.NET Contracts in the South East

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 106 62
Rank change year-on-year +18 -44 -8
Contract jobs citing .NET 67 97 188
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.19% 1.70% 3.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.48% 12.53% 19.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 84 135
10th Percentile £336 £316 £386
25th Percentile £407 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £523 £603 £650
90th Percentile £589 £623 £759
England median daily rate £513 £538 £563
% change year-on-year -4.65% -4.44% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - £42.18 -
25th Percentile - £50.32 -
Median hourly rate £77.19 £58.91 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.04% +17.81% +42.86%
75th Percentile - £62.96 £55.63
90th Percentile - - £71.25
England median hourly rate £50.30 £58.91 £50.00
% change year-on-year -14.61% +17.81% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

.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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 537 774 971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.57% 13.56% 16.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 514 683
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £408 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £638 £659 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 47 42
10th Percentile £22.10 £35.00 £50.00
25th Percentile £35.05 £56.65 £53.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% -4.50% +43.33%
75th Percentile £58.72 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £62.03 £75.00 £79.19
England median hourly rate £58.88 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.67% -13.46% +23.81%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing .NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the South East

.NET
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET in the South East.

Daily rate trend for .NET in the South East

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in the South East over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the South East

.NET
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for .NET in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the South East region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
Thames Valley +21 34 £500 -1.23% 155
Berkshire +22 27 £500 -4.76% 75
Hampshire +24 14 £494 +9.72% 39
Surrey +14 10 £408 -30.93% 39
Buckinghamshire +12 7 £463 +2.78% 40
East Sussex -3 7 £450 -0.55% 28
Kent +2 2 £475 - 26
.NET
England

.NET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (7.46%) IIS
2 3 (4.48%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (4.48%) Umbraco
3 2 (2.99%) Apache
3 2 (2.99%) Confluence
3 2 (2.99%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.49%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.49%) CMS
4 1 (1.49%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.49%) SAS
4 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.49%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (1.49%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 32 (47.76%) Azure
2 21 (31.34%) AWS
3 14 (20.90%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (16.42%) SaaS
5 7 (10.45%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (10.45%) Power Platform
6 5 (7.46%) Azure AKS
6 5 (7.46%) GCP
7 4 (5.97%) Azure Storage
7 4 (5.97%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (5.97%) Serverless
8 3 (4.48%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (4.48%) Azure API Management
8 3 (4.48%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (4.48%) Azure Table
8 3 (4.48%) Entra ID
8 3 (4.48%) Power Automate
8 3 (4.48%) Tricentis Tosca
9 2 (2.99%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) Firewall
1 2 (2.99%) HTTP
1 2 (2.99%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.49%) DNS
2 1 (1.49%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (25.37%) SQL Server
2 9 (13.43%) Relational Database
3 5 (7.46%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (5.97%) MySQL
4 4 (5.97%) Power BI
5 2 (2.99%) DocumentDB
5 2 (2.99%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.49%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.49%) Parquet
6 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.49%) Power Query
6 1 (1.49%) Sisense
6 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (13.43%) Git
2 4 (5.97%) JIRA
2 4 (5.97%) Visual Studio
3 3 (4.48%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.99%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.99%) Moq
4 2 (2.99%) Postman
4 2 (2.99%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.49%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (1.49%) NUnit
5 1 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 14 (20.90%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.46%) Finance
3 4 (5.97%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.99%) Korean Language
5 2 (2.99%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.49%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.49%) French Language
6 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.49%) Italian Language
6 1 (1.49%) Marketing
6 1 (1.49%) Spanish Language
6 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (59.70%) Developer
2 19 (28.36%) .NET Developer
3 7 (10.45%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (8.96%) Senior
4 6 (8.96%) Senior Developer
5 5 (7.46%) C# Developer
5 5 (7.46%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Software Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) C# .NET Developer
6 4 (5.97%) React Developer
6 4 (5.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) C# Software Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (29.85%) .NET Core
2 14 (20.90%) .NET Framework
3 12 (17.91%) CSS
3 12 (17.91%) HTML
4 9 (13.43%) AngularJS
4 9 (13.43%) REST
5 8 (11.94%) React
6 7 (10.45%) ASP.NET
6 7 (10.45%) ASP.NET Web API
7 6 (8.96%) JSON
7 6 (8.96%) RESTful
8 5 (7.46%) ADO
8 5 (7.46%) WCF
9 4 (5.97%) ARM Templates
9 4 (5.97%) Web Services
10 3 (4.48%) Blazor
10 3 (4.48%) Entity Framework
10 3 (4.48%) OAuth
10 3 (4.48%) Vue
10 3 (4.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.48%) Wiki
2 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (2.99%) NHS
2 2 (2.99%) N-Tier
2 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
2 2 (2.99%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (2.99%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.49%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.43%) Windows
2 3 (4.48%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.99%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (44.78%) DevOps
2 25 (37.31%) CI/CD
3 16 (23.88%) Agile
4 15 (22.39%) Software Engineering
5 14 (20.90%) Full-Stack Development
5 14 (20.90%) Test Automation
6 11 (16.42%) OO
7 8 (11.94%) API Development
7 8 (11.94%) Containerisation
7 8 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (11.94%) SOLID
8 7 (10.45%) Design Patterns
8 7 (10.45%) ERP
9 6 (8.96%) MVC
9 6 (8.96%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (8.96%) Scrum
9 6 (8.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 5 (7.46%) Analytics
10 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure as Code
11 4 (5.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 45 (67.16%) C#
2 33 (49.25%) SQL
3 18 (26.87%) JavaScript
4 13 (19.40%) PowerShell
5 10 (14.93%) Python
6 5 (7.46%) Bash
6 5 (7.46%) Bicep
7 4 (5.97%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.48%) X++
9 2 (2.99%) ActionScript
9 2 (2.99%) PHP
10 1 (1.49%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (1.49%) C
10 1 (1.49%) Rust
10 1 (1.49%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 10 (14.93%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.94%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.97%) Azure Certification
4 3 (4.48%) Degree
4 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.49%) OCP
5 1 (1.49%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (2.99%) QA
2 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (17.91%) Docker
2 3 (4.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (20.90%) Kubernetes
2 12 (17.91%) Terraform
3 4 (5.97%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.48%) Grafana
4 3 (4.48%) SCOM
4 3 (4.48%) WMI
5 1 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 20 (29.85%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.97%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.48%) Dynatrace
3 3 (4.48%) Google
3 3 (4.48%) IBM
3 3 (4.48%) Virgin Media
4 2 (2.99%) Oracle
4 2 (2.99%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.99%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.49%) Infor
5 1 (1.49%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.49%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.49%) NEC
5 1 (1.49%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.49%) SAP
5 1 (1.49%) Snow
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