.NET Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 58 50
Rank change year-on-year -45 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing .NET 40 92 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.51% 3.26% 3.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.66% 19.01% 22.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 62 115
10th Percentile £325 £363 £368
25th Percentile £400 £438 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £602 £613 £549
90th Percentile £619 £762 £616
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

.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 Thames Valley 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 343 484 601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.97% 17.16% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 349 446
10th Percentile £325 £373 £358
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £588
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 4
10th Percentile £56.58 £52.90 £29.75
25th Percentile £56.65 £75.06 £33.13
Median hourly rate £61.60 £78.75 £51.58
Median % change year-on-year -21.78% +52.67% +37.55%
75th Percentile - £80.25 £71.29
90th Percentile £61.80 £80.48 £76.75
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £64.50 £39.21
% change year-on-year -4.50% +64.51% -12.87%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing .NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for .NET in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for .NET in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 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
Berkshire -35 30 £506 -7.95% 14
Buckinghamshire +7 9 £450 -10.00% 12
Oxfordshire -7 1 £675 +80.00% 16
.NET
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (2.50%) Apache
1 1 (2.50%) Confluence
1 1 (2.50%) Jadu
1 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (52.50%) Azure
2 14 (35.00%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (30.00%) AWS
4 6 (15.00%) Azure API Management
4 6 (15.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (10.00%) PaaS
5 4 (10.00%) SaaS
6 3 (7.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (7.50%) Azure Event Grid
6 3 (7.50%) Azure Functions
6 3 (7.50%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (7.50%) Entra ID
6 3 (7.50%) IaaS
6 3 (7.50%) Serverless
7 2 (5.00%) GCP
7 2 (5.00%) GitHub
7 2 (5.00%) NuGet
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) Network Security
1 3 (7.50%) VPN
2 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (22.50%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 3 (7.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (7.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.50%) MySQL
4 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.50%) Power BI
4 1 (2.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (40.00%) Visual Studio
2 10 (25.00%) Git
3 8 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (7.50%) SpecFlow
5 2 (5.00%) JIRA
5 2 (5.00%) Selenium
6 1 (2.50%) Android Studio
6 1 (2.50%) Appium
6 1 (2.50%) MSTest
6 1 (2.50%) NUnit
6 1 (2.50%) Postman
6 1 (2.50%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (2.50%) SoapUI
6 1 (2.50%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.50%) WebDriver
6 1 (2.50%) Xcode
General
1 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (7.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.50%) Back Office
4 1 (2.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 22 (55.00%) Developer
2 10 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 7 (17.50%) Lead
4 5 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) .NET Software Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Architect
5 3 (7.50%) Full Stack .NET Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Full Stack Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Software Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Technical Leader
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Developer
6 2 (5.00%) C# Developer
6 2 (5.00%) C# Software Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Integration Developer
6 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Tester
7 1 (2.50%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Embedded Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (35.00%) ASP.NET
2 6 (15.00%) HTML
3 5 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 5 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 5 (12.50%) CSS
3 5 (12.50%) REST
4 4 (10.00%) ARM Templates
4 4 (10.00%) JSON
4 4 (10.00%) SOAP
4 4 (10.00%) XML
5 3 (7.50%) .NET Core
5 3 (7.50%) OAuth
5 3 (7.50%) OpenID
5 3 (7.50%) Web Services
6 2 (5.00%) 802.1X
6 2 (5.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (5.00%) RESTful
7 1 (2.50%) Entity Framework
7 1 (2.50%) HTML5
7 1 (2.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.50%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.00%) IoT
3 1 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Android
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
1 1 (2.50%) Windows
1 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) DevOps
2 11 (27.50%) Agile
3 10 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (22.50%) TDD
5 8 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
5 8 (20.00%) OO
6 7 (17.50%) Deployment Automation
6 7 (17.50%) Microservices
7 6 (15.00%) High Availability
7 6 (15.00%) SOLID
8 5 (12.50%) BDD
8 5 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
8 5 (12.50%) Software Engineering
9 4 (10.00%) API Management
9 4 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (10.00%) Data Protection
9 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (10.00%) Network Architecture
9 4 (10.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (85.00%) C#
2 12 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 7 (17.50%) SQL
4 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.00%) PHP
6 3 (7.50%) Java
6 3 (7.50%) Python
6 3 (7.50%) Ruby
7 2 (5.00%) C
8 1 (2.50%) Bash
8 1 (2.50%) Bicep
8 1 (2.50%) C++
8 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (15.00%) Docker
2 4 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.50%) Hyper-V
3 3 (7.50%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (20.00%) Ansible
2 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.50%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (5.00%) Terraform
5 1 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.50%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.50%) Puppet
5 1 (2.50%) SCOM
5 1 (2.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.50%) VMware
3 2 (5.00%) Atmel
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle
4 1 (2.50%) Google