.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in the South East

.NET Developer
England > South East

The median .NET Developer daily rate in the South East is £419, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 158 170
Rank change year-on-year +21 +12 +14
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 25 24 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.72% 0.52% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.56% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 17 19
10th Percentile £319 £350 £323
25th Percentile £331 £425 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% -5.45% +11.39%
75th Percentile £523 £525 £594
90th Percentile £550 £619 £655
England median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £54.50
England median hourly rate - £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +30.00% -21.38%

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 3,142 4,271 5,267
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.08% 92.37% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,034 2,548 3,570
10th Percentile £204 £245 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £598 £625 £613
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 317 246
10th Percentile £13.43 £16.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £30.41 £21.01
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £50.71
Median % change year-on-year -56.26% +13.39% +111.29%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £71.95 £80.00 £75.67
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

.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
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies 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 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Developer in the South East

.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies 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 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
Thames Valley +13 8 £462 -12.10% 15
Berkshire +11 7 £423 -19.43% 6
Hampshire +11 5 £438 +2.94% 10
Surrey +6 5 £550 +17.33% 12
East Sussex +3 4 £344 -34.52% 2
Kent +1 3 £325 - 11
Buckinghamshire +7 1 £500 +17.65% 2
.NET Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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 25 (100.00%) .NET
2 23 (92.00%) C#
3 12 (48.00%) Azure
4 11 (44.00%) DevOps
5 9 (36.00%) Agile
6 8 (32.00%) SQL
6 8 (32.00%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (32.00%) .NET Core
7 7 (28.00%) CI/CD
8 6 (24.00%) AWS
8 6 (24.00%) RESTful
9 5 (20.00%) TDD
9 5 (20.00%) .NET Framework
9 5 (20.00%) HTML
9 5 (20.00%) CSS
9 5 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (20.00%) API Development
9 5 (20.00%) AngularJS
10 4 (16.00%) REST
10 4 (16.00%) Microservices
10 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (16.00%) Technology Transformation
10 4 (16.00%) SDLC
10 4 (16.00%) OO
10 4 (16.00%) Finance
11 3 (12.00%) JIRA
11 3 (12.00%) Confluence
11 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
11 3 (12.00%) OOP
11 3 (12.00%) E-Commerce

.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 3 (12.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) CMS
2 1 (4.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) Azure
2 8 (32.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (24.00%) AWS
4 5 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.00%) dbt
5 1 (4.00%) GCP
5 1 (4.00%) Kontent
5 1 (4.00%) prismic.io
5 1 (4.00%) SaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) MySQL
1 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (16.00%) Finance
2 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (100.00%) .NET
2 8 (32.00%) .NET Core
3 6 (24.00%) RESTful
4 5 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 5 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 5 (20.00%) CSS
4 5 (20.00%) HTML
5 4 (16.00%) REST
6 3 (12.00%) Blazor
7 2 (8.00%) React
7 2 (8.00%) Web Services
8 1 (4.00%) ADO
8 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET
8 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (4.00%) Entity Framework
8 1 (4.00%) HTML5
8 1 (4.00%) JSON
8 1 (4.00%) Node.js
8 1 (4.00%) WCF
8 1 (4.00%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (4.00%) NHS
1 1 (4.00%) N-Tier
1 1 (4.00%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) DevOps
2 9 (36.00%) Agile
3 7 (28.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (20.00%) API Development
4 5 (20.00%) TDD
5 4 (16.00%) Microservices
5 4 (16.00%) OO
5 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.00%) SDLC
5 4 (16.00%) Technology Transformation
6 3 (12.00%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (12.00%) Design Patterns
6 3 (12.00%) E-Commerce
6 3 (12.00%) ERP
6 3 (12.00%) Event-Driven
6 3 (12.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 3 (12.00%) OOP
6 3 (12.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (8.00%) Change Management
7 2 (8.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 23 (92.00%) C#
2 8 (32.00%) SQL
3 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft