.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in London

.NET Developer
England > London

The median .NET Developer daily rate in London is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 217 156
Rank change year-on-year -82 -61 -17
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 95 137 280
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.57% 1.08% 1.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 1.16% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 115 232
10th Percentile £400 £385 £385
25th Percentile £463 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £518 £594
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -12.84% +3.26%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £700
90th Percentile £738 £813 £750
England median daily rate £525 £493 £500
% change year-on-year +6.60% -1.50% -4.76%
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 15,438 11,847 16,873
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.58% 93.67% 93.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,345 8,091 12,193
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £428 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 147 335
10th Percentile £18.20 £21.13 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.52
Median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +25.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £61.00 £52.88 £48.03
90th Percentile £76.58 £67.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £34.06 £32.70
% change year-on-year +17.46% +4.15% -23.68%

.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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -21 6 £593 +6.28% 37
.NET Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 March 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 95 (100.00%) .NET
2 78 (82.11%) C#
3 56 (58.95%) Azure
4 46 (48.42%) SQL
5 42 (44.21%) SQL Server
6 37 (38.95%) DevOps
7 36 (37.89%) CI/CD
8 32 (33.68%) Agile
9 26 (27.37%) .NET Framework
10 23 (24.21%) AngularJS
11 21 (22.11%) Full-Stack Development
12 19 (20.00%) Microservices
13 18 (18.95%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (18.95%) Security Cleared
14 17 (17.89%) .NET Core
14 17 (17.89%) HTML
14 17 (17.89%) SC Cleared
15 16 (16.84%) ASP.NET
15 16 (16.84%) Microsoft
16 14 (14.74%) AWS
16 14 (14.74%) JavaScript
16 14 (14.74%) RESTful
17 13 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
17 13 (13.68%) Serverless
18 12 (12.63%) AI
18 12 (12.63%) MVC
19 11 (11.58%) ASP.NET Web API
19 11 (11.58%) OOP
19 11 (11.58%) Oracle
19 11 (11.58%) Windows

.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 (4.21%) IIS
2 2 (2.11%) Confluence
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.11%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 56 (58.95%) Azure
2 18 (18.95%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (14.74%) AWS
4 13 (13.68%) Serverless
5 10 (10.53%) Azure Functions
6 6 (6.32%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
7 5 (5.26%) Entra ID
8 4 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (4.21%) GitHub
9 3 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (3.16%) PaaS
10 2 (2.11%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.11%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (2.11%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.11%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.11%) DHCP
1 2 (2.11%) DNS
1 2 (2.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (44.21%) SQL Server
2 9 (9.47%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (8.42%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.26%) Redis
5 4 (4.21%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.11%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.05%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.05%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (9.47%) Git
2 7 (7.37%) SpecFlow
3 5 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.21%) TeamCity
4 4 (4.21%) Visual Studio
4 4 (4.21%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (3.16%) JIRA
5 3 (3.16%) MSTest
5 3 (3.16%) NUnit
5 3 (3.16%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (2.11%) Jasmine
6 2 (2.11%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (1.05%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.05%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.05%) Mocha
7 1 (1.05%) Moq
7 1 (1.05%) MSBuild
7 1 (1.05%) Serilog
7 1 (1.05%) tSQLt
7 1 (1.05%) webpack
General
1 35 (36.84%) Finance
2 23 (24.21%) Banking
3 22 (23.16%) Social Skills
4 14 (14.74%) Front Office
5 12 (12.63%) Investment Banking
6 8 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (7.37%) Financial Institution
7 7 (7.37%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.16%) Back Office
9 2 (2.11%) Health Technology
9 2 (2.11%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.05%) Advertising
10 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (100.00%) .NET
2 26 (27.37%) .NET Framework
3 23 (24.21%) AngularJS
4 17 (17.89%) .NET Core
4 17 (17.89%) HTML
5 16 (16.84%) ASP.NET
6 14 (14.74%) RESTful
7 11 (11.58%) ASP.NET Web API
8 10 (10.53%) REST
8 10 (10.53%) WPF
9 9 (9.47%) ASP.NET Core
10 8 (8.42%) React
11 7 (7.37%) CSS
11 7 (7.37%) WinForms
12 5 (5.26%) ASP.NET MVC
12 5 (5.26%) Web Services
13 4 (4.21%) Entity Framework
13 4 (4.21%) HTML5
13 4 (4.21%) Reactive Extensions
13 4 (4.21%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.37%) Credit Risk
1 7 (7.37%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (6.32%) Market Risk
3 5 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.26%) Fixed Income
3 5 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.16%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.16%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.16%) Derivative
5 2 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.05%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.05%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.58%) Windows
2 6 (6.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (38.95%) DevOps
2 36 (37.89%) CI/CD
3 32 (33.68%) Agile
4 21 (22.11%) Full-Stack Development
5 19 (20.00%) Microservices
6 13 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (12.63%) AI
7 12 (12.63%) MVC
8 11 (11.58%) OOP
9 10 (10.53%) Design Patterns
10 9 (9.47%) SDLC
10 9 (9.47%) Test Automation
10 9 (9.47%) Unit Testing
11 8 (8.42%) OO
11 8 (8.42%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (8.42%) Web Development
12 7 (7.37%) Clean Code
12 7 (7.37%) Scrum
12 7 (7.37%) Software Engineering
13 6 (6.32%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 78 (82.11%) C#
2 46 (48.42%) SQL
3 14 (14.74%) JavaScript
4 10 (10.53%) Python
4 10 (10.53%) T-SQL
5 8 (8.42%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.26%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.11%) Bicep
7 2 (2.11%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (2.11%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.05%) Java
8 1 (1.05%) VB
8 1 (1.05%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.05%) VB6
Qualifications
1 18 (18.95%) Security Cleared
2 17 (17.89%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.21%) Degree
4 3 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.42%) QA
2 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.05%) MiFID
2 1 (1.05%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (5.26%) Docker
2 2 (2.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (7.37%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.21%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (16.84%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.58%) Oracle
3 5 (5.26%) Citrix
4 3 (3.16%) ION Trading
5 2 (2.11%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.11%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.11%) VMware
6 1 (1.05%) Databricks
6 1 (1.05%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.05%) Sybase
6 1 (1.05%) Temenos