.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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 21 25
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +6
Contract jobs citing .NET 1 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 0.70% 0.61% 3.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.00% 5.56% 21.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £290
25th Percentile - £425 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £450 £430
Median % change year-on-year - +4.65% -19.85%
75th Percentile - £475 £516
90th Percentile - - £567
South East median daily rate £450 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
South East median hourly rate - £49.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year - -1.50% -6.54%

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 5 18 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 3.50% 10.91% 15.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 18
10th Percentile £399 £325 £120
25th Percentile £406 £369 £257
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £453 £519 £500
90th Percentile £455 £575 £604
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.33%
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 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -18.83% +2.67% -4.00%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET 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 18 September 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 and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

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