.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in London

.NET Developer
England > London

The median .NET Developer daily rate in London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 213 140
Rank change year-on-year -66 -73 -21
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 96 159 315
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.67% 1.11% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 1.19% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 124 256
10th Percentile £385 £366 £375
25th Percentile £400 £385 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -12.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £619 £656 £738
90th Percentile £675 £784 £781
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
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 13,226 13,363 16,977
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 93.40% 93.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,788 8,620 12,244
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £559
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.61% -3.62%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £799 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 149 224
10th Percentile £17.50 £19.58 £17.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.44
Median hourly rate £31.57 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% - +2.94%
75th Percentile £59.69 £53.75 £54.34
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £72.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £44.78
% change year-on-year -21.43% -21.83% +33.66%

.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 4 January 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 4 January 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 -15 7 £625 +4.17% 28
.NET Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 January 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 96 (100.00%) .NET
2 80 (83.33%) C#
3 50 (52.08%) SQL
4 45 (46.88%) Azure
5 39 (40.63%) SQL Server
6 33 (34.38%) Agile
7 32 (33.33%) .NET Framework
8 26 (27.08%) DevOps
9 25 (26.04%) CI/CD
10 21 (21.88%) Windows
11 20 (20.83%) Full-Stack Development
11 20 (20.83%) WPF
12 19 (19.79%) Microservices
12 19 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (17.71%) .NET Core
13 17 (17.71%) AWS
13 17 (17.71%) Oracle
14 16 (16.67%) Microsoft
15 15 (15.63%) PL/SQL
16 14 (14.58%) Migration
16 14 (14.58%) Oracle Database
17 13 (13.54%) AngularJS
17 13 (13.54%) Azure DevOps
17 13 (13.54%) Clean Code
18 12 (12.50%) Scrum
19 11 (11.46%) OOP
19 11 (11.46%) T-SQL
20 10 (10.42%) ASP.NET
20 10 (10.42%) Entity Framework
20 10 (10.42%) Security Cleared

.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 (3.13%) Confluence
1 3 (3.13%) IIS
1 3 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.04%) HCL Notes
3 1 (1.04%) Mendix
Applications
1 9 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Endur
1 1 (1.04%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 45 (46.88%) Azure
2 17 (17.71%) AWS
3 13 (13.54%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (10.42%) Serverless
5 9 (9.38%) Azure Functions
6 8 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (8.33%) GitHub
7 5 (5.21%) Azure Key Vault
7 5 (5.21%) PaaS
8 4 (4.17%) Entra ID
8 4 (4.17%) Figma
8 4 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.08%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.08%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.08%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.08%) DHCP
1 2 (2.08%) DNS
1 2 (2.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (40.63%) SQL Server
2 14 (14.58%) Oracle Database
3 7 (7.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (5.21%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.04%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.04%) Power BI
6 1 (1.04%) Redis
6 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (9.38%) SpecFlow
2 4 (4.17%) Git
2 4 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.17%) JIRA
2 4 (4.17%) Visual Studio
3 3 (3.13%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.04%) MSTest
4 1 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.04%) TeamCity
General
1 42 (43.75%) Finance
2 25 (26.04%) Social Skills
3 19 (19.79%) Banking
4 8 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.29%) Financial Institution
6 6 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.25%) Investment Banking
7 5 (5.21%) Front Office
8 3 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.08%) Back Office
10 1 (1.04%) Advertising
10 1 (1.04%) Publishing
10 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (100.00%) .NET
2 32 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 20 (20.83%) WPF
4 17 (17.71%) .NET Core
5 13 (13.54%) AngularJS
6 10 (10.42%) ASP.NET
6 10 (10.42%) Entity Framework
7 8 (8.33%) NHibernate
7 8 (8.33%) Playwright
7 8 (8.33%) REST
7 8 (8.33%) RESTful
7 8 (8.33%) WinForms
8 7 (7.29%) CSS
9 6 (6.25%) React
10 5 (5.21%) ASP.NET Core
10 5 (5.21%) ASP.NET Web API
10 5 (5.21%) Blazor
10 5 (5.21%) Kafka
10 5 (5.21%) Web Services
11 4 (4.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (7.29%) Credit Risk
3 6 (6.25%) Market Risk
4 5 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (5.21%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.17%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.13%) Fixed Income
6 3 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.08%) Hedge funds
7 2 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.04%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.04%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.04%) Derivative
8 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.04%) N-Tier
8 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (21.88%) Windows
2 5 (5.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (34.38%) Agile
2 26 (27.08%) DevOps
3 25 (26.04%) CI/CD
4 20 (20.83%) Full-Stack Development
5 19 (19.79%) Microservices
5 19 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (14.58%) Migration
7 13 (13.54%) Clean Code
8 12 (12.50%) Scrum
9 11 (11.46%) OOP
10 9 (9.38%) OO
10 9 (9.38%) Risk Management
10 9 (9.38%) SDLC
11 8 (8.33%) AI
11 8 (8.33%) MVC
11 8 (8.33%) Software Engineering
11 8 (8.33%) Unit Testing
12 7 (7.29%) Design Patterns
13 6 (6.25%) Fintech
14 5 (5.21%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 80 (83.33%) C#
2 50 (52.08%) SQL
3 15 (15.63%) PL/SQL
4 11 (11.46%) T-SQL
5 10 (10.42%) VB
5 10 (10.42%) VB.NET
6 9 (9.38%) VBA
7 5 (5.21%) Python
8 3 (3.13%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.13%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.08%) Bicep
9 2 (2.08%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (2.08%) PHP
9 2 (2.08%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.04%) Cypher
10 1 (1.04%) Formula Language
10 1 (1.04%) Java
10 1 (1.04%) LotusScript
10 1 (1.04%) VB6
Qualifications
1 10 (10.42%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.17%) Degree
4 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.17%) Accessibility
1 4 (4.17%) QA
1 4 (4.17%) WCAG
2 2 (2.08%) MiFID
3 1 (1.04%) EMIR
System Software
1 4 (4.17%) Docker
2 3 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (17.71%) Oracle
2 16 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.13%) Citrix
3 3 (3.13%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.08%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.08%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.08%) VMware
5 1 (1.04%) CQG
5 1 (1.04%) Databricks
5 1 (1.04%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.04%) Kofax
5 1 (1.04%) Lotus
5 1 (1.04%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.04%) Sybase
5 1 (1.04%) Temenos
5 1 (1.04%) TOWER Software