.NET Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring .NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 30 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 -23 +7
Contract jobs citing .NET 1 3 26
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.54% 1.54% 13.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.00% 10.71% 40.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 22
10th Percentile - - £450
25th Percentile £500 £413 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £675
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -37.04% +17.49%
75th Percentile £600 £506 £713
90th Percentile - £548 £725
South West median daily rate £400 £500 £581
% change year-on-year -20.00% -13.98% +10.71%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Somerset

.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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 20 28 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 10.87% 14.36% 33.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 41
10th Percentile £413 £386 £375
25th Percentile £443 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% -18.18% -4.26%
75th Percentile £649 £575 £693
90th Percentile - £630 £723
South West median daily rate £524 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% +3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 9
10th Percentile £60.15 - £46.14
25th Percentile £60.38 £42.50 £48.32
Median hourly rate £61.50 £45.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% -13.28% -3.17%
75th Percentile £63.38 £47.50 £55.47
90th Percentile £64.05 - -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

.NET job vacancy trend in Somerset

.NET
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

.NET
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 3 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
Taunton +2 1 £550 -
.NET
South West

.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (100.00%) Express.js
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware