.NET Contracts in the North West

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 75 39 17
Rank change year-on-year -36 -22 +2
Contract jobs citing .NET 68 152 346
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.55% 4.95% 8.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.63% 26.57% 35.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 127 234
10th Percentile £272 £363 £381
25th Percentile £350 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £475 £461
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% +2.98% +14.24%
75th Percentile £494 £575 £519
90th Percentile £543 £618 £588
England median daily rate £538 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £26.10
25th Percentile - - £32.25
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - £78.20
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
North West

.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 West 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 499 572 988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 18.71% 18.63% 24.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 449 728
10th Percentile £350 £338 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +22.02%
75th Percentile £600 £583 £588
90th Percentile £750 £650 £650
England median daily rate £550 £560 £568
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.32% +13.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 34
10th Percentile £37.63 £37.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £37.76 £28.81
Median hourly rate £48.43 £40.55 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.45% -37.62% +91.18%
75th Percentile £72.03 £43.35 £76.88
90th Percentile £75.15 £43.37 £79.95
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for .NET in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester -28 42 £450 -5.26% 108
Cheshire -11 17 £423 -23.18% 40
Merseyside +11 6 £488 +8.33% 24
Lancashire +4 1 £400 - 17
Cumbria - 1 £575 - 4
.NET
England

.NET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (5.88%) CMS
1 4 (5.88%) Umbraco
2 3 (4.41%) IIS
3 2 (2.94%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (2.94%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.41%) Maximo
3 2 (2.94%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 27 (39.71%) Azure
2 10 (14.71%) AWS
3 9 (13.24%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (10.29%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (10.29%) Power Automate
5 6 (8.82%) SaaS
6 4 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (5.88%) OCI
6 4 (5.88%) Power Platform
7 3 (4.41%) npm
7 3 (4.41%) Serverless
7 3 (4.41%) Yarn
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.94%) Stripe
9 1 (1.47%) Azure API Management
9 1 (1.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.47%) PaaS
9 1 (1.47%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.47%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.12%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (4.41%) DB2
3 3 (4.41%) Redis
4 2 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.94%) Neo4j
4 2 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Git
2 3 (4.41%) Jasmine
2 3 (4.41%) Karma Test Runner
2 3 (4.41%) Mocha
2 3 (4.41%) webpack
3 2 (2.94%) Selenium
4 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.47%) JMeter
4 1 (1.47%) NeoLoad
4 1 (1.47%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.82%) Finance
3 3 (4.41%) Banking
3 3 (4.41%) Law
3 3 (4.41%) Legal
4 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.47%) Advertising
5 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (75.00%) Developer
2 25 (36.76%) .NET Developer
3 5 (7.35%) Lead
4 4 (5.88%) Architect
4 4 (5.88%) Azure Developer
4 4 (5.88%) Development Manager
4 4 (5.88%) Senior
4 4 (5.88%) Senior Developer
4 4 (5.88%) Software Developer
4 4 (5.88%) Software Development Manager
4 4 (5.88%) Software Manager
4 4 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (5.88%) Systems Developer
4 4 (5.88%) Umbraco Developer
5 3 (4.41%) Full Stack Developer
5 3 (4.41%) Integration Developer
5 3 (4.41%) Pega Developer
5 3 (4.41%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (2.94%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (2.94%) Sitecore Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (33.82%) .NET Framework
2 15 (22.06%) HTML
2 15 (22.06%) React
3 14 (20.59%) CSS
4 13 (19.12%) .NET Core
5 11 (16.18%) Entity Framework
6 6 (8.82%) REST
7 5 (7.35%) AngularJS
7 5 (7.35%) Web Services
8 4 (5.88%) ASP.NET
9 3 (4.41%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (4.41%) JSON
9 3 (4.41%) Kafka
9 3 (4.41%) NancyFx
9 3 (4.41%) RESTful
9 3 (4.41%) Vue
9 3 (4.41%) XHTML
10 2 (2.94%) CSS3
10 2 (2.94%) HTML5
10 2 (2.94%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (4.41%) Algorithms
2 3 (4.41%) Data Structures
2 3 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.41%) Low-Code
2 3 (4.41%) Mainframe
2 3 (4.41%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.41%) Public Cloud
2 3 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.94%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.47%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.47%) IoT
4 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.41%) Android
1 3 (4.41%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (39.71%) Agile
2 16 (23.53%) DevOps
3 14 (20.59%) Scrum
4 12 (17.65%) Microservices
5 11 (16.18%) MVC
6 10 (14.71%) OO
7 8 (11.76%) API Development
7 8 (11.76%) CI/CD
7 8 (11.76%) CRM
7 8 (11.76%) Design Patterns
7 8 (11.76%) Full Stack Development
8 7 (10.29%) Test Automation
8 7 (10.29%) Waterfall
9 6 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (8.82%) Software Architecture
10 5 (7.35%) OOD
10 5 (7.35%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (7.35%) SDLC
10 5 (7.35%) SOLID
11 4 (5.88%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (63.24%) C#
2 22 (32.35%) SQL
3 21 (30.88%) JavaScript
4 13 (19.12%) Java
5 7 (10.29%) Python
6 4 (5.88%) C
6 4 (5.88%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.94%) Perl
7 2 (2.94%) PHP
8 1 (1.47%) Bicep
8 1 (1.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (8.82%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.35%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) QA
2 3 (4.41%) GDPR
3 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (1.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (10.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.88%) Oracle
3 3 (4.41%) IBM
3 3 (4.41%) Nintex
3 3 (4.41%) Pega
3 3 (4.41%) SAP
4 2 (2.94%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.47%) Xamarin