.NET Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 71 69 45
Rank change year-on-year -2 -24 +2
Contract jobs citing .NET 38 73 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.97% 3.07% 4.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.73% 20.33% 26.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 48 129
10th Percentile £288 £363 £356
25th Percentile £363 £412 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +13.64% +13.55%
75th Percentile £611 £628 £500
90th Percentile £829 £688 £575
England median daily rate £539 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.30% +4.55% +10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West 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 West 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 258 359 610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.40% 15.08% 17.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 246 454
10th Percentile £311 £360 £363
25th Percentile £375 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% +23.75%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £558
90th Percentile £750 £700 £638
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £29.60 - -
25th Percentile £39.92 - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
75th Percentile £55.63 - -
90th Percentile £56.25 - -
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for .NET in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West 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
Birmingham -4 12 £488 +14.71% 40
Warwickshire +7 8 £607 -13.29% 18
Coventry -5 7 £475 -5.00% 4
Shropshire +30 1 - - 4
Staffordshire +7 1 £325 -16.67% 20
Worcestershire +7 1 - - 14
West Bromwich - 1 £338 -
Solihull - 1 £425 - 2
.NET
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (55.26%) Azure
2 16 (42.11%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (18.42%) Azure App Service
4 6 (15.79%) Azure AKS
5 4 (10.53%) Azure Functions
5 4 (10.53%) Serverless
6 3 (7.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (7.89%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.26%) AWS
7 2 (5.26%) PaaS
7 2 (5.26%) SonarCloud
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.63%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.63%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.63%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) FTP
1 1 (2.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.68%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.89%) Power BI
2 3 (7.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.63%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.63%) MS Access
4 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Git
2 4 (10.53%) NUnit
3 2 (5.26%) Hudson
3 2 (5.26%) JIRA
3 2 (5.26%) Moq
4 1 (2.63%) Selenium
4 1 (2.63%) SpecFlow
4 1 (2.63%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.63%) webpack
General
1 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.42%) Finance
3 3 (7.89%) Manufacturing
3 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Electronics
5 1 (2.63%) Local Government
5 1 (2.63%) Marketing
5 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (65.79%) Developer
2 8 (21.05%) .NET Developer
3 6 (15.79%) C# Developer
3 6 (15.79%) Lead
4 5 (13.16%) Angular Developer
5 4 (10.53%) C# .NET Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Team Leader
6 3 (7.89%) Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Applications Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Developer
7 2 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Full Stack Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Lead Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Test Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) Test Analyst
8 1 (2.63%) Full Stack .NET Developer
8 1 (2.63%) Power Platform Developer
8 1 (2.63%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.05%) AngularJS
2 6 (15.79%) .NET Framework
2 6 (15.79%) ASP.NET
3 5 (13.16%) RESTful
4 3 (7.89%) .NET Core
4 3 (7.89%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (5.26%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (5.26%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 2 (5.26%) Blazor
5 2 (5.26%) Entity Framework
5 2 (5.26%) React
6 1 (2.63%) Castle Windsor
6 1 (2.63%) jQuery
6 1 (2.63%) MDX
6 1 (2.63%) NHibernate
6 1 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.63%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (2.63%) WCF
6 1 (2.63%) WinForms
6 1 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (13.16%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.63%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) DevOps
2 14 (36.84%) Agile
3 11 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (18.42%) CI/CD
5 7 (18.42%) Microservices
6 5 (13.16%) Critical Thinking
6 5 (13.16%) Defect Management
6 5 (13.16%) Software Engineering
6 5 (13.16%) User Experience
6 5 (13.16%) UX Design
7 4 (10.53%) Full Stack Development
7 4 (10.53%) MVC
7 4 (10.53%) TDD
8 3 (7.89%) Clean Code
8 3 (7.89%) Decision-Making
8 3 (7.89%) Fintech
8 3 (7.89%) Scrum
8 3 (7.89%) SDLC
8 3 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (57.89%) C#
2 16 (42.11%) SQL
3 6 (15.79%) Bicep
3 6 (15.79%) TypeScript
4 4 (10.53%) Ruby
5 3 (7.89%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.89%) VB.NET
6 2 (5.26%) PL/SQL
6 2 (5.26%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.63%) Bash
7 1 (2.63%) Java
7 1 (2.63%) PHP
7 1 (2.63%) Python
7 1 (2.63%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.63%) VBA
7 1 (2.63%) XAML
Qualifications
1 1 (2.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) QA
2 3 (7.89%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.26%) Terraform
2 1 (2.63%) Argo
2 1 (2.63%) Istio
2 1 (2.63%) linkerd
2 1 (2.63%) SELinux
Vendors
1 11 (28.95%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.63%) Informatica
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle
2 1 (2.63%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.63%) SAP
2 1 (2.63%) UiPath
2 1 (2.63%) Xamarin