.NET Contracts in Merseyside

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside requiring .NET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 24 34
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 0
Contract jobs citing .NET 5 7 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 3.09% 3.07% 4.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.15% 41.18% 25.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 10
10th Percentile £277 £439 £358
25th Percentile £298 £441 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 £469 £450
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +4.17% +2.86%
75th Percentile £386 £499 £484
90th Percentile £406 £509 £545
North West median daily rate £425 £445 £475
% change year-on-year -4.49% -6.32% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Merseyside

.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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 33 17 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 20.37% 7.46% 15.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 9 38
10th Percentile £388 £370 £353
25th Percentile £416 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £625 £515 £650
90th Percentile £775 £575 £683
North West median daily rate £447 £498 £513
% change year-on-year -10.15% -2.93% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £36.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - -28.00% -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +51.58% - -34.03%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Job postings citing .NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Job vacancy trend for .NET in Merseyside

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET in Merseyside.

Daily rate trend for .NET in Merseyside

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for .NET in Merseyside

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET in Merseyside.

Hourly rate trend for .NET in Merseyside

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Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Liverpool +2 5 £344 -26.67% 18
.NET
North West

.NET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) CMS
1 1 (20.00%) EPiServer
Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Magento
1 3 (60.00%) Sage 200
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
1 1 (20.00%) Zephyr
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Architect
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (60.00%) Open Source
1 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (60.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 3 (60.00%) Web Development
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Insurtech
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (20.00%) System Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Telematics
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (20.00%) Optimizely
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle