.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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 65 45
Rank change year-on-year -43 -20 -10
Contract jobs citing .NET 780 981 1,543
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.46% 3.49% 4.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.04% 16.01% 19.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 702 1,185
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £422 £426
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 £505 £550
% change year-on-year -0.99% -8.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 20
10th Percentile £58.60 £20.25 £29.43
25th Percentile £65.50 £20.63 £56.75
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 £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 7,067 6,127 7,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.29% 21.80% 21.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,715 3,915 5,662
10th Percentile £355 £360 £363
25th Percentile £413 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £637 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £508 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.93% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 71 166
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £31.63
25th Percentile £44.34 £42.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £59.00 £62.50 £52.20
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% +19.74% -19.70%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.44 £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 1 January 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 1 January 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 1 January 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 -44 463 £500 -9.71% 232
North of England -48 90 £475 -3.55% 203
South East -7 79 £462 -12.00% 223
East of England +19 52 £550 +29.41% 50
Yorkshire -28 51 £500 -8.05% 46
Midlands -59 48 £513 +2.50% 88
North West -38 34 £450 - 131
East Midlands -15 24 £520 +15.56% 47
West Midlands -53 24 £503 -4.29% 40
South West -38 19 £488 -7.14% 50
North East -12 5 £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 34 (4.36%) SharePoint
2 26 (3.33%) Confluence
3 16 (2.05%) IIS
4 15 (1.92%) CMS
5 13 (1.67%) HCL Notes
6 9 (1.15%) Sitecore CMS
6 9 (1.15%) WebLogic
6 9 (1.15%) WebSphere
7 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.90%) Apache
8 7 (0.90%) Mendix
8 7 (0.90%) Umbraco
9 6 (0.77%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.51%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.26%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.26%) Documentum
12 2 (0.26%) EPiServer
12 2 (0.26%) Moodle
Applications
1 24 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.13%) Moqups
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (5.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.67%) Endur
3 9 (1.15%) Advent Geneva
4 6 (0.77%) Aladdin
4 6 (0.77%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.51%) thinkFolio
6 2 (0.26%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.13%) ION Anvil
7 1 (0.13%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 410 (52.56%) Azure
2 195 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 109 (13.97%) Serverless
4 107 (13.72%) GitHub
5 98 (12.56%) AWS
6 92 (11.79%) Power Platform
7 79 (10.13%) Azure Functions
8 76 (9.74%) Azure Logic Apps
9 64 (8.21%) Dynamics 365
10 58 (7.44%) GitHub Actions
11 56 (7.18%) Azure Service Bus
11 56 (7.18%) Power Automate
12 54 (6.92%) PowerApps
13 52 (6.67%) Azure AKS
14 48 (6.15%) PaaS
15 43 (5.51%) Azure Monitor
16 41 (5.26%) GCP
17 40 (5.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 39 (5.00%) Entra ID
19 27 (3.46%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.92%) HTTP
2 14 (1.79%) Internet
3 8 (1.03%) Network Security
4 4 (0.51%) DNS
4 4 (0.51%) SSL
5 3 (0.38%) DHCP
5 3 (0.38%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.26%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.13%) Firewall
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
1 185 (23.72%) SQL Server
2 42 (5.38%) Power BI
3 41 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 40 (5.13%) NoSQL
4 40 (5.13%) Oracle Database
5 36 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
6 33 (4.23%) MongoDB
7 27 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
8 22 (2.82%) MySQL
9 19 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 12 (1.54%) Big Data
11 11 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (1.15%) DB2
13 8 (1.03%) Redis
14 5 (0.64%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.64%) Tableau
15 4 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
15 4 (0.51%) DocumentDB
15 4 (0.51%) Hadoop
16 3 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 91 (11.67%) Git
2 73 (9.36%) JIRA
3 39 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 32 (4.10%) Selenium
5 25 (3.21%) Postman
6 24 (3.08%) Visual Studio
7 23 (2.95%) GitLab
8 20 (2.56%) Cucumber
9 18 (2.31%) SpecFlow
10 13 (1.67%) Artifactory
11 12 (1.54%) Bitbucket
11 12 (1.54%) REST Assured
11 12 (1.54%) Team Foundation Server
12 11 (1.41%) TeamCity
13 10 (1.28%) SonarQube
14 8 (1.03%) Cypress.io
15 7 (0.90%) JMeter
16 6 (0.77%) TestRail
16 6 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
17 5 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 217 (27.82%) Social Skills
2 201 (25.77%) Finance
3 102 (13.08%) Banking
4 75 (9.62%) Public Sector
5 47 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (4.87%) Investment Banking
7 36 (4.62%) Front Office
8 23 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (2.95%) Financial Institution
9 14 (1.79%) Marketing
10 12 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.15%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.03%) Back Office
12 8 (1.03%) Retail
13 7 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.77%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.64%) Billing
16 4 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.51%) Publishing
16 4 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 451 (57.82%) Developer
2 161 (20.64%) .NET Developer
3 123 (15.77%) C# Developer
4 102 (13.08%) Senior
5 71 (9.10%) Software Engineer
6 64 (8.21%) Architect
7 63 (8.08%) Full-Stack Developer
8 62 (7.95%) Senior Developer
9 58 (7.44%) Lead
10 50 (6.41%) C# .NET Developer
11 46 (5.90%) Azure Developer
12 30 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
13 29 (3.72%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 28 (3.59%) Senior .NET Developer
15 27 (3.46%) Angular Developer
16 24 (3.08%) .NET Software Engineer
16 24 (3.08%) Software Developer
17 22 (2.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 21 (2.69%) DevOps Engineer
19 19 (2.44%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (19.10%) .NET Framework
2 115 (14.74%) .NET Core
3 112 (14.36%) React
4 102 (13.08%) AngularJS
5 99 (12.69%) RESTful
6 92 (11.79%) HTML
7 80 (10.26%) REST
8 69 (8.85%) CSS
9 55 (7.05%) ASP.NET
10 52 (6.67%) Node.js
11 43 (5.51%) WPF
12 35 (4.49%) Entity Framework
12 35 (4.49%) Kafka
13 34 (4.36%) ASP.NET Web API
14 29 (3.72%) SOAP
14 29 (3.72%) Web Services
15 26 (3.33%) JSON
15 26 (3.33%) Playwright
16 24 (3.08%) Blazor
16 24 (3.08%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 87 (11.15%) Cloud Native
2 38 (4.87%) Legacy Systems
3 31 (3.97%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (3.59%) Product Ownership
5 23 (2.95%) Algorithms
6 21 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (2.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 16 (2.05%) Derivative
8 16 (2.05%) Virtual Team
9 15 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (1.92%) Management Information System
9 15 (1.92%) NHS
10 14 (1.79%) Low-Code
11 13 (1.67%) Fixed Income
11 13 (1.67%) Hedge funds
11 13 (1.67%) Mobile App
12 11 (1.41%) Credit Risk
12 11 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.41%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.41%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 70 (8.97%) Windows
2 28 (3.59%) Linux
3 20 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.90%) Android
4 7 (0.90%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (39.74%) DevOps
2 293 (37.56%) Agile
3 283 (36.28%) CI/CD
4 174 (22.31%) Microservices
5 160 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
6 143 (18.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 142 (18.21%) Software Engineering
8 123 (15.77%) Test Automation
9 96 (12.31%) AI
10 82 (10.51%) Containerisation
11 74 (9.49%) Scrum
12 67 (8.59%) TDD
13 65 (8.33%) Migration
14 64 (8.21%) Clean Code
15 63 (8.08%) Computer Science
16 59 (7.56%) Business Intelligence
16 59 (7.56%) Mentoring
17 56 (7.18%) Continuous Improvement
17 56 (7.18%) Infrastructure as Code
18 54 (6.92%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 528 (67.69%) C#
2 321 (41.15%) SQL
3 187 (23.97%) JavaScript
4 129 (16.54%) Python
5 105 (13.46%) Java
6 72 (9.23%) TypeScript
7 52 (6.67%) PL/SQL
8 39 (5.00%) T-SQL
9 38 (4.87%) PHP
10 33 (4.23%) C++
11 31 (3.97%) Bicep
12 29 (3.72%) PowerShell
13 21 (2.69%) VB.NET
14 20 (2.56%) VB
15 18 (2.31%) VBA
16 12 (1.54%) Bash
17 11 (1.41%) C
18 8 (1.03%) Formula Language
18 8 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
18 8 (1.03%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 96 (12.31%) Security Cleared
2 74 (9.49%) SC Cleared
3 71 (9.10%) Degree
4 41 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.69%) Azure Certification
6 16 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (1.79%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.79%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.41%) MCP
9 9 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.51%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.51%) CISSP
10 4 (0.51%) ISEB
11 3 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.38%) CBAP
11 3 (0.38%) CCSP
11 3 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.38%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (9.23%) QA
2 25 (3.21%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.18%) EU AI Act
3 17 (2.18%) NIST
4 13 (1.67%) WCAG
5 10 (1.28%) HL7
6 8 (1.03%) GDPR
6 8 (1.03%) MiFID
7 6 (0.77%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.38%) EMIR
9 3 (0.38%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.38%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.26%) NCSC
11 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.13%) PSD2
11 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 117 (15.00%) Docker
2 32 (4.10%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.51%) 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
1 101 (12.95%) Kubernetes
2 74 (9.49%) Terraform
3 8 (1.03%) Grafana
4 7 (0.90%) Ansible
4 7 (0.90%) 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
1 226 (28.97%) Microsoft
2 98 (12.56%) Oracle
3 24 (3.08%) Citrix
4 23 (2.95%) OpenAI
5 18 (2.31%) Databricks
6 16 (2.05%) Foundry
7 15 (1.92%) Sitecore
8 13 (1.67%) Lotus
9 12 (1.54%) UiPath
10 11 (1.41%) SAP
11 10 (1.28%) Google
11 10 (1.28%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.15%) Advent
12 9 (1.15%) Dynatrace
13 8 (1.03%) GoldenSource
13 8 (1.03%) OpenLink
14 7 (0.90%) Brio
14 7 (0.90%) Kofax
14 7 (0.90%) Salesforce
15 6 (0.77%) VMware