.NET Developer Contract Job Trends in London

.NET Developer
England > London

The median .NET Developer daily rate in London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 278 198 135
Rank change year-on-year -80 -63 -12
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 104 188 347
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.73% 1.21% 1.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 1.29% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 149 281
10th Percentile £382 £375 £385
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -12.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £731
90th Percentile £660 £790 £788
England median daily rate £475 £508 £550
% change year-on-year -6.40% -7.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 - -
England median hourly rate £46.00 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -23.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 13,179 14,595 18,242
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 93.55% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,760 9,478 13,182
10th Percentile £338 £338 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £799 £788
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 152 214
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.05
25th Percentile £21.12 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £27.61 £36.65 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year -24.68% +1.41% +3.26%
75th Percentile £53.59 £54.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.16 £80.75 £73.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%

.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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025. 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 -6 9 £625 +4.17% 43
.NET Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 December 2025, .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.

1 104 (100.00%) .NET
2 87 (83.65%) C#
3 55 (52.88%) SQL
4 46 (44.23%) Azure
5 39 (37.50%) SQL Server
6 36 (34.62%) .NET Framework
7 35 (33.65%) Agile
8 27 (25.96%) DevOps
9 26 (25.00%) CI/CD
10 25 (24.04%) Full-Stack Development
11 23 (22.12%) Windows
12 22 (21.15%) WPF
13 21 (20.19%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (19.23%) AWS
15 19 (18.27%) .NET Core
16 18 (17.31%) AngularJS
16 18 (17.31%) Microservices
16 18 (17.31%) Oracle
17 17 (16.35%) Microsoft
17 17 (16.35%) PL/SQL
18 16 (15.38%) Oracle Database
19 15 (14.42%) Clean Code
20 14 (13.46%) Azure DevOps
20 14 (13.46%) Migration
20 14 (13.46%) Scrum
21 12 (11.54%) T-SQL
21 12 (11.54%) VB
21 12 (11.54%) VB.NET
22 11 (10.58%) Microsoft Excel
22 11 (10.58%) OOP

.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 (3.85%) Confluence
2 3 (2.88%) IIS
2 3 (2.88%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.96%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.96%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.96%) Mendix
Applications
1 11 (10.58%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 46 (44.23%) Azure
2 20 (19.23%) AWS
3 14 (13.46%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (7.69%) GitHub
5 7 (6.73%) Azure Service Bus
5 7 (6.73%) Serverless
6 6 (5.77%) Azure Functions
7 5 (4.81%) PaaS
8 4 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (3.85%) Azure Pipelines
8 4 (3.85%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.85%) Figma
8 4 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.88%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.92%) Azure App Service
10 2 (1.92%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.92%) DHCP
1 2 (1.92%) DNS
1 2 (1.92%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 16 (15.38%) Oracle Database
3 6 (5.77%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (5.77%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.88%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.96%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.96%) Power BI
6 1 (0.96%) Redis
6 1 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (8.65%) SpecFlow
2 6 (5.77%) JIRA
3 4 (3.85%) Git
3 4 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.92%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.96%) MSTest
5 1 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.96%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 48 (46.15%) Finance
2 27 (25.96%) Social Skills
3 17 (16.35%) Banking
4 8 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.73%) Financial Institution
6 6 (5.77%) Front Office
7 4 (3.85%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.88%) Back Office
8 3 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Advertising
9 1 (0.96%) Publishing
9 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (100.00%) .NET
2 36 (34.62%) .NET Framework
3 22 (21.15%) WPF
4 19 (18.27%) .NET Core
5 18 (17.31%) AngularJS
6 10 (9.62%) Entity Framework
7 9 (8.65%) ASP.NET
7 9 (8.65%) CSS
7 9 (8.65%) REST
8 8 (7.69%) NHibernate
8 8 (7.69%) Playwright
8 8 (7.69%) React
8 8 (7.69%) RESTful
8 8 (7.69%) WinForms
9 7 (6.73%) Kafka
10 6 (5.77%) ASP.NET Web API
10 6 (5.77%) Blazor
11 5 (4.81%) Web Services
12 4 (3.85%) HTML
12 4 (3.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (6.73%) Credit Risk
3 6 (5.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (5.77%) Market Risk
4 5 (4.81%) Hedge funds
4 5 (4.81%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.81%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.85%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.85%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.92%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.92%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.96%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.96%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.96%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (22.12%) Windows
2 5 (4.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (33.65%) Agile
2 27 (25.96%) DevOps
3 26 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 25 (24.04%) Full-Stack Development
5 21 (20.19%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (17.31%) Microservices
7 15 (14.42%) Clean Code
8 14 (13.46%) Migration
8 14 (13.46%) Scrum
9 11 (10.58%) OOP
9 11 (10.58%) SDLC
10 10 (9.62%) OO
10 10 (9.62%) Risk Management
11 9 (8.65%) Design Patterns
11 9 (8.65%) Software Engineering
12 8 (7.69%) MVC
12 8 (7.69%) Unit Testing
13 7 (6.73%) AI
14 6 (5.77%) API Development
14 6 (5.77%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 87 (83.65%) C#
2 55 (52.88%) SQL
3 17 (16.35%) PL/SQL
4 12 (11.54%) T-SQL
4 12 (11.54%) VB
4 12 (11.54%) VB.NET
5 11 (10.58%) VBA
6 5 (4.81%) Python
7 4 (3.85%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.85%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.92%) Java
8 2 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.92%) PHP
8 2 (1.92%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.96%) Bicep
9 1 (0.96%) Cypher
9 1 (0.96%) Formula Language
9 1 (0.96%) LotusScript
9 1 (0.96%) VB6
Qualifications
1 6 (5.77%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.81%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.88%) Degree
4 2 (1.92%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.85%) Accessibility
1 4 (3.85%) WCAG
2 3 (2.88%) EMIR
2 3 (2.88%) MiFID
2 3 (2.88%) QA
System Software
1 4 (3.85%) Docker
2 3 (2.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (17.31%) Oracle
2 17 (16.35%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.88%) Citrix
3 3 (2.88%) Databricks
4 2 (1.92%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.92%) CQG
4 2 (1.92%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.92%) TOWER Software
4 2 (1.92%) VMware
5 1 (0.96%) DevExpress
5 1 (0.96%) Kofax
5 1 (0.96%) Lotus
5 1 (0.96%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.96%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.96%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.96%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.96%) Solace
5 1 (0.96%) Sybase
5 1 (0.96%) Temenos
5 1 (0.96%) Virgin Media