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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 66 47
Rank change year-on-year -52 -19 -12
Contract jobs citing .NET 755 918 1,498
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.36% 3.41% 4.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.68% 15.46% 19.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 548 652 1,156
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £646 £675
90th Percentile £700 £786 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 22
10th Percentile £52.79 £22.30 £23.15
25th Percentile £62.97 £23.88 £47.07
Median hourly rate £68.21 £26.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +157.40% -59.23% -
75th Percentile £74.26 £51.85 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.70 £67.05 -
UK median hourly rate £68.21 £26.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +157.40% -59.23% -0.76%

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 7,072 5,937 7,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.13% 22.06% 21.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,728 3,792 5,644
10th Percentile £356 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £430 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £670
90th Percentile £738 £788 £752
UK median daily rate £510 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 77 173
10th Percentile £33.00 £26.25 £28.75
25th Percentile £45.25 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +14.55% -16.06%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.95 £74.61 £77.90
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.40% +13.64% -15.38%

.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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -45 458 £500 -12.66% 188
North of England -51 86 £475 -3.06% 222
South East -5 80 £480 -10.70% 303
Yorkshire -26 48 £500 -4.76% 57
Midlands -64 44 £505 +1.00% 122
East of England +4 38 £550 +17.02% 102
North West -35 33 £450 - 138
West Midlands -58 24 £492 -8.13% 45
East Midlands -28 20 £515 +14.44% 75
South West -43 19 £488 -7.14% 103
North East -15 5 £513 +42.36% 27
.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 41 (5.43%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.84%) Confluence
3 16 (2.12%) HCL Notes
3 16 (2.12%) IIS
4 14 (1.85%) CMS
5 10 (1.32%) Mendix
6 9 (1.19%) Sitecore CMS
7 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.93%) Umbraco
8 6 (0.79%) Apache
8 6 (0.79%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.53%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.40%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.26%) Documentum
12 2 (0.26%) Moodle
12 2 (0.26%) SAS
12 2 (0.26%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 23 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Moqups
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 47 (6.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.85%) Endur
3 9 (1.19%) Advent Geneva
4 3 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.26%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.26%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.13%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.13%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.13%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.13%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 411 (54.44%) Azure
2 197 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
3 112 (14.83%) Serverless
4 107 (14.17%) GitHub
5 102 (13.51%) AWS
6 98 (12.98%) Power Platform
7 87 (11.52%) Azure Functions
8 75 (9.93%) Azure Logic Apps
9 67 (8.87%) Dynamics 365
10 62 (8.21%) Azure Service Bus
11 60 (7.95%) Power Automate
12 56 (7.42%) GitHub Actions
12 56 (7.42%) PowerApps
13 52 (6.89%) Azure AKS
14 49 (6.49%) PaaS
15 45 (5.96%) GCP
16 43 (5.70%) Azure Monitor
17 38 (5.03%) Entra ID
18 33 (4.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 29 (3.84%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.99%) HTTP
2 13 (1.72%) Internet
3 8 (1.06%) Network Security
4 4 (0.53%) DNS
4 4 (0.53%) SSL
5 3 (0.40%) DHCP
5 3 (0.40%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.26%) RTMP
6 2 (0.26%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.13%) Firewall
7 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
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 (24.50%) SQL Server
2 45 (5.96%) Power BI
3 42 (5.56%) Relational Database
4 41 (5.43%) Oracle Database
5 33 (4.37%) MongoDB
6 32 (4.24%) Azure SQL Database
6 32 (4.24%) NoSQL
7 29 (3.84%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (2.52%) MySQL
8 19 (2.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (1.46%) Big Data
9 11 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (1.19%) DB2
11 8 (1.06%) Redis
12 5 (0.66%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.66%) Tableau
13 4 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.53%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.53%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 92 (12.19%) Git
2 65 (8.61%) JIRA
3 40 (5.30%) Jenkins
4 33 (4.37%) Selenium
5 25 (3.31%) Postman
6 22 (2.91%) Visual Studio
7 19 (2.52%) Cucumber
7 19 (2.52%) SpecFlow
8 14 (1.85%) GitLab
9 12 (1.59%) Bitbucket
9 12 (1.59%) REST Assured
10 11 (1.46%) Team Foundation Server
11 10 (1.32%) SonarQube
12 9 (1.19%) TeamCity
13 8 (1.06%) Cypress.io
13 8 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (0.93%) JMeter
15 6 (0.79%) TestRail
16 5 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
17 4 (0.53%) Artifactory
General
1 206 (27.28%) Social Skills
2 194 (25.70%) Finance
3 103 (13.64%) Banking
4 77 (10.20%) Public Sector
5 51 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (4.77%) Investment Banking
7 31 (4.11%) Front Office
8 25 (3.31%) Financial Institution
9 23 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (1.85%) Marketing
11 10 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.06%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.06%) Retail
13 7 (0.93%) Back Office
13 7 (0.93%) Health Technology
13 7 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.79%) Billing
14 6 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.53%) Retail Banking
15 4 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 436 (57.75%) Developer
2 148 (19.60%) .NET Developer
3 124 (16.42%) C# Developer
4 98 (12.98%) Senior
5 66 (8.74%) Software Engineer
6 63 (8.34%) Architect
7 59 (7.81%) Full-Stack Developer
7 59 (7.81%) Lead
8 57 (7.55%) Senior Developer
9 48 (6.36%) C# .NET Developer
10 45 (5.96%) Azure Developer
11 33 (4.37%) Solutions Architect
12 31 (4.11%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 26 (3.44%) Senior .NET Developer
14 23 (3.05%) .NET Software Engineer
14 23 (3.05%) Angular Developer
15 21 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
15 21 (2.78%) Software Developer
16 19 (2.52%) Power Platform Developer
17 18 (2.38%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (17.62%) .NET Framework
2 105 (13.91%) React
3 102 (13.51%) .NET Core
4 94 (12.45%) RESTful
5 87 (11.52%) AngularJS
6 79 (10.46%) REST
7 70 (9.27%) HTML
8 56 (7.42%) ASP.NET
9 55 (7.28%) CSS
10 40 (5.30%) WPF
11 35 (4.64%) Node.js
12 34 (4.50%) ASP.NET Web API
12 34 (4.50%) Entity Framework
13 30 (3.97%) Kafka
14 27 (3.58%) Playwright
15 26 (3.44%) JSON
15 26 (3.44%) OAuth
15 26 (3.44%) SOAP
16 25 (3.31%) Web Services
17 21 (2.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 86 (11.39%) Cloud Native
2 36 (4.77%) Legacy Systems
3 26 (3.44%) Product Ownership
4 21 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (2.25%) Low-Code
7 16 (2.12%) Virtual Team
8 15 (1.99%) NHS
9 14 (1.85%) Derivative
9 14 (1.85%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.72%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (1.72%) Mobile App
11 12 (1.59%) Credit Risk
12 11 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (1.32%) Market Risk
13 10 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.19%) Fixed Income
15 8 (1.06%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 72 (9.54%) Windows
2 22 (2.91%) Linux
2 22 (2.91%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.93%) Android
3 7 (0.93%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (39.34%) DevOps
2 274 (36.29%) CI/CD
3 270 (35.76%) Agile
4 160 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
5 153 (20.26%) Microservices
6 134 (17.75%) Software Engineering
7 130 (17.22%) Full-Stack Development
8 123 (16.29%) Test Automation
9 97 (12.85%) AI
10 75 (9.93%) Scrum
11 74 (9.80%) Containerisation
12 63 (8.34%) Migration
13 62 (8.21%) Business Intelligence
14 60 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
15 59 (7.81%) Mentoring
16 58 (7.68%) TDD
17 56 (7.42%) Clean Code
18 55 (7.28%) Computer Science
18 55 (7.28%) Infrastructure as Code
18 55 (7.28%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 504 (66.75%) C#
2 315 (41.72%) SQL
3 178 (23.58%) JavaScript
4 138 (18.28%) Python
5 99 (13.11%) Java
6 65 (8.61%) TypeScript
7 50 (6.62%) PL/SQL
8 38 (5.03%) T-SQL
9 30 (3.97%) PowerShell
10 27 (3.58%) Bicep
11 26 (3.44%) PHP
12 19 (2.52%) C++
12 19 (2.52%) VB.NET
13 17 (2.25%) VB
13 17 (2.25%) VBA
14 12 (1.59%) Bash
15 11 (1.46%) Formula Language
15 11 (1.46%) LotusScript
16 8 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.66%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 96 (12.72%) Security Cleared
2 72 (9.54%) Degree
2 72 (9.54%) SC Cleared
3 41 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (2.78%) Azure Certification
5 15 (1.99%) Master's Degree
5 15 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (1.72%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.46%) MCP
8 9 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.79%) CISSP
10 5 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (0.66%) CCSP
10 5 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.53%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.53%) ISEB
12 3 (0.40%) CBAP
12 3 (0.40%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.40%) OSCP
12 3 (0.40%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (9.67%) QA
2 26 (3.44%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.65%) NIST
4 17 (2.25%) EU AI Act
5 14 (1.85%) WCAG
6 10 (1.32%) GDPR
7 9 (1.19%) HL7
8 6 (0.79%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.53%) MiFID
10 3 (0.40%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.26%) EMIR
12 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.13%) GRC
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.13%) NCSC
12 1 (0.13%) PSD2
12 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 108 (14.30%) Docker
2 32 (4.24%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.40%) 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 (12.05%) Kubernetes
2 78 (10.33%) Terraform
3 9 (1.19%) Grafana
4 7 (0.93%) Ansible
4 7 (0.93%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.26%) Argo
7 1 (0.13%) Control-M
7 1 (0.13%) Kibana
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Identity Management
7 1 (0.13%) Rancher
Vendors
1 226 (29.93%) Microsoft
2 97 (12.85%) Oracle
3 26 (3.44%) Citrix
4 25 (3.31%) OpenAI
5 19 (2.52%) Databricks
6 16 (2.12%) Foundry
6 16 (2.12%) Lotus
7 15 (1.99%) Sitecore
8 13 (1.72%) Google
9 12 (1.59%) UiPath
10 11 (1.46%) SAP
11 10 (1.32%) Kofax
12 9 (1.19%) Advent
12 9 (1.19%) OpenLink
12 9 (1.19%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.79%) Adobe
13 6 (0.79%) DocuSign
13 6 (0.79%) GoldenSource
13 6 (0.79%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.79%) VMware