.NET Framework Contracts in the South West

Microsoft .NET Framework
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring .NET Framework skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET Framework over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 148 136
Rank change year-on-year +41 -12 -1
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 4 9 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.24% 0.28% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.37% 2.10% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 20
10th Percentile £647 £578 £396
25th Percentile £709 £581 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year +32.00% +13.64% +22.22%
75th Percentile £875 £669 £688
90th Percentile £898 £673 £716
England median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +10.06%
England median hourly rate £23.41 £80.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -70.74% +6.67% +53.06%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

.NET Framework 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 292 429 561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 17.40% 13.41% 15.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 286 445
10th Percentile £355 £313 £387
25th Percentile £445 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £625
90th Percentile £725 £703 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 50 18
10th Percentile £61.25 £43.75 £49.25
25th Percentile £64.38 £45.00 £50.66
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.72% -4.78% -9.52%
75th Percentile £68.00 £73.33 £68.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £85.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET Framework in the South West

.NET Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for .NET Framework in the South West

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Framework in the South West

.NET Framework
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET Framework in the South West

.NET Framework
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Framework within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Somerset - 2 £718 - 3
Wiltshire +30 1 £875 +42.86% 2
.NET Framework
England

.NET Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (50.00%) Serverless
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) NUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Development Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Development Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (50.00%) OpenAPI
3 2 (50.00%) Swagger
4 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
4 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (25.00%) Playwright
4 1 (25.00%) React
4 1 (25.00%) Vue
4 1 (25.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (25.00%) Kanban
3 1 (25.00%) Load Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (25.00%) SAP
1 1 (25.00%) VMware