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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 81 70
Rank change year-on-year -19 -11 -18
Contract jobs citing .NET 60 45 35
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.09% 2.69% 2.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.43% 9.16% 9.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 22 27
10th Percentile £399 £400 £404
25th Percentile £413 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.09% -4.67% +16.67%
75th Percentile £491 £534 £567
90th Percentile £569 £595 £579
England median daily rate £513 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +4.59% -6.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
England median hourly rate £46.80 £67.00 £43.25
% change year-on-year -30.15% +54.91% -33.46%

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 712 491 374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.81% 29.33% 25.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 314 269
10th Percentile £384 £363 £381
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -7.82%
75th Percentile £570 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £650
England median daily rate £537 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile - - £14.28
25th Percentile £23.00 - £14.88
Median hourly rate £24.00 - £39.35
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.37%
75th Percentile £35.00 - £63.75
90th Percentile £41.00 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +9.62%

.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 13 October 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 13 October 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
South Yorkshire -16 25 £450 -10.18% 14
West Yorkshire -17 19 £475 -4.04% 56
North Yorkshire - 12 £425 - 16
East Yorkshire -2 4 - - 6
.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 11 (18.33%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 24 (40.00%) Azure
2 18 (30.00%) AWS
3 12 (20.00%) GitHub
4 7 (11.67%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.67%) Kong
6 3 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (3.33%) Azure Functions
7 2 (3.33%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.33%) GCP
7 2 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.33%) Serverless
8 1 (1.67%) Azure AI
8 1 (1.67%) Azure App Service
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.67%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (1.67%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) Network Security
2 3 (5.00%) 3GPP
2 3 (5.00%) DNS
2 3 (5.00%) RTP
2 3 (5.00%) Wireshark
3 2 (3.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (36.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.67%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.33%) Big Data
3 2 (3.33%) MySQL
3 2 (3.33%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.67%) Metadata
4 1 (1.67%) Power BI
4 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (25.00%) Git
2 11 (18.33%) Jenkins
3 9 (15.00%) JIRA
3 9 (15.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (6.67%) MSBuild
4 4 (6.67%) Visual Studio
5 3 (5.00%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.67%) Selenium
6 1 (1.67%) WebDriver
General
1 18 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (25.00%) Finance
3 5 (8.33%) Banking
4 3 (5.00%) Aviation
4 3 (5.00%) Fire and Rescue
4 3 (5.00%) Police
5 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 31 (51.67%) Developer
2 27 (45.00%) .NET Developer
3 8 (13.33%) Senior
3 8 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) IAM Developer
4 6 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 5 (8.33%) Senior .NET Developer
6 4 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Lead
8 2 (3.33%) Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) Applications Support
8 2 (3.33%) C# .NET Developer
8 2 (3.33%) C# Developer
8 2 (3.33%) DevOps Manager
8 2 (3.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Technical Leader
9 1 (1.67%) Support Analyst
9 1 (1.67%) Technical Architect
9 1 (1.67%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (31.67%) ASP.NET
2 18 (30.00%) REST
3 16 (26.67%) .NET Core
4 11 (18.33%) .NET Framework
4 11 (18.33%) Terraform
5 8 (13.33%) React
5 8 (13.33%) Web Services
6 7 (11.67%) AngularJS
6 7 (11.67%) SailPoint
7 3 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (5.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (5.00%) Entity Framework
7 3 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (3.33%) LDAP
8 2 (3.33%) MediatR
8 2 (3.33%) Next.js
8 2 (3.33%) RESTful
9 1 (1.67%) CSS
9 1 (1.67%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 14 (23.33%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (8.33%) Legacy Code
3 4 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.00%) Robotics
5 2 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.67%) NHS
6 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (43.33%) CI/CD
2 20 (33.33%) DevOps
3 18 (30.00%) Test Automation
4 13 (21.67%) Agile
5 12 (20.00%) API Development
5 12 (20.00%) Code Quality
5 12 (20.00%) TDD
6 11 (18.33%) BDD
6 11 (18.33%) Software Engineering
7 9 (15.00%) Refactoring
8 8 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (13.33%) Migration
8 8 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
8 8 (13.33%) SOLID
8 8 (13.33%) Workflow
9 7 (11.67%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (11.67%) Identity Access Management
9 7 (11.67%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (10.00%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 36 (60.00%) C#
2 19 (31.67%) SQL
3 8 (13.33%) Python
4 7 (11.67%) JavaScript
4 7 (11.67%) TypeScript
5 5 (8.33%) Bicep
6 4 (6.67%) Java
6 4 (6.67%) PowerShell
6 4 (6.67%) T-SQL
7 3 (5.00%) VB.NET
8 2 (3.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (8.33%) Degree
2 3 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (21.67%) QA
System Software
1 12 (20.00%) Docker
2 11 (18.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (18.33%) Ansible
2 9 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (28.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.00%) Centrify
2 6 (10.00%) CyberArk
3 2 (3.33%) Databricks
3 2 (3.33%) Oracle
3 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.33%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.67%) OpenAI