.NET Contracts in Cardiff

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring .NET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 24 10
Rank change year-on-year +3 -14 +14
Contract jobs citing .NET 9 11 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 5.63% 5.19% 12.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 32.14% 17.19% 34.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 41
10th Percentile £165 £374 £300
25th Percentile £189 £381 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £294 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year -30.84% -22.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £510 £456 £586
90th Percentile £583 £476 £600
South Wales median daily rate £438 £425 £565
% change year-on-year +3.00% -24.78% -5.83%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cardiff

.NET falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 28 64 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 17.50% 30.19% 36.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 56 93
10th Percentile £196 £369 £300
25th Percentile £312 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% -6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £539 £586
90th Percentile £588 £623 £650
South Wales median daily rate £405 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -14.29% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings citing .NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for .NET in Cardiff

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET in Cardiff.

Daily rate trend for .NET in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in Cardiff over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in Cardiff

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET in Cardiff.

Hourly rate trend for .NET in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) Appium
2 1 (11.11%) NUnit
2 1 (11.11%) SpecFlow
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (11.11%) tSQLt
2 1 (11.11%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) .NET Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) CRM Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (11.11%) QA Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) QA Automation Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) FHIR
2 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Clustering
1 1 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
1 1 (11.11%) NHS
1 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Scrum
2 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
2 4 (44.44%) Unit Testing
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) CRM
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) API Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (22.22%) OO
4 2 (22.22%) OOD
4 2 (22.22%) Web Development
5 1 (11.11%) Customer Engagement
5 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Informatics
5 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Kanban
5 1 (11.11%) Manual Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (11.11%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) C#
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) ISEB
2 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) HL7
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) RedGate