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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 44 33
Rank change year-on-year -31 -11 +4
Contract jobs citing .NET 60 92 126
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.44% 4.91% 5.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.35% 19.13% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 59 87
10th Percentile £468 £404 £410
25th Percentile £519 £424 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -16.98%
75th Percentile £684 £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 486 481 504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.79% 25.68% 23.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 312 342
10th Percentile £410 £404 £413
25th Percentile £475 £446 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £705
90th Percentile £775 £759 £787
Central London median daily rate £563 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +2.27% -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 12 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 (3.33%) IIS
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.67%) CMS
2 1 (1.67%) Kentico
2 1 (1.67%) Sitefinity
2 1 (1.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.33%) Endur
3 1 (1.67%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.67%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 21 (35.00%) Azure
2 14 (23.33%) Power Platform
3 11 (18.33%) AWS
4 10 (16.67%) SaaS
5 7 (11.67%) GitHub
5 7 (11.67%) Serverless
6 5 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (6.67%) Entra ID
7 4 (6.67%) IaaS
7 4 (6.67%) PaaS
7 4 (6.67%) Power Automate
7 4 (6.67%) PowerApps
8 3 (5.00%) Azure Functions
8 3 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) DHCP
1 2 (3.33%) DNS
1 2 (3.33%) Firewall
1 2 (3.33%) Internet
1 2 (3.33%) Intranet
1 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (3.33%) Wireshark
2 1 (1.67%) LAN
2 1 (1.67%) Multicast
2 1 (1.67%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (15.00%) Power BI
3 7 (11.67%) Oracle Database
4 6 (10.00%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.33%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.33%) SQLPlus
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 4 (6.67%) Visual Studio
2 3 (5.00%) Artifactory
2 3 (5.00%) Git
2 3 (5.00%) GitLab
3 2 (3.33%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.33%) Fiddler
3 2 (3.33%) MSI
3 2 (3.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (3.33%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 24 (40.00%) Banking
2 20 (33.33%) Finance
3 14 (23.33%) Social Skills
4 12 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.00%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.67%) Advertising
7 1 (1.67%) Back Office
7 1 (1.67%) Billing
7 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.67%) Front Office
7 1 (1.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 26 (43.33%) Developer
2 10 (16.67%) Senior
3 9 (15.00%) C# Developer
4 8 (13.33%) Lead
5 7 (11.67%) Architect
5 7 (11.67%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (10.00%) Senior Developer
7 4 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Applications Tester
8 3 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Junior
8 3 (5.00%) Software Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Tester
8 3 (5.00%) Workflow Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) Azure Developer
9 2 (3.33%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 2 (3.33%) Endur Developer
9 2 (3.33%) OpenLink Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.33%) .NET Framework
2 8 (13.33%) REST
3 7 (11.67%) ASP.NET
3 7 (11.67%) React
4 5 (8.33%) .NET Core
4 5 (8.33%) AngularJS
4 5 (8.33%) HTML
5 4 (6.67%) RESTful
5 4 (6.67%) Web Services
5 4 (6.67%) XML
6 3 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 3 (5.00%) CSS
7 2 (3.33%) ADO.NET
7 2 (3.33%) Kafka
7 2 (3.33%) Node.js
7 2 (3.33%) Playwright
7 2 (3.33%) PySpark
7 2 (3.33%) Redux
7 2 (3.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.67%) AI Agents
2 4 (6.67%) Distributed Applications
2 4 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.00%) Equities
3 3 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.33%) Hackathon
5 1 (1.67%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.67%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.67%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.67%) PKI
5 1 (1.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.00%) Windows
2 6 (10.00%) Linux
2 6 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.67%) Unix
4 1 (1.67%) Android
4 1 (1.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (26.67%) CI/CD
2 14 (23.33%) DevOps
3 13 (21.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 12 (20.00%) Agile
4 12 (20.00%) Unit Testing
5 10 (16.67%) SDLC
6 9 (15.00%) Test Automation
7 8 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (11.67%) Event-Driven
8 7 (11.67%) Software Engineering
9 6 (10.00%) AI
9 6 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 6 (10.00%) Risk Management
9 6 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
10 5 (8.33%) Data Analysis
10 5 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (8.33%) Microservices
10 5 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (8.33%) Test Strategy
10 5 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 34 (56.67%) C#
2 25 (41.67%) SQL
3 15 (25.00%) Python
4 12 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 11 (18.33%) PL/SQL
6 9 (15.00%) Java
7 5 (8.33%) C++
7 5 (8.33%) T-SQL
7 5 (8.33%) TypeScript
8 3 (5.00%) PowerShell
9 2 (3.33%) C
9 2 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (3.33%) ProC
10 1 (1.67%) Go
10 1 (1.67%) Korn
Qualifications
1 7 (11.67%) Degree
1 7 (11.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.67%) GDPR
2 1 (1.67%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (1.67%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.67%) PSD2
2 1 (1.67%) SEPA
2 1 (1.67%) TARGET2
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Docker
2 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (3.33%) Terraform
2 1 (1.67%) Ansible
2 1 (1.67%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (1.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (23.33%) Oracle
2 11 (18.33%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.00%) Databricks
4 5 (8.33%) Citrix
5 4 (6.67%) Sitecore
6 2 (3.33%) IBM
7 1 (1.67%) Cisco
7 1 (1.67%) F5
7 1 (1.67%) Google
7 1 (1.67%) ION Trading
7 1 (1.67%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.67%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (1.67%) SAP
7 1 (1.67%) Splunk
7 1 (1.67%) UiPath
7 1 (1.67%) VMware