) Playwright
18 23 (2.93%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 84 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 37 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
3 31 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (3.95%) Product Ownership
4 22 (2.81%) Algorithms
5 20 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (2.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 20 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (2.04%) Mobile App
6 16 (2.04%) Virtual Team
7 15 (1.91%) Derivative
7 15 (1.91%) Fixed Income
7 15 (1.91%) Management Information System
8 14 (1.79%) Hedge funds
9 12 (1.53%) Low-Code
9 12 (1.53%) NHS
10 11 (1.40%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.40%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 72 (9.18%) Windows
2 22 (2.81%) Linux
3 18 (2.30%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.89%) Android
4 7 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (39.41%) DevOps
2 303 (38.65%) Agile
3 281 (35.84%) CI/CD
4 180 (22.96%) Microservices
5 162 (20.66%) Problem-Solving
6 146 (18.62%) Full-Stack Development
7 138 (17.60%) Software Engineering
8 117 (14.92%) Test Automation
9 88 (11.22%) AI
10 84 (10.71%) Scrum
11 78 (9.95%) Containerisation
12 65 (8.29%) SDLC
13 64 (8.16%) Clean Code
13 64 (8.16%) Computer Science
13 64 (8.16%) Migration
13 64 (8.16%) TDD
14 62 (7.91%) Mentoring
15 60 (7.65%) Business Intelligence
16 54 (6.89%) Infrastructure as Code
17 53 (6.76%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 528 (67.35%) C#
2 313 (39.92%) SQL
3 187 (23.85%) JavaScript
4 122 (15.56%) Python
5 117 (14.92%) Java
6 76 (9.69%) TypeScript
7 49 (6.25%) PL/SQL
8 46 (5.87%) PHP
9 41 (5.23%) T-SQL
10 39 (4.97%) C++
11 31 (3.95%) Bicep
12 30 (3.83%) PowerShell
13 24 (3.06%) VB.NET
14 22 (2.81%) VB
15 20 (2.55%) VBA
16 17 (2.17%) C
17 15 (1.91%) Bash
18 8 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
19 6 (0.77%) Formula Language
19 6 (0.77%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 88 (11.22%) Security Cleared
2 72 (9.18%) Degree
3 69 (8.80%) SC Cleared
4 41 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.42%) Azure Certification
6 16 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (1.79%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.79%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.40%) MCP
9 6 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.77%) CISSP
10 5 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.51%) ISEB
12 3 (0.38%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.38%) CBAP
12 3 (0.38%) CCSP
13 2 (0.26%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.26%) PMP
13 2 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (10.20%) QA
2 24 (3.06%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.17%) EU AI Act
3 17 (2.17%) NIST
4 11 (1.40%) GDPR
4 11 (1.40%) WCAG
5 9 (1.15%) HL7
5 9 (1.15%) MiFID
6 6 (0.77%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.64%) EMIR
7 5 (0.64%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.64%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.51%) COBIT
8 4 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.26%) NCSC
10 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.13%) DICOM
10 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 108 (13.78%) Docker
2 32 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.13%) KVM
6 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 91 (11.61%) Kubernetes
2 75 (9.57%) Terraform
3 8 (1.02%) Grafana
4 7 (0.89%) Ansible
4 7 (0.89%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.26%) Argo
7 1 (0.13%) Kibana
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Identity Management
7 1 (0.13%) Rancher
Vendors
1 228 (29.08%) Microsoft
2 92 (11.73%) Oracle
3 23 (2.93%) Citrix
4 21 (2.68%) OpenAI
5 19 (2.42%) Databricks
6 16 (2.04%) ServiceNow
7 15 (1.91%) Dynatrace
7 15 (1.91%) Foundry
8 13 (1.66%) Sitecore
9 12 (1.53%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.53%) UiPath
10 11 (1.40%) Lotus
11 10 (1.28%) SAP
12 9 (1.15%) Advent
13 8 (1.02%) GoldenSource
13 8 (1.02%) Google
13 8 (1.02%) OpenLink
14 6 (0.77%) Adobe
14 6 (0.77%) Brio
14 6 (0.77%) VMware