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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 63 68
Rank change year-on-year -24 +5 -16
Contract jobs citing .NET 68 38 38
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.38% 2.75% 2.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.18% 15.38% 11.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 23 27
10th Percentile £411 £353 £275
25th Percentile £426 £444 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.58% +5.56% -7.69%
75th Percentile £589 £538 £530
90th Percentile £594 £550 £580
England median daily rate £525 £500 £535
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.54% -5.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
England median hourly rate £51.25 £67.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -23.51% +11.67% +20.00%

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 608 247 338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.32% 17.86% 20.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 154 222
10th Percentile £363 £358 £400
25th Percentile £425 £403 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £586 £550 £600
90th Percentile £637 £600 £675
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.91% -5.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 6
10th Percentile £23.00 - £13.87
25th Percentile £50.31 £84.83 £14.21
Median hourly rate £67.50 £91.69 £39.35
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% +133.04% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £98.56 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -0.86% -7.20%

.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 July 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

.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 July 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 -26 27 £500 - 17
South Yorkshire -26 18 £450 +2.86% 10
North Yorkshire +3 16 £550 +109.52% 5
East Yorkshire -3 6 - - 5
.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 8 (11.76%) Confluence
2 5 (7.35%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (32.35%) Azure
2 13 (19.12%) GitHub
3 11 (16.18%) AWS
3 11 (16.18%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (7.35%) Entra ID
5 5 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (5.88%) Azure App Service
6 4 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (5.88%) GCP
6 4 (5.88%) PaaS
7 3 (4.41%) Apigee
7 3 (4.41%) Azure WebJobs
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (2.94%) Serverless
9 1 (1.47%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.35%) 3GPP
1 5 (7.35%) RTP
1 5 (7.35%) Wireshark
2 4 (5.88%) Network Security
3 2 (2.94%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (29.41%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (2.94%) MySQL
3 2 (2.94%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (22.06%) Git
2 11 (16.18%) Jenkins
3 8 (11.76%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (10.29%) JIRA
5 5 (7.35%) TeamCity
6 4 (5.88%) MSBuild
6 4 (5.88%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.47%) GitLab
7 1 (1.47%) Selenium
7 1 (1.47%) WebDriver
General
1 18 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.24%) Finance
3 5 (7.35%) Aviation
3 5 (7.35%) Fire and Rescue
3 5 (7.35%) Police
4 4 (5.88%) Banking
4 4 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 38 (55.88%) Developer
2 35 (51.47%) .NET Developer
3 11 (16.18%) Senior
4 10 (14.71%) Senior Developer
5 9 (13.24%) Senior .NET Developer
6 8 (11.76%) Software Engineer
7 7 (10.29%) Lead
8 5 (7.35%) Azure Developer
8 5 (7.35%) IAM Developer
9 4 (5.88%) .NET Software Developer
9 4 (5.88%) C# .NET Developer
9 4 (5.88%) C# Developer
9 4 (5.88%) C# Software Developer
9 4 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Software Developer
10 2 (2.94%) Analyst
10 2 (2.94%) DevOps Manager
10 2 (2.94%) Technical Leader
10 2 (2.94%) Tester
11 1 (1.47%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (22.06%) .NET Core
1 15 (22.06%) ASP.NET
1 15 (22.06%) REST
2 10 (14.71%) .NET Framework
3 9 (13.24%) Web Services
4 5 (7.35%) AngularJS
4 5 (7.35%) RESTful
4 5 (7.35%) SailPoint
5 4 (5.88%) ASP.NET Core
5 4 (5.88%) React
5 4 (5.88%) SOAP
6 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (4.41%) Playwright
6 3 (4.41%) pytest
7 2 (2.94%) LDAP
7 2 (2.94%) MediatR
7 2 (2.94%) Next.js
7 2 (2.94%) Node.js
8 1 (1.47%) CSS3
8 1 (1.47%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (10.29%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.35%) Robotics
4 4 (5.88%) Legacy Code
5 3 (4.41%) NHS
6 2 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.47%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (42.65%) CI/CD
2 22 (32.35%) DevOps
3 16 (23.53%) Test Automation
4 15 (22.06%) Agile
5 11 (16.18%) API Development
6 10 (14.71%) Migration
6 10 (14.71%) Software Engineering
7 8 (11.76%) Code Quality
8 7 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (10.29%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (10.29%) TDD
9 6 (8.82%) BDD
9 6 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (8.82%) Identity Access Management
9 6 (8.82%) Multithreading
9 6 (8.82%) Runbook
10 5 (7.35%) DevSecOps
10 5 (7.35%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (7.35%) Observability
10 5 (7.35%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 38 (55.88%) C#
2 20 (29.41%) SQL
3 9 (13.24%) Python
4 7 (10.29%) PowerShell
5 6 (8.82%) T-SQL
6 5 (7.35%) Java
6 5 (7.35%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.88%) Bicep
8 3 (4.41%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (4.41%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.41%) VB.NET
9 2 (2.94%) VBA
10 1 (1.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 10 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.24%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.29%) Degree
4 5 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (25.00%) Docker
2 8 (11.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (16.18%) Terraform
2 9 (13.24%) Ansible
2 9 (13.24%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.47%) Grafana
3 1 (1.47%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.88%) Centrify
2 4 (5.88%) CyberArk
3 2 (2.94%) Oracle
3 2 (2.94%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.94%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.47%) Google