.NET Contract Job Trends in the North East

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring .NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 32 21
Rank change year-on-year -15 -11 +33
Contract jobs citing .NET 2 11 14
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.51% 3.64% 5.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.44% 13.41% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 7
10th Percentile - £329 £275
25th Percentile £575 £334 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £360 £375
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -4.00% -22.08%
75th Percentile £625 £418 £444
90th Percentile - £460 £516
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.50 -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £22.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +197.78% -65.38% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North East

.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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 82 82 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 20.71% 27.15% 22.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 45 40
10th Percentile £376 £335 £357
25th Percentile £406 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £545
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -13.76% -0.91%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £625
90th Percentile £600 £650 £720
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £46.53 £32.40 -
25th Percentile £49.56 £41.26 -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +16.39% - -5.76%
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing .NET relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

.NET job vacancy trend in the North East

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Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing .NET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing .NET

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing .NET.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing .NET

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the North East region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Tyne and Wear -15 2 £600 +66.67% 25
.NET
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle