.NET Contracts in Hampshire

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 28 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 89 59
Rank change year-on-year +25 -30 +6
Contract jobs citing .NET 12 16 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.29% 0.99% 3.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.33% 9.41% 22.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 30
10th Percentile £446 £325 £406
25th Percentile £463 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £588
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -27.66% +28.77%
75th Percentile £519 £480 £670
90th Percentile £524 £515 £677
South East median daily rate £450 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -13.88% -5.00% +10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Hampshire

.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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 144 170 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 15.43% 10.57% 13.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 111 97
10th Percentile £395 £350 £406
25th Percentile £418 £461 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% - +12.20%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £675 £688 £705
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £524
% change year-on-year -9.52% +0.29% -0.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 21
10th Percentile - £64.75 £55.00
25th Percentile £50.00 - £57.75
Median hourly rate £54.88 £70.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.61% +3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £73.75
90th Percentile £58.74 £76.50 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £62.50
% change year-on-year -18.83% -1.44% +8.70%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in Hampshire

.NET
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for .NET in Hampshire

.NET
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET in Hampshire

.NET
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 28 July 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
Southampton +3 5 £475 +5.56% 10
Portsmouth +9 2 £525 +31.25% 8
Farnborough - 1 £413 - 3
.NET
South East

.NET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) MySQL
2 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Browser DevTools
1 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 4 (33.33%) CSS
1 4 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (8.33%) FastAPI
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) OO
2 5 (41.67%) Software Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) Test Automation
3 4 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 4 (33.33%) ERP
3 4 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (33.33%) OOP
3 4 (33.33%) SOLID
4 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (25.00%) Microservices
4 3 (25.00%) Task Automation
5 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 2 (16.67%) Concurrent Programming
5 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (16.67%) Multithreading
5 2 (16.67%) SOA
6 1 (8.33%) DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) MVC
6 1 (8.33%) Test Strategy
6 1 (8.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) C#
2 7 (58.33%) SQL
3 6 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (25.00%) Python
5 1 (8.33%) C
5 1 (8.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) WMI
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Google
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft