.NET Developer Contracts in London

.NET Developer
England > London

The median .NET Developer daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 214 170 168
Rank change year-on-year -44 -2 -34
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 135 261 396
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.05% 1.49% 1.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.59% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 218 329
10th Percentile £385 £385 -
25th Percentile £404 £452 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.68% -2.61%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £703
90th Percentile £850 £800 £788
England median daily rate £508 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £30.60
25th Percentile - - £31.50
Median hourly rate - - £33.00
75th Percentile - - £34.50
90th Percentile - - £35.40
England median hourly rate - £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +30.00% -20.06%

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 11,986 16,408 23,935
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.43% 93.88% 94.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,103 11,759 17,463
10th Percentile £336 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £790 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 316 270
10th Percentile £18.87 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.34 £20.17 £22.93
Median hourly rate £32.70 £27.50 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year +18.89% -26.51% +6.91%
75th Percentile £50.50 £45.18 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £67.50 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.50 £39.55 £43.86
% change year-on-year -27.94% -9.83% +77.50%

.NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured .NET Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Developer in London

.NET Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Developer in London.

Daily rate trend for .NET Developer 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 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Developer in London

.NET Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Developer in London.

Hourly rate trend for .NET Developer 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 June 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 +2 15 £638 +19.16% 24
.NET Developer
England

.NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 30 June 2025, .NET Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring .NET Developer in the job title.

1 135 (100.00%) .NET
2 116 (85.93%) C#
3 71 (52.59%) SQL
4 68 (50.37%) Finance
5 61 (45.19%) .NET Framework
6 52 (38.52%) Agile
7 42 (31.11%) Oracle
7 42 (31.11%) Azure
8 39 (28.89%) Social Skills
9 37 (27.41%) AngularJS
10 33 (24.44%) PL/SQL
11 32 (23.70%) DevOps
11 32 (23.70%) .NET Core
12 31 (22.96%) Analytical Skills
13 30 (22.22%) Windows
13 30 (22.22%) WPF
14 28 (20.74%) JavaScript
15 26 (19.26%) CI/CD
15 26 (19.26%) Design Patterns
15 26 (19.26%) SQL Server
16 25 (18.52%) Front Office
16 25 (18.52%) AWS
17 24 (17.78%) VBA
17 24 (17.78%) Full-Stack Development
18 23 (17.04%) Microsoft
18 23 (17.04%) Docker
18 23 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
19 22 (16.30%) Azure DevOps
20 21 (15.56%) Reactive Extensions
20 21 (15.56%) Entity Framework

.NET Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.48%) IIS
1 2 (1.48%) Umbraco
2 1 (0.74%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (0.74%) Confluence
2 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (15.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Eikon
1 1 (0.74%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 42 (31.11%) Azure
2 25 (18.52%) AWS
3 22 (16.30%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (5.93%) Azure Service Bus
5 6 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (3.70%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.70%) GCP
6 5 (3.70%) Serverless
7 4 (2.96%) Azure Functions
7 4 (2.96%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.22%) Azure App Service
8 3 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (1.48%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.48%) Azure Storage
9 2 (1.48%) GitHub
10 1 (0.74%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.74%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.74%) NuGet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (19.26%) SQL Server
2 19 (14.07%) Oracle Database
3 15 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (9.63%) Relational Database
5 12 (8.89%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (5.19%) MongoDB
8 5 (3.70%) MySQL
9 4 (2.96%) Redis
10 1 (0.74%) ClickHouse
10 1 (0.74%) MS Access
10 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (13.33%) JIRA
2 6 (4.44%) Git
3 2 (1.48%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.48%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.48%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.74%) GitLab
4 1 (0.74%) JetBrains Rider
4 1 (0.74%) NUnit
4 1 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
General
1 68 (50.37%) Finance
2 39 (28.89%) Social Skills
3 31 (22.96%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (18.52%) Front Office
5 14 (10.37%) Banking
6 5 (3.70%) Billing
7 4 (2.96%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.22%) Electronics
8 3 (2.22%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.22%) Marketing
8 3 (2.22%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.22%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Back Office
10 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (100.00%) .NET
2 61 (45.19%) .NET Framework
3 37 (27.41%) AngularJS
4 32 (23.70%) .NET Core
5 30 (22.22%) WPF
6 21 (15.56%) Entity Framework
6 21 (15.56%) Reactive Extensions
7 16 (11.85%) ASP.NET
8 15 (11.11%) React
9 12 (8.89%) HTML
10 11 (8.15%) CSS
11 10 (7.41%) ASP.NET Core
11 10 (7.41%) RESTful
12 7 (5.19%) ASP.NET Web API
12 7 (5.19%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (3.70%) Akka.NET
13 5 (3.70%) Web Services
13 5 (3.70%) XML
14 4 (2.96%) REST
14 4 (2.96%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (5.19%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (4.44%) Fixed Income
4 4 (2.96%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.22%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.48%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.48%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.74%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.74%) NHS
7 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.74%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.74%) TWAP
7 1 (0.74%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 30 (22.22%) Windows
2 4 (2.96%) Android
2 4 (2.96%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (38.52%) Agile
2 32 (23.70%) DevOps
3 26 (19.26%) CI/CD
3 26 (19.26%) Design Patterns
4 24 (17.78%) Full-Stack Development
5 23 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (15.56%) OO
7 17 (12.59%) Microservices
7 17 (12.59%) TDD
8 16 (11.85%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (11.11%) Electronic Trading
10 13 (9.63%) Containerisation
11 12 (8.89%) Test Automation
12 11 (8.15%) Unit Testing
13 10 (7.41%) Business Intelligence
13 10 (7.41%) Economics
13 10 (7.41%) Low Latency
13 10 (7.41%) Scrum
14 9 (6.67%) Risk Management
15 8 (5.93%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 116 (85.93%) C#
2 71 (52.59%) SQL
3 33 (24.44%) PL/SQL
4 28 (20.74%) JavaScript
5 24 (17.78%) VBA
6 19 (14.07%) VB
7 18 (13.33%) TypeScript
7 18 (13.33%) VB.NET
8 13 (9.63%) Java
9 11 (8.15%) RPG
9 11 (8.15%) RPG IV
10 8 (5.93%) PowerShell
11 5 (3.70%) F#
11 5 (3.70%) Python
12 4 (2.96%) Bicep
12 4 (2.96%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.48%) C++
14 1 (0.74%) Go
14 1 (0.74%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (0.74%) MCAD
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (0.74%) SC Cleared
1 1 (0.74%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.19%) QA
2 1 (0.74%) HL7
System Software
1 23 (17.04%) Docker
2 4 (2.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (31.11%) Oracle
2 23 (17.04%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.70%) Solace
4 4 (2.96%) Databricks
4 4 (2.96%) TIBCO
5 3 (2.22%) SAP
6 1 (0.74%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.74%) Google
6 1 (0.74%) IBM
6 1 (0.74%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.74%) Murex
6 1 (0.74%) Reuters
6 1 (0.74%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.74%) Splunk