.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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 44 34
Rank change year-on-year -19 -10 +3
Contract jobs citing .NET 25 27 32
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.82% 3.25% 4.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.45% 12.33% 23.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 26 27
10th Percentile £466 £261 £306
25th Percentile £500 £371 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £498 £440
Median % change year-on-year +10.55% +13.07% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £534 £505
90th Percentile - £588 £550
England median daily rate £520 £488 £535
% change year-on-year +6.67% -8.88% -2.73%

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 152 219 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.06% 26.39% 18.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 185 104
10th Percentile £381 £268 £307
25th Percentile £410 £358 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £415 £419
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% -0.90% -11.84%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £506
90th Percentile £605 £610 £581
England median daily rate £537 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £54.85 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.15% -15.62% +8.33%

.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

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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 October 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 7 October 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 +23 13 £575 +83.71% 1
Derbyshire -7 7 £429 -17.35% 7
Leicestershire -13 3 £525 +15.07% 11
Nottinghamshire -20 2 £550 +7.84% 44
.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:

Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 15 (60.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 5 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (16.00%) AWS
3 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (12.00%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (12.00%) Azure AKS
4 3 (12.00%) GCP
4 3 (12.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 3 (12.00%) Power Automate
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (8.00%) PowerApps
6 1 (4.00%) Azure API Management
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Git
General
1 3 (12.00%) Finance
1 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (84.00%) Developer
2 18 (72.00%) .NET Developer
3 8 (32.00%) .NET Software Developer
3 8 (32.00%) Software Developer
4 7 (28.00%) Lead
5 6 (24.00%) Azure Developer
5 6 (24.00%) Lead Developer
6 5 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
6 5 (20.00%) C# Developer
6 5 (20.00%) Lead .NET Developer
6 5 (20.00%) Lead C# Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Oracle Project Manager
7 2 (8.00%) Project Manager
8 1 (4.00%) Backend Developer
8 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Software Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (12.00%) Kafka
3 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (8.00%) OAuth
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (8.00%) RESTful
3 2 (8.00%) Terraform
4 1 (4.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (4.00%) CSS
4 1 (4.00%) HTML
4 1 (4.00%) MassTransit
4 1 (4.00%) Middleware
4 1 (4.00%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.00%) OpenID
4 1 (4.00%) REST
4 1 (4.00%) Web Services
4 1 (4.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (24.00%) Agile
1 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (24.00%) Microservices
2 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (16.00%) DevOps
3 3 (12.00%) Code Quality
3 3 (12.00%) CRM
3 3 (12.00%) Event-Driven
3 3 (12.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (12.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (8.00%) API Management
4 2 (8.00%) Burndown Charts
4 2 (8.00%) ERP
4 2 (8.00%) Front End Development
4 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (8.00%) Release Management
4 2 (8.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (8.00%) System Testing
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (8.00%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (60.00%) C#
2 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (12.00%) SQL
4 2 (8.00%) Bicep
4 2 (8.00%) Python
5 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.00%) X++
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (52.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) Databricks