.NET Developer Contracts in the South East

.NET Developer
England > South East

The median .NET Developer daily rate in the South East is £408, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 180 183
Rank change year-on-year +44 +3 -14
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 23 25 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.76% 0.45% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.49% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 21 31
10th Percentile £317 £325 £363
25th Percentile £324 £369 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £470 £463
Median % change year-on-year -13.30% +1.62% -2.63%
75th Percentile £519 £576 £572
90th Percentile £575 £619 £594
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +4.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £54.75
25th Percentile - - £58.13
Median hourly rate - - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £78.13
90th Percentile - - £82.25
England median hourly rate - £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +23.81% -15.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 2,767 5,141 5,491
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.50% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 3,084 3,829
10th Percentile £250 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.42%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £606
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 481 240
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £18.04
25th Percentile £20.06 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.16
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

.NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured .NET Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Developer in the South East

.NET Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Developer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for .NET Developer in the South East

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Developer in the South East

.NET Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Developer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for .NET Developer in the South East

.NET Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +46 14 £463 +32.14% 10
Berkshire +35 10 £490 +39.93% 6
East Sussex +2 5 £344 -45.00% 1
Buckinghamshire +15 3 £321 -12.95%
Kent - 2 £425 - 7
Surrey +14 1 £415 -32.24% 13
Oxfordshire +5 1 £195 -71.11% 7
West Sussex - 1 £340 - 3
.NET Developer
England

.NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, .NET Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring .NET Developer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) .NET
2 19 (82.61%) C#
3 13 (56.52%) Azure
4 12 (52.17%) .NET Core
5 11 (47.83%) SQL
6 9 (39.13%) DevOps
7 8 (34.78%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
8 7 (30.43%) AWS
8 7 (30.43%) HTML
8 7 (30.43%) CSS
9 6 (26.09%) SQL Server
9 6 (26.09%) JavaScript
9 6 (26.09%) Agile
10 5 (21.74%) React
10 5 (21.74%) Git
10 5 (21.74%) Entity Framework
10 5 (21.74%) TDD
10 5 (21.74%) .NET Framework
10 5 (21.74%) Umbraco
10 5 (21.74%) ASP.NET
10 5 (21.74%) MVC
11 4 (17.39%) Scrum
11 4 (17.39%) REST
11 4 (17.39%) ASP.NET Web API
11 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (17.39%) API Development
12 3 (13.04%) Collaborative Working
12 3 (13.04%) Terraform
12 3 (13.04%) Virgin Media

.NET Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (21.74%) Umbraco
2 2 (8.70%) CMS
3 1 (4.35%) Confluence
3 1 (4.35%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) Azure
2 7 (30.43%) AWS
3 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
4 1 (4.35%) Azure API Management
4 1 (4.35%) Azure App Service
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Storage
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.35%) dbt
4 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.35%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) IaaS
4 1 (4.35%) PaaS
4 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.70%) DocumentDB
2 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.35%) MySQL
3 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.35%) Parquet
3 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) NUnit
2 1 (4.35%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (100.00%) .NET
2 12 (52.17%) .NET Core
3 7 (30.43%) CSS
3 7 (30.43%) HTML
4 5 (21.74%) .NET Framework
4 5 (21.74%) ASP.NET
4 5 (21.74%) Entity Framework
4 5 (21.74%) React
5 4 (17.39%) ASP.NET Web API
5 4 (17.39%) REST
6 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
6 2 (8.70%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (8.70%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (8.70%) Blazor
6 2 (8.70%) Ember.js
6 2 (8.70%) NHibernate
6 2 (8.70%) Node.js
6 2 (8.70%) RESTful
6 2 (8.70%) WCF
6 2 (8.70%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Wiki
2 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.35%) NHS
2 1 (4.35%) N-Tier
2 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) DevOps
2 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
2 8 (34.78%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (26.09%) Agile
4 5 (21.74%) MVC
4 5 (21.74%) TDD
5 4 (17.39%) API Development
5 4 (17.39%) Scrum
6 3 (13.04%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (13.04%) E-Commerce
6 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
7 2 (8.70%) API Integration
7 2 (8.70%) Customer Experience
7 2 (8.70%) Data Modelling
7 2 (8.70%) Front End Development
7 2 (8.70%) Migration
7 2 (8.70%) Pair Programming
7 2 (8.70%) SOLID
7 2 (8.70%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (82.61%) C#
2 11 (47.83%) SQL
3 6 (26.09%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.35%) Bicep
5 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.35%) Python
5 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.35%) VB.NET
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Terraform
2 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
1 3 (13.04%) Virgin Media
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) Sitecore
3 1 (4.35%) Rackspace