.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

.NET Developer
England > East Midlands

The median .NET Developer daily rate in the East Midlands is £515, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 51 53
Rank change year-on-year -16 +2 +5
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 6 4 10
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.68% 0.68% 1.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.74% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 10
10th Percentile £333 £345 £310
25th Percentile £505 £351 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £358 £374
Median % change year-on-year +44.06% -4.35% -12.06%
75th Percentile £523 £408 £435
90th Percentile £524 £493 £475
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the East Midlands with a recognized job title 815 539 683
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.78% 92.14% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 330 484
10th Percentile £185 £206 £186
25th Percentile £350 £314 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £525 £525 £550
90th Percentile £625 £614 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 25 50
10th Percentile £16.17 £15.10 £13.04
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £20.24 £22.50 £17.83
Median % change year-on-year -10.07% +26.17% +4.13%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £27.86
90th Percentile £25.29 £32.95 £58.25
England median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -22.26% -23.71% +40.01%

.NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring '.NET Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

.NET Developer job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in the East Midlands

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Developer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Developer in the East Midlands

.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in the East Midlands

.NET Developer
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Developer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Nottinghamshire - 3 £515 - 4
Leicestershire - 2 £238 - 3
.NET Developer
England

.NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 January 2026, .NET Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East Midlands region featuring .NET Developer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (83.33%) C#
3 4 (66.67%) AI
3 4 (66.67%) Migration
3 4 (66.67%) Oracle
3 4 (66.67%) PHP
3 4 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (66.67%) SQL
4 3 (50.00%) ChatGPT
4 3 (50.00%) GitHub
4 3 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
4 3 (50.00%) PL/SQL
5 2 (33.33%) Agile
5 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
5 2 (33.33%) DevOps
5 2 (33.33%) Docker
5 2 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
5 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
5 2 (33.33%) Microservices
5 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (33.33%) Software Architecture
6 1 (16.67%) Blazor
6 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
6 1 (16.67%) SaaS
6 1 (16.67%) Technical Debt
6 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy

.NET Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (50.00%) ChatGPT
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) AI
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (33.33%) Software Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Debt
3 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) PHP
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 3 (50.00%) PL/SQL
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle