.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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 44 25
Rank change year-on-year -35 -19 -5
Contract jobs citing .NET 107 231 468
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.31% 4.14% 6.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.98% 21.12% 29.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 192 322
10th Percentile £275 £364 £363
25th Percentile £325 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £432 £475 £458
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +3.83% +10.91%
75th Percentile £494 £575 £525
90th Percentile £550 £625 £600
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 - - £32.25
25th Percentile - £48.50 £52.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £49.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.61% -24.62% +91.18%
75th Percentile - £49.50 £76.25
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 893 1,094 1,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.29% 19.62% 22.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 850 1,194
10th Percentile £351 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £440 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +17.24%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £700 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £560 £575
% change year-on-year -1.79% -2.61% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 38
10th Percentile £14.56 £37.79 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £48.50 £32.59
Median hourly rate £46.18 £62.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.11% +2.04% +104.17%
75th Percentile £69.44 £70.00 £76.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.00 £78.55
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +28.71% +6.88%

.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 23 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 23 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 67 £445 -6.32% 190
Yorkshire -16 33 £404 -16.75% 113
North East +8 7 £375 -14.29% 49
.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 36 (33.64%) Azure
2 15 (14.02%) AWS
3 9 (8.41%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (7.48%) Azure DevOps
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 Data Factory
10 1 (0.93%) Contentful
10 1 (0.93%) Contentstack
10 1 (0.93%) PaaS
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 8 (7.48%) 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%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (28.04%) .NET Framework
2 20 (18.69%) .NET Core
3 19 (17.76%) 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 4 (3.74%) XML
11 3 (2.80%) J2EE
11 3 (2.80%) Kafka
11 3 (2.80%) NancyFx
11 3 (2.80%) SAML
11 3 (2.80%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.41%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.67%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.74%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.80%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.80%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.80%) Low-Code
4 3 (2.80%) Mainframe
4 3 (2.80%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.80%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.87%) IoT
6 1 (0.93%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.93%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.61%) Android
1 6 (5.61%) Apple iOS
2 5 (4.67%) Unix
3 4 (3.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (32.71%) Agile
2 19 (17.76%) 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
7 10 (9.35%) Waterfall
8 9 (8.41%) Design Patterns
8 9 (8.41%) Full Stack Development
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 60 (56.07%) C#
2 34 (31.78%) SQL
3 32 (29.91%) JavaScript
4 20 (18.69%) Java
5 13 (12.15%) Python
6 7 (6.54%) C
7 6 (5.61%) VB.NET
8 5 (4.67%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.74%) MATLAB
9 4 (3.74%) VBA
10 3 (2.80%) C++
11 2 (1.87%) Perl
11 2 (1.87%) PHP
12 1 (0.93%) Bicep
12 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
12 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