.NET Developer Contracts in the South East

.NET Developer
England > South East

The median .NET Developer daily rate in the South East is £449, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 July 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
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 173 180
Rank change year-on-year +36 +7 -17
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 24 30 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.71% 0.54% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 0.58% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 25 23
10th Percentile £319 £325 £363
25th Percentile £322 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £529 £525 £570
90th Percentile £573 £619 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
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 3,045 5,174 5,551
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.68% 92.41% 94.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,968 3,055 3,844
10th Percentile £213 £250 £225
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £630 £605
90th Percentile £660 £696 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 503 250
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £19.00 £21.09
Median hourly rate £27.88 £54.88 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.19% +9.75% +137.81%
75th Percentile £60.56 £70.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £74.81
England median hourly rate £28.18 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.55% -6.98% +70.01%

.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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +17 14 £462 -9.51% 19
Berkshire +29 11 £517 -0.58% 7
Surrey +18 3 £550 -3.08% 16
Buckinghamshire +8 3 £321 -24.47% 1
East Sussex -1 3 £338 -46.00% 2
Hampshire +22 2 £475 +6.15% 11
Kent +1 2 £400 - 14
.NET Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 July 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 24 (100.00%) .NET
2 20 (83.33%) C#
3 12 (50.00%) Azure
4 10 (41.67%) DevOps
4 10 (41.67%) SQL
5 9 (37.50%) .NET Core
6 8 (33.33%) AWS
6 8 (33.33%) CI/CD
7 7 (29.17%) HTML
7 7 (29.17%) CSS
8 6 (25.00%) Agile
8 6 (25.00%) .NET Framework
8 6 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (20.83%) REST
9 5 (20.83%) TDD
9 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
10 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
10 4 (16.67%) OO
10 4 (16.67%) Git
10 4 (16.67%) Entity Framework
10 4 (16.67%) SOLID
10 4 (16.67%) React
10 4 (16.67%) RESTful
10 4 (16.67%) API Development
10 4 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
11 3 (12.50%) Design Patterns
11 3 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
11 3 (12.50%) Blazor
11 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
11 3 (12.50%) Terraform

.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 (12.50%) Umbraco
2 1 (4.17%) CMS
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (33.33%) AWS
3 6 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.17%) Azure API Management
5 1 (4.17%) Azure App Service
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Storage
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.17%) dbt
5 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.17%) GCP
5 1 (4.17%) IaaS
5 1 (4.17%) PaaS
5 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.33%) DocumentDB
2 2 (8.33%) MySQL
2 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.17%) Parquet
3 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (8.33%) Finance
1 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (37.50%) .NET Core
3 7 (29.17%) CSS
3 7 (29.17%) HTML
4 6 (25.00%) .NET Framework
5 5 (20.83%) REST
6 4 (16.67%) Entity Framework
6 4 (16.67%) React
6 4 (16.67%) RESTful
7 3 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (12.50%) Blazor
8 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
8 2 (8.33%) ASP.NET
8 2 (8.33%) NHibernate
8 2 (8.33%) WCF
8 2 (8.33%) Web Services
8 2 (8.33%) WinForms
9 1 (4.17%) ADO
9 1 (4.17%) JSON
9 1 (4.17%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Wiki
2 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.17%) NHS
2 1 (4.17%) N-Tier
2 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) DevOps
2 8 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 6 (25.00%) Agile
4 5 (20.83%) TDD
5 4 (16.67%) API Development
5 4 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (16.67%) OO
5 4 (16.67%) SOLID
6 3 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (12.50%) Design Patterns
6 3 (12.50%) E-Commerce
6 3 (12.50%) MVC
6 3 (12.50%) OOP
6 3 (12.50%) Scrum
7 2 (8.33%) API Integration
7 2 (8.33%) ERP
7 2 (8.33%) Migration
7 2 (8.33%) SDLC
7 2 (8.33%) Secure Coding
7 2 (8.33%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 20 (83.33%) C#
2 10 (41.67%) SQL
3 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.17%) Bicep
5 1 (4.17%) Python
5 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (12.50%) Virgin Media
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle
2 2 (8.33%) Sitecore