.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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 30 29
Rank change year-on-year -20 -1 -8
Contract jobs citing .NET 75 122 188
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.36% 5.76% 6.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.77% 23.55% 26.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 89 122
10th Percentile £404 £400 £450
25th Percentile £424 £513 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £682 £675 £750
90th Percentile £756 £828 £825
Central London median daily rate £625 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +4.21% -7.73% +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 422 518 702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.52% 24.45% 24.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 317 471
10th Percentile £400 £404 £406
25th Percentile £463 £500 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £710 £725
90th Percentile £763 £838 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -8.33% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £63.75 - £46.93
25th Percentile £67.50 £36.75 £47.94
Median hourly rate £75.00 £38.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +94.81% -23.38% -15.90%
75th Percentile £82.50 £40.25 £51.94
90th Percentile £86.25 - £52.58
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 £38.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year +62.34% -23.38% -15.90%

.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 16 October 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 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Endur
2 3 (4.00%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (4.00%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (4.00%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (4.00%) Workday HCM
3 2 (2.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.33%) Aladdin
4 1 (1.33%) Fidessa
4 1 (1.33%) Maximo
4 1 (1.33%) Orchestrade
4 1 (1.33%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 44 (58.67%) Azure
2 12 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (10.67%) AWS
4 6 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (8.00%) PaaS
4 6 (8.00%) Power Platform
4 6 (8.00%) Serverless
5 4 (5.33%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (5.33%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (5.33%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.33%) Snowflake
6 3 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (4.00%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (4.00%) GitHub
6 3 (4.00%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.67%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.67%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (24.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (5.33%) Power BI
3 4 (5.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (4.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.67%) Event Store
5 2 (2.67%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.67%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.33%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.33%) DB2
6 1 (1.33%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (9.33%) Git
2 5 (6.67%) JIRA
3 3 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.67%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.67%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.67%) GitLab
4 2 (2.67%) Gradle
4 2 (2.67%) Postman
4 2 (2.67%) Selenium
4 2 (2.67%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.67%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (2.67%) TeamCity
General
1 40 (53.33%) Finance
2 19 (25.33%) Banking
2 19 (25.33%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.67%) Investment Banking
4 7 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.00%) Front Office
6 4 (5.33%) Retail Banking
7 3 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.67%) Back Office
8 2 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.67%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.67%) Legal
8 2 (2.67%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 41 (54.67%) Developer
2 15 (20.00%) Senior
3 14 (18.67%) .NET Developer
4 11 (14.67%) Lead
5 7 (9.33%) Architect
5 7 (9.33%) C# Developer
5 7 (9.33%) Senior Developer
6 6 (8.00%) Applications Developer
6 6 (8.00%) Senior .NET Developer
7 4 (5.33%) Angular Developer
7 4 (5.33%) Automation Developer
7 4 (5.33%) C# .NET Developer
7 4 (5.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (5.33%) OpenLink Developer
7 4 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.00%) Azure Developer
8 3 (4.00%) BPM Developer
8 3 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.67%) Applications Engineer
9 2 (2.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (17.33%) HTML
2 12 (16.00%) AngularJS
3 11 (14.67%) CSS
4 7 (9.33%) .NET Core
4 7 (9.33%) Node.js
4 7 (9.33%) REST
4 7 (9.33%) Web Services
5 6 (8.00%) React
5 6 (8.00%) RESTful
6 5 (6.67%) HTML5
6 5 (6.67%) jQuery
7 4 (5.33%) .NET Framework
7 4 (5.33%) ASP.NET
7 4 (5.33%) Blazor
7 4 (5.33%) Vue
7 4 (5.33%) WPF
8 3 (4.00%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (4.00%) Lightning Web Components
9 2 (2.67%) Entity Framework
9 2 (2.67%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.67%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (6.67%) Low-Code
3 4 (5.33%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.33%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.67%) Derivative
5 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.67%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.67%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.33%) AS400
6 1 (1.33%) CMDB
6 1 (1.33%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.33%) iSeries
6 1 (1.33%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (37.33%) DevOps
2 23 (30.67%) Agile
3 18 (24.00%) CI/CD
4 16 (21.33%) Software Engineering
5 14 (18.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 13 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (14.67%) Test Automation
8 10 (13.33%) Data Analysis
8 10 (13.33%) Event-Driven
8 10 (13.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 10 (13.33%) Microservices
9 9 (12.00%) Computer Science
9 9 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (10.67%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (10.67%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (10.67%) Roadmaps
11 7 (9.33%) Design Patterns
11 7 (9.33%) Project Delivery
11 7 (9.33%) Scrum
11 7 (9.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 57 (76.00%) C#
2 38 (50.67%) SQL
3 20 (26.67%) JavaScript
4 19 (25.33%) Java
4 19 (25.33%) Python
5 4 (5.33%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.00%) VB.NET
7 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.67%) Rust
7 2 (2.67%) VBA
8 1 (1.33%) Bash
8 1 (1.33%) Bicep
8 1 (1.33%) C++
8 1 (1.33%) COBOL
8 1 (1.33%) F#
8 1 (1.33%) PHP
8 1 (1.33%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.33%) RPG
8 1 (1.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (10.67%) Degree
2 5 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.67%) CBAP
5 2 (2.67%) ISEB
6 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.33%) CFA
6 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.33%) QA
2 3 (4.00%) COBIT
2 3 (4.00%) GDPR
3 2 (2.67%) MiFID
4 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.33%) EMIR
4 1 (1.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (4.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (5.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.67%) Ansible
3 1 (1.33%) Grafana
3 1 (1.33%) Istio
3 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (17.33%) Oracle
3 7 (9.33%) Databricks
4 4 (5.33%) OpenLink
4 4 (5.33%) UiPath
5 3 (4.00%) OpenText
5 3 (4.00%) OutSystems
5 3 (4.00%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.00%) Workday
6 2 (2.67%) DevExpress
6 2 (2.67%) DocuSign
6 2 (2.67%) IBM
7 1 (1.33%) Avaloq
7 1 (1.33%) FNZ
7 1 (1.33%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.33%) Portware
7 1 (1.33%) SAP