.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in London

.NET Developer
England > London

The median .NET Developer daily rate in London is £572, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 261 177
Rank change year-on-year -99 -84 -25
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 99 110 235
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.48% 0.82% 1.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.89% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 80 190
10th Percentile £423 - £377
25th Percentile £480 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £488 £575
Median % change year-on-year +17.33% -15.22% -4.17%
75th Percentile £678 £638 £675
90th Percentile £793 £675 £776
England median daily rate £490 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +3.16% -9.52% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +30.00%

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 19,058 12,391 15,104
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 92.55% 94.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,335 8,277 9,836
10th Percentile £363 £335 £341
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £664 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 429 210 171
10th Percentile £16.75 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.50 £23.98
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.20 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -25.48% -9.88%
75th Percentile £64.25 £49.13 £59.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.75 £80.00
England median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.84% -41.51% -6.89%

.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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -26 9 £572 -9.39%
South London - 8 £700 -
North London - 1 - -
.NET Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 October 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 99 (100.00%) .NET
2 82 (82.83%) C#
3 54 (54.55%) SQL Server
4 45 (45.45%) Azure
4 45 (45.45%) CI/CD
5 41 (41.41%) SQL
6 36 (36.36%) REST
7 32 (32.32%) .NET Core
7 32 (32.32%) Agile
8 30 (30.30%) Microservices
9 28 (28.28%) DevOps
10 24 (24.24%) AWS
10 24 (24.24%) RESTful
11 23 (23.23%) Full-Stack Development
12 21 (21.21%) JavaScript
12 21 (21.21%) Microsoft
13 20 (20.20%) ASP.NET
13 20 (20.20%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (17.17%) .NET Framework
14 17 (17.17%) Event-Driven
15 16 (16.16%) AngularJS
15 16 (16.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (16.16%) TypeScript
15 16 (16.16%) WPF
16 15 (15.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 15 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (15.15%) React
16 15 (15.15%) WinForms
17 14 (14.14%) Docker
17 14 (14.14%) Kubernetes

.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 2 (2.02%) CMS
1 2 (2.02%) IIS
1 2 (2.02%) SharePoint
1 2 (2.02%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.02%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 45 (45.45%) Azure
2 24 (24.24%) AWS
3 20 (20.20%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (10.10%) GitHub
5 8 (8.08%) Power Platform
5 8 (8.08%) Serverless
6 7 (7.07%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (6.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.04%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (4.04%) Azure Functions
8 4 (4.04%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (3.03%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (2.02%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (1.01%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (1.01%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (1.01%) Azure App Service
11 1 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.01%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.01%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (54.55%) SQL Server
2 10 (10.10%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 6 (6.06%) Power BI
5 5 (5.05%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (4.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (3.03%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.03%) Db2
7 3 (3.03%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.03%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.02%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.02%) Redis
8 2 (2.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.01%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.01%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (9.09%) Git
2 8 (8.08%) GitLab
3 7 (7.07%) REST Assured
4 4 (4.04%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.03%) SpecFlow
6 2 (2.02%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.02%) Fiddler
6 2 (2.02%) JIRA
6 2 (2.02%) Moq
6 2 (2.02%) Postman
6 2 (2.02%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.02%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.01%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.01%) NUnit
7 1 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.01%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 38 (38.38%) Finance
2 26 (26.26%) Social Skills
3 22 (22.22%) Banking
4 12 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (11.11%) Financial Institution
6 10 (10.10%) Investment Banking
7 8 (8.08%) Front Office
8 5 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (4.04%) Public Sector
10 2 (2.02%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (1.01%) Law
11 1 (1.01%) Legal
11 1 (1.01%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (100.00%) .NET
2 36 (36.36%) REST
3 32 (32.32%) .NET Core
4 24 (24.24%) RESTful
5 20 (20.20%) ASP.NET
6 17 (17.17%) .NET Framework
7 16 (16.16%) AngularJS
7 16 (16.16%) WPF
8 15 (15.15%) React
8 15 (15.15%) WinForms
9 12 (12.12%) Kafka
10 11 (11.11%) Web Services
11 10 (10.10%) ASP.NET MVC
12 9 (9.09%) ASP.NET Core
12 9 (9.09%) Blazor
13 8 (8.08%) SOAP
14 7 (7.07%) Terraform
15 6 (6.06%) ASP.NET Web API
15 6 (6.06%) Entity Framework
16 5 (5.05%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 14 (14.14%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.07%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.05%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.02%) Credit Risk
7 2 (2.02%) Market Risk
7 2 (2.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (1.01%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.01%) Derivative
8 1 (1.01%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.01%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.01%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.01%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.01%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.05%) Windows
2 3 (3.03%) Linux
3 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 32 (32.32%) Agile
3 30 (30.30%) Microservices
4 28 (28.28%) DevOps
5 23 (23.23%) Full-Stack Development
6 17 (17.17%) Event-Driven
7 16 (16.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (15.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 15 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (14.14%) SDLC
10 13 (13.13%) AI
10 13 (13.13%) ETL
10 13 (13.13%) OO
11 12 (12.12%) API Design
11 12 (12.12%) Code Quality
11 12 (12.12%) Containerisation
11 12 (12.12%) Generative AI
11 12 (12.12%) Mentoring
12 11 (11.11%) MVC
12 11 (11.11%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 82 (82.83%) C#
2 41 (41.41%) SQL
3 21 (21.21%) JavaScript
4 16 (16.16%) TypeScript
5 14 (14.14%) T-SQL
6 13 (13.13%) Python
7 11 (11.11%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.03%) Bicep
9 2 (2.02%) VB
9 2 (2.02%) VBA
10 1 (1.01%) Java
10 1 (1.01%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.01%) XAML
Qualifications
1 8 (8.08%) SC Cleared
1 8 (8.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.02%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.04%) QA
2 2 (2.02%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.02%) Basel III
2 2 (2.02%) GDPR
2 2 (2.02%) ITGC
3 1 (1.01%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (14.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (14.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.01%) Grafana
2 1 (1.01%) Kibana
2 1 (1.01%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.08%) Oracle
3 7 (7.07%) Citrix
4 3 (3.03%) DevExpress
4 3 (3.03%) IBM
5 2 (2.02%) Adyen
6 1 (1.01%) Databricks
6 1 (1.01%) Splunk
6 1 (1.01%) Syncfusion
6 1 (1.01%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.01%) WSO2