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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 40 37
Rank change year-on-year -33 -3 -1
Contract jobs citing .NET 59 87 111
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.53% 5.14% 5.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.11% 19.08% 22.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 56 75
10th Percentile £468 £402 £409
25th Percentile £525 £424 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +2.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £750 £678 £675
90th Percentile £875 £794 £745
Central London median daily rate £625 £563 £538
% change year-on-year +11.11% +4.65% -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 450 456 501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.28% 26.95% 23.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 296 349
10th Percentile £405 £404 £400
25th Percentile £475 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -1.79% -10.40%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £751 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £22.51 - -
25th Percentile £31.03 - -
Median hourly rate £37.50 - -
75th Percentile £59.72 - -
90th Percentile £68.89 - -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 - -

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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 30 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 (1.69%) CMS
1 1 (1.69%) Kentico
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.69%) Sitefinity
1 1 (1.69%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (15.25%) Endur
2 1 (1.69%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.69%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 19 (32.20%) Azure
2 13 (22.03%) AWS
3 11 (18.64%) Power Platform
4 9 (15.25%) SaaS
5 8 (13.56%) GitHub
6 7 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (8.47%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (8.47%) Serverless
8 4 (6.78%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (6.78%) IaaS
8 4 (6.78%) PaaS
9 2 (3.39%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (3.39%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.39%) Power Automate
9 2 (3.39%) PowerApps
9 2 (3.39%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.69%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) DHCP
1 1 (1.69%) DNS
1 1 (1.69%) HTTP
1 1 (1.69%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.56%) Power BI
1 8 (13.56%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.08%) Oracle Database
4 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.08%) GitLab
2 1 (1.69%) Fiddler
2 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.69%) MSI
2 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (30.51%) Finance
2 14 (23.73%) Banking
3 7 (11.86%) Social Skills
4 6 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.47%) Manufacturing
6 3 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.08%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.39%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.69%) Advertising
8 1 (1.69%) Back Office
8 1 (1.69%) Billing
8 1 (1.69%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.69%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 24 (40.68%) Developer
2 9 (15.25%) Endur Developer
2 9 (15.25%) OpenLink Developer
2 9 (15.25%) Senior
3 8 (13.56%) Architect
4 7 (11.86%) Lead
4 7 (11.86%) Software Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (10.17%) .NET Software Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Senior Developer
6 5 (8.47%) Hardware Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Integration Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Software Integration Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) C# Developer
7 4 (6.78%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (5.08%) .NET Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Applications Tester
8 3 (5.08%) Tester
8 3 (5.08%) Workflow Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.86%) React
2 6 (10.17%) .NET Framework
3 5 (8.47%) AngularJS
3 5 (8.47%) REST
4 4 (6.78%) .NET Core
4 4 (6.78%) ASP.NET
4 4 (6.78%) HTML
5 3 (5.08%) RESTful
6 2 (3.39%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (3.39%) CSS
6 2 (3.39%) Kafka
6 2 (3.39%) Node.js
6 2 (3.39%) Playwright
6 2 (3.39%) PySpark
6 2 (3.39%) Redux
7 1 (1.69%) Blazor
7 1 (1.69%) FHIR
7 1 (1.69%) Next.js
7 1 (1.69%) Web Services
7 1 (1.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.25%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.47%) Life Science
3 4 (6.78%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (5.08%) AI Agents
4 3 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (5.08%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.08%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.39%) Equities
5 2 (3.39%) Hackathon
6 1 (1.69%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.69%) Device Driver
6 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.69%) NHS
6 1 (1.69%) PACS
6 1 (1.69%) PKI
6 1 (1.69%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.17%) Windows
2 4 (6.78%) Linux
2 4 (6.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (22.03%) CI/CD
1 13 (22.03%) DevOps
2 11 (18.64%) Full-Stack Development
2 11 (18.64%) Test Automation
3 10 (16.95%) Software Engineering
4 7 (11.86%) Agile
5 6 (10.17%) Event-Driven
6 5 (8.47%) AI
6 5 (8.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 5 (8.47%) Observability
6 5 (8.47%) Roadmaps
6 5 (8.47%) Software Testing
6 5 (8.47%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (8.47%) TOGAF
7 4 (6.78%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (6.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (6.78%) Microservices
7 4 (6.78%) SDLC
7 4 (6.78%) Sprint Planning
7 4 (6.78%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 22 (37.29%) C#
2 17 (28.81%) SQL
3 12 (20.34%) Python
4 10 (16.95%) Java
5 9 (15.25%) JavaScript
6 6 (10.17%) PL/SQL
7 4 (6.78%) TypeScript
8 3 (5.08%) T-SQL
9 2 (3.39%) C++
9 2 (3.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.69%) Go
10 1 (1.69%) Korn
10 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (10.17%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.47%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.39%) Degree
4 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) QA
2 1 (1.69%) GDPR
2 1 (1.69%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (1.69%) HL7
2 1 (1.69%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.69%) PSD2
2 1 (1.69%) SEPA
2 1 (1.69%) TARGET2
System Software
1 6 (10.17%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (8.47%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.39%) Terraform
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (15.25%) Oracle
2 6 (10.17%) Databricks
2 6 (10.17%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.47%) OpenLink
4 3 (5.08%) Citrix
5 1 (1.69%) Cisco
5 1 (1.69%) IBM
5 1 (1.69%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (1.69%) SAP
5 1 (1.69%) UiPath
5 1 (1.69%) VMware