.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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 44 34
Rank change year-on-year -30 -10 -1
Contract jobs citing .NET 57 86 118
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.35% 4.97% 5.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.08% 19.07% 23.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 55 82
10th Percentile £467 £404 £407
25th Percentile £525 £424 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £700 £681 £669
90th Percentile £875 £798 £735
Central London median daily rate £613 £550 £538
% change year-on-year +11.36% +2.33% -17.31%

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 472 451 506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.42% 26.04% 23.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 291 350
10th Percentile £412 £404 £406
25th Percentile £475 £449 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -3.51% -8.80%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £775 £763 £789
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £563
% change year-on-year +4.55% -2.22% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £23.93 - -
25th Percentile £32.34 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £39.75 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -54.57% - -
75th Percentile £55.54 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £67.36 - -
Central London median hourly rate £39.75 £69.47 -
% change year-on-year -42.78% - -

.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 24 June 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 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.51%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.75%) CMS
2 1 (1.75%) IIS
2 1 (1.75%) Kentico
2 1 (1.75%) Sitefinity
2 1 (1.75%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (5.26%) Endur
2 1 (1.75%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.75%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 21 (36.84%) Azure
2 14 (24.56%) Power Platform
3 11 (19.30%) AWS
4 10 (17.54%) SaaS
5 7 (12.28%) GitHub
5 7 (12.28%) Serverless
6 5 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (8.77%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (7.02%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (7.02%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (7.02%) Entra ID
7 4 (7.02%) IaaS
7 4 (7.02%) PaaS
7 4 (7.02%) Power Automate
7 4 (7.02%) PowerApps
8 3 (5.26%) Azure Functions
8 3 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.51%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) DHCP
1 2 (3.51%) DNS
1 2 (3.51%) Firewall
1 2 (3.51%) TCP/IP
1 2 (3.51%) Wireshark
2 1 (1.75%) Internet
2 1 (1.75%) Intranet
2 1 (1.75%) LAN
2 1 (1.75%) Multicast
2 1 (1.75%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.54%) SQL Server
2 9 (15.79%) Power BI
3 6 (10.53%) Oracle Database
4 5 (8.77%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.75%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Visual Studio
2 3 (5.26%) Git
2 3 (5.26%) GitLab
2 3 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.51%) Artifactory
3 2 (3.51%) Fiddler
3 2 (3.51%) MSI
3 2 (3.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.75%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.75%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (36.84%) Banking
2 17 (29.82%) Finance
3 11 (19.30%) Social Skills
4 9 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.26%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.75%) Advertising
7 1 (1.75%) Back Office
7 1 (1.75%) Billing
7 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.75%) Front Office
7 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.75%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (42.11%) Developer
2 8 (14.04%) Senior
3 7 (12.28%) Architect
3 7 (12.28%) C# Developer
3 7 (12.28%) Lead
3 7 (12.28%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (8.77%) Senior Developer
5 4 (7.02%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (7.02%) Software Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Applications Tester
6 3 (5.26%) Endur Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) OpenLink Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Software Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Tester
6 3 (5.26%) Workflow Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Azure Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.54%) .NET Framework
2 7 (12.28%) React
3 6 (10.53%) ASP.NET
3 6 (10.53%) REST
4 5 (8.77%) AngularJS
4 5 (8.77%) HTML
5 4 (7.02%) .NET Core
5 4 (7.02%) RESTful
6 3 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (5.26%) CSS
7 2 (3.51%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 2 (3.51%) Kafka
7 2 (3.51%) Node.js
7 2 (3.51%) Playwright
7 2 (3.51%) PySpark
7 2 (3.51%) Redux
7 2 (3.51%) Web Services
7 2 (3.51%) XML
8 1 (1.75%) Blazor
8 1 (1.75%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.02%) Distributed Applications
2 4 (7.02%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.26%) AI Agents
3 3 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.51%) Equities
4 2 (3.51%) Hackathon
5 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.75%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.75%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.75%) IoT
5 1 (1.75%) Life Science
5 1 (1.75%) PKI
5 1 (1.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.79%) Windows
2 6 (10.53%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.02%) Linux
4 2 (3.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (26.32%) CI/CD
2 13 (22.81%) DevOps
2 13 (22.81%) Full-Stack Development
3 11 (19.30%) Agile
4 10 (17.54%) Unit Testing
5 8 (14.04%) SDLC
5 8 (14.04%) Test Automation
6 7 (12.28%) Software Engineering
7 6 (10.53%) Event-Driven
7 6 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (10.53%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (8.77%) AI
8 5 (8.77%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (8.77%) Code Quality
8 5 (8.77%) Data Analysis
8 5 (8.77%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (8.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 5 (8.77%) Software Testing
8 5 (8.77%) TOGAF
8 5 (8.77%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 30 (52.63%) C#
2 21 (36.84%) SQL
3 13 (22.81%) Python
4 11 (19.30%) JavaScript
5 9 (15.79%) PL/SQL
6 8 (14.04%) Java
7 5 (8.77%) T-SQL
7 5 (8.77%) TypeScript
8 4 (7.02%) C++
9 3 (5.26%) PowerShell
10 2 (3.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.75%) C
11 1 (1.75%) Go
11 1 (1.75%) Korn
11 1 (1.75%) ProC
Qualifications
1 6 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.02%) Degree
4 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.79%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) GDPR
2 1 (1.75%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (1.75%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.75%) PSD2
2 1 (1.75%) SEPA
2 1 (1.75%) TARGET2
System Software
1 3 (5.26%) Docker
2 2 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (3.51%) Terraform
2 1 (1.75%) Ansible
2 1 (1.75%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (1.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (17.54%) Microsoft
1 10 (17.54%) Oracle
2 6 (10.53%) Databricks
3 5 (8.77%) Citrix
4 2 (3.51%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.75%) Cisco
5 1 (1.75%) F5
5 1 (1.75%) IBM
5 1 (1.75%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.75%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.75%) OpenLink
5 1 (1.75%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (1.75%) SAP
5 1 (1.75%) Splunk
5 1 (1.75%) UiPath
5 1 (1.75%) VMware