.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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 37 41
Rank change year-on-year -46 +4 -12
Contract jobs citing .NET 53 100 100
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.40% 5.74% 4.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.57% 20.62% 20.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 57 62
10th Percentile £427 £398 £425
25th Percentile £463 £456 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £700 £650 £669
90th Percentile £750 £784 £738
Central London median daily rate £560 £585 £563
% change year-on-year -4.27% +4.00% -10.00%

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 458 485 484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.74% 27.86% 21.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 313 342
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £564
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.00% -9.80%
75th Percentile £669 £684 £688
90th Percentile £750 £773 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £558 £551
% change year-on-year -1.35% +1.27% -11.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £21.09 - -
25th Percentile £27.48 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £38.53 - £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.17%
75th Percentile £50.56 - £48.75
90th Percentile £56.06 - -
Central London median hourly rate £29.53 - £47.50
% change year-on-year - - -20.17%

.NET
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 7 April 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 1 (1.89%) CMS
1 1 (1.89%) Kentico
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.89%) Sitefinity
1 1 (1.89%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 12 (22.64%) Endur
2 1 (1.89%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.89%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.89%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 22 (41.51%) Azure
2 9 (16.98%) AWS
3 8 (15.09%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (15.09%) GitHub
4 5 (9.43%) Power Platform
5 4 (7.55%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (7.55%) PaaS
6 3 (5.66%) IaaS
6 3 (5.66%) SaaS
7 2 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.89%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.89%) Azure App Service
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.89%) Azure WebJobs
8 1 (1.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.21%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.66%) Power BI
3 3 (5.66%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.89%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Git
1 4 (7.55%) Postman
2 3 (5.66%) Selenium
3 2 (3.77%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.77%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.89%) MSTest
General
1 20 (37.74%) Finance
2 9 (16.98%) Banking
3 7 (13.21%) Social Skills
4 5 (9.43%) Investment Banking
4 5 (9.43%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.66%) Front Office
5 3 (5.66%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.77%) Back Office
7 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Billing
7 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.89%) Police
7 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (47.17%) Developer
2 12 (22.64%) Endur Developer
2 12 (22.64%) OpenLink Developer
3 8 (15.09%) Software Engineer
4 7 (13.21%) Senior
5 6 (11.32%) .NET Developer
5 6 (11.32%) .NET Software Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) Architect
6 5 (9.43%) Hardware Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Integration Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Software Integration Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (7.55%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (5.66%) Lead
8 3 (5.66%) Senior Developer
9 2 (3.77%) C# Developer
9 2 (3.77%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 2 (3.77%) SQL Developer
9 2 (3.77%) Technical Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.43%) .NET Framework
1 5 (9.43%) AngularJS
1 5 (9.43%) REST
2 4 (7.55%) HTML
3 3 (5.66%) ASP.NET
3 3 (5.66%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (5.66%) React
4 2 (3.77%) CSS
4 2 (3.77%) Next.js
4 2 (3.77%) Node.js
4 2 (3.77%) Playwright
4 2 (3.77%) RESTful
5 1 (1.89%) Django
5 1 (1.89%) FHIR
5 1 (1.89%) JSON
5 1 (1.89%) LangChain
5 1 (1.89%) SOAP
5 1 (1.89%) Spring
5 1 (1.89%) WPF
5 1 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.43%) Cloud Native
1 5 (9.43%) Life Science
2 2 (3.77%) AI Agents
2 2 (3.77%) Distributed Applications
2 2 (3.77%) Hackathon
2 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.89%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (1.89%) Credit Risk
3 1 (1.89%) Device Driver
3 1 (1.89%) Equities
3 1 (1.89%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.89%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.89%) Market Risk
3 1 (1.89%) NHS
3 1 (1.89%) PACS
3 1 (1.89%) Robotics
3 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.55%) Windows
2 3 (5.66%) Linux
3 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (22.64%) DevOps
2 11 (20.75%) CI/CD
3 9 (16.98%) Full-Stack Development
3 9 (16.98%) Software Engineering
4 8 (15.09%) Test Automation
5 6 (11.32%) AI
5 6 (11.32%) Event-Driven
5 6 (11.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 5 (9.43%) Agile
6 5 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (9.43%) Roadmaps
6 5 (9.43%) Software Testing
7 4 (7.55%) Microservices
7 4 (7.55%) Observability
7 4 (7.55%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (7.55%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (7.55%) TOGAF
7 4 (7.55%) Validation
8 3 (5.66%) Containerisation
8 3 (5.66%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (39.62%) C#
2 17 (32.08%) SQL
3 12 (22.64%) Java
4 11 (20.75%) Python
5 6 (11.32%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.66%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.77%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.77%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.89%) Go
8 1 (1.89%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (16.98%) SC Cleared
1 9 (16.98%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.66%) Degree
3 1 (1.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.89%) CCSP
3 1 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.89%) CISSP
3 1 (1.89%) OSCP
3 1 (1.89%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) QA
2 2 (3.77%) GDPR
2 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.89%) GRC
3 1 (1.89%) HL7
3 1 (1.89%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.89%) NCSC
3 1 (1.89%) NIST
3 1 (1.89%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.89%) PSD2
3 1 (1.89%) SEPA
3 1 (1.89%) TARGET2
System Software
1 7 (13.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.66%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (15.09%) OpenLink
2 6 (11.32%) Oracle
3 4 (7.55%) Databricks
3 4 (7.55%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.77%) UiPath
5 1 (1.89%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.89%) Citrix
5 1 (1.89%) Google
5 1 (1.89%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (1.89%) Rapid7