.NET Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring .NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 72 69
Rank change year-on-year -18 -3 -25
Contract jobs citing .NET 63 30 38
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.26% 2.28% 2.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.24% 12.99% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 19 27
10th Percentile £413 £347 £275
25th Percentile £450 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £436
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +8.94% -8.21%
75th Percentile £594 £519 £494
90th Percentile - £540 £560
England median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
England median hourly rate £58.00 £50.30 £58.91
% change year-on-year +15.31% -14.61% +17.81%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Yorkshire

.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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 615 231 358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 22.02% 17.57% 20.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 144 229
10th Percentile £366 £358 £400
25th Percentile £447 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% -10.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £576 £550 £610
90th Percentile £638 £634 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 5
10th Percentile £27.40 - -
25th Percentile £55.75 £84.83 £13.87
Median hourly rate £67.50 £91.69 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% +46.70% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £98.56 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £58.30
% change year-on-year +12.80% -1.16% -10.31%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

.NET job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

.NET
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing .NET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing .NET

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 6 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in Yorkshire

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing .NET.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing .NET

.NET
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
West Yorkshire -24 26 £500 +1.01% 25
North Yorkshire +8 15 £569 +116.67% 5
South Yorkshire -28 15 £450 +25.70% 23
East Yorkshire -1 6 - - 4
.NET
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 9 (14.29%) Confluence
2 6 (9.52%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (7.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (36.51%) Azure
2 13 (20.63%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (17.46%) GitHub
4 10 (15.87%) AWS
5 6 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (7.94%) Entra ID
7 4 (6.35%) Azure App Service
7 4 (6.35%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (6.35%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (6.35%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (6.35%) GCP
7 4 (6.35%) PaaS
8 3 (4.76%) Apigee
8 3 (4.76%) Azure WebJobs
8 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (3.17%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.17%) Serverless
10 1 (1.59%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.94%) 3GPP
1 5 (7.94%) RTP
1 5 (7.94%) Wireshark
2 3 (4.76%) Network Security
3 2 (3.17%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (3.17%) MySQL
3 2 (3.17%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (25.40%) Git
2 9 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 7 (11.11%) JIRA
4 6 (9.52%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (7.94%) TeamCity
6 3 (4.76%) MSBuild
6 3 (4.76%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.59%) GitLab
7 1 (1.59%) Selenium
7 1 (1.59%) WebDriver
General
1 16 (25.40%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.70%) Finance
3 5 (7.94%) Aviation
3 5 (7.94%) Fire and Rescue
3 5 (7.94%) Police
4 4 (6.35%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.76%) Banking
6 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Law
Job Titles
1 32 (50.79%) Developer
2 29 (46.03%) .NET Developer
3 11 (17.46%) Senior
4 10 (15.87%) Senior Developer
5 9 (14.29%) Senior .NET Developer
6 8 (12.70%) Lead
6 8 (12.70%) Software Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) Azure Developer
8 4 (6.35%) .NET Software Developer
8 4 (6.35%) C# .NET Developer
8 4 (6.35%) C# Developer
8 4 (6.35%) C# Software Developer
8 4 (6.35%) IAM Developer
8 4 (6.35%) Software Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Architect
9 3 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
10 2 (3.17%) Analyst
10 2 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
10 2 (3.17%) Technical Leader
10 2 (3.17%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (23.81%) REST
2 14 (22.22%) .NET Core
2 14 (22.22%) ASP.NET
3 10 (15.87%) .NET Framework
4 8 (12.70%) Web Services
5 5 (7.94%) RESTful
6 4 (6.35%) AngularJS
6 4 (6.35%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (6.35%) SailPoint
6 4 (6.35%) SOAP
7 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (4.76%) Playwright
7 3 (4.76%) pytest
7 3 (4.76%) React
8 2 (3.17%) LDAP
8 2 (3.17%) MediatR
8 2 (3.17%) Next.js
8 2 (3.17%) Node.js
9 1 (1.59%) CSS3
9 1 (1.59%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 7 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (7.94%) Robotics
3 4 (6.35%) Legacy Code
3 4 (6.35%) NHS
4 2 (3.17%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (3.17%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.59%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.59%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (47.62%) CI/CD
2 23 (36.51%) DevOps
3 16 (25.40%) Agile
3 16 (25.40%) Test Automation
4 11 (17.46%) Migration
4 11 (17.46%) Software Engineering
5 10 (15.87%) API Development
6 8 (12.70%) Code Quality
7 7 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (11.11%) TDD
8 6 (9.52%) BDD
8 6 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (9.52%) Multithreading
8 6 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (7.94%) Computer Science
9 5 (7.94%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (7.94%) Observability
9 5 (7.94%) Refactoring
9 5 (7.94%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 36 (57.14%) C#
2 19 (30.16%) SQL
3 8 (12.70%) Python
4 6 (9.52%) PowerShell
4 6 (9.52%) T-SQL
5 5 (7.94%) Java
5 5 (7.94%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.35%) Bicep
7 3 (4.76%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (3.17%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.17%) VB.NET
8 2 (3.17%) VBA
9 1 (1.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 7 (11.11%) Degree
1 7 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.59%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (25.40%) Docker
2 7 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (15.87%) Terraform
2 8 (12.70%) Kubernetes
3 7 (11.11%) Ansible
4 1 (1.59%) Grafana
4 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.35%) Centrify
2 4 (6.35%) CyberArk
3 2 (3.17%) Oracle
3 2 (3.17%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.17%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.59%) Google