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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 63 64
Rank change year-on-year -41 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing .NET 37 24 39
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.65% 2.60% 2.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.02% 13.04% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 16 31
10th Percentile £431 £339 £275
25th Percentile £461 £378 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £410
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +15.85% -15.90%
75th Percentile £558 £541 £448
90th Percentile £594 £550 £525
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -5.22%

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 527 184 366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 23.46% 19.93% 21.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 112 242
10th Percentile £371 £362 £339
25th Percentile £438 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £584
90th Percentile £625 £738 £650
England median daily rate £525 £538 £543
% change year-on-year -2.33% -0.92% -5.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 5
10th Percentile - £84.38 £16.08
25th Percentile £55.75 £84.67 £21.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £96.85 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.30% +330.42% -67.86%
75th Percentile £68.75 £102.00 £62.00
90th Percentile - - £63.05
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -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

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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 27 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in Yorkshire

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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

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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 27 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 -23 24 £500 +2.56% 29
South Yorkshire -49 9 £500 +39.66% 7
North Yorkshire -8 3 £588 +123.81% 6
.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 6 (16.22%) SharePoint
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (5.41%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (54.05%) Azure
2 13 (35.14%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (29.73%) AWS
4 6 (16.22%) GCP
4 6 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (16.22%) Serverless
5 5 (13.51%) SaaS
6 4 (10.81%) Azure AKS
6 4 (10.81%) Azure Functions
6 4 (10.81%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (10.81%) GitHub
6 4 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (10.81%) PaaS
7 3 (8.11%) Azure App Service
7 3 (8.11%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (8.11%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (8.11%) Azure WebJobs
7 3 (8.11%) Entra ID
7 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (32.43%) SQL Server
2 6 (16.22%) MySQL
3 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (5.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) Jenkins
1 7 (18.92%) JIRA
2 6 (16.22%) Cucumber
2 6 (16.22%) GitLab
2 6 (16.22%) Postman
2 6 (16.22%) REST Assured
2 6 (16.22%) Selenium
2 6 (16.22%) TestRail
3 3 (8.11%) Git
General
1 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.51%) Health Technology
2 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.11%) Banking
3 3 (8.11%) Finance
4 1 (2.70%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 13 (35.14%) Developer
2 11 (29.73%) .NET Developer
3 9 (24.32%) Lead
4 8 (21.62%) Software Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Test Automation Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Test Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) .NET Software Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Architect
6 4 (10.81%) Azure Developer
6 4 (10.81%) Senior
7 3 (8.11%) .NET Software Developer
7 3 (8.11%) Automation Test Lead
7 3 (8.11%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (8.11%) C# Developer
7 3 (8.11%) C# Software Developer
7 3 (8.11%) Lead Test Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Senior .NET Developer
7 3 (8.11%) Senior Developer
7 3 (8.11%) Software Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Delphi Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (35.14%) REST
2 7 (18.92%) RESTful
3 6 (16.22%) .NET Core
4 5 (13.51%) FHIR
4 5 (13.51%) LDAP
4 5 (13.51%) OpenID
4 5 (13.51%) React
4 5 (13.51%) SailPoint
5 4 (10.81%) .NET Framework
5 4 (10.81%) SOAP
6 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (8.11%) Web Services
6 3 (8.11%) WebSockets
7 1 (2.70%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET
7 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (2.70%) Kafka
7 1 (2.70%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) NHS
2 3 (8.11%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.41%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.70%) Grid Computing
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Linux
1 3 (8.11%) Windows
2 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (54.05%) DevOps
2 18 (48.65%) CI/CD
3 12 (32.43%) Software Engineering
4 8 (21.62%) Agile
5 7 (18.92%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (18.92%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (18.92%) Migration
5 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (18.92%) Test Automation
6 6 (16.22%) API Testing
6 6 (16.22%) BDD
6 6 (16.22%) Containerisation
6 6 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (16.22%) ETL
6 6 (16.22%) Manual Testing
6 6 (16.22%) Scenario Testing
6 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (16.22%) TDD
6 6 (16.22%) Test Scripting
7 5 (13.51%) Operational Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (54.05%) C#
2 15 (40.54%) SQL
3 9 (24.32%) PHP
4 8 (21.62%) Java
4 8 (21.62%) JavaScript
5 7 (18.92%) Python
6 5 (13.51%) TypeScript
7 3 (8.11%) Delphi
7 3 (8.11%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
7 3 (8.11%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.70%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (10.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) HL7
1 5 (13.51%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (24.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Terraform
2 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.70%) Grafana
3 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (29.73%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.51%) ServiceNow
3 4 (10.81%) Brio
4 1 (2.70%) Google