.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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 71 66
Rank change year-on-year -25 -5 -11
Contract jobs citing .NET 62 47 35
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.14% 3.05% 2.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.65% 10.90% 9.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 24 26
10th Percentile £350 £400 £403
25th Percentile £413 £463 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £530
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -6.60% +11.58%
75th Percentile £500 £528 £567
90th Percentile £594 £585 £580
England median daily rate £515 £488 £535
% change year-on-year +5.64% -8.88% -4.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
England median hourly rate £46.80 £67.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -30.15% +3.08% -

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 717 431 377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.72% 28.01% 25.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 276 275
10th Percentile £381 £361 £381
25th Percentile £426 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -7.82%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £592
90th Percentile £638 £675 £653
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £13.87
Median hourly rate £34.50 - £16.19
Median % change year-on-year - - -39.54%
75th Percentile £50.94 - £63.75
90th Percentile £61.63 - -
England median hourly rate £66.66 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +21.20% -15.38% +8.33%

.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

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 29 September 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 29 September 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
South Yorkshire -30 23 £450 -10.18% 6
West Yorkshire -24 19 £475 -3.06% 40
North Yorkshire - 14 £448 - 18
East Yorkshire 0 6 - - 5
.NET
England

.NET
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 11 (17.74%) Confluence
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 21 (33.87%) Azure
2 17 (27.42%) AWS
3 11 (17.74%) GitHub
4 6 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.84%) Apigee
5 3 (4.84%) GCP
6 2 (3.23%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.23%) Kong
6 2 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.61%) Azure App Service
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.06%) 3GPP
1 5 (8.06%) RTP
1 5 (8.06%) Wireshark
2 4 (6.45%) Network Security
3 2 (3.23%) DNS
3 2 (3.23%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (33.87%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.23%) Big Data
2 2 (3.23%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.23%) MySQL
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.61%) Metadata
3 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (25.81%) Git
2 11 (17.74%) Jenkins
3 9 (14.52%) JIRA
3 9 (14.52%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (8.06%) TeamCity
5 4 (6.45%) MSBuild
5 4 (6.45%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.61%) Selenium
6 1 (1.61%) WebDriver
General
1 20 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.58%) Finance
3 5 (8.06%) Aviation
3 5 (8.06%) Banking
3 5 (8.06%) Fire and Rescue
3 5 (8.06%) Police
4 2 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (3.23%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.61%) Law
Job Titles
1 32 (51.61%) Developer
2 29 (46.77%) .NET Developer
3 9 (14.52%) Senior
3 9 (14.52%) Software Engineer
4 8 (12.90%) Senior Developer
5 7 (11.29%) Senior .NET Developer
6 6 (9.68%) IAM Developer
7 4 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Analyst
8 3 (4.84%) Lead
9 2 (3.23%) Applications Support
9 2 (3.23%) Azure Developer
9 2 (3.23%) DevOps Manager
9 2 (3.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (3.23%) Technical Leader
9 2 (3.23%) Tester
10 1 (1.61%) .NET Software Developer
10 1 (1.61%) C# Software Developer
10 1 (1.61%) Production Support Analyst
10 1 (1.61%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (29.03%) .NET Core
1 18 (29.03%) ASP.NET
2 16 (25.81%) REST
3 12 (19.35%) Terraform
4 10 (16.13%) .NET Framework
5 8 (12.90%) Web Services
6 7 (11.29%) AngularJS
6 7 (11.29%) React
6 7 (11.29%) SailPoint
7 3 (4.84%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (4.84%) Playwright
7 3 (4.84%) pytest
8 2 (3.23%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (3.23%) Entity Framework
8 2 (3.23%) JWT
8 2 (3.23%) MediatR
8 2 (3.23%) Next.js
8 2 (3.23%) OAuth
8 2 (3.23%) OAuth2
8 2 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.35%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (8.06%) Legacy Code
2 5 (8.06%) Robotics
3 4 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.84%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.61%) NHS
6 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (45.16%) CI/CD
2 19 (30.65%) Test Automation
3 18 (29.03%) DevOps
4 16 (25.81%) Agile
5 11 (17.74%) API Development
5 11 (17.74%) Code Quality
5 11 (17.74%) TDD
6 10 (16.13%) BDD
6 10 (16.13%) Software Engineering
7 8 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (12.90%) Migration
7 8 (12.90%) Refactoring
7 8 (12.90%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (11.29%) Identity Access Management
8 7 (11.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (9.68%) Deployment Automation
9 6 (9.68%) Multithreading
9 6 (9.68%) Runbook
9 6 (9.68%) Workflow
10 5 (8.06%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 36 (58.06%) C#
2 20 (32.26%) SQL
3 10 (16.13%) Python
4 6 (9.68%) Java
5 5 (8.06%) Bicep
5 5 (8.06%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.06%) TypeScript
6 4 (6.45%) PowerShell
6 4 (6.45%) T-SQL
7 3 (4.84%) VB.NET
8 2 (3.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (11.29%) Degree
2 5 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (8.06%) SC Cleared
2 5 (8.06%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (19.35%) QA
System Software
1 17 (27.42%) Docker
2 11 (17.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (17.74%) Ansible
2 9 (14.52%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (25.81%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.68%) Centrify
2 6 (9.68%) CyberArk
3 2 (3.23%) Oracle
3 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.23%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.61%) Databricks