.NET Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring .NET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 104 68
Rank change year-on-year +40 -36 -17
Contract jobs citing .NET 38 41 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.51% 1.53% 2.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.82% 11.17% 17.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 36 59
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £452 £400 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £575 £602 £614
90th Percentile £600 £619 £770
South East median daily rate £494 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.25% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £77.19 - -
South East median hourly rate £77.19 £58.91 £55.00
% change year-on-year +31.04% +7.10% +57.14%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

.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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 275 367 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.20% 13.66% 16.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 234 352
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £600 £617 £625
90th Percentile £650 £673 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 8
10th Percentile £23.35 £56.58 £52.90
25th Percentile £27.11 £56.65 £75.06
Median hourly rate £31.50 £61.60 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -48.86% -21.78% +20.23%
75th Percentile £77.19 - £80.25
90th Percentile £86.38 £62.00 £80.48
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.66% -12.00% +55.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for .NET in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET in the Thames Valley

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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 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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 +31 30 £500 -2.44% 98
Buckinghamshire +13 7 £481 +6.94% 79
Oxfordshire +5 1 £195 -71.11% 64
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South East

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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 3 (7.89%) Umbraco
2 2 (5.26%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (5.26%) Confluence
2 2 (5.26%) IIS
3 1 (2.63%) CMS
3 1 (2.63%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 26 (68.42%) Azure
2 13 (34.21%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (15.79%) AWS
3 6 (15.79%) Azure Monitor
3 6 (15.79%) SaaS
4 4 (10.53%) Azure AKS
4 4 (10.53%) Power Automate
4 4 (10.53%) Serverless
5 3 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (7.89%) Azure API Management
5 3 (7.89%) Azure Storage
5 3 (7.89%) Power Platform
5 3 (7.89%) Tricentis Tosca
6 2 (5.26%) Azure App Service
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Table
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) FTP
1 1 (2.63%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (26.32%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (5.26%) DocumentDB
3 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.26%) Power BI
4 1 (2.63%) MySQL
4 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.63%) Parquet
4 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (26.32%) Git
2 2 (5.26%) JIRA
2 2 (5.26%) Postman
3 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.63%) NUnit
3 1 (2.63%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.89%) Finance
3 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (73.68%) Developer
2 14 (36.84%) .NET Developer
3 5 (13.16%) C# Developer
3 5 (13.16%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Automation Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 4 (10.53%) React Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Senior
4 4 (10.53%) Senior Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Azure Developer
5 3 (7.89%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Applications Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Sitecore Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (31.58%) .NET Core
1 12 (31.58%) CSS
1 12 (31.58%) HTML
2 10 (26.32%) .NET Framework
3 6 (15.79%) REST
4 5 (13.16%) AngularJS
4 5 (13.16%) ASP.NET Web API
4 5 (13.16%) Entity Framework
4 5 (13.16%) React
5 3 (7.89%) ADO
5 3 (7.89%) ARM Templates
5 3 (7.89%) ASP.NET
5 3 (7.89%) Blazor
5 3 (7.89%) RESTful
5 3 (7.89%) WCF
6 2 (5.26%) Ember.js
6 2 (5.26%) JSON
6 2 (5.26%) NHibernate
6 2 (5.26%) Node.js
6 2 (5.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.26%) N-Tier
2 1 (2.63%) Cyberattack
2 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.63%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Windows
1 2 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (50.00%) DevOps
2 13 (34.21%) Agile
3 11 (28.95%) CI/CD
4 9 (23.68%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (18.42%) SDLC
5 7 (18.42%) Test Automation
5 7 (18.42%) Unit Testing
6 6 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (15.79%) Integration Testing
6 6 (15.79%) LLM
6 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (15.79%) Software Testing
6 6 (15.79%) System Testing
7 5 (13.16%) Software Engineering
7 5 (13.16%) TDD
8 4 (10.53%) Channel Management
8 4 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (10.53%) Software Delivery
9 3 (7.89%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 27 (71.05%) C#
2 23 (60.53%) SQL
3 13 (34.21%) JavaScript
4 9 (23.68%) Python
5 5 (13.16%) PowerShell
6 4 (10.53%) Bicep
7 2 (5.26%) ActionScript
7 2 (5.26%) Bash
7 2 (5.26%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.63%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (2.63%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.63%) X++
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.89%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (7.89%) Docker
2 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (23.68%) Terraform
2 5 (13.16%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.89%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.26%) Grafana
4 2 (5.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 11 (28.95%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.79%) OpenAI
3 3 (7.89%) ServiceNow
3 3 (7.89%) Virgin Media
4 2 (5.26%) Dynatrace
4 2 (5.26%) IBM
4 2 (5.26%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.63%) Infor
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle
5 1 (2.63%) SAP
5 1 (2.63%) Snow