.NET Contracts in the East Midlands

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring .NET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 47 22
Rank change year-on-year +14 -25 -7
Contract jobs citing .NET 20 20 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.71% 2.57% 7.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 22.99% 16.39% 31.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 70
10th Percentile £303 £270 £313
25th Percentile £405 £288 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £410 £425
Median % change year-on-year +19.51% -3.53% -2.30%
75th Percentile £524 £485 £479
90th Percentile £550 £540 £597
England median daily rate £525 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -2.33% -6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.67 - -
Median hourly rate £23.41 - -
75th Percentile £25.16 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £23.41 £58.91 £55.00
% change year-on-year -60.26% +7.10% +13.40%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Midlands

.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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 87 122 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.14% 15.70% 22.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 81 221
10th Percentile £261 £250 £308
25th Percentile £322 £325 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £563 £538
90th Percentile £537 £625 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.67 £10.90 -
Median hourly rate £23.41 £23.37 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% - -
75th Percentile £25.16 £28.44 -
90th Percentile - £35.93 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing .NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for .NET in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for .NET in the East Midlands

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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 within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 May 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 +10 9 £500 +17.65% 63
Derbyshire +10 5 £500 +21.95% 15
Northamptonshire 0 2 £326 -26.85% 9
Leicestershire +6 1 £385 +28.33% 26
Lincolnshire +2 1 - - 14
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) AWS CodeBuild
3 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.00%) Azure API Management
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (20.00%) MySQL
3 4 (20.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
5 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Git
2 4 (20.00%) JIRA
3 3 (15.00%) Chocolatey
3 3 (15.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (10.00%) Introscope
4 2 (10.00%) LoadRunner
4 2 (10.00%) Postman
4 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio
5 1 (5.00%) Selenium
5 1 (5.00%) SpecFlow
5 1 (5.00%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (30.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Law
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Senior
2 4 (20.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Test Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Lead
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) QA Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) QA Test Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior QA Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.00%) C# Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) .NET Core
2 4 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 4 (20.00%) React
2 4 (20.00%) REST
3 3 (15.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (15.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (10.00%) Blazor
4 2 (10.00%) HTML
4 2 (10.00%) J2EE
4 2 (10.00%) Web Services
5 1 (5.00%) Entity Framework
5 1 (5.00%) JSON
5 1 (5.00%) WPF
5 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) AIX
1 2 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Agile
2 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (45.00%) Microservices
4 6 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 5 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (20.00%) DevOps
6 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (15.00%) ITIL
7 3 (15.00%) Non-Functional Testing
7 3 (15.00%) Scrum
7 3 (15.00%) SDLC
7 3 (15.00%) Service Catalogue
7 3 (15.00%) Task Automation
8 2 (10.00%) Business Development
8 2 (10.00%) Performance Testing
8 2 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (10.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) C#
2 6 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (25.00%) SQL
4 4 (20.00%) Java
4 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 3 (15.00%) Python
6 2 (10.00%) C
7 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
7 1 (5.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Terraform
2 3 (15.00%) Ansible
2 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.00%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (10.00%) AppDynamics
4 2 (10.00%) Google
4 2 (10.00%) Splunk
4 2 (10.00%) VMware
5 1 (5.00%) HP