.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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 43 31
Rank change year-on-year -30 -12 +4
Contract jobs citing .NET 64 88 116
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.63% 4.72% 5.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.17% 18.49% 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 59 80
10th Percentile £468 £404 £412
25th Percentile £522 £424 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -16.98%
75th Percentile £688 £694 £675
90th Percentile £875 £783 £750
Central London median daily rate £588 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -15.38%

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 486 476 493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.97% 25.55% 23.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 306 335
10th Percentile £413 £404 £409
25th Percentile £475 £449 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £682 £675 £710
90th Percentile £775 £761 £825
Central London median daily rate £567 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +3.14% -4.35% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £23.93 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £32.34 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £39.75 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.00% - -
75th Percentile £55.54 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £67.36 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £39.75 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -36.40% - -

.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 18 July 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%) IIS
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.56%) CMS
2 1 (1.56%) Kentico
2 1 (1.56%) Sitefinity
2 1 (1.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.13%) Endur
3 1 (1.56%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.56%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 21 (32.81%) Azure
2 14 (21.88%) Power Platform
3 11 (17.19%) AWS
4 10 (15.63%) SaaS
5 9 (14.06%) GitHub
6 7 (10.94%) Serverless
7 5 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (7.81%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (6.25%) Entra ID
8 4 (6.25%) IaaS
8 4 (6.25%) PaaS
8 4 (6.25%) Power Automate
8 4 (6.25%) PowerApps
9 3 (4.69%) Azure Functions
9 3 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.69%) DNS
1 3 (4.69%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.13%) DHCP
2 2 (3.13%) Firewall
2 2 (3.13%) Internet
2 2 (3.13%) Intranet
2 2 (3.13%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.56%) LAN
3 1 (1.56%) Multicast
3 1 (1.56%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.56%) VLAN
3 1 (1.56%) VPN
3 1 (1.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.88%) SQL Server
2 9 (14.06%) Power BI
3 7 (10.94%) Oracle Database
4 6 (9.38%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.13%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.13%) SQLPlus
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.25%) Artifactory
2 4 (6.25%) Git
2 4 (6.25%) Visual Studio
3 3 (4.69%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.69%) GitLab
4 2 (3.13%) Fiddler
4 2 (3.13%) MSI
4 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (3.13%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.56%) JIRA
5 1 (1.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 25 (39.06%) Banking
2 21 (32.81%) Finance
3 17 (26.56%) Social Skills
4 13 (20.31%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.25%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.13%) Front Office
7 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.56%) Advertising
8 1 (1.56%) Back Office
8 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 28 (43.75%) Developer
2 11 (17.19%) Senior
3 10 (15.63%) C# Developer
4 8 (12.50%) Lead
5 7 (10.94%) Senior Developer
6 6 (9.38%) Architect
6 6 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (4.69%) .NET Developer
8 3 (4.69%) Applications Support
8 3 (4.69%) Applications Tester
8 3 (4.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Junior
8 3 (4.69%) Senior C# Developer
8 3 (4.69%) Software Developer
8 3 (4.69%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Tester
8 3 (4.69%) Workflow Engineer
9 2 (3.13%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.19%) .NET Framework
2 8 (12.50%) REST
3 7 (10.94%) AngularJS
3 7 (10.94%) ASP.NET
3 7 (10.94%) React
4 5 (7.81%) .NET Core
4 5 (7.81%) HTML
5 4 (6.25%) RESTful
5 4 (6.25%) Web Services
5 4 (6.25%) XML
6 3 (4.69%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (4.69%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 3 (4.69%) CSS
7 2 (3.13%) ADO.NET
7 2 (3.13%) Playwright
7 2 (3.13%) PySpark
7 2 (3.13%) Redux
7 2 (3.13%) SOAP
7 2 (3.13%) XSL
7 2 (3.13%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.38%) Distributed Applications
3 5 (7.81%) AI Agents
3 5 (7.81%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.69%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.69%) Equities
5 3 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (3.13%) Hackathon
7 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.56%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.56%) IoT
7 1 (1.56%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.63%) Windows
2 7 (10.94%) Linux
2 7 (10.94%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.25%) Unix
4 1 (1.56%) Android
4 1 (1.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (28.13%) CI/CD
1 18 (28.13%) DevOps
2 16 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 13 (20.31%) Agile
4 12 (18.75%) Unit Testing
5 10 (15.63%) SDLC
5 10 (15.63%) Software Engineering
6 9 (14.06%) AI
6 9 (14.06%) Root Cause Analysis
6 9 (14.06%) Test Automation
7 8 (12.50%) Event-Driven
8 7 (10.94%) Code Quality
8 7 (10.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 7 (10.94%) Microservices
8 7 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (10.94%) Software Testing
8 7 (10.94%) User Acceptance Testing
9 6 (9.38%) Observability
9 6 (9.38%) Risk Management
10 5 (7.81%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 37 (57.81%) C#
2 27 (42.19%) SQL
3 16 (25.00%) Python
4 12 (18.75%) JavaScript
5 10 (15.63%) Java
5 10 (15.63%) PL/SQL
6 5 (7.81%) C++
6 5 (7.81%) T-SQL
6 5 (7.81%) TypeScript
7 4 (6.25%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.13%) C
8 2 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (3.13%) ProC
9 1 (1.56%) Bash
9 1 (1.56%) Go
9 1 (1.56%) Korn
Qualifications
1 7 (10.94%) Degree
1 7 (10.94%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.81%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.75%) QA
2 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.56%) GDPR
2 1 (1.56%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (1.56%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.56%) PSD2
2 1 (1.56%) SEPA
2 1 (1.56%) TARGET2
System Software
1 3 (4.69%) Docker
2 2 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.13%) ITRS Geneos
1 2 (3.13%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (3.13%) Terraform
2 1 (1.56%) Ansible
2 1 (1.56%) Grafana
2 1 (1.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (21.88%) Oracle
2 11 (17.19%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.38%) Databricks
4 5 (7.81%) Citrix
5 4 (6.25%) Sitecore
6 2 (3.13%) IBM
6 2 (3.13%) ION Trading
6 2 (3.13%) Splunk
7 1 (1.56%) Cisco
7 1 (1.56%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.56%) F5
7 1 (1.56%) Google
7 1 (1.56%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.56%) SAP
7 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.56%) UiPath
7 1 (1.56%) VMware