.NET Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for .NET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited .NET over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 45 30
Rank change year-on-year -40 -15 +4
Contract jobs citing .NET 55 149 288
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.02% 4.33% 5.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.40% 25.00% 31.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 120 241
10th Percentile £270 £330 £345
25th Percentile £313 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -2.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £500
90th Percentile £628 £650 £566
England median daily rate £539 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.30% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.00
Median hourly rate - - £21.50
75th Percentile - - £45.42
90th Percentile - - £46.67
England median hourly rate £58.91 £55.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year +7.10% +13.40% +8.99%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

.NET is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 382 596 921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.00% 17.33% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 465 714
10th Percentile £285 £313 £356
25th Percentile £361 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +17.50%
75th Percentile £622 £588 £545
90th Percentile £725 £700 £634
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 11
10th Percentile £10.90 - -
25th Percentile £14.13 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.85%
75th Percentile £40.00 - £36.25
90th Percentile £56.25 - £46.67
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing .NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for .NET in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for .NET in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 Midlands -2 38 £481 -3.75% 117
East Midlands -25 17 £350 -17.65% 89
.NET
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.64%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.82%) Appian
2 1 (1.82%) CMS
2 1 (1.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (50.91%) Azure
2 17 (30.91%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (12.73%) Azure App Service
4 6 (10.91%) Azure AKS
5 4 (7.27%) Azure Functions
5 4 (7.27%) Power Platform
5 4 (7.27%) Serverless
6 3 (5.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (3.64%) AWS
7 2 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.64%) PaaS
7 2 (3.64%) PowerApps
7 2 (3.64%) SonarCloud
8 1 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.82%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.82%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) FTP
1 1 (1.82%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.45%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (5.45%) Power BI
2 3 (5.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.64%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.82%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.82%) MS Access
4 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 6 (10.91%) Git
2 5 (9.09%) NUnit
3 3 (5.45%) JIRA
4 2 (3.64%) Hudson
4 2 (3.64%) Moq
4 2 (3.64%) Selenium
5 1 (1.82%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.82%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.82%) TestRail
5 1 (1.82%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.82%) webpack
General
1 12 (21.82%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.73%) Finance
3 3 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (5.45%) Manufacturing
3 3 (5.45%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Electronics
5 1 (1.82%) Local Government
5 1 (1.82%) Marketing
5 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Retail
5 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (74.55%) Developer
2 19 (34.55%) .NET Developer
3 8 (14.55%) C# Developer
3 8 (14.55%) Full Stack Developer
4 7 (12.73%) Angular Developer
5 6 (10.91%) C# .NET Developer
5 6 (10.91%) Full Stack .NET Developer
5 6 (10.91%) Lead
6 4 (7.27%) Analyst
6 4 (7.27%) Team Leader
7 3 (5.45%) Applications Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Developer
7 3 (5.45%) React Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Test Analyst
8 2 (3.64%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Lead Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Power Platform Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (3.64%) Senior Test Analyst
8 2 (3.64%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.18%) AngularJS
2 8 (14.55%) ASP.NET
3 7 (12.73%) .NET Framework
4 6 (10.91%) .NET Core
5 5 (9.09%) RESTful
5 5 (9.09%) Vue
6 4 (7.27%) React
7 3 (5.45%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 3 (5.45%) Ruby on Rails
7 3 (5.45%) XML
8 2 (3.64%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (3.64%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (3.64%) Blazor
8 2 (3.64%) Entity Framework
8 2 (3.64%) GraphQL
8 2 (3.64%) HTML
8 2 (3.64%) jQuery
8 2 (3.64%) Razor View Engine
8 2 (3.64%) WCF
9 1 (1.82%) Vuex
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (1.82%) Low-Code
2 1 (1.82%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.64%) Linux
2 1 (1.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (30.91%) DevOps
2 15 (27.27%) Agile
3 14 (25.45%) Full Stack Development
4 11 (20.00%) MVC
4 11 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (14.55%) CI/CD
5 8 (14.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (12.73%) Microservices
7 5 (9.09%) Critical Thinking
7 5 (9.09%) Defect Management
7 5 (9.09%) Software Engineering
7 5 (9.09%) User Experience
7 5 (9.09%) UX Design
8 4 (7.27%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (7.27%) TDD
9 3 (5.45%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (5.45%) Decision-Making
9 3 (5.45%) Migration
9 3 (5.45%) Scrum
9 3 (5.45%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 36 (65.45%) C#
2 21 (38.18%) SQL
3 8 (14.55%) JavaScript
3 8 (14.55%) TypeScript
4 6 (10.91%) Bicep
5 4 (7.27%) Ruby
6 3 (5.45%) VB.NET
7 2 (3.64%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.64%) Python
8 1 (1.82%) Bash
8 1 (1.82%) Java
8 1 (1.82%) PHP
8 1 (1.82%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.82%) VBA
8 1 (1.82%) VBScript
8 1 (1.82%) XAML
Qualifications
1 1 (1.82%) Degree
1 1 (1.82%) ISTQB
1 1 (1.82%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) QA
2 3 (5.45%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.64%) Terraform
2 1 (1.82%) Argo
2 1 (1.82%) Istio
2 1 (1.82%) linkerd
2 1 (1.82%) SELinux
Vendors
1 12 (21.82%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.64%) Oracle
3 1 (1.82%) Databricks
3 1 (1.82%) Informatica
3 1 (1.82%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.82%) SAP
3 1 (1.82%) UiPath
3 1 (1.82%) Xamarin