.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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -14 +2 +9
Contract jobs citing .NET 15 16 20
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 2.38% 4.64% 5.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.55% 23.19% 22.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 11
10th Percentile - £293 £161
25th Percentile £300 £363 £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £501 £235
Median % change year-on-year -35.06% +112.98% -47.78%
75th Percentile £553 £530 £285
90th Percentile £668 £628 £388
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £29.25 £25.60
Median % change year-on-year - +14.26% -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £63.50 £58.91
% change year-on-year -29.13% +7.80% +9.11%

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 73 69 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 11.57% 20.00% 22.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 49 58
10th Percentile £300 £305 £210
25th Percentile £375 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £453 £489
Median % change year-on-year +10.38% -7.31% +5.68%
75th Percentile £675 £488 £548
90th Percentile £775 £532 £583
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 9
10th Percentile - - £15.69
25th Percentile - - £20.12
Median hourly rate £22.00 £29.25 £20.47
Median % change year-on-year -24.79% +42.89% -
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - £25.60
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.44 £52.50
% change year-on-year +19.40% +3.69% -12.50%

.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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in Wales over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in Wales

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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

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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 15 August 2026. 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 -13 15 £325 -35.06% 17
.NET
UK

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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) Azure
2 7 (46.67%) Power Platform
2 7 (46.67%) PowerApps
3 5 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) AWS
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (13.33%) GitHub
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (6.67%) Finance
1 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) .NET Developer
2 4 (26.67%) .NET Software Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Software Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Test Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Applications Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Architect
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Power Apps Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) ADO
1 3 (20.00%) Playwright
2 2 (13.33%) REST
2 2 (13.33%) WebSockets
2 2 (13.33%) YAML
3 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
3 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (6.67%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (6.67%) React
3 1 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) NHS
2 1 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.67%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) DevOps
3 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
4 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 5 (33.33%) Scrum
5 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
5 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (26.67%) User Research
6 3 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (20.00%) Defect Management
6 3 (20.00%) Manual Testing
6 3 (20.00%) Microservices
6 3 (20.00%) Regression Testing
6 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (20.00%) Test Scripting
7 2 (13.33%) CRM
7 2 (13.33%) Domain-Driven Design
7 2 (13.33%) Refactoring
7 2 (13.33%) TDD
7 2 (13.33%) UML
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) C#
2 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft