.NET Framework Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft .NET Framework
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring .NET Framework skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 101 123
Rank change year-on-year -16 +22 -35
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 6 23 24
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.35% 1.08% 0.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.41% 4.48% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 16
10th Percentile £419 £491 £457
25th Percentile £434 £553 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £636 £650
Median % change year-on-year -19.45% -2.12% +18.18%
75th Percentile £584 £741 £676
90th Percentile £644 £794 £763
Central London median daily rate £513 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -24.07% +3.85% +18.18%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

.NET Framework 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 427 513 676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.55% 24.16% 24.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 306 460
10th Percentile £373 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £505 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £708 £713
90th Percentile £738 £831 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £615
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £46.25 - £46.93
25th Percentile £51.88 £36.75 £47.94
Median hourly rate £62.50 £38.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +62.34% -23.38% -1.47%
75th Percentile £76.25 £40.25 £51.94
90th Percentile £83.75 - £52.58
Central London median hourly rate £56.97 £38.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year +47.97% -23.38% -1.47%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing .NET Framework relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

.NET Framework job vacancy trend in the City of London

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing .NET Framework.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing .NET Framework

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework in the City of London over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Framework in the City of London

.NET Framework
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing .NET Framework.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing .NET Framework

.NET Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Aladdin
1 1 (16.67%) Fidessa
1 1 (16.67%) Maximo
1 1 (16.67%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure App Service
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (16.67%) Azure WebJobs
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MSTest
1 1 (16.67%) Postman
General
1 2 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
2 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Architect
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Technical Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) C# Architect
2 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Development Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (83.33%) REST
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Core
3 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (33.33%) CSS
3 2 (33.33%) Entity Framework
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) jQuery
3 2 (33.33%) React
3 2 (33.33%) Vue
4 1 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (16.67%) JSON
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (16.67%) RESTful
4 1 (16.67%) SOAP
4 1 (16.67%) Swagger
4 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Derivative
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (16.67%) Fixed Income
1 1 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) API Development
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) MVC
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Log Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Multithreaded Programming
3 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) Order Management
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (16.67%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Portware