.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in London

.NET Developer
England > London

The median .NET Developer daily rate in London is £555, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 216 148
Rank change year-on-year -83 -68 -9
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 100 140 294
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 1.08% 1.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 1.16% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 116 245
10th Percentile £400 £385 £385
25th Percentile £463 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £518 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.25% -13.75% +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £707 £813 £750
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
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 14,998 12,094 17,012
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.61% 93.68% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,058 8,110 12,281
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £434 £450
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 232 142 343
10th Percentile £18.09 £21.02 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.16 £24.66 £19.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.45 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% +24.37% -18.57%
75th Percentile £60.50 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.31 £65.00
England median hourly rate £37.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +5.71% +7.69% -23.29%

.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 12 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 12 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 -24 8 £625 +12.11% 44
.NET Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 100 (100.00%) .NET
2 83 (83.00%) C#
3 58 (58.00%) Azure
4 46 (46.00%) SQL
5 42 (42.00%) SQL Server
6 37 (37.00%) DevOps
7 36 (36.00%) CI/CD
8 34 (34.00%) Agile
9 29 (29.00%) .NET Framework
10 21 (21.00%) AngularJS
10 21 (21.00%) Microservices
11 20 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 18 (18.00%) .NET Core
13 17 (17.00%) ASP.NET
13 17 (17.00%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (17.00%) Security Cleared
14 16 (16.00%) SC Cleared
15 15 (15.00%) HTML
15 15 (15.00%) Microsoft
16 14 (14.00%) AWS
16 14 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
16 14 (14.00%) Windows
17 13 (13.00%) AI
17 13 (13.00%) Oracle
17 13 (13.00%) RESTful
18 12 (12.00%) JavaScript
18 12 (12.00%) MVC
18 12 (12.00%) OOP
18 12 (12.00%) Serverless
18 12 (12.00%) Unit Testing

.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 (4.00%) IIS
2 2 (2.00%) Confluence
2 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 58 (58.00%) Azure
2 17 (17.00%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (14.00%) AWS
4 12 (12.00%) Serverless
5 9 (9.00%) Azure Functions
6 7 (7.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (6.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (6.00%) Entra ID
8 5 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (5.00%) GitHub
9 4 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (4.00%) PaaS
10 3 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.00%) Azure AKS
10 3 (3.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (2.00%) Amazon S3
11 2 (2.00%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (2.00%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.00%) DHCP
1 2 (2.00%) DNS
1 2 (2.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (42.00%) SQL Server
2 10 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 9 (9.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (6.00%) Oracle Database
5 4 (4.00%) Redis
6 3 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.00%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (8.00%) Git
1 8 (8.00%) SpecFlow
2 5 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.00%) Visual Studio
3 4 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (3.00%) JIRA
4 3 (3.00%) MSTest
4 3 (3.00%) NUnit
4 3 (3.00%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.00%) Jasmine
5 2 (2.00%) Karma Test Runner
5 2 (2.00%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.00%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.00%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.00%) Mocha
6 1 (1.00%) Moq
6 1 (1.00%) MSBuild
6 1 (1.00%) Serilog
6 1 (1.00%) tSQLt
6 1 (1.00%) webpack
General
1 38 (38.00%) Finance
2 25 (25.00%) Banking
3 22 (22.00%) Social Skills
4 12 (12.00%) Front Office
5 11 (11.00%) Investment Banking
6 8 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (7.00%) Financial Institution
8 6 (6.00%) Public Sector
9 3 (3.00%) Back Office
10 2 (2.00%) Health Technology
10 2 (2.00%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.00%) Advertising
11 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (100.00%) .NET
2 29 (29.00%) .NET Framework
3 21 (21.00%) AngularJS
4 18 (18.00%) .NET Core
5 17 (17.00%) ASP.NET
6 15 (15.00%) HTML
7 13 (13.00%) RESTful
8 12 (12.00%) WPF
9 11 (11.00%) ASP.NET Web API
10 9 (9.00%) ASP.NET Core
10 9 (9.00%) REST
11 8 (8.00%) React
12 7 (7.00%) WinForms
13 6 (6.00%) CSS
13 6 (6.00%) Entity Framework
13 6 (6.00%) Web Services
14 5 (5.00%) ASP.NET MVC
15 4 (4.00%) Playwright
15 4 (4.00%) Reactive Extensions
15 4 (4.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.00%) Credit Risk
1 7 (7.00%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (6.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (6.00%) Market Risk
3 5 (5.00%) Fixed Income
3 5 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.00%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.00%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.00%) Derivative
6 2 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.00%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.00%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.00%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.00%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.00%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.00%) Windows
2 6 (6.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (37.00%) DevOps
2 36 (36.00%) CI/CD
3 34 (34.00%) Agile
4 21 (21.00%) Microservices
5 20 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 14 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (13.00%) AI
8 12 (12.00%) MVC
8 12 (12.00%) OOP
8 12 (12.00%) Unit Testing
9 10 (10.00%) Design Patterns
9 10 (10.00%) Scrum
9 10 (10.00%) SDLC
10 9 (9.00%) Clean Code
10 9 (9.00%) OO
10 9 (9.00%) Test Automation
11 8 (8.00%) Migration
11 8 (8.00%) Performance Tuning
12 7 (7.00%) Event-Driven
12 7 (7.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 83 (83.00%) C#
2 46 (46.00%) SQL
3 12 (12.00%) JavaScript
4 10 (10.00%) Python
4 10 (10.00%) T-SQL
5 7 (7.00%) PL/SQL
5 7 (7.00%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.00%) Bicep
7 2 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (2.00%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.00%) VB
7 2 (2.00%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.00%) Java
8 1 (1.00%) VB6
8 1 (1.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (17.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.00%) Degree
4 3 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.00%) QA
2 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.00%) MiFID
2 1 (1.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (4.00%) Docker
2 3 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (6.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.00%) Oracle
3 5 (5.00%) Citrix
4 3 (3.00%) ION Trading
4 3 (3.00%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.00%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.00%) VMware
6 1 (1.00%) Databricks
6 1 (1.00%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.00%) Sybase
6 1 (1.00%) Temenos