.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in London

.NET Developer
England > London

The median .NET Developer daily rate in London is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 247 166
Rank change year-on-year -104 -81 +10
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 91 117 258
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.45% 0.88% 1.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.95% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 88 209
10th Percentile £425 - £377
25th Percentile £466 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £481 £575
Median % change year-on-year +22.08% -16.30% -4.17%
75th Percentile £731 £675 £675
90th Percentile £826 £838 £800
England median daily rate £495 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +4.21% -9.52% -4.55%
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 £65.25 - £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 18,862 12,305 15,150
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 92.69% 94.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,191 8,227 10,096
10th Percentile £361 £331 £343
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £673 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 203 179
10th Percentile £17.39 £17.00 £17.45
25th Percentile £22.00 £22.95 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.46 £75.25
England median hourly rate £43.61 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +73.38% -45.54% +2.62%

.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 22 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 22 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
South London - 8 £700 - 5
Central London -27 6 £572 -10.27% 4
North London - 1 - -
.NET Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 91 (100.00%) .NET
2 76 (83.52%) C#
3 47 (51.65%) SQL Server
4 39 (42.86%) SQL
5 38 (41.76%) CI/CD
6 37 (40.66%) Azure
7 30 (32.97%) REST
8 29 (31.87%) Agile
9 26 (28.57%) .NET Core
10 25 (27.47%) Microservices
11 22 (24.18%) Full-Stack Development
12 21 (23.08%) AWS
12 21 (23.08%) DevOps
13 19 (20.88%) RESTful
14 18 (19.78%) .NET Framework
14 18 (19.78%) JavaScript
15 17 (18.68%) ASP.NET
16 16 (17.58%) Event-Driven
17 15 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
17 15 (16.48%) Microsoft
18 14 (15.38%) AI
18 14 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 14 (15.38%) Kubernetes
18 14 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
18 14 (15.38%) T-SQL
18 14 (15.38%) TypeScript
19 13 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
19 13 (14.29%) Python
19 13 (14.29%) React
19 13 (14.29%) WinForms

.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 (3.30%) IIS
2 2 (2.20%) CMS
2 2 (2.20%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 37 (40.66%) Azure
2 21 (23.08%) AWS
3 13 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (12.09%) GitHub
5 7 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 7 (7.69%) Serverless
6 6 (6.59%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (5.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (5.49%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.40%) Azure Functions
9 3 (3.30%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (3.30%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (3.30%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.20%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.20%) n8n
10 2 (2.20%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.20%) Zapier
11 1 (1.10%) Azure API Management
11 1 (1.10%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (51.65%) SQL Server
2 9 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (8.79%) Relational Database
4 6 (6.59%) Power BI
5 4 (4.40%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (4.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (3.30%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.30%) Db2
6 3 (3.30%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.30%) Oracle Database
6 3 (3.30%) Redis
7 2 (2.20%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.10%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 8 (8.79%) Git
2 7 (7.69%) GitLab
3 6 (6.59%) REST Assured
4 3 (3.30%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.30%) SpecFlow
5 2 (2.20%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.20%) Fiddler
5 2 (2.20%) JIRA
5 2 (2.20%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (2.20%) Postman
5 2 (2.20%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.10%) Moq
6 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (1.10%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (36.26%) Finance
2 27 (29.67%) Social Skills
3 22 (24.18%) Banking
4 11 (12.09%) Investment Banking
5 10 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (7.69%) Front Office
7 6 (6.59%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.30%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.20%) Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (100.00%) .NET
2 30 (32.97%) REST
3 26 (28.57%) .NET Core
4 19 (20.88%) RESTful
5 18 (19.78%) .NET Framework
6 17 (18.68%) ASP.NET
7 13 (14.29%) React
7 13 (14.29%) WinForms
7 13 (14.29%) WPF
8 12 (13.19%) AngularJS
9 11 (12.09%) Kafka
10 10 (10.99%) Web Services
11 9 (9.89%) ASP.NET MVC
12 8 (8.79%) ASP.NET Core
12 8 (8.79%) SOAP
13 7 (7.69%) Terraform
14 6 (6.59%) ASP.NET Web API
15 5 (5.49%) JSON
16 4 (4.40%) Entity Framework
16 4 (4.40%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.48%) Cloud Native
2 14 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.30%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.30%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.20%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.20%) Derivative
5 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.10%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.69%) Windows
2 3 (3.30%) Linux
3 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (41.76%) CI/CD
2 29 (31.87%) Agile
3 25 (27.47%) Microservices
4 22 (24.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 21 (23.08%) DevOps
6 16 (17.58%) Event-Driven
7 15 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (15.38%) AI
8 14 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 14 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (13.19%) OO
10 11 (12.09%) Containerisation
10 11 (12.09%) Generative AI
10 11 (12.09%) OOP
11 10 (10.99%) API Design
11 10 (10.99%) Design Patterns
11 10 (10.99%) Mentoring
11 10 (10.99%) MVC
12 9 (9.89%) ETL
12 9 (9.89%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 76 (83.52%) C#
2 39 (42.86%) SQL
3 18 (19.78%) JavaScript
4 14 (15.38%) T-SQL
4 14 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 13 (14.29%) Python
6 12 (13.19%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.20%) Bicep
8 1 (1.10%) Java
8 1 (1.10%) VB
8 1 (1.10%) VBA
8 1 (1.10%) XAML
Qualifications
1 6 (6.59%) SC Cleared
1 6 (6.59%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.20%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.10%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.49%) QA
2 2 (2.20%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.20%) Basel III
3 1 (1.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (12.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (16.48%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.89%) Oracle
3 8 (8.79%) Citrix
4 3 (3.30%) DevExpress
4 3 (3.30%) IBM
5 2 (2.20%) Adyen
6 1 (1.10%) Databricks