Senior .NET Developer Contracts in England

Senior .NET Developer
UK > England

The median Senior .NET Developer daily rate in England is £574, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 455 501 552
Rank change year-on-year +46 +51 +102
Contract jobs requiring a Senior .NET Developer 30 41 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.11% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.12% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 29 77
10th Percentile £408 £355 £462
25th Percentile £450 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £568 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.10% -5.42% +4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £600 £738
90th Percentile £739 £678 £800
UK median daily rate £529 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -1.63% -10.42% +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Senior .NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior .NET Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior .NET Developer in England

Senior .NET Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior .NET Developer in England.

Daily rate trend for Senior .NET Developer in England

Senior .NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior .NET Developer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior .NET Developer in England

Senior .NET Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior .NET Developer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior .NET Developer in England

Senior .NET Developer
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 Senior .NET Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +30 23 £611 +1.88% 15
South West +46 2 £628 +79.29% 9
North West +16 2 £425 -10.53% 17
North of England +15 2 £425 +3.03% 34
South East - 2 £463 - 27
Senior .NET Developer
UK

Senior .NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior .NET Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Senior .NET Developer in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) .NET
2 28 (93.33%) C#
3 21 (70.00%) Azure
4 19 (63.33%) SQL
5 14 (46.67%) .NET Core
5 14 (46.67%) DevOps
5 14 (46.67%) Finance
6 13 (43.33%) Agile
7 11 (36.67%) JavaScript
7 11 (36.67%) ASP.NET
8 10 (33.33%) CSS
8 10 (33.33%) HTML
8 10 (33.33%) .NET Framework
8 10 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (33.33%) Kubernetes
8 10 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
8 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
9 9 (30.00%) Docker
10 8 (26.67%) ASP.NET Core
10 8 (26.67%) Containerisation
10 8 (26.67%) SQL Server
10 8 (26.67%) AWS
11 7 (23.33%) Entity Framework
11 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
11 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
12 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (20.00%) SOLID
12 6 (20.00%) OO
12 6 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (20.00%) Scrum

Senior .NET Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (10.00%) Umbraco
2 1 (3.33%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 21 (70.00%) Azure
2 10 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (26.67%) AWS
4 3 (10.00%) Azure Storage
4 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (10.00%) Serverless
5 2 (6.67%) Azure App Service
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Functions
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Firewall
1 2 (6.67%) HTTP
1 2 (6.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 6 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (10.00%) MongoDB
5 3 (10.00%) Redis
6 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
7 1 (3.33%) ClickHouse
7 1 (3.33%) DynamoDB
7 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (6.67%) Git
3 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (3.33%) SpecFlow
3 1 (3.33%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (46.67%) Finance
2 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Banking
3 4 (13.33%) Billing
4 3 (10.00%) Front Office
5 2 (6.67%) Electronics
5 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.67%) Marketing
5 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (100.00%) .NET
2 14 (46.67%) .NET Core
3 11 (36.67%) ASP.NET
4 10 (33.33%) .NET Framework
4 10 (33.33%) CSS
4 10 (33.33%) HTML
5 8 (26.67%) ASP.NET Core
6 7 (23.33%) Entity Framework
7 6 (20.00%) AngularJS
8 5 (16.67%) RESTful
9 4 (13.33%) Node.js
10 3 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web API
10 3 (10.00%) React
10 3 (10.00%) Web Services
11 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC
11 2 (6.67%) OAuth
11 2 (6.67%) OpenID
11 2 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (6.67%) SignalR
11 2 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.33%) Legacy Code
4 1 (3.33%) NHS
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) Reinsurance
4 1 (3.33%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (3.33%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Android
2 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) DevOps
2 13 (43.33%) Agile
3 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 10 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 6 (20.00%) OO
5 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (20.00%) Scrum
5 6 (20.00%) SOLID
6 5 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (16.67%) Microservices
6 5 (16.67%) MVC
6 5 (16.67%) Pair Programming
6 5 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 5 (16.67%) TDD
6 5 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (16.67%) Web Development
7 4 (13.33%) BDD
7 4 (13.33%) Front End Development
7 4 (13.33%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (93.33%) C#
2 19 (63.33%) SQL
3 11 (36.67%) JavaScript
4 5 (16.67%) PL/SQL
5 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
6 3 (10.00%) RPG
6 3 (10.00%) RPG IV
6 3 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (6.67%) T-SQL
8 1 (3.33%) Bicep
8 1 (3.33%) C++
8 1 (3.33%) Go
8 1 (3.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (30.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle
2 2 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (3.33%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.33%) Murex
3 1 (3.33%) Rackspace
3 1 (3.33%) Solace
3 1 (3.33%) TIBCO