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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 53 33
Rank change year-on-year -14 -20 -3
Contract jobs citing .NET 76 68 119
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.45% 3.96% 5.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.82% 14.23% 21.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 55 86
10th Percentile £427 £404 £445
25th Percentile £513 £424 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% +4.17% -10.45%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £684
90th Percentile £875 £784 £838
Central London median daily rate £572 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.48% +4.17% -7.69%

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 550 478 550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.97% 27.86% 26.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 326 345
10th Percentile £415 £404 £413
25th Percentile £475 £465 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -1.25% -0.04%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £710
90th Percentile £775 £769 £833
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £22.66 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £31.40 £67.50 £36.75
Median hourly rate £39.75 £75.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.00% +94.81% -25.24%
75th Percentile £51.00 £82.50 £40.25
90th Percentile £65.40 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £52.25 £62.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year -16.40% +62.34% -25.24%

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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 29 September 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 5 (6.58%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.63%) CMS
2 2 (2.63%) IIS
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.63%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.32%) MQSeries
Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (10.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.63%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.32%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 31 (40.79%) Azure
2 18 (23.68%) Power Platform
3 13 (17.11%) Serverless
4 12 (15.79%) AWS
5 10 (13.16%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (11.84%) Azure Functions
6 9 (11.84%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (10.53%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (10.53%) Azure Service Bus
7 8 (10.53%) SaaS
8 7 (9.21%) GitHub
8 7 (9.21%) Power Automate
8 7 (9.21%) PowerApps
9 5 (6.58%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (5.26%) Entra ID
11 3 (3.95%) Azure API Management
11 3 (3.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (2.63%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.26%) DNS
1 4 (5.26%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.63%) DHCP
2 2 (2.63%) Firewall
2 2 (2.63%) Internet
2 2 (2.63%) Intranet
2 2 (2.63%) VLAN
2 2 (2.63%) VPN
2 2 (2.63%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.32%) LAN
3 1 (1.32%) Multicast
3 1 (1.32%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (26.32%) SQL Server
2 7 (9.21%) Oracle Database
3 6 (7.89%) Power BI
3 6 (7.89%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.95%) ClickHouse
4 3 (3.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.63%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.63%) SQLPlus
6 1 (1.32%) Big Data
6 1 (1.32%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (11.84%) Git
2 8 (10.53%) Visual Studio
3 7 (9.21%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.58%) Artifactory
5 4 (5.26%) Bitbucket
5 4 (5.26%) GitLab
6 3 (3.95%) eggPlant
6 3 (3.95%) JIRA
6 3 (3.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (3.95%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (2.63%) Fiddler
7 2 (2.63%) JMeter
7 2 (2.63%) LoadRunner
7 2 (2.63%) MSI
7 2 (2.63%) Postman
7 2 (2.63%) SoapUI
7 2 (2.63%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.63%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.32%) HP UFT
8 1 (1.32%) SOAtest
General
1 24 (31.58%) Finance
2 23 (30.26%) Banking
2 23 (30.26%) Social Skills
3 17 (22.37%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.53%) Front Office
5 4 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.26%) Marketing
5 4 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.63%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.32%) Advertising
7 1 (1.32%) Back Office
7 1 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.32%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Legal
7 1 (1.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (52.63%) Developer
2 15 (19.74%) Senior
3 14 (18.42%) C# Developer
4 10 (13.16%) Senior Developer
5 8 (10.53%) Lead
6 7 (9.21%) .NET Developer
7 6 (7.89%) Architect
7 6 (7.89%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 6 (7.89%) Senior C# Developer
7 6 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (6.58%) Azure Developer
9 4 (5.26%) Applications Support
9 4 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (3.95%) Applications Engineer
10 3 (3.95%) Applications Support Engineer
10 3 (3.95%) Applications Tester
10 3 (3.95%) Junior
10 3 (3.95%) Software Developer
10 3 (3.95%) Support Engineer
10 3 (3.95%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.42%) REST
2 13 (17.11%) .NET Framework
3 10 (13.16%) .NET Core
4 9 (11.84%) Web Services
4 9 (11.84%) XML
5 8 (10.53%) SOAP
6 6 (7.89%) ASP.NET
6 6 (7.89%) Kafka
7 5 (6.58%) AngularJS
7 5 (6.58%) ASP.NET Web API
7 5 (6.58%) HTML
7 5 (6.58%) React
8 4 (5.26%) HTML5 Canvas
9 3 (3.95%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 3 (3.95%) CSS
9 3 (3.95%) JSON
9 3 (3.95%) Middleware
9 3 (3.95%) RESTful
9 3 (3.95%) Terraform
10 2 (2.63%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.37%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (6.58%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (5.26%) Distributed Applications
4 4 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.95%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.95%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (3.95%) Equities
5 3 (3.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.95%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.32%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.32%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.32%) IoT
7 1 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (15.79%) Linux
1 12 (15.79%) Windows
2 7 (9.21%) Unix
2 7 (9.21%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.32%) Android
3 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (36.84%) CI/CD
1 28 (36.84%) DevOps
2 23 (30.26%) Agile
3 17 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (18.42%) Software Engineering
4 14 (18.42%) Test Automation
5 13 (17.11%) SDLC
6 12 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
6 12 (15.79%) Microservices
6 12 (15.79%) Risk Management
6 12 (15.79%) Unit Testing
7 11 (14.47%) Root Cause Analysis
8 10 (13.16%) Event-Driven
8 10 (13.16%) Software Testing
8 10 (13.16%) User Acceptance Testing
9 9 (11.84%) Scrum
10 8 (10.53%) CRM
10 8 (10.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 8 (10.53%) Migration
11 7 (9.21%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 55 (72.37%) C#
2 37 (48.68%) SQL
3 25 (32.89%) Python
4 15 (19.74%) JavaScript
5 10 (13.16%) Java
6 9 (11.84%) PL/SQL
6 9 (11.84%) TypeScript
7 7 (9.21%) PowerShell
8 5 (6.58%) C++
9 4 (5.26%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.63%) Bash
10 2 (2.63%) C
10 2 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (2.63%) Korn
10 2 (2.63%) ProC
10 2 (2.63%) VB.NET
11 1 (1.32%) Bicep
11 1 (1.32%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.84%) Degree
3 7 (9.21%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.32%) ISEB
6 1 (1.32%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.47%) QA
2 2 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.32%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.32%) PSD2
3 1 (1.32%) SEPA
3 1 (1.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (2.63%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.63%) Docker
2 1 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (3.95%) ITRS Geneos
1 3 (3.95%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.63%) Ansible
2 2 (2.63%) Grafana
2 2 (2.63%) HP Fortify
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.32%) Control-M
3 1 (1.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (27.63%) Microsoft
2 19 (25.00%) Oracle
3 5 (6.58%) SAP
4 4 (5.26%) Citrix
4 4 (5.26%) IBM
4 4 (5.26%) Sitecore
5 3 (3.95%) Databricks
5 3 (3.95%) ION Trading
5 3 (3.95%) Splunk
6 2 (2.63%) Adyen
6 2 (2.63%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.63%) Google
6 2 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.63%) UiPath
7 1 (1.32%) Calypso
7 1 (1.32%) Cisco
7 1 (1.32%) F5
7 1 (1.32%) Murex
7 1 (1.32%) Temenos
7 1 (1.32%) VMware