.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in London

.NET Developer
England > London

The median .NET Developer daily rate in London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026.

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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 216 173
Rank change year-on-year -115 -43 -5
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 81 144 250
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.46% 1.15% 1.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.24% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 115 213
10th Percentile £400 £385 £385
25th Percentile £488 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -10.64% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £700
90th Percentile £763 £850 £800
England median daily rate £550 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +9.84% +0.15% -3.85%

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 16,473 11,655 16,476
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 93.37% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,927 7,987 11,906
10th Percentile £350 £344 £325
25th Percentile £428 £428 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £688
90th Percentile £751 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 144 325
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.83 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.68% +26.64% -21.99%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £46.48
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £65.02
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.32 £37.50
% change year-on-year +55.01% -19.15% -16.23%

.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 12 May 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 12 May 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 3 £560 -10.40% 38
.NET Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 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 81 (100.00%) .NET
2 70 (86.42%) C#
3 45 (55.56%) Azure
4 37 (45.68%) SQL
4 37 (45.68%) SQL Server
5 34 (41.98%) CI/CD
6 32 (39.51%) DevOps
7 30 (37.04%) Agile
8 25 (30.86%) .NET Framework
9 20 (24.69%) AngularJS
10 19 (23.46%) Microservices
11 18 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
12 17 (20.99%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (20.99%) HTML
13 16 (19.75%) JavaScript
14 15 (18.52%) .NET Core
14 15 (18.52%) Security Cleared
15 14 (17.28%) ASP.NET
15 14 (17.28%) SC Cleared
16 13 (16.05%) AWS
16 13 (16.05%) Microsoft
16 13 (16.05%) Oracle
16 13 (16.05%) T-SQL
17 12 (14.81%) AI
17 12 (14.81%) Serverless
18 11 (13.58%) ASP.NET Web API
18 11 (13.58%) Performance Tuning
18 11 (13.58%) RESTful
19 10 (12.35%) Event-Driven
19 10 (12.35%) Python

.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 5 (6.17%) IIS
2 1 (1.23%) Confluence
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 45 (55.56%) Azure
2 17 (20.99%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (16.05%) AWS
4 12 (14.81%) Serverless
5 8 (9.88%) Azure Functions
6 6 (7.41%) GitHub
7 5 (6.17%) Azure Key Vault
7 5 (6.17%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (4.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (3.70%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.47%) Amazon Bedrock
10 2 (2.47%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.47%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (2.47%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.47%) n8n
10 2 (2.47%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.23%) DHCP
1 1 (1.23%) DNS
1 1 (1.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (45.68%) SQL Server
2 9 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 6 (7.41%) Redis
4 5 (6.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (6.17%) Oracle Database
5 4 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.47%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.47%) Power BI
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (6.17%) Git
1 5 (6.17%) SpecFlow
2 4 (4.94%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.94%) TeamCity
3 3 (3.70%) MSTest
3 3 (3.70%) NUnit
3 3 (3.70%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (3.70%) Visual Studio
3 3 (3.70%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (2.47%) GitLab
4 2 (2.47%) Jasmine
4 2 (2.47%) Karma Test Runner
4 2 (2.47%) Moq
5 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.23%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.23%) JIRA
5 1 (1.23%) Mocha
5 1 (1.23%) MSBuild
5 1 (1.23%) tSQLt
5 1 (1.23%) webpack
General
1 32 (39.51%) Finance
2 19 (23.46%) Social Skills
3 18 (22.22%) Banking
4 12 (14.81%) Front Office
5 10 (12.35%) Investment Banking
6 6 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (6.17%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.70%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.47%) Back Office
9 2 (2.47%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (100.00%) .NET
2 25 (30.86%) .NET Framework
3 20 (24.69%) AngularJS
4 17 (20.99%) HTML
5 15 (18.52%) .NET Core
6 14 (17.28%) ASP.NET
7 11 (13.58%) ASP.NET Web API
7 11 (13.58%) RESTful
8 10 (12.35%) REST
9 9 (11.11%) React
10 6 (7.41%) ASP.NET Core
10 6 (7.41%) CSS
11 5 (6.17%) ASP.NET MVC
11 5 (6.17%) Kafka
11 5 (6.17%) OAuth
12 4 (4.94%) HTML5
12 4 (4.94%) OAuth2
12 4 (4.94%) Reactive Extensions
12 4 (4.94%) WPF
13 3 (3.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (8.64%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (6.17%) AI Agents
5 4 (4.94%) Fixed Income
6 3 (3.70%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.70%) Derivative
7 2 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.23%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.23%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.88%) Windows
2 5 (6.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (41.98%) CI/CD
2 32 (39.51%) DevOps
3 30 (37.04%) Agile
4 19 (23.46%) Microservices
5 18 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
6 12 (14.81%) AI
7 11 (13.58%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (12.35%) Event-Driven
9 9 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (11.11%) Test Automation
10 8 (9.88%) OOP
10 8 (9.88%) Software Engineering
10 8 (9.88%) Unit Testing
10 8 (9.88%) Web Development
11 7 (8.64%) Containerisation
11 7 (8.64%) MVC
11 7 (8.64%) OO
11 7 (8.64%) SDLC
11 7 (8.64%) SOLID
11 7 (8.64%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 70 (86.42%) C#
2 37 (45.68%) SQL
3 16 (19.75%) JavaScript
4 13 (16.05%) T-SQL
5 10 (12.35%) Python
5 10 (12.35%) TypeScript
6 7 (8.64%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.70%) Bicep
8 1 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 14 (17.28%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.94%) Degree
4 2 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.35%) QA
2 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (9.88%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (16.05%) Microsoft
1 13 (16.05%) Oracle
2 7 (8.64%) Citrix
3 3 (3.70%) ION Trading
4 2 (2.47%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.23%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.23%) Sybase
5 1 (1.23%) Temenos
5 1 (1.23%) VMware