.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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 82 72
Rank change year-on-year -5 -10 -18
Contract jobs citing .NET 28 41 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.68% 1.77% 2.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.92% 10.73% 18.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 35 54
10th Percentile £338 £425 £350
25th Percentile £391 £484 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £481 £619 £613
90th Percentile £524 £648 £709
South East median daily rate £450 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
South East median hourly rate - £58.91 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +17.81% +25.00%

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 314 382 427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.80% 16.50% 15.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 265 312
10th Percentile £325 £363 £313
25th Percentile £400 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £634 £661 £706
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 10
10th Percentile £13.25 £56.65 £16.46
25th Percentile £17.05 - -
Median hourly rate £27.76 £61.60 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.94% +23.20% +42.86%
75th Percentile £32.53 - £73.41
90th Percentile £56.65 - £79.30
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £58.59
% change year-on-year -18.83% +5.14% -2.35%

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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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -5 23 £450 -21.74% 32
Buckinghamshire +5 4 £450 +5.88% 32
Oxfordshire -8 1 - - 35
.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 3 (10.71%) Umbraco
2 2 (7.14%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (7.14%) CMS
2 2 (7.14%) IIS
3 1 (3.57%) Confluence
3 1 (3.57%) Headless CMS
3 1 (3.57%) SAS
3 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (71.43%) Azure
2 12 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 6 (21.43%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (17.86%) Azure AKS
6 4 (14.29%) Azure Storage
6 4 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (10.71%) Azure Table
7 3 (10.71%) Entra ID
7 3 (10.71%) Power Automate
8 2 (7.14%) AWS
8 2 (7.14%) Azure API Management
8 2 (7.14%) Azure App Service
9 1 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (3.57%) GitHub
9 1 (3.57%) IaaS
9 1 (3.57%) PaaS
9 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) DNS
1 1 (3.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 5 (17.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (14.29%) Power BI
4 2 (7.14%) MySQL
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.57%) Parquet
5 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.57%) Power Query
5 1 (3.57%) Sisense
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Cypress.io
1 2 (7.14%) Git
1 2 (7.14%) NUnit
1 2 (7.14%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.57%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) Postman
2 1 (3.57%) Selenium
2 1 (3.57%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (14.29%) Finance
1 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.57%) French Language
3 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.57%) Italian Language
3 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.57%) Marketing
3 1 (3.57%) Spanish Language
3 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (53.57%) Developer
2 9 (32.14%) .NET Developer
3 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) C# .NET Developer
3 3 (10.71%) C# Developer
3 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 3 (10.71%) Site Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Automation Tester
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Developer
4 2 (7.14%) React Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Support Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Technical Support
4 2 (7.14%) Technical Support Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Tester
4 2 (7.14%) Umbraco Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (32.14%) .NET Core
2 7 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 6 (21.43%) CSS
3 6 (21.43%) HTML
3 6 (21.43%) RESTful
4 4 (14.29%) ADO
4 4 (14.29%) ARM Templates
4 4 (14.29%) React
5 3 (10.71%) Entity Framework
5 3 (10.71%) REST
5 3 (10.71%) Web Services
6 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
6 2 (7.14%) Blazor
6 2 (7.14%) OAuth
7 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (3.57%) Next.js
7 1 (3.57%) Node.js
7 1 (3.57%) OpenID
7 1 (3.57%) Playwright
7 1 (3.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.57%) N-Tier
2 1 (3.57%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Windows
2 2 (7.14%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.57%) Android
3 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) DevOps
2 7 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (14.29%) Agile
5 4 (14.29%) Analytics
5 4 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (14.29%) Identity Management
5 4 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (10.71%) API Development
6 3 (10.71%) ERP
6 3 (10.71%) Incident Management
6 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Management
6 3 (10.71%) Mentoring
6 3 (10.71%) Migration
6 3 (10.71%) Technical Architecture
6 3 (10.71%) Test Automation
7 2 (7.14%) SDLC
7 2 (7.14%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 18 (64.29%) C#
2 8 (28.57%) SQL
3 6 (21.43%) PowerShell
4 5 (17.86%) Bicep
4 5 (17.86%) JavaScript
5 4 (14.29%) Python
6 3 (10.71%) Bash
6 3 (10.71%) X++
7 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.57%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Terraform
2 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 4 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 3 (10.71%) Grafana
4 2 (7.14%) SCOM
5 1 (3.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 13 (46.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) ServiceNow
3 2 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 2 (7.14%) IBM
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (3.57%) Sitecore
4 1 (3.57%) Snow
4 1 (3.57%) Virgin Media
4 1 (3.57%) Xamarin