.NET Contracts in South Wales

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 25 11
Rank change year-on-year 0 -14 +13
Contract jobs citing .NET 9 17 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 3.75% 5.07% 9.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.32% 21.25% 33.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 47
10th Percentile £165 £325 £308
25th Percentile £314 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £425 £565
Median % change year-on-year +20.65% -24.78% -5.83%
75th Percentile £553 £450 £600
90th Percentile £626 £488 £650
Wales median daily rate £513 £425 £544
% change year-on-year +20.65% -21.84% -7.45%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South Wales

.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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 37 80 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 15.42% 23.88% 29.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 65 115
10th Percentile £285 £318 £300
25th Percentile £325 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £550 £531 £594
90th Percentile £595 £600 £650
Wales median daily rate £425 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £20.49 £15.38 -
25th Percentile £21.06 £15.66 -
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.28% - -
75th Percentile £39.75 £21.29 -
90th Percentile £50.40 £22.77 -
Wales median hourly rate £25.63 £18.14 -
% change year-on-year +41.26% - -

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in South Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for .NET in South Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in South Wales over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in South Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET in South Wales

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Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 3 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
Cardiff +3 7 £438 +3.00% 19
Newport +4 2 £563 +60.71% 3
.NET
Wales

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
2 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) Appium
2 1 (11.11%) NUnit
2 1 (11.11%) SpecFlow
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (11.11%) tSQLt
2 1 (11.11%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) CRM Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
2 1 (11.11%) QA Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) QA Automation Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) QA Test Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Test Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) FHIR
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) Web Services
2 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Clustering
1 1 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
1 1 (11.11%) NHS
1 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) CRM
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) API Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Concurrent Programming
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Multithreading
4 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Agile Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Customer Engagement
5 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
5 1 (11.11%) High Availability
5 1 (11.11%) Kanban
5 1 (11.11%) Manual Testing
5 1 (11.11%) System Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) C#
2 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
3 4 (44.44%) SQL
4 2 (22.22%) Python
5 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) ISEB
3 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) HL7
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) RedGate