.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 17 December 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 278 200 140
Rank change year-on-year -78 -60 -16
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 103 184 329
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.72% 1.21% 1.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 1.29% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 145 266
10th Percentile £380 £379 £380
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 £668 £795 £781
England median daily rate £492 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -1.60% -9.09% -
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 13,278 14,222 17,588
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 93.51% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,809 9,204 12,720
10th Percentile £340 £338 £329
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -3.02%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £685
90th Percentile £757 £800 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 153 211
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.39 £17.75
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £28.06 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.82% - -
75th Percentile £56.69 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.79 £80.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.30 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.94% -20.00% +38.46%

.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 17 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 17 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 -9 8 £625 +2.04% 40
.NET Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 103 (100.00%) .NET
2 86 (83.50%) C#
3 56 (54.37%) SQL
4 46 (44.66%) Azure
5 41 (39.81%) SQL Server
6 35 (33.98%) .NET Framework
7 34 (33.01%) Agile
8 27 (26.21%) CI/CD
8 27 (26.21%) DevOps
9 24 (23.30%) Full-Stack Development
10 22 (21.36%) Windows
11 21 (20.39%) .NET Core
11 21 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (20.39%) WPF
12 19 (18.45%) AWS
12 19 (18.45%) Microservices
13 18 (17.48%) Oracle
14 17 (16.50%) Microsoft
15 16 (15.53%) AngularJS
15 16 (15.53%) PL/SQL
16 15 (14.56%) Clean Code
16 15 (14.56%) Oracle Database
17 14 (13.59%) Azure DevOps
17 14 (13.59%) Migration
18 13 (12.62%) Scrum
19 12 (11.65%) T-SQL
20 11 (10.68%) OOP
20 11 (10.68%) VB
20 11 (10.68%) VB.NET
21 10 (9.71%) Entity Framework

.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 (2.91%) Confluence
1 3 (2.91%) IIS
1 3 (2.91%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.97%) EPiServer
3 1 (0.97%) HCL Notes
3 1 (0.97%) Mendix
Applications
1 10 (9.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 46 (44.66%) Azure
2 19 (18.45%) AWS
3 14 (13.59%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (7.77%) Azure Service Bus
4 8 (7.77%) GitHub
5 7 (6.80%) Serverless
6 6 (5.83%) Azure Functions
7 5 (4.85%) Azure Key Vault
7 5 (4.85%) PaaS
8 4 (3.88%) Azure Pipelines
8 4 (3.88%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.88%) Figma
8 4 (3.88%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (2.91%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.94%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.94%) Azure App Service
10 2 (1.94%) Azure Event Grid
10 2 (1.94%) Azure WebJobs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.94%) DHCP
1 2 (1.94%) DNS
1 2 (1.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (39.81%) SQL Server
2 15 (14.56%) Oracle Database
3 7 (6.80%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (5.83%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.91%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.97%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.97%) Power BI
7 1 (0.97%) Redis
7 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (8.74%) SpecFlow
2 5 (4.85%) JIRA
3 4 (3.88%) Git
3 4 (3.88%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.94%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.97%) MSTest
5 1 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.97%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 47 (45.63%) Finance
2 27 (26.21%) Social Skills
3 19 (18.45%) Banking
4 8 (7.77%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.80%) Financial Institution
5 7 (6.80%) Front Office
6 5 (4.85%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.91%) Back Office
7 3 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.97%) Advertising
8 1 (0.97%) Publishing
8 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (100.00%) .NET
2 35 (33.98%) .NET Framework
3 21 (20.39%) .NET Core
3 21 (20.39%) WPF
4 16 (15.53%) AngularJS
5 10 (9.71%) Entity Framework
6 9 (8.74%) ASP.NET
6 9 (8.74%) CSS
7 8 (7.77%) NHibernate
7 8 (7.77%) Playwright
7 8 (7.77%) REST
7 8 (7.77%) RESTful
7 8 (7.77%) WinForms
8 7 (6.80%) Kafka
8 7 (6.80%) React
9 6 (5.83%) ASP.NET Web API
9 6 (5.83%) Blazor
10 5 (4.85%) HTML
10 5 (4.85%) Web Services
11 4 (3.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.77%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (6.80%) Credit Risk
3 6 (5.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (5.83%) Market Risk
4 5 (4.85%) Fixed Income
4 5 (4.85%) Hedge funds
4 5 (4.85%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.85%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.88%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.94%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.94%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.94%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.97%) Derivative
7 1 (0.97%) Equities
7 1 (0.97%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.97%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (21.36%) Windows
2 5 (4.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (33.01%) Agile
2 27 (26.21%) CI/CD
2 27 (26.21%) DevOps
3 24 (23.30%) Full-Stack Development
4 21 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (18.45%) Microservices
6 15 (14.56%) Clean Code
7 14 (13.59%) Migration
8 13 (12.62%) Scrum
9 11 (10.68%) OOP
10 10 (9.71%) OO
10 10 (9.71%) SDLC
11 9 (8.74%) Risk Management
11 9 (8.74%) Software Engineering
12 8 (7.77%) Design Patterns
12 8 (7.77%) MVC
12 8 (7.77%) Unit Testing
13 7 (6.80%) AI
14 6 (5.83%) Fintech
15 5 (4.85%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 86 (83.50%) C#
2 56 (54.37%) SQL
3 16 (15.53%) PL/SQL
4 12 (11.65%) T-SQL
5 11 (10.68%) VB
5 11 (10.68%) VB.NET
6 10 (9.71%) VBA
7 5 (4.85%) Python
8 4 (3.88%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.91%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.94%) Bicep
10 2 (1.94%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.94%) PHP
10 2 (1.94%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.97%) Cypher
11 1 (0.97%) Formula Language
11 1 (0.97%) Java
11 1 (0.97%) LotusScript
11 1 (0.97%) VB6
Qualifications
1 6 (5.83%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.85%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.88%) Degree
4 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.94%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.88%) Accessibility
1 4 (3.88%) QA
1 4 (3.88%) WCAG
2 3 (2.91%) EMIR
2 3 (2.91%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (3.88%) Docker
2 3 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (3.88%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.91%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (17.48%) Oracle
2 17 (16.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.91%) Citrix
4 2 (1.94%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.94%) CQG
4 2 (1.94%) Databricks
4 2 (1.94%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.94%) TOWER Software
4 2 (1.94%) VMware
5 1 (0.97%) DevExpress
5 1 (0.97%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.97%) Kofax
5 1 (0.97%) Lotus
5 1 (0.97%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.97%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.97%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.97%) Solace
5 1 (0.97%) Sybase
5 1 (0.97%) Temenos
5 1 (0.97%) Virgin Media