.NET Framework Contracts in the North West

Microsoft .NET Framework
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring .NET Framework skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET Framework over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 112 118
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 +12
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 8 23 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.41% 0.87% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.83% 4.58% 6.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 21 23
10th Percentile £334 £288 £396
25th Percentile £377 £313 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.47% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £470 £494 £571
90th Percentile £563 £575 £593
England median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

.NET Framework 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 436 502 568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 22.29% 18.89% 18.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 363 442
10th Percentile £358 £350 £338
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £546 £600 £581
90th Percentile £638 £750 £649
England median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 20 2
10th Percentile - £37.63 £37.75
25th Percentile £65.25 £45.88 £37.76
Median hourly rate £67.75 £48.43 £40.55
Median % change year-on-year +39.89% +19.45% -32.43%
75th Percentile £74.69 £72.03 £43.35
90th Percentile £83.13 £75.15 £43.37
England median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +28.71%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET Framework in the North West

.NET Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Framework in the North West.

Daily rate trend for .NET Framework in the North West

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework in the North West over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Framework in the North West

.NET Framework
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Framework in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for .NET Framework in the North West

.NET Framework
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Framework within the North West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Manchester +15 5 £406 -14.47% 32
Merseyside +2 3 - - 1
.NET Framework
England

.NET Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Magento
1 3 (37.50%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
2 4 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (37.50%) .NET Architect
3 3 (37.50%) .NET Solutions Architect
3 3 (37.50%) Developer
4 2 (25.00%) C# Developer
5 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
5 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (12.50%) React Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior
5 1 (12.50%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior C# .NET Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior C# Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (25.00%) React
3 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (12.50%) Blazor
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 4 (50.00%) Web Development
2 3 (37.50%) E-Commerce
2 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (37.50%) Open Source
2 3 (37.50%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (12.50%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) MVC
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
4 1 (12.50%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) C#
2 3 (37.50%) PHP
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle