.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 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 38 49
Rank change year-on-year -34 +11 +6
Contract jobs citing .NET 5 12 12
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.53% 2.32% 1.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.14% 14.81% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 11
10th Percentile £490 £275 £200
25th Percentile £503 £425 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £483 £488
Median % change year-on-year +13.87% -0.92% -1.27%
75th Percentile £597 £644 £581
90th Percentile £609 £800 £638
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £500 £481
% change year-on-year -3.80% +3.90% -3.75%

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 159 81 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.90% 15.67% 15.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 62 85
10th Percentile £400 £376 £215
25th Percentile £425 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £484 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -3.20% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £625
90th Percentile £604 £700 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £512 £500
% change year-on-year -2.39% +2.45% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £24.48
25th Percentile £75.75 - £40.00
Median hourly rate £76.50 - £55.00
75th Percentile £77.25 - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £60.67 £33.91 £39.96
% change year-on-year +78.90% -15.14% -

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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 7 May 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (20.00%) IaaS
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) MSTest
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) .NET Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Test Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (20.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) RBAC
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) SBOM
3 1 (20.00%) Secrets Management
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Bicep
2 1 (20.00%) Groovy
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft