.NET Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring .NET skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 39 34
Rank change year-on-year -10 -5 -18
Contract jobs citing .NET 22 27 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.79% 3.38% 4.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.06% 19.57% 20.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 25 31
10th Percentile £218 £306 £313
25th Percentile £354 £325 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £390
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +8.97% -17.89%
75th Percentile £519 £500 £456
90th Percentile £563 £545 £475
England median daily rate £490 £525 £554
% change year-on-year -6.67% -5.19% -1.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.67 - -
Median hourly rate £23.41 - £65.00
75th Percentile £25.16 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +7.20% +4.17% -7.69%

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 199 138 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 25.22% 17.25% 20.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 105 148
10th Percentile £266 £306 £313
25th Percentile £352 £325 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -6.32% -
75th Percentile £488 £550 £538
90th Percentile £571 £620 £650
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £20.39 - -
25th Percentile £20.60 - -
Median hourly rate £21.96 - £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +230.54%
75th Percentile £24.05 - -
90th Percentile £24.71 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.93 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.60% +4.88% -5.40%

.NET
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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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

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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 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the East Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

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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 19 September 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 -2 8 £498 -5.24% 25
Leicestershire +2 4 £311 -4.23% 6
Northamptonshire -17 4 £367 -16.70% 6
Derbyshire -1 3 £519 +26.52% 14
Lincolnshire +4 1 - - 4
.NET
England

.NET
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 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) AWS
2 3 (13.64%) AWS CodeBuild
3 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.09%) ChatGPT
3 2 (9.09%) GitHub
3 2 (9.09%) GitHub Copilot
3 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (31.82%) MySQL
3 6 (27.27%) SQL Server
4 4 (18.18%) Relational Database
5 2 (9.09%) Big Data
5 2 (9.09%) Hadoop
5 2 (9.09%) QlikView
5 2 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (9.09%) Tableau
6 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
6 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Git
1 3 (13.64%) JIRA
2 2 (9.09%) Postman
2 2 (9.09%) Selenium
2 2 (9.09%) Visual Studio
3 1 (4.55%) JMeter
3 1 (4.55%) SpecFlow
3 1 (4.55%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (36.36%) Finance
2 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Developer
2 7 (31.82%) .NET Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Senior
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
5 2 (9.09%) C# Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Hadoop Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Lead
5 2 (9.09%) Oracle Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) SQL Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) QA Test Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) React Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Mobile Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) .NET Core
1 4 (18.18%) Blazor
2 3 (13.64%) .NET Framework
2 3 (13.64%) React
2 3 (13.64%) REST
3 2 (9.09%) ASP.NET
3 2 (9.09%) CSS
3 2 (9.09%) HTML
3 2 (9.09%) JSON
4 1 (4.55%) WPF
4 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Android
1 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Agile
2 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
3 6 (27.27%) Microservices
3 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (22.73%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (22.73%) Migration
5 4 (18.18%) Code Quality
5 4 (18.18%) DevOps
5 4 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
6 3 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (13.64%) Data Management
6 3 (13.64%) SDLC
6 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
7 2 (9.09%) Data Integration
7 2 (9.09%) Domain-Driven Design
7 2 (9.09%) Kanban
7 2 (9.09%) Mentoring
7 2 (9.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) C#
2 13 (59.09%) SQL
3 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
4 5 (22.73%) PHP
5 4 (18.18%) PL/SQL
6 3 (13.64%) Java
6 3 (13.64%) TypeScript
7 2 (9.09%) Scala
7 2 (9.09%) VB.NET
8 1 (4.55%) Kotlin
8 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
8 1 (4.55%) Python
8 1 (4.55%) T-SQL
8 1 (4.55%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
1 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) Xamarin