.NET Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring .NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - 5
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing .NET 3 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 10.00% - 25.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 75.00% - 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £466 - £515
25th Percentile £472 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.96%
75th Percentile £597 - £750
90th Percentile £599 - £753
Somerset median daily rate £550 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -1.96%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Taunton

.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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4 1 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 13.33% 16.67% 29.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 8
10th Percentile £470 - £530
25th Percentile £481 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £683
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.58%
75th Percentile £594 - £749
90th Percentile £598 - £753
Somerset median daily rate £425 £610 £450
% change year-on-year -30.33% +35.56% -23.01%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

.NET job vacancy trend in Taunton

.NET
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing .NET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing .NET

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend in Taunton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing .NET.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing .NET

.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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 1 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) InDesign
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Figma
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (33.33%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) SMTP
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (33.33%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) MSI
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
1 1 (33.33%) webpack
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C++ Developer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (33.33%) ATL
1 1 (33.33%) Bootstrap
1 1 (33.33%) COM
1 1 (33.33%) Entity Framework
1 1 (33.33%) Express.js
1 1 (33.33%) MFC
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SignalR
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) WCF
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) WPF
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) MVC
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Information Assurance
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) MVVM
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe
2 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) VMware