.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in London

.NET Developer
England > London

The median .NET Developer daily rate in London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 252 177 155
Rank change year-on-year -75 -22 -22
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 110 232 351
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 1.45% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 1.54% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 187 292
10th Percentile - £376 £400
25th Percentile £385 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £727
90th Percentile £676 £780 £788
England median daily rate £475 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -9.52% -3.67% -0.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 12,376 15,043 19,513
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 94.08% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,268 9,799 14,220
10th Percentile £333 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 172 212
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.28 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.06 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% -13.58% +23.66%
75th Percentile £49.50 £59.06 £61.59
90th Percentile £68.00 £78.75 £76.23
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -41.51% -6.89% +67.93%

.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 14 October 2025.

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 14 October 2025. 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 -3 14 £631 +1.00% 48
.NET Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 October 2025, .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.

1 110 (100.00%) .NET
2 97 (88.18%) C#
3 63 (57.27%) SQL
4 53 (48.18%) Finance
5 46 (41.82%) Azure
6 37 (33.64%) SQL Server
7 36 (32.73%) Agile
7 36 (32.73%) .NET Framework
8 29 (26.36%) Oracle
9 28 (25.45%) DevOps
10 26 (23.64%) .NET Core
10 26 (23.64%) CI/CD
11 24 (21.82%) WPF
12 23 (20.91%) Windows
13 22 (20.00%) PL/SQL
13 22 (20.00%) Microservices
13 22 (20.00%) Social Skills
14 21 (19.09%) Full-Stack Development
14 21 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
15 20 (18.18%) VBA
15 20 (18.18%) AngularJS
16 19 (17.27%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (17.27%) Microsoft Excel
17 18 (16.36%) Oracle Database
18 17 (15.45%) AWS
18 17 (15.45%) VB
18 17 (15.45%) VB.NET
19 16 (14.55%) Microsoft
19 16 (14.55%) Scrum
19 16 (14.55%) Analytical Skills

.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 (3.64%) Confluence
2 1 (0.91%) EPiServer
2 1 (0.91%) HCL Notes
2 1 (0.91%) Mendix
2 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.91%) Umbraco
Applications
1 19 (17.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.91%) Eikon
2 1 (0.91%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 46 (41.82%) Azure
2 19 (17.27%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (15.45%) AWS
4 11 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 8 (7.27%) Serverless
6 7 (6.36%) Azure Functions
6 7 (6.36%) GitHub
7 6 (5.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (4.55%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.64%) Figma
10 3 (2.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (2.73%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (2.73%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (2.73%) Azure Pipelines
10 3 (2.73%) PaaS
11 2 (1.82%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.82%) Azure Event Grid
11 2 (1.82%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (1.82%) GCP
11 2 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (33.64%) SQL Server
2 18 (16.36%) Oracle Database
3 9 (8.18%) Relational Database
4 7 (6.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.64%) Redis
7 3 (2.73%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.91%) MySQL
9 1 (0.91%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.91%) Power BI
9 1 (0.91%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (8.18%) JIRA
1 9 (8.18%) SpecFlow
2 2 (1.82%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.82%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.91%) JetBrains Rider
3 1 (0.91%) MSTest
General
1 53 (48.18%) Finance
2 22 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 16 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.18%) Banking
5 8 (7.27%) Front Office
6 6 (5.45%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.82%) Back Office
8 2 (1.82%) Electronics
8 2 (1.82%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.82%) Marketing
8 2 (1.82%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.91%) Advertising
9 1 (0.91%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.91%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.91%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (100.00%) .NET
2 36 (32.73%) .NET Framework
3 26 (23.64%) .NET Core
4 24 (21.82%) WPF
5 20 (18.18%) AngularJS
6 15 (13.64%) ASP.NET
7 13 (11.82%) CSS
7 13 (11.82%) Entity Framework
8 9 (8.18%) HTML
9 8 (7.27%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (7.27%) NHibernate
9 8 (7.27%) Playwright
9 8 (7.27%) React
9 8 (7.27%) RESTful
10 7 (6.36%) REST
11 6 (5.45%) Blazor
11 6 (5.45%) Kafka
12 5 (4.55%) XML
13 4 (3.64%) Reactive Extensions
13 4 (3.64%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (4.55%) Hedge funds
2 5 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.73%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.73%) Fixed Income
3 3 (2.73%) Market Risk
3 3 (2.73%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.91%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.91%) Equities
5 1 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.91%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.91%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.91%) N-Tier
5 1 (0.91%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (20.91%) Windows
2 4 (3.64%) Android
2 4 (3.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (32.73%) Agile
2 28 (25.45%) DevOps
3 26 (23.64%) CI/CD
4 22 (20.00%) Microservices
5 21 (19.09%) Full-Stack Development
5 21 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (14.55%) Scrum
7 14 (12.73%) Clean Code
8 11 (10.00%) Migration
8 11 (10.00%) Unit Testing
9 9 (8.18%) Design Patterns
9 9 (8.18%) OO
10 8 (7.27%) Risk Management
10 8 (7.27%) Software Engineering
11 7 (6.36%) Containerisation
11 7 (6.36%) Fintech
12 6 (5.45%) AI
12 6 (5.45%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (4.55%) ETRM
13 5 (4.55%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 97 (88.18%) C#
2 63 (57.27%) SQL
3 22 (20.00%) PL/SQL
4 20 (18.18%) VBA
5 17 (15.45%) VB
5 17 (15.45%) VB.NET
6 13 (11.82%) JavaScript
7 8 (7.27%) T-SQL
8 6 (5.45%) PowerShell
8 6 (5.45%) TypeScript
9 5 (4.55%) Bicep
10 4 (3.64%) Python
11 2 (1.82%) Java
11 2 (1.82%) PHP
11 2 (1.82%) RPG
11 2 (1.82%) RPG IV
12 1 (0.91%) Cypher
12 1 (0.91%) Formula Language
12 1 (0.91%) LotusScript
12 1 (0.91%) VB6
Qualifications
1 3 (2.73%) Degree
1 3 (2.73%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.82%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.64%) Accessibility
1 4 (3.64%) WCAG
2 3 (2.73%) EMIR
2 3 (2.73%) MiFID
2 3 (2.73%) QA
System Software
1 8 (7.27%) Docker
2 5 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (8.18%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (26.36%) Oracle
2 16 (14.55%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.73%) Databricks
3 3 (2.73%) Solace
4 2 (1.82%) CQG
4 2 (1.82%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.82%) SAP
4 2 (1.82%) TIBCO
4 2 (1.82%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.91%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.91%) DevExpress
5 1 (0.91%) Google
5 1 (0.91%) Kofax
5 1 (0.91%) Lotus
5 1 (0.91%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.91%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.91%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.91%) Reuters
5 1 (0.91%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.91%) Virgin Media