.NET Contract Job Trends in Leicester

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring .NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 18 18
Rank change year-on-year +8 0 -15
Contract jobs citing .NET 5 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Leicester 6.76% 1.30% 2.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 35.71% 9.09% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £421 - £278
25th Percentile £520 £360 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £370 £300
Median % change year-on-year +62.16% +23.33% -24.05%
75th Percentile £625 £380 £344
90th Percentile - - £355
Leicestershire median daily rate £600 £370 £300
% change year-on-year +62.16% +23.33% -24.05%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Leicester

.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 Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 14 11 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 18.92% 14.29% 27.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 22
10th Percentile £393 £305 £288
25th Percentile £409 £361 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £463 £419
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% +10.38% +0.96%
75th Percentile £653 £483 £525
90th Percentile £738 £497 £625
Leicestershire median daily rate £600 £419 £419
% change year-on-year +43.28% -0.06% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £15.18 - -
25th Percentile £17.65 - £22.50
Median hourly rate £22.24 - £25.00
75th Percentile £26.35 - £28.13
90th Percentile £28.54 - £28.50
Leicestershire median hourly rate £22.24 - £25.00

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

.NET job vacancy trend in Leicester

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Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leicester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in Leicester over the 6 months to 16 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in Leicester

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Hourly Rate Trend in Leicester

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

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

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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 (60.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (60.00%) CMS
1 3 (60.00%) Headless CMS
1 3 (60.00%) Sitecore CMS
1 3 (60.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Contentful
1 3 (60.00%) Kontent
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) C# Developer
2 3 (60.00%) CMS Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (60.00%) React Developer
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) CSS
1 4 (80.00%) HTML
2 3 (60.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (60.00%) React
2 3 (60.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 4 (80.00%) User Experience
2 3 (60.00%) AI
2 3 (60.00%) MVC
3 2 (40.00%) Mobile First
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) API Development
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Adobe
1 3 (60.00%) Sitecore