.NET Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring .NET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET over the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 39 29
Rank change year-on-year +5 -10 -2
Contract jobs citing .NET 100 104 256
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 5.79% 4.53% 6.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 21.01% 21.18% 22.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 64 167
10th Percentile £398 £416 £458
25th Percentile £456 £463 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £725
90th Percentile £784 £738 £825
Central London median daily rate £585 £563 £625
% change year-on-year +4.00% -10.00% +8.23%

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 476 491 1,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.55% 21.38% 29.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 344 729
10th Percentile £413 £397 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -9.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £788 £825
Central London median daily rate £551 £551 £625
% change year-on-year - -11.84% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £46.25 £58.25
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £59.50
Median % change year-on-year - -20.17% +25.26%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £60.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £47.50 £59.50
% change year-on-year - -20.17% +25.26%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing .NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for .NET in the City of London

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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 3 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for .NET in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.00%) CMS
2 3 (3.00%) Confluence
2 3 (3.00%) Drupal
3 2 (2.00%) Apache
3 2 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.00%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (9.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.00%) Endur
2 1 (1.00%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 58 (58.00%) Azure
2 22 (22.00%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (21.00%) AWS
4 15 (15.00%) Power Platform
5 10 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (8.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (6.00%) GitHub
7 6 (6.00%) Serverless
8 5 (5.00%) Azure Functions
9 4 (4.00%) Azure AKS
9 4 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (4.00%) PowerApps
10 3 (3.00%) Azure App Service
10 3 (3.00%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (3.00%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (3.00%) Power Automate
10 3 (3.00%) Storyblok
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.00%) DNS
1 2 (2.00%) Firewall
1 2 (2.00%) FTP
1 2 (2.00%) HTTP
1 2 (2.00%) Network Security
1 2 (2.00%) SMTP
1 2 (2.00%) SSL
1 2 (2.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.00%) Intranet
2 1 (1.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (9.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.00%) MongoDB
3 4 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (3.00%) Redis
4 3 (3.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.00%) Big Data
5 2 (2.00%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.00%) Power BI
5 2 (2.00%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (2.00%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (10.00%) Git
2 9 (9.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.00%) Bitbucket
3 4 (4.00%) JIRA
4 2 (2.00%) Ant
4 2 (2.00%) Babel
4 2 (2.00%) NUnit
4 2 (2.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.00%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.00%) webpack
5 1 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.00%) Crucible
5 1 (1.00%) Maven
5 1 (1.00%) Postman
5 1 (1.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (21.00%) Banking
2 20 (20.00%) Finance
2 20 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 14 (14.00%) Front Office
4 6 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.00%) Back Office
6 4 (4.00%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.00%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.00%) Retail
8 2 (2.00%) Marketing
9 1 (1.00%) Advertising
9 1 (1.00%) Billing
9 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (48.00%) Developer
2 18 (18.00%) Software Engineer
3 15 (15.00%) .NET Developer
4 13 (13.00%) Lead
5 10 (10.00%) C# Developer
5 10 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (10.00%) Senior
6 6 (6.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (6.00%) Technical Leader
7 5 (5.00%) Algorithm Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Lead Developer
8 4 (4.00%) React Developer
9 3 (3.00%) Angular Developer
9 3 (3.00%) C# .NET Developer
9 3 (3.00%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.00%) SharePoint Engineer
9 3 (3.00%) Trainer
10 2 (2.00%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (17.00%) .NET Core
2 16 (16.00%) HTML
3 15 (15.00%) CSS
4 13 (13.00%) React
5 12 (12.00%) Kafka
6 11 (11.00%) .NET Framework
7 10 (10.00%) AngularJS
7 10 (10.00%) ASP.NET
8 8 (8.00%) RESTful
8 8 (8.00%) Web Services
9 7 (7.00%) Blazor
10 6 (6.00%) Entity Framework
10 6 (6.00%) HTML5
10 6 (6.00%) REST
11 4 (4.00%) ASP.NET Core
11 4 (4.00%) GraphQL
11 4 (4.00%) JSON
12 3 (3.00%) Node.js
12 3 (3.00%) OAuth
12 3 (3.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.00%) Low-Code
2 6 (6.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.00%) Sports Betting
5 3 (3.00%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.00%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.00%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.00%) Equities
6 2 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.00%) TWAP
6 2 (2.00%) VWAP
7 1 (1.00%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.00%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.00%) Windows
2 2 (2.00%) Linux
3 1 (1.00%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (37.00%) DevOps
2 33 (33.00%) CI/CD
3 29 (29.00%) Agile
4 25 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 24 (24.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 18 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (14.00%) Microservices
7 14 (14.00%) Test Automation
8 11 (11.00%) Front End Development
9 10 (10.00%) Scrum
9 10 (10.00%) SDLC
10 9 (9.00%) CRM
10 9 (9.00%) Migration
10 9 (9.00%) SOLID
11 8 (8.00%) Data Analysis
12 7 (7.00%) Analytics
12 7 (7.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (7.00%) Technical Leadership
12 7 (7.00%) Unit Testing
13 6 (6.00%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 62 (62.00%) C#
2 34 (34.00%) JavaScript
3 26 (26.00%) SQL
4 12 (12.00%) Python
5 8 (8.00%) PowerShell
6 6 (6.00%) TypeScript
7 5 (5.00%) T-SQL
8 4 (4.00%) Bicep
8 4 (4.00%) C++
9 3 (3.00%) Java
9 3 (3.00%) VBA
10 2 (2.00%) Go
10 2 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (2.00%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.00%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.00%) Groovy
11 1 (1.00%) Perl
11 1 (1.00%) Ruby
11 1 (1.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.00%) Degree
4 2 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.00%) QA
2 5 (5.00%) EMIR
2 5 (5.00%) MiFID
3 2 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.00%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 14 (14.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (17.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.00%) Terraform
3 3 (3.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.00%) Grafana
5 1 (1.00%) Ansible
5 1 (1.00%) Control-M
5 1 (1.00%) Rancher
5 1 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.00%) Oracle
3 5 (5.00%) Databricks
4 2 (2.00%) Bloomberg
4 2 (2.00%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.00%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.00%) CQG
5 1 (1.00%) Google
5 1 (1.00%) IBM
5 1 (1.00%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.00%) OpenLink
5 1 (1.00%) Reuters
5 1 (1.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.00%) SAP
5 1 (1.00%) Splunk
5 1 (1.00%) Talend