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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 45 39
Rank change year-on-year -34 -6 -6
Contract jobs citing .NET 58 83 114
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.42% 4.86% 5.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.24% 18.53% 22.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 54 80
10th Percentile £467 £404 £404
25th Percentile £525 £424 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -2.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £747 £675 £656
90th Percentile £875 £801 £739
Central London median daily rate £625 £538 £538
% change year-on-year +16.28% - -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 474 448 514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.77% 26.23% 23.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 285 357
10th Percentile £402 £404 £400
25th Percentile £475 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £763 £793
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £551
% change year-on-year +4.55% -0.09% -11.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £23.93 - -
25th Percentile £32.34 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £39.75 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -54.57% - -
75th Percentile £55.54 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £67.36 - -
Central London median hourly rate £39.75 £87.50 -
% change year-on-year -54.57% - -

.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 12 June 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 (1.72%) CMS
1 1 (1.72%) IIS
1 1 (1.72%) Kentico
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.72%) Sitefinity
1 1 (1.72%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Endur
2 1 (1.72%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.72%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 20 (34.48%) Azure
2 13 (22.41%) AWS
2 13 (22.41%) Power Platform
3 9 (15.52%) SaaS
4 8 (13.79%) GitHub
5 6 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (8.62%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (8.62%) Serverless
7 4 (6.90%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (6.90%) IaaS
7 4 (6.90%) PaaS
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.45%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.45%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.45%) PowerApps
8 2 (3.45%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.72%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.72%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) DHCP
1 1 (1.72%) DNS
1 1 (1.72%) Internet
1 1 (1.72%) Intranet
1 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.72%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.97%) SQL Server
2 8 (13.79%) Power BI
3 6 (10.34%) Relational Database
4 5 (8.62%) Oracle Database
5 4 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.72%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 3 (5.17%) GitLab
1 3 (5.17%) Visual Studio
2 2 (3.45%) Git
2 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.72%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.72%) Fiddler
3 1 (1.72%) MSI
3 1 (1.72%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (32.76%) Banking
2 17 (29.31%) Finance
3 10 (17.24%) Social Skills
4 8 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.17%) Investment Banking
5 3 (5.17%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.72%) Advertising
7 1 (1.72%) Back Office
7 1 (1.72%) Billing
7 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.72%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 25 (43.10%) Developer
2 9 (15.52%) Senior
3 7 (12.07%) Architect
3 7 (12.07%) Lead
3 7 (12.07%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (10.34%) C# Developer
4 6 (10.34%) Endur Developer
4 6 (10.34%) OpenLink Developer
4 6 (10.34%) Senior Developer
4 6 (10.34%) Software Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) .NET Software Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (5.17%) .NET Developer
6 3 (5.17%) Applications Tester
6 3 (5.17%) Hardware Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Integration Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Software Integration Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Tester
6 3 (5.17%) Workflow Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.79%) .NET Framework
2 7 (12.07%) React
3 6 (10.34%) ASP.NET
3 6 (10.34%) REST
4 5 (8.62%) AngularJS
5 4 (6.90%) .NET Core
5 4 (6.90%) HTML
6 3 (5.17%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (5.17%) RESTful
7 2 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 2 (3.45%) CSS
7 2 (3.45%) Kafka
7 2 (3.45%) Node.js
7 2 (3.45%) Playwright
7 2 (3.45%) PySpark
7 2 (3.45%) Redux
7 2 (3.45%) Web Services
7 2 (3.45%) XML
8 1 (1.72%) Blazor
8 1 (1.72%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.52%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.90%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (5.17%) AI Agents
3 3 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.17%) Life Science
3 3 (5.17%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.17%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.45%) Equities
4 2 (3.45%) Hackathon
4 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.72%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.72%) IoT
5 1 (1.72%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.72%) NHS
5 1 (1.72%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.34%) Windows
2 5 (8.62%) Linux
2 5 (8.62%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (25.86%) CI/CD
2 13 (22.41%) DevOps
2 13 (22.41%) Full-Stack Development
3 10 (17.24%) Agile
3 10 (17.24%) Test Automation
4 9 (15.52%) Software Engineering
5 8 (13.79%) SDLC
5 8 (13.79%) Unit Testing
6 6 (10.34%) AI
6 6 (10.34%) Event-Driven
6 6 (10.34%) Software Testing
6 6 (10.34%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (8.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (8.62%) Observability
7 5 (8.62%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (8.62%) TOGAF
8 4 (6.90%) Analytics
8 4 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (6.90%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (6.90%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 26 (44.83%) C#
2 22 (37.93%) SQL
3 13 (22.41%) Python
4 9 (15.52%) Java
4 9 (15.52%) JavaScript
4 9 (15.52%) PL/SQL
5 4 (6.90%) T-SQL
5 4 (6.90%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.45%) C++
6 2 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.72%) C
7 1 (1.72%) Go
7 1 (1.72%) Korn
7 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.72%) ProC
Qualifications
1 7 (12.07%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.90%) Degree
4 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.79%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) GDPR
2 1 (1.72%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (1.72%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.72%) PSD2
2 1 (1.72%) SEPA
2 1 (1.72%) TARGET2
System Software
1 5 (8.62%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.45%) Terraform
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (18.97%) Oracle
2 7 (12.07%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.34%) Databricks
4 4 (6.90%) Citrix
5 2 (3.45%) OpenLink
5 2 (3.45%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.72%) Cisco
6 1 (1.72%) IBM
6 1 (1.72%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.72%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (1.72%) SAP
6 1 (1.72%) UiPath
6 1 (1.72%) VMware