.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in London

.NET Developer
England > London

The median .NET Developer daily rate in London is £579, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 254 168
Rank change year-on-year -103 -86 +4
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 90 119 262
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.44% 0.88% 1.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.95% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 89 214
10th Percentile £424 - £376
25th Percentile £461 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £579 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +21.79% -17.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £725 £675 £675
90th Percentile £827 £850 £800
England median daily rate £495 £468 £523
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -3.24%
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 18,954 12,522 15,312
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 92.73% 94.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,221 8,378 10,359
10th Percentile £363 £325 £343
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 £673 £675
90th Percentile £772 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 209 184
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.00 £17.61
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.87% -12.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.00 £56.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.96 £74.06
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +68.99% -47.05% +8.20%

.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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -29 6 £572 -10.27% 5
South London - 6 £700 - 1
North London - 1 - -
.NET Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 September 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 90 (100.00%) .NET
2 76 (84.44%) C#
3 47 (52.22%) SQL Server
4 41 (45.56%) SQL
5 39 (43.33%) CI/CD
6 38 (42.22%) Azure
7 31 (34.44%) Agile
8 30 (33.33%) REST
9 27 (30.00%) .NET Core
10 26 (28.89%) Microservices
11 24 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
12 23 (25.56%) DevOps
13 21 (23.33%) AWS
14 20 (22.22%) RESTful
15 19 (21.11%) JavaScript
16 18 (20.00%) .NET Framework
17 17 (18.89%) ASP.NET
18 16 (17.78%) Event-Driven
18 16 (17.78%) Microsoft
19 15 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
19 15 (16.67%) Kubernetes
20 14 (15.56%) Azure DevOps
20 14 (15.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 14 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
20 14 (15.56%) React
20 14 (15.56%) T-SQL
20 14 (15.56%) TypeScript
21 13 (14.44%) AI
21 13 (14.44%) AngularJS
21 13 (14.44%) Python

.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 (3.33%) IIS
2 2 (2.22%) CMS
2 2 (2.22%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 38 (42.22%) Azure
2 21 (23.33%) AWS
3 14 (15.56%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (12.22%) GitHub
5 8 (8.89%) Serverless
6 7 (7.78%) Power Platform
7 6 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (5.56%) Azure Functions
8 5 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (3.33%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.22%) n8n
10 2 (2.22%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.22%) Zapier
11 1 (1.11%) Anthropic Claude
11 1 (1.11%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (52.22%) SQL Server
2 9 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (8.89%) Relational Database
4 6 (6.67%) Power BI
5 5 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (4.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (3.33%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.33%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.33%) Oracle Database
7 3 (3.33%) Redis
8 2 (2.22%) Db2
8 2 (2.22%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.11%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (10.00%) Git
2 7 (7.78%) GitLab
3 5 (5.56%) REST Assured
4 3 (3.33%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.33%) SpecFlow
5 2 (2.22%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.22%) Fiddler
5 2 (2.22%) JIRA
5 2 (2.22%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (2.22%) Postman
5 2 (2.22%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.11%) Moq
6 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (36.67%) Finance
2 26 (28.89%) Social Skills
3 22 (24.44%) Banking
4 11 (12.22%) Investment Banking
5 10 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (7.78%) Front Office
7 6 (6.67%) Financial Institution
8 4 (4.44%) Public Sector
9 3 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.22%) Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (100.00%) .NET
2 30 (33.33%) REST
3 27 (30.00%) .NET Core
4 20 (22.22%) RESTful
5 18 (20.00%) .NET Framework
6 17 (18.89%) ASP.NET
7 14 (15.56%) React
8 13 (14.44%) AngularJS
8 13 (14.44%) WinForms
8 13 (14.44%) WPF
9 11 (12.22%) Kafka
10 9 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
10 9 (10.00%) Web Services
11 8 (8.89%) ASP.NET Core
12 7 (7.78%) SOAP
12 7 (7.78%) Terraform
13 5 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
13 5 (5.56%) Blazor
13 5 (5.56%) JSON
14 4 (4.44%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.78%) Cloud Native
2 13 (14.44%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.78%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.22%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.22%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.22%) Derivative
5 2 (2.22%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.11%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.78%) Windows
2 3 (3.33%) Linux
3 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (43.33%) CI/CD
2 31 (34.44%) Agile
3 26 (28.89%) Microservices
4 24 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 23 (25.56%) DevOps
6 16 (17.78%) Event-Driven
7 15 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (15.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 14 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (14.44%) AI
10 12 (13.33%) Containerisation
10 12 (13.33%) OO
11 11 (12.22%) OOP
12 10 (11.11%) Design Patterns
12 10 (11.11%) Generative AI
12 10 (11.11%) Mentoring
13 9 (10.00%) API Design
13 9 (10.00%) Code Quality
13 9 (10.00%) ETL
13 9 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 76 (84.44%) C#
2 41 (45.56%) SQL
3 19 (21.11%) JavaScript
4 14 (15.56%) T-SQL
4 14 (15.56%) TypeScript
5 13 (14.44%) Python
6 12 (13.33%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.22%) Bicep
8 1 (1.11%) Java
8 1 (1.11%) VB
8 1 (1.11%) VBA
8 1 (1.11%) XAML
Qualifications
1 7 (7.78%) SC Cleared
1 7 (7.78%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.22%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.56%) QA
2 2 (2.22%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.22%) Basel III
3 1 (1.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.00%) Oracle
3 8 (8.89%) Citrix
4 3 (3.33%) DevExpress
4 3 (3.33%) IBM
5 2 (2.22%) Adyen
6 1 (1.11%) Databricks