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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 49 29
Rank change year-on-year -40 -20 +7
Contract jobs citing .NET 57 83 135
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.18% 4.32% 5.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.92% 17.40% 23.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 55 100
10th Percentile £506 £402 £424
25th Percentile £538 £414 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £525 £539
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -2.55% -17.12%
75th Percentile £738 £675 £675
90th Percentile £875 £798 £726
London median daily rate £525 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -6.67% -2.17% -8.00%

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 522 477 568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 19.99% 24.84% 23.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 318 398
10th Percentile £410 £404 £413
25th Percentile £475 £426 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -0.50% -11.56%
75th Percentile £668 £674 £688
90th Percentile £775 £754 £791
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile £22.38 £54.27 -
25th Percentile £28.01 £59.60 -
Median hourly rate £39.75 £69.47 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.78% - -
75th Percentile £62.74 £79.60 -
90th Percentile £76.38 £85.09 -
London median hourly rate £42.00 £44.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -5.62% +4.71% -36.57%

.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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -39 55 £625 +19.05% 63
West End of London - 2 £638 -
City of Westminster - 2 £638 -
.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 1 (1.75%) CMS
1 1 (1.75%) IIS
1 1 (1.75%) Kentico
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.75%) Sitefinity
1 1 (1.75%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (8.77%) Endur
2 1 (1.75%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.75%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 19 (33.33%) Azure
2 12 (21.05%) AWS
2 12 (21.05%) Power Platform
3 9 (15.79%) SaaS
4 7 (12.28%) GitHub
5 6 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (8.77%) Serverless
7 4 (7.02%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (7.02%) IaaS
7 4 (7.02%) PaaS
8 2 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.51%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.51%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.51%) PowerApps
8 2 (3.51%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.75%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) DHCP
1 1 (1.75%) DNS
1 1 (1.75%) Firewall
1 1 (1.75%) Internet
1 1 (1.75%) Intranet
1 1 (1.75%) Multicast
1 1 (1.75%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.75%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.54%) SQL Server
2 8 (14.04%) Power BI
3 5 (8.77%) Oracle Database
3 5 (8.77%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.51%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.75%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Git
1 3 (5.26%) GitLab
1 3 (5.26%) Jenkins
1 3 (5.26%) Visual Studio
2 2 (3.51%) Artifactory
2 2 (3.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.75%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.75%) Fiddler
3 1 (1.75%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.75%) MSI
3 1 (1.75%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 20 (35.09%) Banking
2 17 (29.82%) Finance
3 11 (19.30%) Social Skills
4 9 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.26%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.51%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.75%) Advertising
7 1 (1.75%) Back Office
7 1 (1.75%) Billing
7 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.75%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 22 (38.60%) Developer
2 8 (14.04%) Lead
3 7 (12.28%) Architect
3 7 (12.28%) Senior
3 7 (12.28%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (10.53%) C# Developer
4 6 (10.53%) Software Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Endur Developer
5 5 (8.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) OpenLink Developer
6 4 (7.02%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (7.02%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.26%) .NET Developer
7 3 (5.26%) .NET Software Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Applications Tester
7 3 (5.26%) Tester
7 3 (5.26%) Workflow Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (3.51%) Software Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.79%) .NET Framework
2 8 (14.04%) React
3 7 (12.28%) REST
4 6 (10.53%) ASP.NET
5 5 (8.77%) AngularJS
6 4 (7.02%) .NET Core
6 4 (7.02%) HTML
6 4 (7.02%) RESTful
7 3 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (5.26%) Node.js
8 2 (3.51%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 2 (3.51%) CSS
8 2 (3.51%) Kafka
8 2 (3.51%) Playwright
8 2 (3.51%) PySpark
8 2 (3.51%) Redux
8 2 (3.51%) Web Services
8 2 (3.51%) XML
9 1 (1.75%) Blazor
9 1 (1.75%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.02%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (5.26%) AI Agents
3 3 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.51%) Equities
4 2 (3.51%) Hackathon
4 2 (3.51%) Life Science
5 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.75%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.75%) IoT
5 1 (1.75%) PKI
5 1 (1.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.04%) Windows
2 5 (8.77%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.02%) Linux
4 2 (3.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (26.32%) CI/CD
1 15 (26.32%) Full-Stack Development
2 12 (21.05%) DevOps
3 10 (17.54%) Agile
3 10 (17.54%) Software Engineering
4 8 (14.04%) SDLC
4 8 (14.04%) Test Automation
4 8 (14.04%) Unit Testing
5 7 (12.28%) Event-Driven
6 6 (10.53%) AI
6 6 (10.53%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (8.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (8.77%) Microservices
7 5 (8.77%) Observability
7 5 (8.77%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (8.77%) Software Testing
7 5 (8.77%) TOGAF
8 4 (7.02%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (7.02%) Sprint Retrospective
8 4 (7.02%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 28 (49.12%) C#
2 21 (36.84%) SQL
3 13 (22.81%) Python
4 9 (15.79%) Java
4 9 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 8 (14.04%) PL/SQL
6 5 (8.77%) TypeScript
7 4 (7.02%) T-SQL
8 3 (5.26%) C++
9 2 (3.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (3.51%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.75%) C
10 1 (1.75%) Go
10 1 (1.75%) Korn
10 1 (1.75%) ProC
Qualifications
1 7 (12.28%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.02%) Degree
4 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.79%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) GDPR
2 1 (1.75%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (1.75%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.75%) PSD2
2 1 (1.75%) SEPA
2 1 (1.75%) TARGET2
System Software
1 4 (7.02%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.26%) Terraform
3 1 (1.75%) Ansible
3 1 (1.75%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (15.79%) Oracle
2 7 (12.28%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.53%) Databricks
4 4 (7.02%) Citrix
5 2 (3.51%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.75%) Cisco
6 1 (1.75%) IBM
6 1 (1.75%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.75%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.75%) OpenLink
6 1 (1.75%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (1.75%) SAP
6 1 (1.75%) Splunk
6 1 (1.75%) UiPath
6 1 (1.75%) VMware