.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 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 40 34
Rank change year-on-year -11 -6 -11
Contract jobs citing .NET 25 19 31
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.91% 2.87% 4.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.37% 19.19% 24.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 16 26
10th Percentile £306 £348 £313
25th Percentile £414 £360 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £450 £421
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +6.82% -4.26%
75th Percentile £578 £525 £475
90th Percentile £625 £550 £531
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
England median hourly rate £67.00 £22.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +197.78% -65.38% -

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 187 99 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 21.77% 14.98% 17.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 79 105
10th Percentile £311 £320 £313
25th Percentile £380 £356 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -
75th Percentile £538 £525 £538
90th Percentile £638 £565 £650
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £21.21 - £22.90
25th Percentile £22.64 - £26.02
Median hourly rate £25.08 - £43.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +119.93%
75th Percentile £25.13 - £58.25
90th Percentile £25.14 - £62.30
England median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%

.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

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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 10 December 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 10 December 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
Leicestershire +1 12 £550 +48.65% 13
Nottinghamshire -6 6 £513 +2.50% 22
Northamptonshire -11 3 £420 +17.48% 2
Derbyshire +2 2 £519 +15.28% 7
.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 7 (28.00%) CMS
2 5 (20.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (20.00%) Headless CMS
2 5 (20.00%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (20.00%) Umbraco
3 2 (8.00%) Apache Spark
4 1 (4.00%) Confluence
4 1 (4.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) Kontent
2 5 (20.00%) Contentful
3 3 (12.00%) Azure
3 3 (12.00%) ChatGPT
3 3 (12.00%) GitHub
3 3 (12.00%) GitHub Copilot
4 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.00%) Big Data
3 2 (8.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (8.00%) MySQL
3 2 (8.00%) QlikView
3 2 (8.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (8.00%) Tableau
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) Postman
2 2 (8.00%) Selenium
3 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.00%) JIRA
3 1 (4.00%) JMeter
General
1 6 (24.00%) Finance
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (80.00%) Developer
2 8 (32.00%) C# Developer
2 8 (32.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 7 (28.00%) .NET Developer
3 7 (28.00%) CMS Developer
4 6 (24.00%) Senior
5 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 5 (20.00%) React Developer
5 5 (20.00%) Senior Developer
6 3 (12.00%) C# .NET Developer
6 3 (12.00%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (12.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
6 3 (12.00%) Senior C# Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Hadoop Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Lead
7 2 (8.00%) Oracle Developer
7 2 (8.00%) SQL Developer
8 1 (4.00%) Mobile Developer
8 1 (4.00%) Senior Mobile Developer
8 1 (4.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) .NET Framework
1 8 (32.00%) ASP.NET
1 8 (32.00%) CSS
1 8 (32.00%) HTML
2 7 (28.00%) AngularJS
2 7 (28.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 7 (28.00%) React
2 7 (28.00%) RESTful
3 2 (8.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (8.00%) Blazor
4 1 (4.00%) JSON
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (4.00%) Playwright
4 1 (4.00%) REST
4 1 (4.00%) SOAP
4 1 (4.00%) Spring
4 1 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Mobile App
2 6 (24.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Code
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Android
1 1 (4.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
1 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) AI
2 8 (32.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (28.00%) Migration
3 7 (28.00%) MVC
4 5 (20.00%) Agile
4 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (20.00%) User Experience
5 4 (16.00%) DevOps
5 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (12.00%) Microservices
7 2 (8.00%) API Development
7 2 (8.00%) API Integration
7 2 (8.00%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (8.00%) Domain-Driven Design
7 2 (8.00%) Mentoring
7 2 (8.00%) Mobile First
7 2 (8.00%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (8.00%) Process Improvement
7 2 (8.00%) Software Architecture
7 2 (8.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (76.00%) C#
2 18 (72.00%) SQL
3 8 (32.00%) JavaScript
4 7 (28.00%) PHP
5 6 (24.00%) PL/SQL
6 3 (12.00%) Java
7 2 (8.00%) Scala
8 1 (4.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Oracle
2 5 (20.00%) Adobe
2 5 (20.00%) Sitecore
3 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.00%) Xamarin