.NET Contract Job Trends in Derbyshire

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derbyshire 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 23 19 27
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 +9
Contract jobs citing .NET 2 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Derbyshire 1.17% 3.48% 1.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.00% 30.77% 16.67%
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% -8.33%
75th Percentile £573 £513 £459
90th Percentile £593 £535 £476
East Midlands median daily rate £538 £450 £421
% change year-on-year +19.44% +6.82% -3.71%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Derbyshire

.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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 25 13 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 14.62% 11.30% 7.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 7
10th Percentile £348 £400 £378
25th Percentile £406 £410 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -6.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £554 £591
90th Percentile £575 £575 £652
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £445 £425
% change year-on-year +0.56% +4.59% -4.49%
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 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £25.11 - £16.59
% change year-on-year - - -15.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

.NET job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 26 January 2026. 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
Derby -8 2 £519 +15.28% 10
.NET
East Midlands

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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