.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 £510, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 61 56
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 +6
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 8 3 10
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.94% 0.40% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 0.43% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 10
10th Percentile £217 £343 £322
25th Percentile £289 £348 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £355 £360
Median % change year-on-year +43.66% -1.39% -18.18%
75th Percentile £523 £358 £435
90th Percentile £523 £359 £475
England median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 786 694 772
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.15% 93.28% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 411 564
10th Percentile £190 £250 £200
25th Percentile £339 £350 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £443 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% -6.74% +0.53%
75th Percentile £523 £525 £588
90th Percentile £638 £600 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 38 54
10th Percentile £16.17 £13.27 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.39 £24.18 £18.16
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +33.13% +6.84%
75th Percentile £25.15 £42.56 £28.75
90th Percentile £26.50 £51.50 £68.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.03 £45.88
% change year-on-year -40.16% -8.39% +58.21%

.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 28 October 2025.

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 28 October 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
Nottinghamshire - 4 £513 - 3
Leicestershire - 2 £231 - 6
Northamptonshire -14 1 £313 -11.83% 2
.NET Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 October 2025, .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 8 (100.00%) .NET
2 6 (75.00%) C#
2 6 (75.00%) Oracle
3 5 (62.50%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (62.50%) SQL
4 4 (50.00%) AI
4 4 (50.00%) Migration
4 4 (50.00%) PHP
5 3 (37.50%) Agile
5 3 (37.50%) ChatGPT
5 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 3 (37.50%) GitHub
5 3 (37.50%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (37.50%) Microservices
5 3 (37.50%) PL/SQL
6 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (25.00%) Blazor
6 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
6 2 (25.00%) DevOps
6 2 (25.00%) Docker
6 2 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
6 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
6 2 (25.00%) MySQL
6 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
6 2 (25.00%) Software Architecture
7 1 (12.50%) .NET Core

.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 (37.50%) ChatGPT
1 3 (37.50%) GitHub
1 3 (37.50%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CodeBuild
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (25.00%) MySQL
2 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) Blazor
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) AI
1 4 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (25.00%) Software Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Data Management
4 1 (12.50%) SDLC
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) C#
2 5 (62.50%) SQL
3 4 (50.00%) PHP
4 3 (37.50%) PL/SQL
5 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle