.NET Contracts in Hertfordshire

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
East of England > Hertfordshire

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

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 56 64
Rank change year-on-year +18 +8 -11
Contract jobs citing .NET 15 8 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 3.55% 1.12% 0.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.76% 5.80% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 4
10th Percentile £468 £446 £415
25th Percentile £475 £497 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £456
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +26.03% +7.35%
75th Percentile £575 £644 £514
90th Percentile £624 £678 £596
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £469
% change year-on-year +5.26% +1.33% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £63.63 - -
25th Percentile £65.88 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £67.00 £20.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +235.00% -20.00% -56.52%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Hertfordshire

.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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 109 138 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 25.77% 19.25% 8.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 39 32
10th Percentile £425 £325 £364
25th Percentile £468 £339 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £650
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -36.54% +23.93%
75th Percentile £613 £497 £750
90th Percentile £675 £660 £888
East of England median daily rate £500 £458 £523
% change year-on-year +9.29% -12.52% -0.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 55 7
10th Percentile £43.00 - -
25th Percentile £52.00 - £21.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -28.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.00 £71.88
90th Percentile £81.35 - £73.75
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +51.16% -25.22% +2.22%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in Hertfordshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for .NET in Hertfordshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for .NET in Hertfordshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET in Hertfordshire

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Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 August 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
Stevenage +12 9 - - 2
Hemel Hempstead +7 3 £550 -8.33% 3
Watford - 1 - - 3
.NET
East of England

.NET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) npm
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) AWS
4 2 (13.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) Artifactory
1 9 (60.00%) GitLab
1 9 (60.00%) JIRA
1 9 (60.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Developer
2 6 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 5 (33.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 5 (33.33%) Software Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Development Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Software Development Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Software Developer
6 1 (6.67%) .NET Developer
6 1 (6.67%) IT Manager
6 1 (6.67%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Python Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior IT Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Software Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Software Project Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (80.00%) .NET Framework
2 11 (73.33%) AngularJS
2 11 (73.33%) CSS
2 11 (73.33%) HTML
2 11 (73.33%) Node.js
3 10 (66.67%) React
3 10 (66.67%) Vue
4 9 (60.00%) Svelte
5 2 (13.33%) .NET Core
6 1 (6.67%) Blazor
6 1 (6.67%) Bootstrap
6 1 (6.67%) Entity Framework
6 1 (6.67%) jQuery
6 1 (6.67%) KnockoutJS
6 1 (6.67%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Algorithms
1 9 (60.00%) Data Structures
1 9 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.67%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
3 10 (66.67%) Agile
3 10 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 10 (66.67%) Design Patterns
3 10 (66.67%) DevOps
3 10 (66.67%) Microservices
3 10 (66.67%) TDD
4 9 (60.00%) Computer Science
4 9 (60.00%) OOP
4 9 (60.00%) SDLC
4 9 (60.00%) Software Testing
5 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
6 1 (6.67%) Domain-Driven Design
6 1 (6.67%) Kanban
6 1 (6.67%) Multithreading
6 1 (6.67%) MVVM
6 1 (6.67%) Release Management
6 1 (6.67%) Test Automation
6 1 (6.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) C#
2 11 (73.33%) JavaScript
3 9 (60.00%) TypeScript
4 7 (46.67%) C++
5 1 (6.67%) Bicep
5 1 (6.67%) Python
5 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft