.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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 23 34
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 -17
Contract jobs citing .NET 15 20 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 5.73% 5.83% 4.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.78% 22.99% 19.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 16
10th Percentile £293 £162 £217
25th Percentile £363 £192 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £243 £475
Median % change year-on-year +106.39% -48.95% -11.87%
75th Percentile £530 £322 £609
90th Percentile £628 £455 £644
Wales median daily rate £501 £243 £475
% change year-on-year +106.39% -48.95% -9.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
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 54 87 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 20.61% 25.36% 20.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 60 65
10th Percentile £296 £210 £277
25th Percentile £347 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -2.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £485 £544 £588
90th Percentile £529 £575 £641
Wales median daily rate £453 £489 £488
% change year-on-year -7.31% +0.26% -11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 0
Median hourly rate - £20.47 -
Wales median hourly rate £29.25 £20.47 -
% change year-on-year +42.89% - -

.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 August 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 August 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 -1 14 £488 +95.10% 25
Newport +14 1 £525 +200.00%
.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 4 (26.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (20.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Functions
5 1 (6.67%) GCP
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) InterSystems Cache
1 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Cypress.io
2 3 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) Appium
3 1 (6.67%) NUnit
3 1 (6.67%) Selenium
3 1 (6.67%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (46.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) .NET Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) CRM Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Power Apps Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Product Owner
4 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Engineering Team Leader
4 1 (6.67%) Software Team Leader
4 1 (6.67%) Team Leader
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Product Owner
4 1 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) .NET Core
1 4 (26.67%) Jest
1 4 (26.67%) Next.js
1 4 (26.67%) React
2 3 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (20.00%) Entity Framework
3 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (13.33%) CSS
3 2 (13.33%) HTML
3 2 (13.33%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
4 1 (6.67%) Flutter
4 1 (6.67%) REST
4 1 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
2 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) NHS
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Agile
1 7 (46.67%) DevOps
2 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 4 (26.67%) Case Management
4 4 (26.67%) CRM
4 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
4 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
4 4 (26.67%) Unit Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Code Quality
5 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Front End Development
5 3 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (20.00%) Test Strategy
6 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
6 2 (13.33%) Data Security
6 2 (13.33%) Scrum
7 1 (6.67%) MVC
7 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) C#
2 7 (46.67%) JavaScript
3 6 (40.00%) SQL
4 4 (26.67%) TypeScript
5 2 (13.33%) Python
6 1 (6.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.67%) ISEB
3 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Accessibility
2 3 (20.00%) WCAG
3 2 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) InterSystems