.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in London

.NET Developer
England > London

The median .NET Developer daily rate in London is £580, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026.

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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 213 180
Rank change year-on-year -126 -33 -16
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 77 139 245
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.42% 1.14% 1.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 1.22% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 110 208
10th Percentile £400 £385 £385
25th Percentile £485 £404 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £520 £581
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -10.54% +4.73%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £691
90th Percentile £763 £850 £800
England median daily rate £549 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +9.75% - -

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 17,158 11,372 16,354
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 93.47% 93.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,358 7,721 11,830
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £431 £425 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 153 322
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.20 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £39.00 £32.00 £27.66
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +15.71% -23.18%
75th Percentile £63.10 £49.75 £46.50
90th Percentile £76.64 £61.85 £65.03
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.33 £37.50
% change year-on-year +53.43% -21.79% -16.67%

.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 30 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 30 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 3 £560 -10.40% 30
.NET Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 77 (100.00%) .NET
2 65 (84.42%) C#
3 43 (55.84%) Azure
4 37 (48.05%) SQL
5 34 (44.16%) CI/CD
5 34 (44.16%) SQL Server
6 29 (37.66%) DevOps
7 27 (35.06%) Agile
8 20 (25.97%) .NET Framework
9 19 (24.68%) Microservices
10 17 (22.08%) AngularJS
10 17 (22.08%) HTML
11 16 (20.78%) JavaScript
12 15 (19.48%) .NET Core
12 15 (19.48%) Full-Stack Development
13 14 (18.18%) AWS
13 14 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (18.18%) RESTful
13 14 (18.18%) Security Cleared
14 13 (16.88%) AI
14 13 (16.88%) ASP.NET
14 13 (16.88%) SC Cleared
15 12 (15.58%) Oracle
15 12 (15.58%) Serverless
16 10 (12.99%) Event-Driven
16 10 (12.99%) Python
16 10 (12.99%) T-SQL
17 9 (11.69%) ASP.NET Web API
17 9 (11.69%) Microsoft
17 9 (11.69%) Performance Tuning

.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 3 (3.90%) IIS
2 1 (1.30%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 43 (55.84%) Azure
2 14 (18.18%) AWS
2 14 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (15.58%) Serverless
4 8 (10.39%) Azure Functions
5 5 (6.49%) GitHub
6 4 (5.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 4 (5.19%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (5.19%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.60%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.60%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (2.60%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.60%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.60%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.60%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.60%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.60%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (44.16%) SQL Server
2 8 (10.39%) Relational Database
3 6 (7.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (7.79%) Redis
4 4 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.90%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.60%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.60%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.60%) Power BI
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (6.49%) Git
1 5 (6.49%) SpecFlow
2 4 (5.19%) TeamCity
3 3 (3.90%) MSTest
3 3 (3.90%) NUnit
3 3 (3.90%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (3.90%) Visual Studio
3 3 (3.90%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (2.60%) GitLab
4 2 (2.60%) Jasmine
4 2 (2.60%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.60%) Karma Test Runner
4 2 (2.60%) Moq
5 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.30%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.30%) JIRA
5 1 (1.30%) Mocha
5 1 (1.30%) MSBuild
5 1 (1.30%) tSQLt
5 1 (1.30%) webpack
General
1 33 (42.86%) Finance
2 16 (20.78%) Banking
2 16 (20.78%) Social Skills
3 14 (18.18%) Front Office
4 10 (12.99%) Investment Banking
5 7 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.19%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.60%) Back Office
7 2 (2.60%) Health Technology
7 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.30%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (100.00%) .NET
2 20 (25.97%) .NET Framework
3 17 (22.08%) AngularJS
3 17 (22.08%) HTML
4 15 (19.48%) .NET Core
5 14 (18.18%) RESTful
6 13 (16.88%) ASP.NET
7 9 (11.69%) ASP.NET Web API
7 9 (11.69%) REST
8 8 (10.39%) React
9 6 (7.79%) ASP.NET Core
9 6 (7.79%) CSS
10 5 (6.49%) Kafka
10 5 (6.49%) OAuth
11 4 (5.19%) ASP.NET MVC
11 4 (5.19%) HTML5
11 4 (5.19%) OAuth2
11 4 (5.19%) Reactive Extensions
12 3 (3.90%) Entity Framework
12 3 (3.90%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.69%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.49%) AI Agents
4 4 (5.19%) Fixed Income
5 3 (3.90%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.90%) Derivative
5 3 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.30%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.30%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.49%) Windows
2 2 (2.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (44.16%) CI/CD
2 29 (37.66%) DevOps
3 27 (35.06%) Agile
4 19 (24.68%) Microservices
5 15 (19.48%) Full-Stack Development
6 13 (16.88%) AI
7 10 (12.99%) Event-Driven
8 9 (11.69%) Performance Tuning
8 9 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (11.69%) Software Engineering
8 9 (11.69%) Test Automation
8 9 (11.69%) Unit Testing
9 8 (10.39%) OO
9 8 (10.39%) OOP
9 8 (10.39%) Web Development
10 7 (9.09%) Clean Code
10 7 (9.09%) Containerisation
10 7 (9.09%) Design Patterns
10 7 (9.09%) SOLID
11 6 (7.79%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (84.42%) C#
2 37 (48.05%) SQL
3 16 (20.78%) JavaScript
4 10 (12.99%) Python
4 10 (12.99%) T-SQL
5 9 (11.69%) TypeScript
6 5 (6.49%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.90%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 14 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.88%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.19%) Degree
4 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.39%) QA
2 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.30%) Basel III
2 1 (1.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (10.39%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (15.58%) Oracle
2 9 (11.69%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.79%) Citrix
4 3 (3.90%) ION Trading
5 2 (2.60%) OpenAI