.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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 37 32
Rank change year-on-year -30 -5 -8
Contract jobs citing .NET 61 108 134
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.87% 5.21% 5.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.95% 20.81% 24.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 65 91
10th Percentile £404 £409 £446
25th Percentile £463 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £688 £700 £700
90th Percentile £750 £850 £788
London median daily rate £500 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -7.69%

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 471 519 548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.15% 25.06% 21.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 333 378
10th Percentile £363 £407 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £670 £684 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
London median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £24.20 £37.20 -
25th Percentile £26.00 £37.88 £46.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £40.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -15.79% -20.17%
75th Percentile £50.56 £41.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £56.06 £41.60 -
London median hourly rate £50.50 £52.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -3.81% +23.53% -34.62%

.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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -30 59 £563 -3.85% 83
West End of London - 1 £400 - 1
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 2 (3.28%) CMS
2 1 (1.64%) Kentico
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.64%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (1.64%) Sitefinity
2 1 (1.64%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 12 (19.67%) Endur
2 1 (1.64%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 26 (42.62%) Azure
2 12 (19.67%) AWS
3 11 (18.03%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (9.84%) GitHub
5 5 (8.20%) Serverless
6 3 (4.92%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.92%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.92%) Snowflake
7 2 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.28%) Azure Functions
7 2 (3.28%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.28%) PaaS
8 1 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.64%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.64%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.64%) GCP
8 1 (1.64%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.84%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (6.56%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.64%) Power BI
4 1 (1.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (8.20%) Git
2 4 (6.56%) Postman
3 3 (4.92%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.92%) Selenium
4 2 (3.28%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.28%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.28%) GitLab
4 2 (3.28%) Gradle
4 2 (3.28%) JIRA
4 2 (3.28%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (3.28%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.64%) MSTest
General
1 20 (32.79%) Finance
2 12 (19.67%) Banking
2 12 (19.67%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.84%) Investment Banking
4 5 (8.20%) Manufacturing
5 4 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.56%) Front Office
6 3 (4.92%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.28%) Back Office
7 2 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.28%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.64%) Billing
8 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.64%) Marketing
8 1 (1.64%) Police
8 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (50.82%) Developer
2 13 (21.31%) Senior
3 12 (19.67%) Endur Developer
3 12 (19.67%) OpenLink Developer
4 7 (11.48%) .NET Developer
5 6 (9.84%) Software Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) .NET Software Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Hardware Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Integration Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Senior Developer
6 5 (8.20%) Software Integration Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Architect
8 3 (4.92%) Analyst
8 3 (4.92%) Azure Developer
8 3 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (4.92%) Lead
8 3 (4.92%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (4.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.48%) HTML
2 6 (9.84%) AngularJS
3 5 (8.20%) CSS
4 4 (6.56%) React
4 4 (6.56%) REST
5 3 (4.92%) .NET Framework
5 3 (4.92%) Node.js
6 2 (3.28%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.28%) HTML5
6 2 (3.28%) jQuery
6 2 (3.28%) Playwright
7 1 (1.64%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.64%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (1.64%) FHIR
7 1 (1.64%) gRPC
7 1 (1.64%) LangChain
7 1 (1.64%) RxJS
7 1 (1.64%) Swagger
7 1 (1.64%) Vitest
7 1 (1.64%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.20%) Life Science
2 4 (6.56%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.56%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.28%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.28%) Hackathon
4 2 (3.28%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.64%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.64%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.64%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.64%) Device Driver
5 1 (1.64%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.64%) NHS
5 1 (1.64%) PACS
5 1 (1.64%) Robotics
5 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) Windows
2 3 (4.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (27.87%) DevOps
2 13 (21.31%) CI/CD
3 12 (19.67%) Test Automation
4 11 (18.03%) Software Engineering
5 10 (16.39%) Agile
6 9 (14.75%) Event-Driven
6 9 (14.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 9 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (11.48%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (11.48%) Scrum
8 6 (9.84%) AI
8 6 (9.84%) Computer Science
8 6 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (9.84%) Fintech
9 5 (8.20%) Containerisation
9 5 (8.20%) Microservices
9 5 (8.20%) Software Testing
9 5 (8.20%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (6.56%) Business Analysis
10 4 (6.56%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 27 (44.26%) C#
2 23 (37.70%) SQL
3 18 (29.51%) Java
4 16 (26.23%) Python
5 11 (18.03%) JavaScript
6 5 (8.20%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.92%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.92%) VB.NET
8 2 (3.28%) PL/SQL
8 2 (3.28%) Rust
9 1 (1.64%) C++
9 1 (1.64%) Go
9 1 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 8 (13.11%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.48%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.84%) Degree
4 5 (8.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.28%) CBAP
5 2 (3.28%) ISEB
6 1 (1.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.64%) CCSP
6 1 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.64%) CISSP
6 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.64%) OSCP
6 1 (1.64%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.28%) QA
2 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.64%) GDPR
2 1 (1.64%) GRC
2 1 (1.64%) HL7
2 1 (1.64%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.64%) NCSC
2 1 (1.64%) NIST
2 1 (1.64%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.64%) PSD2
2 1 (1.64%) SEPA
2 1 (1.64%) TARGET2
System Software
1 8 (13.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (11.48%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.28%) Ansible
2 2 (3.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (13.11%) OpenLink
2 7 (11.48%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.20%) Oracle
4 2 (3.28%) OutSystems
4 2 (3.28%) UiPath
5 1 (1.64%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.64%) Databricks
5 1 (1.64%) Google
5 1 (1.64%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.64%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (1.64%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.64%) SAP
5 1 (1.64%) Sitecore