Senior .NET Developer Contract Job Trends in England

Senior .NET Developer
UK > England

The median Senior .NET Developer daily rate in England is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 522 475 490
Rank change year-on-year -47 +15 +87
Contract jobs requiring a Senior .NET Developer 27 36 67
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.086% 0.12% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.13% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 29 38
10th Percentile £430 £424 £413
25th Percentile £475 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -10.20% +4.26%
75th Percentile £619 £609 £647
90th Percentile £690 £745 £704
UK median daily rate £515 £538 £559
% change year-on-year -4.19% -3.80% -4.89%

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 28,658 27,111 34,658
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.24% 92.91% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,308 16,895 23,809
10th Percentile £290 £300 £288
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,754 870 1,350
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £15.31
25th Percentile £18.20 £21.25 £19.62
Median hourly rate £26.30 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.94% -20.00% +38.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.85 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.52 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.97% -25.51% +50.00%

Senior .NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior .NET Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Senior .NET Developer job vacancy trend in England

Senior .NET Developer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior .NET Developer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior .NET Developer job vacancies 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 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior .NET Developer in England

Senior .NET Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior .NET Developer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior .NET Developer job vacancies 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 17 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 -12 15 £581 -2.72% 5
South East -15 4 £500 +10.38% 12
East of England -12 3 - - 1
Midlands -29 3 £515 +8.99%
East Midlands - 3 £515 -
North of England -51 1 £525 +16.67% 6
South West - 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £525 - 2
Senior .NET Developer
UK

Senior .NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 17 December 2025, Senior .NET Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Senior .NET Developer in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) .NET
2 23 (85.19%) C#
3 15 (55.56%) CI/CD
4 14 (51.85%) .NET Core
4 14 (51.85%) Agile
4 14 (51.85%) Azure
5 13 (48.15%) AngularJS
5 13 (48.15%) DevOps
6 12 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (40.74%) .NET Framework
7 11 (40.74%) Microservices
8 9 (33.33%) Design Patterns
8 9 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (29.63%) SQL
10 7 (25.93%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (25.93%) GitHub
10 7 (25.93%) Migration
10 7 (25.93%) SQL Server
11 6 (22.22%) AI
12 5 (18.52%) Confluence
12 5 (18.52%) Event-Driven
12 5 (18.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 5 (18.52%) JIRA
12 5 (18.52%) Oracle
12 5 (18.52%) React
12 5 (18.52%) REST
12 5 (18.52%) RESTful
12 5 (18.52%) Unit Testing
13 4 (14.81%) API Development
13 4 (14.81%) AWS

Senior .NET Developer Skill Set
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 5 (18.52%) Confluence
2 1 (3.70%) CMS
2 1 (3.70%) Headless CMS
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (51.85%) Azure
2 7 (25.93%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (25.93%) GitHub
3 4 (14.81%) AWS
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (11.11%) ChatGPT
4 3 (11.11%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.70%) Azure App Service
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.70%) Azure WebJobs
6 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.70%) Kontent
6 1 (3.70%) PaaS
6 1 (3.70%) prismic.io
6 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) SQL Server
2 4 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) JIRA
2 3 (11.11%) SpecFlow
3 2 (7.41%) Git
4 1 (3.70%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (51.85%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (100.00%) .NET
2 14 (51.85%) .NET Core
3 13 (48.15%) AngularJS
4 11 (40.74%) .NET Framework
5 5 (18.52%) React
5 5 (18.52%) REST
5 5 (18.52%) RESTful
6 4 (14.81%) Entity Framework
7 3 (11.11%) NHibernate
7 3 (11.11%) Playwright
7 3 (11.11%) WPF
8 2 (7.41%) Middleware
8 2 (7.41%) WinForms
9 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET
9 1 (3.70%) CSS
9 1 (3.70%) HTML
9 1 (3.70%) JSON
9 1 (3.70%) RxJS
9 1 (3.70%) SOAP
9 1 (3.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.41%) Credit Risk
3 2 (7.41%) Legacy Code
3 2 (7.41%) Market Risk
3 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Windows
2 1 (3.70%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 14 (51.85%) Agile
3 13 (48.15%) DevOps
4 12 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
5 11 (40.74%) Microservices
6 9 (33.33%) Design Patterns
6 9 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (25.93%) Migration
8 6 (22.22%) AI
9 5 (18.52%) Event-Driven
9 5 (18.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 5 (18.52%) Unit Testing
10 4 (14.81%) API Development
10 4 (14.81%) Clean Code
10 4 (14.81%) Software Architecture
11 3 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
11 3 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
11 3 (11.11%) Containerisation
11 3 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
11 3 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 23 (85.19%) C#
2 8 (29.63%) SQL
3 4 (14.81%) PHP
3 4 (14.81%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.70%) Bicep
4 1 (3.70%) C++
4 1 (3.70%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) QA
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) Databricks