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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 59 61
Rank change year-on-year -30 +2 +16
Contract jobs citing .NET 45 24 47
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.32% 2.42% 2.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.15% 12.24% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 15 38
10th Percentile £383 £424 £319
25th Percentile £450 £473 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £440
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +19.32% -13.09%
75th Percentile £525 £567 £494
90th Percentile £575 £571 £558
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.78
England median hourly rate £68.21 £26.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +157.40% -59.23% -0.38%

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 492 196 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 25.32% 19.78% 21.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 125 281
10th Percentile £363 £416 £375
25th Percentile £432 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £561 £623 £588
90th Percentile £675 £738 £650
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 5
10th Percentile £54.25 £87.75 £16.08
25th Percentile £55.75 £93.09 £21.25
Median hourly rate £56.50 £102.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.61% +353.33% -67.86%
75th Percentile £57.63 - £26.78
90th Percentile £62.30 - £47.91
England median hourly rate £60.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.20% +13.64% -15.38%

.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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -17 23 £463 -14.86% 28
South Yorkshire -40 21 £505 -0.98% 12
.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 2 (4.44%) Confluence
1 2 (4.44%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (51.11%) Azure
2 11 (24.44%) AWS
2 11 (24.44%) GCP
3 10 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (20.00%) Serverless
5 7 (15.56%) Azure Functions
5 7 (15.56%) GitHub
6 5 (11.11%) SaaS
7 4 (8.89%) Azure AKS
8 3 (6.67%) Power Platform
9 2 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (2.22%) Power Automate
10 1 (2.22%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (24.44%) SQL Server
2 8 (17.78%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (17.78%) Relational Database
3 6 (13.33%) MySQL
4 3 (6.67%) Power BI
5 2 (4.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (28.89%) Git
2 12 (26.67%) Jenkins
3 7 (15.56%) JIRA
3 7 (15.56%) Postman
4 6 (13.33%) Cucumber
4 6 (13.33%) REST Assured
4 6 (13.33%) Selenium
4 6 (13.33%) TestRail
5 5 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 12 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.78%) Public Sector
3 7 (15.56%) Finance
4 5 (11.11%) Health Technology
5 3 (6.67%) Banking
6 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Local Government
6 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (31.11%) Software Engineer
2 10 (22.22%) Developer
3 7 (15.56%) .NET Software Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Architect
5 5 (11.11%) .NET Developer
5 5 (11.11%) Lead
5 5 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Test Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.67%) Automation Test Lead
7 3 (6.67%) Lead Test Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Backend Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Delphi Software Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 2 (4.44%) Senior
8 2 (4.44%) Technical Architect
9 1 (2.22%) Disaster Recovery Consultant
9 1 (2.22%) Java Engineer
9 1 (2.22%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.00%) REST
2 7 (15.56%) FHIR
2 7 (15.56%) React
3 6 (13.33%) .NET Core
3 6 (13.33%) RESTful
4 5 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
4 5 (11.11%) CSS
4 5 (11.11%) HTML
4 5 (11.11%) jQuery
4 5 (11.11%) LDAP
4 5 (11.11%) OpenID
4 5 (11.11%) SailPoint
5 4 (8.89%) Compass CSS Framework
6 3 (6.67%) .NET Framework
6 3 (6.67%) AngularJS
6 3 (6.67%) WebSockets
7 2 (4.44%) Kafka
7 2 (4.44%) WCF
8 1 (2.22%) J2EE
8 1 (2.22%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) NHS
2 5 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.44%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.22%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.67%) Linux
1 3 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (51.11%) CI/CD
2 19 (42.22%) Agile
2 19 (42.22%) DevOps
2 19 (42.22%) Software Engineering
3 13 (28.89%) Full-Stack Development
4 11 (24.44%) Test Automation
5 10 (22.22%) Clean Code
6 9 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 9 (20.00%) Microservices
7 7 (15.56%) API Testing
7 7 (15.56%) BDD
7 7 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (15.56%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (15.56%) Mentoring
7 7 (15.56%) TDD
8 6 (13.33%) Data Protection
8 6 (13.33%) Manual Testing
8 6 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (13.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 25 (55.56%) C#
2 16 (35.56%) Java
2 16 (35.56%) SQL
3 14 (31.11%) JavaScript
4 10 (22.22%) Python
5 9 (20.00%) PHP
6 5 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 4 (8.89%) Shell Script
8 3 (6.67%) Delphi
9 2 (4.44%) Bash
9 2 (4.44%) Bicep
9 2 (4.44%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (6.67%) Degree
2 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) HL7
2 5 (11.11%) QA
3 2 (4.44%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (28.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (15.56%) Terraform
2 5 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.22%) Grafana
3 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (24.44%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 4 (8.89%) Brio
3 4 (8.89%) GoldenSource
3 4 (8.89%) Google
4 2 (4.44%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.44%) SAP
5 1 (2.22%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.22%) SnapLogic