.NET Framework Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft .NET Framework
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring .NET Framework skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 109 129
Rank change year-on-year -18 +20 -38
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 4 27 13
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.20% 1.15% 0.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.89% 4.64% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 21 8
10th Percentile £439 £525 £556
25th Percentile £478 £563 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £606 £738 £704
90th Percentile £663 £750 £798
London median daily rate £463 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -19.57% - -14.81%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

.NET Framework 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 449 582 635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.60% 24.73% 23.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 355 449
10th Percentile £361 £413 £411
25th Percentile £436 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £755 £833 £825
London median daily rate £525 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -8.65% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £44.38 £27.67 -
25th Percentile £47.19 £31.07 £46.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.61% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £59.69 £41.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.13 £41.45 -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £53.75
% change year-on-year +12.82% -9.30% -17.31%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing .NET Framework relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

.NET Framework job vacancy trend in Central London

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing .NET Framework.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing .NET Framework

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework in Central London over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Framework in Central London

.NET Framework
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing .NET Framework.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing .NET Framework

.NET Framework
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Framework within the Central London region over the 6 months to 17 December 2025. 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
City of London -13 4 £525 -19.23% 8
.NET Framework
London

.NET Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Aladdin
1 1 (25.00%) Fidessa
1 1 (25.00%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure App Service
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) Azure WebJobs
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) MSTest
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Financial Institution
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Architect
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) C# Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (50.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) Swagger
3 1 (25.00%) WinForms
3 1 (25.00%) WPF
3 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (25.00%) Derivative
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Market Risk
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) API Development
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Multithreaded Programming
2 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) OOP
2 1 (25.00%) Order Management
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Portware