.NET Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring .NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 44 38
Rank change year-on-year -25 -6 -6
Contract jobs citing .NET 5 22 34
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.69% 3.22% 4.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.76% 14.19% 26.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 16 24
10th Percentile £330 £440 £320
25th Percentile £356 £491 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £567 £481
Median % change year-on-year -29.45% +17.82% -3.75%
75th Percentile £409 £574 £688
90th Percentile £415 £600 -
West Midlands median daily rate £503 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -4.29% +16.67% -10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Birmingham

.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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 133 155 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 18.34% 22.66% 17.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 96 102
10th Percentile £400 £375 £288
25th Percentile £468 £448 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -6.17%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £575
90th Percentile £688 £750 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £550 £463
% change year-on-year -4.55% +18.92% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £25.80 - -
25th Percentile £34.13 - -
Median hourly rate £48.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.13 - -
90th Percentile £71.60 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +81.82% +57.14% +16.67%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing .NET relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

.NET job vacancy trend in Birmingham

.NET
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing .NET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing .NET

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing .NET.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing .NET

.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (20.00%) Moqups
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Automation Test Lead
1 1 (20.00%) Designer
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Lead
1 1 (20.00%) QA Leader
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
1 1 (20.00%) UI Designer
1 1 (20.00%) UI/UX Designer
1 1 (20.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (20.00%) Blazor
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) CSS3
1 1 (20.00%) EDI
1 1 (20.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) HTML5
1 1 (20.00%) jQuery
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
1 1 (20.00%) Playwright
1 1 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) MVC
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) API Management
3 1 (20.00%) B2B
3 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) JD Edwards
2 1 (20.00%) QAD