.NET Framework Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft .NET Framework
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring .NET Framework skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 234 187
Rank change year-on-year -76 -47 +64
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 123 138 225
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 1.01% 1.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.74% 3.90% 5.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 112 160
10th Percentile £404 £385 £363
25th Percentile £434 £389 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £647 £600 £640
90th Percentile £700 £745 £750
England median daily rate £488 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -7.14%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

.NET Framework falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,493 3,543 4,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.63% 26.06% 27.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,979 2,486 3,228
10th Percentile £394 £370 £376
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £786 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 23 25
10th Percentile £23.98 £31.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £34.20 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £51.44 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.87% +37.17% -43.18%
75th Percentile £61.50 £60.75 £50.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.50 £71.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing .NET Framework relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

.NET Framework job vacancy trend in London

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing .NET Framework.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing .NET Framework

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework in London over the 6 months to 29 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Framework in London

.NET Framework
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing .NET Framework.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing .NET Framework

.NET Framework
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 Framework within the London region over the 6 months to 29 July 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 -7 12 £645 +35.79% 12
South London -16 3 £700 +42.86% 4
.NET Framework
England

.NET Framework
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 22 (17.89%) IIS
2 10 (8.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (6.50%) SharePoint
4 5 (4.07%) Appian
4 5 (4.07%) Camunda
4 5 (4.07%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (1.63%) CMS
6 1 (0.81%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.81%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 13 (10.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.07%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (4.07%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (3.25%) Findur
3 2 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.81%) Endur
4 1 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.81%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.81%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 59 (47.97%) Azure
2 28 (22.76%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (20.33%) GitHub
4 16 (13.01%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (8.94%) Azure App Service
5 11 (8.94%) Entra ID
6 10 (8.13%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (7.32%) PaaS
8 8 (6.50%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (5.69%) SaaS
10 6 (4.88%) AWS
10 6 (4.88%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (4.07%) Azure WebJobs
11 5 (4.07%) Power Platform
12 4 (3.25%) Azure AKS
12 4 (3.25%) IaaS
13 3 (2.44%) n8n
13 3 (2.44%) Power Automate
13 3 (2.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.57%) Internet
2 2 (1.63%) Intranet
2 2 (1.63%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.81%) DHCP
3 1 (0.81%) DNS
3 1 (0.81%) Firewall
3 1 (0.81%) LAN
3 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.81%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.81%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (54.47%) SQL Server
2 31 (25.20%) Oracle Database
3 18 (14.63%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.07%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.25%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.25%) Power BI
6 3 (2.44%) Crystal Reports
6 3 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.63%) ClickHouse
7 2 (1.63%) Db2
7 2 (1.63%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 10 (8.13%) Git
2 9 (7.32%) Visual Studio
3 7 (5.69%) JIRA
4 5 (4.07%) GitLab
4 5 (4.07%) TeamCity
5 4 (3.25%) JetBrains Rider
6 3 (2.44%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.44%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.44%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.44%) MSTest
6 3 (2.44%) NUnit
6 3 (2.44%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.63%) Fiddler
7 2 (1.63%) git-flow
7 2 (1.63%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.63%) JMeter
7 2 (1.63%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.63%) Moq
7 2 (1.63%) MSI
7 2 (1.63%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 47 (38.21%) Finance
2 35 (28.46%) Social Skills
3 22 (17.89%) Banking
4 13 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.44%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.63%) Front Office
6 2 (1.63%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.63%) Retail
7 1 (0.81%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 81 (65.85%) Developer
2 46 (37.40%) C# Developer
3 29 (23.58%) Architect
4 22 (17.89%) .NET Developer
4 22 (17.89%) Solutions Architect
5 15 (12.20%) C# .NET Developer
6 14 (11.38%) Senior
7 13 (10.57%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (8.13%) Senior Developer
9 9 (7.32%) Applications Architect
10 8 (6.50%) Applications Developer
10 8 (6.50%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 6 (4.88%) Full-Stack C# Developer
12 5 (4.07%) Azure Developer
12 5 (4.07%) BPM Developer
12 5 (4.07%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 5 (4.07%) Senior .NET Developer
12 5 (4.07%) Senior C# Developer
12 5 (4.07%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (4.07%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (100.00%) .NET
2 25 (20.33%) REST
3 23 (18.70%) React
4 21 (17.07%) .NET Core
5 18 (14.63%) ASP.NET
6 16 (13.01%) Entity Framework
7 15 (12.20%) AngularJS
8 13 (10.57%) WinForms
9 12 (9.76%) WPF
10 11 (8.94%) CSS
10 11 (8.94%) HTML
10 11 (8.94%) SOAP
10 11 (8.94%) Web Services
11 10 (8.13%) RESTful
12 8 (6.50%) ASP.NET MVC
13 6 (4.88%) Kafka
13 6 (4.88%) Vue
14 5 (4.07%) ASP.NET Core
14 5 (4.07%) ASP.NET Web API
14 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 26 (21.14%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.94%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (8.13%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.25%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.44%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.63%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.63%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.81%) IoT
8 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 38 (30.89%) Windows
2 14 (11.38%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.44%) Linux
4 2 (1.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (57.72%) DevOps
2 55 (44.72%) Agile
3 48 (39.02%) AI
4 40 (32.52%) CI/CD
5 38 (30.89%) OOP
5 38 (30.89%) SDLC
6 32 (26.02%) Scrum
7 30 (24.39%) Data Analysis
8 29 (23.58%) Migration
9 26 (21.14%) Unit Testing
10 24 (19.51%) Disaster Recovery
10 24 (19.51%) OO
11 17 (13.82%) Full-Stack Development
11 17 (13.82%) Microservices
12 14 (11.38%) Software Engineering
12 14 (11.38%) Test Automation
13 13 (10.57%) Change Management
13 13 (10.57%) Event-Driven
13 13 (10.57%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (10.57%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 104 (84.55%) C#
2 61 (49.59%) SQL
3 35 (28.46%) T-SQL
4 34 (27.64%) PL/SQL
5 25 (20.33%) JavaScript
6 18 (14.63%) TypeScript
7 16 (13.01%) Python
8 11 (8.94%) VB
8 11 (8.94%) VBA
9 10 (8.13%) PowerShell
10 5 (4.07%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (2.44%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.63%) Bicep
12 2 (1.63%) C++
12 2 (1.63%) Java
13 1 (0.81%) CodeQL
13 1 (0.81%) XPath
Qualifications
1 26 (21.14%) Degree
2 9 (7.32%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.81%) MBA
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (25.20%) QA
2 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.81%) SLA
2 1 (0.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (9.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (8.13%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.25%) Terraform
3 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.81%) Istio
Vendors
1 44 (35.77%) Oracle
2 32 (26.02%) Citrix
3 21 (17.07%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.07%) OpenText
5 4 (3.25%) OpenLink
6 3 (2.44%) IBM
6 3 (2.44%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.63%) Databricks
7 2 (1.63%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.81%) BMC
8 1 (0.81%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.81%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.81%) F5
8 1 (0.81%) Google
8 1 (0.81%) Okta
8 1 (0.81%) Remedy
8 1 (0.81%) SAP
8 1 (0.81%) UiPath