.NET Contract Job Trends in Derby

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derby requiring .NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 13 26
Rank change year-on-year -8 +13 +8
Contract jobs citing .NET 2 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Derby 1.42% 4.55% 1.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.33% 40.00% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £439 - £339
25th Percentile £461 £400 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £450 £413
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% +9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £573 £513 £459
90th Percentile £593 £535 £476
Derbyshire median daily rate £519 £450 £413
% change year-on-year +15.28% +9.09% -8.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Derby

.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 Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 24 10 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 17.02% 11.36% 7.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 7
10th Percentile £348 - £378
25th Percentile £392 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -2.50% -3.85%
75th Percentile £547 £560 £591
90th Percentile £575 £577 £652
Derbyshire median daily rate £450 £469 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -6.25% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £25.05 - -
25th Percentile £25.07 - -
Median hourly rate £25.11 - -
75th Percentile £25.14 - -
90th Percentile £25.15 - -
Derbyshire median hourly rate £25.11 - -

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing .NET relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby.

.NET job vacancy trend in Derby

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Daily Rate Trend in Derby

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing .NET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing .NET

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Hourly Rate Trend in Derby

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing .NET.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing .NET

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft