.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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 30 45
Rank change year-on-year -37 +15 -19
Contract jobs citing .NET 19 22 16
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.88% 4.11% 2.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.26% 24.72% 15.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 16 15
10th Percentile £309 £336 £280
25th Percentile £425 £398 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £495 £388
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +27.74% -8.82%
75th Percentile £625 £531 £456
90th Percentile - £550 £615
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.43%

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 155 89 105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 15.30% 16.64% 13.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 71 67
10th Percentile £360 £311 £235
25th Percentile £402 £350 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £444 £418
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% +6.35% -1.76%
75th Percentile £550 £510 £525
90th Percentile £625 £550 £625
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 12
10th Percentile £15.84 - -
25th Percentile £19.29 - £10.90
Median hourly rate £25.08 - £23.64
75th Percentile £25.13 - £29.88
90th Percentile £25.14 - £53.73
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year +1.56% +31.36% -25.05%

.NET
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

.NET
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

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the East Midlands

.NET
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

.NET
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 11 March 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
Leicestershire +6 11 £575 +55.41% 7
Derbyshire -7 4 £525 +16.67% 5
Nottinghamshire -25 3 £510 +2.00% 9
Northamptonshire -20 1 £308 -5.53% 2
.NET
England

.NET
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 7 (36.84%) CMS
2 5 (26.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (26.32%) Headless CMS
2 5 (26.32%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (26.32%) Umbraco
3 1 (5.26%) Confluence
3 1 (5.26%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Kontent
2 6 (31.58%) Azure
3 5 (26.32%) Contentful
4 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Storage
5 1 (5.26%) ChatGPT
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Chocolatey
2 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Postman
2 1 (5.26%) Selenium
2 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (68.42%) Developer
2 8 (42.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 7 (36.84%) C# Developer
3 7 (36.84%) CMS Developer
4 5 (26.32%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 5 (26.32%) React Developer
5 4 (21.05%) .NET Developer
6 3 (15.79%) Lead
6 3 (15.79%) Senior
7 2 (10.53%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (10.53%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (10.53%) Senior C# .NET Developer
7 2 (10.53%) Senior C# Developer
7 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
8 1 (5.26%) Oracle Project Manager
8 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
8 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
8 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
8 1 (5.26%) Technical Leader
8 1 (5.26%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (47.37%) .NET Framework
1 9 (47.37%) CSS
1 9 (47.37%) HTML
2 8 (42.11%) ASP.NET
3 7 (36.84%) AngularJS
3 7 (36.84%) ASP.NET MVC
3 7 (36.84%) React
3 7 (36.84%) RESTful
4 2 (10.53%) .NET Core
4 2 (10.53%) Blazor
5 1 (5.26%) Entity Framework
5 1 (5.26%) JSON
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (5.26%) Playwright
5 1 (5.26%) REST
5 1 (5.26%) SOAP
5 1 (5.26%) Spring
5 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Mobile App
2 3 (15.79%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.26%) Legacy Code
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (36.84%) AI
2 7 (36.84%) MVC
3 6 (31.58%) User Experience
4 4 (21.05%) Agile
4 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
4 4 (21.05%) DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) API Development
6 2 (10.53%) API Integration
6 2 (10.53%) Mentoring
6 2 (10.53%) Microservices
6 2 (10.53%) Migration
6 2 (10.53%) Mobile First
6 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.53%) Process Improvement
6 2 (10.53%) Test Automation
7 1 (5.26%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (5.26%) ERP
7 1 (5.26%) ETL
7 1 (5.26%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) C#
2 13 (68.42%) SQL
3 9 (47.37%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) PHP
4 2 (10.53%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (5.26%) Java
5 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Ansible
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Adobe
1 5 (26.32%) Sitecore
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.79%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow