.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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 39 39
Rank change year-on-year -45 0 -10
Contract jobs citing .NET 55 101 116
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.30% 5.03% 4.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.27% 18.98% 21.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 60 76
10th Percentile £432 £403 £425
25th Percentile £481 £489 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +4.00% -13.46%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £675
90th Percentile £750 £799 £744
London median daily rate £500 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -14.53% +1.74% -11.54%

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 488 532 534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 20.42% 26.52% 21.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 350 380
10th Percentile £363 £409 £406
25th Percentile £463 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £551
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.40% -11.88%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £776
London median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £20.53 - -
25th Percentile £25.00 - -
Median hourly rate £32.07 - -
75th Percentile £53.61 - -
90th Percentile £65.83 - -
London median hourly rate £42.50 £54.00 £36.84
% change year-on-year -21.30% +46.58% -45.01%

.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 20 April 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 20 April 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 -40 54 £555 -3.48% 84
.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 (3.64%) CMS
2 1 (1.82%) Kentico
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.82%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (1.82%) Sitefinity
2 1 (1.82%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 12 (21.82%) Endur
2 1 (1.82%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.82%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 21 (38.18%) Azure
2 9 (16.36%) AWS
3 7 (12.73%) GitHub
4 6 (10.91%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (10.91%) Power Platform
5 4 (7.27%) PaaS
6 3 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (5.45%) IaaS
6 3 (5.45%) SaaS
7 2 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.64%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.64%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.82%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.82%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.82%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.91%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.45%) Power BI
3 3 (5.45%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Git
1 3 (5.45%) Postman
2 2 (3.64%) Selenium
3 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.82%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.82%) MSTest
General
1 18 (32.73%) Finance
2 8 (14.55%) Banking
3 7 (12.73%) Social Skills
4 5 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.27%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (7.27%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.45%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.64%) Front Office
8 1 (1.82%) Back Office
8 1 (1.82%) Billing
8 1 (1.82%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.82%) Police
8 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (45.45%) Developer
2 12 (21.82%) Endur Developer
2 12 (21.82%) OpenLink Developer
3 8 (14.55%) Software Engineer
4 7 (12.73%) Senior
5 6 (10.91%) .NET Software Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) Architect
6 5 (9.09%) Hardware Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Software Integration Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (7.27%) .NET Developer
8 3 (5.45%) Applications Tester
8 3 (5.45%) Lead
8 3 (5.45%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.45%) Tester
9 2 (3.64%) C# Developer
9 2 (3.64%) Software Developer
9 2 (3.64%) SQL Developer
9 2 (3.64%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.91%) .NET Framework
2 5 (9.09%) HTML
2 5 (9.09%) REST
3 4 (7.27%) AngularJS
4 3 (5.45%) CSS
4 3 (5.45%) React
5 2 (3.64%) ASP.NET
5 2 (3.64%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (3.64%) Node.js
5 2 (3.64%) Playwright
5 2 (3.64%) RESTful
6 1 (1.82%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.82%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.82%) FHIR
6 1 (1.82%) Flask
6 1 (1.82%) HTML5
6 1 (1.82%) Jest
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (1.82%) NumPy
6 1 (1.82%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 5 (9.09%) Life Science
2 3 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.64%) AI Agents
3 2 (3.64%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (3.64%) Hackathon
3 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.82%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.82%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.82%) Device Driver
4 1 (1.82%) Equities
4 1 (1.82%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.82%) IoT
4 1 (1.82%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.82%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.82%) NHS
4 1 (1.82%) PACS
4 1 (1.82%) Robotics
4 1 (1.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.27%) Windows
2 3 (5.45%) Linux
3 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (20.00%) CI/CD
1 11 (20.00%) DevOps
1 11 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 10 (18.18%) Software Engineering
3 7 (12.73%) Event-Driven
3 7 (12.73%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (12.73%) Software Testing
4 6 (10.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 5 (9.09%) Agile
5 5 (9.09%) AI
5 5 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (9.09%) Roadmaps
6 4 (7.27%) Manual Testing
6 4 (7.27%) Microservices
6 4 (7.27%) Observability
6 4 (7.27%) Regression Testing
6 4 (7.27%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (7.27%) Test Scripting
6 4 (7.27%) TOGAF
6 4 (7.27%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (36.36%) C#
2 16 (29.09%) SQL
3 11 (20.00%) Java
4 10 (18.18%) Python
5 6 (10.91%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.45%) PL/SQL
6 3 (5.45%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.82%) Go
8 1 (1.82%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.82%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.82%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (14.55%) SC Cleared
1 8 (14.55%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.64%) Degree
3 1 (1.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (1.82%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.82%) CCSP
3 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.82%) CISSP
3 1 (1.82%) OSCP
3 1 (1.82%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) GDPR
1 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.64%) QA
2 1 (1.82%) GRC
2 1 (1.82%) HL7
2 1 (1.82%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.82%) NCSC
2 1 (1.82%) NIST
2 1 (1.82%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.82%) PSD2
2 1 (1.82%) SEPA
2 1 (1.82%) TARGET2
System Software
1 7 (12.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (14.55%) OpenLink
2 6 (10.91%) Oracle
3 5 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.45%) Databricks
5 1 (1.82%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.82%) Citrix
5 1 (1.82%) Google
5 1 (1.82%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (1.82%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.82%) SAP
5 1 (1.82%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.82%) UiPath