.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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 33 29
Rank change year-on-year -18 -4 -9
Contract jobs citing .NET 73 112 184
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.15% 5.28% 6.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.02% 21.71% 27.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 76 117
10th Percentile £404 £400 £450
25th Percentile £424 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £750
90th Percentile £735 £838 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £623 £650
% change year-on-year -7.63% -4.23% +13.04%

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 429 516 665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.40% 24.33% 24.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 311 456
10th Percentile £373 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £508 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £608
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -1.23% +1.25%
75th Percentile £675 £708 £713
90th Percentile £744 £838 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £46.25 - £46.93
25th Percentile £51.88 £36.75 £47.94
Median hourly rate £62.50 £38.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +62.34% -23.38% -1.47%
75th Percentile £76.25 £40.25 £51.94
90th Percentile £83.75 - £52.58
Central London median hourly rate £56.97 £38.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year +47.97% -23.38% -1.47%

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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 14 November 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 & 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 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.11%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (8.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (4.11%) Workday HCM
2 2 (2.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.74%) OpenText MBPM
2 2 (2.74%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (1.37%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.37%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.37%) Maximo
3 1 (1.37%) Orchestrade
3 1 (1.37%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 44 (60.27%) Azure
2 12 (16.44%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (12.33%) AWS
4 7 (9.59%) PaaS
5 6 (8.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (8.22%) Power Platform
5 6 (8.22%) Serverless
6 5 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (5.48%) Amazon S3
7 4 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (5.48%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (5.48%) Entra ID
7 4 (5.48%) Snowflake
8 3 (4.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (4.11%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (4.11%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (4.11%) GitHub
8 3 (4.11%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.74%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (23.29%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (5.48%) Power BI
3 4 (5.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (2.74%) Event Store
4 2 (2.74%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.74%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.37%) DB2
5 1 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (6.85%) Git
1 5 (6.85%) JIRA
1 5 (6.85%) Postman
2 4 (5.48%) Selenium
3 3 (4.11%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.11%) Cucumber
3 3 (4.11%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.74%) GitLab
4 2 (2.74%) Gradle
4 2 (2.74%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.74%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (2.74%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.37%) MSTest
General
1 36 (49.32%) Finance
2 18 (24.66%) Banking
2 18 (24.66%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.33%) Investment Banking
4 8 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (9.59%) Front Office
6 4 (5.48%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.48%) Retail Banking
7 3 (4.11%) Back Office
7 3 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.74%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.74%) Legal
9 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.37%) Police
Job Titles
1 37 (50.68%) Developer
2 14 (19.18%) Senior
3 13 (17.81%) .NET Developer
4 11 (15.07%) Lead
5 7 (9.59%) Architect
5 7 (9.59%) C# Developer
6 6 (8.22%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.85%) Applications Developer
7 5 (6.85%) Senior .NET Developer
8 4 (5.48%) Automation Developer
8 4 (5.48%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (5.48%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.11%) Analyst
9 3 (4.11%) Angular Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Azure Developer
9 3 (4.11%) C# .NET Developer
9 3 (4.11%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Test Automation Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Test Engineer
10 2 (2.74%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (17.81%) HTML
2 11 (15.07%) CSS
3 10 (13.70%) AngularJS
4 8 (10.96%) REST
5 7 (9.59%) .NET Core
5 7 (9.59%) .NET Framework
5 7 (9.59%) Node.js
5 7 (9.59%) Web Services
6 6 (8.22%) React
6 6 (8.22%) RESTful
7 5 (6.85%) HTML5
7 5 (6.85%) jQuery
8 4 (5.48%) ASP.NET
8 4 (5.48%) Vue
9 3 (4.11%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (4.11%) Blazor
9 3 (4.11%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (4.11%) WPF
10 2 (2.74%) Entity Framework
10 2 (2.74%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.85%) Cloud Native
1 5 (6.85%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (6.85%) Low-Code
2 3 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.11%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (4.11%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.11%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.74%) Derivative
3 2 (2.74%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.74%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.37%) AS400
4 1 (1.37%) CMDB
4 1 (1.37%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.37%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.37%) iSeries
4 1 (1.37%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.37%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (34.25%) DevOps
2 20 (27.40%) Agile
3 16 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (21.92%) Software Engineering
4 14 (19.18%) CI/CD
5 13 (17.81%) Test Automation
6 12 (16.44%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (15.07%) Event-Driven
7 11 (15.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 10 (13.70%) Computer Science
9 9 (12.33%) Roadmaps
10 8 (10.96%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (10.96%) Data Analysis
10 8 (10.96%) Scrum
10 8 (10.96%) SDLC
10 8 (10.96%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (9.59%) Design Patterns
11 7 (9.59%) Fintech
11 7 (9.59%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 54 (73.97%) C#
2 33 (45.21%) SQL
3 19 (26.03%) JavaScript
4 15 (20.55%) Java
5 13 (17.81%) Python
6 4 (5.48%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.48%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.48%) VB.NET
7 2 (2.74%) Rust
7 2 (2.74%) VBA
8 1 (1.37%) Bash
8 1 (1.37%) Bicep
8 1 (1.37%) C++
8 1 (1.37%) COBOL
8 1 (1.37%) F#
8 1 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.37%) PHP
8 1 (1.37%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.37%) RPG
8 1 (1.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (12.33%) Degree
2 8 (10.96%) Security Cleared
3 6 (8.22%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.74%) CBAP
5 2 (2.74%) ISEB
6 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.37%) CFA
6 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.33%) QA
2 3 (4.11%) COBIT
2 3 (4.11%) GDPR
3 2 (2.74%) MiFID
4 1 (1.37%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.37%) EMIR
4 1 (1.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (4.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.74%) Ansible
3 1 (1.37%) Grafana
3 1 (1.37%) Istio
3 1 (1.37%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (21.92%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.44%) Oracle
3 7 (9.59%) Databricks
4 5 (6.85%) UiPath
5 3 (4.11%) OutSystems
5 3 (4.11%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.11%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.11%) Workday
6 2 (2.74%) DevExpress
6 2 (2.74%) DocuSign
6 2 (2.74%) OpenText
7 1 (1.37%) Avaloq
7 1 (1.37%) FNZ
7 1 (1.37%) IBM
7 1 (1.37%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.37%) Portware
7 1 (1.37%) SAP