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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 74 71
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 -16
Contract jobs citing .NET 71 45 35
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.47% 2.97% 2.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.90% 11.03% 9.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 23 26
10th Percentile £364 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £463 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £524
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.53% +6.08%
75th Percentile £563 £531 £567
90th Percentile £594 £590 £580
England median daily rate £520 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +6.67% -7.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
England median hourly rate £45.00 £67.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -32.84% +7.20% +4.17%

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 717 408 375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.93% 26.91% 25.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 261 274
10th Percentile £378 £360 £383
25th Percentile £439 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year - -3.38% -5.91%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £598
90th Percentile £638 £675 £655
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.02% -5.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £13.87
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £16.19
Median % change year-on-year - - -39.54%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +24.94% -13.60% -3.85%

.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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -25 23 £500 +1.01% 49
South Yorkshire -31 23 £450 -10.18% 14
North Yorkshire - 18 £490 - 19
East Yorkshire 0 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 11 (15.49%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (8.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.63%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 23 (32.39%) Azure
2 17 (23.94%) AWS
3 12 (16.90%) GitHub
4 7 (9.86%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.63%) GCP
6 3 (4.23%) Apigee
6 3 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.82%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.82%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.82%) Kong
7 2 (2.82%) Serverless
7 2 (2.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.41%) Azure App Service
8 1 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.41%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (1.41%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.41%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.04%) 3GPP
1 5 (7.04%) RTP
1 5 (7.04%) Wireshark
2 4 (5.63%) Network Security
3 2 (2.82%) DNS
3 2 (2.82%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (32.39%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.82%) Big Data
2 2 (2.82%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.82%) MySQL
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.41%) Metadata
3 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (22.54%) Git
2 12 (16.90%) Jenkins
3 9 (12.68%) JIRA
3 9 (12.68%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (7.04%) TeamCity
5 4 (5.63%) MSBuild
5 4 (5.63%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.41%) GitLab
6 1 (1.41%) Selenium
6 1 (1.41%) WebDriver
General
1 20 (28.17%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.31%) Finance
3 5 (7.04%) Aviation
3 5 (7.04%) Banking
3 5 (7.04%) Fire and Rescue
3 5 (7.04%) Police
4 4 (5.63%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.41%) Law
Job Titles
1 38 (53.52%) Developer
2 36 (50.70%) .NET Developer
3 13 (18.31%) Senior
4 11 (15.49%) Senior Developer
5 10 (14.08%) Senior .NET Developer
5 10 (14.08%) Software Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) IAM Developer
7 4 (5.63%) .NET Software Developer
7 4 (5.63%) C# .NET Developer
7 4 (5.63%) C# Developer
7 4 (5.63%) C# Software Developer
7 4 (5.63%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Lead
7 4 (5.63%) Software Developer
8 3 (4.23%) Analyst
9 2 (2.82%) Applications Support
9 2 (2.82%) Azure Developer
9 2 (2.82%) DevOps Manager
9 2 (2.82%) Technical Leader
9 2 (2.82%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (26.76%) ASP.NET
2 18 (25.35%) .NET Core
3 15 (21.13%) REST
4 14 (19.72%) Terraform
5 9 (12.68%) .NET Framework
6 8 (11.27%) Web Services
7 7 (9.86%) AngularJS
7 7 (9.86%) SailPoint
8 6 (8.45%) React
9 5 (7.04%) RESTful
10 4 (5.63%) ASP.NET Core
11 3 (4.23%) Playwright
11 3 (4.23%) pytest
12 2 (2.82%) ASP.NET MVC
12 2 (2.82%) ASP.NET Web API
12 2 (2.82%) JWT
12 2 (2.82%) MediatR
12 2 (2.82%) Next.js
12 2 (2.82%) Node.js
12 2 (2.82%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.49%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (9.86%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.04%) Legacy Code
3 5 (7.04%) Robotics
4 4 (5.63%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.23%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.82%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.41%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.41%) NHS
7 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.41%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (46.48%) CI/CD
2 20 (28.17%) DevOps
2 20 (28.17%) Test Automation
3 16 (22.54%) Agile
4 14 (19.72%) API Development
5 12 (16.90%) Software Engineering
6 11 (15.49%) Code Quality
7 10 (14.08%) TDD
8 9 (12.68%) BDD
8 9 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (12.68%) Migration
9 8 (11.27%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (11.27%) Refactoring
9 8 (11.27%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (9.86%) Identity Access Management
11 6 (8.45%) Multithreading
11 6 (8.45%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (8.45%) Runbook
11 6 (8.45%) Workflow
12 5 (7.04%) AI
Programming Languages
1 40 (56.34%) C#
2 22 (30.99%) SQL
3 11 (15.49%) Python
4 7 (9.86%) Java
5 6 (8.45%) T-SQL
6 5 (7.04%) Bicep
6 5 (7.04%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.04%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.63%) PowerShell
8 3 (4.23%) VB.NET
9 2 (2.82%) VBA
10 1 (1.41%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 7 (9.86%) Degree
1 7 (9.86%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.45%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.49%) QA
System Software
1 19 (26.76%) Docker
2 11 (15.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (15.49%) Ansible
1 11 (15.49%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.41%) Grafana
2 1 (1.41%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (23.94%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.45%) Centrify
2 6 (8.45%) CyberArk
3 2 (2.82%) Oracle
3 2 (2.82%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.82%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.41%) Databricks
4 1 (1.41%) Google