.NET Contract Job Trends in Wales

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring .NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 27 29
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -11
Contract jobs citing .NET 12 21 27
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 3.16% 4.86% 5.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.14% 25.61% 26.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 25
10th Percentile £305 £161 £210
25th Percentile £426 £166 £217
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £231 £425
Median % change year-on-year +116.88% -45.70% -15.00%
75th Percentile £528 £278 £565
90th Percentile £650 £525 £638
UK median daily rate £490 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £25.60 -
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.83% -7.69% -

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 70 82 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 18.42% 18.98% 21.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 45 84
10th Percentile £306 £204 £217
25th Percentile £405 £375 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +17.65% -22.59%
75th Percentile £508 £550 £541
90th Percentile £644 £575 £609
UK median daily rate £501 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.95% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £20.24 -
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £62.50 £58.55
% change year-on-year -13.60% +6.76% -7.44%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing .NET relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

.NET job vacancy trend in Wales

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Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing .NET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing .NET

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in Wales over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in Wales

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing .NET.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing .NET

.NET
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 5 October 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 -3 12 £501 +116.88% 10
.NET
UK

.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (16.67%) PowerApps
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 3 (25.00%) Git
General
1 6 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Product Owner
4 1 (8.33%) .NET Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Applications Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) CRM Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Power Apps Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering Team Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Software Team Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Team Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 4 (33.33%) Jest
1 4 (33.33%) Next.js
1 4 (33.33%) React
2 3 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (25.00%) Entity Framework
3 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 2 (16.67%) CSS
3 2 (16.67%) Flutter
3 2 (16.67%) HTML
3 2 (16.67%) RESTful
4 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (8.33%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) Case Management
3 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) Unit Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (25.00%) CRM
4 3 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Front End Development
4 3 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (16.67%) Microservices
5 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
6 1 (8.33%) Customer Engagement
6 1 (8.33%) Data Migration
6 1 (8.33%) Information Management
6 1 (8.33%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (41.67%) C#
2 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (8.33%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 3 (25.00%) WCAG
3 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) InterSystems