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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 50 31
Rank change year-on-year -30 -19 +6
Contract jobs citing .NET 57 80 133
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.28% 4.21% 5.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.80% 16.60% 23.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 47 95
10th Percentile £462 £402 £425
25th Percentile £525 £456 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £585 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.70% +8.84% -17.31%
75th Percentile £750 £706 £675
90th Percentile £875 £813 £733
London median daily rate £515 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -14.17% +4.35% -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 483 482 559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 19.33% 25.38% 23.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 317 396
10th Percentile £409 £404 £413
25th Percentile £500 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £758 £751 £788
London median daily rate £550 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -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 £49.24 - -
90th Percentile £65.83 - -
London median hourly rate £37.50 £38.91 £42.50
% change year-on-year -3.62% -8.45% -39.29%

.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 May 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 May 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 -29 56 £625 +6.84% 69
West End of London - 1 £600 -
City of Westminster - 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 1 (1.75%) CMS
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 10 (17.54%) 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 18 (31.58%) Azure
2 12 (21.05%) AWS
3 10 (17.54%) Power Platform
4 9 (15.79%) GitHub
5 8 (14.04%) SaaS
6 7 (12.28%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (7.02%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (7.02%) Serverless
9 3 (5.26%) IaaS
9 3 (5.26%) PaaS
10 2 (3.51%) Entra ID
10 2 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (3.51%) Power Automate
10 2 (3.51%) PowerApps
10 2 (3.51%) Snowflake
11 1 (1.75%) Azure AKS
11 1 (1.75%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) HTTP
1 1 (1.75%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.28%) Power BI
2 6 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.51%) Oracle Database
4 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.26%) GitLab
2 1 (1.75%) Fiddler
2 1 (1.75%) Git
2 1 (1.75%) IntelliJ
2 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.75%) MSI
2 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 17 (29.82%) Finance
2 12 (21.05%) Banking
3 5 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.77%) Manufacturing
3 5 (8.77%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.26%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.75%) Advertising
5 1 (1.75%) Back Office
5 1 (1.75%) Billing
5 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.75%) Front Office
5 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (40.35%) Developer
2 10 (17.54%) Endur Developer
2 10 (17.54%) OpenLink Developer
3 9 (15.79%) Senior
4 8 (14.04%) Software Engineer
5 7 (12.28%) Lead
6 6 (10.53%) .NET Software Engineer
6 6 (10.53%) Architect
7 5 (8.77%) Hardware Engineer
7 5 (8.77%) Integration Engineer
7 5 (8.77%) Senior Developer
7 5 (8.77%) Software Integration Engineer
7 5 (8.77%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (7.02%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (5.26%) .NET Developer
9 3 (5.26%) Applications Tester
9 3 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (5.26%) Tester
9 3 (5.26%) Workflow Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.28%) React
2 6 (10.53%) REST
3 5 (8.77%) .NET Framework
4 4 (7.02%) AngularJS
4 4 (7.02%) HTML
4 4 (7.02%) RESTful
5 3 (5.26%) ASP.NET
5 3 (5.26%) Node.js
6 2 (3.51%) .NET Core
6 2 (3.51%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (3.51%) CSS
6 2 (3.51%) Kafka
6 2 (3.51%) Playwright
6 2 (3.51%) PySpark
6 2 (3.51%) Redux
7 1 (1.75%) FHIR
7 1 (1.75%) Flask
7 1 (1.75%) Jest
7 1 (1.75%) Next.js
7 1 (1.75%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.77%) Life Science
3 3 (5.26%) AI Agents
3 3 (5.26%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.51%) Hackathon
4 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.75%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.75%) Device Driver
5 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Equities
5 1 (1.75%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.75%) IoT
5 1 (1.75%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.75%) NHS
5 1 (1.75%) PACS
5 1 (1.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.02%) Windows
2 3 (5.26%) Linux
3 2 (3.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (22.81%) CI/CD
1 13 (22.81%) DevOps
2 11 (19.30%) Full-Stack Development
3 10 (17.54%) Software Engineering
3 10 (17.54%) Test Automation
4 8 (14.04%) Event-Driven
5 6 (10.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 5 (8.77%) Agile
6 5 (8.77%) AI
6 5 (8.77%) Microservices
6 5 (8.77%) Observability
6 5 (8.77%) Roadmaps
6 5 (8.77%) Software Testing
7 4 (7.02%) API Development
7 4 (7.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 4 (7.02%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (7.02%) Containerisation
7 4 (7.02%) Data Modelling
7 4 (7.02%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (7.02%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (36.84%) C#
2 15 (26.32%) SQL
3 12 (21.05%) Python
4 11 (19.30%) Java
5 8 (14.04%) JavaScript
6 5 (8.77%) PL/SQL
6 5 (8.77%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (3.51%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.75%) C++
8 1 (1.75%) Go
8 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 6 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) GDPR
2 1 (1.75%) HL7
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 7 (12.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.51%) Terraform
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (12.28%) Oracle
2 6 (10.53%) OpenLink
3 5 (8.77%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.02%) Databricks
5 2 (3.51%) Citrix
6 1 (1.75%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (1.75%) SAP
6 1 (1.75%) UiPath