.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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 54 31
Rank change year-on-year -11 -23 0
Contract jobs citing .NET 77 68 119
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.38% 3.83% 5.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.03% 13.79% 21.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 50 87
10th Percentile £427 £404 £420
25th Percentile £513 £409 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £644 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.15% +7.38% -11.19%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £675
90th Percentile £875 £778 £775
Central London median daily rate £572 £644 £584
% change year-on-year -11.15% +10.28% -11.05%

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 549 493 542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.10% 27.76% 26.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 325 362
10th Percentile £420 £404 £425
25th Percentile £475 £463 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £675 £680 £710
90th Percentile £763 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £572 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -0.52% -4.17% -
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%

.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 5 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 (6.49%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.60%) CMS
2 2 (2.60%) IIS
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.60%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (10.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.60%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.30%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 33 (42.86%) Azure
2 19 (24.68%) Power Platform
3 13 (16.88%) Serverless
4 12 (15.58%) AWS
5 9 (11.69%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (11.69%) Azure Functions
5 9 (11.69%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (11.69%) SaaS
6 8 (10.39%) Azure Logic Apps
7 7 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
7 7 (9.09%) GitHub
7 7 (9.09%) Power Automate
7 7 (9.09%) PowerApps
8 5 (6.49%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.19%) Entra ID
10 3 (3.90%) Azure API Management
10 3 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (3.90%) IaaS
10 3 (3.90%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.19%) DNS
1 4 (5.19%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.60%) DHCP
2 2 (2.60%) Firewall
2 2 (2.60%) Internet
2 2 (2.60%) Intranet
2 2 (2.60%) VLAN
2 2 (2.60%) VPN
2 2 (2.60%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.30%) LAN
3 1 (1.30%) Multicast
3 1 (1.30%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (23.38%) SQL Server
2 7 (9.09%) Oracle Database
2 7 (9.09%) Power BI
3 6 (7.79%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.60%) ClickHouse
5 2 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.60%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.60%) SQLPlus
6 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (11.69%) Git
2 8 (10.39%) Visual Studio
3 7 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.49%) Artifactory
5 4 (5.19%) Bitbucket
5 4 (5.19%) GitLab
6 3 (3.90%) eggPlant
6 3 (3.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (3.90%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (2.60%) Fiddler
7 2 (2.60%) JIRA
7 2 (2.60%) JMeter
7 2 (2.60%) LoadRunner
7 2 (2.60%) MSI
7 2 (2.60%) Postman
7 2 (2.60%) SoapUI
7 2 (2.60%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.60%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.30%) SilkTest
8 1 (1.30%) SOAtest
General
1 24 (31.17%) Banking
2 22 (28.57%) Finance
2 22 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 17 (22.08%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (9.09%) Front Office
5 5 (6.49%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (5.19%) Marketing
7 3 (3.90%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Advertising
8 1 (1.30%) Back Office
8 1 (1.30%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.30%) Legal
Job Titles
1 39 (50.65%) Developer
2 14 (18.18%) Senior
3 13 (16.88%) C# Developer
4 10 (12.99%) Lead
4 10 (12.99%) Senior Developer
5 6 (7.79%) .NET Developer
5 6 (7.79%) Architect
5 6 (7.79%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 6 (7.79%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (6.49%) Azure Developer
6 5 (6.49%) Senior C# Developer
7 4 (5.19%) Applications Support
7 4 (5.19%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (3.90%) Applications Support Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Applications Tester
8 3 (3.90%) Junior
8 3 (3.90%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Support Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.18%) .NET Framework
2 13 (16.88%) REST
3 9 (11.69%) .NET Core
3 9 (11.69%) Web Services
3 9 (11.69%) XML
4 7 (9.09%) ASP.NET
4 7 (9.09%) SOAP
5 6 (7.79%) HTML
5 6 (7.79%) React
6 5 (6.49%) AngularJS
6 5 (6.49%) ASP.NET Web API
6 5 (6.49%) Kafka
7 4 (5.19%) CSS
7 4 (5.19%) HTML5 Canvas
8 3 (3.90%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (3.90%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 3 (3.90%) JSON
8 3 (3.90%) Middleware
8 3 (3.90%) RESTful
8 3 (3.90%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.38%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.39%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (6.49%) Distributed Applications
3 5 (6.49%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.19%) Equities
4 4 (5.19%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.90%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.90%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (3.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.90%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.60%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.30%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.30%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.30%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (15.58%) Linux
1 12 (15.58%) Windows
2 7 (9.09%) Unix
2 7 (9.09%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.30%) Android
3 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (33.77%) CI/CD
2 25 (32.47%) DevOps
3 20 (25.97%) Agile
4 16 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (19.48%) Full-Stack Development
6 14 (18.18%) Software Engineering
7 13 (16.88%) SDLC
7 13 (16.88%) Test Automation
8 12 (15.58%) Unit Testing
9 11 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
10 10 (12.99%) Event-Driven
10 10 (12.99%) Microservices
10 10 (12.99%) Risk Management
10 10 (12.99%) Software Testing
11 9 (11.69%) User Acceptance Testing
12 8 (10.39%) CRM
12 8 (10.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 8 (10.39%) Migration
12 8 (10.39%) Scrum
13 7 (9.09%) AI
Programming Languages
1 54 (70.13%) C#
2 37 (48.05%) SQL
3 26 (33.77%) Python
4 16 (20.78%) JavaScript
5 10 (12.99%) Java
6 9 (11.69%) PL/SQL
7 8 (10.39%) TypeScript
8 7 (9.09%) PowerShell
9 5 (6.49%) C++
10 4 (5.19%) T-SQL
11 2 (2.60%) Bash
11 2 (2.60%) C
11 2 (2.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (2.60%) Korn
11 2 (2.60%) ProC
11 2 (2.60%) VB.NET
12 1 (1.30%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (19.48%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.69%) Degree
3 8 (10.39%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.30%) ISEB
6 1 (1.30%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.29%) QA
2 2 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.30%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (2.60%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.30%) Docker
2 1 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (3.90%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (2.60%) Ansible
2 2 (2.60%) Grafana
2 2 (2.60%) HP Fortify
2 2 (2.60%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.30%) Control-M
3 1 (1.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 17 (22.08%) Oracle
3 5 (6.49%) Databricks
4 4 (5.19%) Citrix
4 4 (5.19%) IBM
4 4 (5.19%) SAP
4 4 (5.19%) Sitecore
5 3 (3.90%) ION Trading
5 3 (3.90%) Splunk
6 2 (2.60%) Adyen
6 2 (2.60%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.60%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.30%) Cisco
7 1 (1.30%) F5
7 1 (1.30%) Google
7 1 (1.30%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.30%) UiPath
7 1 (1.30%) VMware