.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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 54 47
Rank change year-on-year -12 -7 -4
Contract jobs citing .NET 8 11 14
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.88% 1.89% 1.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.82% 10.48% 8.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 9
10th Percentile £225 £265 £459
25th Percentile £253 £305 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £509 £618 £575
90th Percentile £560 £800 £730
West Midlands median daily rate £460 £503 £475
% change year-on-year -8.46% +5.79% -3.06%

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 166 105 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 18.22% 18.04% 22.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 76 106
10th Percentile £350 £331 £369
25th Percentile £410 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% -11.63% +13.16%
75th Percentile £566 £518 £675
90th Percentile £676 £663 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £480 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £36.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -34.55% -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% -9.09% +29.41%

.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
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in Birmingham over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in Birmingham

.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 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (12.50%) Figma
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior C# Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Integration Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) XML Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) XML Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) .NET Core
2 2 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) XML
2 2 (25.00%) XSLT
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) Blazor
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) Django
3 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) React Native
3 1 (12.50%) Sass
3 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Code
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Validation
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) ETL
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
3 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
3 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (12.50%) Mobile Application Development
3 1 (12.50%) Observability
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team Management
3 1 (12.50%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C#
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Google