.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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 43 29
Rank change year-on-year -5 -14 -12
Contract jobs citing .NET 19 25 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.63% 2.89% 5.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.38% 16.56% 24.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 23 51
10th Percentile £243 £278 £313
25th Percentile £327 £306 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +7.35% +6.25% -15.79%
75th Percentile £510 £525 £444
90th Percentile £517 £548 £488
England median daily rate £513 £538 £561
% change year-on-year -4.65% -4.23% +2.05%
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 £50.30 £58.91 £50.00
% change year-on-year -14.61% +17.81% -2.44%

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 167 151 222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 23.13% 17.48% 21.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 103 206
10th Percentile £256 £253 £308
25th Percentile £313 £320 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £444
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -4.23% -6.58%
75th Percentile £469 £550 £538
90th Percentile £517 £622 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 0
10th Percentile £20.39 - -
25th Percentile £20.60 £10.90 -
Median hourly rate £21.96 £21.73 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% - -
75th Percentile £24.05 £27.50 -
90th Percentile £24.71 £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £57.75 £58.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.94% -10.31% +19.82%

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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 7 July 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 7 July 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 £495 -5.71% 49
Derbyshire +5 4 - - 6
Northamptonshire -8 3 £313 -29.66% 11
Leicestershire 0 2 £305 +1.67% 19
Lincolnshire +2 1 - - 3
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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 1 (5.26%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) AWS CodeBuild
3 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.26%) Azure API Management
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) SaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) MySQL
1 6 (31.58%) SQL Server
2 4 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (21.05%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Git
2 4 (21.05%) JIRA
3 3 (15.79%) Chocolatey
3 3 (15.79%) SonarQube
4 2 (10.53%) Postman
4 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio
5 1 (5.26%) Introscope
5 1 (5.26%) LoadRunner
5 1 (5.26%) Selenium
5 1 (5.26%) SpecFlow
5 1 (5.26%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.26%) Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) .NET Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Software Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Test Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) QA Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) QA Test Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior QA Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) .NET Framework
1 4 (21.05%) React
1 4 (21.05%) REST
2 3 (15.79%) .NET Core
2 3 (15.79%) Blazor
2 3 (15.79%) HTML
3 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET
3 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (10.53%) CSS
4 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.26%) J2EE
4 1 (5.26%) JSON
4 1 (5.26%) Web Services
4 1 (5.26%) WPF
4 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) AIX
1 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Agile
2 9 (47.37%) CI/CD
2 9 (47.37%) Microservices
3 6 (31.58%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (31.58%) Software Engineering
4 5 (26.32%) Test Automation
5 4 (21.05%) DevOps
5 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (21.05%) SDLC
6 3 (15.79%) Code Quality
6 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (15.79%) Data Management
6 3 (15.79%) ITIL
6 3 (15.79%) Service Catalogue
6 3 (15.79%) Task Automation
7 2 (10.53%) Clean Code
7 2 (10.53%) Data Integration
7 2 (10.53%) Non-Functional Testing
7 2 (10.53%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) C#
2 8 (42.11%) JavaScript
3 5 (26.32%) SQL
4 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
4 4 (21.05%) TypeScript
5 3 (15.79%) Java
6 2 (10.53%) Python
6 2 (10.53%) VB.NET
7 1 (5.26%) C
7 1 (5.26%) T-SQL
7 1 (5.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Terraform
2 3 (15.79%) Ansible
2 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.26%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Oracle
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.26%) AppDynamics
3 1 (5.26%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) HP
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk
3 1 (5.26%) VMware