.NET Contracts in the South West

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 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 73 70 74
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 -31
Contract jobs citing .NET 38 92 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.26% 2.88% 2.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.01% 21.45% 19.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 63 80
10th Percentile - £313 £375
25th Percentile £355 £344 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £553 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% +0.45% +15.79%
75th Percentile £548 £700 £675
90th Percentile £615 - £716
England median daily rate £525 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -2.33% -6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - £61.25 £52.00
25th Percentile - £64.69 £55.00
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% -5.66%
75th Percentile - £85.00 £65.00
90th Percentile - £87.50 £68.00
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 West

.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 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
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for .NET in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET in the South West

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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 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
Gloucestershire +20 15 £547 +56.29% 30
Bristol -8 12 £370 -8.64% 42
Dorset +6 4 £375 - 7
Wiltshire +4 3 £738 +5.36% 16
Somerset +2 2 £718 +19.58% 8
.NET
England

.NET
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 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (7.89%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.63%) Appian
2 1 (2.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (57.89%) Azure
2 10 (26.32%) AWS
3 8 (21.05%) GCP
4 7 (18.42%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (13.16%) Entra ID
6 4 (10.53%) Azure Functions
6 4 (10.53%) Serverless
7 3 (7.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (7.89%) OneDrive
7 3 (7.89%) SaaS
8 2 (5.26%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.63%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (2.63%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 14 (36.84%) DNS
1 14 (36.84%) Firewall
2 13 (34.21%) Kerberos
3 3 (7.89%) Skype
4 1 (2.63%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.63%) MySQL
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) NUnit
1 3 (7.89%) Selenium
2 2 (5.26%) Git
2 2 (5.26%) Postman
2 2 (5.26%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.63%) JIRA
3 1 (2.63%) TestRail
General
1 15 (39.47%) Finance
1 15 (39.47%) Social Skills
2 14 (36.84%) Public Sector
3 11 (28.95%) Electronics
3 11 (28.95%) Manufacturing
3 11 (28.95%) Marketing
3 11 (28.95%) Telecoms
4 10 (26.32%) Aerospace
5 3 (7.89%) Legal
6 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (42.11%) Architect
2 13 (34.21%) Developer
3 12 (31.58%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (21.05%) Applications Support
5 7 (18.42%) Applications Developer
5 7 (18.42%) Applications Engineer
5 7 (18.42%) Applications Support Engineer
5 7 (18.42%) Azure Developer
5 7 (18.42%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (18.42%) C# Developer
5 7 (18.42%) Support Engineer
6 6 (15.79%) C# Application Developer
6 6 (15.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (13.16%) Senior
8 4 (10.53%) .NET Developer
9 3 (7.89%) Lead
9 3 (7.89%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Engineer
9 3 (7.89%) Senior Test Engineer
9 3 (7.89%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.05%) CSS
1 8 (21.05%) HTML
2 5 (13.16%) AngularJS
3 4 (10.53%) .NET Framework
4 3 (7.89%) .NET Core
4 3 (7.89%) Playwright
4 3 (7.89%) React
5 2 (5.26%) Gherkin
5 2 (5.26%) Node.js
5 2 (5.26%) OpenAPI
5 2 (5.26%) Swagger
6 1 (2.63%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.63%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.63%) JSON
6 1 (2.63%) ModSecurity
6 1 (2.63%) Vue
6 1 (2.63%) WPF
6 1 (2.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (36.84%) PKI
2 13 (34.21%) Data Centre
2 13 (34.21%) Replication
3 8 (21.05%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.63%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.63%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Windows
2 2 (5.26%) Linux
3 1 (2.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) RBAC
2 12 (31.58%) TDD
2 12 (31.58%) Test Automation
3 11 (28.95%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (28.95%) Digital Marketing
3 11 (28.95%) Programme Management
3 11 (28.95%) Software Engineering
4 10 (26.32%) CI/CD
5 9 (23.68%) Computer Science
5 9 (23.68%) Continuous Delivery
5 9 (23.68%) DevOps
5 9 (23.68%) Web Development
6 8 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (21.05%) Service Delivery
6 8 (21.05%) Service Management
6 8 (21.05%) Software Delivery
6 8 (21.05%) User Experience
7 6 (15.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (13.16%) Agile
8 5 (13.16%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 13 (34.21%) C#
2 10 (26.32%) JavaScript
3 5 (13.16%) PowerShell
3 5 (13.16%) SQL
4 3 (7.89%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.63%) Bash
5 1 (2.63%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (52.63%) SC Cleared
1 20 (52.63%) Security Cleared
2 9 (23.68%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (23.68%) Degree
3 8 (21.05%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.63%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.63%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.63%) NCSC
2 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.89%) Docker
3 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (7.89%) Terraform
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (2.63%) Ansible
2 1 (2.63%) OPNET
2 1 (2.63%) PowerCLI
2 1 (2.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (28.95%) SAP
2 8 (21.05%) Google
3 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.26%) Atlassian
4 2 (5.26%) VMware
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle