.NET Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring .NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 22 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Contract jobs citing .NET 3 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 1.13% 3.16% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.36% 20.83% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 0
10th Percentile £325 £292 -
25th Percentile £357 £340 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £355 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.31% - -
75th Percentile £438 £360 -
90th Percentile £442 £408 -
East Midlands median daily rate £520 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +15.56% +5.88% -5.56%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Northamptonshire

.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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 56 24 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 21.05% 15.19% 9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 23 13
10th Percentile £311 £318 £384
25th Percentile £365 £340 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £356 £400
Median % change year-on-year +15.87% -11.00% -4.42%
75th Percentile £450 £389 £569
90th Percentile £492 £479 £688
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -0.67% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.82
Median hourly rate - - £22.28
75th Percentile - - £23.73
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £25.08 - £43.25
% change year-on-year - - +119.93%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing .NET relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

.NET job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

.NET
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing .NET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing .NET

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing .NET.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing .NET

.NET
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 27 December 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
Northampton -20 3 £420 +20.86% 15
.NET
East Midlands

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Big Data
1 2 (66.67%) Hadoop
1 2 (66.67%) QlikView
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (66.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Hadoop Developer
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) API Testing
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Scala
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared