.NET Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring .NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 22 20
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 +16
Contract jobs citing .NET 24 13 24
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 5.06% 4.85% 6.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 37.50% 24.07% 24.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 12 17
10th Percentile £289 £292 £165
25th Percentile £300 £348 £218
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £488 £350
Median % change year-on-year -33.37% +39.36% -39.71%
75th Percentile £370 £553 £438
90th Percentile £615 £645 £448
Wales median daily rate £335 £488 £350
% change year-on-year -31.32% +39.36% -38.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £25.60
Wales median hourly rate - £29.25 £25.60
% change year-on-year - +14.26% -

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 64 54 97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 13.50% 20.15% 25.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 38 74
10th Percentile £278 £285 £234
25th Percentile £305 £317 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £488 £538
90th Percentile £775 £588 £575
Wales median daily rate £425 £453 £450
% change year-on-year -6.18% +0.67% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £15.51
25th Percentile - £52.50 £16.89
Median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £20.35
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +170.24% -
75th Percentile - £57.50 £22.93
90th Percentile - - £24.68
Wales median hourly rate £22.00 £42.13 £20.35
% change year-on-year -47.77% +106.98% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing .NET relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

.NET job vacancy trend in South Wales

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Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing .NET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing .NET

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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 11 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in South Wales

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Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing .NET.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing .NET

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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 11 July 2026. 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 +2 24 £325 -30.11% 5
.NET
Wales

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (75.00%) Azure
2 12 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (41.67%) Power Platform
3 10 (41.67%) PowerApps
4 5 (20.83%) Power Automate
5 4 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (12.50%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (8.33%) AWS
8 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (4.17%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Finance
2 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Developer
2 7 (29.17%) Lead
3 6 (25.00%) Applications Developer
3 6 (25.00%) Power Apps Developer
4 4 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 4 (16.67%) .NET Software Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Software Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Test Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Senior
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) .NET Core
1 4 (16.67%) RESTful
2 3 (12.50%) ADO
2 3 (12.50%) Playwright
3 2 (8.33%) REST
3 2 (8.33%) WebSockets
4 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (4.17%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (4.17%) React
4 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) NHS
2 5 (20.83%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Agile
2 14 (58.33%) DevOps
3 9 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 9 (37.50%) Scrum
4 7 (29.17%) Containerisation
4 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (25.00%) Microservices
6 4 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (16.67%) User Research
7 3 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
7 3 (12.50%) API Management
7 3 (12.50%) Computer Science
7 3 (12.50%) Defect Management
7 3 (12.50%) Event-Driven
7 3 (12.50%) Manual Testing
7 3 (12.50%) Regression Testing
7 3 (12.50%) Test Automation
7 3 (12.50%) Test Scripting
8 2 (8.33%) UML
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) C#
2 5 (20.83%) SQL
3 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Microsoft