.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 6 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 40 56
Rank change year-on-year -31 +16 +4
Contract jobs citing .NET 8 13 10
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.86% 2.42% 1.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.60% 16.67% 8.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 9
10th Percentile £225 £278 £373
25th Percentile £244 £395 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £483 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -0.92% +2.63%
75th Percentile £556 £641 £625
90th Percentile £590 £785 £680
West Midlands median daily rate £460 £508 £481
% change year-on-year -9.36% +5.45% -1.79%

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 174 78 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 18.69% 14.50% 15.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 61 87
10th Percentile £350 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.52% -3.40% -
75th Percentile £542 £550 £625
90th Percentile £575 £689 £717
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £24.48
25th Percentile - - £40.00
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £60.67 £50.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +21.33% +25.00% -5.88%

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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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in Birmingham over the 6 months to 6 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in Birmingham

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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

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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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) MSTest
General
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Legal
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) .NET Developer
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Integration Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) VB.NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) XML Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) XML Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) XML
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
2 2 (25.00%) XSLT
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 1 (12.50%) Django
3 1 (12.50%) JSON
3 1 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) React Native
3 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Code
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (25.00%) DevOps
1 2 (25.00%) ETL
1 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (25.00%) Observability
1 2 (25.00%) Validation
2 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
2 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
2 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
2 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
2 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
2 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (12.50%) RBAC
2 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (12.50%) SBOM
2 1 (12.50%) Secrets Management
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Environments
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) C#
1 3 (37.50%) Python
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Groovy
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Google