.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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 35 42
Rank change year-on-year -45 +7 -9
Contract jobs citing .NET 54 97 100
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.41% 5.50% 4.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.95% 19.84% 20.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 56 62
10th Percentile £429 £402 £425
25th Percentile £472 £457 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £694 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £805 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £563
% change year-on-year -5.98% +4.00% -12.79%

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 452 489 477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.20% 27.72% 21.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 315 336
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £461 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -9.60%
75th Percentile £665 £680 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £551
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.45% -11.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £22.51 - -
25th Percentile £31.03 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
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 21 April 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%) Sitefinity
1 1 (1.85%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 12 (22.22%) 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 20 (37.04%) Azure
2 9 (16.67%) AWS
3 7 (12.96%) GitHub
4 6 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 5 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (7.41%) PaaS
7 3 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (5.56%) IaaS
7 3 (5.56%) SaaS
8 2 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.70%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.70%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.85%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.56%) Power BI
3 3 (5.56%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Git
1 3 (5.56%) Postman
2 2 (3.70%) Selenium
3 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.85%) MSTest
General
1 18 (33.33%) Finance
2 8 (14.81%) Banking
3 7 (12.96%) Social Skills
4 5 (9.26%) Manufacturing
5 4 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (7.41%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.70%) Front Office
8 1 (1.85%) Back Office
8 1 (1.85%) Billing
8 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.85%) Police
8 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (44.44%) Developer
2 12 (22.22%) Endur Developer
2 12 (22.22%) OpenLink Developer
3 8 (14.81%) Software Engineer
4 7 (12.96%) Senior
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%) Software Integration Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (7.41%) .NET Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Applications Tester
8 3 (5.56%) Lead
8 3 (5.56%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Tester
9 2 (3.70%) C# Developer
9 2 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (3.70%) SQL Developer
9 2 (3.70%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.11%) .NET Framework
2 5 (9.26%) REST
3 4 (7.41%) AngularJS
3 4 (7.41%) HTML
4 3 (5.56%) React
5 2 (3.70%) ASP.NET
5 2 (3.70%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (3.70%) CSS
5 2 (3.70%) Node.js
5 2 (3.70%) Playwright
5 2 (3.70%) RESTful
6 1 (1.85%) Django
6 1 (1.85%) FHIR
6 1 (1.85%) Jest
6 1 (1.85%) JSON
6 1 (1.85%) SOAP
6 1 (1.85%) Spring
6 1 (1.85%) WinForms
6 1 (1.85%) WPF
6 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.26%) Cloud Native
1 5 (9.26%) Life Science
2 3 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.70%) AI Agents
3 2 (3.70%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (3.70%) Hackathon
3 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.85%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.85%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.85%) Device Driver
4 1 (1.85%) Equities
4 1 (1.85%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.85%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.85%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.85%) NHS
4 1 (1.85%) PACS
4 1 (1.85%) Robotics
4 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Windows
2 3 (5.56%) Linux
3 1 (1.85%) 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%) Software Engineering
3 7 (12.96%) Event-Driven
3 7 (12.96%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (12.96%) Software Testing
4 6 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 5 (9.26%) AI
5 5 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (9.26%) Roadmaps
6 4 (7.41%) Agile
6 4 (7.41%) Manual Testing
6 4 (7.41%) Microservices
6 4 (7.41%) Observability
6 4 (7.41%) Regression Testing
6 4 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (7.41%) Test Scripting
6 4 (7.41%) TOGAF
6 4 (7.41%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (35.19%) C#
2 16 (29.63%) SQL
3 11 (20.37%) Java
4 10 (18.52%) Python
5 5 (9.26%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.56%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.70%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.85%) Go
8 1 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.85%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.85%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (14.81%) SC Cleared
1 8 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.70%) Degree
3 1 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.85%) CCSP
3 1 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.85%) CISSP
3 1 (1.85%) OSCP
3 1 (1.85%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) GDPR
1 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.70%) QA
2 1 (1.85%) GRC
2 1 (1.85%) HL7
2 1 (1.85%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.85%) NCSC
2 1 (1.85%) NIST
2 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.85%) PSD2
2 1 (1.85%) SEPA
2 1 (1.85%) TARGET2
System Software
1 7 (12.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.26%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (14.81%) OpenLink
2 6 (11.11%) Oracle
3 5 (9.26%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.56%) Databricks
5 1 (1.85%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.85%) Citrix
5 1 (1.85%) Google
5 1 (1.85%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (1.85%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.85%) SAP
5 1 (1.85%) UiPath