.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 August 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 237 160
Rank change year-on-year -103 -77 +15
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 94 127 262
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.47% 0.95% 1.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 1.02% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 98 222
10th Percentile £423 - £377
25th Percentile £461 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +23.68% -17.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £738 £669 £675
90th Percentile £824 £850 £800
England median daily rate £490 £474 £520
% change year-on-year +3.43% -8.89% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +30.00%

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 18,761 12,437 15,287
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 92.92% 94.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,131 8,375 10,577
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 370 207 196
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.05 £17.69
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £30.00 £33.29
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% -9.87% -11.24%
75th Percentile £60.63 £50.25 £54.06
90th Percentile £78.88 £65.00 £71.56
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.63%

.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 August 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 August 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
South London - 6 £700 -
Central London -30 5 £549 -9.53% 2
North London - 1 - -
.NET Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 August 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 94 (100.00%) .NET
2 80 (85.11%) C#
3 49 (52.13%) SQL Server
4 44 (46.81%) SQL
5 40 (42.55%) Azure
5 40 (42.55%) CI/CD
6 34 (36.17%) Agile
7 27 (28.72%) DevOps
7 27 (28.72%) Microservices
7 27 (28.72%) REST
8 25 (26.60%) .NET Core
9 23 (24.47%) Full-Stack Development
10 21 (22.34%) .NET Framework
10 21 (22.34%) JavaScript
10 21 (22.34%) RESTful
11 20 (21.28%) AWS
12 18 (19.15%) Microsoft
13 16 (17.02%) AngularJS
13 16 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (17.02%) T-SQL
14 15 (15.96%) ASP.NET
14 15 (15.96%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (14.89%) Event-Driven
15 14 (14.89%) Kubernetes
16 13 (13.83%) AI
16 13 (13.83%) OO
16 13 (13.83%) OOP
16 13 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
16 13 (13.83%) React
16 13 (13.83%) TypeScript

.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 4 (4.26%) IIS
2 1 (1.06%) CMS
2 1 (1.06%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 40 (42.55%) Azure
2 20 (21.28%) AWS
3 15 (15.96%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (11.70%) GitHub
5 8 (8.51%) Serverless
6 6 (6.38%) Power Platform
7 5 (5.32%) Azure Functions
7 5 (5.32%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (5.32%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.26%) Azure AKS
8 4 (4.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (3.19%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.13%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (2.13%) n8n
10 2 (2.13%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.13%) Zapier
11 1 (1.06%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (1.06%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.06%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.06%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (52.13%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (8.51%) Relational Database
3 7 (7.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (6.38%) Power BI
5 4 (4.26%) Oracle Database
5 4 (4.26%) Redis
6 3 (3.19%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.19%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.13%) Db2
7 2 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.06%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (9.57%) Git
2 6 (6.38%) GitLab
3 5 (5.32%) REST Assured
4 4 (4.26%) SpecFlow
5 3 (3.19%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (3.19%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.13%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.13%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.13%) JIRA
7 1 (1.06%) Fiddler
7 1 (1.06%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.06%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (1.06%) Moq
7 1 (1.06%) MSTest
7 1 (1.06%) NUnit
7 1 (1.06%) Postman
7 1 (1.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (1.06%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (41.49%) Finance
2 26 (27.66%) Social Skills
3 22 (23.40%) Banking
4 13 (13.83%) Investment Banking
5 10 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (9.57%) Front Office
7 6 (6.38%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.19%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.13%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (100.00%) .NET
2 27 (28.72%) REST
3 25 (26.60%) .NET Core
4 21 (22.34%) .NET Framework
4 21 (22.34%) RESTful
5 16 (17.02%) AngularJS
6 15 (15.96%) ASP.NET
7 13 (13.83%) React
8 10 (10.64%) Kafka
8 10 (10.64%) WinForms
8 10 (10.64%) WPF
9 9 (9.57%) Web Services
10 8 (8.51%) ASP.NET MVC
11 7 (7.45%) ASP.NET Core
11 7 (7.45%) HTML
12 6 (6.38%) ASP.NET Web API
12 6 (6.38%) Blazor
12 6 (6.38%) SOAP
12 6 (6.38%) Terraform
13 4 (4.26%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.96%) Cloud Native
2 13 (13.83%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.45%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.19%) Derivative
4 3 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.13%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.13%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.06%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.51%) Windows
2 2 (2.13%) Linux
2 2 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (42.55%) CI/CD
2 34 (36.17%) Agile
3 27 (28.72%) DevOps
3 27 (28.72%) Microservices
4 23 (24.47%) Full-Stack Development
5 16 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (14.89%) Event-Driven
7 13 (13.83%) AI
7 13 (13.83%) OO
7 13 (13.83%) OOP
7 13 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (12.77%) Containerisation
9 11 (11.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 10 (10.64%) Design Patterns
10 10 (10.64%) Generative AI
11 9 (9.57%) API Design
11 9 (9.57%) Mentoring
11 9 (9.57%) Test Automation
12 8 (8.51%) MVC
12 8 (8.51%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 80 (85.11%) C#
2 44 (46.81%) SQL
3 21 (22.34%) JavaScript
4 16 (17.02%) T-SQL
5 13 (13.83%) TypeScript
6 12 (12.77%) PL/SQL
6 12 (12.77%) Python
7 2 (2.13%) Bicep
8 1 (1.06%) VB
8 1 (1.06%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (8.51%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.45%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.13%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.06%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.38%) QA
2 2 (2.13%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.13%) Basel III
3 1 (1.06%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (11.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (14.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.77%) Oracle
3 9 (9.57%) Citrix
4 3 (3.19%) DevExpress
4 3 (3.19%) IBM
5 1 (1.06%) Adyen
5 1 (1.06%) Databricks