.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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 39 32
Rank change year-on-year +2 -7 -4
Contract jobs citing .NET 95 105 216
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 5.37% 4.73% 5.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.63% 21.69% 20.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 68 149
10th Percentile £402 £421 £448
25th Percentile £489 £463 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £569 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -12.50% +8.33%
75th Percentile £678 £675 £738
90th Percentile £813 £750 £825
Central London median daily rate £585 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +6.36% -15.38% +8.33%

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 484 484 1,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.36% 21.78% 28.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 346 677
10th Percentile £413 £403 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -9.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £685 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £781 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £551 £625
% change year-on-year +4.45% -11.92% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.25
Median hourly rate - - £59.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.26%
75th Percentile - - £60.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £59.50
% change year-on-year - - +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 26 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 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.16%) CMS
2 3 (3.16%) Confluence
2 3 (3.16%) Drupal
3 2 (2.11%) Apache
3 2 (2.11%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.11%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (7.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.16%) Endur
3 1 (1.05%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 48 (50.53%) Azure
2 20 (21.05%) AWS
3 19 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (14.74%) Power Platform
5 7 (7.37%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (6.32%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (6.32%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (6.32%) Azure Service Bus
6 6 (6.32%) GitHub
6 6 (6.32%) Serverless
7 5 (5.26%) Azure Functions
8 4 (4.21%) Azure AKS
8 4 (4.21%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (4.21%) PowerApps
9 3 (3.16%) Azure App Service
9 3 (3.16%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (3.16%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.16%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.16%) Storyblok
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.11%) DNS
1 2 (2.11%) Firewall
1 2 (2.11%) FTP
1 2 (2.11%) HTTP
1 2 (2.11%) Network Security
1 2 (2.11%) SMTP
1 2 (2.11%) SSL
1 2 (2.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.05%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (24.21%) SQL Server
2 9 (9.47%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.26%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.21%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.21%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (3.16%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.11%) Big Data
6 2 (2.11%) Power BI
6 2 (2.11%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (2.11%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.05%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.05%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.05%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (13.68%) Git
2 9 (9.47%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.21%) Bitbucket
3 4 (4.21%) JIRA
4 3 (3.16%) NUnit
5 2 (2.11%) Ant
5 2 (2.11%) Babel
5 2 (2.11%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.11%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.11%) webpack
6 1 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.05%) Crucible
6 1 (1.05%) Maven
6 1 (1.05%) Postman
6 1 (1.05%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (24.21%) Finance
2 22 (23.16%) Banking
3 18 (18.95%) Social Skills
4 15 (15.79%) Front Office
5 5 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.26%) Back Office
6 4 (4.21%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.21%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.16%) Retail
8 2 (2.11%) Marketing
9 1 (1.05%) Advertising
9 1 (1.05%) Billing
9 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (50.53%) Developer
2 16 (16.84%) Software Engineer
3 13 (13.68%) .NET Developer
4 11 (11.58%) Lead
5 9 (9.47%) C# Developer
5 9 (9.47%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (9.47%) Senior
6 6 (6.32%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (6.32%) Technical Leader
7 5 (5.26%) Algorithm Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) React Developer
9 3 (3.16%) Angular Developer
9 3 (3.16%) Lead Developer
9 3 (3.16%) OpenLink Developer
9 3 (3.16%) Power Platform Developer
9 3 (3.16%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.16%) SharePoint Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.79%) .NET Core
1 15 (15.79%) HTML
2 13 (13.68%) CSS
3 11 (11.58%) ASP.NET
3 11 (11.58%) React
4 9 (9.47%) .NET Framework
4 9 (9.47%) AngularJS
4 9 (9.47%) Kafka
5 8 (8.42%) RESTful
5 8 (8.42%) Web Services
6 6 (6.32%) Blazor
7 5 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
7 5 (5.26%) Entity Framework
7 5 (5.26%) REST
8 4 (4.21%) GraphQL
8 4 (4.21%) HTML5
8 4 (4.21%) JSON
8 4 (4.21%) WPF
9 3 (3.16%) jQuery
9 3 (3.16%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.32%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.26%) Low-Code
2 5 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.16%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.16%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.11%) Equities
4 2 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.11%) TWAP
4 2 (2.11%) VWAP
5 1 (1.05%) Derivative
5 1 (1.05%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.05%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.05%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.26%) Windows
2 2 (2.11%) Linux
3 1 (1.05%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.89%) DevOps
2 31 (32.63%) CI/CD
3 25 (26.32%) Agile
4 22 (23.16%) Full-Stack Development
4 22 (23.16%) Software Engineering
5 17 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (14.74%) Microservices
7 11 (11.58%) Front End Development
7 11 (11.58%) Test Automation
8 9 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (8.42%) Unit Testing
10 7 (7.37%) CRM
10 7 (7.37%) Migration
10 7 (7.37%) SDLC
10 7 (7.37%) Technical Leadership
11 6 (6.32%) Code Quality
11 6 (6.32%) Data Analysis
11 6 (6.32%) Multithreading
11 6 (6.32%) MVC
11 6 (6.32%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 59 (62.11%) C#
2 31 (32.63%) JavaScript
3 25 (26.32%) SQL
4 16 (16.84%) Python
5 8 (8.42%) PowerShell
6 6 (6.32%) Java
7 5 (5.26%) T-SQL
8 4 (4.21%) Bicep
8 4 (4.21%) C++
8 4 (4.21%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.16%) VBA
10 2 (2.11%) Go
10 2 (2.11%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (2.11%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.05%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.05%) Groovy
11 1 (1.05%) Perl
11 1 (1.05%) Ruby
11 1 (1.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (12.63%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.47%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.16%) Degree
4 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.05%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.26%) EMIR
1 5 (5.26%) MiFID
2 4 (4.21%) QA
3 3 (3.16%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.11%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.11%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 13 (13.68%) Docker
2 1 (1.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (16.84%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.32%) Terraform
3 3 (3.16%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.11%) Grafana
5 1 (1.05%) Ansible
5 1 (1.05%) Control-M
5 1 (1.05%) Rancher
Vendors
1 17 (17.89%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.37%) Oracle
3 5 (5.26%) Databricks
4 3 (3.16%) OpenLink
5 2 (2.11%) Bloomberg
5 2 (2.11%) IBM
5 2 (2.11%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.05%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.05%) CQG
6 1 (1.05%) Google
6 1 (1.05%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.05%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.05%) Reuters
6 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.05%) SAP
6 1 (1.05%) Splunk
6 1 (1.05%) Talend