.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in London

.NET Developer
England > London

The median .NET Developer daily rate in London is £496, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 196 139
Rank change year-on-year -85 -57 -14
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 107 194 360
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.76% 1.23% 1.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 1.32% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 156 294
10th Percentile £385 £375 £385
25th Percentile £389 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £575 £616
Median % change year-on-year -13.74% -6.69% +6.25%
75th Percentile £633 £675 £731
90th Percentile £675 £800 £788
England median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 - -
England median hourly rate £46.00 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -23.54%

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 13,069 14,750 18,532
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 93.80% 93.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,672 9,554 13,424
10th Percentile £334 £335 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -2.22% -2.51%
75th Percentile £654 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £795 £793
England median daily rate £508 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 155 221
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.33
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.80 £22.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.33% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £49.50 £57.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -37.13% -12.82% +49.84%

.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 20 November 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 20 November 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 -4 13 £625 +4.17% 53
.NET Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 November 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.

1 107 (100.00%) .NET
2 89 (83.18%) C#
3 59 (55.14%) SQL
4 46 (42.99%) Azure
5 40 (37.38%) SQL Server
6 37 (34.58%) .NET Framework
7 33 (30.84%) Agile
8 26 (24.30%) DevOps
8 26 (24.30%) WPF
9 25 (23.36%) Full-Stack Development
10 24 (22.43%) CI/CD
10 24 (22.43%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (22.43%) Windows
11 22 (20.56%) .NET Core
12 21 (19.63%) AWS
12 21 (19.63%) Microservices
12 21 (19.63%) Oracle
13 19 (17.76%) AngularJS
14 17 (15.89%) PL/SQL
15 16 (14.95%) Clean Code
15 16 (14.95%) Microsoft
15 16 (14.95%) VBA
16 15 (14.02%) Microsoft Excel
16 15 (14.02%) Oracle Database
17 14 (13.08%) VB
17 14 (13.08%) VB.NET
18 13 (12.15%) Migration
18 13 (12.15%) Scrum
19 12 (11.21%) Azure DevOps
20 11 (10.28%) ASP.NET

.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 (3.74%) Confluence
2 3 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.93%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.93%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.93%) Mendix
Applications
1 15 (14.02%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.93%) Eikon
2 1 (0.93%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 46 (42.99%) Azure
2 21 (19.63%) AWS
3 12 (11.21%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (7.48%) Azure Service Bus
4 8 (7.48%) GitHub
4 8 (7.48%) Serverless
5 7 (6.54%) Azure Functions
6 5 (4.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (4.67%) PaaS
7 4 (3.74%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (3.74%) Azure Pipelines
7 4 (3.74%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.74%) Figma
7 4 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (2.80%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (2.80%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.87%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (1.87%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) DHCP
1 1 (0.93%) DNS
1 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (37.38%) SQL Server
2 15 (14.02%) Oracle Database
3 8 (7.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (5.61%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.80%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.93%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.93%) Power BI
7 1 (0.93%) Redis
7 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (8.41%) SpecFlow
2 7 (6.54%) JIRA
3 4 (3.74%) Git
4 3 (2.80%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.93%) JetBrains Rider
5 1 (0.93%) MSTest
5 1 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.93%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 53 (49.53%) Finance
2 26 (24.30%) Social Skills
3 14 (13.08%) Banking
4 13 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.54%) Front Office
5 7 (6.54%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.74%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.74%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.80%) Back Office
7 3 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.87%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.93%) Advertising
9 1 (0.93%) Electronics
9 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.93%) Marketing
9 1 (0.93%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (100.00%) .NET
2 37 (34.58%) .NET Framework
3 26 (24.30%) WPF
4 22 (20.56%) .NET Core
5 19 (17.76%) AngularJS
6 11 (10.28%) ASP.NET
6 11 (10.28%) Entity Framework
7 10 (9.35%) REST
7 10 (9.35%) RESTful
8 9 (8.41%) CSS
9 8 (7.48%) NHibernate
9 8 (7.48%) Playwright
10 7 (6.54%) React
11 6 (5.61%) Blazor
11 6 (5.61%) Kafka
12 5 (4.67%) ASP.NET Core
12 5 (4.67%) WinForms
13 4 (3.74%) ASP.NET Web API
13 4 (3.74%) HTML
13 4 (3.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.54%) Credit Risk
1 7 (6.54%) Market Risk
2 6 (5.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (4.67%) Hedge funds
3 5 (4.67%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.67%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.74%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.74%) Fixed Income
4 4 (3.74%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.80%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.87%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.93%) Derivative
7 1 (0.93%) Equities
7 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.93%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 24 (22.43%) Windows
2 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (30.84%) Agile
2 26 (24.30%) DevOps
3 25 (23.36%) Full-Stack Development
4 24 (22.43%) CI/CD
4 24 (22.43%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (19.63%) Microservices
6 16 (14.95%) Clean Code
7 13 (12.15%) Migration
7 13 (12.15%) Scrum
8 11 (10.28%) Risk Management
9 10 (9.35%) Design Patterns
9 10 (9.35%) Unit Testing
10 9 (8.41%) OO
10 9 (8.41%) OOP
10 9 (8.41%) Software Engineering
11 7 (6.54%) AI
11 7 (6.54%) MVC
11 7 (6.54%) SDLC
12 6 (5.61%) API Development
12 6 (5.61%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 89 (83.18%) C#
2 59 (55.14%) SQL
3 17 (15.89%) PL/SQL
4 16 (14.95%) VBA
5 14 (13.08%) VB
5 14 (13.08%) VB.NET
6 9 (8.41%) T-SQL
7 5 (4.67%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.67%) Python
8 4 (3.74%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.80%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.87%) Java
10 2 (1.87%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.87%) PHP
11 1 (0.93%) Bicep
11 1 (0.93%) Cypher
11 1 (0.93%) Formula Language
11 1 (0.93%) LotusScript
11 1 (0.93%) VB6
Qualifications
1 5 (4.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.74%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.80%) Degree
4 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.74%) Accessibility
1 4 (3.74%) WCAG
2 3 (2.80%) EMIR
2 3 (2.80%) MiFID
3 2 (1.87%) QA
System Software
1 4 (3.74%) Docker
2 2 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (3.74%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.80%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (19.63%) Oracle
2 16 (14.95%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.80%) Databricks
4 2 (1.87%) CQG
4 2 (1.87%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.87%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.93%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.93%) DevExpress
5 1 (0.93%) Google
5 1 (0.93%) Kofax
5 1 (0.93%) Lotus
5 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.93%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.93%) Reuters
5 1 (0.93%) SAP
5 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.93%) Solace
5 1 (0.93%) Sybase
5 1 (0.93%) VMware