.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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 72 47
Rank change year-on-year +5 -25 -15
Contract jobs citing .NET 55 62 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.73% 2.24% 4.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.95% 15.09% 24.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 50 118
10th Percentile £313 £273 £334
25th Percentile £403 £325 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £428
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £530 £547 £538
90th Percentile £600 £626 £688
England median daily rate £518 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -3.72% -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 £50.30 £58.91 £53.99
% change year-on-year -14.61% +9.11% +10.17%

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 368 411 567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.24% 14.85% 17.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 283 442
10th Percentile £307 £288 £313
25th Percentile £373 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -
75th Percentile £550 £620 £594
90th Percentile £640 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £557
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.26% -2.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 18 0
10th Percentile £31.46 £10.90 -
25th Percentile - £14.16 -
Median hourly rate £33.91 £26.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.18% - -
75th Percentile £50.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile - £57.38 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +23.81%

.NET
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 29 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 29 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 +4 30 £513 +7.89% 568
East Midlands +6 22 £490 +19.51% 437
.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 3 (5.45%) IIS
1 3 (5.45%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.64%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (5.45%) InfoPath
2 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (7.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (41.82%) Azure
2 10 (18.18%) AWS
2 10 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (12.73%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (12.73%) Power Platform
3 7 (12.73%) Serverless
4 6 (10.91%) Azure Functions
4 6 (10.91%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (9.09%) AWS CodeBuild
6 4 (7.27%) Azure API Management
6 4 (7.27%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (7.27%) PowerApps
7 3 (5.45%) Azure Event Grid
7 3 (5.45%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.45%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.64%) Azure AKS
8 2 (3.64%) GCP
9 1 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (30.91%) SQL Server
2 11 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 7 (12.73%) MySQL
3 7 (12.73%) NoSQL
4 5 (9.09%) Power BI
5 4 (7.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (5.45%) MongoDB
6 3 (5.45%) RDBMS
7 2 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (3.64%) Tableau
8 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.82%) Power Query
8 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (14.55%) Git
2 5 (9.09%) JIRA
3 4 (7.27%) Visual Studio
4 3 (5.45%) Chocolatey
4 3 (5.45%) Selenium
4 3 (5.45%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.64%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.64%) Introscope
5 2 (3.64%) JMeter
5 2 (3.64%) LoadRunner
5 2 (3.64%) Postman
5 2 (3.64%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.82%) Android Studio
6 1 (1.82%) Appium
6 1 (1.82%) Gradle
6 1 (1.82%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (1.82%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.82%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.82%) Xcode
General
1 12 (21.82%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.00%) Finance
3 9 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.27%) Law
4 4 (7.27%) Retail
5 3 (5.45%) Legal
5 3 (5.45%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.64%) Banking
6 2 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (34.55%) Developer
2 8 (14.55%) Architect
2 8 (14.55%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (10.91%) .NET Developer
3 6 (10.91%) Senior
4 5 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Lead
5 4 (7.27%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Test Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) Automation Architect
6 3 (5.45%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (5.45%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.45%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (5.45%) Software Developer
7 2 (3.64%) Applications Development Manager
7 2 (3.64%) Applications Manager
7 2 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (23.64%) HTML
2 11 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 8 (14.55%) CSS
4 7 (12.73%) .NET Core
4 7 (12.73%) Web Services
5 6 (10.91%) ASP.NET
5 6 (10.91%) React
5 6 (10.91%) REST
6 4 (7.27%) AngularJS
6 4 (7.27%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (7.27%) Blazor
6 4 (7.27%) Entity Framework
6 4 (7.27%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (5.45%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (5.45%) Middleware
7 3 (5.45%) RESTful
7 3 (5.45%) WPF
8 2 (3.64%) Gherkin
8 2 (3.64%) J2EE
8 2 (3.64%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.45%) Enterprise Cloud
1 3 (5.45%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.64%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.82%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.64%) AIX
1 2 (3.64%) Unix
2 1 (1.82%) Android
2 1 (1.82%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (45.45%) Agile
2 21 (38.18%) CI/CD
3 16 (29.09%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (23.64%) DevOps
5 12 (21.82%) Test Automation
6 10 (18.18%) ITIL
6 10 (18.18%) Microservices
7 8 (14.55%) Software Engineering
8 7 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (12.73%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (12.73%) Scrum
9 6 (10.91%) SDLC
10 5 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (9.09%) CRM
10 5 (9.09%) Data Integration
10 5 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (9.09%) Test Scripting
11 4 (7.27%) ETL
11 4 (7.27%) Performance Testing
11 4 (7.27%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (67.27%) C#
2 22 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 19 (34.55%) SQL
4 7 (12.73%) PowerShell
4 7 (12.73%) T-SQL
5 5 (9.09%) Java
5 5 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.45%) Python
7 2 (3.64%) C
7 2 (3.64%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.82%) JSX
8 1 (1.82%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (12.73%) Degree
2 6 (10.91%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.27%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.64%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (3.64%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.82%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.73%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.45%) Active Directory
1 3 (5.45%) Docker
1 3 (5.45%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (21.82%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.73%) Terraform
3 3 (5.45%) Ansible
4 2 (3.64%) CA Wily
4 2 (3.64%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (30.91%) Microsoft
2 10 (18.18%) Oracle
3 3 (5.45%) Google
3 3 (5.45%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.64%) AppDynamics
4 2 (3.64%) Splunk
4 2 (3.64%) VMware
5 1 (1.82%) Databricks
5 1 (1.82%) HP