.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in London

.NET Developer
England > London

The median .NET Developer daily rate in London is £560, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 218 155
Rank change year-on-year -106 -63 +1
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 91 143 269
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.53% 1.13% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 1.21% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 120 221
10th Percentile £400 £385 £385
25th Percentile £466 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -13.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £741 £700
90th Percentile £738 £850 £750
England median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 - -
England median hourly rate £46.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,042 11,851 16,753
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 93.56% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,726 8,117 12,092
10th Percentile £350 £340 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £788
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.43% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 146 338
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.38 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +25.85% -22.75%
75th Percentile £60.25 £51.80 £46.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £63.98
England median hourly rate £43.61 £33.00 £34.11
% change year-on-year +32.15% -3.24% -21.71%

.NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring '.NET Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

.NET Developer job vacancy trend in London

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in London

.NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Developer in London over the 6 months to 9 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Developer in London

.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in London

.NET Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 9 April 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
Central London -24 4 £560 -5.29% 37
.NET Developer
England

.NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 9 April 2026, .NET Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring .NET Developer in the job title.

1 91 (100.00%) .NET
2 76 (83.52%) C#
3 51 (56.04%) Azure
4 42 (46.15%) SQL
5 39 (42.86%) SQL Server
6 36 (39.56%) CI/CD
7 34 (37.36%) DevOps
8 32 (35.16%) Agile
9 27 (29.67%) .NET Framework
10 21 (23.08%) AngularJS
11 19 (20.88%) Full-Stack Development
12 17 (18.68%) .NET Core
12 17 (18.68%) HTML
12 17 (18.68%) Security Cleared
13 16 (17.58%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (17.58%) Microservices
13 16 (17.58%) Microsoft
13 16 (17.58%) SC Cleared
14 15 (16.48%) ASP.NET
15 13 (14.29%) AI
15 13 (14.29%) AWS
15 13 (14.29%) JavaScript
16 12 (13.19%) MVC
16 12 (13.19%) Oracle
16 12 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
16 12 (13.19%) RESTful
16 12 (13.19%) Serverless
16 12 (13.19%) Windows
17 11 (12.09%) ASP.NET Web API
17 11 (12.09%) OOP

.NET Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 4 (4.40%) IIS
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.10%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 51 (56.04%) Azure
2 16 (17.58%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (14.29%) AWS
4 12 (13.19%) Serverless
5 9 (9.89%) Azure Functions
6 5 (5.49%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (5.49%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (5.49%) Entra ID
6 5 (5.49%) GitHub
7 4 (4.40%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (2.20%) Azure App Service
9 2 (2.20%) PaaS
9 2 (2.20%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.20%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.20%) DHCP
1 2 (2.20%) DNS
1 2 (2.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.79%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (8.79%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.59%) Redis
4 4 (4.40%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.20%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (9.89%) Git
2 4 (4.40%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.40%) SpecFlow
2 4 (4.40%) TeamCity
2 4 (4.40%) Visual Studio
2 4 (4.40%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (3.30%) MSTest
3 3 (3.30%) NUnit
3 3 (3.30%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (2.20%) Jasmine
4 2 (2.20%) JIRA
4 2 (2.20%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.10%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.10%) Mocha
5 1 (1.10%) Moq
5 1 (1.10%) MSBuild
5 1 (1.10%) Serilog
5 1 (1.10%) tSQLt
5 1 (1.10%) webpack
General
1 36 (39.56%) Finance
2 23 (25.27%) Banking
2 23 (25.27%) Social Skills
3 14 (15.38%) Front Office
4 12 (13.19%) Investment Banking
5 8 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (7.69%) Financial Institution
6 7 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.30%) Back Office
8 2 (2.20%) Health Technology
8 2 (2.20%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (100.00%) .NET
2 27 (29.67%) .NET Framework
3 21 (23.08%) AngularJS
4 17 (18.68%) .NET Core
4 17 (18.68%) HTML
5 15 (16.48%) ASP.NET
6 12 (13.19%) RESTful
7 11 (12.09%) ASP.NET Web API
8 10 (10.99%) WPF
9 9 (9.89%) React
9 9 (9.89%) REST
10 8 (8.79%) ASP.NET Core
11 7 (7.69%) CSS
11 7 (7.69%) WinForms
12 5 (5.49%) ASP.NET MVC
12 5 (5.49%) Reactive Extensions
12 5 (5.49%) Web Services
13 4 (4.40%) HTML5
13 4 (4.40%) OAuth
13 4 (4.40%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (6.59%) Credit Risk
2 6 (6.59%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (5.49%) AI Agents
3 5 (5.49%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.49%) Fixed Income
3 5 (5.49%) Market Risk
4 4 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.30%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.30%) Derivative
6 2 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.10%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.19%) Windows
2 6 (6.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (39.56%) CI/CD
2 34 (37.36%) DevOps
3 32 (35.16%) Agile
4 19 (20.88%) Full-Stack Development
5 16 (17.58%) Microservices
6 13 (14.29%) AI
7 12 (13.19%) MVC
7 12 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (12.09%) OOP
9 10 (10.99%) Design Patterns
9 10 (10.99%) Test Automation
10 9 (9.89%) SDLC
11 8 (8.79%) OO
11 8 (8.79%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (8.79%) Software Engineering
11 8 (8.79%) Unit Testing
11 8 (8.79%) Web Development
12 7 (7.69%) TDD
13 6 (6.59%) Refactoring
13 6 (6.59%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 76 (83.52%) C#
2 42 (46.15%) SQL
3 13 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 11 (12.09%) T-SQL
5 8 (8.79%) Python
5 8 (8.79%) TypeScript
6 6 (6.59%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.20%) Bicep
7 2 (2.20%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (2.20%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (18.68%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.58%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.40%) Degree
4 3 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.20%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.89%) QA
2 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.10%) MiFID
2 1 (1.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (4.40%) Docker
2 2 (2.20%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (5.49%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (17.58%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.19%) Oracle
3 6 (6.59%) Citrix
4 3 (3.30%) ION Trading
5 2 (2.20%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.20%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.20%) VMware
6 1 (1.10%) Sybase
6 1 (1.10%) Temenos