.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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 30 31
Rank change year-on-year -35 +1 -14
Contract jobs citing .NET 64 110 136
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.43% 5.88% 5.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.13% 22.45% 24.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 68 93
10th Percentile £404 £400 £426
25th Percentile £463 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £725
90th Percentile £750 £849 £788
Central London median daily rate £625 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +8.70%

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 423 490 556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.68% 26.20% 23.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 299 400
10th Percentile £362 £411 £400
25th Percentile £436 £484 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -5.74%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £755 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -5.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 £36.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £47.50 £40.25 £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £38.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +16.88% -18.95% -20.17%

.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 21 January 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 2 (3.13%) Confluence
2 1 (1.56%) CMS
2 1 (1.56%) Kentico
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.56%) Sitefinity
2 1 (1.56%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 12 (18.75%) Endur
2 1 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 30 (46.88%) Azure
2 11 (17.19%) AWS
2 11 (17.19%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (7.81%) GitHub
3 5 (7.81%) Power Platform
3 5 (7.81%) Serverless
4 4 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 4 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (6.25%) PaaS
4 4 (6.25%) Snowflake
5 3 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (3.13%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.13%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.56%) Azure App Service
7 1 (1.56%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (1.56%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.38%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.69%) Power BI
2 3 (4.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.56%) Event Store
3 1 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Git
2 4 (6.25%) JIRA
2 4 (6.25%) Postman
3 3 (4.69%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.69%) Selenium
4 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.13%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.13%) GitLab
4 2 (3.13%) Gradle
4 2 (3.13%) SonarQube
4 2 (3.13%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (3.13%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.56%) MSTest
General
1 19 (29.69%) Finance
2 13 (20.31%) Social Skills
3 11 (17.19%) Banking
4 7 (10.94%) Investment Banking
5 5 (7.81%) Front Office
5 5 (7.81%) Manufacturing
6 4 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.25%) Retail Banking
7 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.13%) Back Office
8 2 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Billing
9 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.56%) Police
9 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (51.56%) Developer
2 12 (18.75%) Endur Developer
2 12 (18.75%) OpenLink Developer
3 11 (17.19%) Senior
4 8 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 8 (12.50%) Lead
5 6 (9.38%) Software Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) .NET Software Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Hardware Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Integration Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Software Integration Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Architect
7 4 (6.25%) C# Developer
7 4 (6.25%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.69%) Analyst
8 3 (4.69%) Azure Developer
8 3 (4.69%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.13%) Senior DevOps
9 2 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.06%) HTML
2 7 (10.94%) AngularJS
2 7 (10.94%) CSS
3 5 (7.81%) React
4 4 (6.25%) HTML5
4 4 (6.25%) Node.js
5 3 (4.69%) .NET Framework
5 3 (4.69%) jQuery
5 3 (4.69%) REST
6 2 (3.13%) .NET Core
6 2 (3.13%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.56%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (1.56%) gRPC
7 1 (1.56%) Kafka
7 1 (1.56%) KnockoutJS
7 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (1.56%) RESTful
7 1 (1.56%) RxJS
7 1 (1.56%) SOAP
7 1 (1.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.81%) Life Science
2 4 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.25%) Low-Code
3 3 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.56%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.56%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.56%) Device Driver
5 1 (1.56%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.56%) NHS
5 1 (1.56%) PACS
5 1 (1.56%) Robotics
5 1 (1.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.25%) Windows
2 3 (4.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.56%) DevOps
2 14 (21.88%) Software Engineering
3 13 (20.31%) Agile
4 12 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (17.19%) Test Automation
6 10 (15.63%) CI/CD
6 10 (15.63%) Event-Driven
6 10 (15.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 8 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (10.94%) Fintech
9 6 (9.38%) Computer Science
9 6 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (9.38%) Roadmaps
10 5 (7.81%) Data Pipeline
10 5 (7.81%) Microservices
10 5 (7.81%) Scrum
10 5 (7.81%) Software Testing
10 5 (7.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (7.81%) User Experience
11 4 (6.25%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 29 (45.31%) C#
2 27 (42.19%) SQL
3 16 (25.00%) Java
4 14 (21.88%) Python
5 11 (17.19%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.25%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.69%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.69%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.69%) VB.NET
8 2 (3.13%) Rust
9 1 (1.56%) C++
9 1 (1.56%) F#
9 1 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (14.06%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.94%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.38%) Degree
4 5 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.13%) CBAP
5 2 (3.13%) ISEB
6 1 (1.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.56%) CCSP
6 1 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.56%) CISSP
6 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.56%) OSCP
6 1 (1.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) QA
2 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.56%) GDPR
2 1 (1.56%) GRC
2 1 (1.56%) HL7
2 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.56%) NCSC
2 1 (1.56%) NIST
2 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (10.94%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.13%) Ansible
3 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 8 (12.50%) OpenLink
2 6 (9.38%) Oracle
3 3 (4.69%) OutSystems
4 2 (3.13%) DocuSign
4 2 (3.13%) UiPath
5 1 (1.56%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.56%) Databricks
5 1 (1.56%) Google
5 1 (1.56%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.56%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (1.56%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.56%) SAP