.NET Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring .NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 32 12
Rank change year-on-year -15 -20 +38
Contract jobs citing .NET 2 6 14
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.58% 2.71% 7.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.82% 9.84% 26.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 7
10th Percentile - £329 £275
25th Percentile £575 £334 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £360 £375
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -4.00% -21.05%
75th Percentile £625 £418 £444
90th Percentile - £460 £516
North East median daily rate £600 £360 £375
% change year-on-year +66.67% -4.00% -22.08%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Tyne and Wear

.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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 71 61 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 20.46% 27.60% 28.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 41 38
10th Percentile £361 £335 £346
25th Percentile £406 £358 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% -
75th Percentile £575 £590 £625
90th Percentile £600 £650 £720
North East median daily rate £475 £470 £545
% change year-on-year +1.06% -13.76% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £46.53 - -
25th Percentile £49.56 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 - -
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £53.75 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +16.39% - -5.76%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

.NET job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

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Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing .NET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing .NET

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing .NET.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing .NET

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Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 19 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -14 2 £600 +45.45% 16
.NET
North East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle