.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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 89 51
Rank change year-on-year -22 -38 +1
Contract jobs citing .NET 1,074 784 1,277
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.35% 2.83% 3.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.98% 11.37% 15.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 740 567 947
10th Percentile £400 £337 £363
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -6.04%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £644
90th Percentile £726 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 12
10th Percentile £37.25 £45.72 £21.13
25th Percentile £38.25 £63.63 £35.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £67.00 £59.45
Median % change year-on-year -32.84% +12.70% +8.10%
75th Percentile £73.46 - £85.00
90th Percentile £78.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £63.50 £58.91
% change year-on-year -29.13% +7.80% +9.11%

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 9,784 6,893 8,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.42% 24.85% 24.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,430 4,736 5,591
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £437 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 166 190
10th Percentile £30.10 £31.25 £26.84
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.94 £61.80
Median % change year-on-year +18.32% -11.10% -4.92%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £76.85 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.83%

.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 24 August 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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -15 643 £550 +4.76% 186
North of England -22 129 £495 +4.21% 120
South East -22 118 £500 +11.11% 150
South West +4 76 £450 +20.00% 52
Yorkshire -10 73 £457 -7.68% 31
Midlands -44 62 £481 -2.34% 77
North West -31 47 £525 +23.53% 62
West Midlands -52 33 £454 -10.59% 37
East Midlands -5 28 £525 +20.00% 39
East of England -39 25 £510 +2.00% 49
North East - 9 £513 - 29
.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 51 (4.75%) SharePoint
2 40 (3.72%) Confluence
3 39 (3.63%) IIS
4 15 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (1.12%) CMS
6 9 (0.84%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.47%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.47%) Appian
8 5 (0.47%) Camunda
9 4 (0.37%) Kentico
9 4 (0.37%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.37%) WordPress
10 3 (0.28%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.28%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.28%) Mendix
11 2 (0.19%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.093%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.093%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.093%) nginx
Applications
1 28 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.65%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.093%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 40 (3.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.65%) OpenText MBPM
2 7 (0.65%) Oracle BPM
3 5 (0.47%) Shopify
4 4 (0.37%) Elite 3E
4 4 (0.37%) Endur
4 4 (0.37%) Findur
5 3 (0.28%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.19%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.093%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.093%) Alphatax
7 1 (0.093%) Magento
7 1 (0.093%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.093%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.093%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 552 (51.40%) Azure
2 213 (19.83%) Azure DevOps
3 178 (16.57%) AWS
4 130 (12.10%) Power Platform
5 115 (10.71%) GitHub
6 82 (7.64%) Dynamics 365
7 81 (7.54%) Azure Service Bus
7 81 (7.54%) Serverless
8 66 (6.15%) Power Automate
9 64 (5.96%) PowerApps
10 60 (5.59%) Azure Logic Apps
11 52 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
12 50 (4.66%) Azure Functions
13 46 (4.28%) Azure Monitor
14 43 (4.00%) Entra ID
15 42 (3.91%) Azure AKS
16 30 (2.79%) Azure Key Vault
17 29 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
18 28 (2.61%) Microsoft Copilot
18 28 (2.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.40%) Internet
2 9 (0.84%) TCP/IP
2 9 (0.84%) Wireshark
3 8 (0.74%) Firewall
4 7 (0.65%) RTP
5 6 (0.56%) 3GPP
5 6 (0.56%) Intranet
6 5 (0.47%) DNS
6 5 (0.47%) NAS
6 5 (0.47%) Network Security
6 5 (0.47%) SAN
7 3 (0.28%) DHCP
7 3 (0.28%) HTTP
7 3 (0.28%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.28%) VPN
8 2 (0.19%) Multicast
8 2 (0.19%) Skype
8 2 (0.19%) VLAN
9 1 (0.093%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.093%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 280 (26.07%) SQL Server
2 65 (6.05%) Power BI
3 58 (5.40%) Relational Database
4 48 (4.47%) Oracle Database
5 43 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
6 42 (3.91%) NoSQL
7 34 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 26 (2.42%) MongoDB
9 24 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 14 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 12 (1.12%) Geospatial Data
12 11 (1.02%) DynamoDB
12 11 (1.02%) Redis
13 10 (0.93%) Pinecone
13 10 (0.93%) Weaviate
14 8 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (0.74%) MySQL
15 6 (0.56%) Data Lake
15 6 (0.56%) Metadata
16 5 (0.47%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 141 (13.13%) Git
2 75 (6.98%) JIRA
3 51 (4.75%) Visual Studio
4 32 (2.98%) Jenkins
5 24 (2.23%) GitLab
6 21 (1.96%) TeamCity
7 20 (1.86%) Selenium
8 15 (1.40%) JMeter
9 14 (1.30%) MSI
10 12 (1.12%) Gatling
10 12 (1.12%) NUnit
11 11 (1.02%) Bitbucket
11 11 (1.02%) Claude Code
11 11 (1.02%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.93%) Postman
13 9 (0.84%) eggPlant
13 9 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
13 9 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.74%) MSTest
14 8 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 271 (25.23%) Finance
2 262 (24.39%) Social Skills
3 127 (11.82%) Banking
4 107 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (6.24%) Public Sector
6 61 (5.68%) Front Office
7 45 (4.19%) Investment Banking
8 28 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.40%) Financial Institution
10 13 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.12%) Legal
12 10 (0.93%) Back Office
12 10 (0.93%) Retail
13 9 (0.84%) Marketing
14 7 (0.65%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.56%) Billing
15 6 (0.56%) Police
16 5 (0.47%) Aviation
16 5 (0.47%) Fire and Rescue
16 5 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 548 (51.02%) Developer
2 228 (21.23%) .NET Developer
3 176 (16.39%) Senior
4 141 (13.13%) C# Developer
5 119 (11.08%) Architect
6 110 (10.24%) Software Engineer
7 103 (9.59%) Senior Developer
8 93 (8.66%) Lead
9 69 (6.42%) Full-Stack Developer
10 65 (6.05%) Software Developer
10 65 (6.05%) Solutions Architect
11 63 (5.87%) C# .NET Developer
12 50 (4.66%) Senior .NET Developer
13 48 (4.47%) Azure Developer
14 35 (3.26%) .NET Software Engineer
15 33 (3.07%) .NET Software Developer
15 33 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
16 31 (2.89%) Dynamics 365 Developer
17 29 (2.70%) React Developer
18 28 (2.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (20.11%) .NET Framework
2 203 (18.90%) REST
3 152 (14.15%) React
4 137 (12.76%) .NET Core
5 121 (11.27%) ASP.NET
5 121 (11.27%) Terraform
6 112 (10.43%) RESTful
7 104 (9.68%) AngularJS
8 87 (8.10%) HTML
9 75 (6.98%) Web Services
10 71 (6.61%) CSS
11 53 (4.93%) Entity Framework
12 52 (4.84%) ASP.NET Core
12 52 (4.84%) JSON
13 50 (4.66%) SOAP
13 50 (4.66%) XML
14 43 (4.00%) Kafka
15 42 (3.91%) WPF
16 41 (3.82%) WinForms
17 38 (3.54%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 137 (12.76%) Cloud Native
2 72 (6.70%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (5.87%) Legacy Systems
4 60 (5.59%) Enterprise Software
5 48 (4.47%) Product Ownership
6 45 (4.19%) AI Agents
7 31 (2.89%) Onboarding
8 30 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (1.68%) Legacy Code
10 17 (1.58%) Data Structures
11 16 (1.49%) Fixed Income
12 14 (1.30%) Virtual Team
13 13 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 12 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.12%) Derivative
14 12 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
15 11 (1.02%) Distributed Applications
15 11 (1.02%) Equities
15 11 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
16 10 (0.93%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 114 (10.61%) Windows
2 65 (6.05%) Linux
3 32 (2.98%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.30%) Unix
5 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.19%) VMS
7 1 (0.093%) Android
7 1 (0.093%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.093%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.093%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (41.25%) CI/CD
2 436 (40.60%) DevOps
3 381 (35.47%) Agile
4 210 (19.55%) Software Engineering
5 196 (18.25%) AI
6 191 (17.78%) Microservices
7 164 (15.27%) Full-Stack Development
8 160 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
9 141 (13.13%) Test Automation
10 116 (10.80%) SDLC
11 110 (10.24%) Migration
12 101 (9.40%) Scrum
13 98 (9.12%) Continuous Improvement
14 93 (8.66%) Event-Driven
15 91 (8.47%) Containerisation
16 85 (7.91%) Technical Leadership
17 82 (7.64%) Infrastructure as Code
18 78 (7.26%) Stakeholder Management
19 75 (6.98%) Mentoring
19 75 (6.98%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 729 (67.88%) C#
2 398 (37.06%) SQL
3 224 (20.86%) JavaScript
4 212 (19.74%) Python
5 127 (11.82%) TypeScript
6 105 (9.78%) Java
7 80 (7.45%) T-SQL
8 74 (6.89%) PowerShell
9 58 (5.40%) PL/SQL
10 46 (4.28%) Bicep
11 36 (3.35%) C++
12 32 (2.98%) VB.NET
13 19 (1.77%) VBA
14 16 (1.49%) Go
15 15 (1.40%) Bash
15 15 (1.40%) VB
16 12 (1.12%) X++
17 9 (0.84%) C
17 9 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
18 6 (0.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 202 (18.81%) Security Cleared
2 174 (16.20%) SC Cleared
3 92 (8.57%) Degree
4 29 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (1.68%) Azure Certification
7 17 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.30%) DV Cleared
9 12 (1.12%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.84%) ISTQB
11 8 (0.74%) PhD
12 7 (0.65%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.47%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 4 (0.37%) ISEB
14 4 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 2 (0.19%) CISM
16 2 (0.19%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (8.75%) QA
2 32 (2.98%) Accessibility
3 24 (2.23%) WCAG
4 17 (1.58%) NCSC
5 14 (1.30%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.02%) GDPR
7 8 (0.74%) SLA
8 6 (0.56%) HL7
9 3 (0.28%) Basel III
9 3 (0.28%) DICOM
9 3 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
10 2 (0.19%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.19%) GMP
10 2 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.19%) GxP
10 2 (0.19%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.19%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 2 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 125 (11.64%) Docker
2 38 (3.54%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.28%) Firmware
6 2 (0.19%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.093%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 114 (10.61%) Kubernetes
2 37 (3.45%) Ansible
3 13 (1.21%) Grafana
4 11 (1.02%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.65%) Kibana
6 5 (0.47%) Control-M
6 5 (0.47%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.37%) Istio
7 4 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.19%) SCCM
9 2 (0.19%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.093%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.093%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.093%) linkerd
10 1 (0.093%) Rancher
Vendors
1 283 (26.35%) Microsoft
2 120 (11.17%) Oracle
3 38 (3.54%) Citrix
4 21 (1.96%) ServiceNow
5 20 (1.86%) UiPath
6 19 (1.77%) Databricks
6 19 (1.77%) OpenAI
7 12 (1.12%) SAP
7 12 (1.12%) Splunk
8 11 (1.02%) IBM
9 10 (0.93%) Google
9 10 (0.93%) Salesforce
10 9 (0.84%) InterSystems
11 7 (0.65%) CyberArk
11 7 (0.65%) Foundry
11 7 (0.65%) Sitecore
12 6 (0.56%) Centrify
12 6 (0.56%) Hitachi
13 5 (0.47%) OpenLink
13 5 (0.47%) VMware