.NET Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring .NET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 38 33
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 -3
Contract jobs citing .NET 91 110 198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 5.21% 5.05% 5.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.08% 22.68% 19.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 73 138
10th Percentile £404 £415 £447
25th Percentile £489 £463 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -15.38% +6.12%
75th Percentile £678 £650 £750
90th Percentile £813 £738 £825
Central London median daily rate £585 £538 £650
% change year-on-year +8.84% -17.31% +8.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 477 485 996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.32% 22.25% 28.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 339 647
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £560 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £738
90th Percentile £770 £788 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing .NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for .NET in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in the City of London over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for .NET in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.30%) CMS
1 3 (3.30%) Confluence
1 3 (3.30%) Drupal
1 3 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.20%) Apache
2 2 (2.20%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.20%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (5.49%) Endur
2 1 (1.10%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.10%) OpenText MBPM
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 46 (50.55%) Azure
2 20 (21.98%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (20.88%) AWS
4 11 (12.09%) Power Platform
5 6 (6.59%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (6.59%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (5.49%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (5.49%) GitHub
7 4 (4.40%) Azure AKS
7 4 (4.40%) Azure App Service
7 4 (4.40%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (4.40%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (4.40%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (4.40%) Serverless
8 3 (3.30%) Attraqt
8 3 (3.30%) Azure Functions
8 3 (3.30%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (3.30%) PowerApps
8 3 (3.30%) Storyblok
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.20%) DNS
1 2 (2.20%) Firewall
1 2 (2.20%) FTP
1 2 (2.20%) HTTP
1 2 (2.20%) Network Security
1 2 (2.20%) SMTP
1 2 (2.20%) SSL
1 2 (2.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (24.18%) SQL Server
2 9 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.49%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (3.30%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.30%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.30%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.20%) Big Data
6 2 (2.20%) Power BI
6 2 (2.20%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (2.20%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.10%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (16.48%) Git
2 8 (8.79%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.40%) Bitbucket
3 4 (4.40%) JIRA
4 3 (3.30%) NUnit
5 2 (2.20%) Ant
5 2 (2.20%) Babel
5 2 (2.20%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.20%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.20%) webpack
6 1 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.10%) Crucible
6 1 (1.10%) Maven
6 1 (1.10%) Postman
6 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (28.57%) Finance
2 20 (21.98%) Banking
2 20 (21.98%) Social Skills
3 14 (15.38%) Front Office
4 5 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.40%) Back Office
5 4 (4.40%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.30%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.20%) Marketing
7 2 (2.20%) Retail
8 1 (1.10%) Advertising
8 1 (1.10%) Billing
8 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (51.65%) Developer
2 16 (17.58%) Software Engineer
3 13 (14.29%) .NET Developer
4 11 (12.09%) Senior
5 9 (9.89%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (8.79%) Lead
7 7 (7.69%) C# Developer
8 6 (6.59%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Algorithm Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) OpenLink Developer
10 4 (4.40%) Angular Developer
10 4 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) React Developer
10 4 (4.40%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.40%) Technical Leader
11 3 (3.30%) Senior .NET Developer
11 3 (3.30%) Trainer
12 2 (2.20%) Architect
12 2 (2.20%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.48%) .NET Core
1 15 (16.48%) HTML
2 13 (14.29%) CSS
3 11 (12.09%) React
4 9 (9.89%) AngularJS
4 9 (9.89%) ASP.NET
4 9 (9.89%) RESTful
5 8 (8.79%) .NET Framework
5 8 (8.79%) Web Services
6 7 (7.69%) Kafka
7 6 (6.59%) Blazor
8 5 (5.49%) ASP.NET Core
8 5 (5.49%) Entity Framework
8 5 (5.49%) REST
9 4 (4.40%) GraphQL
9 4 (4.40%) HTML5
9 4 (4.40%) JSON
9 4 (4.40%) WPF
10 3 (3.30%) jQuery
10 3 (3.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.59%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.49%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.49%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.30%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.30%) Low-Code
3 3 (3.30%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.20%) Equities
4 2 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.20%) TWAP
4 2 (2.20%) VWAP
5 1 (1.10%) Derivative
5 1 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.10%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.10%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.10%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.49%) Windows
2 2 (2.20%) Linux
3 1 (1.10%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (40.66%) DevOps
2 34 (37.36%) CI/CD
3 25 (27.47%) Agile
4 23 (25.27%) Full-Stack Development
5 22 (24.18%) Software Engineering
6 17 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (17.58%) Microservices
8 11 (12.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (12.09%) Front End Development
9 10 (10.99%) Test Automation
10 9 (9.89%) Unit Testing
11 7 (7.69%) Data Analysis
12 6 (6.59%) Algorithmic Trading
12 6 (6.59%) BDD
12 6 (6.59%) Enterprise Architecture
12 6 (6.59%) Kanban
12 6 (6.59%) Migration
12 6 (6.59%) Multithreading
12 6 (6.59%) MVC
12 6 (6.59%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 59 (64.84%) C#
2 30 (32.97%) JavaScript
3 28 (30.77%) SQL
4 17 (18.68%) Python
5 9 (9.89%) Java
6 7 (7.69%) PowerShell
7 5 (5.49%) T-SQL
8 4 (4.40%) Bicep
8 4 (4.40%) C++
8 4 (4.40%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.20%) Go
9 2 (2.20%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (2.20%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.10%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.10%) Groovy
10 1 (1.10%) Perl
10 1 (1.10%) Ruby
10 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (12.09%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.79%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.20%) Degree
4 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.49%) QA
2 4 (4.40%) EMIR
2 4 (4.40%) MiFID
3 3 (3.30%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.20%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.20%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 13 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (18.68%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.49%) Terraform
3 3 (3.30%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.20%) Grafana
5 1 (1.10%) Ansible
5 1 (1.10%) Control-M
5 1 (1.10%) Rancher
Vendors
1 13 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.79%) Oracle
3 5 (5.49%) Databricks
3 5 (5.49%) OpenLink
4 2 (2.20%) Bloomberg
4 2 (2.20%) IBM
4 2 (2.20%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.10%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.10%) CQG
5 1 (1.10%) Google
5 1 (1.10%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.10%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.10%) OpenText
5 1 (1.10%) Reuters
5 1 (1.10%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.10%) SAP
5 1 (1.10%) Splunk
5 1 (1.10%) Talend