.NET Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for .NET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited .NET over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 45 31
Rank change year-on-year -29 -14 +3
Contract jobs citing .NET 57 150 280
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.10% 4.47% 5.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.69% 25.91% 31.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 120 235
10th Percentile £250 £330 £347
25th Percentile £317 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £425 £440
Median % change year-on-year +7.35% -3.41% +13.55%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £501
90th Percentile £629 £688 £568
England median daily rate £536 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.74% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £18.50
25th Percentile - - £20.25
Median hourly rate - - £32.42
75th Percentile - - £46.25
90th Percentile - - £46.67
England median hourly rate £58.91 £55.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +7.10% +12.24% +8.89%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

.NET is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 388 579 890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.26% 17.27% 17.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 451 687
10th Percentile £281 £313 £356
25th Percentile £362 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% - +18.75%
75th Percentile £622 £588 £550
90th Percentile £719 £700 £638
England median daily rate £550 £560 £565
% change year-on-year -1.79% -0.88% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 9
10th Percentile £10.90 - £16.65
25th Percentile £14.16 - £20.25
Median hourly rate £26.25 - £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.08%
75th Percentile £39.98 - £45.00
90th Percentile £56.25 - £46.67
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for .NET in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET in the Midlands

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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 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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 -13 38 £494 -1.25% 113
East Midlands -21 19 £418 +1.21% 83
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England

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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 2 (3.51%) CMS
2 1 (1.75%) Appian
2 1 (1.75%) Confluence
2 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.75%) Umbraco
2 1 (1.75%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (54.39%) Azure
2 19 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (14.04%) AWS
4 7 (12.28%) Azure App Service
5 6 (10.53%) Azure AKS
5 6 (10.53%) Power Platform
6 5 (8.77%) SaaS
7 4 (7.02%) Azure Functions
7 4 (7.02%) PowerApps
7 4 (7.02%) Serverless
8 3 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (5.26%) Power Automate
9 2 (3.51%) PaaS
9 2 (3.51%) SonarCloud
10 1 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.75%) Azure Event Grid
10 1 (1.75%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.75%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (31.58%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.77%) Power BI
3 4 (7.02%) DB2
4 3 (5.26%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.51%) MySQL
5 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.75%) MS Access
6 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.75%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.75%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 5 (8.77%) Git
2 4 (7.02%) NUnit
3 3 (5.26%) JIRA
3 3 (5.26%) Visual Studio
4 2 (3.51%) Hudson
4 2 (3.51%) Moq
5 1 (1.75%) Selenium
5 1 (1.75%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.75%) TestRail
5 1 (1.75%) webpack
General
1 12 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.54%) Finance
3 4 (7.02%) Banking
4 3 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Electronics
6 1 (1.75%) Local Government
6 1 (1.75%) Marketing
6 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Retail
6 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (71.93%) Developer
2 18 (31.58%) .NET Developer
3 8 (14.04%) C# Developer
3 8 (14.04%) Full Stack Developer
4 6 (10.53%) Angular Developer
4 6 (10.53%) C# .NET Developer
4 6 (10.53%) Full Stack .NET Developer
4 6 (10.53%) Lead
5 5 (8.77%) Architect
5 5 (8.77%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (7.02%) Analyst
6 4 (7.02%) Power Platform Developer
6 4 (7.02%) Team Leader
7 3 (5.26%) Applications Developer
7 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Developer
7 3 (5.26%) React Developer
7 3 (5.26%) Test Analyst
8 2 (3.51%) Lead Developer
8 2 (3.51%) Senior Test Analyst
8 2 (3.51%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.79%) AngularJS
1 9 (15.79%) ASP.NET
2 8 (14.04%) React
3 7 (12.28%) .NET Framework
4 6 (10.53%) .NET Core
5 5 (8.77%) RESTful
5 5 (8.77%) Vue
6 4 (7.02%) XML
7 3 (5.26%) Entity Framework
7 3 (5.26%) Ruby on Rails
7 3 (5.26%) Web Services
8 2 (3.51%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (3.51%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (3.51%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (3.51%) Blazor
8 2 (3.51%) GraphQL
8 2 (3.51%) HTML
8 2 (3.51%) XSLT
9 1 (1.75%) Classic ASP
9 1 (1.75%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.79%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (8.77%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.02%) Mainframe
3 4 (7.02%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.51%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.75%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.02%) Android
1 4 (7.02%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.51%) Linux
3 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (35.09%) Agile
2 18 (31.58%) DevOps
3 14 (24.56%) Full Stack Development
4 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (17.54%) Microservices
6 9 (15.79%) MVC
7 8 (14.04%) CI/CD
7 8 (14.04%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (12.28%) SDLC
9 5 (8.77%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (8.77%) Containerisation
9 5 (8.77%) Critical Thinking
9 5 (8.77%) Defect Management
9 5 (8.77%) User Experience
9 5 (8.77%) UX Design
10 4 (7.02%) Architectural Design
10 4 (7.02%) Domain-Driven Design
10 4 (7.02%) Project Management
10 4 (7.02%) Software Engineering
10 4 (7.02%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (63.16%) C#
2 20 (35.09%) SQL
3 8 (14.04%) JavaScript
4 7 (12.28%) TypeScript
5 5 (8.77%) Bicep
5 5 (8.77%) Java
6 4 (7.02%) C
6 4 (7.02%) Ruby
7 2 (3.51%) Python
7 2 (3.51%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.75%) Bash
8 1 (1.75%) PHP
8 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.75%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.75%) VBA
8 1 (1.75%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (1.75%) Degree
1 1 (1.75%) ISTQB
1 1 (1.75%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.77%) QA
2 3 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.51%) Terraform
2 1 (1.75%) Argo
2 1 (1.75%) Istio
2 1 (1.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.75%) linkerd
2 1 (1.75%) SELinux
Vendors
1 13 (22.81%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.02%) Oracle
3 1 (1.75%) Databricks
3 1 (1.75%) Informatica
3 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.75%) SAP