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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 36 36
Rank change year-on-year -45 0 -1
Contract jobs citing .NET 55 95 107
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.38% 5.41% 4.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.11% 19.63% 22.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 56 71
10th Percentile £427 £405 £413
25th Percentile £500 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £585 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +6.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £663
90th Percentile £750 £826 £738
Central London median daily rate £561 £585 £538
% change year-on-year -4.06% +8.84% -17.31%

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 454 484 481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.66% 27.55% 22.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 312 343
10th Percentile £373 £413 £400
25th Percentile £465 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £21.09 - -
25th Percentile £27.48 - -
Median hourly rate £44.92 - -
75th Percentile £63.54 - -
90th Percentile £70.42 - -
Central London median hourly rate £29.53 - -

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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 5 May 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 (1.82%) CMS
1 1 (1.82%) Kentico
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.82%) Sitefinity
1 1 (1.82%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 12 (21.82%) Endur
2 1 (1.82%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.82%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 21 (38.18%) Azure
2 11 (20.00%) AWS
3 9 (16.36%) GitHub
3 9 (16.36%) Power Platform
4 6 (10.91%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (9.09%) PaaS
6 4 (7.27%) IaaS
6 4 (7.27%) SaaS
7 2 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.64%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.64%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.82%) Azure App Service
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.91%) Power BI
1 6 (10.91%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.45%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (5.45%) GitLab
2 2 (3.64%) Git
3 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (36.36%) Finance
2 10 (18.18%) Banking
3 8 (14.55%) Social Skills
4 6 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (9.09%) Manufacturing
6 3 (5.45%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.45%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.64%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.82%) Back Office
8 1 (1.82%) Billing
8 1 (1.82%) Front Office
8 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 26 (47.27%) Developer
2 12 (21.82%) Endur Developer
2 12 (21.82%) OpenLink Developer
3 9 (16.36%) Senior
4 7 (12.73%) Architect
4 7 (12.73%) Software Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) .NET Software Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (9.09%) Hardware Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Senior Developer
6 5 (9.09%) Software Integration Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) .NET Developer
7 4 (7.27%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (5.45%) Applications Tester
8 3 (5.45%) Lead
8 3 (5.45%) Tester
9 2 (3.64%) C# Developer
9 2 (3.64%) SQL Developer
9 2 (3.64%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.73%) REST
2 6 (10.91%) React
3 5 (9.09%) .NET Framework
4 4 (7.27%) AngularJS
4 4 (7.27%) HTML
4 4 (7.27%) RESTful
5 3 (5.45%) .NET Core
5 3 (5.45%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.64%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (3.64%) CSS
6 2 (3.64%) Kafka
6 2 (3.64%) Node.js
6 2 (3.64%) Playwright
6 2 (3.64%) PySpark
6 2 (3.64%) Redux
7 1 (1.82%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.82%) FHIR
7 1 (1.82%) Flask
7 1 (1.82%) HTML5
7 1 (1.82%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.09%) Life Science
3 3 (5.45%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.64%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.64%) Hackathon
4 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.82%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.82%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.82%) Device Driver
5 1 (1.82%) Equities
5 1 (1.82%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.82%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.82%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.82%) NHS
5 1 (1.82%) PACS
5 1 (1.82%) Robotics
5 1 (1.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.27%) Windows
2 3 (5.45%) Linux
3 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (21.82%) CI/CD
2 11 (20.00%) DevOps
3 10 (18.18%) Test Automation
4 9 (16.36%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (14.55%) Event-Driven
5 8 (14.55%) Software Engineering
6 7 (12.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 6 (10.91%) Microservices
7 6 (10.91%) Observability
8 5 (9.09%) Agile
8 5 (9.09%) AI
8 5 (9.09%) Roadmaps
8 5 (9.09%) Software Testing
8 5 (9.09%) TOGAF
9 4 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (7.27%) Data Modelling
9 4 (7.27%) DevSecOps
9 4 (7.27%) Integration Testing
9 4 (7.27%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (7.27%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (34.55%) C#
2 16 (29.09%) SQL
3 13 (23.64%) Python
4 11 (20.00%) Java
5 8 (14.55%) JavaScript
6 4 (7.27%) PL/SQL
6 4 (7.27%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.82%) Go
8 1 (1.82%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (10.91%) SC Cleared
1 6 (10.91%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.82%) CCSP
2 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.82%) CISSP
2 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.82%) Degree
2 1 (1.82%) OSCP
2 1 (1.82%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) GDPR
1 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.82%) GRC
2 1 (1.82%) HL7
2 1 (1.82%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.82%) NCSC
2 1 (1.82%) NIST
2 1 (1.82%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.82%) PSD2
2 1 (1.82%) QA
2 1 (1.82%) SEPA
2 1 (1.82%) TARGET2
System Software
1 7 (12.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (10.91%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (14.55%) OpenLink
2 6 (10.91%) Oracle
3 5 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.27%) Databricks
5 1 (1.82%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.82%) Citrix
5 1 (1.82%) Google
5 1 (1.82%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (1.82%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.82%) SAP