.NET Contracts in the South East

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 58 45
Rank change year-on-year -47 -13 +1
Contract jobs citing .NET 95 205 353
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.73% 3.65% 4.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.32% 20.73% 23.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 151 242
10th Percentile £313 £400 £385
25th Percentile £400 £427 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +13.83%
75th Percentile £619 £633 £588
90th Percentile £638 £799 £659
England median daily rate £538 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 14
10th Percentile £42.18 - £19.95
25th Percentile £50.32 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £58.91 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.10% +57.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile £62.96 £71.25 £42.50
90th Percentile - £79.50 £60.08
England median hourly rate £59.45 £52.97 £49.00
% change year-on-year +12.24% +8.10% +10.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

.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 South East 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 713 989 1,477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.95% 17.61% 19.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 703 982
10th Percentile £313 £363 £356
25th Percentile £400 £425 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £613
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £560 £575
% change year-on-year -1.79% -2.61% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 35 39
10th Percentile £35.00 £50.50 £26.20
25th Percentile £56.65 £56.38 £33.13
Median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +55.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £62.20
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.83 £67.49
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +28.71% +6.88%

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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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in the South East over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the South East

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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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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing .NET in the South East over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 23 May 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
Thames Valley -43 37 £500 -4.76% 61
Berkshire -29 28 £500 -9.09% 20
Hampshire -34 18 £444 -11.25% 38
Surrey +14 16 £613 +20.69% 40
West Sussex +10 9 £750 -9.09% 8
East Sussex +7 9 £380 -60.00% 23
Buckinghamshire +6 8 £450 -10.00% 18
Kent -1 4 - - 18
Oxfordshire -4 1 £675 +80.00% 23
Home Counties - 1 £475 -
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England

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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 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.16%) Apache
3 2 (2.11%) Confluence
4 1 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.05%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.05%) IIS
4 1 (1.05%) Jadu
4 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.05%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (51.58%) Azure
2 24 (25.26%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (16.84%) AWS
4 8 (8.42%) Azure Logic Apps
4 8 (8.42%) PaaS
5 7 (7.37%) Azure API Management
6 6 (6.32%) Azure Functions
6 6 (6.32%) SaaS
6 6 (6.32%) Serverless
7 4 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (4.21%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (4.21%) GitHub
8 3 (3.16%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (3.16%) Azure Event Grid
8 3 (3.16%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (3.16%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.16%) GCP
8 3 (3.16%) IaaS
8 3 (3.16%) NuGet
8 3 (3.16%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.26%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.16%) DHCP
2 3 (3.16%) DNS
2 3 (3.16%) Network Security
2 3 (3.16%) VPN
3 2 (2.11%) SSL
4 1 (1.05%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (29.47%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.21%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (4.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (3.16%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.16%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.11%) Power BI
5 1 (1.05%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.05%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.05%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.05%) Metadata
5 1 (1.05%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.05%) MySQL
5 1 (1.05%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (22.11%) Visual Studio
2 18 (18.95%) Git
3 14 (14.74%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.21%) Selenium
5 3 (3.16%) JIRA
5 3 (3.16%) SpecFlow
6 2 (2.11%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.11%) JMeter
6 2 (2.11%) NUnit
6 2 (2.11%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.05%) Android Studio
7 1 (1.05%) Appium
7 1 (1.05%) LabVIEW
7 1 (1.05%) MSTest
7 1 (1.05%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (1.05%) Postman
7 1 (1.05%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (1.05%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.05%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.05%) Xcode
General
1 12 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (11.58%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.37%) Finance
4 4 (4.21%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.16%) Front Office
6 2 (2.11%) Automotive
6 2 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Back Office
7 1 (1.05%) Banking
7 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 55 (57.89%) Developer
2 22 (23.16%) .NET Developer
3 11 (11.58%) Lead
3 11 (11.58%) Software Developer
4 10 (10.53%) Architect
5 9 (9.47%) Full Stack Developer
5 9 (9.47%) Senior
6 7 (7.37%) Software Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Azure Developer
8 4 (4.21%) Full Stack .NET Developer
8 4 (4.21%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.21%) Technical Architect
9 3 (3.16%) .NET Software Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Applications Developer
9 3 (3.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Lead Developer
9 3 (3.16%) Senior Software Developer
9 3 (3.16%) Technical Leader
10 2 (2.11%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (32.63%) ASP.NET
2 21 (22.11%) AngularJS
3 17 (17.89%) .NET Core
4 15 (15.79%) HTML
5 14 (14.74%) .NET Framework
6 13 (13.68%) CSS
7 12 (12.63%) ASP.NET MVC
8 11 (11.58%) RESTful
9 8 (8.42%) XML
10 7 (7.37%) Blazor
10 7 (7.37%) JSON
11 5 (5.26%) Entity Framework
11 5 (5.26%) REST
11 5 (5.26%) SOAP
11 5 (5.26%) Web Services
12 4 (4.21%) ARM Templates
12 4 (4.21%) WCF
13 3 (3.16%) OAuth
13 3 (3.16%) OpenID
13 3 (3.16%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.26%) Public Cloud
2 2 (2.11%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.11%) IoT
2 2 (2.11%) PKI
2 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.05%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.42%) Linux
1 8 (8.42%) Windows
2 4 (4.21%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.16%) Ubuntu
3 3 (3.16%) Unix
4 2 (2.11%) VMS
5 1 (1.05%) Android
5 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (34.74%) Agile
2 31 (32.63%) DevOps
3 27 (28.42%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (18.95%) MVC
5 15 (15.79%) Full Stack Development
5 15 (15.79%) Microservices
6 14 (14.74%) CI/CD
7 13 (13.68%) Deployment Automation
8 11 (11.58%) Software Engineering
8 11 (11.58%) TDD
9 9 (9.47%) OO
9 9 (9.47%) SOLID
10 8 (8.42%) Scrum
10 8 (8.42%) Test Automation
11 7 (7.37%) Computer Science
11 7 (7.37%) Migration
11 7 (7.37%) Roadmaps
11 7 (7.37%) Web Application Development
12 6 (6.32%) Architectural Patterns
12 6 (6.32%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 72 (75.79%) C#
2 24 (25.26%) PowerShell
3 22 (23.16%) JavaScript
4 18 (18.95%) SQL
5 7 (7.37%) C++
6 6 (6.32%) Java
6 6 (6.32%) Python
7 5 (5.26%) PHP
8 4 (4.21%) PL/SQL
8 4 (4.21%) VB.NET
9 3 (3.16%) C
9 3 (3.16%) Ruby
10 2 (2.11%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.11%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.05%) Bash
11 1 (1.05%) Bicep
11 1 (1.05%) VB
11 1 (1.05%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 23 (24.21%) Security Cleared
2 21 (22.11%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.42%) Degree
4 3 (3.16%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.16%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.42%) QA
2 3 (3.16%) ISO 9001
2 3 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 3 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (3.16%) SLA
3 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.05%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.32%) Hyper-V
2 6 (6.32%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (6.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.26%) Docker
4 4 (4.21%) vSphere
5 1 (1.05%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 14 (14.74%) Ansible
2 6 (6.32%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.26%) Terraform
4 4 (4.21%) WSUS
5 3 (3.16%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.05%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.05%) Puppet
6 1 (1.05%) SCOM
6 1 (1.05%) vRealize
Vendors
1 18 (18.95%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.47%) Oracle
3 7 (7.37%) VMware
4 4 (4.21%) SAP
5 2 (2.11%) Atmel
6 1 (1.05%) Google
6 1 (1.05%) Micro Focus
6 1 (1.05%) Qualys
6 1 (1.05%) Red Hat