.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 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 161 172
Rank change year-on-year -95 +11 -40
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 116 264 336
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.87% 1.63% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 1.73% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 215 275
10th Percentile - £377 £400
25th Percentile £385 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £750
90th Percentile £843 £800 £788
England median daily rate £470 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -10.48% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £30.60
25th Percentile - - £31.50
Median hourly rate - - £33.00
75th Percentile - - £34.50
90th Percentile - - £35.40
England median hourly rate - £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +30.00% -21.38%

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 12,369 15,243 21,094
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.66% 94.10% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,281 10,259 15,401
10th Percentile £325 £343 £353
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £694
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 181 236
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.50 £18.33
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £22.69
Median hourly rate £30.50 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% -6.67% +15.21%
75th Percentile £50.25 £56.00 £64.13
90th Percentile £66.34 £71.88 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% +5.56% +70.66%

.NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured .NET Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Developer 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 September 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 September 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 -9 12 £644 +0.98% 45
.NET Developer
England

.NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 14 September 2025, .NET Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring .NET Developer in the job title.

1 116 (100.00%) .NET
2 102 (87.93%) C#
3 67 (57.76%) SQL
4 53 (45.69%) Finance
5 45 (38.79%) .NET Framework
6 42 (36.21%) Agile
7 40 (34.48%) Azure
8 36 (31.03%) Oracle
9 33 (28.45%) SQL Server
10 32 (27.59%) Social Skills
11 28 (24.14%) DevOps
12 27 (23.28%) WPF
13 26 (22.41%) Windows
13 26 (22.41%) .NET Core
14 25 (21.55%) AngularJS
14 25 (21.55%) PL/SQL
15 23 (19.83%) VBA
16 22 (18.97%) Microsoft Excel
16 22 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
17 21 (18.10%) Front Office
17 21 (18.10%) CI/CD
17 21 (18.10%) Full-Stack Development
18 20 (17.24%) Microsoft
18 20 (17.24%) JavaScript
18 20 (17.24%) Microservices
18 20 (17.24%) Oracle Database
19 19 (16.38%) VB
19 19 (16.38%) VB.NET
19 19 (16.38%) Design Patterns
20 18 (15.52%) Azure DevOps

.NET Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.59%) Confluence
2 2 (1.72%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.86%) EPiServer
3 1 (0.86%) IBM Notes
3 1 (0.86%) Mendix
3 1 (0.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 22 (18.97%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.86%) Eikon
2 1 (0.86%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 40 (34.48%) Azure
2 18 (15.52%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (13.79%) AWS
4 10 (8.62%) Azure Service Bus
5 7 (6.03%) Serverless
6 6 (5.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (5.17%) Azure Functions
7 5 (4.31%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (3.45%) Figma
8 4 (3.45%) GitHub
9 3 (2.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (2.59%) Azure Pipelines
9 3 (2.59%) GCP
10 2 (1.72%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (0.86%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (0.86%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.86%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (0.86%) NuGet
11 1 (0.86%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (28.45%) SQL Server
2 20 (17.24%) Oracle Database
3 8 (6.90%) Relational Database
4 7 (6.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.45%) Redis
7 3 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.59%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.86%) ClickHouse
8 1 (0.86%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.86%) MySQL
8 1 (0.86%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.86%) Power BI
8 1 (0.86%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (11.21%) JIRA
2 5 (4.31%) SpecFlow
3 2 (1.72%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.72%) Git
3 2 (1.72%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.72%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.86%) JetBrains Rider
4 1 (0.86%) MSTest
General
1 53 (45.69%) Finance
2 32 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 22 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (18.10%) Front Office
5 10 (8.62%) Banking
6 6 (5.17%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.59%) Back Office
7 3 (2.59%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.72%) Electronics
8 2 (1.72%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.72%) Marketing
8 2 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.72%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.86%) Billing
9 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.86%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (100.00%) .NET
2 45 (38.79%) .NET Framework
3 27 (23.28%) WPF
4 26 (22.41%) .NET Core
5 25 (21.55%) AngularJS
6 15 (12.93%) ASP.NET
6 15 (12.93%) CSS
6 15 (12.93%) Reactive Extensions
7 12 (10.34%) Entity Framework
8 11 (9.48%) HTML
9 10 (8.62%) React
10 8 (6.90%) Kafka
11 7 (6.03%) ASP.NET Core
12 6 (5.17%) REST
12 6 (5.17%) RESTful
13 5 (4.31%) Akka.NET
13 5 (4.31%) NHibernate
13 5 (4.31%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (4.31%) Tailwind CSS
13 5 (4.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.76%) Fixed Income
2 7 (6.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (4.31%) Hedge funds
5 4 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.59%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.72%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.72%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.72%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.86%) Equities
8 1 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.86%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.86%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.86%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (22.41%) Windows
2 4 (3.45%) Android
2 4 (3.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (36.21%) Agile
2 28 (24.14%) DevOps
3 21 (18.10%) CI/CD
3 21 (18.10%) Full-Stack Development
4 20 (17.24%) Microservices
5 19 (16.38%) Design Patterns
6 17 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (13.79%) Scrum
8 14 (12.07%) OO
9 13 (11.21%) Clean Code
10 12 (10.34%) TDD
11 10 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (7.76%) Electronic Trading
12 9 (7.76%) Unit Testing
13 8 (6.90%) Computer Science
13 8 (6.90%) Migration
13 8 (6.90%) SOA
14 7 (6.03%) Risk Management
14 7 (6.03%) Software Engineering
14 7 (6.03%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 102 (87.93%) C#
2 67 (57.76%) SQL
3 25 (21.55%) PL/SQL
4 23 (19.83%) VBA
5 20 (17.24%) JavaScript
6 19 (16.38%) VB
6 19 (16.38%) VB.NET
7 11 (9.48%) TypeScript
8 7 (6.03%) Java
9 6 (5.17%) PowerShell
9 6 (5.17%) T-SQL
10 5 (4.31%) F#
11 4 (3.45%) Bicep
12 2 (1.72%) PHP
12 2 (1.72%) Python
12 2 (1.72%) RPG
12 2 (1.72%) RPG IV
13 1 (0.86%) C++
13 1 (0.86%) Formula Language
13 1 (0.86%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 2 (1.72%) Degree
1 2 (1.72%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (0.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.45%) Accessibility
1 4 (3.45%) WCAG
2 3 (2.59%) EMIR
2 3 (2.59%) QA
3 2 (1.72%) MiFID
System Software
1 10 (8.62%) Docker
2 4 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (7.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (31.03%) Oracle
2 20 (17.24%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.45%) Databricks
4 3 (2.59%) Solace
5 2 (1.72%) CQG
5 2 (1.72%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.72%) SAP
5 2 (1.72%) TIBCO
5 2 (1.72%) TOWER Software
6 1 (0.86%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.86%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.86%) Google
6 1 (0.86%) IBM
6 1 (0.86%) Kofax
6 1 (0.86%) Lotus
6 1 (0.86%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.86%) Reuters
6 1 (0.86%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.86%) Splunk
6 1 (0.86%) Virgin Media