.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 10 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 41 19
Rank change year-on-year -31 -22 0
Contract jobs citing .NET 64 144 318
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.29% 4.78% 7.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.93% 26.18% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 120 212
10th Percentile £268 £363 £375
25th Percentile £341 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% - +17.28%
75th Percentile £503 £575 £538
90th Percentile £549 £595 £588
England median daily rate £545 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -5.22% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £30.90
25th Percentile - - £65.00
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - £78.20
England median hourly rate £58.91 £51.49 £49.74
% change year-on-year +14.41% +3.50% +17.04%

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 495 550 983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 17.69% 18.25% 24.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 436 722
10th Percentile £350 £344 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £750 £650 £650
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 31
10th Percentile £37.63 £37.76 £14.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £37.77 £29.63
Median hourly rate £48.43 £40.59 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -42.01% +118.75%
75th Percentile £72.03 £44.78 £77.50
90th Percentile £75.15 £45.62 £81.00
England median hourly rate £48.97 £65.00 £52.75
% change year-on-year -24.67% +23.22% +14.67%

.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

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in the North West over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the North West

.NET
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 10 June 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 -27 39 £450 -5.26% 113
Cheshire -17 17 £423 -23.18% 32
Merseyside +6 5 £499 +10.83% 26
Lancashire +3 1 £400 - 14
Cumbria - 1 £575 - 3
.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 (6.25%) CMS
1 4 (6.25%) Umbraco
2 3 (4.69%) IIS
3 2 (3.13%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (3.13%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.69%) Maximo
3 2 (3.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (39.06%) Azure
2 9 (14.06%) AWS
3 8 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (10.94%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (10.94%) Power Automate
5 6 (9.38%) SaaS
6 4 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (6.25%) OCI
6 4 (6.25%) Power Platform
7 3 (4.69%) npm
7 3 (4.69%) Serverless
7 3 (4.69%) Yarn
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Functions
8 2 (3.13%) PaaS
8 2 (3.13%) Stripe
9 1 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.56%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.31%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (4.69%) DB2
3 3 (4.69%) Redis
4 2 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.13%) Neo4j
4 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Git
2 3 (4.69%) Jasmine
2 3 (4.69%) Karma Test Runner
2 3 (4.69%) Mocha
2 3 (4.69%) webpack
3 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.56%) JMeter
3 1 (1.56%) NeoLoad
3 1 (1.56%) Selenium
3 1 (1.56%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.81%) Finance
3 3 (4.69%) Banking
3 3 (4.69%) Law
3 3 (4.69%) Legal
4 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.56%) Advertising
5 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (75.00%) Developer
2 23 (35.94%) .NET Developer
3 5 (7.81%) Lead
4 4 (6.25%) Architect
4 4 (6.25%) Development Manager
4 4 (6.25%) Software Developer
4 4 (6.25%) Software Development Manager
4 4 (6.25%) Software Manager
4 4 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (6.25%) Systems Developer
4 4 (6.25%) Umbraco Developer
5 3 (4.69%) Azure Developer
5 3 (4.69%) Full Stack Developer
5 3 (4.69%) Full Stack Engineer
5 3 (4.69%) Integration Developer
5 3 (4.69%) Pega Developer
5 3 (4.69%) Senior
5 3 (4.69%) Senior Developer
6 2 (3.13%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (3.13%) Sitecore Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (34.38%) .NET Framework
2 15 (23.44%) HTML
2 15 (23.44%) React
3 14 (21.88%) CSS
4 12 (18.75%) .NET Core
5 11 (17.19%) Entity Framework
6 6 (9.38%) REST
7 5 (7.81%) AngularJS
7 5 (7.81%) Web Services
8 3 (4.69%) ASP.NET
8 3 (4.69%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (4.69%) JSON
8 3 (4.69%) Kafka
8 3 (4.69%) NancyFx
8 3 (4.69%) Node.js
8 3 (4.69%) RESTful
8 3 (4.69%) Vue
8 3 (4.69%) XHTML
9 2 (3.13%) Django
9 2 (3.13%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (4.69%) Algorithms
2 3 (4.69%) Data Structures
2 3 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.69%) Low-Code
2 3 (4.69%) Mainframe
2 3 (4.69%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.69%) Public Cloud
2 3 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.56%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.56%) IoT
4 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.69%) Android
1 3 (4.69%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (42.19%) Agile
2 15 (23.44%) DevOps
3 13 (20.31%) Microservices
3 13 (20.31%) Scrum
4 10 (15.63%) MVC
4 10 (15.63%) OO
5 9 (14.06%) CI/CD
5 9 (14.06%) Design Patterns
5 9 (14.06%) Full Stack Development
6 8 (12.50%) API Development
6 8 (12.50%) CRM
7 7 (10.94%) Test Automation
7 7 (10.94%) Waterfall
8 6 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (9.38%) Software Architecture
9 5 (7.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (7.81%) OOD
9 5 (7.81%) SDLC
9 5 (7.81%) SOLID
10 4 (6.25%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 39 (60.94%) C#
2 22 (34.38%) SQL
3 20 (31.25%) JavaScript
4 14 (21.88%) Java
5 7 (10.94%) Python
6 4 (6.25%) C
6 4 (6.25%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.13%) Perl
7 2 (3.13%) PHP
8 1 (1.56%) Bicep
8 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.81%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) QA
2 3 (4.69%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.25%) Oracle
3 3 (4.69%) IBM
3 3 (4.69%) Nintex
3 3 (4.69%) Pega
3 3 (4.69%) SAP
4 2 (3.13%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.56%) Xamarin