.NET Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring .NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 22 18
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 -10
Contract jobs citing .NET 23 6 13
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 8.39% 3.68% 6.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 46.94% 18.18% 19.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 5 9
10th Percentile £289 £241 £373
25th Percentile £300 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £501 £425
Median % change year-on-year -32.07% +17.76% -25.96%
75th Percentile £370 £538 £438
90th Percentile £623 £628 £463
South Wales median daily rate £370 £525 £400
% change year-on-year -29.52% +31.25% -31.74%

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 49 33 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 17.88% 20.25% 31.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 23 58
10th Percentile £275 £242 £379
25th Percentile £300 £328 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £405 £495
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% -18.18% -5.71%
75th Percentile £547 £519 £550
90th Percentile £775 £587 £614
South Wales median daily rate £425 £409 £450
% change year-on-year +3.98% -9.17% -18.03%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing .NET relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

.NET job vacancy trend in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing .NET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing .NET

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in Cardiff over the 6 months to 6 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in Cardiff

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing .NET.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing .NET

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (73.91%) Azure
2 12 (52.17%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (39.13%) Power Platform
3 9 (39.13%) PowerApps
4 5 (21.74%) Power Automate
5 4 (17.39%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (13.04%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (8.70%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Finance
2 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Lead
3 6 (26.09%) Applications Developer
3 6 (26.09%) Power Apps Developer
4 4 (17.39%) .NET Developer
4 4 (17.39%) .NET Software Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Software Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Test Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Architect
6 2 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Senior
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) .NET Core
1 4 (17.39%) RESTful
2 3 (13.04%) ADO
2 3 (13.04%) Playwright
3 2 (8.70%) REST
3 2 (8.70%) WebSockets
4 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (4.35%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (4.35%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Low-Code
1 5 (21.74%) NHS
2 1 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Agile
2 13 (56.52%) DevOps
3 9 (39.13%) Scrum
4 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
5 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (26.09%) Containerisation
6 6 (26.09%) Microservices
7 4 (17.39%) Mentoring
7 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (17.39%) User Research
8 3 (13.04%) Acceptance Criteria
8 3 (13.04%) API Management
8 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
8 3 (13.04%) Defect Management
8 3 (13.04%) Event-Driven
8 3 (13.04%) Manual Testing
8 3 (13.04%) Regression Testing
8 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
8 3 (13.04%) Test Scripting
9 2 (8.70%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) C#
2 5 (21.74%) SQL
3 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (13.04%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (56.52%) Microsoft