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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 48 33
Rank change year-on-year -30 -15 -3
Contract jobs citing .NET 67 83 118
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.78% 4.45% 5.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.56% 17.62% 24.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 59 87
10th Percentile £459 £404 £410
25th Percentile £513 £424 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -14.02%
75th Percentile £688 £694 £675
90th Percentile £875 £783 £760
Central London median daily rate £600 £575 £569
% change year-on-year +4.35% +1.10% -13.33%

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 494 471 487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.51% 25.24% 23.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 305 327
10th Percentile £414 £404 £422
25th Percentile £475 £438 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £756 £825
Central London median daily rate £567 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +3.14% -8.33% -4.00%
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 £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 8 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 3 (4.48%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.99%) IIS
2 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (8.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.49%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 25 (37.31%) Azure
2 17 (25.37%) Power Platform
3 12 (17.91%) AWS
4 10 (14.93%) SaaS
5 9 (13.43%) GitHub
6 8 (11.94%) Serverless
7 7 (10.45%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (8.96%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (8.96%) Power Automate
8 6 (8.96%) PowerApps
9 5 (7.46%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (7.46%) Entra ID
9 5 (7.46%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (5.97%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (5.97%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (5.97%) Azure Functions
10 4 (5.97%) IaaS
10 4 (5.97%) PaaS
11 3 (4.48%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.48%) DNS
1 3 (4.48%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.99%) DHCP
2 2 (2.99%) Firewall
2 2 (2.99%) Internet
2 2 (2.99%) Intranet
2 2 (2.99%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.49%) LAN
3 1 (1.49%) Multicast
3 1 (1.49%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.49%) VLAN
3 1 (1.49%) VPN
3 1 (1.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.39%) SQL Server
2 9 (13.43%) Power BI
3 7 (10.45%) Oracle Database
4 6 (8.96%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.99%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.99%) SQLPlus
6 1 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (8.96%) Git
1 6 (8.96%) Visual Studio
2 5 (7.46%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.97%) Artifactory
4 3 (4.48%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.48%) GitLab
5 2 (2.99%) Fiddler
5 2 (2.99%) MSI
5 2 (2.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (2.99%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.99%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.49%) eggPlant
6 1 (1.49%) JIRA
6 1 (1.49%) JMeter
6 1 (1.49%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.49%) Postman
6 1 (1.49%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.49%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 23 (34.33%) Banking
2 19 (28.36%) Finance
3 16 (23.88%) Social Skills
4 15 (22.39%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.97%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.48%) Front Office
6 3 (4.48%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.99%) Marketing
7 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.49%) Advertising
8 1 (1.49%) Back Office
8 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 30 (44.78%) Developer
2 11 (16.42%) Senior
3 10 (14.93%) C# Developer
4 8 (11.94%) Lead
5 7 (10.45%) Architect
5 7 (10.45%) Senior Developer
5 7 (10.45%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (5.97%) .NET Developer
6 4 (5.97%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 4 (5.97%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (5.97%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Applications Support
7 3 (4.48%) Applications Tester
7 3 (4.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Junior
7 3 (4.48%) Senior C# Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Software Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Tester
7 3 (4.48%) Workflow Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.40%) .NET Framework
2 9 (13.43%) REST
3 8 (11.94%) .NET Core
4 7 (10.45%) ASP.NET
5 6 (8.96%) AngularJS
5 6 (8.96%) React
5 6 (8.96%) XML
6 5 (7.46%) HTML
6 5 (7.46%) Web Services
7 4 (5.97%) RESTful
8 3 (4.48%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (4.48%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (4.48%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 3 (4.48%) CSS
8 3 (4.48%) HTML5 Canvas
8 3 (4.48%) Kafka
8 3 (4.48%) SOAP
9 2 (2.99%) Next.js
9 2 (2.99%) Playwright
9 2 (2.99%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.90%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.96%) Distributed Applications
3 5 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.97%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.97%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.48%) AI Agents
5 3 (4.48%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (4.48%) Equities
5 3 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.49%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.49%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.49%) IoT
7 1 (1.49%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.49%) PKI
7 1 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.42%) Windows
2 8 (11.94%) Linux
3 7 (10.45%) Windows Server
4 5 (7.46%) Unix
5 1 (1.49%) Android
5 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (29.85%) DevOps
2 19 (28.36%) CI/CD
3 15 (22.39%) Full-Stack Development
4 14 (20.90%) Agile
5 12 (17.91%) Software Engineering
5 12 (17.91%) Unit Testing
6 10 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (14.93%) SDLC
6 10 (14.93%) Test Automation
7 9 (13.43%) Root Cause Analysis
8 8 (11.94%) Code Quality
8 8 (11.94%) Event-Driven
8 8 (11.94%) Migration
8 8 (11.94%) Software Testing
9 7 (10.45%) AI
9 7 (10.45%) Microservices
9 7 (10.45%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (8.96%) Refactoring
10 6 (8.96%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 44 (65.67%) C#
2 32 (47.76%) SQL
3 15 (22.39%) JavaScript
3 15 (22.39%) Python
4 10 (14.93%) PL/SQL
5 8 (11.94%) Java
6 7 (10.45%) TypeScript
7 5 (7.46%) C++
7 5 (7.46%) PowerShell
7 5 (7.46%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.99%) C
8 2 (2.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.99%) ProC
9 1 (1.49%) Bash
9 1 (1.49%) Go
9 1 (1.49%) Korn
9 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.45%) Degree
3 6 (8.96%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.91%) QA
2 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.49%) GDPR
2 1 (1.49%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (1.49%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.49%) PSD2
2 1 (1.49%) SEPA
2 1 (1.49%) TARGET2
System Software
1 3 (4.48%) Docker
2 2 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.48%) Terraform
2 2 (2.99%) Ansible
2 2 (2.99%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (2.99%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.49%) Grafana
3 1 (1.49%) HP Fortify
3 1 (1.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (22.39%) Oracle
2 13 (19.40%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.96%) Databricks
4 5 (7.46%) Citrix
5 4 (5.97%) Sitecore
6 3 (4.48%) IBM
7 2 (2.99%) ION Trading
7 2 (2.99%) SAP
7 2 (2.99%) Splunk
8 1 (1.49%) Cisco
8 1 (1.49%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.49%) F5
8 1 (1.49%) Google
8 1 (1.49%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.49%) UiPath
8 1 (1.49%) VMware