.NET Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 75 47
Rank change year-on-year +17 -28 -17
Contract jobs citing .NET 56 58 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.93% 2.10% 4.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.55% 15.10% 25.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 50 120
10th Percentile £350 £273 £330
25th Percentile £413 £314 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £448 £425
Median % change year-on-year +9.50% +5.29% -2.86%
75th Percentile £544 £547 £538
90th Percentile £600 £626 £650
England median daily rate £525 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -2.33% -6.52% +4.55%
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 £23.41 £58.91 £55.00
% change year-on-year -60.26% +7.10% +13.40%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

.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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 319 384 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.67% 13.93% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 272 464
10th Percentile £319 £276 £313
25th Percentile £400 £362 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.06%
75th Percentile £575 £622 £588
90th Percentile £660 £725 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 0
10th Percentile £23.96 £10.90 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £14.13 -
Median hourly rate £30.71 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% - -
75th Percentile £33.91 £40.00 -
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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 +9 33 £500 +2.56% 133
East Midlands +9 19 £495 +20.73% 94
.NET
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 5 (8.93%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.36%) IIS
3 2 (3.57%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (8.93%) InfoPath
2 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (39.29%) Azure
2 12 (21.43%) AWS
3 8 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 7 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (10.71%) PowerApps
5 6 (10.71%) Serverless
6 5 (8.93%) AWS CodeBuild
6 5 (8.93%) Azure Functions
6 5 (8.93%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (8.93%) Power Automate
7 4 (7.14%) GCP
8 2 (3.57%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.79%) Azure API Management
9 1 (1.79%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.79%) SaaS
9 1 (1.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (21.43%) Relational Database
3 7 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 7 (12.50%) Power BI
4 5 (8.93%) MySQL
4 5 (8.93%) RDBMS
5 3 (5.36%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.57%) Tableau
7 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.79%) Power Query
7 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (17.86%) Git
2 5 (8.93%) JIRA
3 4 (7.14%) Visual Studio
4 3 (5.36%) Chocolatey
4 3 (5.36%) Selenium
4 3 (5.36%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.57%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.57%) Introscope
5 2 (3.57%) JMeter
5 2 (3.57%) LoadRunner
5 2 (3.57%) Postman
5 2 (3.57%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.79%) Appium
6 1 (1.79%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (1.79%) WebDriver
General
1 13 (23.21%) Finance
2 8 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.14%) Law
5 3 (5.36%) Legal
5 3 (5.36%) Retail
6 2 (3.57%) Banking
6 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (21.43%) Developer
2 11 (19.64%) Architect
3 10 (17.86%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (14.29%) Senior
5 7 (12.50%) Lead
5 7 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (7.14%) Analyst
8 4 (7.14%) Automation Architect
8 4 (7.14%) C# Software Engineer
8 4 (7.14%) Enterprise Architect
8 4 (7.14%) Senior C# Software Engineer
8 4 (7.14%) Test Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) .NET Developer
9 3 (5.36%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
9 3 (5.36%) Software Developer
10 2 (3.57%) Application Development Manager
10 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 2 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.00%) HTML
2 13 (23.21%) .NET Framework
3 9 (16.07%) CSS
4 8 (14.29%) ASP.NET
4 8 (14.29%) Entity Framework
5 7 (12.50%) .NET Core
6 6 (10.71%) HTML5 Canvas
7 5 (8.93%) AngularJS
7 5 (8.93%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (8.93%) ASP.NET Web API
7 5 (8.93%) React
7 5 (8.93%) REST
8 4 (7.14%) Blazor
8 4 (7.14%) Web Services
9 3 (5.36%) Middleware
9 3 (5.36%) WPF
10 2 (3.57%) Gherkin
10 2 (3.57%) J2EE
10 2 (3.57%) JSON
11 1 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.93%) Enterprise Cloud
1 5 (8.93%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (5.36%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.36%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.79%) NHS
4 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.57%) AIX
1 2 (3.57%) Linux
1 2 (3.57%) Unix
1 2 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (50.00%) Agile
2 20 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 12 (21.43%) ITIL
3 12 (21.43%) Microservices
3 12 (21.43%) Test Automation
4 11 (19.64%) DevOps
5 10 (17.86%) Scrum
5 10 (17.86%) Software Engineering
6 8 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (12.50%) Workflow
8 6 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (10.71%) CRM
8 6 (10.71%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (10.71%) MVC
8 6 (10.71%) Service Management
9 5 (8.93%) Containerisation
9 5 (8.93%) Migration
9 5 (8.93%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (8.93%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 35 (62.50%) C#
2 21 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 18 (32.14%) SQL
4 7 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 7 (12.50%) T-SQL
5 5 (8.93%) Java
5 5 (8.93%) Python
6 4 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.57%) C
8 1 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 8 (14.29%) Degree
2 7 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.57%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (3.57%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.57%) Tableau Certification
4 2 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 6 (10.71%) Docker
2 3 (5.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.50%) Terraform
3 3 (5.36%) Ansible
4 2 (3.57%) CA Wily
4 2 (3.57%) Grafana
Vendors
1 16 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.29%) Oracle
3 3 (5.36%) Google
3 3 (5.36%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.57%) AppDynamics
4 2 (3.57%) Splunk
4 2 (3.57%) VMware
5 1 (1.79%) Databricks
5 1 (1.79%) HP
5 1 (1.79%) Siemens