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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 49 62
Rank change year-on-year -60 +13 +10
Contract jobs citing .NET 31 28 44
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.49% 3.04% 2.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.13% 15.14% 10.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 19 36
10th Percentile £400 £402 £315
25th Percentile £455 £450 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £429
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +19.60% -14.30%
75th Percentile £525 £567 £466
90th Percentile £561 £573 £500
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.78
England median hourly rate £68.00 £26.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +156.60% -55.83% -7.69%

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 506 185 402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.37% 20.11% 21.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 112 278
10th Percentile £371 £401 £357
25th Percentile £450 £450 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £489
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +4.60% -6.90%
75th Percentile £571 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £723 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 6
10th Percentile £55.00 £87.75 £16.94
25th Percentile £55.75 £93.09 £21.25
Median hourly rate £56.50 £102.00 £24.64
Median % change year-on-year -44.61% +313.96% -64.80%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £53.20
90th Percentile - - £62.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +16.82% -17.69%

.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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -29 18 £500 -4.76% 25
South Yorkshire -52 12 £484 -5.10% 5
.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 3 (9.68%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (58.06%) Azure
2 11 (35.48%) AWS
3 8 (25.81%) GCP
4 7 (22.58%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (22.58%) Serverless
5 5 (16.13%) Azure Functions
5 5 (16.13%) SaaS
6 3 (9.68%) Azure AKS
6 3 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (6.45%) GitHub
7 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (3.23%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (3.23%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (32.26%) SQL Server
2 6 (19.35%) MySQL
3 5 (16.13%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.45%) Power BI
4 2 (6.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (25.81%) Jenkins
2 7 (22.58%) JIRA
2 7 (22.58%) Postman
3 6 (19.35%) Cucumber
3 6 (19.35%) REST Assured
3 6 (19.35%) Selenium
3 6 (19.35%) TestRail
4 5 (16.13%) GitLab
5 4 (12.90%) Git
General
1 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Health Technology
2 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
3 4 (12.90%) Finance
4 3 (9.68%) Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Software Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Lead
3 6 (19.35%) .NET Software Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Architect
4 5 (16.13%) Test Automation Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Test Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) .NET Developer
5 4 (12.90%) Developer
5 4 (12.90%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (9.68%) Automation Test Lead
6 3 (9.68%) Lead Test Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Backend Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Delphi Software Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Architect
8 1 (3.23%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (3.23%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.23%) Senior Manual Tester
8 1 (3.23%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (29.03%) REST
2 6 (19.35%) FHIR
3 5 (16.13%) .NET Core
3 5 (16.13%) LDAP
3 5 (16.13%) OpenID
3 5 (16.13%) React
3 5 (16.13%) SailPoint
4 4 (12.90%) RESTful
5 3 (9.68%) WebSockets
6 2 (6.45%) Kafka
6 2 (6.45%) WCF
7 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
7 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
7 1 (3.23%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (29.03%) NHS
2 2 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.45%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.23%) Legacy Code
3 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Linux
1 3 (9.68%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) CI/CD
1 14 (45.16%) DevOps
1 14 (45.16%) Software Engineering
2 10 (32.26%) Agile
3 7 (22.58%) API Testing
3 7 (22.58%) BDD
3 7 (22.58%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (22.58%) Identity Access Management
3 7 (22.58%) Test Automation
4 6 (19.35%) Clean Code
4 6 (19.35%) Containerisation
4 6 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (19.35%) Manual Testing
4 6 (19.35%) Mentoring
4 6 (19.35%) Migration
4 6 (19.35%) Scenario Testing
4 6 (19.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (19.35%) TDD
4 6 (19.35%) Test Scripting
5 5 (16.13%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 15 (48.39%) SQL
2 14 (45.16%) C#
3 10 (32.26%) Java
4 9 (29.03%) PHP
5 7 (22.58%) Python
6 6 (19.35%) JavaScript
7 5 (16.13%) TypeScript
8 3 (9.68%) Delphi
9 2 (6.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) HL7
1 5 (16.13%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (29.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Terraform
2 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.13%) ServiceNow
3 4 (12.90%) Brio
4 2 (6.45%) SAP
5 1 (3.23%) Google
5 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.23%) SnapLogic