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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 108 106
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 3 12 20
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.15% 0.65% 0.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.68% 2.50% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 14
10th Percentile £430 £388 £461
25th Percentile £456 £458 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £638
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -13.73% +6.25%
75th Percentile £538 £675 £704
90th Percentile £560 £865 £750
Central London median daily rate £500 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -25.93% +3.85% +8.33%

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 444 480 498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.39% 26.04% 21.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 302 341
10th Percentile £363 £408 £400
25th Percentile £456 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £683 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £43.83 - -
25th Percentile £45.83 £36.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £51.38 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.46% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £56.67 £40.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £58.50 - -
Central London median hourly rate £36.00 £40.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -10.00% -15.79% -20.17%

.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 26 February 2026.

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 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure App Service
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (33.33%) Azure WebJobs
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) MSTest
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) Swagger
2 1 (33.33%) WinForms
2 1 (33.33%) WPF
2 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Credit Risk
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) OOP
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle