.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in London

.NET Developer
England > London

The median .NET Developer daily rate in London is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 217 140
Rank change year-on-year -70 -77 -16
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 91 143 313
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 1.03% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 1.10% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 112 259
10th Percentile £385 £385 £385
25th Percentile £400 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% -9.96% +6.38%
75th Percentile £628 £675 £713
90th Percentile £675 £788 £778
England median daily rate £500 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -4.31% -5.00% -
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 13,508 13,021 17,202
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 93.60% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,980 8,360 12,427
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £785
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 140 293
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.68 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.09 £18.93
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +20.69% -10.77%
75th Percentile £63.10 £51.50 £51.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.95 £65.95
England median hourly rate £29.65 £35.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year -15.30% -7.28% +7.86%

.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 25 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 25 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 -16 7 £625 - 45
.NET Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 91 (100.00%) .NET
2 78 (85.71%) C#
3 46 (50.55%) Azure
4 42 (46.15%) SQL
5 40 (43.96%) SQL Server
6 32 (35.16%) .NET Framework
7 29 (31.87%) Agile
8 25 (27.47%) CI/CD
8 25 (27.47%) DevOps
9 20 (21.98%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (21.98%) Microservices
10 19 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (19.78%) .NET Core
11 18 (19.78%) Windows
12 17 (18.68%) WPF
13 14 (15.38%) AWS
13 14 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (15.38%) Oracle
14 13 (14.29%) ASP.NET
14 13 (14.29%) Microsoft
14 13 (14.29%) Scrum
15 12 (13.19%) AngularJS
16 11 (12.09%) Clean Code
16 11 (12.09%) Entity Framework
16 11 (12.09%) OOP
16 11 (12.09%) PL/SQL
17 10 (10.99%) OO
17 10 (10.99%) Oracle Database
17 10 (10.99%) RESTful
17 10 (10.99%) SC 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 4 (4.40%) Confluence
2 3 (3.30%) IIS
3 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 46 (50.55%) Azure
2 14 (15.38%) AWS
2 14 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (9.89%) Serverless
4 8 (8.79%) Azure Functions
5 7 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
5 7 (7.69%) GitHub
6 5 (5.49%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (5.49%) PaaS
7 4 (4.40%) Entra ID
7 4 (4.40%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (3.30%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon Bedrock
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.20%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.20%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (2.20%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (2.20%) Azure WebJobs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.20%) DHCP
1 2 (2.20%) DNS
1 2 (2.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (43.96%) SQL Server
2 10 (10.99%) Oracle Database
3 9 (9.89%) Relational Database
4 7 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.20%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.20%) Redis
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (9.89%) SpecFlow
2 5 (5.49%) Git
2 5 (5.49%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.40%) JIRA
3 4 (4.40%) Visual Studio
3 4 (4.40%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.10%) MSTest
4 1 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.10%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (39.56%) Finance
2 23 (25.27%) Social Skills
3 22 (24.18%) Banking
4 8 (8.79%) Investment Banking
5 7 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.69%) Financial Institution
6 6 (6.59%) Front Office
7 5 (5.49%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.20%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.10%) Advertising
10 1 (1.10%) Back Office
10 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (100.00%) .NET
2 32 (35.16%) .NET Framework
3 18 (19.78%) .NET Core
4 17 (18.68%) WPF
5 13 (14.29%) ASP.NET
6 12 (13.19%) AngularJS
7 11 (12.09%) Entity Framework
8 10 (10.99%) RESTful
9 8 (8.79%) NHibernate
9 8 (8.79%) Playwright
9 8 (8.79%) WinForms
10 7 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
10 7 (7.69%) REST
11 6 (6.59%) ASP.NET Core
11 6 (6.59%) React
11 6 (6.59%) Web Services
12 4 (4.40%) Kafka
12 4 (4.40%) Middleware
12 4 (4.40%) SOAP
13 3 (3.30%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.79%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (7.69%) Credit Risk
3 6 (6.59%) Market Risk
4 5 (5.49%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.49%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (5.49%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.30%) Fixed Income
7 2 (2.20%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.10%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.10%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.10%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (19.78%) Windows
2 5 (5.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (31.87%) Agile
2 25 (27.47%) CI/CD
2 25 (27.47%) DevOps
3 20 (21.98%) Full-Stack Development
3 20 (21.98%) Microservices
4 19 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (14.29%) Scrum
6 11 (12.09%) Clean Code
6 11 (12.09%) OOP
7 10 (10.99%) OO
8 9 (9.89%) AI
8 9 (9.89%) Migration
8 9 (9.89%) MVC
8 9 (9.89%) Risk Management
8 9 (9.89%) SDLC
8 9 (9.89%) Software Engineering
9 8 (8.79%) Unit Testing
10 7 (7.69%) Design Patterns
10 7 (7.69%) Test Automation
11 6 (6.59%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 78 (85.71%) C#
2 42 (46.15%) SQL
3 11 (12.09%) PL/SQL
4 10 (10.99%) T-SQL
5 7 (7.69%) Python
5 7 (7.69%) VB
5 7 (7.69%) VB.NET
6 6 (6.59%) VBA
7 4 (4.40%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.20%) Bicep
8 2 (2.20%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (2.20%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.10%) Java
9 1 (1.10%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.10%) PHP
9 1 (1.10%) VB6
Qualifications
1 10 (10.99%) SC Cleared
1 10 (10.99%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.40%) Degree
3 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.20%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.49%) QA
2 1 (1.10%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (4.40%) Docker
2 3 (3.30%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (4.40%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (15.38%) Oracle
2 13 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.30%) Citrix
3 3 (3.30%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.20%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.20%) ION Trading
4 2 (2.20%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.20%) VMware
5 1 (1.10%) Databricks
5 1 (1.10%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.10%) Sybase
5 1 (1.10%) Temenos