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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 52 31
Rank change year-on-year -17 -21 +1
Contract jobs citing .NET 70 84 123
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.98% 4.49% 5.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.43% 17.91% 24.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 60 90
10th Percentile £459 £404 £412
25th Percentile £513 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £595 £578
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +3.03% -11.15%
75th Percentile £678 £678 £675
90th Percentile £875 £778 £753
Central London median daily rate £600 £595 £575
% change year-on-year +0.84% +3.48% -11.54%

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 485 469 506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.65% 25.07% 24.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 301 337
10th Percentile £414 £400 £425
25th Percentile £475 £438 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -2.44%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £738 £825
Central London median daily rate £572 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.00% -8.33% -2.44%
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%

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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 17 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 5 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.86%) IIS
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
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%) eggPlant
6 3 (4.29%) GitLab
6 3 (4.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
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%) Selenium
8 1 (1.43%) SilkTest
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%) Senior Developer
6 6 (8.57%) Architect
6 6 (8.57%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.71%) .NET Developer
7 4 (5.71%) Applications Support
7 4 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 4 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (5.71%) Software Developer
7 4 (5.71%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Applications Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Azure Developer
8 3 (4.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Junior
8 3 (4.29%) Tester
8 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
3 8 (11.43%) XML
4 7 (10.00%) ASP.NET
4 7 (10.00%) HTML
4 7 (10.00%) Web Services
5 6 (8.57%) AngularJS
5 6 (8.57%) React
6 5 (7.14%) SOAP
7 4 (5.71%) Kafka
7 4 (5.71%) RESTful
8 3 (4.29%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (4.29%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (4.29%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 3 (4.29%) CSS
8 3 (4.29%) HTML5 Canvas
9 2 (2.86%) XBRL
9 2 (2.86%) XSL
9 2 (2.86%) XSLT
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%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.14%) Windows
2 11 (15.71%) Linux
3 8 (11.43%) Windows Server
4 7 (10.00%) 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 15 (21.43%) Agile
5 13 (18.57%) Unit Testing
6 12 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (17.14%) Software Engineering
7 11 (15.71%) SDLC
7 11 (15.71%) Test Automation
8 10 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
8 10 (14.29%) Software Testing
9 9 (12.86%) User Acceptance Testing
10 8 (11.43%) Code Quality
10 8 (11.43%) Event-Driven
11 7 (10.00%) AI
11 7 (10.00%) Migration
11 7 (10.00%) Refactoring
11 7 (10.00%) Risk Management
11 7 (10.00%) Test Strategy
12 6 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 45 (64.29%) C#
2 35 (50.00%) SQL
3 17 (24.29%) Python
4 15 (21.43%) 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%) Korn
9 2 (2.86%) ProC
9 2 (2.86%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.43%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (18.57%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.43%) Degree
2 8 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.43%) ISEB
3 1 (1.43%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 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/IEC 27001
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 18 (25.71%) Oracle
2 14 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.57%) Databricks
4 5 (7.14%) Citrix
5 4 (5.71%) IBM
5 4 (5.71%) SAP
5 4 (5.71%) Sitecore
6 3 (4.29%) ION Trading
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