.NET Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 84 50
Rank change year-on-year -12 -34 -29
Contract jobs citing .NET 71 108 234
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.15% 2.27% 4.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.27% 12.01% 20.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 81 190
10th Percentile £325 £275 £375
25th Percentile £389 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -10.53% +3.83%
75th Percentile £532 £494 £556
90th Percentile £599 £538 £625
England median daily rate £525 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -2.33% -6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.50
Median hourly rate - £20.77 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year - -57.61% -1.01%
75th Percentile - - £49.50
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
North of England

.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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 691 899 1,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 20.93% 18.91% 19.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 614 876
10th Percentile £359 £350 £366
25th Percentile £400 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £554 £597 £596
90th Percentile £650 £692 £675
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 29 10
10th Percentile £65.25 £13.87 £44.28
25th Percentile £68.81 £21.25 £45.88
Median hourly rate £86.46 £46.18 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.22% -26.11% +48.81%
75th Percentile £99.42 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £72.50 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for .NET in the North of England

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for .NET in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
North West -6 45 £413 -8.33% 291
Yorkshire -5 23 £475 +18.75% 120
North East -7 3 £370 +33.33% 82
.NET
England

.NET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (5.63%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.23%) Apache
2 3 (4.23%) CMS
2 3 (4.23%) nginx
2 3 (4.23%) Tomcat
2 3 (4.23%) Umbraco
3 2 (2.82%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.41%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (4.23%) Magento
1 3 (4.23%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 37 (52.11%) Azure
2 17 (23.94%) AWS
3 8 (11.27%) GitHub
4 7 (9.86%) Serverless
5 5 (7.04%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (7.04%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.63%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (4.23%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (4.23%) AWS KMS
7 3 (4.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (4.23%) Power Automate
7 3 (4.23%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.82%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (2.82%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (22.54%) SQL Server
2 9 (12.68%) MongoDB
3 6 (8.45%) MySQL
4 4 (5.63%) GIS
5 3 (4.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (4.23%) Power BI
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.82%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.82%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (2.82%) MSDE
6 2 (2.82%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.82%) ObjectStore
6 2 (2.82%) Redis
6 2 (2.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.41%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.41%) DTS
7 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (9.86%) Git
2 5 (7.04%) Babel
2 5 (7.04%) webpack
3 4 (5.63%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.23%) GitLab
4 3 (4.23%) Visual Studio
4 3 (4.23%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (2.82%) JIRA
6 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.41%) git-flow
6 1 (1.41%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.41%) Postman
6 1 (1.41%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.41%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (11.27%) Public Sector
1 8 (11.27%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.63%) Finance
3 3 (4.23%) French Language
3 3 (4.23%) Retail
4 1 (1.41%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (61.97%) Developer
2 11 (15.49%) .NET Developer
2 11 (15.49%) C# Developer
3 10 (14.08%) React Developer
4 9 (12.68%) Architect
5 8 (11.27%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 7 (9.86%) .NET Architect
6 7 (9.86%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (9.86%) JavaScript Developer
6 7 (9.86%) Senior
6 7 (9.86%) Software Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) .NET Technical Architect
7 5 (7.04%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (7.04%) Technical Architect
8 4 (5.63%) Applications Architect
8 4 (5.63%) Java Applications Architect
8 4 (5.63%) Java Architect
8 4 (5.63%) Java Technical Architect
8 4 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.23%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (25.35%) React
2 13 (18.31%) CSS
2 13 (18.31%) HTML
2 13 (18.31%) RESTful
3 12 (16.90%) .NET Core
4 10 (14.08%) AngularJS
5 9 (12.68%) .NET Framework
6 8 (11.27%) REST
7 6 (8.45%) ASP.NET
7 6 (8.45%) HTML5
8 4 (5.63%) WPF
9 3 (4.23%) AVFoundation
9 3 (4.23%) Laravel
9 3 (4.23%) Node.js
9 3 (4.23%) OAuth
9 3 (4.23%) React Native
9 3 (4.23%) UIKit
9 3 (4.23%) Vue
10 2 (2.82%) GeoJSON
10 2 (2.82%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.45%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.04%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (5.63%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.82%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.82%) Clustering
4 2 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.82%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.82%) NHS
5 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.41%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.45%) Apple iOS
2 4 (5.63%) Android
3 3 (4.23%) Linux
3 3 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.23%) Windows
4 2 (2.82%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (38.03%) Agile
2 19 (26.76%) CI/CD
2 19 (26.76%) DevOps
3 16 (22.54%) Software Engineering
4 14 (19.72%) Microservices
5 12 (16.90%) Full-Stack Development
5 12 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (15.49%) Front End Development
7 9 (12.68%) Containerisation
8 8 (11.27%) TDD
9 7 (9.86%) API Development
9 7 (9.86%) Code Quality
9 7 (9.86%) Event-Driven
10 6 (8.45%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (8.45%) Scrum
11 5 (7.04%) B2B
11 5 (7.04%) CRM
11 5 (7.04%) Data Integration
12 4 (5.63%) Clean Code
12 4 (5.63%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 36 (50.70%) C#
2 17 (23.94%) SQL
3 16 (22.54%) JavaScript
4 8 (11.27%) PHP
5 7 (9.86%) Java
6 4 (5.63%) Python
6 4 (5.63%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.82%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.82%) Ruby
7 2 (2.82%) Swift
7 2 (2.82%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.41%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 5 (7.04%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.82%) AWS Certification
2 2 (2.82%) Azure Certification
2 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.82%) Degree
2 2 (2.82%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.04%) QA
2 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.41%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (8.45%) Docker
2 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (12.68%) Terraform
2 6 (8.45%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.23%) Kibana
4 1 (1.41%) Ansible
4 1 (1.41%) Perfmon
4 1 (1.41%) SCOM
4 1 (1.41%) VxRail
Vendors
1 17 (23.94%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.04%) Virgin Media
3 4 (5.63%) Google
4 3 (4.23%) AppDynamics
4 3 (4.23%) Oracle
5 2 (2.82%) Mapbox
5 2 (2.82%) New Relic
5 2 (2.82%) Sitecore
5 2 (2.82%) VMware
6 1 (1.41%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.41%) Xamarin