.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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 62 45
Rank change year-on-year -35 -17 +8
Contract jobs citing .NET 35 93 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.33% 3.25% 4.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.64% 19.29% 24.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 62 117
10th Percentile £325 £363 £390
25th Percentile £400 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £614 £613 £563
90th Percentile £619 £762 £650
South East median daily rate £490 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -4.16% +2.25% +13.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.75
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year - -18.70% +89.23%
75th Percentile - - £62.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +7.10% +57.14% -12.50%

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 363 482 617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.74% 16.83% 17.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 349 448
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £695 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +14.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 9 6
10th Percentile £56.61 £42.60 £31.25
25th Percentile £56.65 £70.00 £41.44
Median hourly rate £61.60 £78.50 £64.43
Median % change year-on-year -21.53% +21.84% +71.81%
75th Percentile - £80.25 £68.03
90th Percentile £61.72 £80.40 £74.32
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -5.23% +44.44% -14.29%

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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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -32 26 £513 -6.82% 19
Buckinghamshire +12 8 £450 -10.00% 15
Oxfordshire -8 1 £675 +80.00% 20
.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 (2.86%) Apache
1 1 (2.86%) Jadu
1 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (54.29%) Azure
2 12 (34.29%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (22.86%) AWS
4 4 (11.43%) Azure API Management
4 4 (11.43%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (8.57%) Azure Event Grid
5 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
5 3 (8.57%) IaaS
5 3 (8.57%) PaaS
5 3 (8.57%) SaaS
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Functions
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.71%) GCP
6 2 (5.71%) GitHub
6 2 (5.71%) NuGet
6 2 (5.71%) Serverless
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) Network Security
1 3 (8.57%) VPN
2 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.86%) MySQL
3 1 (2.86%) Power BI
3 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (37.14%) Visual Studio
2 10 (28.57%) Git
3 8 (22.86%) Jenkins
4 3 (8.57%) Selenium
4 3 (8.57%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.86%) Android Studio
5 1 (2.86%) Appium
5 1 (2.86%) JIRA
5 1 (2.86%) MSTest
5 1 (2.86%) NUnit
5 1 (2.86%) Postman
5 1 (2.86%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (2.86%) SoapUI
5 1 (2.86%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.86%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.86%) Xcode
General
1 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
2 2 (5.71%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 20 (57.14%) Developer
2 9 (25.71%) .NET Developer
3 7 (20.00%) Lead
4 5 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Full Stack Developer
6 3 (8.57%) .NET Software Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Full Stack .NET Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Software Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Technical Leader
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Developer
7 2 (5.71%) C# Software Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Tester
8 1 (2.86%) Automation Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Embedded Developer
8 1 (2.86%) Integration Developer
8 1 (2.86%) PHP Developer
8 1 (2.86%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (37.14%) ASP.NET
2 5 (14.29%) HTML
3 4 (11.43%) .NET Framework
3 4 (11.43%) AngularJS
3 4 (11.43%) CSS
4 3 (8.57%) Web Services
5 2 (5.71%) .NET Core
5 2 (5.71%) 802.1X
5 2 (5.71%) ARM Templates
5 2 (5.71%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (5.71%) JSON
5 2 (5.71%) RESTful
5 2 (5.71%) SOAP
5 2 (5.71%) XML
6 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (2.86%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.86%) OAuth
6 1 (2.86%) Playwright
6 1 (2.86%) React
6 1 (2.86%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.71%) IoT
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Android
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
1 1 (2.86%) Windows
1 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) DevOps
2 9 (25.71%) Agile
2 9 (25.71%) CI/CD
2 9 (25.71%) Full Stack Development
2 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 6 (17.14%) OO
4 6 (17.14%) TDD
5 5 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
5 5 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 4 (11.43%) API Management
6 4 (11.43%) Microservices
6 4 (11.43%) Test Automation
7 3 (8.57%) BDD
7 3 (8.57%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (8.57%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (8.57%) Data Protection
7 3 (8.57%) Network Architecture
7 3 (8.57%) Security Architecture
7 3 (8.57%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (82.86%) C#
2 10 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 4 (11.43%) Java
3 4 (11.43%) JavaScript
3 4 (11.43%) PHP
3 4 (11.43%) Python
4 3 (8.57%) Ruby
4 3 (8.57%) SQL
5 2 (5.71%) C
6 1 (2.86%) Bash
6 1 (2.86%) Bicep
6 1 (2.86%) C++
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 10 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) QA
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Docker
2 4 (11.43%) Active Directory
3 3 (8.57%) Hyper-V
3 3 (8.57%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (22.86%) Ansible
2 4 (11.43%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.57%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (5.71%) Terraform
5 1 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.86%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.86%) Puppet
5 1 (2.86%) SCOM
5 1 (2.86%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) VMware
3 2 (5.71%) Atmel
4 1 (2.86%) Google
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle