.NET Framework Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft .NET Framework
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring .NET Framework skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET Framework over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 120 122
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 +50
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 10 11 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.40% 0.42% 1.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.20% 2.58% 5.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 19
10th Percentile £303 £233 £354
25th Percentile £313 £301 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year +7.35% +13.33% -17.36%
75th Percentile £595 £466 £438
90th Percentile £599 £483 £568
England median daily rate £475 £486 £525
% change year-on-year -2.31% -7.38% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.67 - -
Median hourly rate £23.41 - -
75th Percentile £25.16 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £80.00 £52.97
% change year-on-year -16.25% +51.03% -10.97%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

.NET Framework 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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 454 427 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.29% 16.17% 16.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 295 400
10th Percentile £273 £313 £313
25th Percentile £367 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.10% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £523 £622 £575
90th Percentile £621 £725 £700
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 1
10th Percentile £31.46 £15.75 -
25th Percentile £33.91 £22.50 £41.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £39.92 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -6.07% +97.67%
75th Percentile - £56.25 £43.75
90th Percentile - £59.25 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £56.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +4.35%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing .NET Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Framework in the Midlands

.NET Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Framework in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for .NET Framework in the Midlands

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework in the Midlands over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Framework in the Midlands

.NET Framework
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Framework in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for .NET Framework in the Midlands

.NET Framework
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 Framework within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
West Midlands -8 6 £590 +20.92% 17
East Midlands -2 4 £313 +2.02% 16
.NET Framework
England

.NET Framework
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:

Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (10.00%) SaaS
1 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) NUnit
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) .NET Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Architect
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) TOGAF Architect
3 1 (10.00%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (30.00%) CSS
2 3 (30.00%) HTML
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (20.00%) Entity Framework
3 2 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 1 (10.00%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Code Quality
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (30.00%) ITIL
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) SDLC
3 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (30.00%) TOGAF
4 2 (20.00%) ArchiMate
4 2 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 2 (20.00%) Data Management
4 2 (20.00%) Domain Models
4 2 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
4 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) MVC
4 2 (20.00%) Sequence Diagram
4 2 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (20.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) C#
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle