.NET Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring .NET 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 66 31 33
Rank change year-on-year -35 +2 -14
Contract jobs citing .NET 68 129 152
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.42% 5.48% 5.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.14% 22.16% 23.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 83 99
10th Percentile £404 £408 £449
25th Percentile £463 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £738
90th Percentile £748 £838 £825
London median daily rate £500 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -10.71% -6.67% -4.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central 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 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
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

.NET job vacancy trend in Central London

.NET
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for .NET in Central London

.NET
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

.NET
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 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 -27 66 £625 +4.17% 67
West End of London - 1 £400 -
Camden - 1 £400 -
.NET
London

.NET
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 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.41%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.94%) Confluence
4 1 (1.47%) CMS
4 1 (1.47%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 7 (10.29%) Endur
2 3 (4.41%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (4.41%) Workday HCM
3 2 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.47%) Aladdin
4 1 (1.47%) Fidessa
4 1 (1.47%) Orchestrade
4 1 (1.47%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 40 (58.82%) Azure
2 14 (20.59%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (14.71%) AWS
4 7 (10.29%) PaaS
4 7 (10.29%) Serverless
5 5 (7.35%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.88%) Amazon S3
6 4 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (5.88%) Entra ID
6 4 (5.88%) GitHub
6 4 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (5.88%) Snowflake
7 3 (4.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (4.41%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (4.41%) Power Automate
7 3 (4.41%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.47%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.41%) Power BI
3 2 (2.94%) Event Store
3 2 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.94%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (8.82%) Git
2 5 (7.35%) Postman
3 4 (5.88%) JIRA
3 4 (5.88%) Selenium
4 3 (4.41%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.41%) Cucumber
4 3 (4.41%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.94%) GitLab
5 2 (2.94%) Gradle
5 2 (2.94%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.94%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (2.94%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.47%) MSTest
General
1 27 (39.71%) Finance
2 15 (22.06%) Social Skills
3 14 (20.59%) Banking
4 9 (13.24%) Investment Banking
5 6 (8.82%) Front Office
6 4 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.88%) Retail Banking
7 3 (4.41%) Back Office
7 3 (4.41%) Manufacturing
7 3 (4.41%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.94%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.47%) Marketing
9 1 (1.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 32 (47.06%) Developer
2 12 (17.65%) Senior
3 10 (14.71%) Lead
4 8 (11.76%) .NET Developer
4 8 (11.76%) Architect
5 7 (10.29%) Endur Developer
5 7 (10.29%) OpenLink Developer
6 5 (7.35%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.88%) C# Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.41%) .NET Software Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Analyst
8 3 (4.41%) Azure Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Hardware Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Integration Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Software Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Software Integration Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.24%) HTML
2 7 (10.29%) AngularJS
2 7 (10.29%) CSS
3 4 (5.88%) .NET Framework
3 4 (5.88%) HTML5
3 4 (5.88%) Node.js
3 4 (5.88%) React
3 4 (5.88%) REST
3 4 (5.88%) RESTful
3 4 (5.88%) Web Services
4 3 (4.41%) .NET Core
4 3 (4.41%) Blazor
4 3 (4.41%) jQuery
4 3 (4.41%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (2.94%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.94%) Kafka
5 2 (2.94%) RxJS
6 1 (1.47%) KnockoutJS
6 1 (1.47%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.47%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.35%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.88%) Low-Code
3 3 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.41%) Life Science
3 3 (4.41%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.41%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.94%) Derivative
4 2 (2.94%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.47%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.47%) CMDB
5 1 (1.47%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.47%) Device Driver
5 1 (1.47%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.47%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.47%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.47%) Robotics
5 1 (1.47%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.88%) Windows
2 2 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (32.35%) DevOps
2 17 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 16 (23.53%) Agile
4 14 (20.59%) CI/CD
5 13 (19.12%) Event-Driven
5 13 (19.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 13 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (17.65%) Test Automation
7 10 (14.71%) Computer Science
7 10 (14.71%) Full-Stack Development
8 8 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (11.76%) Fintech
8 8 (11.76%) Roadmaps
8 8 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (10.29%) Scrum
10 6 (8.82%) Microservices
10 6 (8.82%) Project Delivery
10 6 (8.82%) SDLC
10 6 (8.82%) Systems Analysis
10 6 (8.82%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 39 (57.35%) C#
2 22 (32.35%) SQL
3 17 (25.00%) Java
4 13 (19.12%) Python
5 12 (17.65%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.35%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.88%) VB.NET
8 3 (4.41%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.94%) Rust
10 1 (1.47%) C++
10 1 (1.47%) F#
10 1 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (14.71%) Degree
2 9 (13.24%) Security Cleared
3 7 (10.29%) SC Cleared
4 6 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.94%) CBAP
5 2 (2.94%) ISEB
6 1 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.47%) CCSP
6 1 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.47%) CISSP
6 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.47%) OSCP
6 1 (1.47%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) GDPR
2 3 (4.41%) COBIT
2 3 (4.41%) QA
3 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.47%) GRC
3 1 (1.47%) HL7
3 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.47%) MiFID
3 1 (1.47%) NCSC
3 1 (1.47%) NIST
3 1 (1.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (8.82%) Docker
2 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (7.35%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.94%) Ansible
3 1 (1.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (19.12%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.29%) OpenLink
3 5 (7.35%) Databricks
4 4 (5.88%) Oracle
5 3 (4.41%) OutSystems
5 3 (4.41%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.41%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.41%) UiPath
5 3 (4.41%) Workday
6 2 (2.94%) DevExpress
6 2 (2.94%) DocuSign
7 1 (1.47%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.47%) Google
7 1 (1.47%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.47%) Portware
7 1 (1.47%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.47%) SAP
7 1 (1.47%) Sitecore