.NET Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcestershire requiring .NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - 18
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing .NET 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 0.63% - 1.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.63% - 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £480 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -8.57% +2.44% -6.82%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Worcestershire

.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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 38 5 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 23.90% 8.20% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 3 6
10th Percentile - - £389
25th Percentile £525 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £463
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +51.35% -39.62%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £613
90th Percentile £750 £780 £658
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £463
% change year-on-year -4.76% +13.51% -14.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £39.92
% change year-on-year -1.05% -31.11% -

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

.NET job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

.NET
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 28 February 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
Kidderminster - 1 £425 - 1
.NET
West Midlands

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior QA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft