.NET Contracts in the South West

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for .NET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited .NET over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 79 41
Rank change year-on-year +7 -38 +8
Contract jobs citing .NET 89 105 190
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.81% 2.88% 5.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.79% 18.65% 25.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 78 138
10th Percentile £313 £375 £363
25th Percentile £334 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £550 £466
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% +17.96% -0.27%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £549
90th Percentile - £717 £607
England median daily rate £539 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.30% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £61.25 £52.00 £54.72
25th Percentile £64.69 £55.00 £58.05
Median hourly rate £80.00 £60.00 £63.60
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -5.66% +41.33%
75th Percentile £85.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £87.50 £68.00 -
England median hourly rate £58.91 £55.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year +7.10% +13.40% +8.99%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

.NET is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 428 563 748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 13.51% 15.46% 20.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 447 524
10th Percentile £313 £387 £363
25th Percentile £400 £434 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £575
90th Percentile £704 £700 £642
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 19 33
10th Percentile £43.75 £49.50 £48.84
25th Percentile £44.69 £51.28 £49.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £57.50 £63.60
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -9.59% +27.20%
75th Percentile £74.44 £72.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 -
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

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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 27 April 2024.

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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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing .NET in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 27 April 2024. 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
Bristol 0 38 £400 -23.08% 54
Wiltshire +14 29 £700 +36.59% 9
Gloucestershire +11 12 £350 -26.32% 12
Devon +1 3 £313 -62.12% 19
Somerset -7 3 £600 -10.68% 11
Dorset +4 2 - - 7
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England

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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 27 (30.34%) Confluence
2 7 (7.87%) SharePoint
3 6 (6.74%) Umbraco
4 5 (5.62%) CMS
5 1 (1.12%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.12%) NServiceBus
5 1 (1.12%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
1 1 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 33 (37.08%) Azure
2 15 (16.85%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (7.87%) AWS
4 6 (6.74%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.37%) Sumo Logic
6 2 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.25%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (2.25%) Serverless
7 1 (1.12%) Apigee
7 1 (1.12%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.12%) Azure App Service
7 1 (1.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.12%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (1.12%) Azure Service Fabric
7 1 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.12%) GCP
7 1 (1.12%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.12%) PaaS
7 1 (1.12%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.12%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.62%) HTTP
2 2 (2.25%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.12%) DHCP
3 1 (1.12%) DNS
3 1 (1.12%) MQTT
3 1 (1.12%) Skype
3 1 (1.12%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.12%) VPN
3 1 (1.12%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.73%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.62%) SQLite
3 3 (3.37%) MySQL
4 1 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.12%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.12%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 27 (30.34%) Bitbucket
1 27 (30.34%) JIRA
2 25 (28.09%) Jenkins
3 24 (26.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 14 (15.73%) Git
5 6 (6.74%) Visual Studio
6 5 (5.62%) Checkstyle
6 5 (5.62%) NUnit
6 5 (5.62%) Postman
6 5 (5.62%) SonarQube
7 3 (3.37%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (3.37%) TeamCity
8 2 (2.25%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.25%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (1.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 26 (29.21%) Social Skills
2 22 (24.72%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (20.22%) Aerospace
4 5 (5.62%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.49%) Finance
5 4 (4.49%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.49%) Tech for Good
6 2 (2.25%) Electronics
6 2 (2.25%) Law
6 2 (2.25%) Marketing
6 2 (2.25%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.12%) Automotive
7 1 (1.12%) Aviation
7 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (53.93%) Developer
2 13 (14.61%) .NET Developer
3 10 (11.24%) Senior
3 10 (11.24%) Software Engineer
4 8 (8.99%) Architect
5 7 (7.87%) Software Developer
6 6 (6.74%) SharePoint Architect
7 5 (5.62%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.49%) C# Developer
8 4 (4.49%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Senior Test Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Test Automation Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Test Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Umbraco Developer
9 3 (3.37%) C# .NET Developer
10 2 (2.25%) C# Software Engineer
10 2 (2.25%) C++ Software Engineer
10 2 (2.25%) DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.25%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 2 (2.25%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (42.70%) .NET Core
2 17 (19.10%) ASP.NET
3 12 (13.48%) Blazor
4 11 (12.36%) CSS
4 11 (12.36%) HTML
5 9 (10.11%) .NET Framework
6 7 (7.87%) ASP.NET MVC
7 6 (6.74%) AngularJS
7 6 (6.74%) REST
8 5 (5.62%) JSON
8 5 (5.62%) XML
9 4 (4.49%) jQuery
10 3 (3.37%) ASP.NET Web API
10 3 (3.37%) GraphQL
10 3 (3.37%) MassTransit
10 3 (3.37%) Playwright
10 3 (3.37%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (3.37%) React
10 3 (3.37%) Web Services
11 2 (2.25%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.37%) IoT
2 2 (2.25%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.25%) PKI
2 2 (2.25%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.12%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (29.21%) Linux
2 3 (3.37%) Windows
3 2 (2.25%) Android
4 1 (1.12%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.12%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.12%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (37.08%) OO
2 32 (35.96%) CI/CD
3 30 (33.71%) DevOps
4 26 (29.21%) Task Automation
5 25 (28.09%) Agile
5 25 (28.09%) Deployment Automation
6 24 (26.97%) OOP
7 23 (25.84%) Configuration Management
7 23 (25.84%) Continuous Integration
7 23 (25.84%) Infrastructure Automation
7 23 (25.84%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (17.98%) MVC
9 14 (15.73%) Test Automation
10 13 (14.61%) Software Engineering
11 8 (8.99%) Full Stack Development
11 8 (8.99%) Microservices
12 7 (7.87%) TDD
13 6 (6.74%) Clean Code
13 6 (6.74%) Scrum
13 6 (6.74%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 45 (50.56%) C#
2 29 (32.58%) PowerShell
3 24 (26.97%) Python
4 14 (15.73%) SQL
5 12 (13.48%) JavaScript
5 12 (13.48%) TypeScript
6 7 (7.87%) C
7 3 (3.37%) Bash
8 2 (2.25%) C++
9 1 (1.12%) Java
9 1 (1.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 42 (47.19%) Security Cleared
2 30 (33.71%) SC Cleared
3 13 (14.61%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.62%) Degree
5 2 (2.25%) HND
5 2 (2.25%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.37%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (8.99%) Docker
2 4 (4.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.37%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.25%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.12%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (29.21%) Ansible
2 24 (26.97%) PowerCLI
3 7 (7.87%) Terraform
4 5 (5.62%) Kubernetes
5 4 (4.49%) Puppet
6 1 (1.12%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (1.12%) OPNET
6 1 (1.12%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.12%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (29.21%) Atlassian
2 22 (24.72%) Dell
2 22 (24.72%) HP
3 15 (16.85%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.49%) VMware
4 4 (4.49%) Xamarin
5 2 (2.25%) OutSystems
5 2 (2.25%) SAP
6 1 (1.12%) Cisco
6 1 (1.12%) Google
6 1 (1.12%) IBM
6 1 (1.12%) Infor
6 1 (1.12%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.12%) Splunk
6 1 (1.12%) Veeam