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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 71 54
Rank change year-on-year -44 -17 -10
Contract jobs citing .NET 890 830 1,352
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.20% 3.40% 3.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.21% 15.17% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 661 1,039
10th Percentile £390 £363 £325
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £650
90th Percentile £715 £825 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 15
10th Percentile £39.80 £21.33 £20.77
25th Percentile £46.80 £21.46 £27.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £23.41 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year +177.66% -60.26% +7.10%
75th Percentile £73.46 £51.17 £75.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £66.78 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £27.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +140.74% -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 7,938 5,472 7,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.65% 22.42% 20.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,291 3,787 5,338
10th Percentile £363 £368 £350
25th Percentile £421 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -0.95% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 102 219
10th Percentile £34.25 £30.55 £22.35
25th Percentile £52.38 £51.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.03 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

.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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -39 542 £500 -16.67% 237
South East -24 110 £525 +6.33% 171
North of England -35 97 £500 +17.65% 148
Yorkshire -22 50 £500 +5.26% 35
Midlands -75 48 £492 +1.13% 61
South West -23 46 £498 -5.24% 41
North West -40 43 £450 +9.09% 88
West Midlands -65 27 £481 -3.80% 32
East of England -18 26 £550 +14.29% 51
East Midlands -34 21 £550 +12.24% 29
North East -18 4 £475 +28.38% 25
.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 50 (5.62%) SharePoint
2 37 (4.16%) IIS
3 18 (2.02%) CMS
4 17 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.80%) Confluence
6 12 (1.35%) Sitecore CMS
7 11 (1.24%) HCL Notes
8 10 (1.12%) Mendix
9 5 (0.56%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.34%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.34%) Kentico
10 3 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.34%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.34%) WordPress
11 2 (0.22%) Appian
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle Spatial
11 2 (0.22%) SAS
12 1 (0.11%) Apache
12 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 18 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) InDesign
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 34 (3.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.91%) Endur
3 7 (0.79%) Findur
4 6 (0.67%) Advent Geneva
5 5 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.22%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.22%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.11%) Alphatax
7 1 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.11%) Magento
7 1 (0.11%) PeopleSoft Financials
7 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.11%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 469 (52.70%) Azure
2 193 (21.69%) Azure DevOps
3 153 (17.19%) AWS
4 109 (12.25%) GitHub
5 93 (10.45%) Serverless
6 86 (9.66%) Power Platform
7 81 (9.10%) Azure Service Bus
8 67 (7.53%) Azure Functions
8 67 (7.53%) GitHub Actions
9 66 (7.42%) Azure Logic Apps
10 52 (5.84%) Dynamics 365
11 48 (5.39%) Azure Monitor
12 46 (5.17%) GCP
12 46 (5.17%) Power Automate
13 41 (4.61%) Azure AKS
13 41 (4.61%) Entra ID
13 41 (4.61%) Microsoft 365
13 41 (4.61%) PowerApps
14 36 (4.04%) PaaS
15 32 (3.60%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.57%) HTTP
1 14 (1.57%) Internet
2 8 (0.90%) 3GPP
3 6 (0.67%) Firewall
3 6 (0.67%) RTP
4 5 (0.56%) Network Security
5 4 (0.45%) Wireshark
6 3 (0.34%) NAS
6 3 (0.34%) SAN
7 2 (0.22%) Intranet
7 2 (0.22%) RTCP
7 2 (0.22%) RTMP
7 2 (0.22%) XCAP
8 1 (0.11%) DHCP
8 1 (0.11%) Multicast
8 1 (0.11%) Skype
8 1 (0.11%) SMTP
8 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.11%) VPN
8 1 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (26.18%) SQL Server
2 56 (6.29%) Relational Database
3 55 (6.18%) Oracle Database
4 40 (4.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 39 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
6 37 (4.16%) NoSQL
7 36 (4.04%) Power BI
8 20 (2.25%) MongoDB
9 15 (1.69%) MySQL
10 14 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (1.35%) Redis
11 12 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 10 (1.12%) Metadata
13 9 (1.01%) Crystal Reports
14 7 (0.79%) DynamoDB
15 6 (0.67%) DB2
15 6 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
16 5 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
16 5 (0.56%) GIS
16 5 (0.56%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 96 (10.79%) Git
2 62 (6.97%) JIRA
3 34 (3.82%) Visual Studio
4 25 (2.81%) Selenium
5 21 (2.36%) Jenkins
6 17 (1.91%) Postman
6 17 (1.91%) TeamCity
7 13 (1.46%) GitLab
8 12 (1.35%) Cucumber
8 12 (1.35%) NUnit
9 8 (0.90%) MSTest
9 8 (0.90%) REST Assured
9 8 (0.90%) SpecFlow
9 8 (0.90%) TestRail
10 7 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
11 5 (0.56%) Appium
11 5 (0.56%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.56%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.45%) Moq
12 4 (0.45%) WebDriver
General
1 221 (24.83%) Finance
2 203 (22.81%) Social Skills
3 112 (12.58%) Banking
4 76 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
5 72 (8.09%) Public Sector
6 41 (4.61%) Front Office
7 38 (4.27%) Investment Banking
8 24 (2.70%) Financial Institution
9 22 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (0.79%) Aviation
12 7 (0.79%) Health Technology
12 7 (0.79%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.79%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.67%) Back Office
13 6 (0.67%) Billing
13 6 (0.67%) Police
14 4 (0.45%) Fire and Rescue
14 4 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 485 (54.49%) Developer
2 170 (19.10%) .NET Developer
3 152 (17.08%) C# Developer
4 123 (13.82%) Senior
5 98 (11.01%) Architect
6 91 (10.22%) Software Engineer
7 76 (8.54%) Senior Developer
8 66 (7.42%) Lead
9 59 (6.63%) Full-Stack Developer
10 57 (6.40%) Solutions Architect
11 54 (6.07%) C# .NET Developer
12 51 (5.73%) Azure Developer
13 50 (5.62%) Software Developer
14 38 (4.27%) Senior .NET Developer
15 29 (3.26%) .NET Software Engineer
15 29 (3.26%) Azure Engineer
16 27 (3.03%) .NET Software Developer
17 26 (2.92%) Technical Architect
18 24 (2.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 23 (2.58%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (19.78%) .NET Framework
2 146 (16.40%) React
3 123 (13.82%) REST
4 101 (11.35%) AngularJS
5 99 (11.12%) .NET Core
6 91 (10.22%) RESTful
7 87 (9.78%) HTML
8 82 (9.21%) ASP.NET
9 67 (7.53%) CSS
10 50 (5.62%) Node.js
11 40 (4.49%) ASP.NET Core
11 40 (4.49%) Entity Framework
12 35 (3.93%) WPF
13 34 (3.82%) ASP.NET Web API
14 32 (3.60%) WinForms
15 28 (3.15%) JSON
15 28 (3.15%) OAuth
16 27 (3.03%) XML
17 23 (2.58%) SOAP
18 22 (2.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 100 (11.24%) Cloud Native
2 52 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (5.62%) Legacy Systems
4 31 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (2.70%) Product Ownership
6 23 (2.58%) AI Agents
7 19 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.69%) Legacy Code
8 15 (1.69%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (1.57%) NHS
9 14 (1.57%) Onboarding
10 13 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.46%) Fixed Income
11 12 (1.35%) Derivative
11 12 (1.35%) Low-Code
12 11 (1.24%) Credit Risk
13 9 (1.01%) Data Structures
13 9 (1.01%) IoT
13 9 (1.01%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 88 (9.89%) Windows
2 34 (3.82%) Linux
3 33 (3.71%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.56%) Unix
5 4 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.22%) VMS
7 1 (0.11%) Android
7 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (40.67%) DevOps
2 361 (40.56%) CI/CD
3 270 (30.34%) Agile
4 175 (19.66%) Microservices
5 150 (16.85%) Software Engineering
6 137 (15.39%) AI
7 136 (15.28%) Full-Stack Development
8 124 (13.93%) Problem-Solving
9 115 (12.92%) Test Automation
10 80 (8.99%) Containerisation
11 78 (8.76%) Migration
12 76 (8.54%) Infrastructure as Code
13 73 (8.20%) Unit Testing
14 72 (8.09%) Scrum
15 68 (7.64%) SDLC
16 65 (7.30%) Event-Driven
17 64 (7.19%) TDD
18 62 (6.97%) Continuous Improvement
19 55 (6.18%) Data Modelling
19 55 (6.18%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 606 (68.09%) C#
2 354 (39.78%) SQL
3 197 (22.13%) Python
4 173 (19.44%) JavaScript
5 86 (9.66%) TypeScript
6 85 (9.55%) Java
7 61 (6.85%) PL/SQL
8 59 (6.63%) T-SQL
9 52 (5.84%) PowerShell
10 28 (3.15%) Bicep
11 21 (2.36%) C++
12 19 (2.13%) Go
13 18 (2.02%) PHP
14 16 (1.80%) VBA
15 15 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
15 15 (1.69%) VB
16 11 (1.24%) Formula Language
16 11 (1.24%) LotusScript
17 10 (1.12%) VB.NET
18 7 (0.79%) Bash
Qualifications
1 156 (17.53%) Security Cleared
2 129 (14.49%) SC Cleared
3 66 (7.42%) Degree
4 30 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.36%) Azure Certification
6 17 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.35%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.67%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.56%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.56%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.45%) CISSP
11 4 (0.45%) ITIL 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 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (11.01%) QA
2 19 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.80%) GDPR
4 10 (1.12%) HL7
4 10 (1.12%) PCI DSS
5 8 (0.90%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.90%) WCAG
6 6 (0.67%) ISO 20022
6 6 (0.67%) PSD2
7 5 (0.56%) GRC
7 5 (0.56%) NIST
7 5 (0.56%) SLA
8 3 (0.34%) DICOM
8 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.34%) SEPA
9 2 (0.22%) NCSC
9 2 (0.22%) TARGET2
10 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.11%) EMIR
System Software
1 129 (14.49%) Docker
2 23 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.34%) Firmware
5 2 (0.22%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 109 (12.25%) Kubernetes
2 105 (11.80%) Terraform
3 12 (1.35%) Ansible
4 9 (1.01%) Grafana
5 8 (0.90%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.56%) Istio
7 3 (0.34%) Rancher
8 2 (0.22%) Argo
8 2 (0.22%) Control-M
8 2 (0.22%) SCCM
8 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.11%) linkerd
9 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 208 (23.37%) Microsoft
2 125 (14.04%) Oracle
3 40 (4.49%) Citrix
4 26 (2.92%) OpenAI
5 20 (2.25%) Databricks
6 18 (2.02%) ServiceNow
7 16 (1.80%) Sitecore
8 14 (1.57%) Google
9 13 (1.46%) OpenLink
10 11 (1.24%) Lotus
11 10 (1.12%) Kofax
12 9 (1.01%) Foundry
13 8 (0.90%) InterSystems
13 8 (0.90%) SAP
13 8 (0.90%) UiPath
14 6 (0.67%) Advent
14 6 (0.67%) Salesforce
15 5 (0.56%) Brio
15 5 (0.56%) Rapid7
16 4 (0.45%) PeopleSoft