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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 53 32
Rank change year-on-year -17 -21 -2
Contract jobs citing .NET 83 72 131
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.40% 3.74% 5.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.39% 13.90% 21.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 58 98
10th Percentile £423 £404 £443
25th Percentile £513 £424 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% +4.17% -9.09%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £684
90th Percentile £820 £772 £829
London median daily rate £540 £525 £558
% change year-on-year +2.86% -5.96% -10.68%

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 620 518 601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 25.41% 26.94% 25.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 359 386
10th Percentile £419 £392 £414
25th Percentile £484 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £712
90th Percentile £761 £775 £838
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 3
10th Percentile £26.54 £52.83 £27.67
25th Percentile £37.44 £55.99 £31.07
Median hourly rate £52.25 £62.50 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.40% +62.34% -25.24%
75th Percentile £72.19 £76.25 £41.00
90th Percentile £81.88 £83.75 £41.45
London median hourly rate £45.00 £51.97 £42.50
% change year-on-year -13.41% +22.28% -32.00%

.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 September 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 September 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 -16 77 £572 -8.48% 65
West End of London - 5 £525 - 3
City of Westminster - 4 £563 - 6
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 (6.02%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.41%) CMS
2 2 (2.41%) IIS
2 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.41%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.20%) MQSeries
Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (10.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.41%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 35 (42.17%) Azure
2 19 (22.89%) Power Platform
3 14 (16.87%) AWS
4 13 (15.66%) Serverless
5 12 (14.46%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (12.05%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (10.84%) Azure Functions
7 9 (10.84%) Azure Service Bus
8 8 (9.64%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (9.64%) GitHub
8 8 (9.64%) SaaS
9 7 (8.43%) Power Automate
9 7 (8.43%) PowerApps
10 5 (6.02%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (4.82%) Entra ID
12 3 (3.61%) Azure API Management
12 3 (3.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (2.41%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.82%) DNS
1 4 (4.82%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.41%) DHCP
2 2 (2.41%) Firewall
2 2 (2.41%) Internet
2 2 (2.41%) Intranet
2 2 (2.41%) VLAN
2 2 (2.41%) VPN
2 2 (2.41%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.20%) LAN
3 1 (1.20%) Multicast
3 1 (1.20%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (25.30%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.43%) Oracle Database
3 6 (7.23%) Power BI
3 6 (7.23%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.61%) ClickHouse
5 3 (3.61%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.41%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.41%) SQLPlus
7 1 (1.20%) Big Data
7 1 (1.20%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (12.05%) Git
2 8 (9.64%) Visual Studio
3 7 (8.43%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.02%) Artifactory
5 4 (4.82%) Bitbucket
5 4 (4.82%) GitLab
5 4 (4.82%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (3.61%) eggPlant
6 3 (3.61%) JIRA
6 3 (3.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (2.41%) Fiddler
7 2 (2.41%) JMeter
7 2 (2.41%) LoadRunner
7 2 (2.41%) MSI
7 2 (2.41%) Postman
7 2 (2.41%) SoapUI
7 2 (2.41%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.41%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.20%) Claude Code
8 1 (1.20%) SOAtest
General
1 25 (30.12%) Finance
2 24 (28.92%) Social Skills
3 23 (27.71%) Banking
4 17 (20.48%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (9.64%) Front Office
6 6 (7.23%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.82%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.82%) Marketing
8 2 (2.41%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.20%) Advertising
9 1 (1.20%) Back Office
9 1 (1.20%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.20%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.20%) Legal
9 1 (1.20%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (53.01%) Developer
2 16 (19.28%) Senior
3 15 (18.07%) C# Developer
4 10 (12.05%) Senior Developer
5 9 (10.84%) Lead
6 8 (9.64%) .NET Developer
7 7 (8.43%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 6 (7.23%) Architect
8 6 (7.23%) Senior C# Developer
8 6 (7.23%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (6.02%) Azure Developer
9 5 (6.02%) Software Developer
10 4 (4.82%) Applications Support
10 4 (4.82%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (4.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 3 (3.61%) Junior
11 3 (3.61%) Software Engineer
11 3 (3.61%) Support Engineer
11 3 (3.61%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (21.69%) REST
2 14 (16.87%) .NET Framework
3 10 (12.05%) .NET Core
3 10 (12.05%) SOAP
4 9 (10.84%) Web Services
4 9 (10.84%) XML
5 7 (8.43%) Kafka
6 6 (7.23%) AngularJS
6 6 (7.23%) ASP.NET
6 6 (7.23%) React
7 5 (6.02%) ASP.NET Web API
7 5 (6.02%) HTML
8 4 (4.82%) HTML5 Canvas
8 4 (4.82%) Node.js
8 4 (4.82%) RESTful
8 4 (4.82%) Terraform
9 3 (3.61%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 3 (3.61%) JSON
9 3 (3.61%) Spring
9 3 (3.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.69%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.64%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.23%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.82%) Distributed Applications
4 4 (4.82%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.82%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.61%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.61%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (3.61%) Equities
5 3 (3.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.61%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.41%) LIMS
6 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.20%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.20%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.20%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.20%) PKI
7 1 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 13 (15.66%) Windows
2 12 (14.46%) Linux
3 7 (8.43%) Unix
3 7 (8.43%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.20%) Android
4 1 (1.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (38.55%) CI/CD
2 31 (37.35%) DevOps
3 24 (28.92%) Agile
4 17 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (19.28%) Software Engineering
6 15 (18.07%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (16.87%) Microservices
7 14 (16.87%) Test Automation
8 13 (15.66%) SDLC
9 12 (14.46%) Event-Driven
9 12 (14.46%) Risk Management
9 12 (14.46%) Unit Testing
10 11 (13.25%) Migration
10 11 (13.25%) Root Cause Analysis
11 10 (12.05%) Scrum
11 10 (12.05%) Software Testing
11 10 (12.05%) User Acceptance Testing
12 9 (10.84%) CRM
12 9 (10.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 8 (9.64%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 62 (74.70%) C#
2 39 (46.99%) SQL
3 27 (32.53%) Python
4 16 (19.28%) JavaScript
5 12 (14.46%) Java
5 12 (14.46%) TypeScript
6 9 (10.84%) PL/SQL
7 7 (8.43%) PowerShell
8 5 (6.02%) C++
9 4 (4.82%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.41%) Bash
10 2 (2.41%) C
10 2 (2.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (2.41%) Korn
10 2 (2.41%) ProC
10 2 (2.41%) VB.NET
11 1 (1.20%) Bicep
11 1 (1.20%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (21.69%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.25%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.84%) Degree
4 4 (4.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.41%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.41%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.20%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.20%) ISEB
6 1 (1.20%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.66%) QA
2 2 (2.41%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 2 (2.41%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.41%) GMP
2 2 (2.41%) GxP
2 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 1 (1.20%) GDPR
3 1 (1.20%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.20%) PSD2
3 1 (1.20%) SEPA
3 1 (1.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (3.61%) Docker
2 2 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (6.02%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.61%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (2.41%) Ansible
3 2 (2.41%) Grafana
3 2 (2.41%) HP Fortify
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.20%) Control-M
4 1 (1.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (26.51%) Microsoft
2 21 (25.30%) Oracle
3 5 (6.02%) SAP
4 4 (4.82%) Citrix
4 4 (4.82%) IBM
4 4 (4.82%) Sitecore
5 3 (3.61%) Databricks
5 3 (3.61%) ION Trading
5 3 (3.61%) Splunk
6 2 (2.41%) Adyen
6 2 (2.41%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.41%) Google
6 2 (2.41%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.41%) UiPath
7 1 (1.20%) Calypso
7 1 (1.20%) Cisco
7 1 (1.20%) F5
7 1 (1.20%) Murex
7 1 (1.20%) Temenos
7 1 (1.20%) VMware