.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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 50 31
Rank change year-on-year -12 -19 0
Contract jobs citing .NET 74 74 122
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.19% 4.10% 5.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.41% 14.48% 21.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 54 90
10th Percentile £434 £404 £406
25th Percentile £513 £409 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £626 £578
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% +8.44% -11.15%
75th Percentile £669 £684 £675
90th Percentile £875 £771 £753
Central London median daily rate £600 £626 £575
% change year-on-year -4.19% +8.91% -11.54%

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 552 511 557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 23.79% 28.33% 26.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 333 372
10th Percentile £425 £401 £425
25th Percentile £475 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £678 £675 £710
90th Percentile £775 £763 £825
Central London median daily rate £563 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £22.51 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £31.03 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% - -
75th Percentile £43.00 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £62.20 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £42.00 £62.50 £25.79
% change year-on-year -32.80% +142.34% -49.92%

.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 26 August 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 5 (6.76%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.70%) IIS
2 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (9.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 28 (37.84%) Azure
2 20 (27.03%) Power Platform
3 11 (14.86%) AWS
4 10 (13.51%) SaaS
4 10 (13.51%) Serverless
5 8 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (10.81%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (10.81%) Power Automate
6 7 (9.46%) GitHub
6 7 (9.46%) PowerApps
7 6 (8.11%) Azure Functions
7 6 (8.11%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (6.76%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (5.41%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.41%) Entra ID
9 4 (5.41%) IaaS
9 4 (5.41%) PaaS
10 3 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.41%) DNS
1 4 (5.41%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.70%) DHCP
2 2 (2.70%) Firewall
2 2 (2.70%) Internet
2 2 (2.70%) Intranet
2 2 (2.70%) VLAN
2 2 (2.70%) VPN
2 2 (2.70%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.35%) LAN
3 1 (1.35%) Multicast
3 1 (1.35%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (22.97%) SQL Server
2 9 (12.16%) Power BI
3 8 (10.81%) Oracle Database
4 6 (8.11%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.70%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.70%) SQLPlus
7 1 (1.35%) ClickHouse
7 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (12.16%) Git
2 8 (10.81%) Visual Studio
3 6 (8.11%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.76%) Artifactory
5 4 (5.41%) Bitbucket
6 3 (4.05%) eggPlant
6 3 (4.05%) GitLab
6 3 (4.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (4.05%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (2.70%) Fiddler
7 2 (2.70%) JIRA
7 2 (2.70%) JMeter
7 2 (2.70%) LoadRunner
7 2 (2.70%) MSI
7 2 (2.70%) Postman
7 2 (2.70%) SoapUI
7 2 (2.70%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.70%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.35%) HP UFT
8 1 (1.35%) SilkTest
General
1 25 (33.78%) Banking
2 22 (29.73%) Finance
3 18 (24.32%) Social Skills
4 17 (22.97%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.11%) Front Office
6 5 (6.76%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (5.41%) Investment Banking
8 3 (4.05%) Marketing
9 1 (1.35%) Advertising
9 1 (1.35%) Back Office
9 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 38 (51.35%) Developer
2 13 (17.57%) C# Developer
3 12 (16.22%) Senior
4 10 (13.51%) Lead
5 9 (12.16%) Senior Developer
6 6 (8.11%) Architect
6 6 (8.11%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 6 (8.11%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.41%) .NET Developer
7 4 (5.41%) Applications Support
7 4 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (5.41%) Senior C# Developer
7 4 (5.41%) Software Developer
8 3 (4.05%) Applications Support Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) Applications Tester
8 3 (4.05%) Junior
8 3 (4.05%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.92%) .NET Framework
2 11 (14.86%) REST
3 9 (12.16%) Web Services
4 8 (10.81%) .NET Core
4 8 (10.81%) XML
5 7 (9.46%) SOAP
6 6 (8.11%) ASP.NET
6 6 (8.11%) HTML
7 5 (6.76%) AngularJS
7 5 (6.76%) React
8 4 (5.41%) ASP.NET Web API
8 4 (5.41%) HTML5 Canvas
8 4 (5.41%) Kafka
9 3 (4.05%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 3 (4.05%) CSS
9 3 (4.05%) Middleware
9 3 (4.05%) RESTful
10 2 (2.70%) XBRL
10 2 (2.70%) XSL
10 2 (2.70%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.27%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.11%) Distributed Applications
3 5 (6.76%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (6.76%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.41%) Equities
4 4 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.05%) AI Agents
5 3 (4.05%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (4.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (4.05%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.70%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.35%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.35%) IoT
7 1 (1.35%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.35%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.35%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.22%) Windows
2 11 (14.86%) Linux
3 8 (10.81%) Windows Server
4 7 (9.46%) Unix
5 1 (1.35%) Android
5 1 (1.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (31.08%) DevOps
2 21 (28.38%) CI/CD
3 18 (24.32%) Agile
4 15 (20.27%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (18.92%) Full-Stack Development
6 13 (17.57%) Unit Testing
7 12 (16.22%) SDLC
7 12 (16.22%) Software Engineering
7 12 (16.22%) Test Automation
8 11 (14.86%) Root Cause Analysis
9 10 (13.51%) Software Testing
10 9 (12.16%) User Acceptance Testing
11 8 (10.81%) Risk Management
12 7 (9.46%) AI
12 7 (9.46%) CRM
12 7 (9.46%) Migration
12 7 (9.46%) Performance Tuning
12 7 (9.46%) Refactoring
12 7 (9.46%) Scrum
12 7 (9.46%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 49 (66.22%) C#
2 36 (48.65%) SQL
3 21 (28.38%) Python
4 15 (20.27%) JavaScript
5 10 (13.51%) Java
5 10 (13.51%) PL/SQL
6 7 (9.46%) TypeScript
7 6 (8.11%) PowerShell
8 5 (6.76%) C++
8 5 (6.76%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.70%) Bash
9 2 (2.70%) C
9 2 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.70%) Korn
9 2 (2.70%) ProC
9 2 (2.70%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.35%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (20.27%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.16%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.81%) Degree
4 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.35%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.35%) ISEB
6 1 (1.35%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.22%) QA
2 2 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.35%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (2.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.35%) Docker
2 1 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.05%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (2.70%) Ansible
2 2 (2.70%) Grafana
2 2 (2.70%) HP Fortify
2 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.35%) Control-M
3 1 (1.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (24.32%) Microsoft
1 18 (24.32%) Oracle
2 6 (8.11%) Databricks
3 5 (6.76%) Citrix
4 4 (5.41%) IBM
4 4 (5.41%) SAP
4 4 (5.41%) Sitecore
5 3 (4.05%) ION Trading
5 3 (4.05%) Splunk
6 2 (2.70%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.70%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.35%) Cisco
7 1 (1.35%) F5
7 1 (1.35%) Google
7 1 (1.35%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.35%) UiPath
7 1 (1.35%) VMware