.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in London

.NET Developer
England > London

The median .NET Developer daily rate in London is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 245 157
Rank change year-on-year -111 -88 +24
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 102 129 265
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.51% 0.96% 1.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 1.03% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 99 226
10th Percentile £423 - £377
25th Percentile £456 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +23.68% -17.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £738 £675 £675
90th Percentile £818 £850 £800
England median daily rate £500 £475 £516
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.99% -1.67%
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 18,806 12,525 15,259
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.21% 92.97% 94.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,209 8,427 10,627
10th Percentile £363 £325 £347
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £658 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 359 209 194
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £29.07 £33.29
Median % change year-on-year +34.16% -12.66% -11.24%
75th Percentile £60.50 £49.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £65.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.32 £45.00
% change year-on-year +67.85% -43.73% +2.63%

.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 23 August 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 23 August 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
South London - 6 £700 -
Central London -27 4 £525 -13.40% 38
North London - 1 - -
.NET Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 August 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.

1 102 (100.00%) .NET
2 87 (85.29%) C#
3 52 (50.98%) SQL Server
4 50 (49.02%) SQL
5 47 (46.08%) Azure
5 47 (46.08%) CI/CD
6 42 (41.18%) Agile
7 36 (35.29%) DevOps
8 29 (28.43%) Microservices
8 29 (28.43%) REST
9 28 (27.45%) JavaScript
10 27 (26.47%) Full-Stack Development
11 25 (24.51%) .NET Core
11 25 (24.51%) AngularJS
12 22 (21.57%) .NET Framework
12 22 (21.57%) RESTful
13 21 (20.59%) AWS
14 18 (17.65%) Microsoft
15 17 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (16.67%) T-SQL
16 15 (14.71%) ASP.NET
17 14 (13.73%) HTML
17 14 (13.73%) Kubernetes
17 14 (13.73%) OOP
17 14 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
17 14 (13.73%) TypeScript
18 13 (12.75%) AI
18 13 (12.75%) Event-Driven
18 13 (12.75%) OO

.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 (3.92%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 47 (46.08%) Azure
2 21 (20.59%) AWS
3 17 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (10.78%) GitHub
5 9 (8.82%) Serverless
6 6 (5.88%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.90%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (3.92%) Azure AKS
8 4 (3.92%) Azure Functions
8 4 (3.92%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (2.94%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.96%) n8n
10 2 (1.96%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.96%) Zapier
11 1 (0.98%) Anthropic Claude
11 1 (0.98%) Azure API Management
11 1 (0.98%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.98%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (50.98%) SQL Server
2 8 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.84%) Relational Database
3 7 (6.86%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (5.88%) Power BI
5 4 (3.92%) Oracle Database
5 4 (3.92%) Redis
6 3 (2.94%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.94%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.96%) Db2
7 2 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.98%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 10 (9.80%) Git
2 6 (5.88%) GitLab
2 6 (5.88%) SpecFlow
3 5 (4.90%) REST Assured
4 3 (2.94%) MSTest
4 3 (2.94%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (2.94%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.96%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.96%) Jasmine
5 2 (1.96%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.96%) JIRA
5 2 (1.96%) Karma Test Runner
5 2 (1.96%) NUnit
6 1 (0.98%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.98%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.98%) Mocha
6 1 (0.98%) Moq
6 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.98%) tSQLt
6 1 (0.98%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (44.12%) Finance
2 25 (24.51%) Social Skills
3 23 (22.55%) Banking
4 13 (12.75%) Investment Banking
5 11 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (9.80%) Front Office
7 6 (5.88%) Financial Institution
8 5 (4.90%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.96%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (100.00%) .NET
2 29 (28.43%) REST
3 25 (24.51%) .NET Core
3 25 (24.51%) AngularJS
4 22 (21.57%) .NET Framework
4 22 (21.57%) RESTful
5 15 (14.71%) ASP.NET
6 14 (13.73%) HTML
7 13 (12.75%) React
8 11 (10.78%) Kafka
9 10 (9.80%) WinForms
9 10 (9.80%) WPF
10 9 (8.82%) Web Services
11 8 (7.84%) ASP.NET MVC
12 7 (6.86%) ASP.NET Core
12 7 (6.86%) ASP.NET Web API
12 7 (6.86%) Terraform
13 6 (5.88%) Blazor
13 6 (5.88%) CSS
13 6 (5.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.73%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.86%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.94%) Derivative
4 3 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.96%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.96%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.96%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.96%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.98%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.98%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.84%) Windows
2 2 (1.96%) Linux
2 2 (1.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (46.08%) CI/CD
2 42 (41.18%) Agile
3 36 (35.29%) DevOps
4 29 (28.43%) Microservices
5 27 (26.47%) Full-Stack Development
6 17 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (13.73%) OOP
7 14 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (12.75%) AI
8 13 (12.75%) Event-Driven
8 13 (12.75%) OO
9 12 (11.76%) Containerisation
9 12 (11.76%) Design Patterns
10 11 (10.78%) Web Development
11 10 (9.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 10 (9.80%) Generative AI
11 10 (9.80%) Performance Tuning
12 9 (8.82%) API Design
12 9 (8.82%) Mentoring
12 9 (8.82%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 87 (85.29%) C#
2 50 (49.02%) SQL
3 28 (27.45%) JavaScript
4 17 (16.67%) T-SQL
5 14 (13.73%) TypeScript
6 12 (11.76%) PL/SQL
7 11 (10.78%) Python
8 2 (1.96%) Bicep
9 1 (0.98%) VB
9 1 (0.98%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (12.75%) Security Cleared
2 12 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.96%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.98%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.88%) QA
2 2 (1.96%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.96%) Basel III
3 1 (0.98%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (10.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (13.73%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.75%) Oracle
3 9 (8.82%) Citrix
4 3 (2.94%) DevExpress
4 3 (2.94%) IBM
5 1 (0.98%) Databricks