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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 32 27
Rank change year-on-year -22 -5 -8
Contract jobs citing .NET 73 114 188
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.20% 5.37% 6.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.10% 22.22% 27.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 76 119
10th Percentile £404 £400 £451
25th Percentile £424 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £750
90th Percentile £735 £831 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +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 427 513 676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.55% 24.16% 24.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 306 460
10th Percentile £373 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £505 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £708 £713
90th Percentile £738 £831 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £615
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.44% +2.50%
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 7 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%) OpenText MBPM
1 3 (4.11%) Oracle BPM
1 3 (4.11%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (4.11%) Workday HCM
2 2 (2.74%) Dynamics CRM
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 43 (58.90%) Azure
2 12 (16.44%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (10.96%) 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%) JIRA
1 5 (6.85%) Postman
2 4 (5.48%) Git
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
3 17 (23.29%) Social Skills
4 9 (12.33%) Investment Banking
5 8 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (9.59%) Front Office
7 4 (5.48%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.48%) Retail Banking
8 3 (4.11%) Back Office
8 3 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.74%) Legal
10 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.37%) Police
Job Titles
1 37 (50.68%) Developer
2 14 (19.18%) Senior
3 12 (16.44%) .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%) BPM 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
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%) Node.js
5 7 (9.59%) Web Services
6 6 (8.22%) .NET Core
6 6 (8.22%) .NET Framework
6 6 (8.22%) React
7 5 (6.85%) HTML5
7 5 (6.85%) jQuery
7 5 (6.85%) RESTful
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
10 2 (2.74%) Entity Framework
10 2 (2.74%) Kafka
10 2 (2.74%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.85%) Cloud Native
1 5 (6.85%) Low-Code
2 4 (5.48%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.11%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.11%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.11%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.74%) Derivative
4 2 (2.74%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.74%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.37%) AS400
5 1 (1.37%) CMDB
5 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.37%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.37%) iSeries
5 1 (1.37%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (32.88%) DevOps
2 20 (27.40%) Agile
3 16 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (21.92%) Software Engineering
4 13 (17.81%) CI/CD
4 13 (17.81%) Test Automation
5 12 (16.44%) Full-Stack Development
6 11 (15.07%) Event-Driven
6 11 (15.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 10 (13.70%) Computer Science
8 9 (12.33%) Data Analysis
8 9 (12.33%) Roadmaps
9 8 (10.96%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (10.96%) Scrum
9 8 (10.96%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (9.59%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (9.59%) Fintech
10 7 (9.59%) Project Delivery
10 7 (9.59%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 54 (73.97%) C#
2 33 (45.21%) SQL
3 20 (27.40%) 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 10 (13.70%) 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 13 (17.81%) Oracle
3 7 (9.59%) Databricks
4 5 (6.85%) UiPath
5 3 (4.11%) OpenText
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
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