.NET Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 72 51
Rank change year-on-year -26 -21 +5
Contract jobs citing .NET 43 86 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.58% 2.92% 3.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.17% 17.17% 21.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 59 112
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £400 £438 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £605 £614 £544
90th Percentile £619 £770 £600
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +12.36%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

.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 Thames Valley 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 385 501 610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.19% 17.03% 17.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 358 440
10th Percentile £325 £371 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +13.89%
75th Percentile £616 £625 £588
90th Percentile £673 £691 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 5
10th Percentile £56.56 £52.90 £30.50
25th Percentile £56.65 £75.06 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £78.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.78% +20.23% +69.03%
75th Percentile - £80.25 £68.25
90th Percentile £62.00 £80.48 £75.54
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year -12.00% +51.35% +11.45%

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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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 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
Berkshire -26 30 £550 - 29
Buckinghamshire +24 12 £438 -8.85% 19
Oxfordshire -6 1 £675 +80.00% 24
.NET
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 1 (2.33%) Apache
1 1 (2.33%) Confluence
1 1 (2.33%) Jadu
1 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (48.84%) Azure
2 14 (32.56%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (27.91%) AWS
4 5 (11.63%) Azure API Management
4 5 (11.63%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (11.63%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (9.30%) PaaS
6 3 (6.98%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (6.98%) Azure Functions
6 3 (6.98%) SaaS
6 3 (6.98%) Serverless
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.65%) GCP
7 2 (4.65%) GitHub
7 2 (4.65%) IaaS
7 2 (4.65%) NuGet
8 1 (2.33%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.65%) Network Security
2 2 (4.65%) VPN
3 1 (2.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.58%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.63%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.98%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (6.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.33%) MySQL
4 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.33%) Power BI
4 1 (2.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (37.21%) Visual Studio
2 12 (27.91%) Git
3 8 (18.60%) Jenkins
4 4 (9.30%) JIRA
4 4 (9.30%) SpecFlow
5 2 (4.65%) Selenium
6 1 (2.33%) Android Studio
6 1 (2.33%) Appium
6 1 (2.33%) MSTest
6 1 (2.33%) NUnit
6 1 (2.33%) Postman
6 1 (2.33%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (2.33%) SoapUI
6 1 (2.33%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.33%) WebDriver
6 1 (2.33%) Xcode
General
1 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (9.30%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.65%) Finance
4 1 (2.33%) Back Office
4 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (58.14%) Developer
2 12 (27.91%) .NET Developer
3 6 (13.95%) Lead
4 5 (11.63%) Software Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Software Developer
6 3 (6.98%) .NET Software Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Architect
6 3 (6.98%) C# Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Full Stack .NET Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Full Stack Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Developer
7 2 (4.65%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (4.65%) C# Software Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Integration Developer
7 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Technical Leader
7 2 (4.65%) Tester
8 1 (2.33%) Applications Developer
8 1 (2.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (37.21%) ASP.NET
2 7 (16.28%) HTML
3 6 (13.95%) .NET Framework
3 6 (13.95%) AngularJS
4 5 (11.63%) .NET Core
4 5 (11.63%) CSS
4 5 (11.63%) REST
5 4 (9.30%) ARM Templates
5 4 (9.30%) JSON
5 4 (9.30%) SOAP
5 4 (9.30%) XML
6 3 (6.98%) OAuth
6 3 (6.98%) OpenID
7 2 (4.65%) 802.1X
7 2 (4.65%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (4.65%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (4.65%) NHibernate
7 2 (4.65%) React
7 2 (4.65%) RESTful
7 2 (4.65%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.98%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.65%) IoT
2 2 (4.65%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Linux
2 1 (2.33%) Android
2 1 (2.33%) Debian
2 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu
2 1 (2.33%) Windows
2 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (41.86%) DevOps
2 13 (30.23%) Agile
3 11 (25.58%) TDD
4 10 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (20.93%) CI/CD
6 8 (18.60%) Full Stack Development
6 8 (18.60%) Microservices
6 8 (18.60%) OO
7 7 (16.28%) Deployment Automation
7 7 (16.28%) SOLID
8 5 (11.63%) BDD
8 5 (11.63%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (11.63%) High Availability
8 5 (11.63%) Software Engineering
8 5 (11.63%) Unit Testing
9 4 (9.30%) Continuous Deployment
9 4 (9.30%) Design Patterns
9 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (9.30%) Scrum
9 4 (9.30%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 36 (83.72%) C#
2 12 (27.91%) PowerShell
3 9 (20.93%) SQL
4 6 (13.95%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.98%) PHP
5 3 (6.98%) Python
6 2 (4.65%) C
6 2 (4.65%) Java
6 2 (4.65%) Ruby
7 1 (2.33%) Bash
7 1 (2.33%) Bicep
7 1 (2.33%) C++
7 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (27.91%) SC Cleared
1 12 (27.91%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) QA
System Software
1 5 (11.63%) Docker
2 3 (6.98%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.65%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (18.60%) Ansible
2 4 (9.30%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.65%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (4.65%) Terraform
4 1 (2.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.33%) Puppet
4 1 (2.33%) SCOM
4 1 (2.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (20.93%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.98%) Oracle
2 3 (6.98%) VMware
3 2 (4.65%) Atmel
4 1 (2.33%) Google
4 1 (2.33%) Red Hat