.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in London

.NET Developer
England > London

The median .NET Developer daily rate in London is £569, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 210 167
Rank change year-on-year -105 -43 -10
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 89 145 261
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.50% 1.16% 1.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 1.24% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 119 222
10th Percentile £400 £385 £383
25th Percentile £473 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £520 £588
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -11.49% +4.68%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £700
90th Percentile £763 £850 £784
England median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 - -
England median hourly rate £46.00 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +23.81%

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 16,422 11,735 16,636
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 93.50% 93.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,940 8,042 12,035
10th Percentile £350 £343 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £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 £755 £800 £799
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 146 337
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.45 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.05 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.83 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.68% +26.64% -21.43%
75th Percentile £63.16 £50.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.38 £65.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £31.64 £35.96
% change year-on-year +48.55% -12.01% -20.09%

.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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -18 4 £560 -5.29% 42
.NET Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 89 (100.00%) .NET
2 76 (85.39%) C#
3 50 (56.18%) Azure
4 41 (46.07%) SQL
4 41 (46.07%) SQL Server
5 37 (41.57%) CI/CD
6 36 (40.45%) DevOps
7 32 (35.96%) Agile
8 29 (32.58%) .NET Framework
9 21 (23.60%) AngularJS
10 19 (21.35%) Full-Stack Development
10 19 (21.35%) Microservices
11 18 (20.22%) .NET Core
12 17 (19.10%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (19.10%) HTML
13 16 (17.98%) AWS
13 16 (17.98%) Microsoft
13 16 (17.98%) Security Cleared
14 15 (16.85%) JavaScript
14 15 (16.85%) SC Cleared
15 14 (15.73%) ASP.NET
16 13 (14.61%) AI
16 13 (14.61%) Oracle
16 13 (14.61%) RESTful
16 13 (14.61%) Serverless
17 12 (13.48%) OOP
17 12 (13.48%) Windows
18 11 (12.36%) Design Patterns
18 11 (12.36%) MVC
18 11 (12.36%) Problem-Solving

.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 5 (5.62%) IIS
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.12%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 50 (56.18%) Azure
2 17 (19.10%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (17.98%) AWS
4 13 (14.61%) Serverless
5 9 (10.11%) Azure Functions
6 6 (6.74%) Azure Key Vault
6 6 (6.74%) Azure Service Bus
6 6 (6.74%) GitHub
7 4 (4.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 4 (4.49%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (4.49%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.25%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.25%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.25%) n8n
9 2 (2.25%) PaaS
9 2 (2.25%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.12%) DHCP
1 1 (1.12%) DNS
1 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (46.07%) SQL Server
2 9 (10.11%) Relational Database
3 7 (7.87%) Redis
4 6 (6.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (5.62%) Oracle Database
6 3 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.25%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.12%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.12%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.12%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (10.11%) Git
2 5 (5.62%) SpecFlow
2 5 (5.62%) TeamCity
3 4 (4.49%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.49%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (3.37%) MSTest
4 3 (3.37%) NUnit
4 3 (3.37%) Visual Studio
4 3 (3.37%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (2.25%) Jasmine
5 2 (2.25%) JIRA
5 2 (2.25%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (1.12%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.12%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.12%) GitLab
6 1 (1.12%) Mocha
6 1 (1.12%) Moq
6 1 (1.12%) MSBuild
6 1 (1.12%) tSQLt
6 1 (1.12%) webpack
General
1 37 (41.57%) Finance
2 24 (26.97%) Social Skills
3 21 (23.60%) Banking
4 15 (16.85%) Front Office
5 12 (13.48%) Investment Banking
6 7 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (6.74%) Financial Institution
7 6 (6.74%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.37%) Back Office
9 2 (2.25%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (100.00%) .NET
2 29 (32.58%) .NET Framework
3 21 (23.60%) AngularJS
4 18 (20.22%) .NET Core
5 17 (19.10%) HTML
6 14 (15.73%) ASP.NET
7 13 (14.61%) RESTful
8 11 (12.36%) REST
9 10 (11.24%) ASP.NET Web API
9 10 (11.24%) React
10 9 (10.11%) WPF
11 7 (7.87%) ASP.NET Core
11 7 (7.87%) CSS
11 7 (7.87%) WinForms
12 5 (5.62%) ASP.NET MVC
12 5 (5.62%) Reactive Extensions
13 4 (4.49%) HTML5
13 4 (4.49%) Kafka
13 4 (4.49%) OAuth
13 4 (4.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.11%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (7.87%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.62%) AI Agents
3 5 (5.62%) Credit Risk
3 5 (5.62%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (5.62%) Fixed Income
3 5 (5.62%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (5.62%) Market Risk
4 4 (4.49%) Derivative
5 3 (3.37%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.25%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.12%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.12%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.48%) Windows
2 5 (5.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (41.57%) CI/CD
2 36 (40.45%) DevOps
3 32 (35.96%) Agile
4 19 (21.35%) Full-Stack Development
4 19 (21.35%) Microservices
5 13 (14.61%) AI
6 12 (13.48%) OOP
7 11 (12.36%) Design Patterns
7 11 (12.36%) MVC
7 11 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (11.24%) Performance Tuning
9 9 (10.11%) OO
9 9 (10.11%) SDLC
10 8 (8.99%) Event-Driven
10 8 (8.99%) Software Engineering
10 8 (8.99%) Test Automation
10 8 (8.99%) Unit Testing
10 8 (8.99%) Web Development
11 7 (7.87%) Clean Code
11 7 (7.87%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 76 (85.39%) C#
2 41 (46.07%) SQL
3 15 (16.85%) JavaScript
4 11 (12.36%) T-SQL
5 10 (11.24%) TypeScript
6 9 (10.11%) Python
7 7 (7.87%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.37%) Bicep
9 2 (2.25%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (2.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (17.98%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.85%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.49%) Degree
4 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.24%) QA
2 1 (1.12%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (6.74%) Docker
2 1 (1.12%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (7.87%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (17.98%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.61%) Oracle
3 7 (7.87%) Citrix
4 3 (3.37%) ION Trading
5 2 (2.25%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.12%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.12%) Sybase
6 1 (1.12%) Temenos
6 1 (1.12%) VMware