.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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 64 51
Rank change year-on-year -61 -13 -12
Contract jobs citing .NET 834 848 1,375
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.20% 3.50% 3.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.48% 15.49% 18.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 674 1,066
10th Percentile £393 £375 £325
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £613 £673 £667
90th Percentile £713 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 14
10th Percentile £46.00 £21.33 £20.77
25th Percentile £56.50 £21.46 £24.49
Median hourly rate £68.00 £23.41 £48.70
Median % change year-on-year +190.47% -51.93% -25.07%
75th Percentile £73.86 £51.17 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £66.78 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £26.50 £48.70
% change year-on-year +156.60% -45.59% -25.07%

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 7,955 5,475 7,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.95% 22.57% 20.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,324 3,773 5,392
10th Percentile £360 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £544
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -1.24% -5.43%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 88 171
10th Percentile £35.20 £26.85 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.20 £38.74
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.80 £83.27 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

.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 28 March 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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -48 499 £500 -13.04% 218
South East -30 96 £525 +5.00% 174
North of England -50 90 £494 +9.72% 164
North West -35 46 £450 - 89
Midlands -77 46 £504 +1.82% 87
East of England +1 43 £550 +13.11% 63
Yorkshire -39 39 £500 +5.26% 48
South West -42 33 £456 -13.10% 64
West Midlands -61 26 £484 -3.15% 50
East Midlands -28 20 £550 +10.00% 37
North East -11 5 £513 +38.51% 33
.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 48 (5.76%) SharePoint
2 30 (3.60%) IIS
3 23 (2.76%) CMS
4 18 (2.16%) Confluence
4 18 (2.16%) Sitecore CMS
5 17 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (1.32%) HCL Notes
7 10 (1.20%) Mendix
8 7 (0.84%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.60%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.60%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.36%) Apache
10 3 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.36%) SAS
11 2 (0.24%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.24%) Appian
11 2 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.24%) Documentum
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 17 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) InDesign
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 38 (4.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (2.04%) Endur
3 8 (0.96%) Advent Geneva
4 7 (0.84%) Findur
5 4 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.24%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.12%) Alphatax
7 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.12%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.12%) PeopleSoft Financials
7 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 459 (55.04%) Azure
2 203 (24.34%) Azure DevOps
3 137 (16.43%) AWS
4 113 (13.55%) GitHub
5 103 (12.35%) Serverless
6 83 (9.95%) Power Platform
7 77 (9.23%) Azure Functions
8 76 (9.11%) Azure Service Bus
9 72 (8.63%) GitHub Actions
10 70 (8.39%) Azure Logic Apps
11 57 (6.83%) Azure Monitor
12 54 (6.47%) Dynamics 365
13 52 (6.24%) Entra ID
14 47 (5.64%) GCP
15 45 (5.40%) Azure AKS
16 44 (5.28%) PaaS
17 43 (5.16%) Power Automate
18 41 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
19 38 (4.56%) PowerApps
20 34 (4.08%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.04%) HTTP
2 14 (1.68%) Internet
3 6 (0.72%) Network Security
4 4 (0.48%) 3GPP
5 3 (0.36%) DNS
6 2 (0.24%) DHCP
6 2 (0.24%) Firewall
6 2 (0.24%) NAS
6 2 (0.24%) RTCP
6 2 (0.24%) RTMP
6 2 (0.24%) RTP
6 2 (0.24%) SAN
6 2 (0.24%) SSL
6 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.24%) XCAP
7 1 (0.12%) LAN
7 1 (0.12%) Skype
7 1 (0.12%) SMTP
7 1 (0.12%) VPN
7 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 222 (26.62%) SQL Server
2 52 (6.24%) Relational Database
3 50 (6.00%) Oracle Database
4 41 (4.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 36 (4.32%) NoSQL
6 33 (3.96%) Power BI
7 32 (3.84%) PostgreSQL
8 24 (2.88%) MongoDB
9 17 (2.04%) MySQL
10 15 (1.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 12 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (1.20%) Redis
13 9 (1.08%) Crystal Reports
13 9 (1.08%) DynamoDB
14 8 (0.96%) DB2
14 8 (0.96%) Metadata
15 6 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
16 5 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
16 5 (0.60%) Data Lake
16 5 (0.60%) GIS
Development Applications
1 94 (11.27%) Git
2 60 (7.19%) JIRA
3 33 (3.96%) Visual Studio
4 28 (3.36%) Selenium
5 27 (3.24%) Jenkins
6 21 (2.52%) Postman
7 17 (2.04%) Cucumber
8 15 (1.80%) SpecFlow
9 11 (1.32%) TeamCity
10 10 (1.20%) GitLab
10 10 (1.20%) MSTest
10 10 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
11 9 (1.08%) NUnit
11 9 (1.08%) REST Assured
12 8 (0.96%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.96%) TestRail
13 7 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.60%) Appium
14 5 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
15 4 (0.48%) SonarQube
General
1 204 (24.46%) Social Skills
2 192 (23.02%) Finance
3 111 (13.31%) Banking
4 78 (9.35%) Public Sector
5 71 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (4.08%) Investment Banking
7 30 (3.60%) Front Office
8 23 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (2.64%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (0.96%) Marketing
11 8 (0.96%) Retail
11 8 (0.96%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.84%) Health Technology
12 7 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (0.84%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.72%) Back Office
13 6 (0.72%) Billing
14 5 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.48%) Legal
Job Titles
1 473 (56.71%) Developer
2 164 (19.66%) .NET Developer
3 144 (17.27%) C# Developer
4 117 (14.03%) Senior
5 79 (9.47%) Architect
6 77 (9.23%) Software Engineer
7 67 (8.03%) Senior Developer
8 65 (7.79%) Full-Stack Developer
9 60 (7.19%) Lead
10 54 (6.47%) Azure Developer
11 50 (6.00%) C# .NET Developer
12 48 (5.76%) Solutions Architect
13 39 (4.68%) Software Developer
14 36 (4.32%) Senior .NET Developer
15 29 (3.48%) Azure Engineer
16 23 (2.76%) DevOps Engineer
17 20 (2.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 20 (2.40%) SQL Developer
17 20 (2.40%) Technical Architect
18 19 (2.28%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (19.66%) .NET Framework
2 143 (17.15%) React
3 122 (14.63%) REST
4 108 (12.95%) AngularJS
5 102 (12.23%) RESTful
6 100 (11.99%) .NET Core
7 91 (10.91%) HTML
8 89 (10.67%) ASP.NET
9 67 (8.03%) CSS
10 47 (5.64%) Node.js
11 41 (4.92%) ASP.NET Core
12 35 (4.20%) Entity Framework
12 35 (4.20%) OAuth
13 33 (3.96%) ASP.NET Web API
13 33 (3.96%) WPF
14 28 (3.36%) XML
15 27 (3.24%) SOAP
15 27 (3.24%) WinForms
16 26 (3.12%) JSON
17 25 (3.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 93 (11.15%) Cloud Native
2 43 (5.16%) Legacy Systems
3 37 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
4 34 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (3.12%) Product Ownership
6 15 (1.80%) NHS
6 15 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (1.68%) AI Agents
7 14 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (1.68%) Legacy Code
7 14 (1.68%) Virtual Team
8 13 (1.56%) Credit Risk
8 13 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.44%) Fixed Income
9 12 (1.44%) Low-Code
9 12 (1.44%) Mobile App
9 12 (1.44%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.32%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.20%) Derivative
11 10 (1.20%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 81 (9.71%) Windows
2 32 (3.84%) Windows Server
3 26 (3.12%) Linux
4 5 (0.60%) Unix
5 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.24%) Android
6 2 (0.24%) VMS
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (41.73%) DevOps
2 341 (40.89%) CI/CD
3 268 (32.13%) Agile
4 166 (19.90%) Microservices
5 144 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
6 142 (17.03%) Software Engineering
7 134 (16.07%) Full-Stack Development
8 130 (15.59%) AI
9 119 (14.27%) Test Automation
10 76 (9.11%) Scrum
11 75 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 74 (8.87%) Unit Testing
13 73 (8.75%) Infrastructure as Code
14 72 (8.63%) Containerisation
15 66 (7.91%) Migration
16 64 (7.67%) TDD
17 59 (7.07%) SDLC
18 56 (6.71%) Mentoring
19 51 (6.12%) Event-Driven
20 49 (5.88%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 566 (67.87%) C#
2 348 (41.73%) SQL
3 189 (22.66%) Python
4 179 (21.46%) JavaScript
5 93 (11.15%) Java
6 82 (9.83%) TypeScript
7 57 (6.83%) PL/SQL
8 53 (6.35%) T-SQL
9 50 (6.00%) PowerShell
10 24 (2.88%) Bicep
11 22 (2.64%) PHP
12 20 (2.40%) C++
13 16 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
14 14 (1.68%) VBA
15 13 (1.56%) Go
16 12 (1.44%) VB
17 11 (1.32%) Formula Language
17 11 (1.32%) LotusScript
18 9 (1.08%) Bash
18 9 (1.08%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 147 (17.63%) Security Cleared
2 119 (14.27%) SC Cleared
3 61 (7.31%) Degree
4 29 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.52%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (1.32%) DV Cleared
8 8 (0.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 6 (0.72%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.60%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.48%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.48%) CISSP
12 3 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.36%) CCSP
12 3 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.36%) ISEB
12 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.36%) OSCP
12 3 (0.36%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (11.15%) QA
2 18 (2.16%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.92%) GDPR
4 13 (1.56%) NIST
5 10 (1.20%) WCAG
6 9 (1.08%) EU AI Act
6 9 (1.08%) HL7
6 9 (1.08%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.84%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.72%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.72%) PSD2
9 4 (0.48%) GRC
10 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.36%) SEPA
11 2 (0.24%) DICOM
11 2 (0.24%) MiFID
11 2 (0.24%) SLA
11 2 (0.24%) TARGET2
12 1 (0.12%) EMIR
12 1 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 111 (13.31%) Docker
2 31 (3.72%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 102 (12.23%) Kubernetes
2 96 (11.51%) Terraform
3 9 (1.08%) Grafana
4 7 (0.84%) Ansible
4 7 (0.84%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.48%) Istio
6 3 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.24%) Argo
7 2 (0.24%) Control-M
7 2 (0.24%) Rancher
8 1 (0.12%) Kibana
8 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.12%) linkerd
Vendors
1 209 (25.06%) Microsoft
2 123 (14.75%) Oracle
3 35 (4.20%) Citrix
4 25 (3.00%) OpenAI
5 23 (2.76%) Sitecore
6 22 (2.64%) Databricks
7 16 (1.92%) ServiceNow
8 15 (1.80%) Foundry
9 14 (1.68%) Google
9 14 (1.68%) OpenLink
10 11 (1.32%) Lotus
11 10 (1.20%) Kofax
11 10 (1.20%) UiPath
12 8 (0.96%) Advent
13 7 (0.84%) SAP
14 6 (0.72%) Adobe
14 6 (0.72%) Brio
15 5 (0.60%) Rapid7
16 4 (0.48%) PeopleSoft
16 4 (0.48%) Wind River