.NET Contracts in London

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for .NET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited .NET over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 37 34
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 -8
Contract jobs citing .NET 902 1,557 2,602
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 5.09% 5.75% 6.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.38% 20.97% 21.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 699 1,226 2,170
10th Percentile £385 £400 £419
25th Percentile £463 £508 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £750 £738
90th Percentile £750 £806 £800
England median daily rate £539 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.30% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 4
10th Percentile - £33.00 £29.00
25th Percentile - £36.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate - £44.99 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - -10.03% +12.36%
75th Percentile - £63.87 £52.50
90th Percentile - £70.00 £57.00
England median hourly rate £58.91 £55.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year +7.10% +13.40% +8.99%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

.NET is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,425 7,424 12,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.99% 27.42% 31.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,324 5,530 9,406
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £457 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £730 £700
90th Percentile £821 £813 £788
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 40 68
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.68 £29.75
25th Percentile £23.80 £37.84 £35.00
Median hourly rate £36.84 £66.00 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -44.18% +35.86% -0.35%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £68.80 £76.63 £79.65
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing .NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for .NET in London

.NET
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET in London.

Daily rate trend for .NET in London

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in London

.NET
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET in London.

Hourly rate trend for .NET in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -3 121 £550 -15.38% 74
West London +19 13 £575 +27.78% 10
East London -7 12 £538 +34.38% 9
South London +15 9 £520 +15.56% 3
.NET
England

.NET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 29 (3.22%) IIS
2 23 (2.55%) CMS
3 14 (1.55%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.33%) Umbraco
5 9 (1.00%) BizTalk Server
6 5 (0.55%) WordPress
7 4 (0.44%) Apache
7 4 (0.44%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.33%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.33%) EPiServer
8 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.22%) Confluence
9 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.11%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.11%) GemFire
10 1 (0.11%) Jadu
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 34 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 27 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.33%) Endur
3 6 (0.67%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.22%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.11%) Aareon QL
6 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.11%) MIS ActiveH
6 1 (0.11%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 463 (51.33%) Azure
2 221 (24.50%) Azure DevOps
3 152 (16.85%) AWS
4 97 (10.75%) Azure Service Bus
5 78 (8.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 65 (7.21%) Entra ID
7 58 (6.43%) Serverless
8 48 (5.32%) Azure Monitor
9 45 (4.99%) GCP
10 42 (4.66%) Azure Functions
10 42 (4.66%) Power Platform
11 35 (3.88%) Azure Logic Apps
12 30 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
13 27 (2.99%) PaaS
14 25 (2.77%) PowerApps
15 21 (2.33%) Azure Pipelines
16 20 (2.22%) Azure API Management
16 20 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
16 20 (2.22%) GitHub
17 19 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.22%) Internet
2 10 (1.11%) DNS
3 8 (0.89%) FTP
4 7 (0.78%) HTTP
5 6 (0.67%) Firewall
5 6 (0.67%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.67%) VPN
6 5 (0.55%) Intranet
6 5 (0.55%) Network Security
7 4 (0.44%) SSH
8 2 (0.22%) BIG-IP
8 2 (0.22%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.22%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.22%) Wireless
9 1 (0.11%) DHCP
9 1 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
9 1 (0.11%) MPLS
9 1 (0.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 303 (33.59%) SQL Server
2 49 (5.43%) NoSQL
3 38 (4.21%) Azure SQL Database
4 34 (3.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 31 (3.44%) Oracle Database
6 26 (2.88%) Relational Database
7 24 (2.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 21 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (2.22%) MongoDB
10 16 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (1.55%) Power BI
12 11 (1.22%) Big Data
12 11 (1.22%) DynamoDB
12 11 (1.22%) Redis
13 10 (1.11%) Data Lake
14 9 (1.00%) GIS
15 6 (0.67%) MySQL
15 6 (0.67%) OLTP
15 6 (0.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 117 (12.97%) Git
2 55 (6.10%) TeamCity
3 45 (4.99%) SpecFlow
3 45 (4.99%) Visual Studio
4 38 (4.21%) Selenium
5 25 (2.77%) Jenkins
6 24 (2.66%) Cucumber
6 24 (2.66%) NUnit
7 21 (2.33%) Postman
7 21 (2.33%) WebDriver
8 18 (2.00%) Moq
9 15 (1.66%) JIRA
10 14 (1.55%) Octopus Deploy
11 12 (1.33%) JUnit
12 11 (1.22%) REST Assured
12 11 (1.22%) SoapUI
13 10 (1.11%) Appium
13 10 (1.11%) eggPlant
13 10 (1.11%) SOAtest
13 10 (1.11%) TestNG
General
1 234 (25.94%) Finance
2 146 (16.19%) Social Skills
3 95 (10.53%) Banking
3 95 (10.53%) Front Office
4 83 (9.20%) Public Sector
5 59 (6.54%) Back Office
6 47 (5.21%) Investment Banking
7 46 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
8 29 (3.22%) Local Government
9 15 (1.66%) Marketing
10 12 (1.33%) Retail
11 10 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (1.11%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.00%) Electronics
12 9 (1.00%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.00%) Law
12 9 (1.00%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.22%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 564 (62.53%) Developer
2 258 (28.60%) .NET Developer
3 203 (22.51%) C# Developer
4 174 (19.29%) Senior
5 116 (12.86%) Senior Developer
6 100 (11.09%) Software Engineer
7 98 (10.86%) C# .NET Developer
8 84 (9.31%) Full Stack Developer
9 61 (6.76%) Lead
10 59 (6.54%) Azure Developer
10 59 (6.54%) Software Developer
11 53 (5.88%) .NET Software Engineer
12 51 (5.65%) Architect
13 42 (4.66%) .NET Software Developer
14 37 (4.10%) Azure Engineer
15 36 (3.99%) Backend Developer
15 36 (3.99%) Finance Manager
15 36 (3.99%) Full Stack .NET Developer
16 35 (3.88%) DevOps Engineer
16 35 (3.88%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 242 (26.83%) .NET Core
2 189 (20.95%) .NET Framework
3 148 (16.41%) React
4 142 (15.74%) ASP.NET
5 136 (15.08%) AngularJS
6 97 (10.75%) XML
7 76 (8.43%) HTML
8 73 (8.09%) REST
9 71 (7.87%) CSS
10 49 (5.43%) ASP.NET Core
10 49 (5.43%) WCF
11 43 (4.77%) Entity Framework
12 42 (4.66%) Web Services
13 39 (4.32%) RESTful
14 38 (4.21%) Redux
15 34 (3.77%) ASP.NET Web API
16 32 (3.55%) JSON
17 31 (3.44%) Blazor
17 31 (3.44%) jQuery
17 31 (3.44%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 54 (5.99%) Product Ownership
2 50 (5.54%) Derivative
3 49 (5.43%) Fixed Income
4 47 (5.21%) Hedge funds
5 43 (4.77%) Equities
6 39 (4.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 37 (4.10%) Greenfield Project
8 29 (3.22%) Cloud Native
9 14 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (1.22%) Market Risk
12 9 (1.00%) Mobile App
13 8 (0.89%) Algorithms
13 8 (0.89%) NHS
14 7 (0.78%) Client/Server
14 7 (0.78%) Onboarding
14 7 (0.78%) Reinsurance
14 7 (0.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 6 (0.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 79 (8.76%) Windows
2 23 (2.55%) Windows Server
3 16 (1.77%) Linux
4 2 (0.22%) Android
4 2 (0.22%) VMS
5 1 (0.11%) Unix
5 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (39.14%) DevOps
2 335 (37.14%) Agile
3 182 (20.18%) Software Engineering
4 179 (19.84%) CI/CD
5 162 (17.96%) TDD
6 141 (15.63%) Full Stack Development
7 126 (13.97%) Scrum
8 121 (13.41%) Microservices
9 107 (11.86%) OO
10 89 (9.87%) Test Automation
11 69 (7.65%) API Management
12 68 (7.54%) MVC
12 68 (7.54%) Problem-Solving
13 67 (7.43%) Continuous Integration
14 65 (7.21%) SDLC
15 62 (6.87%) B2C
16 59 (6.54%) Migration
17 57 (6.32%) Front End Development
18 56 (6.21%) Clean Code
19 52 (5.76%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 745 (82.59%) C#
2 348 (38.58%) SQL
3 195 (21.62%) JavaScript
4 152 (16.85%) PowerShell
5 85 (9.42%) Java
6 81 (8.98%) TypeScript
7 77 (8.54%) Bicep
8 76 (8.43%) Python
9 68 (7.54%) PL/SQL
10 66 (7.32%) T-SQL
11 42 (4.66%) C++
11 42 (4.66%) VBA
12 41 (4.55%) VB.NET
13 36 (3.99%) VB
14 13 (1.44%) Go
15 12 (1.33%) Ruby
16 10 (1.11%) Bash
17 9 (1.00%) PHP
18 6 (0.67%) C
18 6 (0.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 63 (6.98%) Degree
2 36 (3.99%) Security Cleared
3 29 (3.22%) SC Cleared
4 19 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (0.78%) Master's Degree
6 5 (0.55%) AWS Certification
6 5 (0.55%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.44%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.22%) CCNP
10 1 (0.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.11%) CISSP
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.11%) SANS
10 1 (0.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (7.87%) QA
2 30 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.33%) WCAG
4 9 (1.00%) MiFID
5 8 (0.89%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.44%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.44%) EMIR
7 3 (0.33%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.11%) DICOM
8 1 (0.11%) GDPR
8 1 (0.11%) GRC
8 1 (0.11%) HL7
System Software
1 109 (12.08%) Active Directory
2 49 (5.43%) Docker
3 5 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.44%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.44%) NFS
5 1 (0.11%) Firmware
5 1 (0.11%) GridGain
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 49 (5.43%) Kubernetes
2 33 (3.66%) Terraform
3 13 (1.44%) Ansible
4 10 (1.11%) ITRS Geneos
5 9 (1.00%) BladeLogic
5 9 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.44%) SCOM
7 3 (0.33%) SCCM
8 2 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.22%) SCOrch
9 1 (0.11%) Grafana
9 1 (0.11%) Kibana
9 1 (0.11%) logstash
9 1 (0.11%) Packer
9 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 235 (26.05%) Microsoft
2 109 (12.08%) Oracle
3 32 (3.55%) Citrix
4 18 (2.00%) SAP
5 15 (1.66%) MuleSoft
6 12 (1.33%) OpenLink
6 12 (1.33%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.33%) TIBCO
7 11 (1.22%) Databricks
8 9 (1.00%) Altiris
8 9 (1.00%) Dynatrace
9 8 (0.89%) UiPath
10 7 (0.78%) Blue Prism
11 6 (0.67%) Automation Anywhere
11 6 (0.67%) NEC
11 6 (0.67%) Optimizely
12 5 (0.55%) F5
12 5 (0.55%) Google
12 5 (0.55%) Virgin Media
13 4 (0.44%) Alteryx