.NET Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 48 26
Rank change year-on-year -35 -22 -5
Contract jobs citing .NET 107 231 491
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.30% 4.13% 6.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.76% 21.23% 30.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 192 343
10th Percentile £275 £363 £375
25th Percentile £325 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £458
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +3.83% +10.91%
75th Percentile £494 £575 £525
90th Percentile £550 £611 £595
England median daily rate £538 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 11
10th Percentile - - £26.25
25th Percentile - £48.50 £40.75
Median hourly rate £20.77 £49.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.61% -24.62% +91.18%
75th Percentile - £49.50 £72.50
90th Percentile - - £77.50
England median hourly rate £59.45 £52.97 £49.00
% change year-on-year +12.24% +8.10% +10.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

.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 North of England 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 910 1,088 1,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.58% 19.45% 22.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 845 1,222
10th Percentile £363 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £440 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £579
90th Percentile £700 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £560 £570
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.75% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 38
10th Percentile £14.56 £37.79 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £48.50 £31.50
Median hourly rate £46.18 £62.50 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.11% +10.62% +76.56%
75th Percentile £69.44 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.00 £78.55
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for .NET in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for .NET in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 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
North West -28 68 £445 -6.32% 191
Yorkshire -23 32 £400 -15.79% 104
North East +10 7 £375 -16.67% 44
.NET
England

.NET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 11 (10.28%) Umbraco
2 10 (9.35%) CMS
3 5 (4.67%) Drupal
4 3 (2.80%) IIS
5 2 (1.87%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (1.87%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.87%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.93%) Kentico
6 1 (0.93%) Site Server
Applications
1 7 (6.54%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (5.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.80%) Maximo
3 2 (1.87%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.93%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 37 (34.58%) Azure
2 15 (14.02%) AWS
3 9 (8.41%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (8.41%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (7.48%) Power Platform
5 7 (6.54%) Power Automate
6 6 (5.61%) SaaS
7 4 (3.74%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (3.74%) OCI
8 3 (2.80%) Apigee
8 3 (2.80%) npm
8 3 (2.80%) Serverless
8 3 (2.80%) Yarn
9 2 (1.87%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.87%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.87%) Stripe
10 1 (0.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.93%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.93%) Contentful
10 1 (0.93%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.80%) SSL
2 1 (0.93%) NAS
2 1 (0.93%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.95%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (2.80%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (2.80%) DB2
3 3 (2.80%) Power BI
3 3 (2.80%) Redis
4 2 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.87%) Neo4j
4 2 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (3.74%) Git
2 3 (2.80%) gulp
2 3 (2.80%) Jasmine
2 3 (2.80%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.80%) Karma Test Runner
2 3 (2.80%) Maven
2 3 (2.80%) Mocha
2 3 (2.80%) webpack
3 2 (1.87%) Selenium
4 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.93%) JMeter
4 1 (0.93%) NeoLoad
4 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.93%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (17.76%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.41%) Finance
3 5 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.80%) Banking
4 3 (2.80%) Law
4 3 (2.80%) Legal
5 2 (1.87%) Advertising
5 2 (1.87%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.93%) Games
Job Titles
1 82 (76.64%) Developer
2 42 (39.25%) .NET Developer
3 7 (6.54%) Azure Developer
3 7 (6.54%) Senior
3 7 (6.54%) Senior Developer
3 7 (6.54%) Umbraco Developer
4 6 (5.61%) Lead
4 6 (5.61%) Senior .NET Developer
5 5 (4.67%) Software Developer
6 4 (3.74%) Analyst
6 4 (3.74%) Architect
6 4 (3.74%) C# .NET Developer
6 4 (3.74%) C# Developer
6 4 (3.74%) Development Manager
6 4 (3.74%) Full Stack Developer
6 4 (3.74%) Software Development Manager
6 4 (3.74%) Software Manager
6 4 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (3.74%) Systems Developer
7 3 (2.80%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (28.04%) .NET Framework
2 20 (18.69%) .NET Core
3 18 (16.82%) HTML
4 16 (14.95%) React
5 15 (14.02%) CSS
6 12 (11.21%) Entity Framework
7 8 (7.48%) AngularJS
8 6 (5.61%) ASP.NET Web API
8 6 (5.61%) REST
8 6 (5.61%) RESTful
8 6 (5.61%) Web Services
9 5 (4.67%) ASP.NET
9 5 (4.67%) Blazor
9 5 (4.67%) Node.js
10 3 (2.80%) Kafka
10 3 (2.80%) NancyFx
10 3 (2.80%) OAuth
10 3 (2.80%) OpenID
10 3 (2.80%) Vue
10 3 (2.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.41%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.67%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.80%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.80%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.80%) Low-Code
3 3 (2.80%) Mainframe
3 3 (2.80%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.80%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.87%) IoT
5 1 (0.93%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.93%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.61%) Android
1 6 (5.61%) Apple iOS
2 4 (3.74%) Unix
3 3 (2.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (31.78%) Agile
2 20 (18.69%) DevOps
3 15 (14.02%) Microservices
4 14 (13.08%) Scrum
5 12 (11.21%) MVC
6 11 (10.28%) OO
6 11 (10.28%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (9.35%) CRM
8 9 (8.41%) Design Patterns
8 9 (8.41%) Full Stack Development
8 9 (8.41%) Waterfall
9 8 (7.48%) API Development
9 8 (7.48%) CI/CD
10 7 (6.54%) Test Automation
11 6 (5.61%) API Management
11 6 (5.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (5.61%) OOP
11 6 (5.61%) Software Architecture
11 6 (5.61%) SOLID
12 5 (4.67%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 61 (57.01%) C#
2 33 (30.84%) SQL
3 31 (28.97%) JavaScript
4 19 (17.76%) Java
5 13 (12.15%) Python
6 6 (5.61%) C
6 6 (5.61%) VB.NET
7 5 (4.67%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.74%) MATLAB
8 4 (3.74%) VBA
9 2 (1.87%) C++
9 2 (1.87%) Perl
9 2 (1.87%) PHP
10 1 (0.93%) Bicep
10 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.93%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (11.21%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.35%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.61%) Degree
4 3 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.80%) HNC
4 3 (2.80%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.48%) QA
2 3 (2.80%) GDPR
3 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.93%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.93%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (2.80%) Ansible
2 1 (0.93%) Terraform
2 1 (0.93%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (13.08%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.74%) Oracle
3 3 (2.80%) Google
3 3 (2.80%) IBM
3 3 (2.80%) Nintex
3 3 (2.80%) Pega
3 3 (2.80%) SAP
4 2 (1.87%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.93%) Cognizant
5 1 (0.93%) mParticle
5 1 (0.93%) VMware
5 1 (0.93%) Xamarin