.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in London

.NET Developer
England > London

The median .NET Developer daily rate in London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2026.

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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 214 170
Rank change year-on-year -103 -44 -11
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 88 145 253
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.50% 1.15% 1.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 1.24% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 118 217
10th Percentile £400 £385 £384
25th Percentile £482 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £523 £580
Median % change year-on-year +10.05% -9.91% +3.57%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £700
90th Percentile £763 £850 £800
England median daily rate £550 £508 £500
% change year-on-year +8.37% +1.50% -3.85%

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 16,386 11,740 16,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 93.40% 93.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,903 8,049 11,935
10th Percentile £350 £341 £325
25th Percentile £425 £430 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £751 £800 £800
England median daily rate £511 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 145 336
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.33 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.00 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% +26.00% -22.54%
75th Percentile £63.08 £50.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.62 £36.50
% change year-on-year +53.52% -16.12% -18.03%

.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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 £560 -10.40% 30
.NET Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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 88 (100.00%) .NET
2 76 (86.36%) C#
3 49 (55.68%) Azure
4 41 (46.59%) SQL
4 41 (46.59%) SQL Server
5 38 (43.18%) CI/CD
6 35 (39.77%) DevOps
7 32 (36.36%) Agile
8 28 (31.82%) .NET Framework
9 21 (23.86%) AngularJS
10 20 (22.73%) Microservices
11 19 (21.59%) .NET Core
11 19 (21.59%) Full-Stack Development
12 17 (19.32%) HTML
13 16 (18.18%) AWS
13 16 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (17.05%) JavaScript
14 15 (17.05%) Microsoft
14 15 (17.05%) Security Cleared
15 14 (15.91%) ASP.NET
15 14 (15.91%) RESTful
15 14 (15.91%) SC Cleared
16 13 (14.77%) AI
16 13 (14.77%) Oracle
17 12 (13.64%) Design Patterns
17 12 (13.64%) OOP
17 12 (13.64%) Serverless
17 12 (13.64%) T-SQL
17 12 (13.64%) Windows
18 11 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API

.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 5 (5.68%) IIS
2 1 (1.14%) Confluence
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 49 (55.68%) Azure
2 16 (18.18%) AWS
2 16 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (13.64%) Serverless
4 8 (9.09%) Azure Functions
5 5 (5.68%) Azure Key Vault
5 5 (5.68%) Azure Service Bus
5 5 (5.68%) GitHub
6 4 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (3.41%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.41%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (3.41%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.27%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.27%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.27%) n8n
8 2 (2.27%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.27%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.14%) DHCP
1 1 (1.14%) DNS
1 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (46.59%) SQL Server
2 9 (10.23%) Relational Database
3 7 (7.95%) Redis
4 5 (5.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (5.68%) Oracle Database
5 3 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.27%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (10.23%) Git
2 5 (5.68%) SpecFlow
2 5 (5.68%) TeamCity
3 4 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.55%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (3.41%) MSTest
4 3 (3.41%) NUnit
4 3 (3.41%) Visual Studio
4 3 (3.41%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (2.27%) Jasmine
5 2 (2.27%) JIRA
5 2 (2.27%) Karma Test Runner
5 2 (2.27%) Moq
6 1 (1.14%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.14%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.14%) GitLab
6 1 (1.14%) Mocha
6 1 (1.14%) MSBuild
6 1 (1.14%) tSQLt
6 1 (1.14%) webpack
General
1 37 (42.05%) Finance
2 24 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 21 (23.86%) Banking
4 15 (17.05%) Front Office
5 12 (13.64%) Investment Banking
6 7 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (6.82%) Financial Institution
8 5 (5.68%) Public Sector
9 3 (3.41%) Back Office
10 2 (2.27%) Health Technology
11 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (100.00%) .NET
2 28 (31.82%) .NET Framework
3 21 (23.86%) AngularJS
4 19 (21.59%) .NET Core
5 17 (19.32%) HTML
6 14 (15.91%) ASP.NET
6 14 (15.91%) RESTful
7 11 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
8 10 (11.36%) React
8 10 (11.36%) REST
9 9 (10.23%) WPF
10 7 (7.95%) CSS
10 7 (7.95%) WinForms
11 6 (6.82%) ASP.NET Core
12 5 (5.68%) ASP.NET MVC
12 5 (5.68%) OAuth
12 5 (5.68%) Reactive Extensions
13 4 (4.55%) HTML5
13 4 (4.55%) Kafka
13 4 (4.55%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.23%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (7.95%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.82%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.68%) AI Agents
4 5 (5.68%) Credit Risk
4 5 (5.68%) Fixed Income
4 5 (5.68%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (5.68%) Market Risk
5 4 (4.55%) Derivative
6 3 (3.41%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.27%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.14%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.64%) Windows
2 5 (5.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (43.18%) CI/CD
2 35 (39.77%) DevOps
3 32 (36.36%) Agile
4 20 (22.73%) Microservices
5 19 (21.59%) Full-Stack Development
6 13 (14.77%) AI
7 12 (13.64%) Design Patterns
7 12 (13.64%) OOP
8 11 (12.50%) MVC
8 11 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (11.36%) Performance Tuning
9 10 (11.36%) SDLC
10 9 (10.23%) Event-Driven
10 9 (10.23%) OO
10 9 (10.23%) Unit Testing
11 8 (9.09%) Clean Code
11 8 (9.09%) Software Engineering
11 8 (9.09%) Test Automation
11 8 (9.09%) Web Development
12 7 (7.95%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 76 (86.36%) C#
2 41 (46.59%) SQL
3 15 (17.05%) JavaScript
4 12 (13.64%) T-SQL
5 10 (11.36%) TypeScript
6 9 (10.23%) Python
7 7 (7.95%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.41%) Bicep
9 1 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (17.05%) Security Cleared
2 14 (15.91%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.55%) Degree
4 2 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.27%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.36%) QA
2 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (7.95%) Docker
2 1 (1.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (17.05%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.77%) Oracle
3 7 (7.95%) Citrix
4 3 (3.41%) ION Trading
5 2 (2.27%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.14%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.14%) Sybase
6 1 (1.14%) Temenos
6 1 (1.14%) VMware