.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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 37 35
Rank change year-on-year -30 -2 -16
Contract jobs citing .NET 65 113 141
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.16% 5.28% 5.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.22% 20.89% 24.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 69 98
10th Percentile £404 £405 £429
25th Percentile £462 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £706
90th Percentile £750 £845 £788
London median daily rate £500 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -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 457 541 582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.18% 25.28% 22.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 334 418
10th Percentile £363 £413 £404
25th Percentile £436 £485 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% +0.88% -7.32%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £688
90th Percentile £759 £794 £800
London median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £27.67 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £31.07 £46.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £47.50 £41.00 £48.75
90th Percentile - £41.45 -
London median hourly rate £54.50 £52.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year +3.81% +7.69% -25.00%

.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 30 January 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 30 January 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 -27 63 £563 -6.25% 90
West End of London - 1 £400 -
Camden - 1 £400 - 1
.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 (3.08%) CMS
1 2 (3.08%) Confluence
2 1 (1.54%) Kentico
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.54%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (1.54%) Sitefinity
2 1 (1.54%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 12 (18.46%) Endur
2 2 (3.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 30 (46.15%) Azure
2 13 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (16.92%) AWS
4 6 (9.23%) Power Platform
4 6 (9.23%) Serverless
5 5 (7.69%) GitHub
6 4 (6.15%) Amazon S3
6 4 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (6.15%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (6.15%) PaaS
6 4 (6.15%) Snowflake
7 3 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (4.62%) Power Automate
7 3 (4.62%) PowerApps
8 2 (3.08%) Azure Functions
8 2 (3.08%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.54%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (1.54%) Azure App Service
9 1 (1.54%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.62%) Power BI
2 3 (4.62%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Git
2 4 (6.15%) JIRA
2 4 (6.15%) Postman
3 3 (4.62%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.62%) Selenium
4 2 (3.08%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.08%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.08%) GitLab
4 2 (3.08%) Gradle
4 2 (3.08%) SonarQube
4 2 (3.08%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (3.08%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.54%) MSTest
General
1 19 (29.23%) Finance
2 14 (21.54%) Social Skills
3 13 (20.00%) Banking
4 7 (10.77%) Investment Banking
5 5 (7.69%) Front Office
5 5 (7.69%) Manufacturing
6 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.15%) Retail Banking
7 3 (4.62%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.08%) Back Office
8 2 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.54%) Billing
9 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.54%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.54%) Marketing
9 1 (1.54%) Police
9 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (50.77%) Developer
2 12 (18.46%) Endur Developer
2 12 (18.46%) OpenLink Developer
2 12 (18.46%) Senior
3 7 (10.77%) .NET Developer
3 7 (10.77%) Lead
4 6 (9.23%) Software Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) .NET Software Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Hardware Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Integration Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 5 (7.69%) Software Integration Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Architect
7 3 (4.62%) Analyst
7 3 (4.62%) Azure Developer
7 3 (4.62%) C# Developer
7 3 (4.62%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (3.08%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.31%) HTML
2 7 (10.77%) AngularJS
3 6 (9.23%) CSS
4 5 (7.69%) React
5 4 (6.15%) Node.js
6 3 (4.62%) .NET Framework
6 3 (4.62%) HTML5
6 3 (4.62%) REST
7 2 (3.08%) ASP.NET
7 2 (3.08%) jQuery
8 1 (1.54%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (1.54%) JSON
8 1 (1.54%) KnockoutJS
8 1 (1.54%) LDAP
8 1 (1.54%) RESTful
8 1 (1.54%) SOAP
8 1 (1.54%) Web Services
8 1 (1.54%) WinForms
8 1 (1.54%) WPF
8 1 (1.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.69%) Life Science
2 4 (6.15%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.15%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.62%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.08%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.08%) Hackathon
4 2 (3.08%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.54%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.54%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.54%) Device Driver
5 1 (1.54%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.54%) NHS
5 1 (1.54%) PACS
5 1 (1.54%) Robotics
5 1 (1.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.15%) Windows
2 3 (4.62%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (27.69%) DevOps
2 15 (23.08%) Software Engineering
3 12 (18.46%) Agile
3 12 (18.46%) CI/CD
3 12 (18.46%) Test Automation
4 11 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (13.85%) Event-Driven
5 9 (13.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 8 (12.31%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (10.77%) Computer Science
8 6 (9.23%) AI
8 6 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (9.23%) Fintech
8 6 (9.23%) Roadmaps
8 6 (9.23%) Scrum
9 5 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (7.69%) Software Testing
9 5 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (6.15%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 28 (43.08%) C#
2 27 (41.54%) SQL
3 17 (26.15%) Java
4 15 (23.08%) Python
5 12 (18.46%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.69%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.62%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.62%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.62%) VB.NET
8 2 (3.08%) Rust
9 1 (1.54%) C++
9 1 (1.54%) F#
9 1 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 8 (12.31%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.77%) Degree
2 7 (10.77%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.08%) CBAP
4 2 (3.08%) ISEB
5 1 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.54%) CCSP
5 1 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.54%) CISSP
5 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.54%) OSCP
5 1 (1.54%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) QA
2 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.54%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.54%) GDPR
2 1 (1.54%) GRC
2 1 (1.54%) HL7
2 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.54%) NCSC
2 1 (1.54%) NIST
2 1 (1.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (10.77%) Docker
2 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (9.23%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.08%) Ansible
3 1 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (13.85%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.31%) OpenLink
3 6 (9.23%) Oracle
4 2 (3.08%) DocuSign
4 2 (3.08%) OutSystems
4 2 (3.08%) UiPath
5 1 (1.54%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.54%) Databricks
5 1 (1.54%) Google
5 1 (1.54%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.54%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (1.54%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.54%) SAP
5 1 (1.54%) Sitecore