.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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 48 38
Rank change year-on-year -15 -10 -1
Contract jobs citing .NET 7 23 33
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.02% 3.19% 4.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.47% 14.11% 23.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 23
10th Percentile £308 £453 £403
25th Percentile £313 £491 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £567 £513
Median % change year-on-year -29.45% +10.63% +7.89%
75th Percentile £419 £574 £688
90th Percentile £538 £600 -
West Midlands median daily rate £480 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -8.57% +10.53% -5.00%

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 128 163 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 18.74% 22.58% 17.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 95 112
10th Percentile £400 £363 £301
25th Percentile £475 £440 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% +15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £575
90th Percentile £688 £750 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £507 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -7.82% +15.79% -9.52%
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 £48.75 £17.50
% change year-on-year +2.56% +178.57% -69.83%

.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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in Birmingham over the 6 months to 14 November 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 & 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 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (14.29%) Moqups
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) IaaS
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) Selenium
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Test Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Designer
2 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Power Apps Developer
2 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
2 1 (14.29%) UI Designer
2 1 (14.29%) UI/UX Designer
2 1 (14.29%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
1 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (14.29%) Blazor
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) CSS3
1 1 (14.29%) EDI
1 1 (14.29%) Entity Framework
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) HTML5
1 1 (14.29%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (14.29%) jQuery
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
1 1 (14.29%) Playwright
1 1 (14.29%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
1 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) MVC
4 2 (28.57%) User Experience
5 1 (14.29%) API Management
5 1 (14.29%) API Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
5 1 (14.29%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
5 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
5 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (14.29%) Exploratory Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
5 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) C#
1 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Bicep
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Adobe
2 1 (14.29%) JD Edwards
2 1 (14.29%) QAD