.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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 64 45
Rank change year-on-year -47 -19 -9
Contract jobs citing .NET 787 999 1,574
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.48% 3.50% 4.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.15% 16.00% 19.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 716 1,210
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £423 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 21
10th Percentile £58.60 £20.25 £29.72
25th Percentile £65.50 £20.63 £57.50
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 £67.50
% change year-on-year +161.72% -62.07% +3.45%

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 7,059 6,242 7,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.20% 21.88% 21.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,708 3,999 5,799
10th Percentile £352 £359 £363
25th Percentile £413 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £632 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £768
UK median daily rate £505 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -6.48% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 75 166
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £31.63
25th Percentile £45.00 £43.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +20.45% -20.17%
75th Percentile £66.75 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.26 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -3.20% +19.05% -19.23%

.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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025. 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 -44 462 £500 -10.71% 443
North of England -38 90 £475 -4.52% 379
South East -10 83 £450 -12.20% 392
East of England +17 55 £550 +29.41% 152
Yorkshire -16 52 £500 -8.05% 107
Midlands -62 48 £513 +2.50% 223
North West -27 35 £450 -2.70% 221
East Midlands -18 24 £520 +15.56% 108
West Midlands -50 24 £503 -4.29% 105
South West -34 19 £488 -7.14% 116
North East -14 3 £538 +49.31% 52
.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 33 (4.19%) SharePoint
2 25 (3.18%) Confluence
3 16 (2.03%) IIS
4 15 (1.91%) CMS
5 13 (1.65%) HCL Notes
6 12 (1.52%) WebLogic
6 12 (1.52%) WebSphere
7 9 (1.14%) Sitecore CMS
8 8 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.89%) Apache
9 7 (0.89%) Mendix
9 7 (0.89%) Umbraco
10 6 (0.76%) Headless CMS
11 5 (0.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.51%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.25%) Documentum
13 2 (0.25%) EPiServer
13 2 (0.25%) Moodle
Applications
1 25 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) Moqups
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 45 (5.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.52%) Endur
3 9 (1.14%) Advent Geneva
4 6 (0.76%) Aladdin
4 6 (0.76%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.51%) thinkFolio
6 2 (0.25%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.25%) 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
1 411 (52.22%) Azure
2 197 (25.03%) Azure DevOps
3 110 (13.98%) Serverless
4 106 (13.47%) GitHub
5 100 (12.71%) AWS
6 91 (11.56%) Power Platform
7 80 (10.17%) Azure Functions
8 74 (9.40%) Azure Logic Apps
9 65 (8.26%) Dynamics 365
10 58 (7.37%) GitHub Actions
11 57 (7.24%) Power Automate
12 56 (7.12%) Azure Service Bus
13 55 (6.99%) PowerApps
14 52 (6.61%) Azure AKS
15 47 (5.97%) PaaS
16 42 (5.34%) Azure Monitor
17 40 (5.08%) GCP
18 39 (4.96%) Entra ID
19 38 (4.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 27 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.78%) HTTP
1 14 (1.78%) Internet
2 8 (1.02%) Network Security
3 4 (0.51%) DNS
3 4 (0.51%) SSL
4 3 (0.38%) DHCP
4 3 (0.38%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.25%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.13%) Firewall
6 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.13%) Intranet
6 1 (0.13%) LAN
6 1 (0.13%) NAS
6 1 (0.13%) SAN
6 1 (0.13%) Skype
6 1 (0.13%) SMTP
6 1 (0.13%) VPN
6 1 (0.13%) WAN
6 1 (0.13%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (23.13%) SQL Server
2 42 (5.34%) Power BI
3 41 (5.21%) Oracle Database
3 41 (5.21%) Relational Database
4 40 (5.08%) NoSQL
5 34 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
6 32 (4.07%) MongoDB
7 27 (3.43%) Azure SQL Database
8 22 (2.80%) MySQL
9 20 (2.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 12 (1.52%) Big Data
11 11 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (1.14%) DB2
13 8 (1.02%) 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 (11.56%) Git
2 73 (9.28%) JIRA
3 39 (4.96%) Jenkins
4 33 (4.19%) Selenium
5 25 (3.18%) Postman
6 23 (2.92%) GitLab
7 22 (2.80%) Visual Studio
8 20 (2.54%) Cucumber
9 18 (2.29%) SpecFlow
10 13 (1.65%) Artifactory
11 12 (1.52%) Bitbucket
11 12 (1.52%) REST Assured
11 12 (1.52%) Team Foundation Server
12 11 (1.40%) TeamCity
13 10 (1.27%) SonarQube
14 9 (1.14%) Cypress.io
15 7 (0.89%) JMeter
16 6 (0.76%) TestRail
16 6 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
17 5 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 219 (27.83%) Social Skills
2 201 (25.54%) Finance
3 103 (13.09%) Banking
4 75 (9.53%) Public Sector
5 47 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (4.70%) Investment Banking
7 36 (4.57%) Front Office
8 23 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (2.80%) Financial Institution
10 15 (1.91%) Marketing
11 12 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (1.14%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.02%) Back Office
13 8 (1.02%) Retail
14 7 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.76%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.64%) Billing
17 4 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.51%) Publishing
17 4 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 456 (57.94%) Developer
2 166 (21.09%) .NET Developer
3 124 (15.76%) C# Developer
4 103 (13.09%) Senior
5 72 (9.15%) Software Engineer
6 65 (8.26%) Full-Stack Developer
7 64 (8.13%) Architect
8 63 (8.01%) Senior Developer
9 56 (7.12%) Lead
10 53 (6.73%) C# .NET Developer
11 46 (5.84%) Azure Developer
12 30 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
13 29 (3.68%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 28 (3.56%) Senior .NET Developer
15 27 (3.43%) Angular Developer
16 25 (3.18%) .NET Software Engineer
17 23 (2.92%) Software Developer
18 22 (2.80%) DevOps Engineer
18 22 (2.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 20 (2.54%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (18.81%) .NET Framework
2 117 (14.87%) .NET Core
3 111 (14.10%) React
4 100 (12.71%) AngularJS
4 100 (12.71%) RESTful
5 95 (12.07%) HTML
6 80 (10.17%) REST
7 68 (8.64%) CSS
8 56 (7.12%) ASP.NET
9 55 (6.99%) Node.js
10 44 (5.59%) WPF
11 35 (4.45%) ASP.NET Web API
11 35 (4.45%) Entity Framework
12 34 (4.32%) Kafka
13 31 (3.94%) Web Services
14 29 (3.68%) SOAP
15 28 (3.56%) Middleware
16 27 (3.43%) Blazor
16 27 (3.43%) Playwright
17 24 (3.05%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 85 (10.80%) Cloud Native
2 38 (4.83%) Legacy Systems
3 30 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (3.81%) Product Ownership
4 23 (2.92%) Algorithms
5 21 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
6 19 (2.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 17 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (2.16%) Virtual Team
8 16 (2.03%) NHS
9 15 (1.91%) Derivative
9 15 (1.91%) Management Information System
10 14 (1.78%) Fixed Income
10 14 (1.78%) Hedge funds
10 14 (1.78%) Low-Code
11 13 (1.65%) Mobile App
12 11 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.40%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.40%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.27%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 70 (8.89%) Windows
2 27 (3.43%) Linux
3 19 (2.41%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.89%) Android
4 7 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (39.64%) DevOps
2 293 (37.23%) Agile
3 283 (35.96%) CI/CD
4 174 (22.11%) Microservices
5 162 (20.58%) Problem-Solving
6 146 (18.55%) Full-Stack Development
7 141 (17.92%) Software Engineering
8 123 (15.63%) Test Automation
9 96 (12.20%) AI
10 82 (10.42%) Containerisation
11 76 (9.66%) Scrum
12 67 (8.51%) TDD
13 65 (8.26%) Migration
14 64 (8.13%) Clean Code
14 64 (8.13%) Computer Science
15 59 (7.50%) Mentoring
16 58 (7.37%) Business Intelligence
17 56 (7.12%) Continuous Improvement
17 56 (7.12%) Infrastructure as Code
18 55 (6.99%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 532 (67.60%) C#
2 323 (41.04%) SQL
3 187 (23.76%) JavaScript
4 128 (16.26%) Python
5 109 (13.85%) Java
6 72 (9.15%) TypeScript
7 52 (6.61%) PL/SQL
8 41 (5.21%) PHP
9 39 (4.96%) T-SQL
10 36 (4.57%) C++
11 30 (3.81%) Bicep
12 28 (3.56%) PowerShell
13 22 (2.80%) VB.NET
14 21 (2.67%) VB
15 19 (2.41%) VBA
16 14 (1.78%) C
17 12 (1.52%) Bash
18 8 (1.02%) Formula Language
18 8 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
18 8 (1.02%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 96 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 74 (9.40%) SC Cleared
3 70 (8.89%) Degree
4 42 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.67%) Azure Certification
6 16 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (1.78%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.78%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.40%) MCP
9 9 (1.14%) 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 2 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (9.40%) QA
2 25 (3.18%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.16%) EU AI Act
3 17 (2.16%) NIST
4 12 (1.52%) WCAG
5 10 (1.27%) HL7
6 8 (1.02%) GDPR
6 8 (1.02%) MiFID
7 6 (0.76%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.51%) EMIR
8 4 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.38%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.38%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.25%) NCSC
11 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
11 1 (0.13%) PSD2
11 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 116 (14.74%) Docker
2 32 (4.07%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.13%) KVM
6 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 100 (12.71%) Kubernetes
2 74 (9.40%) Terraform
3 8 (1.02%) Grafana
4 7 (0.89%) Ansible
4 7 (0.89%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.25%) Argo
7 1 (0.13%) Kibana
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Identity Management
7 1 (0.13%) Rancher
Vendors
1 226 (28.72%) Microsoft
2 98 (12.45%) Oracle
3 23 (2.92%) Citrix
3 23 (2.92%) OpenAI
4 18 (2.29%) Databricks
5 16 (2.03%) Foundry
6 14 (1.78%) Sitecore
7 13 (1.65%) Lotus
8 12 (1.52%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.52%) UiPath
9 11 (1.40%) SAP
10 10 (1.27%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.14%) Advent
11 9 (1.14%) Google
12 8 (1.02%) GoldenSource
12 8 (1.02%) OpenLink
12 8 (1.02%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.89%) Brio
13 7 (0.89%) Kofax
14 6 (0.76%) Adobe