.NET Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring .NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 84 60
Rank change year-on-year -41 -24 -13
Contract jobs citing .NET 83 84 151
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.78% 2.19% 3.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.12% 11.90% 15.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 57 121
10th Percentile £360 £404 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +10.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £544 £538
90th Percentile £615 £570 £625
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £30.60
25th Percentile - - £36.34
Median hourly rate £74.26 £26.50 £45.89
Median % change year-on-year +180.23% -42.25% +31.11%
75th Percentile - - £55.45
90th Percentile - - £61.18
England median hourly rate £67.00 £22.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +197.78% -65.38% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,022 706 983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 21.94% 18.45% 21.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 750 441 757
10th Percentile £340 £356 £363
25th Percentile £400 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £496 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% -4.59% -3.26%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
England median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 37
10th Percentile £32.90 £28.40 £42.55
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £64.50 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +39.67% - +2.62%
75th Percentile £74.26 £87.50 £62.00
90th Percentile £80.05 £100.93 £69.25
England median hourly rate £57.30 £65.00 £54.50
% change year-on-year -11.85% +19.27% -16.15%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing .NET relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

.NET job vacancy trend in the North of England

.NET
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing .NET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing .NET

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the North of England

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing .NET.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing .NET

.NET
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 5 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
Yorkshire -16 45 £500 -5.66% 62
North West -27 36 £450 -3.23% 146
North East -13 2 £600 +71.43% 36
.NET
England

.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 3 (3.61%) Confluence
2 1 (1.20%) CMS
2 1 (1.20%) EPiServer
2 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (10.84%) Advent Geneva
2 4 (4.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.20%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 34 (40.96%) Azure
2 19 (22.89%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (19.28%) AWS
4 14 (16.87%) GitHub
4 14 (16.87%) Serverless
5 9 (10.84%) Power Platform
6 8 (9.64%) Azure Functions
6 8 (9.64%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (7.23%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (7.23%) GCP
7 6 (7.23%) PowerApps
8 5 (6.02%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (6.02%) Power Automate
9 4 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (4.82%) Amazon EventBridge
9 4 (4.82%) Amazon MSK
9 4 (4.82%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (4.82%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (3.61%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.41%) X.509
2 1 (1.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (26.51%) Relational Database
2 17 (20.48%) SQL Server
3 11 (13.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (12.05%) MySQL
5 9 (10.84%) DB2
5 9 (10.84%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (8.43%) NoSQL
7 6 (7.23%) Power BI
8 4 (4.82%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (4.82%) DocumentDB
8 4 (4.82%) DynamoDB
8 4 (4.82%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (1.20%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (24.10%) Git
2 6 (7.23%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.02%) JIRA
4 2 (2.41%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.41%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.20%) Ant
5 1 (1.20%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.20%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.20%) JUnit
5 1 (1.20%) NUnit
5 1 (1.20%) Postman
5 1 (1.20%) Selenium
5 1 (1.20%) Zephyr
General
1 27 (32.53%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.87%) Public Sector
3 12 (14.46%) Finance
4 10 (12.05%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.61%) Health Technology
7 2 (2.41%) Banking
8 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.20%) Local Government
8 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (46.99%) Developer
2 25 (30.12%) Software Engineer
3 12 (14.46%) .NET Developer
4 10 (12.05%) .NET Software Engineer
5 9 (10.84%) Senior
6 7 (8.43%) Architect
6 7 (8.43%) Lead
7 5 (6.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.82%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 4 (4.82%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.82%) Lead Developer
8 4 (4.82%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.82%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Backend Developer
9 3 (3.61%) C# Developer
9 3 (3.61%) Technical Architect
10 2 (2.41%) Applications Developer
10 2 (2.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 2 (2.41%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.07%) HTML
2 13 (15.66%) .NET Core
3 11 (13.25%) ASP.NET Web API
3 11 (13.25%) CSS
4 10 (12.05%) jQuery
4 10 (12.05%) React
4 10 (12.05%) RESTful
5 7 (8.43%) .NET Framework
6 6 (7.23%) AngularJS
6 6 (7.23%) Compass CSS Framework
6 6 (7.23%) FHIR
6 6 (7.23%) Kafka
7 4 (4.82%) ASP.NET
8 3 (3.61%) Entity Framework
8 3 (3.61%) OAuth
8 3 (3.61%) Playwright
8 3 (3.61%) REST
8 3 (3.61%) WebSockets
9 2 (2.41%) ARM Templates
9 2 (2.41%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.05%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.64%) Virtual Team
3 7 (8.43%) NHS
4 6 (7.23%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (7.23%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (7.23%) Management Information System
4 6 (7.23%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.41%) Legacy Code
5 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.41%) PKI
6 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.20%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.20%) IoT
6 1 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.82%) Windows
2 3 (3.61%) Linux
3 1 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (45.78%) Agile
2 34 (40.96%) DevOps
3 31 (37.35%) CI/CD
3 31 (37.35%) Software Engineering
4 20 (24.10%) Microservices
5 18 (21.69%) Full-Stack Development
6 17 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (18.07%) Clean Code
8 13 (15.66%) Test Automation
9 12 (14.46%) Code Quality
9 12 (14.46%) Containerisation
9 12 (14.46%) Mentoring
10 11 (13.25%) Architectural Patterns
10 11 (13.25%) MVC
11 10 (12.05%) Front End Development
11 10 (12.05%) OOP
12 9 (10.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (10.84%) Event-Driven
12 9 (10.84%) Performance Optimisation
12 9 (10.84%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 54 (65.06%) C#
2 33 (39.76%) SQL
3 23 (27.71%) JavaScript
4 13 (15.66%) Java
5 7 (8.43%) TypeScript
6 6 (7.23%) Python
7 5 (6.02%) PHP
8 4 (4.82%) Bicep
8 4 (4.82%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.61%) C++
9 3 (3.61%) Delphi
10 2 (2.41%) Bash
11 1 (1.20%) VB
11 1 (1.20%) VB6
Qualifications
1 5 (6.02%) Degree
2 3 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (3.61%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.41%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.02%) HL7
2 4 (4.82%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.41%) NCSC
3 2 (2.41%) QA
4 1 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.20%) GDPR
4 1 (1.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (26.51%) Docker
2 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (18.07%) Terraform
2 9 (10.84%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.41%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.20%) Ansible
4 1 (1.20%) Grafana
Vendors
1 27 (32.53%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.84%) Advent
3 8 (9.64%) GoldenSource
4 5 (6.02%) Brio
5 4 (4.82%) Google
5 4 (4.82%) Oracle
6 3 (3.61%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.41%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.41%) SAP
8 1 (1.20%) InterSystems
8 1 (1.20%) NEC
8 1 (1.20%) Optimizely
8 1 (1.20%) Sitecore
8 1 (1.20%) SnapLogic