.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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 48 30
Rank change year-on-year -23 -18 +2
Contract jobs citing .NET 70 84 122
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.97% 4.50% 5.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.40% 17.95% 24.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 60 88
10th Percentile £459 £404 £411
25th Percentile £513 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £595 £581
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +2.37% -10.58%
75th Percentile £688 £678 £675
90th Percentile £875 £778 £758
Central London median daily rate £600 £595 £569
% change year-on-year +0.84% +4.62% -12.50%

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 486 468 502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.65% 25.08% 24.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 301 334
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £475 £438 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -3.23%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £738 £825
Central London median daily rate £567 £558 £600
% change year-on-year +1.75% -7.08% -3.23%
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 £39.75 £62.50 £25.79
% change year-on-year -36.40% +142.34% -51.34%

.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 14 August 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 4 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.86%) IIS
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.43%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 26 (37.14%) Azure
2 18 (25.71%) Power Platform
3 11 (15.71%) AWS
4 10 (14.29%) SaaS
5 8 (11.43%) GitHub
5 8 (11.43%) Serverless
6 7 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (8.57%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (8.57%) Power Automate
7 6 (8.57%) PowerApps
8 5 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (7.14%) Entra ID
9 4 (5.71%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.71%) Azure Functions
9 4 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (5.71%) IaaS
9 4 (5.71%) PaaS
10 3 (4.29%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.71%) DNS
1 4 (5.71%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.86%) DHCP
2 2 (2.86%) Firewall
2 2 (2.86%) Internet
2 2 (2.86%) Intranet
2 2 (2.86%) VLAN
2 2 (2.86%) VPN
2 2 (2.86%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.43%) LAN
3 1 (1.43%) Multicast
3 1 (1.43%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (22.86%) SQL Server
2 9 (12.86%) Power BI
3 8 (11.43%) Oracle Database
4 6 (8.57%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.86%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.86%) SQLPlus
6 1 (1.43%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (11.43%) Git
2 7 (10.00%) Visual Studio
3 6 (8.57%) Jenkins
4 5 (7.14%) Artifactory
5 4 (5.71%) Bitbucket
6 3 (4.29%) GitLab
6 3 (4.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (2.86%) eggPlant
7 2 (2.86%) Fiddler
7 2 (2.86%) JIRA
7 2 (2.86%) JMeter
7 2 (2.86%) LoadRunner
7 2 (2.86%) MSI
7 2 (2.86%) Postman
7 2 (2.86%) SoapUI
7 2 (2.86%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.86%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 25 (35.71%) Banking
2 21 (30.00%) Finance
3 17 (24.29%) Social Skills
4 16 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.71%) Front Office
5 4 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.71%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.86%) Marketing
6 2 (2.86%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.43%) Advertising
7 1 (1.43%) Back Office
7 1 (1.43%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.43%) Legal
Job Titles
1 32 (45.71%) Developer
2 11 (15.71%) C# Developer
3 10 (14.29%) Senior
4 9 (12.86%) Lead
5 7 (10.00%) Architect
5 7 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 7 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (5.71%) .NET Developer
6 4 (5.71%) Applications Support
6 4 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 4 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (5.71%) Software Developer
6 4 (5.71%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Applications Support Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Applications Tester
7 3 (4.29%) Azure Developer
7 3 (4.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Workflow Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.57%) .NET Framework
2 9 (12.86%) REST
3 8 (11.43%) .NET Core
4 7 (10.00%) ASP.NET
4 7 (10.00%) XML
5 6 (8.57%) AngularJS
5 6 (8.57%) HTML
5 6 (8.57%) React
5 6 (8.57%) Web Services
6 4 (5.71%) Kafka
6 4 (5.71%) RESTful
6 4 (5.71%) SOAP
7 3 (4.29%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (4.29%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (4.29%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 3 (4.29%) CSS
7 3 (4.29%) HTML5 Canvas
8 2 (2.86%) Next.js
8 2 (2.86%) PySpark
8 2 (2.86%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.57%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.57%) Distributed Applications
3 5 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.71%) Equities
4 4 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.29%) AI Agents
5 3 (4.29%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.86%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.86%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.43%) IoT
7 1 (1.43%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.43%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.43%) PKI
7 1 (1.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.14%) Windows
2 10 (14.29%) Linux
3 8 (11.43%) Windows Server
4 6 (8.57%) Unix
5 1 (1.43%) Android
5 1 (1.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (28.57%) DevOps
2 19 (27.14%) CI/CD
3 16 (22.86%) Full-Stack Development
4 14 (20.00%) Agile
5 13 (18.57%) Unit Testing
6 12 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (17.14%) Software Engineering
7 11 (15.71%) SDLC
8 10 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
8 10 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 9 (12.86%) Software Testing
10 8 (11.43%) Code Quality
10 8 (11.43%) Event-Driven
10 8 (11.43%) Migration
10 8 (11.43%) User Acceptance Testing
11 7 (10.00%) AI
11 7 (10.00%) Microservices
11 7 (10.00%) Refactoring
11 7 (10.00%) Risk Management
12 6 (8.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 45 (64.29%) C#
2 34 (48.57%) SQL
3 18 (25.71%) Python
4 16 (22.86%) JavaScript
5 10 (14.29%) Java
5 10 (14.29%) PL/SQL
6 7 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 6 (8.57%) PowerShell
8 5 (7.14%) C++
8 5 (7.14%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.86%) Bash
9 2 (2.86%) C
9 2 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.86%) ProC
10 1 (1.43%) Korn
10 1 (1.43%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.43%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.43%) Degree
3 7 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.43%) ISEB
4 1 (1.43%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.14%) QA
2 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.43%) GDPR
2 1 (1.43%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (1.43%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.43%) PSD2
2 1 (1.43%) SEPA
2 1 (1.43%) TARGET2
System Software
1 2 (2.86%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.86%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.29%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (2.86%) Ansible
2 2 (2.86%) Grafana
2 2 (2.86%) HP Fortify
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.86%) Terraform
3 1 (1.43%) Control-M
3 1 (1.43%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (24.29%) Oracle
2 13 (18.57%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.57%) Databricks
4 5 (7.14%) Citrix
5 4 (5.71%) IBM
5 4 (5.71%) Sitecore
6 3 (4.29%) ION Trading
6 3 (4.29%) SAP
6 3 (4.29%) Splunk
7 2 (2.86%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.86%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.43%) Cisco
8 1 (1.43%) F5
8 1 (1.43%) Google
8 1 (1.43%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.43%) UiPath
8 1 (1.43%) VMware