.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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 47 42
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing .NET 28 24 24
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.35% 3.15% 3.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.00% 12.57% 18.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 19 22
10th Percentile £375 £293 £288
25th Percentile £429 £389 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £433
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +9.83% +17.69%
75th Percentile £588 £520 £506
90th Percentile - £533 £549
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.41 -
England median hourly rate £47.15 £67.00 £59.45
% change year-on-year -29.63% +12.70% +18.91%

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 140 191 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.77% 25.07% 17.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 159 97
10th Percentile £400 £256 £305
25th Percentile £425 £324 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £402 £445
Median % change year-on-year +24.38% -9.66% -1.11%
75th Percentile £588 £471 £550
90th Percentile £600 £537 £621
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £14.33 £20.39 £22.04
25th Percentile £15.52 £20.60 £22.50
Median hourly rate £17.50 £21.96 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.29% -12.18% -
75th Percentile £23.75 £24.05 £28.75
90th Percentile £27.50 £24.71 £47.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.63
% change year-on-year +18.18% -1.12% -7.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

.NET job vacancy trend 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 8 August 2026.

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 8 August 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
Northamptonshire +29 20 £563 +53.48% 4
Leicestershire -5 5 £525 +72.13% 6
Derbyshire -9 2 £445 - 8
Nottinghamshire -26 1 - - 27
.NET
England

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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 3 (10.71%) Apache Superset
Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 17 (60.71%) Azure
2 8 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (10.71%) AWS
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (10.71%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (10.71%) GCP
4 3 (10.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (7.14%) Power Automate
5 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.14%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 8 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 3 (10.71%) Metabase
3 3 (10.71%) Parquet
4 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) Chocolatey
2 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Finance
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 22 (78.57%) Developer
2 20 (71.43%) .NET Developer
3 16 (57.14%) Software Developer
4 15 (53.57%) .NET Software Developer
5 7 (25.00%) Lead
6 6 (21.43%) Lead Developer
7 5 (17.86%) Azure Developer
7 5 (17.86%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (17.86%) C# Developer
7 5 (17.86%) Lead .NET Developer
7 5 (17.86%) Lead C# Developer
8 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (7.14%) Oracle Project Manager
8 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
9 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
9 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 1 (3.57%) Software Engineer
9 1 (3.57%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) RESTful
2 3 (10.71%) Kafka
2 3 (10.71%) Plotly
2 3 (10.71%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (10.71%) REST
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.57%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.57%) Blazor
4 1 (3.57%) CSS
4 1 (3.57%) HTML
4 1 (3.57%) Middleware
4 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
1 3 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (46.43%) Microservices
3 11 (39.29%) Agile
4 8 (28.57%) DevOps
5 5 (17.86%) Containerisation
5 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (10.71%) Code Quality
6 3 (10.71%) CRM
6 3 (10.71%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (10.71%) Event-Driven
6 3 (10.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 3 (10.71%) Front End Development
6 3 (10.71%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (10.71%) Visualisation
7 2 (7.14%) Cost Management
7 2 (7.14%) Dependency Management
7 2 (7.14%) ERP
7 2 (7.14%) Line Management
7 2 (7.14%) Release Management
7 2 (7.14%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (75.00%) C#
2 6 (21.43%) SQL
3 5 (17.86%) Python
4 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.71%) MATLAB
5 3 (10.71%) Rust
6 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Terraform
3 1 (3.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (46.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow