.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in London

.NET Developer
England > London

The median .NET Developer daily rate in London is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 223 174
Rank change year-on-year -121 -49 -11
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 86 136 258
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.45% 1.07% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 1.14% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 108 216
10th Percentile £412 £385 £385
25th Percentile £466 £404 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £523 £575
Median % change year-on-year +12.44% -9.13% +4.55%
75th Percentile £689 £750 £688
90th Percentile £795 £850 £800
England median daily rate £525 £504 £500
% change year-on-year +4.22% +0.75% -

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 17,802 11,909 16,485
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 93.51% 93.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,738 8,058 11,829
10th Percentile £359 £336 £325
25th Percentile £438 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £798 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 182 314
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.87 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.53 £20.22
Median hourly rate £40.48 £32.70 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +18.89% -25.68%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.50 £44.50
90th Percentile £81.13 £63.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +57.89% -27.94% -9.83%

.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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -34 2 £593 -7.06% 42
.NET Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 June 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 72 (83.72%) C#
3 45 (52.33%) Azure
4 41 (47.67%) SQL
5 40 (46.51%) SQL Server
6 38 (44.19%) CI/CD
7 31 (36.05%) Agile
8 28 (32.56%) DevOps
9 22 (25.58%) Full-Stack Development
9 22 (25.58%) Microservices
10 21 (24.42%) .NET Framework
11 20 (23.26%) JavaScript
12 18 (20.93%) AngularJS
12 18 (20.93%) AWS
13 17 (19.77%) .NET Core
13 17 (19.77%) RESTful
14 16 (18.60%) HTML
15 15 (17.44%) Security Cleared
16 14 (16.28%) SC Cleared
16 14 (16.28%) TypeScript
17 13 (15.12%) ASP.NET
17 13 (15.12%) Azure DevOps
17 13 (15.12%) React
17 13 (15.12%) T-SQL
18 12 (13.95%) AI
18 12 (13.95%) Kubernetes
18 12 (13.95%) Oracle
18 12 (13.95%) Python
19 11 (12.79%) Performance Tuning
19 11 (12.79%) Relational Database

.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 2 (2.33%) IIS
2 1 (1.16%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 45 (52.33%) Azure
2 18 (20.93%) AWS
3 13 (15.12%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (12.79%) Serverless
5 6 (6.98%) Azure Functions
5 6 (6.98%) GitHub
6 5 (5.81%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.65%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (4.65%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (3.49%) Azure AKS
8 3 (3.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.33%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.33%) n8n
9 2 (2.33%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.33%) Zapier
10 1 (1.16%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (46.51%) SQL Server
2 11 (12.79%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.98%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.98%) Redis
4 5 (5.81%) Power BI
5 3 (3.49%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.49%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.33%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (6.98%) SpecFlow
2 5 (5.81%) Git
3 4 (4.65%) TeamCity
4 3 (3.49%) GitLab
4 3 (3.49%) MSTest
4 3 (3.49%) NUnit
4 3 (3.49%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (3.49%) Visual Studio
5 2 (2.33%) Jasmine
5 2 (2.33%) Karma Test Runner
5 2 (2.33%) Moq
5 2 (2.33%) REST Assured
5 2 (2.33%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.16%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.16%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.16%) Mocha
6 1 (1.16%) Serilog
6 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (1.16%) tSQLt
6 1 (1.16%) webpack
General
1 38 (44.19%) Finance
2 18 (20.93%) Banking
3 16 (18.60%) Social Skills
4 13 (15.12%) Front Office
5 11 (12.79%) Investment Banking
6 7 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.65%) Financial Institution
7 4 (4.65%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.33%) Back Office
9 2 (2.33%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.16%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (100.00%) .NET
2 21 (24.42%) .NET Framework
3 18 (20.93%) AngularJS
4 17 (19.77%) .NET Core
4 17 (19.77%) RESTful
5 16 (18.60%) HTML
6 13 (15.12%) ASP.NET
6 13 (15.12%) React
7 11 (12.79%) REST
8 9 (10.47%) ASP.NET Web API
9 6 (6.98%) CSS
9 6 (6.98%) Kafka
9 6 (6.98%) WPF
10 5 (5.81%) ASP.NET Core
10 5 (5.81%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (5.81%) OAuth
11 4 (4.65%) OAuth2
11 4 (4.65%) Redux
11 4 (4.65%) WinForms
12 3 (3.49%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.47%) Cloud Native
1 9 (10.47%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (5.81%) AI Agents
3 4 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.49%) Derivative
4 3 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.49%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.33%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.33%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.16%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.16%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.16%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.65%) Windows
2 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (44.19%) CI/CD
2 31 (36.05%) Agile
3 28 (32.56%) DevOps
4 22 (25.58%) Full-Stack Development
4 22 (25.58%) Microservices
5 12 (13.95%) AI
6 11 (12.79%) Performance Tuning
7 10 (11.63%) Containerisation
7 10 (11.63%) Event-Driven
7 10 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (11.63%) Test Automation
7 10 (11.63%) Unit Testing
8 9 (10.47%) Software Engineering
9 8 (9.30%) Design Patterns
9 8 (9.30%) OO
9 8 (9.30%) OOP
9 8 (9.30%) SOLID
9 8 (9.30%) Web Development
10 7 (8.14%) Clean Code
10 7 (8.14%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 72 (83.72%) C#
2 41 (47.67%) SQL
3 20 (23.26%) JavaScript
4 14 (16.28%) TypeScript
5 13 (15.12%) T-SQL
6 12 (13.95%) Python
7 6 (6.98%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.49%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (17.44%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.28%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.49%) Degree
4 2 (2.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.98%) QA
2 2 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.16%) Basel III
3 1 (1.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (11.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (13.95%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (13.95%) Oracle
2 9 (10.47%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.98%) Citrix
4 2 (2.33%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.16%) OpenAI