.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in London

.NET Developer
England > London

The median .NET Developer daily rate in London is £561, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 April 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 208 169
Rank change year-on-year -106 -39 -12
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 86 146 260
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.49% 1.15% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 1.23% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 121 218
10th Percentile £400 £385 £381
25th Percentile £466 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.93% -13.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £700
90th Percentile £754 £850 £761
England median daily rate £536 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.25% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 - -
England median hourly rate £46.00 - -

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 16,233 11,903 16,666
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 93.50% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,816 8,167 12,054
10th Percentile £350 £339 £325
25th Percentile £425 £427 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 143 343
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.04 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £63.26 £50.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.75 £64.91
England median hourly rate £45.46 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +42.06% -8.57% -22.22%

.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 April 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 April 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 -21 4 £560 +0.45% 37
.NET Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 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 86 (100.00%) .NET
2 74 (86.05%) C#
3 48 (55.81%) Azure
4 40 (46.51%) SQL
5 39 (45.35%) SQL Server
6 36 (41.86%) CI/CD
7 35 (40.70%) DevOps
8 31 (36.05%) Agile
9 28 (32.56%) .NET Framework
10 21 (24.42%) AngularJS
11 18 (20.93%) Full-Stack Development
11 18 (20.93%) Microservices
12 17 (19.77%) .NET Core
12 17 (19.77%) HTML
13 16 (18.60%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (18.60%) Microsoft
13 16 (18.60%) Security Cleared
14 15 (17.44%) SC Cleared
15 14 (16.28%) ASP.NET
15 14 (16.28%) JavaScript
16 13 (15.12%) AI
16 13 (15.12%) AWS
16 13 (15.12%) Oracle
16 13 (15.12%) Serverless
17 12 (13.95%) OOP
17 12 (13.95%) RESTful
17 12 (13.95%) Windows
18 11 (12.79%) Design Patterns
18 11 (12.79%) MVC
19 10 (11.63%) 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 (5.81%) IIS
2 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.16%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 48 (55.81%) Azure
2 16 (18.60%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (15.12%) AWS
3 13 (15.12%) Serverless
4 9 (10.47%) Azure Functions
5 6 (6.98%) Azure Key Vault
5 6 (6.98%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (5.81%) GitHub
7 4 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (4.65%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.33%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.33%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (2.33%) Azure App Service
9 2 (2.33%) PaaS
9 2 (2.33%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.33%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.16%) DHCP
1 1 (1.16%) DNS
1 1 (1.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (45.35%) SQL Server
2 8 (9.30%) Relational Database
3 7 (8.14%) Redis
4 6 (6.98%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (5.81%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.33%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.16%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (10.47%) Git
2 5 (5.81%) SpecFlow
2 5 (5.81%) TeamCity
3 4 (4.65%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.65%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (3.49%) MSTest
4 3 (3.49%) NUnit
4 3 (3.49%) Visual Studio
4 3 (3.49%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (2.33%) Jasmine
5 2 (2.33%) JIRA
5 2 (2.33%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (1.16%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.16%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.16%) Mocha
6 1 (1.16%) Moq
6 1 (1.16%) MSBuild
6 1 (1.16%) Serilog
6 1 (1.16%) tSQLt
6 1 (1.16%) webpack
General
1 34 (39.53%) Finance
2 23 (26.74%) Social Skills
3 21 (24.42%) Banking
4 15 (17.44%) Front Office
5 12 (13.95%) Investment Banking
6 6 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.98%) Financial Institution
6 6 (6.98%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.49%) Back Office
8 2 (2.33%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (100.00%) .NET
2 28 (32.56%) .NET Framework
3 21 (24.42%) AngularJS
4 17 (19.77%) .NET Core
4 17 (19.77%) HTML
5 14 (16.28%) ASP.NET
6 12 (13.95%) RESTful
7 10 (11.63%) ASP.NET Web API
7 10 (11.63%) REST
8 9 (10.47%) React
8 9 (10.47%) WPF
9 7 (8.14%) ASP.NET Core
9 7 (8.14%) CSS
9 7 (8.14%) WinForms
10 5 (5.81%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (5.81%) Reactive Extensions
11 4 (4.65%) HTML5
11 4 (4.65%) OAuth
11 4 (4.65%) Web Services
12 3 (3.49%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (6.98%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.81%) AI Agents
3 5 (5.81%) Credit Risk
3 5 (5.81%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (5.81%) Fixed Income
3 5 (5.81%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (5.81%) Market Risk
4 4 (4.65%) Derivative
5 3 (3.49%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.33%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.16%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.16%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.95%) Windows
2 5 (5.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (41.86%) CI/CD
2 35 (40.70%) DevOps
3 31 (36.05%) Agile
4 18 (20.93%) Full-Stack Development
4 18 (20.93%) Microservices
5 13 (15.12%) AI
6 12 (13.95%) OOP
7 11 (12.79%) Design Patterns
7 11 (12.79%) MVC
8 10 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (10.47%) OO
9 9 (10.47%) Performance Tuning
9 9 (10.47%) SDLC
10 8 (9.30%) Software Engineering
10 8 (9.30%) Unit Testing
10 8 (9.30%) Web Development
11 7 (8.14%) Clean Code
11 7 (8.14%) TDD
11 7 (8.14%) Test Automation
12 6 (6.98%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 74 (86.05%) C#
2 40 (46.51%) SQL
3 14 (16.28%) JavaScript
4 10 (11.63%) T-SQL
5 9 (10.47%) TypeScript
6 7 (8.14%) PL/SQL
6 7 (8.14%) Python
7 3 (3.49%) Bicep
8 2 (2.33%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (2.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 15 (17.44%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.65%) Degree
4 2 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.63%) QA
2 1 (1.16%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (5.81%) Docker
2 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (6.98%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 13 (15.12%) Oracle
3 7 (8.14%) Citrix
4 3 (3.49%) ION Trading
5 2 (2.33%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.16%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.16%) Sybase
6 1 (1.16%) Temenos
6 1 (1.16%) VMware