.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 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 68 40
Rank change year-on-year -16 -28 -20
Contract jobs citing .NET 41 67 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.01% 2.41% 4.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.21% 13.65% 26.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 55 126
10th Percentile £335 £271 £363
25th Percentile £396 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% -6.32% -
75th Percentile £547 £494 £575
90th Percentile £620 £525 £588
England median daily rate £513 £538 £564
% change year-on-year -4.65% -4.66% +2.50%

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 445 491 551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 21.84% 17.68% 18.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 343 440
10th Percentile £335 £329 £338
25th Percentile £382 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -0.05% -4.71%
75th Percentile £538 £598 £578
90th Percentile £625 £760 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 19 4
10th Percentile £42.00 £37.30 £37.76
25th Percentile £60.00 £45.88 £37.78
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.18 £43.39
Median % change year-on-year +51.58% +6.44% -38.02%
75th Percentile £74.69 £72.19 £47.14
90th Percentile £83.13 £75.80 £48.85
England median hourly rate £60.00 £58.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.18% -10.54% +23.81%

.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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in the North West over the 6 months to 29 June 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 29 June 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 -4 25 £425 -5.56% 224
Cheshire -21 7 £374 -15.77% 59
Lancashire +3 4 £600 +50.00% 67
Merseyside +3 4 £413 -15.38% 44
.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 (7.32%) Apache
1 3 (7.32%) nginx
1 3 (7.32%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.44%) CMS
2 1 (2.44%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (7.32%) Magento
1 3 (7.32%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 18 (43.90%) Azure
2 12 (29.27%) AWS
3 7 (17.07%) Serverless
4 6 (14.63%) GitHub
5 5 (12.20%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (9.76%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (9.76%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (9.76%) Power Platform
6 4 (9.76%) PowerApps
7 3 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (7.32%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (7.32%) Amazon S3
7 3 (7.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (7.32%) AWS KMS
7 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (7.32%) Power Automate
8 2 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (4.88%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.07%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.20%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.88%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (4.88%) DocumentDB
3 2 (4.88%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.88%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (4.88%) GIS
3 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.88%) ObjectStore
4 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Git
2 3 (7.32%) Babel
2 3 (7.32%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.32%) webpack
3 2 (4.88%) GitLab
4 1 (2.44%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.44%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.44%) JIRA
4 1 (2.44%) Postman
4 1 (2.44%) Selenium
4 1 (2.44%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (21.95%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.20%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.32%) Finance
3 3 (7.32%) Retail
4 2 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 20 (48.78%) Developer
2 10 (24.39%) Architect
3 7 (17.07%) .NET Architect
3 7 (17.07%) .NET Developer
4 6 (14.63%) C# Developer
4 6 (14.63%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 5 (12.20%) JavaScript Developer
5 5 (12.20%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (9.76%) .NET Technical Architect
6 4 (9.76%) Applications Architect
6 4 (9.76%) C# .NET Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Java Applications Architect
6 4 (9.76%) Java Architect
6 4 (9.76%) Java Technical Architect
6 4 (9.76%) React Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Software Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Technical Architect
7 3 (7.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.83%) .NET Framework
2 9 (21.95%) React
3 7 (17.07%) RESTful
4 6 (14.63%) AngularJS
4 6 (14.63%) CSS
4 6 (14.63%) HTML
5 5 (12.20%) .NET Core
5 5 (12.20%) REST
6 3 (7.32%) ASP.NET
6 3 (7.32%) HTML5
6 3 (7.32%) Node.js
6 3 (7.32%) OAuth
7 2 (4.88%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (4.88%) GeoJSON
7 2 (4.88%) Gherkin
7 2 (4.88%) Google Maps API
7 2 (4.88%) Kafka
7 2 (4.88%) Leaflet
7 2 (4.88%) MapLibre
7 2 (4.88%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.44%) PKI
3 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.32%) Linux
1 3 (7.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (43.90%) DevOps
2 17 (41.46%) Agile
3 15 (36.59%) CI/CD
4 11 (26.83%) Containerisation
5 10 (24.39%) Microservices
6 9 (21.95%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (19.51%) Front End Development
8 7 (17.07%) Event-Driven
9 6 (14.63%) API Development
9 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (14.63%) Roadmaps
9 6 (14.63%) Software Engineering
10 5 (12.20%) Test Automation
11 4 (9.76%) Coaching
11 4 (9.76%) Data Integration
11 4 (9.76%) E-Commerce
11 4 (9.76%) Mentoring
11 4 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
11 4 (9.76%) TDD
11 4 (9.76%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 22 (53.66%) C#
2 15 (36.59%) JavaScript
3 11 (26.83%) SQL
4 4 (9.76%) Java
5 3 (7.32%) PHP
5 3 (7.32%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) QA
System Software
1 8 (19.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (17.07%) Kubernetes
2 6 (14.63%) Terraform
3 3 (7.32%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (26.83%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.76%) Virgin Media
3 3 (7.32%) AppDynamics
4 2 (4.88%) Google
4 2 (4.88%) Mapbox
5 1 (2.44%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle
5 1 (2.44%) Sitecore