.NET Contract Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring .NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 76 51
Rank change year-on-year -40 -25 -3
Contract jobs citing .NET 19 49 106
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.78% 2.50% 3.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.29% 13.17% 21.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 38 73
10th Percentile £375 £409 £313
25th Percentile £398 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £547 £548 £650
90th Percentile £598 £649 £705
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 11
10th Percentile - - £65.00
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £24.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +175.51% -62.31% -

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 359 372 490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.73% 18.95% 16.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 221 353
10th Percentile £350 £395 £325
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £617 £664 £650
90th Percentile £700 £734 £725
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 19 43
10th Percentile £61.25 £61.25 £48.32
25th Percentile - £63.75 £48.72
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year - +25.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile £67.00 £66.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.80 £69.80 £76.40
England median hourly rate £58.00 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -7.20% +20.45% -20.17%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

.NET job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in the South West over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the South West

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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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 9 January 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
Bristol -9 6 £413 -13.16% 13
Gloucestershire -14 4 £500 -8.59% 18
Dorset +5 3 £725 - 17
Somerset -7 2 £550 - 12
Wiltshire -21 2 £550 -3.93% 15
.NET
England

.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (10.53%) Documentum
2 1 (5.26%) CMS
2 1 (5.26%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) AWS
3 5 (26.32%) GCP
4 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
5 3 (15.79%) Serverless
6 2 (10.53%) Azure AKS
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (5.26%) GitHub
7 1 (5.26%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) HTTP
2 1 (5.26%) DHCP
2 1 (5.26%) DNS
2 1 (5.26%) Internet
2 1 (5.26%) LAN
2 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.26%) VPN
2 1 (5.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) SQL Server
2 3 (15.79%) MongoDB
3 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
3 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
4 1 (5.26%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Git
2 3 (15.79%) Artifactory
2 3 (15.79%) SonarQube
3 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket
3 2 (10.53%) GitLab
3 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (5.26%) JIRA
4 1 (5.26%) NUnit
4 1 (5.26%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
3 4 (21.05%) Finance
4 2 (10.53%) Electronics
4 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
4 2 (10.53%) Marketing
4 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.26%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) .NET Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Backend Developer
5 1 (5.26%) C++ Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Integration Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Integration Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) React
2 4 (21.05%) Web Services
2 4 (21.05%) YAML
3 3 (15.79%) .NET Framework
3 3 (15.79%) Node.js
3 3 (15.79%) REST
3 3 (15.79%) SOAP
3 3 (15.79%) XML
3 3 (15.79%) XSLT
4 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
4 2 (10.53%) ARM Templates
4 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET
4 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (10.53%) Entity Framework
4 2 (10.53%) OAuth
4 2 (10.53%) OAuth2
4 2 (10.53%) WPF
5 1 (5.26%) .NET Core
5 1 (5.26%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Contactless
3 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.26%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Windows
2 3 (15.79%) Linux
3 2 (10.53%) Android
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
2 9 (47.37%) Agile
3 6 (31.58%) DevOps
3 6 (31.58%) Scrum
4 5 (26.32%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (26.32%) Microservices
4 5 (26.32%) Test Automation
5 4 (21.05%) Containerisation
5 4 (21.05%) Design Patterns
5 4 (21.05%) DevSecOps
6 3 (15.79%) Cloud Security
6 3 (15.79%) CRM
6 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
6 3 (15.79%) TDD
6 3 (15.79%) Workflow
7 2 (10.53%) E-Commerce
7 2 (10.53%) ERP
7 2 (10.53%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) C#
2 8 (42.11%) SQL
3 7 (36.84%) JavaScript
4 6 (31.58%) TypeScript
5 4 (21.05%) Java
5 4 (21.05%) Python
6 2 (10.53%) Bicep
6 2 (10.53%) C++
6 2 (10.53%) T-SQL
7 1 (5.26%) C
7 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
7 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
7 1 (5.26%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 10 (52.63%) Security Cleared
2 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.26%) DICOM
2 1 (5.26%) HL7
2 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Docker
2 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
1 4 (21.05%) Terraform
2 2 (10.53%) Grafana
3 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) OpenText
2 2 (10.53%) SAP
2 2 (10.53%) VMware
3 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.26%) InterSystems
3 1 (5.26%) Sitecore
3 1 (5.26%) Xamarin