.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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 44 43
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing .NET 9 24 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.50% 3.33% 3.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.78% 14.81% 20.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 23
10th Percentile £293 £455 £403
25th Percentile £309 £481 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £562 £450
Median % change year-on-year -28.76% +24.78% -7.69%
75th Percentile £709 £573 £681
90th Percentile £800 £575 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £513 £500 £489
% change year-on-year +2.50% +2.30% +8.01%

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 92 162 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.33% 22.50% 17.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 102 112
10th Percentile £350 £375 £319
25th Percentile £413 £444 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £456
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +20.55% -15.12%
75th Percentile £617 £672 £639
90th Percentile £688 £749 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -9.09% +12.82% -5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -9.09% +214.29% -69.83%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing .NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for .NET 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 20 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (22.22%) IIS
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (11.11%) Moqups
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) IaaS
2 1 (11.11%) PaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) NoSQL
2 2 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) Tableau
3 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (55.56%) Public Sector
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Legal
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) Application Development Manager
1 2 (22.22%) Applications Development Manager
1 2 (22.22%) Applications Manager
1 2 (22.22%) Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Development Manager
1 2 (22.22%) Support Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Applications Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Designer
2 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Power Apps Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Software Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Software Support Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
2 1 (11.11%) UI Designer
2 1 (11.11%) UI/UX Designer
2 1 (11.11%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) HTML
1 3 (33.33%) Middleware
2 2 (22.22%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
3 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (11.11%) Blazor
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) CSS3
3 1 (11.11%) EDI
3 1 (11.11%) Entity Framework
3 1 (11.11%) HTML5
3 1 (11.11%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (11.11%) jQuery
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (11.11%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (11.11%) React
3 1 (11.11%) RESTful
3 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Android
1 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) ITIL
2 4 (44.44%) Service Management
3 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Change Management
4 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
4 2 (22.22%) Line Management
4 2 (22.22%) MVC
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (22.22%) Problem Management
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) User Experience
4 2 (22.22%) Web Application Development
5 1 (11.11%) Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (11.11%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) JavaScript
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) C#
3 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) Bash
4 1 (11.11%) Bicep
4 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) Degree
3 2 (22.22%) Tableau Certification
4 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Adobe
2 1 (11.11%) JD Edwards
2 1 (11.11%) QAD