.NET Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring .NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 13 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 +9
Contract jobs citing .NET 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 1.35% 2.86% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.29% 15.38% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 £331 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £338 £400
Median % change year-on-year +37.04% -15.63% +2.56%
75th Percentile £469 £344 £425
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £520 £506
% change year-on-year -7.50% +2.72% -7.95%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Staffordshire

.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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7 13 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 9.46% 18.57% 10.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 11
10th Percentile £313 £289 -
25th Percentile £331 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £525 £350
Median % change year-on-year -26.19% +50.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £469 £563 £431
90th Percentile £548 £575 £500
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £463
% change year-on-year -4.76% +13.51% -15.91%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

.NET job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

.NET
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

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

.NET
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 3 March 2026. 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
Stoke-on-Trent 0 1 £463 - 3
.NET
West Midlands

.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft