.NET Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring .NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 56 33
Rank change year-on-year -8 -23 -3
Contract jobs citing .NET 79 69 122
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.46% 3.85% 5.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.36% 13.91% 22.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 51 91
10th Percentile £427 £404 £425
25th Percentile £513 £414 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £638 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.27% +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £675
90th Percentile £875 £775 £775
Central London median daily rate £572 £638 £594
% change year-on-year -10.27% +7.41% -10.42%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

.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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 550 496 550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.09% 27.65% 26.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 328 368
10th Percentile £419 £404 £425
25th Percentile £475 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £710
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £572 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -1.38% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £22.51 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £31.03 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% - -
75th Percentile £43.00 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £62.20 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £42.00 £62.50 £25.79
% change year-on-year -32.80% +142.34% -49.92%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing .NET relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

.NET job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing .NET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing .NET

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing .NET.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing .NET

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 5 (6.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.53%) CMS
2 2 (2.53%) IIS
2 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.53%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.27%) MQSeries
Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (10.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.53%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.27%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 34 (43.04%) Azure
2 19 (24.05%) Power Platform
3 13 (16.46%) AWS
3 13 (16.46%) Serverless
4 9 (11.39%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (11.39%) Azure Functions
4 9 (11.39%) Dynamics 365
4 9 (11.39%) SaaS
5 8 (10.13%) Azure Logic Apps
5 8 (10.13%) GitHub
6 7 (8.86%) Azure Service Bus
6 7 (8.86%) Power Automate
6 7 (8.86%) PowerApps
7 5 (6.33%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (5.06%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.80%) Azure API Management
9 3 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.80%) IaaS
9 3 (3.80%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.06%) DNS
1 4 (5.06%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.53%) DHCP
2 2 (2.53%) Firewall
2 2 (2.53%) Internet
2 2 (2.53%) Intranet
2 2 (2.53%) VLAN
2 2 (2.53%) VPN
2 2 (2.53%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.27%) LAN
3 1 (1.27%) Multicast
3 1 (1.27%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (24.05%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.86%) Oracle Database
2 7 (8.86%) Power BI
3 6 (7.59%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.80%) ClickHouse
4 3 (3.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.53%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.53%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.53%) SQLPlus
6 1 (1.27%) Big Data
6 1 (1.27%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (11.39%) Git
2 8 (10.13%) Jenkins
2 8 (10.13%) Visual Studio
3 5 (6.33%) Artifactory
4 4 (5.06%) Bitbucket
4 4 (5.06%) GitLab
5 3 (3.80%) eggPlant
5 3 (3.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (3.80%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (2.53%) Fiddler
6 2 (2.53%) JIRA
6 2 (2.53%) JMeter
6 2 (2.53%) LoadRunner
6 2 (2.53%) MSI
6 2 (2.53%) Postman
6 2 (2.53%) SoapUI
6 2 (2.53%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.53%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.27%) HP UFT
7 1 (1.27%) Selenium
General
1 25 (31.65%) Banking
2 24 (30.38%) Finance
3 23 (29.11%) Social Skills
4 17 (21.52%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (10.13%) Front Office
6 5 (6.33%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.06%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (5.06%) Marketing
8 3 (3.80%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.27%) Advertising
9 1 (1.27%) Back Office
9 1 (1.27%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.27%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.27%) Legal
9 1 (1.27%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (50.63%) Developer
2 16 (20.25%) Senior
3 14 (17.72%) C# Developer
4 11 (13.92%) Senior Developer
5 10 (12.66%) Lead
6 7 (8.86%) Architect
6 7 (8.86%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (7.59%) .NET Developer
7 6 (7.59%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 6 (7.59%) Senior C# Developer
8 5 (6.33%) Azure Developer
9 4 (5.06%) Applications Support
9 4 (5.06%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (5.06%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (3.80%) Applications Support Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) Applications Tester
10 3 (3.80%) Junior
10 3 (3.80%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) Support Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.72%) .NET Framework
1 14 (17.72%) REST
2 10 (12.66%) .NET Core
3 9 (11.39%) Web Services
3 9 (11.39%) XML
4 8 (10.13%) SOAP
5 7 (8.86%) ASP.NET
6 6 (7.59%) HTML
6 6 (7.59%) Kafka
6 6 (7.59%) React
7 5 (6.33%) AngularJS
7 5 (6.33%) ASP.NET Web API
8 4 (5.06%) CSS
8 4 (5.06%) HTML5 Canvas
8 4 (5.06%) Terraform
9 3 (3.80%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (3.80%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 3 (3.80%) Middleware
9 3 (3.80%) Node.js
9 3 (3.80%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (24.05%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.13%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (6.33%) Distributed Applications
3 5 (6.33%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (6.33%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.06%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.06%) Equities
4 4 (5.06%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.06%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.80%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.80%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (3.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.53%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.27%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.27%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.27%) PKI
7 1 (1.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 12 (15.19%) Linux
1 12 (15.19%) Windows
2 7 (8.86%) Unix
2 7 (8.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.27%) Android
3 1 (1.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (35.44%) CI/CD
2 27 (34.18%) DevOps
3 21 (26.58%) Agile
4 17 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (18.99%) Full-Stack Development
5 15 (18.99%) Software Engineering
6 14 (17.72%) Test Automation
7 13 (16.46%) SDLC
8 12 (15.19%) Risk Management
8 12 (15.19%) Unit Testing
9 11 (13.92%) Event-Driven
9 11 (13.92%) Microservices
9 11 (13.92%) Root Cause Analysis
10 10 (12.66%) Software Testing
11 9 (11.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 9 (11.39%) Scrum
11 9 (11.39%) User Acceptance Testing
12 8 (10.13%) CRM
12 8 (10.13%) Migration
13 7 (8.86%) AI
Programming Languages
1 55 (69.62%) C#
2 39 (49.37%) SQL
3 27 (34.18%) Python
4 16 (20.25%) JavaScript
5 11 (13.92%) Java
6 9 (11.39%) PL/SQL
7 8 (10.13%) TypeScript
8 7 (8.86%) PowerShell
9 5 (6.33%) C++
10 4 (5.06%) T-SQL
11 2 (2.53%) Bash
11 2 (2.53%) C
11 2 (2.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (2.53%) Korn
11 2 (2.53%) ProC
11 2 (2.53%) VB.NET
12 1 (1.27%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (18.99%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.66%) Degree
3 8 (10.13%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.53%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.27%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.27%) ISEB
6 1 (1.27%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.92%) QA
2 2 (2.53%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.27%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.27%) PSD2
3 1 (1.27%) SEPA
3 1 (1.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (2.53%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.53%) Docker
2 1 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (3.80%) ITRS Geneos
1 3 (3.80%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.53%) Ansible
2 2 (2.53%) Grafana
2 2 (2.53%) HP Fortify
2 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.27%) Control-M
3 1 (1.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (26.58%) Microsoft
2 18 (22.78%) Oracle
3 5 (6.33%) Databricks
3 5 (6.33%) SAP
4 4 (5.06%) Citrix
4 4 (5.06%) IBM
4 4 (5.06%) Sitecore
5 3 (3.80%) ION Trading
5 3 (3.80%) Splunk
6 2 (2.53%) Adyen
6 2 (2.53%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.53%) Google
6 2 (2.53%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.27%) Cisco
7 1 (1.27%) F5
7 1 (1.27%) FIS
7 1 (1.27%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.27%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.27%) UiPath
7 1 (1.27%) VMware