.NET Contracts in Wales

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 31 26 13
Rank change year-on-year -5 -13 +11
Contract jobs citing .NET 12 18 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 4.10% 4.56% 9.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 25.00% 20.45% 35.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 57
10th Percentile £166 £325 £313
25th Percentile £200 £372 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -20.93% -10.42%
75th Percentile £538 £463 £586
90th Percentile £609 £490 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £565
% change year-on-year - -7.08% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £29.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £58.91 £60.00
% change year-on-year -54.16% -1.83% +26.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Wales

.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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 48 88 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 16.38% 22.28% 27.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 72 135
10th Percentile £234 £290 £313
25th Percentile £327 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £547 £531 £586
90th Percentile £596 £594 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile £20.68 £15.38 -
25th Percentile £21.53 £15.66 -
Median hourly rate £25.63 £18.14 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.26% - -
75th Percentile £36.31 £21.29 -
90th Percentile £49.03 £22.77 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing .NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for .NET in Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET in Wales.

Daily rate trend for .NET in Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for .NET in Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for .NET in Wales

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Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Wales 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
South Wales +1 11 £438 +3.00% 26
.NET
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) PowerApps
4 1 (8.33%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (8.33%) Appium
2 1 (8.33%) NUnit
2 1 (8.33%) SpecFlow
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (8.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (8.33%) tSQLt
2 1 (8.33%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) .NET Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) CRM Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Software Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
3 1 (8.33%) QA Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) QA Automation Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 3 (25.00%) FHIR
2 2 (16.67%) HTML5 Canvas
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
3 1 (8.33%) CSS
3 1 (8.33%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) REST
3 1 (8.33%) Web Services
3 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (8.33%) Clustering
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) NHS
2 1 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) Scrum
4 4 (33.33%) CRM
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Unit Testing
5 3 (25.00%) OO
6 2 (16.67%) API Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Concurrent Programming
6 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (16.67%) Data Security
6 2 (16.67%) Multithreading
6 2 (16.67%) MVC
6 2 (16.67%) OOD
6 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Web Development
7 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) C#
2 6 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) Python
5 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) ISEB
3 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) HL7
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) RedGate