.NET Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring .NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 15 20
Rank change year-on-year -12 +5 +12
Contract jobs citing .NET 1 2 8
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.63% 1.41% 3.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.50% 11.76% 34.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £425 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £450 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -20.00% +54.11%
75th Percentile - £475 £591
90th Percentile - - £596
South East median daily rate £450 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -13.46% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
South East median hourly rate - £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -6.10%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Oxfordshire

.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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8 17 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 5.06% 11.97% 11.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 15
10th Percentile £302 £269 £120
25th Percentile £361 £375 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £452 £513 £575
90th Percentile £454 £565 £595
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +270.37%
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £66.25 £58.59
% change year-on-year -24.53% +13.07% -9.86%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

.NET job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

.NET
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

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

.NET
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 30 October 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
Thame - 1 - -
.NET
South East

.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Applications Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Xamarin