.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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 55 34
Rank change year-on-year -23 -21 0
Contract jobs citing .NET 69 85 131
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.64% 4.11% 5.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.39% 16.80% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 60 97
10th Percentile £461 £404 £410
25th Percentile £513 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -16.19%
75th Percentile £688 £691 £675
90th Percentile £875 £779 £750
London median daily rate £550 £533 £553
% change year-on-year +3.29% -3.75% -11.48%

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 557 506 536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.35% 24.48% 23.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 334 370
10th Percentile £417 £395 £425
25th Percentile £488 £426 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.30% -4.04%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £725
90th Percentile £770 £763 £838
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 0
10th Percentile £22.38 £52.83 -
25th Percentile £28.01 £55.99 -
Median hourly rate £39.75 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.40% - -
75th Percentile £62.74 £76.25 -
90th Percentile £76.38 £83.75 -
London median hourly rate £42.16 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.70% +40.00% -44.03%

.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 2 August 2026.

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 2 August 2026. 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 -26 63 £625 +8.70% 65
West End of London - 4 £560 -
City of Westminster - 2 £638 -
Southwark - 1 £600 -
.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 2 (2.90%) IIS
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.45%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.45%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 27 (39.13%) Azure
2 16 (23.19%) Power Platform
3 13 (18.84%) AWS
4 10 (14.49%) GitHub
4 10 (14.49%) SaaS
5 8 (11.59%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (11.59%) Serverless
6 6 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (7.25%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (7.25%) Entra ID
7 5 (7.25%) Power Automate
7 5 (7.25%) PowerApps
8 4 (5.80%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (5.80%) Azure Functions
8 4 (5.80%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (5.80%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (5.80%) IaaS
8 4 (5.80%) PaaS
9 3 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.35%) DNS
1 3 (4.35%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.90%) DHCP
2 2 (2.90%) Firewall
2 2 (2.90%) Internet
2 2 (2.90%) Intranet
2 2 (2.90%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.45%) LAN
3 1 (1.45%) Multicast
3 1 (1.45%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.45%) VLAN
3 1 (1.45%) VPN
3 1 (1.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (21.74%) SQL Server
2 9 (13.04%) Power BI
3 7 (10.14%) Oracle Database
4 6 (8.70%) Relational Database
5 4 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.90%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.90%) SQLPlus
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (8.70%) Git
2 5 (7.25%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.25%) Visual Studio
3 4 (5.80%) Artifactory
4 3 (4.35%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.35%) GitLab
5 2 (2.90%) Fiddler
5 2 (2.90%) MSI
5 2 (2.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (2.90%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.90%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.45%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.45%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.45%) JIRA
6 1 (1.45%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 24 (34.78%) Banking
2 20 (28.99%) Finance
3 16 (23.19%) Social Skills
4 14 (20.29%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.80%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.80%) Investment Banking
5 4 (5.80%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.35%) Front Office
7 2 (2.90%) Marketing
8 1 (1.45%) Advertising
8 1 (1.45%) Back Office
8 1 (1.45%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 30 (43.48%) Developer
2 12 (17.39%) Senior
3 10 (14.49%) C# Developer
4 8 (11.59%) Lead
5 7 (10.14%) Senior Developer
6 6 (8.70%) Architect
6 6 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (7.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Software Developer
7 5 (7.25%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 4 (5.80%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.35%) Applications Support
9 3 (4.35%) Applications Tester
9 3 (4.35%) Junior
9 3 (4.35%) Senior C# Developer
9 3 (4.35%) Tester
9 3 (4.35%) Workflow Engineer
10 2 (2.90%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.84%) .NET Framework
2 12 (17.39%) REST
3 7 (10.14%) ASP.NET
3 7 (10.14%) React
4 6 (8.70%) .NET Core
4 6 (8.70%) AngularJS
5 5 (7.25%) RESTful
6 4 (5.80%) HTML
6 4 (5.80%) Node.js
6 4 (5.80%) SOAP
6 4 (5.80%) Web Services
6 4 (5.80%) XML
7 3 (4.35%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 3 (4.35%) Kafka
8 2 (2.90%) Next.js
8 2 (2.90%) Playwright
8 2 (2.90%) PySpark
8 2 (2.90%) Redux
8 2 (2.90%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.84%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.70%) Distributed Applications
3 5 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.80%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (5.80%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.35%) AI Agents
5 3 (4.35%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.35%) Equities
5 3 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.90%) LIMS
6 2 (2.90%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.45%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.45%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.45%) PKI
7 1 (1.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.39%) Windows
2 7 (10.14%) Linux
2 7 (10.14%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.80%) Unix
4 1 (1.45%) Android
4 1 (1.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (31.88%) CI/CD
1 22 (31.88%) DevOps
2 17 (24.64%) Full-Stack Development
3 15 (21.74%) Agile
4 14 (20.29%) Software Engineering
5 12 (17.39%) Unit Testing
6 11 (15.94%) Event-Driven
7 10 (14.49%) SDLC
8 9 (13.04%) Microservices
8 9 (13.04%) Migration
8 9 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (13.04%) Root Cause Analysis
8 9 (13.04%) Test Automation
9 8 (11.59%) AI
9 8 (11.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 7 (10.14%) Code Quality
10 7 (10.14%) Observability
10 7 (10.14%) Software Testing
10 7 (10.14%) User Acceptance Testing
11 6 (8.70%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 46 (66.67%) C#
2 29 (42.03%) SQL
3 17 (24.64%) Python
4 13 (18.84%) JavaScript
5 10 (14.49%) Java
5 10 (14.49%) PL/SQL
6 7 (10.14%) TypeScript
7 5 (7.25%) C++
7 5 (7.25%) PowerShell
7 5 (7.25%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.90%) C
8 2 (2.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.90%) ProC
9 1 (1.45%) Bash
9 1 (1.45%) Go
9 1 (1.45%) Korn
9 1 (1.45%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.14%) Degree
4 3 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.90%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (20.29%) QA
2 2 (2.90%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 2 (2.90%) GMP
2 2 (2.90%) GxP
2 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 1 (1.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.45%) GDPR
3 1 (1.45%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.45%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.45%) PSD2
3 1 (1.45%) SEPA
3 1 (1.45%) TARGET2
System Software
1 4 (5.80%) Docker
2 2 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.80%) Kubernetes
1 4 (5.80%) Terraform
2 2 (2.90%) Ansible
2 2 (2.90%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.45%) Grafana
3 1 (1.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (23.19%) Oracle
2 13 (18.84%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.70%) Databricks
4 5 (7.25%) Citrix
5 4 (5.80%) Sitecore
6 2 (2.90%) IBM
6 2 (2.90%) ION Trading
6 2 (2.90%) Splunk
7 1 (1.45%) Cisco
7 1 (1.45%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.45%) F5
7 1 (1.45%) Google
7 1 (1.45%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.45%) SAP
7 1 (1.45%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.45%) UiPath
7 1 (1.45%) VMware