.NET Contracts in the North West

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 80 74 43
Rank change year-on-year -6 -31 -28
Contract jobs citing .NET 45 65 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.29% 2.37% 4.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.20% 12.92% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 54 118
10th Percentile £320 £278 £363
25th Percentile £400 £353 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £515 £514 £575
90th Percentile £615 £546 £625
England median daily rate £525 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -2.33% -6.52% +4.55%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

.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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 441 503 592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 22.41% 18.33% 18.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 369 464
10th Percentile £363 £360 £338
25th Percentile £402 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £577
90th Percentile £638 £750 £647
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 3
10th Percentile - £37.63 £39.24
25th Percentile £65.25 £45.88 £41.40
Median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%
75th Percentile £74.69 £71.87 -
90th Percentile £83.13 £75.05 -
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for .NET in the North West

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET in the North West

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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 within the North West 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
Manchester -2 23 £425 -5.56% 173
Lancashire - 9 £575 - 80
Cheshire -6 8 £358 -19.55% 54
Merseyside -2 4 £413 -15.38% 36
.NET
England

.NET
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.67%) Apache
1 3 (6.67%) nginx
1 3 (6.67%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.44%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (4.44%) CMS
2 2 (4.44%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.44%) Umbraco
3 1 (2.22%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (6.67%) Magento
1 3 (6.67%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 19 (42.22%) Azure
2 9 (20.00%) AWS
3 7 (15.56%) Serverless
4 5 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (8.89%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (8.89%) GitHub
6 3 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (6.67%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (6.67%) AWS KMS
6 3 (6.67%) Power Automate
6 3 (6.67%) PowerApps
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (4.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.44%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.22%) Sumo Logic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 4 (8.89%) GIS
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (4.44%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.44%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (4.44%) MSDE
4 2 (4.44%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.44%) ObjectStore
4 2 (4.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.22%) DocumentDB
5 1 (2.22%) DTS
5 1 (2.22%) MySQL
5 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Babel
1 5 (11.11%) webpack
2 4 (8.89%) Git
3 3 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.44%) GitLab
5 1 (2.22%) Postman
5 1 (2.22%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.67%) Retail
4 2 (4.44%) Finance
5 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (60.00%) Developer
2 8 (17.78%) Architect
2 8 (17.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 7 (15.56%) .NET Developer
3 7 (15.56%) JavaScript Developer
3 7 (15.56%) React Developer
4 6 (13.33%) .NET Architect
4 6 (13.33%) C# Developer
5 5 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (8.89%) .NET Technical Architect
6 4 (8.89%) Applications Architect
6 4 (8.89%) Java Applications Architect
6 4 (8.89%) Java Architect
6 4 (8.89%) Java Technical Architect
6 4 (8.89%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (8.89%) Technical Architect
7 3 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (6.67%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (24.44%) React
2 9 (20.00%) RESTful
3 8 (17.78%) CSS
3 8 (17.78%) HTML
3 8 (17.78%) REST
4 7 (15.56%) .NET Core
4 7 (15.56%) .NET Framework
5 6 (13.33%) HTML5
6 5 (11.11%) AngularJS
6 5 (11.11%) ASP.NET
7 3 (6.67%) AVFoundation
7 3 (6.67%) Node.js
7 3 (6.67%) OAuth
7 3 (6.67%) UIKit
8 2 (4.44%) GeoJSON
8 2 (4.44%) iOS SDK
8 2 (4.44%) jQuery
8 2 (4.44%) Kafka
8 2 (4.44%) Leaflet
8 2 (4.44%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.44%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.44%) Clustering
3 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.22%) NHS
3 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.22%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.67%) Apple iOS
1 3 (6.67%) Linux
1 3 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.44%) Windows
2 2 (4.44%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.22%) Android
3 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (42.22%) Agile
2 14 (31.11%) DevOps
3 13 (28.89%) CI/CD
4 11 (24.44%) Microservices
5 10 (22.22%) Front End Development
6 9 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 9 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (15.56%) Event-Driven
7 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (15.56%) Software Engineering
8 6 (13.33%) API Development
8 6 (13.33%) Code Quality
9 5 (11.11%) B2B
9 5 (11.11%) CRM
9 5 (11.11%) Data Integration
9 5 (11.11%) TDD
10 4 (8.89%) Architectural Patterns
10 4 (8.89%) Integration Patterns
10 4 (8.89%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (8.89%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 21 (46.67%) C#
2 13 (28.89%) JavaScript
3 11 (24.44%) SQL
4 4 (8.89%) Java
5 3 (6.67%) PHP
5 3 (6.67%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.44%) Python
6 2 (4.44%) Swift
6 2 (4.44%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.22%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) QA
2 1 (2.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 6 (13.33%) Terraform
2 3 (6.67%) Kibana
3 1 (2.22%) Perfmon
3 1 (2.22%) SCOM
3 1 (2.22%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.89%) Virgin Media
3 3 (6.67%) AppDynamics
4 2 (4.44%) Google
4 2 (4.44%) Mapbox
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle
5 1 (2.22%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.22%) VMware