.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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 58 55
Rank change year-on-year -26 -3 +28
Contract jobs citing .NET 52 29 53
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.78% 2.50% 2.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.61% 13.36% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 20 41
10th Percentile £397 £450 £325
25th Percentile £450 £487 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £536 £440
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% +21.88% -16.19%
75th Percentile £524 £567 £525
90th Percentile £600 £573 £588
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 £67.00 £22.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +197.78% -65.38% -

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 448 217 402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 23.97% 18.74% 22.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 136 298
10th Percentile £362 £425 £375
25th Percentile £413 £452 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £623 £600
90th Percentile £675 £738 £650
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile £53.13 £35.91 -
25th Percentile £54.81 £66.95 £21.25
Median hourly rate £56.50 £96.21 £24.64
Median % change year-on-year -41.27% +290.45% -64.80%
75th Percentile £57.44 £102.00 £35.59
90th Percentile £57.78 - £51.43
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £52.20
% change year-on-year -6.15% +24.53% -19.70%

.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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025. 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 -22 26 £500 -1.96% 7
West Yorkshire -19 25 £488 -9.30% 18
.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 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (50.00%) Azure
2 12 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (21.15%) AWS
3 11 (21.15%) GCP
3 11 (21.15%) Serverless
4 9 (17.31%) Azure Functions
5 8 (15.38%) GitHub
6 5 (9.62%) SaaS
7 4 (7.69%) Azure AKS
7 4 (7.69%) Power Platform
8 3 (5.77%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.85%) PaaS
9 2 (3.85%) Power Automate
9 2 (3.85%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.92%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.92%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 11 (21.15%) SQL Server
3 8 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (11.54%) MySQL
5 4 (7.69%) Power BI
6 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (32.69%) Git
2 12 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 7 (13.46%) Postman
4 6 (11.54%) Cucumber
4 6 (11.54%) REST Assured
4 6 (11.54%) Selenium
4 6 (11.54%) TestRail
5 5 (9.62%) GitLab
5 5 (9.62%) JIRA
General
1 14 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 11 (21.15%) Public Sector
3 10 (19.23%) Finance
4 5 (9.62%) Health Technology
5 3 (5.77%) Banking
6 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.92%) Local Government
7 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (32.69%) Software Engineer
2 15 (28.85%) Developer
3 10 (19.23%) .NET Software Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) .NET Developer
5 5 (9.62%) Architect
5 5 (9.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Test Automation Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Test Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (7.69%) Lead
7 3 (5.77%) Automation Test Lead
7 3 (5.77%) Lead Test Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.85%) Backend Developer
8 2 (3.85%) C# .NET Developer
8 2 (3.85%) C# Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Delphi Software Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 2 (3.85%) Senior
8 2 (3.85%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.23%) ASP.NET Web API
1 10 (19.23%) CSS
1 10 (19.23%) HTML
1 10 (19.23%) jQuery
2 9 (17.31%) React
3 7 (13.46%) .NET Core
3 7 (13.46%) FHIR
3 7 (13.46%) REST
4 6 (11.54%) Compass CSS Framework
4 6 (11.54%) RESTful
5 5 (9.62%) LDAP
5 5 (9.62%) OpenID
5 5 (9.62%) SailPoint
6 4 (7.69%) .NET Framework
6 4 (7.69%) AngularJS
7 3 (5.77%) WebSockets
8 2 (3.85%) ARM Templates
8 2 (3.85%) Blazor
8 2 (3.85%) Kafka
8 2 (3.85%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.38%) NHS
2 6 (11.54%) Management Information System
3 5 (9.62%) Cloud Native
3 5 (9.62%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (5.77%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.92%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.77%) Linux
1 3 (5.77%) Windows
2 1 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 22 (42.31%) Agile
3 21 (40.38%) DevOps
3 21 (40.38%) Software Engineering
4 18 (34.62%) Full-Stack Development
5 16 (30.77%) Test Automation
6 13 (25.00%) Clean Code
7 11 (21.15%) Front End Development
8 10 (19.23%) Containerisation
8 10 (19.23%) Microservices
8 10 (19.23%) MVC
9 9 (17.31%) Architectural Patterns
9 9 (17.31%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (15.38%) Business Analysis
10 8 (15.38%) Code Quality
10 8 (15.38%) OOP
10 8 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (13.46%) Mentoring
11 7 (13.46%) OO
11 7 (13.46%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 35 (67.31%) C#
2 20 (38.46%) JavaScript
3 18 (34.62%) SQL
4 16 (30.77%) Java
5 10 (19.23%) Python
6 9 (17.31%) PHP
7 5 (9.62%) TypeScript
8 4 (7.69%) Shell Script
9 3 (5.77%) Bicep
9 3 (5.77%) Delphi
10 2 (3.85%) Bash
10 2 (3.85%) C++
11 1 (1.92%) VB
11 1 (1.92%) VB6
Qualifications
1 3 (5.77%) Degree
1 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.54%) HL7
2 5 (9.62%) QA
3 3 (5.77%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.92%) GDPR
4 1 (1.92%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (26.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (19.23%) Terraform
2 6 (11.54%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.85%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.92%) Grafana
Vendors
1 13 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.38%) GoldenSource
3 5 (9.62%) Brio
3 5 (9.62%) ServiceNow
4 4 (7.69%) Google
5 2 (3.85%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.85%) SAP
6 1 (1.92%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.92%) SnapLogic