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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 55 59
Rank change year-on-year -50 +4 +5
Contract jobs citing .NET 34 25 39
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.54% 2.71% 2.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.59% 13.74% 10.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 17 32
10th Percentile £420 £341 £280
25th Percentile £457 £385 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £418
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +13.77% -13.25%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £456
90th Percentile £579 £550 £523
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%

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 516 182 365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 23.42% 19.76% 21.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 113 243
10th Percentile £372 £375 £332
25th Percentile £446 £425 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £575
90th Percentile £630 £738 £650
England median daily rate £525 £538 £543
% change year-on-year -2.42% -0.83% -5.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 5
10th Percentile - £84.38 £16.08
25th Percentile £55.75 £84.67 £21.25
Median hourly rate £62.75 £96.85 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.21% +330.42% -67.86%
75th Percentile £68.75 £102.00 £62.00
90th Percentile - - £63.05
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -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

.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 March 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 20 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 -21 25 £500 - 27
South Yorkshire -48 9 £500 +39.66% 7
.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 6 (17.65%) SharePoint
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (5.88%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (58.82%) Azure
2 12 (35.29%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (29.41%) AWS
4 7 (20.59%) Serverless
5 6 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (14.71%) Azure Functions
6 5 (14.71%) GCP
6 5 (14.71%) SaaS
7 4 (11.76%) Azure AKS
7 4 (11.76%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (11.76%) PaaS
8 3 (8.82%) Azure App Service
8 3 (8.82%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (8.82%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (8.82%) Azure WebJobs
8 3 (8.82%) Entra ID
8 3 (8.82%) GitHub
8 3 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (8.82%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (35.29%) SQL Server
2 6 (17.65%) MySQL
3 3 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (5.88%) Power BI
5 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) JIRA
2 6 (17.65%) Cucumber
2 6 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 6 (17.65%) Postman
2 6 (17.65%) REST Assured
2 6 (17.65%) Selenium
2 6 (17.65%) TestRail
3 5 (14.71%) GitLab
4 2 (5.88%) Git
General
1 10 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.71%) Health Technology
2 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.76%) Finance
4 3 (8.82%) Banking
5 1 (2.94%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Developer
2 9 (26.47%) .NET Developer
3 8 (23.53%) Lead
3 8 (23.53%) Software Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) .NET Software Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Test Automation Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Test Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Architect
5 4 (11.76%) Azure Developer
6 3 (8.82%) .NET Software Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Automation Test Lead
6 3 (8.82%) C# .NET Developer
6 3 (8.82%) C# Developer
6 3 (8.82%) C# Software Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Lead Test Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Backend Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Delphi Software Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET MVC Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (38.24%) REST
2 6 (17.65%) .NET Core
2 6 (17.65%) RESTful
3 5 (14.71%) FHIR
3 5 (14.71%) LDAP
3 5 (14.71%) OpenID
3 5 (14.71%) React
3 5 (14.71%) SailPoint
4 4 (11.76%) .NET Framework
4 4 (11.76%) SOAP
5 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (8.82%) Web Services
5 3 (8.82%) WebSockets
6 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (2.94%) Kafka
6 1 (2.94%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) NHS
2 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.88%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.94%) Grid Computing
3 1 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.94%) Legacy Code
3 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Linux
1 3 (8.82%) Windows
2 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (52.94%) DevOps
2 14 (41.18%) CI/CD
3 11 (32.35%) Software Engineering
4 8 (23.53%) Agile
5 7 (20.59%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (20.59%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (20.59%) Migration
5 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (17.65%) API Testing
6 6 (17.65%) BDD
6 6 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (17.65%) ETL
6 6 (17.65%) Manual Testing
6 6 (17.65%) Scenario Testing
6 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (17.65%) TDD
6 6 (17.65%) Test Automation
6 6 (17.65%) Test Scripting
7 5 (14.71%) Data Integration
7 5 (14.71%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (58.82%) C#
2 16 (47.06%) SQL
3 9 (26.47%) PHP
4 7 (20.59%) Java
4 7 (20.59%) JavaScript
5 6 (17.65%) Python
6 4 (11.76%) TypeScript
7 3 (8.82%) Delphi
7 3 (8.82%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
7 3 (8.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) HL7
1 5 (14.71%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Terraform
2 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.71%) ServiceNow
3 4 (11.76%) Brio