.NET Framework Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft .NET Framework
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring .NET Framework skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET Framework over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 131 128
Rank change year-on-year +42 -3 +13
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 10 4 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.69% 0.15% 0.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.62% 1.10% 4.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 16
10th Percentile £315 - £444
25th Percentile £380 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -27.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £500 £488 £600
90th Percentile - £540 £606
South East median daily rate £475 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +5.56% -12.20% +5.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

.NET Framework 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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 276 364 471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.94% 13.85% 16.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 250 338
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £600 £619 £625
90th Percentile £650 £652 £696
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 8
10th Percentile £13.25 £56.61 £52.90
25th Percentile £17.05 £56.65 £75.06
Median hourly rate £27.76 £61.60 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -54.94% -21.78% +22.23%
75th Percentile £54.97 - £80.25
90th Percentile £83.31 £61.72 £80.48
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £61.60 £67.50
% change year-on-year -10.82% -8.74% +50.00%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing .NET Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Framework in the Thames Valley

.NET Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Framework in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for .NET Framework in the Thames Valley

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Framework in the Thames Valley

.NET Framework
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Framework in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for .NET Framework in the Thames Valley

.NET Framework
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Framework within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 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
Berkshire +33 6 £500 +5.26% 45
Buckinghamshire +16 4 £321 -19.75% 20
.NET Framework
South East

.NET Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (20.00%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (20.00%) Confluence
1 2 (20.00%) IIS
2 1 (10.00%) SAS
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) SaaS
2 4 (40.00%) Serverless
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (30.00%) Azure
4 2 (20.00%) Azure API Management
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (20.00%) PaaS
5 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (10.00%) Azure App Service
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Storage
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (20.00%) DocumentDB
3 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Parquet
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI
3 1 (10.00%) Power Query
3 1 (10.00%) Sisense
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) Postman
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) French Language
2 1 (10.00%) Italian Language
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) .NET Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Developer
3 1 (10.00%) BizTalk Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) BizTalk Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Integration Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Junior
3 1 (10.00%) Junior .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Junior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) React Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Support
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 4 (40.00%) REST
4 3 (30.00%) .NET Core
4 3 (30.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (30.00%) Entity Framework
5 2 (20.00%) NHibernate
5 2 (20.00%) RESTful
6 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
6 1 (10.00%) JSON
6 1 (10.00%) MDX
6 1 (10.00%) Node.js
6 1 (10.00%) OAuth
6 1 (10.00%) OpenID
6 1 (10.00%) React
6 1 (10.00%) SAML
6 1 (10.00%) SOAP
6 1 (10.00%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
1 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) API Design
4 2 (20.00%) API Management
4 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Log Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Product Management
4 2 (20.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) Security Hardening
4 2 (20.00%) SOLID
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) C#
2 6 (60.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) Bicep
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (20.00%) IBM
2 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle