.NET Contracts in the South East

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring .NET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 98 51
Rank change year-on-year +16 -47 -1
Contract jobs citing .NET 70 105 226
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.32% 1.89% 3.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.97% 14.46% 22.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 87 170
10th Percentile £329 £320 £406
25th Percentile £400 £403 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £616 £650
90th Percentile £600 £638 £831
England median daily rate £525 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -2.33% -6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £40.37 -
25th Percentile - £45.80 £52.50
Median hourly rate £77.19 £58.91 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.04% +7.10% +57.14%
75th Percentile - £62.96 £71.25
90th Percentile - - £79.50
England median hourly rate £23.41 £58.91 £55.00
% change year-on-year -60.26% +7.10% +13.40%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

.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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 501 726 1,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.63% 13.08% 17.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 463 726
10th Percentile £350 £313 £363
25th Percentile £413 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £619 £638
90th Percentile £661 £660 £714
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 37 37
10th Percentile £29.31 £35.00 £40.50
25th Percentile £50.00 £56.50 £52.50
Median hourly rate £56.25 £61.60 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.69% -5.23% +44.44%
75th Percentile £62.25 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £67.78 £76.00 £79.61
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing .NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for .NET in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in the South East over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET in the South East

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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 within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 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 +34 39 £500 - 95
Berkshire +27 31 £500 -1.23% 48
Surrey +8 10 £408 -33.47% 42
Hampshire +17 9 £519 +16.90% 45
Buckinghamshire +15 7 £481 +6.94% 24
East Sussex -4 7 £350 -7.89% 11
Kent +7 3 £475 +15.15% 18
Oxfordshire +6 1 £195 -71.11% 33
West Sussex +3 1 £340 -52.45% 7
.NET
England

.NET
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 (7.14%) IIS
1 5 (7.14%) Umbraco
2 2 (2.86%) Apache
2 2 (2.86%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (2.86%) CMS
2 2 (2.86%) Confluence
2 2 (2.86%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.43%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.43%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.43%) SAS
3 1 (1.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.43%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (1.43%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 34 (48.57%) Azure
2 19 (27.14%) AWS
3 16 (22.86%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (15.71%) SaaS
5 6 (8.57%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (7.14%) GCP
7 4 (5.71%) Azure AKS
7 4 (5.71%) Power Automate
7 4 (5.71%) Power Platform
7 4 (5.71%) Serverless
8 3 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (4.29%) Azure API Management
8 3 (4.29%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (4.29%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (4.29%) Azure Storage
8 3 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (4.29%) Tricentis Tosca
9 2 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.86%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (2.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.86%) Firewall
1 2 (2.86%) HTTP
1 2 (2.86%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.43%) DNS
2 1 (1.43%) FTP
2 1 (1.43%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (22.86%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.57%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (5.71%) MySQL
4 3 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.29%) Power BI
5 2 (2.86%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.43%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.43%) Parquet
6 1 (1.43%) Power Query
6 1 (1.43%) Sisense
6 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (22.86%) Git
2 3 (4.29%) Cypress.io
2 3 (4.29%) JIRA
2 3 (4.29%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.86%) Moq
3 2 (2.86%) NUnit
3 2 (2.86%) Postman
3 2 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 14 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.29%) Finance
5 2 (2.86%) Korean Language
6 1 (1.43%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.43%) French Language
6 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.43%) Italian Language
6 1 (1.43%) Retail
6 1 (1.43%) Spanish Language
6 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (67.14%) Developer
2 23 (32.86%) .NET Developer
3 10 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (11.43%) C# Developer
5 7 (10.00%) Senior
5 7 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 6 (8.57%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 5 (7.14%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (7.14%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Automation Developer
8 4 (5.71%) React Developer
8 4 (5.71%) Software Developer
9 3 (4.29%) Azure Developer
9 3 (4.29%) C# Software Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) GCP Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Support Engineer
10 2 (2.86%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (30.00%) .NET Core
2 18 (25.71%) CSS
3 17 (24.29%) HTML
4 11 (15.71%) .NET Framework
5 9 (12.86%) AngularJS
5 9 (12.86%) ASP.NET
5 9 (12.86%) React
5 9 (12.86%) REST
6 8 (11.43%) ASP.NET Web API
7 6 (8.57%) JSON
8 5 (7.14%) Entity Framework
8 5 (7.14%) RESTful
8 5 (7.14%) WCF
9 3 (4.29%) ADO
9 3 (4.29%) ARM Templates
9 3 (4.29%) Blazor
9 3 (4.29%) Node.js
9 3 (4.29%) Vue
9 3 (4.29%) Web Services
9 3 (4.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.29%) Wiki
2 2 (2.86%) NHS
2 2 (2.86%) N-Tier
2 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.86%) Public Cloud
2 2 (2.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (2.86%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (1.43%) Cyberattack
3 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.43%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.43%) Windows
2 2 (2.86%) Linux
2 2 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (41.43%) DevOps
2 25 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 18 (25.71%) Agile
3 18 (25.71%) Full-Stack Development
4 16 (22.86%) Software Engineering
4 16 (22.86%) Test Automation
5 11 (15.71%) Unit Testing
6 10 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (10.00%) API Development
7 7 (10.00%) Containerisation
7 7 (10.00%) MVC
7 7 (10.00%) OO
7 7 (10.00%) SDLC
8 6 (8.57%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (8.57%) Integration Testing
8 6 (8.57%) LLM
8 6 (8.57%) Scrum
8 6 (8.57%) Software Testing
8 6 (8.57%) System Testing
9 5 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (71.43%) C#
2 34 (48.57%) SQL
3 24 (34.29%) JavaScript
4 16 (22.86%) Python
5 10 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.71%) Bicep
6 4 (5.71%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.29%) Bash
7 3 (4.29%) PHP
8 2 (2.86%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.43%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (1.43%) C
9 1 (1.43%) Java
9 1 (1.43%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.43%) Rust
9 1 (1.43%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.43%) X++
Qualifications
1 11 (15.71%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.86%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.14%) Degree
4 3 (4.29%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.43%) OCP
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 11 (15.71%) Docker
2 2 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (17.14%) Kubernetes
2 10 (14.29%) Terraform
3 3 (4.29%) Prometheus
3 3 (4.29%) WMI
4 2 (2.86%) Grafana
4 2 (2.86%) SCOM
Vendors
1 14 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.00%) OpenAI
3 3 (4.29%) Google
3 3 (4.29%) Oracle
3 3 (4.29%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.29%) Virgin Media
4 2 (2.86%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.86%) IBM
4 2 (2.86%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.43%) Infor
5 1 (1.43%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.43%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.43%) NEC
5 1 (1.43%) Rackspace
5 1 (1.43%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.43%) SAP
5 1 (1.43%) Snow