.NET Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for .NET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited .NET over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 47 30
Rank change year-on-year -27 -17 +8
Contract jobs citing .NET 59 143 285
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.19% 4.36% 5.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.05% 25.31% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 115 240
10th Percentile £270 £330 £350
25th Percentile £325 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -5.56% +14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £504
90th Percentile £628 £673 £569
England median daily rate £538 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £18.50
25th Percentile - - £20.25
Median hourly rate - - £32.42
75th Percentile - - £46.25
90th Percentile - - £46.67
England median hourly rate £59.45 £55.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +8.10% +12.24% +10.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

.NET is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 392 565 897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.56% 17.21% 17.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 443 685
10th Percentile £280 £313 £360
25th Percentile £358 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.75%
75th Percentile £621 £588 £550
90th Percentile £720 £700 £638
England median daily rate £550 £560 £568
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.32% +13.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 10
10th Percentile £10.90 - £16.70
25th Percentile £14.16 - £20.25
Median hourly rate £26.25 - £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +66.67%
75th Percentile £39.98 - £46.25
90th Percentile £56.25 - £47.95
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for .NET in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
West Midlands -4 38 £494 -1.25% 121
East Midlands -22 21 £425 +6.25% 86
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 2 (3.39%) CMS
2 1 (1.69%) Appian
2 1 (1.69%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.69%) Umbraco
2 1 (1.69%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 33 (55.93%) Azure
2 19 (32.20%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (16.95%) AWS
4 8 (13.56%) Power Platform
5 6 (10.17%) Azure AKS
5 6 (10.17%) Azure App Service
5 6 (10.17%) PowerApps
6 5 (8.47%) Power Automate
6 5 (8.47%) SaaS
7 3 (5.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (5.08%) Azure Functions
7 3 (5.08%) Serverless
8 2 (3.39%) PaaS
8 2 (3.39%) SonarCloud
9 1 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.69%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (33.90%) SQL Server
2 7 (11.86%) Power BI
3 4 (6.78%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (6.78%) DB2
4 3 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.08%) MySQL
4 3 (5.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.69%) MS Access
6 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.69%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (1.69%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.69%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Git
1 4 (6.78%) NUnit
1 4 (6.78%) Visual Studio
2 3 (5.08%) JIRA
3 2 (3.39%) Hudson
3 2 (3.39%) Moq
3 2 (3.39%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.69%) Selenium
4 1 (1.69%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.69%) TestRail
4 1 (1.69%) webpack
General
1 12 (20.34%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.25%) Finance
3 4 (6.78%) Banking
3 4 (6.78%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.39%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Local Government
6 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (72.88%) Developer
2 17 (28.81%) .NET Developer
3 8 (13.56%) Full Stack Developer
4 7 (11.86%) C# Developer
5 6 (10.17%) Angular Developer
5 6 (10.17%) Full Stack .NET Developer
5 6 (10.17%) Lead
5 6 (10.17%) Power Platform Developer
6 5 (8.47%) Architect
6 5 (8.47%) C# .NET Developer
6 5 (8.47%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.78%) Analyst
7 4 (6.78%) Software Developer
7 4 (6.78%) Team Leader
8 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Developer
8 3 (5.08%) React Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Test Analyst
9 2 (3.39%) Lead Developer
9 2 (3.39%) Senior
9 2 (3.39%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.25%) .NET Framework
1 9 (15.25%) React
2 8 (13.56%) .NET Core
2 8 (13.56%) AngularJS
2 8 (13.56%) ASP.NET
3 7 (11.86%) RESTful
4 5 (8.47%) Entity Framework
4 5 (8.47%) HTML
4 5 (8.47%) Vue
4 5 (8.47%) XML
5 4 (6.78%) CSS
5 4 (6.78%) Web Services
6 3 (5.08%) jQuery
6 3 (5.08%) Ruby on Rails
6 3 (5.08%) XSLT
7 2 (3.39%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (3.39%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (3.39%) Blazor
8 1 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.69%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.25%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (8.47%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.78%) Mainframe
3 4 (6.78%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.08%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.69%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.78%) Android
1 4 (6.78%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (33.90%) Agile
1 20 (33.90%) DevOps
2 14 (23.73%) Full Stack Development
3 12 (20.34%) Microservices
4 11 (18.64%) MVC
4 11 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (15.25%) SDLC
6 7 (11.86%) CI/CD
6 7 (11.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (10.17%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (8.47%) Containerisation
8 5 (8.47%) Critical Thinking
8 5 (8.47%) Defect Management
8 5 (8.47%) User Experience
8 5 (8.47%) UX Design
9 4 (6.78%) API Design
9 4 (6.78%) Architectural Design
9 4 (6.78%) Domain-Driven Design
9 4 (6.78%) Project Management
9 4 (6.78%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 38 (64.41%) C#
2 19 (32.20%) SQL
3 10 (16.95%) JavaScript
4 6 (10.17%) TypeScript
5 5 (8.47%) Bicep
5 5 (8.47%) Java
6 4 (6.78%) C
6 4 (6.78%) Ruby
7 2 (3.39%) Python
8 1 (1.69%) Bash
8 1 (1.69%) PHP
8 1 (1.69%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.69%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.69%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.69%) VBA
8 1 (1.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (5.08%) Degree
2 1 (1.69%) ISTQB
2 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) QA
2 3 (5.08%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.69%) Argo
1 1 (1.69%) Istio
1 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.69%) linkerd
1 1 (1.69%) SELinux
1 1 (1.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (25.42%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.47%) Oracle
3 1 (1.69%) Databricks
3 1 (1.69%) Informatica
3 1 (1.69%) Red Hat