.NET Contracts in the South East

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 56 51
Rank change year-on-year -45 -5 -7
Contract jobs citing .NET 102 232 340
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.85% 3.98% 4.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.97% 22.05% 21.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 176 236
10th Percentile £316 £403 £363
25th Percentile £400 £441 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +15.94%
75th Percentile £614 £675 £580
90th Percentile £638 £834 £644
England median daily rate £539 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.30% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 13
10th Percentile £40.37 - £19.80
25th Percentile £45.80 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £58.91 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.10% +57.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile £62.96 £71.25 -
90th Percentile - £79.50 £60.77
England median hourly rate £58.91 £55.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year +7.10% +13.40% +8.99%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

.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 South East 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 730 1,052 1,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.21% 18.05% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 749 1,028
10th Percentile £313 £363 £354
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £600
90th Percentile £667 £725 £673
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 36 41
10th Percentile £35.00 £39.75 £21.00
25th Percentile £56.13 £54.38 £31.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +55.56% +4.05%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £76.25 £79.72 £67.80
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for .NET in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing .NET in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for .NET in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Thames Valley -36 40 £500 -2.44% 60
Berkshire -25 29 £531 -3.41% 22
Hampshire -47 18 £444 -13.83% 48
Surrey +6 17 £613 +20.69% 40
West Sussex +10 11 £715 -13.33% 9
Buckinghamshire +12 10 £450 -6.25% 16
East Sussex +2 8 £380 -53.94% 11
Kent -1 5 £413 -13.16% 27
Oxfordshire -9 1 £675 +80.00% 22
Sussex - 1 £450 - 2
Home Counties - 1 £475 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (4.90%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.94%) Apache
2 3 (2.94%) Confluence
3 1 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.98%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.98%) IIS
3 1 (0.98%) Jadu
3 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.98%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.96%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 50 (49.02%) Azure
2 23 (22.55%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (17.65%) AWS
4 7 (6.86%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (5.88%) Azure API Management
5 6 (5.88%) Azure Functions
5 6 (5.88%) PaaS
5 6 (5.88%) Serverless
6 4 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (3.92%) GitHub
6 4 (3.92%) SaaS
7 3 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (2.94%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (2.94%) GCP
7 3 (2.94%) NuGet
7 3 (2.94%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.94%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.96%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.96%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.88%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.94%) DHCP
2 3 (2.94%) DNS
3 2 (1.96%) Network Security
3 2 (1.96%) SSL
3 2 (1.96%) VPN
4 1 (0.98%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (28.43%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.90%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (3.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.94%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.96%) Power BI
6 1 (0.98%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.98%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.98%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.98%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.98%) Metadata
6 1 (0.98%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.98%) MySQL
6 1 (0.98%) Redis
6 1 (0.98%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (20.59%) Visual Studio
2 19 (18.63%) Git
3 14 (13.73%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.92%) JIRA
4 4 (3.92%) Selenium
5 3 (2.94%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.96%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.96%) JMeter
6 2 (1.96%) NUnit
6 2 (1.96%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.98%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.98%) Appium
7 1 (0.98%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.98%) MSTest
7 1 (0.98%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.98%) Postman
7 1 (0.98%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.98%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.98%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.98%) Xcode
General
1 13 (12.75%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.84%) Finance
4 5 (4.90%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.94%) Front Office
6 2 (1.96%) Automotive
6 2 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.98%) Back Office
7 1 (0.98%) Banking
7 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (56.86%) Developer
2 25 (24.51%) .NET Developer
3 14 (13.73%) Architect
4 11 (10.78%) Software Developer
5 9 (8.82%) Lead
5 9 (8.82%) Senior
6 8 (7.84%) Full Stack Developer
6 8 (7.84%) Software Engineer
6 8 (7.84%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (4.90%) Azure Developer
7 5 (4.90%) Senior Developer
8 4 (3.92%) .NET Architect
8 4 (3.92%) .NET Software Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) Full Stack .NET Developer
8 4 (3.92%) Senior Software Developer
8 4 (3.92%) Technical Architect
9 3 (2.94%) .NET Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.94%) Applications Developer
9 3 (2.94%) C# Developer
9 3 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (31.37%) ASP.NET
2 22 (21.57%) AngularJS
3 18 (17.65%) .NET Core
4 17 (16.67%) HTML
5 15 (14.71%) .NET Framework
6 14 (13.73%) CSS
7 12 (11.76%) ASP.NET MVC
8 11 (10.78%) RESTful
9 10 (9.80%) REST
9 10 (9.80%) XML
10 9 (8.82%) JSON
11 7 (6.86%) Blazor
11 7 (6.86%) SOAP
12 6 (5.88%) Entity Framework
13 4 (3.92%) ARM Templates
13 4 (3.92%) WCF
13 4 (3.92%) Web Services
14 3 (2.94%) HTML5
14 3 (2.94%) OAuth
14 3 (2.94%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.92%) Public Cloud
2 2 (1.96%) Cloud Native
2 2 (1.96%) IoT
2 2 (1.96%) PKI
2 2 (1.96%) Product Ownership
2 2 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (0.98%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.98%) Mobile App
3 1 (0.98%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.82%) Linux
2 8 (7.84%) Windows
3 4 (3.92%) Ubuntu
3 4 (3.92%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.94%) Unix
5 2 (1.96%) VMS
6 1 (0.98%) Android
6 1 (0.98%) Debian
6 1 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (38.24%) Agile
2 30 (29.41%) DevOps
3 28 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (18.63%) MVC
5 18 (17.65%) Microservices
6 14 (13.73%) Full Stack Development
6 14 (13.73%) TDD
7 13 (12.75%) CI/CD
7 13 (12.75%) Deployment Automation
8 12 (11.76%) Software Engineering
9 11 (10.78%) OO
10 10 (9.80%) SOLID
11 9 (8.82%) Migration
11 9 (8.82%) Scrum
12 7 (6.86%) Architectural Patterns
12 7 (6.86%) Design Patterns
12 7 (6.86%) Domain-Driven Design
12 7 (6.86%) Project Delivery
12 7 (6.86%) Roadmaps
12 7 (6.86%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 77 (75.49%) C#
2 24 (23.53%) PowerShell
3 23 (22.55%) JavaScript
4 22 (21.57%) SQL
5 7 (6.86%) C++
6 5 (4.90%) Python
6 5 (4.90%) VB.NET
7 4 (3.92%) Java
7 4 (3.92%) PHP
7 4 (3.92%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.96%) C
8 2 (1.96%) Ruby
8 2 (1.96%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.96%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.98%) Bash
9 1 (0.98%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 24 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 22 (21.57%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.86%) Degree
4 3 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.96%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.98%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.86%) QA
2 3 (2.94%) ISO 9001
2 3 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 3 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (2.94%) SLA
3 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.98%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (8.82%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.90%) Docker
3 5 (4.90%) Hyper-V
3 5 (4.90%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.92%) vSphere
5 1 (0.98%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 14 (13.73%) Ansible
2 5 (4.90%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.90%) Terraform
3 4 (3.92%) WSUS
4 2 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.98%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.98%) Puppet
5 1 (0.98%) SCOM
5 1 (0.98%) vRealize
Vendors
1 17 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.80%) Oracle
3 7 (6.86%) VMware
4 3 (2.94%) SAP
5 2 (1.96%) Atmel
5 2 (1.96%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.96%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.98%) Google
6 1 (0.98%) Qualys