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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 51 34
Rank change year-on-year -21 -17 -4
Contract jobs citing .NET 64 85 118
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.68% 4.54% 5.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.17% 18.05% 24.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 60 86
10th Percentile £468 £404 £403
25th Percentile £513 £425 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £575 £553
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% +3.93% -16.49%
75th Percentile £691 £691 £675
90th Percentile £875 £779 £763
Central London median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

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 486 471 485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.33% 25.15% 23.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 304 326
10th Percentile £415 £404 £414
25th Percentile £475 £446 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £762 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £23.93 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £32.34 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £39.75 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.00% - -
75th Percentile £55.54 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £67.36 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £39.75 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -36.40% - -

.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 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 2 (3.13%) IIS
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.56%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 23 (35.94%) Azure
2 15 (23.44%) Power Platform
3 12 (18.75%) AWS
4 10 (15.63%) SaaS
5 9 (14.06%) GitHub
6 8 (12.50%) Serverless
7 6 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (7.81%) Entra ID
8 5 (7.81%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (7.81%) Power Automate
8 5 (7.81%) PowerApps
9 4 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (6.25%) Azure Functions
9 4 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (6.25%) IaaS
9 4 (6.25%) PaaS
10 3 (4.69%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.69%) DNS
1 3 (4.69%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.13%) DHCP
2 2 (3.13%) Firewall
2 2 (3.13%) Internet
2 2 (3.13%) Intranet
2 2 (3.13%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.56%) LAN
3 1 (1.56%) Multicast
3 1 (1.56%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.56%) VLAN
3 1 (1.56%) VPN
3 1 (1.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.88%) SQL Server
2 9 (14.06%) Power BI
3 7 (10.94%) Oracle Database
4 6 (9.38%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.13%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.13%) SQLPlus
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Git
1 5 (7.81%) Jenkins
1 5 (7.81%) Visual Studio
2 4 (6.25%) Artifactory
3 3 (4.69%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.69%) GitLab
4 2 (3.13%) Fiddler
4 2 (3.13%) MSI
4 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (3.13%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.56%) JIRA
5 1 (1.56%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (35.94%) Banking
2 19 (29.69%) Finance
3 16 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 14 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.69%) Front Office
6 3 (4.69%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.13%) Marketing
7 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.56%) Advertising
8 1 (1.56%) Back Office
8 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 29 (45.31%) Developer
2 11 (17.19%) Senior
3 10 (15.63%) C# Developer
4 7 (10.94%) Lead
4 7 (10.94%) Senior Developer
5 6 (9.38%) Architect
5 6 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.25%) .NET Developer
6 4 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (6.25%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Applications Support
7 3 (4.69%) Applications Tester
7 3 (4.69%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Junior
7 3 (4.69%) Senior C# Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Software Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Tester
7 3 (4.69%) Workflow Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (18.75%) .NET Framework
2 8 (12.50%) .NET Core
2 8 (12.50%) REST
3 7 (10.94%) ASP.NET
4 6 (9.38%) AngularJS
4 6 (9.38%) React
5 4 (6.25%) HTML
5 4 (6.25%) RESTful
5 4 (6.25%) Web Services
5 4 (6.25%) XML
6 3 (4.69%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (4.69%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 2 (3.13%) HTML5 Canvas
7 2 (3.13%) Kafka
7 2 (3.13%) Next.js
7 2 (3.13%) Node.js
7 2 (3.13%) Playwright
7 2 (3.13%) PySpark
7 2 (3.13%) Redux
7 2 (3.13%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.88%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.38%) Distributed Applications
3 5 (7.81%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.69%) AI Agents
5 3 (4.69%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.69%) Equities
5 3 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.56%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.56%) IoT
7 1 (1.56%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.56%) PKI
7 1 (1.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (17.19%) Windows
2 7 (10.94%) Linux
2 7 (10.94%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.25%) Unix
4 1 (1.56%) Android
4 1 (1.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (29.69%) CI/CD
1 19 (29.69%) DevOps
2 15 (23.44%) Full-Stack Development
3 14 (21.88%) Agile
4 12 (18.75%) Software Engineering
4 12 (18.75%) Unit Testing
5 10 (15.63%) SDLC
6 9 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (14.06%) Root Cause Analysis
6 9 (14.06%) Test Automation
7 8 (12.50%) Event-Driven
7 8 (12.50%) Migration
8 7 (10.94%) AI
8 7 (10.94%) Code Quality
8 7 (10.94%) Microservices
8 7 (10.94%) Software Testing
8 7 (10.94%) User Acceptance Testing
9 6 (9.38%) API Development
9 6 (9.38%) Observability
9 6 (9.38%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 42 (65.63%) C#
2 29 (45.31%) SQL
3 14 (21.88%) Python
4 12 (18.75%) JavaScript
5 10 (15.63%) PL/SQL
6 7 (10.94%) Java
7 5 (7.81%) C++
7 5 (7.81%) PowerShell
7 5 (7.81%) T-SQL
7 5 (7.81%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.13%) C
8 2 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (3.13%) ProC
9 1 (1.56%) Bash
9 1 (1.56%) Go
9 1 (1.56%) Korn
9 1 (1.56%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.94%) Degree
3 5 (7.81%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.75%) QA
2 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.56%) GDPR
2 1 (1.56%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (1.56%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.56%) PSD2
2 1 (1.56%) SEPA
2 1 (1.56%) TARGET2
System Software
1 3 (4.69%) Docker
2 2 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.69%) Terraform
2 2 (3.13%) Ansible
2 2 (3.13%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.56%) Grafana
3 1 (1.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (21.88%) Oracle
2 11 (17.19%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.38%) Databricks
4 5 (7.81%) Citrix
5 4 (6.25%) Sitecore
6 2 (3.13%) IBM
6 2 (3.13%) ION Trading
6 2 (3.13%) Splunk
7 1 (1.56%) Cisco
7 1 (1.56%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.56%) F5
7 1 (1.56%) Google
7 1 (1.56%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.56%) SAP
7 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.56%) UiPath
7 1 (1.56%) VMware