.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

.NET Developer
England > Midlands

The median .NET Developer daily rate in the Midlands is £448, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 117 110
Rank change year-on-year -15 -7 +30
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 14 15 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.53% 0.55% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.59% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 30
10th Percentile £213 £330 £323
25th Percentile £266 £356 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £460 £400
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% +15.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £523 £500 £475
90th Percentile £536 £550 £581
England median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,371 2,554 2,775
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.30% 93.21% 94.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,552 1,615 1,916
10th Percentile £213 £250 £220
25th Percentile £358 £373 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.65% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £572 £600 £594
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 115 105
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.63 £13.16
25th Percentile £16.17 £14.26 £16.50
Median hourly rate £24.50 £21.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £32.44 £38.63 £34.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.26 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

.NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured .NET Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Developer in the Midlands

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in the Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in the Midlands

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Developer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Developer in the Midlands

.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in the Midlands.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in the Midlands

.NET Developer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Developer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
East Midlands -5 7 £313 -13.06% 16
West Midlands -8 7 £495 +4.21% 9
.NET Developer
England

.NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, .NET Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Midlands region featuring .NET Developer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) .NET
2 8 (57.14%) C#
3 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 6 (42.86%) DevOps
3 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (35.71%) SQL
4 5 (35.71%) Agile
4 5 (35.71%) Azure
5 4 (28.57%) .NET Framework
5 4 (28.57%) Oracle
5 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
5 4 (28.57%) Microservices
5 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
5 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
5 4 (28.57%) Docker
6 3 (21.43%) Clean Code
6 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
6 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
6 3 (21.43%) Relational Database
6 3 (21.43%) .NET Core
6 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
6 3 (21.43%) Blazor
6 3 (21.43%) MVC
6 3 (21.43%) Finance
6 3 (21.43%) Migration
6 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (21.43%) Entity Framework
7 2 (14.29%) Razor View Engine

.NET Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) ChatGPT
2 2 (14.29%) GitHub
2 2 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
2 2 (14.29%) Serverless
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (7.14%) Azure API Management
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (21.43%) Relational Database
3 2 (14.29%) MySQL
4 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) NUnit
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (28.57%) .NET Framework
3 3 (21.43%) .NET Core
3 3 (21.43%) Blazor
3 3 (21.43%) Entity Framework
4 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
4 2 (14.29%) CSS
4 2 (14.29%) HTML
4 2 (14.29%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (14.29%) React
4 2 (14.29%) RESTful
5 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
5 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (7.14%) LINQ
5 1 (7.14%) REST
5 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 6 (42.86%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 4 (28.57%) Microservices
4 3 (21.43%) Clean Code
4 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
4 3 (21.43%) Migration
4 3 (21.43%) MVC
5 2 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (14.29%) Data Integration
5 2 (14.29%) Domain-Driven Design
5 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (14.29%) SDLC
5 2 (14.29%) Secure Coding
6 1 (7.14%) API Management
6 1 (7.14%) Code Quality
6 1 (7.14%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) C#
2 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 5 (35.71%) SQL
4 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
5 2 (14.29%) PHP
6 1 (7.14%) Go
6 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
6 1 (7.14%) Python
6 1 (7.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft