.NET Contracts in the South West

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 83 48
Rank change year-on-year +17 -35 0
Contract jobs citing .NET 93 85 161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.84% 2.51% 4.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.46% 16.60% 24.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 62 118
10th Percentile £323 £358 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% +15.79% +4.11%
75th Percentile £700 £684 £570
90th Percentile - £722 £633
England median daily rate £545 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -5.22% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile £61.25 £52.00 £55.83
25th Percentile £64.69 £55.00 £60.83
Median hourly rate £80.00 £60.00 £63.60
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -5.66% +41.33%
75th Percentile £85.00 £65.00 £63.95
90th Percentile £87.50 £68.00 £64.58
England median hourly rate £58.91 £51.49 £49.74
% change year-on-year +14.41% +3.50% +22.82%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

.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 West 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 478 512 646
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.60% 15.13% 17.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 404 476
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £642 £625 £589
90th Percentile £700 £714 £658
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 22 27
10th Percentile £43.75 £52.63 £49.20
25th Percentile £45.00 £56.56 £54.63
Median hourly rate £66.25 £65.00 £63.60
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +2.20% +27.20%
75th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £65.13
90th Percentile £85.00 - £75.00
England median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -25.49% +22.64% +15.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for .NET in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in the South West over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing .NET in the South West over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for .NET in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 9 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
Bristol +9 39 £450 -14.29% 29
Wiltshire +24 31 £700 +30.23% 9
Gloucestershire +4 16 £400 -15.79% 8
Dorset +6 2 - - 12
Devon -2 2 £325 -60.61% 16
Somerset -16 1 £600 -12.41% 12
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 27 (29.03%) Confluence
2 8 (8.60%) SharePoint
3 7 (7.53%) Umbraco
4 4 (4.30%) CMS
5 2 (2.15%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.08%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.08%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
1 1 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 38 (40.86%) Azure
2 21 (22.58%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (9.68%) AWS
4 8 (8.60%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (6.45%) OpenShift
6 4 (4.30%) GCP
6 4 (4.30%) PaaS
7 3 (3.23%) Sumo Logic
8 2 (2.15%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.15%) Serverless
9 1 (1.08%) Apigee
9 1 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.08%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.08%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.08%) Azure Service Fabric
9 1 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.08%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.38%) HTTP
2 4 (4.30%) VPN
3 1 (1.08%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.20%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.38%) SQLite
3 2 (2.15%) Big Data
3 2 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.15%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (2.15%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.15%) Power BI
4 1 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.08%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (29.03%) Bitbucket
1 27 (29.03%) JIRA
2 23 (24.73%) Jenkins
3 22 (23.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 15 (16.13%) Git
5 9 (9.68%) Visual Studio
6 8 (8.60%) Postman
7 6 (6.45%) NUnit
8 5 (5.38%) Checkstyle
8 5 (5.38%) SonarQube
9 4 (4.30%) Cypress.io
10 3 (3.23%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (3.23%) TeamCity
11 2 (2.15%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 24 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 19 (20.43%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (19.35%) Aerospace
4 5 (5.38%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.30%) Tech for Good
6 3 (3.23%) Finance
6 3 (3.23%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.15%) Electronics
7 2 (2.15%) Marketing
7 2 (2.15%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.08%) Aviation
8 1 (1.08%) Law
8 1 (1.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (52.69%) Developer
2 13 (13.98%) Architect
3 12 (12.90%) .NET Developer
3 12 (12.90%) Software Engineer
4 11 (11.83%) Senior
5 9 (9.68%) Software Developer
6 8 (8.60%) SharePoint Architect
7 6 (6.45%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Senior Test Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Test Automation Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Test Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Automation Architect
8 4 (4.30%) C# Developer
8 4 (4.30%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.30%) Umbraco Developer
9 3 (3.23%) C# .NET Developer
9 3 (3.23%) Office Automation Architect
10 2 (2.15%) Azure Developer
10 2 (2.15%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (35.48%) .NET Core
2 16 (17.20%) ASP.NET
3 11 (11.83%) .NET Framework
4 9 (9.68%) Blazor
4 9 (9.68%) CSS
4 9 (9.68%) HTML
5 8 (8.60%) AngularJS
6 7 (7.53%) REST
7 6 (6.45%) ASP.NET MVC
8 5 (5.38%) GraphQL
8 5 (5.38%) JSON
8 5 (5.38%) Playwright
8 5 (5.38%) XML
9 4 (4.30%) ModSecurity
10 3 (3.23%) ASP.NET Core
10 3 (3.23%) ASP.NET Web API
10 3 (3.23%) MassTransit
10 3 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (3.23%) Web Services
11 2 (2.15%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.38%) Public Cloud
2 4 (4.30%) PKI
2 4 (4.30%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.30%) Security Posture
3 3 (3.23%) IoT
3 3 (3.23%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.15%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 29 (31.18%) Linux
2 2 (2.15%) Android
2 2 (2.15%) Windows
3 1 (1.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (39.78%) CI/CD
2 32 (34.41%) Agile
2 32 (34.41%) DevOps
3 29 (31.18%) OO
4 26 (27.96%) Task Automation
5 24 (25.81%) Infrastructure Automation
6 22 (23.66%) Deployment Automation
6 22 (23.66%) OOP
7 21 (22.58%) Configuration Management
7 21 (22.58%) Continuous Integration
7 21 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (18.28%) Test Automation
9 14 (15.05%) Software Engineering
10 12 (12.90%) MVC
11 10 (10.75%) Waterfall
12 9 (9.68%) Full Stack Development
13 8 (8.60%) Customer Requirements
13 8 (8.60%) Manual Testing
13 8 (8.60%) Microservices
13 8 (8.60%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 50 (53.76%) C#
2 29 (31.18%) PowerShell
3 27 (29.03%) Python
4 14 (15.05%) SQL
5 12 (12.90%) JavaScript
5 12 (12.90%) TypeScript
6 9 (9.68%) C
7 5 (5.38%) Bash
8 3 (3.23%) Java
9 2 (2.15%) C++
9 2 (2.15%) Perl
10 1 (1.08%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 45 (48.39%) Security Cleared
2 29 (31.18%) SC Cleared
3 16 (17.20%) DV Cleared
4 7 (7.53%) Degree
5 5 (5.38%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.15%) HND
7 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (17.20%) Docker
2 5 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.30%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.08%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (27.96%) Ansible
2 25 (26.88%) PowerCLI
3 10 (10.75%) Kubernetes
4 7 (7.53%) Terraform
5 4 (4.30%) OPNET
6 2 (2.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (27.96%) Atlassian
2 20 (21.51%) Dell
2 20 (21.51%) HP
3 17 (18.28%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.38%) VMware
4 5 (5.38%) Xamarin
5 4 (4.30%) Cisco
5 4 (4.30%) Google
6 3 (3.23%) OutSystems
7 2 (2.15%) SAP
8 1 (1.08%) IBM
8 1 (1.08%) Infor