.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in London

.NET Developer
England > London

The median .NET Developer daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 234 145
Rank change year-on-year -65 -89 -8
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 92 135 306
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.58% 1.00% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 1.07% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 107 251
10th Percentile £388 £385 £385
25th Percentile £458 £397 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £681 £688
90th Percentile £685 £813 £750
England median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -4.55%
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 14,665 12,602 16,855
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.58% 93.61% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,824 8,218 12,188
10th Percentile £350 £337 £325
25th Percentile £425 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 145 333
10th Percentile £18.07 £21.23 £15.96
25th Percentile £23.14 £24.66 £19.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +28.07% -18.57%
75th Percentile £60.19 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.61 £65.00
England median hourly rate £34.38 £36.50 £34.38
% change year-on-year -5.80% +6.18% -14.06%

.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 26 February 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 26 February 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 0 7 £625 +12.11% 44
.NET Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 February 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 92 (100.00%) .NET
2 78 (84.78%) C#
3 46 (50.00%) Azure
4 42 (45.65%) SQL Server
5 38 (41.30%) SQL
6 30 (32.61%) .NET Framework
7 29 (31.52%) Agile
8 28 (30.43%) CI/CD
9 27 (29.35%) DevOps
10 21 (22.83%) Full-Stack Development
11 19 (20.65%) .NET Core
11 19 (20.65%) Microservices
12 16 (17.39%) ASP.NET
12 16 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (16.30%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (15.22%) AngularJS
14 14 (15.22%) Windows
15 13 (14.13%) AI
15 13 (14.13%) AWS
15 13 (14.13%) WPF
16 12 (13.04%) Clean Code
16 12 (13.04%) Microsoft
16 12 (13.04%) MVC
16 12 (13.04%) SC Cleared
16 12 (13.04%) Security Cleared
17 11 (11.96%) Oracle
17 11 (11.96%) RESTful
17 11 (11.96%) Scrum
18 10 (10.87%) ASP.NET Web API
18 10 (10.87%) Entity Framework

.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 (4.35%) Confluence
2 3 (3.26%) IIS
3 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 46 (50.00%) Azure
2 15 (16.30%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (14.13%) AWS
4 8 (8.70%) Serverless
5 7 (7.61%) Azure Functions
5 7 (7.61%) GitHub
6 6 (6.52%) Azure Key Vault
6 6 (6.52%) Azure Service Bus
6 6 (6.52%) Entra ID
7 4 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.35%) PaaS
8 3 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.17%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.17%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (2.17%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.17%) Azure App Service
9 2 (2.17%) Azure WebJobs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.17%) DHCP
1 2 (2.17%) DNS
1 2 (2.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (45.65%) SQL Server
2 10 (10.87%) Relational Database
3 7 (7.61%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (6.52%) Oracle Database
5 3 (3.26%) Redis
6 2 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.09%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.09%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (10.87%) SpecFlow
2 6 (6.52%) Git
3 5 (5.43%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.43%) JIRA
4 4 (4.35%) Visual Studio
4 4 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (2.17%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.09%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.09%) Mocha
6 1 (1.09%) Moq
6 1 (1.09%) MSBuild
6 1 (1.09%) MSTest
6 1 (1.09%) NUnit
6 1 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.09%) Serilog
6 1 (1.09%) tSQLt
6 1 (1.09%) webpack
General
1 32 (34.78%) Finance
2 22 (23.91%) Banking
3 20 (21.74%) Social Skills
4 9 (9.78%) Front Office
4 9 (9.78%) Investment Banking
5 8 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (7.61%) Financial Institution
6 7 (7.61%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.26%) Back Office
8 2 (2.17%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.09%) Advertising
9 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (100.00%) .NET
2 30 (32.61%) .NET Framework
3 19 (20.65%) .NET Core
4 16 (17.39%) ASP.NET
5 14 (15.22%) AngularJS
6 13 (14.13%) WPF
7 11 (11.96%) RESTful
8 10 (10.87%) ASP.NET Web API
8 10 (10.87%) Entity Framework
9 8 (8.70%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (8.70%) HTML
9 8 (8.70%) NHibernate
9 8 (8.70%) Playwright
9 8 (8.70%) React
9 8 (8.70%) REST
10 7 (7.61%) WinForms
11 6 (6.52%) Web Services
12 5 (5.43%) ASP.NET MVC
13 4 (4.35%) CSS
13 4 (4.35%) Reactive Extensions
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (7.61%) Credit Risk
3 6 (6.52%) Market Risk
4 5 (5.43%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.43%) Fixed Income
4 5 (5.43%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (5.43%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.26%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.26%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.17%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.09%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.09%) Derivative
7 1 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.09%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.09%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.22%) Windows
2 5 (5.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (31.52%) Agile
2 28 (30.43%) CI/CD
3 27 (29.35%) DevOps
4 21 (22.83%) Full-Stack Development
5 19 (20.65%) Microservices
6 16 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (14.13%) AI
8 12 (13.04%) Clean Code
8 12 (13.04%) MVC
9 11 (11.96%) Scrum
10 10 (10.87%) OOP
10 10 (10.87%) SDLC
10 10 (10.87%) Unit Testing
11 9 (9.78%) OO
11 9 (9.78%) Risk Management
11 9 (9.78%) Software Engineering
11 9 (9.78%) Test Automation
12 8 (8.70%) Design Patterns
13 7 (7.61%) Migration
14 6 (6.52%) ETRM
Programming Languages
1 78 (84.78%) C#
2 38 (41.30%) SQL
3 9 (9.78%) Python
3 9 (9.78%) T-SQL
4 7 (7.61%) PL/SQL
5 5 (5.43%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.43%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.26%) Bicep
6 3 (3.26%) VB
6 3 (3.26%) VB.NET
7 2 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (2.17%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.17%) VBA
8 1 (1.09%) Java
8 1 (1.09%) PHP
8 1 (1.09%) VB6
Qualifications
1 12 (13.04%) SC Cleared
1 12 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.52%) Degree
3 3 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.52%) QA
2 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.09%) MiFID
2 1 (1.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (4.35%) Docker
2 3 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (5.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.96%) Oracle
3 4 (4.35%) Citrix
4 3 (3.26%) ION Trading
4 3 (3.26%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.17%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.17%) VMware
6 1 (1.09%) Databricks
6 1 (1.09%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.09%) Sybase
6 1 (1.09%) Temenos