.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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 77 44
Rank change year-on-year +16 -33 +5
Contract jobs citing .NET 92 102 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.88% 2.82% 4.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 21.40% 18.41% 25.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 76 134
10th Percentile £313 £372 £363
25th Percentile £344 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £543 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.84% +14.21% +1.60%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £549
90th Percentile - £703 £609
England median daily rate £538 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.52% +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% +7.78%

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 430 554 732
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 13.45% 15.30% 19.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 442 516
10th Percentile £313 £388 £363
25th Percentile £400 £433 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £663 £625 £575
90th Percentile £703 £700 £638
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 18 32
10th Percentile £43.75 £49.25 £48.79
25th Percentile £45.00 £50.66 £49.75
Median hourly rate £54.75 £57.50 £63.55
Median % change year-on-year -4.78% -9.52% +27.10%
75th Percentile £73.33 £68.75 £67.69
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -28.95% +31.31% +10.00%

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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 2 May 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 2 May 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 2 May 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 +7 39 £405 -20.59% 41
Wiltshire +23 31 £700 +36.59% 9
Gloucestershire +17 12 £350 -26.32% 10
Devon -2 3 £313 -62.12% 22
Somerset -3 3 £600 -11.11% 10
Dorset +4 2 - - 10
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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 (29.35%) Confluence
2 7 (7.61%) SharePoint
2 7 (7.61%) Umbraco
3 5 (5.43%) CMS
4 1 (1.09%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.09%) NServiceBus
4 1 (1.09%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.09%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
1 1 (1.09%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 36 (39.13%) Azure
2 18 (19.57%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (8.70%) AWS
4 6 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.26%) Sumo Logic
6 2 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (2.17%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.17%) Serverless
7 1 (1.09%) Apigee
7 1 (1.09%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.09%) Azure App Service
7 1 (1.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.09%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (1.09%) Azure Service Fabric
7 1 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.09%) GCP
7 1 (1.09%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.09%) PaaS
7 1 (1.09%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.43%) HTTP
2 2 (2.17%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.09%) DHCP
3 1 (1.09%) DNS
3 1 (1.09%) MQTT
3 1 (1.09%) Skype
3 1 (1.09%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.09%) VPN
3 1 (1.09%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.22%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.43%) SQLite
3 3 (3.26%) MySQL
4 2 (2.17%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (2.17%) Power BI
5 1 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 27 (29.35%) Bitbucket
1 27 (29.35%) JIRA
2 25 (27.17%) Jenkins
3 24 (26.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 15 (16.30%) Git
5 8 (8.70%) Visual Studio
6 7 (7.61%) Postman
7 6 (6.52%) NUnit
8 5 (5.43%) Checkstyle
8 5 (5.43%) SonarQube
9 3 (3.26%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (3.26%) TeamCity
10 2 (2.17%) Cypress.io
10 2 (2.17%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (1.09%) SpecFlow
General
1 26 (28.26%) Social Skills
2 22 (23.91%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (19.57%) Aerospace
4 5 (5.43%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.35%) Finance
5 4 (4.35%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.35%) Tech for Good
6 2 (2.17%) Electronics
6 2 (2.17%) Law
6 2 (2.17%) Marketing
6 2 (2.17%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.09%) Automotive
7 1 (1.09%) Aviation
7 1 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (54.35%) Developer
2 13 (14.13%) .NET Developer
3 11 (11.96%) Senior
4 10 (10.87%) Software Engineer
5 9 (9.78%) Software Developer
6 8 (8.70%) Architect
7 6 (6.52%) SharePoint Architect
8 5 (5.43%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.43%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Senior Test Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Test Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) C# Developer
9 4 (4.35%) Umbraco Developer
10 3 (3.26%) C# .NET Developer
11 2 (2.17%) C# Software Engineer
11 2 (2.17%) C++ Software Engineer
11 2 (2.17%) DevOps Engineer
11 2 (2.17%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 2 (2.17%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (41.30%) .NET Core
2 17 (18.48%) ASP.NET
3 13 (14.13%) Blazor
4 11 (11.96%) CSS
4 11 (11.96%) HTML
5 9 (9.78%) .NET Framework
6 7 (7.61%) AngularJS
6 7 (7.61%) ASP.NET MVC
7 6 (6.52%) REST
8 5 (5.43%) JSON
8 5 (5.43%) XML
9 4 (4.35%) GraphQL
9 4 (4.35%) jQuery
9 4 (4.35%) Playwright
10 3 (3.26%) ASP.NET Web API
10 3 (3.26%) MassTransit
10 3 (3.26%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (3.26%) React
10 3 (3.26%) Web Services
11 2 (2.17%) KnockoutJS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.26%) IoT
2 2 (2.17%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.17%) PKI
2 2 (2.17%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.09%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (28.26%) Linux
2 3 (3.26%) Windows
3 2 (2.17%) Android
4 1 (1.09%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.09%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.09%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.09%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (36.96%) CI/CD
2 33 (35.87%) DevOps
2 33 (35.87%) OO
3 27 (29.35%) Agile
3 27 (29.35%) Task Automation
4 25 (27.17%) Deployment Automation
5 24 (26.09%) OOP
6 23 (25.00%) Configuration Management
6 23 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
6 23 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 23 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (17.39%) MVC
8 15 (16.30%) Test Automation
9 13 (14.13%) Software Engineering
10 9 (9.78%) Full Stack Development
11 8 (8.70%) Microservices
11 8 (8.70%) TDD
12 7 (7.61%) Scrum
12 7 (7.61%) Waterfall
13 6 (6.52%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 47 (51.09%) C#
2 29 (31.52%) PowerShell
3 24 (26.09%) Python
4 16 (17.39%) SQL
5 13 (14.13%) JavaScript
5 13 (14.13%) TypeScript
6 7 (7.61%) C
7 3 (3.26%) Bash
8 2 (2.17%) C++
9 1 (1.09%) Java
9 1 (1.09%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 42 (45.65%) Security Cleared
2 30 (32.61%) SC Cleared
3 13 (14.13%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.43%) Degree
5 2 (2.17%) HND
5 2 (2.17%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (10.87%) Docker
2 4 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.26%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.17%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (1.09%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (28.26%) Ansible
2 24 (26.09%) PowerCLI
3 7 (7.61%) Terraform
4 6 (6.52%) Kubernetes
5 4 (4.35%) Puppet
6 1 (1.09%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (1.09%) OPNET
6 1 (1.09%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.09%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.09%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (28.26%) Atlassian
2 22 (23.91%) Dell
2 22 (23.91%) HP
3 16 (17.39%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.43%) Xamarin
5 4 (4.35%) VMware
6 2 (2.17%) OutSystems
6 2 (2.17%) SAP
7 1 (1.09%) Cisco
7 1 (1.09%) Google
7 1 (1.09%) IBM
7 1 (1.09%) Infor
7 1 (1.09%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.09%) Splunk
7 1 (1.09%) Veeam