.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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 40 33
Rank change year-on-year -37 -7 +3
Contract jobs citing .NET 54 90 113
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.35% 5.15% 5.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.41% 18.91% 22.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 51 73
10th Percentile £461 £404 £415
25th Percentile £525 £478 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £750 £681 £675
90th Percentile £830 £813 £748
Central London median daily rate £588 £580 £538
% change year-on-year +1.29% +7.91% -17.31%

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 435 476 502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.90% 27.25% 23.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 299 347
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £475 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +1.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £693
90th Percentile £763 £765 £800
Central London median daily rate £560 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +1.82% - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £22.51 - -
25th Percentile £31.03 - -
Median hourly rate £37.50 - -
75th Percentile £59.72 - -
90th Percentile £68.89 - -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 - -

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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 18 May 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 1 (1.85%) CMS
1 1 (1.85%) Kentico
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.85%) Sitefinity
1 1 (1.85%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (20.37%) Endur
2 1 (1.85%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.85%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 16 (29.63%) Azure
2 11 (20.37%) AWS
3 9 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 8 (14.81%) GitHub
5 7 (12.96%) SaaS
6 6 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (9.26%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.56%) IaaS
8 3 (5.56%) PaaS
8 3 (5.56%) Serverless
9 2 (3.70%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.70%) Power Automate
9 2 (3.70%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) HTTP
1 1 (1.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.11%) Power BI
1 6 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.70%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.70%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (1.85%) Fiddler
2 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.85%) MSI
2 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (31.48%) Finance
2 12 (22.22%) Banking
3 5 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.26%) Manufacturing
3 5 (9.26%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.56%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Back Office
5 1 (1.85%) Billing
5 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.85%) Front Office
5 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (44.44%) Developer
2 11 (20.37%) Endur Developer
2 11 (20.37%) OpenLink Developer
3 9 (16.67%) Senior
4 7 (12.96%) Software Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) .NET Software Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) Architect
6 5 (9.26%) Hardware Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Integration Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Lead
6 5 (9.26%) Senior Developer
6 5 (9.26%) Software Integration Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (5.56%) .NET Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Applications Tester
8 3 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Tester
9 2 (3.70%) C# Developer
9 2 (3.70%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.11%) React
2 5 (9.26%) .NET Framework
2 5 (9.26%) REST
3 4 (7.41%) AngularJS
3 4 (7.41%) HTML
4 3 (5.56%) ASP.NET
4 3 (5.56%) RESTful
5 2 (3.70%) .NET Core
5 2 (3.70%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (3.70%) CSS
5 2 (3.70%) Kafka
5 2 (3.70%) Node.js
5 2 (3.70%) Playwright
5 2 (3.70%) PySpark
5 2 (3.70%) Redux
6 1 (1.85%) FHIR
6 1 (1.85%) Flask
6 1 (1.85%) Jest
6 1 (1.85%) Next.js
6 1 (1.85%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.26%) Life Science
3 3 (5.56%) AI Agents
3 3 (5.56%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.70%) Hackathon
4 2 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.85%) Device Driver
5 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) Equities
5 1 (1.85%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.85%) IoT
5 1 (1.85%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.85%) NHS
5 1 (1.85%) PACS
5 1 (1.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Windows
2 3 (5.56%) Linux
3 2 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (18.52%) CI/CD
1 10 (18.52%) DevOps
1 10 (18.52%) Test Automation
2 9 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (14.81%) Software Engineering
4 7 (12.96%) Event-Driven
5 6 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 5 (9.26%) Agile
6 5 (9.26%) Observability
6 5 (9.26%) Software Testing
7 4 (7.41%) AI
7 4 (7.41%) Containerisation
7 4 (7.41%) Data Modelling
7 4 (7.41%) Integration Testing
7 4 (7.41%) Microservices
7 4 (7.41%) Roadmaps
7 4 (7.41%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (5.56%) API Design
8 3 (5.56%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (5.56%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 19 (35.19%) C#
2 15 (27.78%) SQL
3 12 (22.22%) Python
4 9 (16.67%) Java
5 8 (14.81%) JavaScript
6 5 (9.26%) PL/SQL
7 4 (7.41%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (3.70%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.85%) C++
9 1 (1.85%) Go
9 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (9.26%) SC Cleared
1 5 (9.26%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) QA
2 1 (1.85%) GDPR
2 1 (1.85%) HL7
2 1 (1.85%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.85%) PSD2
2 1 (1.85%) SEPA
2 1 (1.85%) TARGET2
System Software
1 6 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.26%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.70%) Terraform
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (12.96%) OpenLink
1 7 (12.96%) Oracle
2 5 (9.26%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.41%) Databricks
4 2 (3.70%) Citrix
5 1 (1.85%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (1.85%) SAP
5 1 (1.85%) UiPath