.NET Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring .NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 37 42
Rank change year-on-year -16 +5 +23
Contract jobs citing .NET 21 27 44
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 3.15% 3.97% 4.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.14% 15.25% 14.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 22 33
10th Percentile £363 £411 £400
25th Percentile £438 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £544 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.26% +14.47% +2.98%
75th Percentile £513 £567 £619
90th Percentile £565 £586 £625
West Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £536 £475
% change year-on-year -7.69% +12.89% +3.26%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Leeds

.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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 173 177 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 25.94% 26.03% 28.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 123 226
10th Percentile £375 £419 £412
25th Percentile £411 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £581 £625
90th Percentile £682 £655 £688
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £16.19 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year - -73.89% +24.00%
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £16.19 £44.39
% change year-on-year - -63.53% -11.22%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing .NET relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

.NET job vacancy trend in Leeds

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Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing .NET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing .NET

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in Leeds over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in Leeds

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Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing .NET.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing .NET

.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (9.52%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (90.48%) Azure
2 12 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (33.33%) Azure Functions
3 7 (33.33%) Serverless
4 3 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (14.29%) GitHub
4 3 (14.29%) Power Automate
4 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 3 (14.29%) PowerApps
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (9.52%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (9.52%) dbt
5 2 (9.52%) GCP
5 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (9.52%) PaaS
6 1 (4.76%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Service Fabric
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.52%) BigQuery
2 2 (9.52%) Bigtable
2 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.52%) Power BI
2 2 (9.52%) RDBMS
2 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Git
2 2 (9.52%) JIRA
3 1 (4.76%) Postman
General
1 8 (38.10%) Public Sector
2 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Finance
4 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Local Government
5 1 (4.76%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 8 (38.10%) .NET Software Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Architect
3 5 (23.81%) Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Software Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Data Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (9.52%) GCP Architect
4 2 (9.52%) GCP Data Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Disaster Recovery Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Java Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Lead
5 1 (4.76%) Lead Dynamics 365 Developer
5 1 (4.76%) React Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Manual Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) React
2 3 (14.29%) .NET Core
2 3 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 3 (14.29%) FHIR
3 2 (9.52%) ARM Templates
3 2 (9.52%) Blazor
3 2 (9.52%) Kafka
3 2 (9.52%) Razor View Engine
3 2 (9.52%) WCF
4 1 (4.76%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (4.76%) J2EE
4 1 (4.76%) JPA
4 1 (4.76%) Next.js
4 1 (4.76%) Node.js
4 1 (4.76%) Playwright
4 1 (4.76%) RESTful
4 1 (4.76%) Spring
4 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 4 (19.05%) NHS
3 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) DevOps
2 11 (52.38%) CI/CD
2 11 (52.38%) Software Engineering
3 8 (38.10%) Clean Code
4 5 (23.81%) Agile
5 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (19.05%) Microservices
6 3 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 3 (14.29%) Event-Driven
6 3 (14.29%) Secure Coding
6 3 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
7 2 (9.52%) Architectural Design
7 2 (9.52%) Architecture Roadmap
7 2 (9.52%) Data Design
7 2 (9.52%) Integration Patterns
7 2 (9.52%) Requirements Gathering
7 2 (9.52%) Requirements Workshops
7 2 (9.52%) Roadmaps
7 2 (9.52%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 15 (71.43%) C#
2 7 (33.33%) SQL
3 5 (23.81%) Java
4 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
5 3 (14.29%) Bicep
5 3 (14.29%) Python
6 2 (9.52%) ANSI SQL
6 2 (9.52%) C++
6 2 (9.52%) Scala
6 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
7 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
7 1 (4.76%) VB
7 1 (4.76%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
1 2 (9.52%) NCSC
2 1 (4.76%) HL7
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.52%) Control-M
4 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) Brio
3 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.76%) Sitecore