.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 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 32 29
Rank change year-on-year -27 -3 -9
Contract jobs citing .NET 70 121 194
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.76% 5.17% 6.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.20% 21.61% 26.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 83 125
10th Percentile £404 £403 £456
25th Percentile £424 £519 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £750
90th Percentile £726 £819 £825
London median daily rate £500 £575 £608
% change year-on-year -13.04% -5.35% -2.80%

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 432 560 725
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 23.23% 23.94% 24.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 337 499
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £615
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £675 £710 £713
90th Percentile £750 £838 £825
London median daily rate £540 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £44.97 £27.67 £46.93
25th Percentile £48.67 £31.07 £47.94
Median hourly rate £56.97 £38.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +47.97% -23.38% -1.47%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.00 £51.94
90th Percentile £81.25 £41.45 £52.58
London median hourly rate £52.72 £49.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year +6.51% -19.18% -5.77%

.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 2 November 2025.

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 2 November 2025. 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 -21 69 £615 +2.50% 101
West End of London +6 1 £400 -38.46% 1
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 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (4.29%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (4.29%) OpenText MBPM
1 3 (4.29%) Oracle BPM
1 3 (4.29%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (4.29%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.43%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.43%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.43%) Maximo
2 1 (1.43%) Orchestrade
2 1 (1.43%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 40 (57.14%) Azure
2 12 (17.14%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (10.00%) AWS
3 7 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 7 (10.00%) Serverless
4 6 (8.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (8.57%) PaaS
5 5 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (5.71%) Amazon S3
6 4 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (5.71%) Entra ID
6 4 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (5.71%) Power Automate
6 4 (5.71%) Snowflake
7 3 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (4.29%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (4.29%) GitHub
7 3 (4.29%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.86%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (24.29%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (5.71%) Power BI
3 4 (5.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (2.86%) Event Store
4 2 (2.86%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.86%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.43%) DB2
5 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (7.14%) JIRA
2 4 (5.71%) Postman
3 3 (4.29%) Git
3 3 (4.29%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.29%) Selenium
4 2 (2.86%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.86%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.86%) GitLab
4 2 (2.86%) Gradle
4 2 (2.86%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.86%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (2.86%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.43%) MSTest
General
1 34 (48.57%) Finance
2 18 (25.71%) Banking
3 15 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 8 (11.43%) Investment Banking
5 7 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (8.57%) Front Office
7 4 (5.71%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.71%) Retail Banking
8 3 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.86%) Back Office
9 2 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.86%) Legal
10 1 (1.43%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.43%) Marketing
10 1 (1.43%) Police
Job Titles
1 36 (51.43%) Developer
2 15 (21.43%) Senior
3 12 (17.14%) .NET Developer
4 11 (15.71%) Lead
5 7 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 6 (8.57%) Architect
6 6 (8.57%) C# Developer
7 5 (7.14%) Applications Developer
7 5 (7.14%) Senior .NET Developer
8 4 (5.71%) Automation Developer
8 4 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.29%) Analyst
9 3 (4.29%) Angular Developer
9 3 (4.29%) Azure Developer
9 3 (4.29%) BPM Developer
9 3 (4.29%) C# .NET Developer
9 3 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
10 2 (2.86%) Field Engineer
10 2 (2.86%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.57%) HTML
2 11 (15.71%) CSS
3 10 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 7 (10.00%) .NET Core
4 7 (10.00%) Node.js
4 7 (10.00%) REST
4 7 (10.00%) Web Services
5 6 (8.57%) React
5 6 (8.57%) RESTful
6 5 (7.14%) .NET Framework
6 5 (7.14%) HTML5
6 5 (7.14%) jQuery
7 4 (5.71%) ASP.NET
7 4 (5.71%) Vue
8 3 (4.29%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (4.29%) Blazor
8 3 (4.29%) Lightning Web Components
9 2 (2.86%) Entity Framework
9 2 (2.86%) Kafka
9 2 (2.86%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.14%) Low-Code
2 4 (5.71%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.29%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.29%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.86%) Derivative
4 2 (2.86%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.86%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.43%) AS400
5 1 (1.43%) CMDB
5 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.43%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.43%) iSeries
5 1 (1.43%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (34.29%) DevOps
2 19 (27.14%) Agile
3 16 (22.86%) Software Engineering
4 14 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 14 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (18.57%) Full-Stack Development
6 12 (17.14%) Test Automation
7 10 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 10 (14.29%) Event-Driven
7 10 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 9 (12.86%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (12.86%) Data Analysis
9 8 (11.43%) Roadmaps
10 7 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (10.00%) Project Delivery
10 7 (10.00%) Scrum
10 7 (10.00%) SDLC
10 7 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
11 6 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (8.57%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 52 (74.29%) C#
2 34 (48.57%) SQL
3 21 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 14 (20.00%) Java
5 13 (18.57%) Python
6 4 (5.71%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.29%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.29%) VB.NET
8 2 (2.86%) Rust
8 2 (2.86%) VBA
9 1 (1.43%) Bash
9 1 (1.43%) Bicep
9 1 (1.43%) C++
9 1 (1.43%) COBOL
9 1 (1.43%) F#
9 1 (1.43%) PHP
9 1 (1.43%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.43%) RPG
9 1 (1.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (12.86%) Degree
2 7 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.86%) CBAP
4 2 (2.86%) ISEB
4 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.43%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.43%) CFA
5 1 (1.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.86%) QA
2 3 (4.29%) COBIT
2 3 (4.29%) GDPR
3 2 (2.86%) MiFID
4 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.43%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.43%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.43%) EMIR
4 1 (1.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (4.29%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.86%) Ansible
3 1 (1.43%) Grafana
3 1 (1.43%) Istio
3 1 (1.43%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 13 (18.57%) Oracle
3 7 (10.00%) Databricks
4 4 (5.71%) UiPath
5 3 (4.29%) OpenText
5 3 (4.29%) OutSystems
5 3 (4.29%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.29%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.29%) Workday
6 2 (2.86%) DevExpress
6 2 (2.86%) DocuSign
7 1 (1.43%) Avaloq
7 1 (1.43%) FNZ
7 1 (1.43%) IBM
7 1 (1.43%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.43%) Portware
7 1 (1.43%) SAP