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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 34 31
Rank change year-on-year -32 -3 -11
Contract jobs citing .NET 69 126 176
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.52% 5.29% 6.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.61% 22.03% 25.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 85 115
10th Percentile £404 £409 £450
25th Percentile £463 £525 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £738
90th Percentile £733 £838 £825
London median daily rate £500 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -11.15% -6.21% -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 442 572 686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.52% 24.00% 24.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 346 482
10th Percentile £361 £413 £406
25th Percentile £436 £502 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £675 £701 £713
90th Percentile £750 £838 £825
London median daily rate £525 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £44.97 £27.67 £46.93
25th Percentile £48.67 £31.07 £47.94
Median hourly rate £56.97 £38.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +47.97% -23.38% -1.47%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.00 £51.94
90th Percentile £81.25 £41.45 £52.58
London median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £55.25
% change year-on-year +12.82% -11.76% -11.24%

.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 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 2 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 -34 67 £625 +4.17% 59
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 (5.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.35%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.90%) Confluence
4 1 (1.45%) CMS
4 1 (1.45%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Endur
2 3 (4.35%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (4.35%) Workday HCM
3 2 (2.90%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.45%) Aladdin
4 1 (1.45%) Fidessa
4 1 (1.45%) Maximo
4 1 (1.45%) OpenText MBPM
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (1.45%) Orchestrade
4 1 (1.45%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 43 (62.32%) Azure
2 13 (18.84%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (13.04%) AWS
4 7 (10.14%) PaaS
4 7 (10.14%) Serverless
5 5 (7.25%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.80%) Amazon S3
6 4 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (5.80%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (5.80%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (5.80%) Entra ID
6 4 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (5.80%) Snowflake
7 3 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (4.35%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (4.35%) Power Automate
7 3 (4.35%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.90%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.90%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (4.35%) Power BI
3 2 (2.90%) Event Store
3 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (8.70%) Git
2 5 (7.25%) Postman
3 4 (5.80%) JIRA
3 4 (5.80%) Selenium
4 3 (4.35%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.35%) Cucumber
4 3 (4.35%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.90%) GitLab
5 2 (2.90%) Gradle
5 2 (2.90%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.90%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (2.90%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.45%) MSTest
General
1 30 (43.48%) Finance
2 15 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 14 (20.29%) Banking
4 9 (13.04%) Investment Banking
5 7 (10.14%) Front Office
6 5 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.80%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (5.80%) Retail Banking
8 3 (4.35%) Back Office
8 3 (4.35%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.90%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.90%) Legal
10 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.45%) Marketing
10 1 (1.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 34 (49.28%) Developer
2 15 (21.74%) Senior
3 10 (14.49%) .NET Developer
3 10 (14.49%) Lead
4 7 (10.14%) Architect
5 6 (8.70%) Senior Developer
6 5 (7.25%) C# Developer
6 5 (7.25%) Endur Developer
6 5 (7.25%) OpenLink Developer
7 4 (5.80%) Senior .NET Developer
7 4 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.35%) Analyst
8 3 (4.35%) Angular Developer
8 3 (4.35%) Azure Developer
8 3 (4.35%) Software Developer
8 3 (4.35%) Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Test Engineer
9 2 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.90%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (2.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.94%) HTML
2 10 (14.49%) AngularJS
3 9 (13.04%) CSS
4 7 (10.14%) .NET Framework
4 7 (10.14%) REST
5 6 (8.70%) React
6 5 (7.25%) .NET Core
6 5 (7.25%) jQuery
6 5 (7.25%) Node.js
6 5 (7.25%) RESTful
6 5 (7.25%) Web Services
7 4 (5.80%) HTML5
8 3 (4.35%) Blazor
8 3 (4.35%) Lightning Web Components
9 2 (2.90%) ASP.NET
9 2 (2.90%) Entity Framework
9 2 (2.90%) Kafka
9 2 (2.90%) RxJS
9 2 (2.90%) Vue
10 1 (1.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.25%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.80%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (5.80%) Low-Code
3 3 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.90%) Derivative
4 2 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.90%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.90%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.45%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.45%) CMDB
5 1 (1.45%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.45%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.45%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.45%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (33.33%) DevOps
2 18 (26.09%) Agile
3 15 (21.74%) Software Engineering
4 14 (20.29%) CI/CD
4 14 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (18.84%) Event-Driven
5 13 (18.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 11 (15.94%) Computer Science
6 11 (15.94%) Test Automation
7 10 (14.49%) Full-Stack Development
8 8 (11.59%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (11.59%) Fintech
8 8 (11.59%) Roadmaps
8 8 (11.59%) Scrum
8 8 (11.59%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (10.14%) SDLC
10 6 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (8.70%) Microservices
10 6 (8.70%) Systems Analysis
10 6 (8.70%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 46 (66.67%) C#
2 26 (37.68%) SQL
3 17 (24.64%) JavaScript
4 16 (23.19%) Java
5 13 (18.84%) Python
6 5 (7.25%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.80%) VB.NET
8 3 (4.35%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.90%) Rust
10 1 (1.45%) C++
10 1 (1.45%) F#
10 1 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.45%) PHP
10 1 (1.45%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.45%) Ruby
10 1 (1.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (14.49%) Degree
2 7 (10.14%) Security Cleared
3 6 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (7.25%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.90%) CBAP
5 2 (2.90%) ISEB
6 1 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.45%) CCSP
6 1 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.45%) CISSP
6 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.45%) OSCP
6 1 (1.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.70%) QA
2 4 (5.80%) GDPR
3 3 (4.35%) COBIT
4 2 (2.90%) MiFID
5 1 (1.45%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.45%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.45%) EMIR
5 1 (1.45%) GRC
5 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.45%) NCSC
5 1 (1.45%) NIST
5 1 (1.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (5.80%) Docker
2 1 (1.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.90%) Ansible
3 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (20.29%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.14%) Databricks
3 5 (7.25%) OpenLink
3 5 (7.25%) Oracle
4 3 (4.35%) OutSystems
4 3 (4.35%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.35%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.35%) UiPath
4 3 (4.35%) Workday
5 2 (2.90%) DevExpress
5 2 (2.90%) DocuSign
6 1 (1.45%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.45%) Google
6 1 (1.45%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.45%) OpenText
6 1 (1.45%) Portware
6 1 (1.45%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.45%) SAP
6 1 (1.45%) Sitecore