.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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 74 46
Rank change year-on-year -29 -28 -13
Contract jobs citing .NET 78 99 228
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.99% 2.38% 4.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.17% 12.99% 21.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 74 190
10th Percentile £333 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year +6.94% -7.22% +2.11%
75th Percentile £538 £495 £575
90th Percentile £611 £532 £638
England median daily rate £500 £538 £561
% change year-on-year -6.98% -4.23% +2.05%

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 767 762 1,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.56% 18.29% 19.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 546 528 803
10th Percentile £338 £359 £363
25th Percentile £384 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.27% -4.48% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £625
90th Percentile £613 £738 £675
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 16 19
10th Percentile £28.00 £14.55 £37.79
25th Percentile £40.00 £43.41 £45.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £54.34 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +28.82% +17.67% -34.03%
75th Percentile £84.06 £71.59 -
90th Percentile £93.65 £72.19 £64.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £56.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +4.35%

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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

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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 4 August 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 4 August 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
Yorkshire +5 43 £490 +6.52% 92
North West -25 35 £425 -5.56% 232
.NET
England

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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 3 (3.85%) Apache
1 3 (3.85%) CMS
1 3 (3.85%) IIS
1 3 (3.85%) nginx
1 3 (3.85%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.56%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.56%) Confluence
2 2 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.28%) EPiServer
3 1 (1.28%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.28%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.85%) Magento
2 3 (3.85%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 39 (50.00%) Azure
2 16 (20.51%) AWS
3 13 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (11.54%) Power Platform
5 8 (10.26%) Serverless
6 6 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (7.69%) GitHub
6 6 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (7.69%) PowerApps
7 5 (6.41%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (6.41%) Power Automate
8 4 (5.13%) Azure Functions
8 4 (5.13%) SaaS
9 3 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.85%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.85%) AWS KMS
9 3 (3.85%) GCP
9 3 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.56%) X.509
2 1 (1.28%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.95%) Relational Database
2 12 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 7 (8.97%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (5.13%) Power BI
5 3 (3.85%) MySQL
5 3 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.85%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.56%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.56%) Bigtable
6 2 (2.56%) DocumentDB
6 2 (2.56%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (19.23%) Git
2 6 (7.69%) JIRA
3 5 (6.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.56%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.56%) Selenium
4 2 (2.56%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.28%) Ant
5 1 (1.28%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.28%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.28%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.28%) JUnit
5 1 (1.28%) NUnit
5 1 (1.28%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.28%) Postman
5 1 (1.28%) Zephyr
General
1 20 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 10 (12.82%) Finance
4 5 (6.41%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.85%) Retail
6 2 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.28%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.28%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.28%) Local Government
7 1 (1.28%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 34 (43.59%) Developer
2 13 (16.67%) Architect
3 12 (15.38%) .NET Developer
3 12 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 10 (12.82%) C# Developer
5 8 (10.26%) .NET Software Engineer
6 7 (8.97%) C# .NET Developer
6 7 (8.97%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (8.97%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (7.69%) Senior
8 5 (6.41%) .NET Architect
8 5 (6.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) Lead
8 5 (6.41%) Senior Developer
9 4 (5.13%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 4 (5.13%) Software Developer
10 3 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
10 3 (3.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (3.85%) Azure Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.51%) HTML
2 15 (19.23%) .NET Framework
3 14 (17.95%) .NET Core
3 14 (17.95%) CSS
4 13 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
5 10 (12.82%) jQuery
6 8 (10.26%) AngularJS
6 8 (10.26%) React
7 7 (8.97%) ASP.NET
8 6 (7.69%) Compass CSS Framework
9 5 (6.41%) RESTful
10 4 (5.13%) Kafka
11 3 (3.85%) ARM Templates
11 3 (3.85%) Gherkin
11 3 (3.85%) MSMQ
11 3 (3.85%) Node.js
11 3 (3.85%) OAuth
11 3 (3.85%) Playwright
12 2 (2.56%) Blazor
12 2 (2.56%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.82%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 5 (6.41%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (5.13%) NHS
5 3 (3.85%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.85%) N-Tier
5 3 (3.85%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.56%) PKI
7 1 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.85%) Linux
1 3 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.56%) Unix
2 2 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (47.44%) Agile
2 33 (42.31%) DevOps
3 28 (35.90%) CI/CD
4 20 (25.64%) Software Engineering
5 19 (24.36%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
7 13 (16.67%) Microservices
7 13 (16.67%) Test Automation
8 12 (15.38%) MVC
9 11 (14.10%) Architectural Patterns
9 11 (14.10%) Roadmaps
10 10 (12.82%) Front End Development
11 9 (11.54%) Code Quality
11 9 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (11.54%) OO
11 9 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (10.26%) Business Analysis
12 8 (10.26%) Mentoring
12 8 (10.26%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 51 (65.38%) C#
2 26 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 23 (29.49%) SQL
4 7 (8.97%) Java
5 6 (7.69%) Python
6 5 (6.41%) PHP
7 3 (3.85%) VB.NET
8 2 (2.56%) ANSI SQL
8 2 (2.56%) Bicep
8 2 (2.56%) Ruby
8 2 (2.56%) Scala
8 2 (2.56%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.28%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.28%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.28%) VB
9 1 (1.28%) VB6
Qualifications
1 4 (5.13%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (3.85%) Degree
2 3 (3.85%) PMP
3 2 (2.56%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.13%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.85%) QA
3 2 (2.56%) NCSC
4 1 (1.28%) HL7
4 1 (1.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (11.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (20.51%) Terraform
2 5 (6.41%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.85%) Kibana
4 2 (2.56%) Control-M
5 1 (1.28%) Ansible
5 1 (1.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (24.36%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.26%) GoldenSource
3 4 (5.13%) Oracle
4 3 (3.85%) AppDynamics
4 3 (3.85%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.85%) Brio
5 2 (2.56%) Optimizely
5 2 (2.56%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.28%) Google
6 1 (1.28%) InterSystems
6 1 (1.28%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.28%) VMware
6 1 (1.28%) Xamarin