.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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 31 28
Rank change year-on-year -22 -3 -3
Contract jobs citing .NET 65 123 193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.71% 5.92% 6.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.22% 24.55% 23.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 91 121
10th Percentile £404 £425 £463
25th Percentile £409 £513 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year +5.21% -11.11% +16.13%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £763
90th Percentile £764 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £631 £600 £656
% change year-on-year +5.25% -8.61% +11.70%

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 427 501 805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.39% 24.12% 26.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 324 533
10th Percentile £400 £425 £413
25th Percentile £450 £506 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £738
90th Percentile £752 £838 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -4.17% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £36.75 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £38.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.81% -27.36% +11.58%
75th Percentile £82.50 £40.25 -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 £32.15 £53.00
% change year-on-year +94.43% -39.35% +11.58%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing .NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for .NET 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 15 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (4.62%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Endur
2 3 (4.62%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (4.62%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (4.62%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (4.62%) Workday HCM
3 2 (3.08%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.54%) Aladdin
4 1 (1.54%) Fidessa
4 1 (1.54%) Maximo
4 1 (1.54%) Orchestrade
4 1 (1.54%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 36 (55.38%) Azure
2 9 (13.85%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (10.77%) Power Platform
4 6 (9.23%) AWS
4 6 (9.23%) PaaS
5 5 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (6.15%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (6.15%) Power Automate
6 4 (6.15%) Serverless
7 3 (4.62%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.62%) GitHub
7 3 (4.62%) PowerApps
8 2 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.08%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.08%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (3.08%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (3.08%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (3.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) DNS
1 1 (1.54%) Firewall
1 1 (1.54%) FTP
1 1 (1.54%) HTTP
1 1 (1.54%) SMTP
1 1 (1.54%) SSL
1 1 (1.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.15%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (6.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (4.62%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.62%) Power BI
4 2 (3.08%) Event Store
4 2 (3.08%) Oracle Database
4 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.54%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.54%) DB2
5 1 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.54%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Git
2 3 (4.62%) JIRA
3 2 (3.08%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.54%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.54%) NUnit
4 1 (1.54%) Postman
4 1 (1.54%) Selenium
General
1 38 (58.46%) Finance
2 16 (24.62%) Banking
3 15 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 6 (9.23%) Front Office
5 5 (7.69%) Investment Banking
6 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.62%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.08%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.08%) Legal
8 2 (3.08%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.54%) Back Office
9 1 (1.54%) Billing
9 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 35 (53.85%) Developer
2 12 (18.46%) .NET Developer
3 11 (16.92%) Senior
4 10 (15.38%) Lead
5 7 (10.77%) Architect
6 6 (9.23%) Applications Developer
6 6 (9.23%) C# Developer
6 6 (9.23%) Senior .NET Developer
6 6 (9.23%) Senior Developer
7 4 (6.15%) Automation Developer
7 4 (6.15%) C# .NET Developer
7 4 (6.15%) OpenLink Developer
7 4 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.62%) Angular Developer
8 3 (4.62%) BPM Developer
9 2 (3.08%) Applications Engineer
9 2 (3.08%) Field Engineer
9 2 (3.08%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (3.08%) Principal Engineer
9 2 (3.08%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.38%) HTML
2 9 (13.85%) CSS
3 8 (12.31%) AngularJS
4 7 (10.77%) .NET Core
4 7 (10.77%) REST
5 6 (9.23%) .NET Framework
5 6 (9.23%) RESTful
5 6 (9.23%) Web Services
6 5 (7.69%) jQuery
6 5 (7.69%) Node.js
7 4 (6.15%) Blazor
7 4 (6.15%) Entity Framework
7 4 (6.15%) HTML5
7 4 (6.15%) React
7 4 (6.15%) Vue
7 4 (6.15%) WPF
8 3 (4.62%) ASP.NET
8 3 (4.62%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (4.62%) Lightning Web Components
9 2 (3.08%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.23%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.15%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (6.15%) Low-Code
3 3 (4.62%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.08%) Derivative
4 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.08%) Hedge funds
4 2 (3.08%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.54%) AS400
5 1 (1.54%) CMDB
5 1 (1.54%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.54%) iSeries
5 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.54%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (32.31%) DevOps
2 18 (27.69%) Agile
3 14 (21.54%) CI/CD
4 13 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 10 (15.38%) Data Analysis
5 10 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (15.38%) Microservices
6 8 (12.31%) Design Patterns
6 8 (12.31%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (12.31%) Roadmaps
6 8 (12.31%) Test Automation
7 7 (10.77%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (10.77%) Event-Driven
7 7 (10.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 7 (10.77%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (10.77%) Unit Testing
8 6 (9.23%) Business Case
8 6 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (7.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 52 (80.00%) C#
2 31 (47.69%) SQL
3 16 (24.62%) JavaScript
4 12 (18.46%) Java
4 12 (18.46%) Python
5 2 (3.08%) PL/SQL
5 2 (3.08%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.08%) VBA
6 1 (1.54%) Bash
6 1 (1.54%) Bicep
6 1 (1.54%) COBOL
6 1 (1.54%) F#
6 1 (1.54%) PHP
6 1 (1.54%) RPG
6 1 (1.54%) Ruby
6 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.54%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (6.15%) Degree
2 3 (4.62%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.54%) CFA
3 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.54%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.85%) QA
2 3 (4.62%) COBIT
2 3 (4.62%) GDPR
3 2 (3.08%) MiFID
4 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.54%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.54%) EMIR
4 1 (1.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (3.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.62%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.54%) Grafana
2 1 (1.54%) Istio
2 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 13 (20.00%) Oracle
3 6 (9.23%) Databricks
4 4 (6.15%) OpenLink
5 3 (4.62%) OpenText
5 3 (4.62%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.62%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.62%) UiPath
5 3 (4.62%) Workday
6 2 (3.08%) DevExpress
6 2 (3.08%) DocuSign
6 2 (3.08%) IBM
6 2 (3.08%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.54%) Avaloq
7 1 (1.54%) FNZ
7 1 (1.54%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.54%) Portware