.NET Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 74 65
Rank change year-on-year +8 -9 -23
Contract jobs citing .NET 31 39 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.30% 2.02% 3.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.84% 15.29% 20.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 32 47
10th Percentile £408 £254 £370
25th Percentile £419 £354 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -3.75% +12.36%
75th Percentile £597 £611 £650
90th Percentile £648 £829 £688
England median daily rate £525 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -2.33% -6.52% +4.55%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

.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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 224 255 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.62% 13.18% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 187 244
10th Percentile £383 £308 £363
25th Percentile £419 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £625 £641 £657
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 0
10th Percentile - £29.60 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £39.92 -
Median hourly rate £33.91 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.23% - -
75th Percentile - £55.63 -
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +32.65%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for .NET in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 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
Birmingham +14 12 £483 -0.92% 41
Warwickshire -2 8 £500 -17.63% 22
Solihull - 4 £594 - 1
Coventry +4 2 £413 -10.81% 13
Shropshire 0 2 £519 - 3
.NET
England

.NET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (12.90%) SharePoint
2 3 (9.68%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (12.90%) InfoPath
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (38.71%) Azure
2 6 (19.35%) Dynamics 365
2 6 (19.35%) Power Platform
3 5 (16.13%) AWS
3 5 (16.13%) PowerApps
4 4 (12.90%) Azure Functions
4 4 (12.90%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (12.90%) Power Automate
4 4 (12.90%) Serverless
5 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.45%) Azure AKS
6 2 (6.45%) GCP
7 1 (3.23%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.23%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (35.48%) SQL Server
2 7 (22.58%) NoSQL
2 7 (22.58%) Relational Database
3 5 (16.13%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (16.13%) Power BI
4 4 (12.90%) RDBMS
5 2 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (6.45%) Tableau
6 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.23%) MySQL
6 1 (3.23%) Power Query
6 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Git
2 2 (6.45%) Cucumber
2 2 (6.45%) JMeter
2 2 (6.45%) Selenium
3 1 (3.23%) Appium
3 1 (3.23%) JIRA
3 1 (3.23%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (3.23%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Finance
3 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Legal
3 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.68%) Retail
4 1 (3.23%) Law
4 1 (3.23%) Police
4 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Developer
2 8 (25.81%) Architect
2 8 (25.81%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (12.90%) Lead
4 3 (9.68%) Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) Automation Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Enterprise Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Software Developer
5 2 (6.45%) .NET Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Application Development Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Applications Development Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Applications Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Development Manager
5 2 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Support Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) TOGAF Architect
6 1 (3.23%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (35.48%) HTML
2 9 (29.03%) .NET Framework
3 8 (25.81%) CSS
4 7 (22.58%) ASP.NET
5 6 (19.35%) Entity Framework
6 5 (16.13%) HTML5 Canvas
7 4 (12.90%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (9.68%) Middleware
9 2 (6.45%) ASP.NET Web API
9 2 (6.45%) Gherkin
9 2 (6.45%) Web Services
10 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
10 1 (3.23%) Django
10 1 (3.23%) Flask
10 1 (3.23%) JSON
10 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (3.23%) Playwright
10 1 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (3.23%) REST
10 1 (3.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Enterprise Cloud
1 4 (12.90%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (9.68%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.23%) NHS
4 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Linux
1 2 (6.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) Agile
2 10 (32.26%) CI/CD
3 9 (29.03%) ITIL
4 7 (22.58%) DevOps
4 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (22.58%) Scrum
4 7 (22.58%) Test Automation
5 6 (19.35%) Service Management
5 6 (19.35%) Workflow
6 5 (16.13%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (16.13%) Containerisation
6 5 (16.13%) CRM
6 5 (16.13%) MVC
6 5 (16.13%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (12.90%) Change Management
7 4 (12.90%) Computer Science
7 4 (12.90%) Migration
7 4 (12.90%) Roadmaps
7 4 (12.90%) Technology Roadmap
8 3 (9.68%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (67.74%) C#
2 15 (48.39%) JavaScript
3 13 (41.94%) SQL
4 4 (12.90%) T-SQL
5 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
5 3 (9.68%) Python
6 1 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.23%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) Degree
2 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
3 4 (12.90%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.45%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.45%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (6.45%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) QA
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Active Directory
1 3 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (35.48%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.45%) Grafana
2 2 (6.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (41.94%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle
3 1 (3.23%) Databricks
3 1 (3.23%) Google
3 1 (3.23%) Siemens