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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 56 33
Rank change year-on-year -14 -23 -4
Contract jobs citing .NET 80 77 132
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.17% 3.80% 5.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.88% 13.87% 21.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 57 100
10th Percentile £419 £402 £412
25th Percentile £513 £404 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £615 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +6.96% -11.54%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £675
90th Percentile £875 £766 £750
London median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -12.00%

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 621 555 614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 24.60% 27.42% 26.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 368 417
10th Percentile £420 £385 £425
25th Percentile £485 £435 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £711
90th Percentile £763 £763 £838
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £25.35 £52.83 -
25th Percentile £33.64 £55.99 £25.40
Median hourly rate £42.00 £62.50 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year -32.80% +142.34% -49.92%
75th Percentile £69.38 £76.25 £26.19
90th Percentile £80.50 £83.75 -
London median hourly rate £43.50 £51.44 £42.50
% change year-on-year -15.44% +21.04% -36.80%

.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 24 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 24 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 -15 74 £600 -2.44% 61
West End of London - 5 £525 -
City of Westminster - 4 £563 -
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 5 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.50%) IIS
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.25%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 31 (38.75%) Azure
2 20 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 13 (16.25%) AWS
4 10 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (12.50%) SaaS
5 9 (11.25%) Serverless
6 8 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (10.00%) GitHub
7 7 (8.75%) Power Automate
7 7 (8.75%) PowerApps
8 5 (6.25%) Azure Functions
8 5 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.00%) Entra ID
9 4 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (5.00%) IaaS
9 4 (5.00%) PaaS
10 3 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.00%) DNS
1 4 (5.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.50%) DHCP
2 2 (2.50%) Firewall
2 2 (2.50%) Internet
2 2 (2.50%) Intranet
2 2 (2.50%) VLAN
2 2 (2.50%) VPN
2 2 (2.50%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.25%) LAN
3 1 (1.25%) Multicast
3 1 (1.25%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (22.50%) SQL Server
2 9 (11.25%) Power BI
3 8 (10.00%) Oracle Database
4 6 (7.50%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.50%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.50%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.50%) SQLPlus
7 1 (1.25%) ClickHouse
7 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (12.50%) Git
2 8 (10.00%) Visual Studio
3 6 (7.50%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.25%) Artifactory
5 4 (5.00%) Bitbucket
5 4 (5.00%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (3.75%) eggPlant
6 3 (3.75%) GitLab
6 3 (3.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (2.50%) Fiddler
7 2 (2.50%) JIRA
7 2 (2.50%) JMeter
7 2 (2.50%) LoadRunner
7 2 (2.50%) MSI
7 2 (2.50%) Postman
7 2 (2.50%) SoapUI
7 2 (2.50%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.50%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.25%) Claude Code
8 1 (1.25%) SOAtest
General
1 25 (31.25%) Banking
2 22 (27.50%) Finance
3 17 (21.25%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (21.25%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.50%) Front Office
4 6 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.00%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.75%) Marketing
7 1 (1.25%) Advertising
7 1 (1.25%) Back Office
7 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 40 (50.00%) Developer
2 13 (16.25%) C# Developer
3 12 (15.00%) Senior
4 10 (12.50%) Lead
5 8 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 6 (7.50%) Architect
6 6 (7.50%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 6 (7.50%) Software Developer
6 6 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (6.25%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) .NET Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Applications Support
8 4 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Senior C# Developer
9 3 (3.75%) Applications Support Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Applications Tester
9 3 (3.75%) Azure Developer
9 3 (3.75%) Workflow Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.75%) .NET Framework
2 14 (17.50%) REST
3 9 (11.25%) SOAP
3 9 (11.25%) Web Services
4 8 (10.00%) .NET Core
4 8 (10.00%) XML
5 7 (8.75%) HTML
6 6 (7.50%) AngularJS
6 6 (7.50%) ASP.NET
6 6 (7.50%) React
7 5 (6.25%) Kafka
8 4 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
8 4 (5.00%) HTML5 Canvas
8 4 (5.00%) RESTful
9 3 (3.75%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 3 (3.75%) CSS
9 3 (3.75%) Middleware
9 3 (3.75%) Node.js
9 3 (3.75%) Terraform
10 2 (2.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.50%) Distributed Applications
2 6 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.00%) Equities
4 4 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.75%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.75%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (3.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.50%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.50%) LIMS
6 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.25%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.25%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.25%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.25%) Windows
2 11 (13.75%) Linux
3 8 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 7 (8.75%) Unix
5 1 (1.25%) Android
5 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (32.50%) DevOps
2 25 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 19 (23.75%) Agile
4 17 (21.25%) Full-Stack Development
5 15 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (18.75%) Software Engineering
6 13 (16.25%) Unit Testing
7 12 (15.00%) SDLC
7 12 (15.00%) Test Automation
8 10 (12.50%) Migration
8 10 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
8 10 (12.50%) Software Testing
9 9 (11.25%) Event-Driven
9 9 (11.25%) Microservices
9 9 (11.25%) User Acceptance Testing
10 8 (10.00%) AI
10 8 (10.00%) CRM
10 8 (10.00%) Risk Management
11 7 (8.75%) Refactoring
11 7 (8.75%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 55 (68.75%) C#
2 39 (48.75%) SQL
3 23 (28.75%) Python
4 17 (21.25%) JavaScript
5 12 (15.00%) Java
6 10 (12.50%) PL/SQL
7 9 (11.25%) TypeScript
8 6 (7.50%) PowerShell
9 5 (6.25%) C++
9 5 (6.25%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.50%) Bash
10 2 (2.50%) C
10 2 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (2.50%) Korn
10 2 (2.50%) ProC
10 2 (2.50%) VB.NET
11 1 (1.25%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.00%) Degree
4 3 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.50%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.25%) ISEB
6 1 (1.25%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.50%) QA
2 2 (2.50%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 2 (2.50%) GMP
2 2 (2.50%) GxP
2 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.25%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 2 (2.50%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.50%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (3.75%) ITRS Geneos
1 3 (3.75%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.50%) Ansible
2 2 (2.50%) Grafana
2 2 (2.50%) HP Fortify
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.25%) Control-M
3 1 (1.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (25.00%) Oracle
2 18 (22.50%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.50%) Databricks
4 5 (6.25%) Citrix
5 4 (5.00%) IBM
5 4 (5.00%) SAP
5 4 (5.00%) Sitecore
6 3 (3.75%) ION Trading
6 3 (3.75%) Splunk
7 2 (2.50%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.25%) Cisco
8 1 (1.25%) F5
8 1 (1.25%) Google
8 1 (1.25%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.25%) UiPath
8 1 (1.25%) VMware