.NET Contracts in Cheshire

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring .NET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 42 27
Rank change year-on-year -8 -15 +12
Contract jobs citing .NET 8 16 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.78% 3.17% 6.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.52% 31.37% 33.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 27
10th Percentile £300 £285 £393
25th Percentile £318 £288 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £445 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.55% -19.09% +6.80%
75th Percentile £396 £488 £587
90th Percentile £405 £558 £638
North West median daily rate £413 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -8.33% -5.26% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cheshire

.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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 84 51 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.71% 10.12% 20.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 40 90
10th Percentile £322 £288 £325
25th Percentile £358 £318 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £450 £540
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -16.67% +32.52%
75th Percentile £537 £509 £575
90th Percentile £615 £575 £620
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £11.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +508.70% - -
North West median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in Cheshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for .NET in Cheshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in Cheshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for .NET in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford -6 3 £358 -19.55%
Chester -7 1 £410 +38.40% 11
Warrington -7 1 £390 -23.90% 9
Macclesfield - 1 £400 - 3
.NET
North West

.NET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (37.50%) Apache
1 3 (37.50%) nginx
1 3 (37.50%) Tomcat
2 2 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (37.50%) AWS KMS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
3 2 (25.00%) GIS
3 2 (25.00%) MSDE
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (12.50%) DTS
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) AWS DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Angular Developer
2 2 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 2 (25.00%) DBA
2 2 (25.00%) SQL DBA
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) OAuth
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Blue-Green Deployment
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (37.50%) Secrets Management
2 3 (37.50%) Service Catalogue
3 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (25.00%) CRM
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (25.00%) High Availability
3 2 (25.00%) Quality Management
3 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) BCP
4 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
4 1 (12.50%) ETL
4 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Kibana
3 1 (12.50%) Perfmon
3 1 (12.50%) SCOM
3 1 (12.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) AppDynamics
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) VMware