.NET Framework Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Microsoft .NET Framework
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring .NET Framework skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 61 64
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 +8
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 9 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.05% 0.27% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.25% 1.56% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile £311 - -
25th Percentile £313 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £360
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% +18.06% -28.00%
75th Percentile £625 £438 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -4.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Midlands

.NET Framework 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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 212 128 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 24.80% 17.41% 18.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 98 128
10th Percentile £269 £309 £300
25th Percentile £360 £340 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £442 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.39% -9.33% +2.63%
75th Percentile £500 £510 £569
90th Percentile £625 £577 £650
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £21.21 - £27.86
25th Percentile £22.64 - £38.41
Median hourly rate £25.08 - £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +184.77%
75th Percentile £25.13 - £60.50
90th Percentile £25.14 - £63.20
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -15.38% +17.65% -15.00%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

.NET Framework job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing .NET Framework.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing .NET Framework

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Framework in the East Midlands

.NET Framework
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing .NET Framework.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing .NET Framework

.NET Framework
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 Framework within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 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
Leicestershire - 6 £600 - 2
Northamptonshire - 3 £313 -
.NET Framework
England

.NET Framework
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (66.67%) CMS
2 4 (44.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (44.44%) Headless CMS
2 4 (44.44%) Sitecore CMS
2 4 (44.44%) Umbraco
3 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Kontent
2 4 (44.44%) Contentful
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MySQL
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Postman
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 6 (66.67%) CMS Developer
2 6 (66.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (44.44%) C# Developer
3 4 (44.44%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 4 (44.44%) React Developer
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
2 8 (88.89%) ASP.NET
2 8 (88.89%) CSS
2 8 (88.89%) HTML
3 6 (66.67%) AngularJS
3 6 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
3 6 (66.67%) React
3 6 (66.67%) RESTful
4 1 (11.11%) Playwright
4 1 (11.11%) REST
4 1 (11.11%) SOAP
4 1 (11.11%) Spring
4 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
1 6 (66.67%) MVC
2 4 (44.44%) AI
2 4 (44.44%) User Experience
3 2 (22.22%) API Development
3 2 (22.22%) API Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Clean Code
3 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Data Management
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) SDLC
4 1 (11.11%) API Testing
4 1 (11.11%) BDD
4 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 1 (11.11%) Functional Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Microservices
4 1 (11.11%) Mobile First
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) C#
1 8 (88.89%) JavaScript
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) VB.NET
3 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Adobe
1 4 (44.44%) Sitecore
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle