.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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 30 29
Rank change year-on-year -27 -1 -13
Contract jobs citing .NET 66 122 147
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.66% 5.86% 5.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.75% 22.98% 24.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 76 95
10th Percentile £404 £403 £448
25th Percentile £481 £525 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £744
90th Percentile £750 £856 £825
Central London median daily rate £625 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +13.04%

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 419 531 598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 23.24% 25.49% 23.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 321 416
10th Percentile £361 £413 £400
25th Percentile £447 £490 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £595 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.52% -0.83% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £713
90th Percentile £763 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £593 £600
% change year-on-year -7.17% -1.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £44.38 - -
25th Percentile £47.19 £36.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.61% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £59.69 £40.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.13 - -
Central London median hourly rate £53.75 £38.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +39.61% -18.95% -20.17%

.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 17 December 2025.

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 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.55%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.03%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 7 (10.61%) Endur
2 3 (4.55%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (4.55%) Workday HCM
3 1 (1.52%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.52%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.52%) Orchestrade
3 1 (1.52%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 38 (57.58%) Azure
2 12 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (15.15%) AWS
4 7 (10.61%) PaaS
5 6 (9.09%) Serverless
6 4 (6.06%) Amazon S3
6 4 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (6.06%) Entra ID
6 4 (6.06%) GitHub
6 4 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (6.06%) Power Platform
6 4 (6.06%) Snowflake
7 3 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.03%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (3.03%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.03%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.55%) Power BI
3 2 (3.03%) Event Store
3 2 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.03%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (9.09%) Git
2 5 (7.58%) Postman
3 4 (6.06%) JIRA
3 4 (6.06%) Selenium
4 3 (4.55%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.55%) Cucumber
4 3 (4.55%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.03%) GitLab
5 2 (3.03%) Gradle
5 2 (3.03%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.03%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (3.03%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.52%) MSTest
General
1 27 (40.91%) Finance
2 15 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 13 (19.70%) Banking
4 9 (13.64%) Investment Banking
5 6 (9.09%) Front Office
6 4 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (6.06%) Retail Banking
7 3 (4.55%) Back Office
7 3 (4.55%) Manufacturing
7 3 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.03%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.52%) Police
Job Titles
1 30 (45.45%) Developer
2 11 (16.67%) Senior
3 10 (15.15%) Lead
4 8 (12.12%) .NET Developer
4 8 (12.12%) Architect
5 7 (10.61%) Endur Developer
5 7 (10.61%) OpenLink Developer
6 4 (6.06%) C# Developer
6 4 (6.06%) Senior Developer
6 4 (6.06%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.55%) .NET Software Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Analyst
7 3 (4.55%) Azure Developer
7 3 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (4.55%) Hardware Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Integration Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Software Integration Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.12%) HTML
2 7 (10.61%) AngularJS
3 6 (9.09%) CSS
4 4 (6.06%) .NET Framework
4 4 (6.06%) HTML5
4 4 (6.06%) Node.js
4 4 (6.06%) React
4 4 (6.06%) REST
4 4 (6.06%) RESTful
4 4 (6.06%) Web Services
5 3 (4.55%) .NET Core
5 3 (4.55%) Blazor
5 3 (4.55%) jQuery
5 3 (4.55%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (3.03%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.03%) Kafka
6 2 (3.03%) RxJS
7 1 (1.52%) KnockoutJS
7 1 (1.52%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.52%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.58%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.06%) Low-Code
3 3 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.55%) Life Science
3 3 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.03%) Derivative
4 2 (3.03%) Hedge funds
4 2 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.52%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.52%) CMDB
5 1 (1.52%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.52%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.52%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.52%) PACS
5 1 (1.52%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.52%) Robotics
5 1 (1.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.06%) Windows
2 2 (3.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (30.30%) DevOps
2 16 (24.24%) Software Engineering
3 15 (22.73%) Agile
4 13 (19.70%) Event-Driven
4 13 (19.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 13 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 11 (16.67%) Test Automation
7 10 (15.15%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (13.64%) Computer Science
9 8 (12.12%) Fintech
9 8 (12.12%) Roadmaps
9 8 (12.12%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (9.09%) Microservices
11 6 (9.09%) Project Delivery
11 6 (9.09%) Scrum
11 6 (9.09%) SDLC
11 6 (9.09%) Systems Analysis
12 5 (7.58%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 37 (56.06%) C#
2 21 (31.82%) SQL
3 17 (25.76%) Java
4 13 (19.70%) Python
5 10 (15.15%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.06%) TypeScript
6 4 (6.06%) VB.NET
7 3 (4.55%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.03%) Rust
9 1 (1.52%) C++
9 1 (1.52%) F#
9 1 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (13.64%) Degree
1 9 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.61%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.03%) CBAP
4 2 (3.03%) ISEB
5 1 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.52%) CCSP
5 1 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.52%) CISSP
5 1 (1.52%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.52%) OSCP
5 1 (1.52%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) GDPR
2 3 (4.55%) COBIT
2 3 (4.55%) QA
3 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.52%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.52%) GRC
3 1 (1.52%) HL7
3 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.52%) MiFID
3 1 (1.52%) NCSC
3 1 (1.52%) NIST
3 1 (1.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (7.58%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.03%) Ansible
3 1 (1.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.61%) OpenLink
3 5 (7.58%) Databricks
4 4 (6.06%) Oracle
5 3 (4.55%) OutSystems
5 3 (4.55%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.55%) UiPath
5 3 (4.55%) Workday
6 2 (3.03%) DevExpress
6 2 (3.03%) DocuSign
7 1 (1.52%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.52%) Google
7 1 (1.52%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.52%) Portware
7 1 (1.52%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.52%) SAP