.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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 39 46
Rank change year-on-year -22 +7 -20
Contract jobs citing .NET 27 21 23
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.41% 3.27% 2.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.88% 14.48% 15.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 21
10th Percentile £375 £287 £275
25th Percentile £425 £354 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £483 £410
Median % change year-on-year +8.81% +17.68% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £516 £450
90th Percentile - £536 £538
England median daily rate £521 £511 £545
% change year-on-year +1.96% -6.19% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.41 -
England median hourly rate £66.61 £50.30 £58.91
% change year-on-year +32.42% -14.61% +14.41%

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 143 145 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.76% 22.55% 16.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 124 94
10th Percentile £393 £257 £237
25th Percentile £412 £315 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £396 £430
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% -8.02% -3.10%
75th Percentile £575 £478 £564
90th Percentile £600 £535 £624
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 9
10th Percentile £15.18 - -
25th Percentile £17.65 £21.67 £10.90
Median hourly rate £22.24 £23.41 £21.73
Median % change year-on-year -5.01% +7.73% -
75th Percentile £26.35 £25.16 £27.50
90th Percentile £28.54 - £35.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%

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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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +11 18 £575 +83.71% 1
Leicestershire -2 5 £525 +36.36% 11
Derbyshire -10 3 £485 -3.00% 5
Nottinghamshire -27 1 - - 17
.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 (11.11%) Apache Superset
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 16 (59.26%) Azure
2 8 (29.63%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.41%) Azure AKS
4 2 (7.41%) Power Automate
4 2 (7.41%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.70%) AWS
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Storage
5 1 (3.70%) GCP
5 1 (3.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 8 (29.63%) Relational Database
3 3 (11.11%) Metabase
3 3 (11.11%) Parquet
4 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) Chocolatey
2 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 20 (74.07%) Developer
2 18 (66.67%) .NET Developer
3 14 (51.85%) Software Developer
4 13 (48.15%) .NET Software Developer
5 8 (29.63%) Lead
6 6 (22.22%) Lead Developer
7 5 (18.52%) Azure Developer
7 5 (18.52%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (18.52%) C# Developer
7 5 (18.52%) Lead .NET Developer
7 5 (18.52%) Lead C# Developer
8 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (7.41%) Oracle Project Manager
8 2 (7.41%) Project Manager
9 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Software Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) RESTful
2 3 (11.11%) Plotly
2 3 (11.11%) REST
3 2 (7.41%) .NET Framework
3 2 (7.41%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (3.70%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.70%) Blazor
4 1 (3.70%) CSS
4 1 (3.70%) Entity Framework
4 1 (3.70%) HTML
4 1 (3.70%) Kafka
4 1 (3.70%) Middleware
4 1 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (7.41%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 11 (40.74%) Agile
2 11 (40.74%) Microservices
3 8 (29.63%) DevOps
4 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 3 (11.11%) CRM
5 3 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (11.11%) Front End Development
5 3 (11.11%) Visualisation
6 2 (7.41%) Burndown Charts
6 2 (7.41%) Cost Management
6 2 (7.41%) Dependency Management
6 2 (7.41%) ERP
6 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (7.41%) Line Management
6 2 (7.41%) Release Management
6 2 (7.41%) System Testing
6 2 (7.41%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (7.41%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (70.37%) C#
2 7 (25.93%) SQL
3 5 (18.52%) Python
4 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
5 3 (11.11%) MATLAB
5 3 (11.11%) Rust
6 1 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.41%) Terraform
3 1 (3.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow