.NET Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring .NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 41 48
Rank change year-on-year -11 +7 +8
Contract jobs citing .NET 4 13 8
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 1.05% 3.27% 1.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.56% 14.61% 7.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 7
10th Percentile £468 £400 £282
25th Percentile £475 £513 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £547 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.59% +15.16% +46.15%
75th Percentile £513 £575 £563
90th Percentile - £630 £648
South West median daily rate £475 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +9.52%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Gloucestershire

.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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 72 89 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.85% 22.36% 23.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 46 70
10th Percentile £407 £475 £370
25th Percentile £463 £527 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £680 £698 £688
90th Percentile £749 £734 £741
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 21
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +43.68% -48.72%
75th Percentile £68.50 - £62.50
90th Percentile £69.40 - £78.00
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -7.14% +34.90% -20.17%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

.NET job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

.NET
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

.NET
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 18 November 2025. 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
Gloucester - 2 £500 - 6
.NET
South West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 1 (25.00%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (50.00%) YAML
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (25.00%) Blazor
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) CSS3
2 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) Universal Windows Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) WPF
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Case Management
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Document Management
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile Application Development
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Bicep
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) OpenText