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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 50 56
Rank change year-on-year -59 +6 +10
Contract jobs citing .NET 32 32 42
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.46% 3.52% 2.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.19% 17.78% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 23 34
10th Percentile £413 £359 £284
25th Percentile £454 £438 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £419
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +21.79% -11.84%
75th Percentile £525 £567 £445
90th Percentile £544 £572 £493
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -6.38%

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 517 180 383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 23.66% 19.78% 21.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 111 255
10th Percentile £363 £400 £350
25th Percentile £447 £450 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £560 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £738 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 5
10th Percentile £55.38 £87.75 £16.08
25th Percentile £55.75 £93.09 £21.25
Median hourly rate £57.25 £102.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.87% +353.33% -67.86%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £62.00
90th Percentile - - £63.05
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

.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 6 March 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 March 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 -31 21 £488 -7.14% 28
South Yorkshire -51 10 £484 +12.04% 6
.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 6 (18.75%) SharePoint
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 21 (65.63%) Azure
2 11 (34.38%) AWS
3 10 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (21.88%) Serverless
5 6 (18.75%) GCP
5 6 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (15.63%) Azure Functions
6 5 (15.63%) SaaS
7 3 (9.38%) Azure AKS
7 3 (9.38%) Azure App Service
7 3 (9.38%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (9.38%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (9.38%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (9.38%) Azure WebJobs
7 3 (9.38%) Entra ID
7 3 (9.38%) GitHub
7 3 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (9.38%) PaaS
8 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 6 (18.75%) MySQL
3 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.25%) Power BI
4 2 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) JIRA
1 7 (21.88%) Postman
2 6 (18.75%) Cucumber
2 6 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 6 (18.75%) REST Assured
2 6 (18.75%) Selenium
2 6 (18.75%) TestRail
3 5 (15.63%) GitLab
4 2 (6.25%) Git
General
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Health Technology
2 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
3 4 (12.50%) Finance
4 3 (9.38%) Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Software Engineer
2 7 (21.88%) Developer
2 7 (21.88%) Lead
3 6 (18.75%) .NET Developer
3 6 (18.75%) .NET Software Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Architect
4 5 (15.63%) Test Automation Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Test Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Azure Developer
5 4 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (9.38%) Automation Test Lead
6 3 (9.38%) Lead Test Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Backend Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Delphi Software Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Senior
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Architect
8 1 (3.13%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (3.13%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.13%) Senior Developer
8 1 (3.13%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (37.50%) REST
2 6 (18.75%) FHIR
3 5 (15.63%) .NET Core
3 5 (15.63%) LDAP
3 5 (15.63%) OpenID
3 5 (15.63%) React
3 5 (15.63%) SailPoint
4 4 (12.50%) .NET Framework
4 4 (12.50%) RESTful
5 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (9.38%) SOAP
5 3 (9.38%) Web Services
5 3 (9.38%) WebSockets
6 2 (6.25%) Kafka
6 2 (6.25%) WCF
7 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
7 1 (3.13%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) NHS
2 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.25%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Code
3 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
1 3 (9.38%) Windows
2 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (53.13%) DevOps
2 14 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 12 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 10 (31.25%) Agile
5 7 (21.88%) API Testing
5 7 (21.88%) BDD
5 7 (21.88%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (21.88%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (21.88%) Test Automation
6 6 (18.75%) Clean Code
6 6 (18.75%) Containerisation
6 6 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (18.75%) Manual Testing
6 6 (18.75%) Mentoring
6 6 (18.75%) Migration
6 6 (18.75%) Scenario Testing
6 6 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (18.75%) TDD
6 6 (18.75%) Test Scripting
7 5 (15.63%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 17 (53.13%) C#
2 15 (46.88%) SQL
3 9 (28.13%) PHP
4 8 (25.00%) Java
5 7 (21.88%) Python
6 6 (18.75%) JavaScript
7 5 (15.63%) TypeScript
8 3 (9.38%) Delphi
8 3 (9.38%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
1 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) HL7
1 5 (15.63%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (28.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Terraform
2 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.63%) ServiceNow
3 4 (12.50%) Brio
4 2 (6.25%) SAP
5 1 (3.13%) Google
5 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.13%) SnapLogic