.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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 218 208
Rank change year-on-year -90 -10 +49
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 119 137 209
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 1.09% 1.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.74% 4.14% 4.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 112 150
10th Percentile £404 - £363
25th Percentile £415 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.53% -6.25% -4.31%
75th Percentile £613 £589 £625
90th Percentile £691 £699 £714
England median daily rate £475 £475 £482
% change year-on-year - -1.35% -7.40%

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 4,344 3,312 4,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.75% 26.40% 26.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,878 2,317 3,450
10th Percentile £375 £379 £375
25th Percentile £448 £429 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £674 £713 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 20 28
10th Percentile £24.30 £32.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.00 £44.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +5.29% -36.57%
75th Percentile £73.00 £58.13 £61.70
90th Percentile £92.50 £87.63 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £55.63
% change year-on-year +8.33% +7.87% -14.42%

.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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -10 10 £635 +37.30% 15
West London -30 1 £400 -27.80%
.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 18 (15.13%) IIS
2 10 (8.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (6.72%) SharePoint
4 5 (4.20%) Appian
4 5 (4.20%) Camunda
4 5 (4.20%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.84%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (10.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.84%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (4.20%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (4.20%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (3.36%) Findur
3 3 (2.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.84%) Endur
4 1 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.84%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.84%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 53 (44.54%) Azure
2 24 (20.17%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (17.65%) GitHub
4 15 (12.61%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (6.72%) Azure App Service
5 8 (6.72%) Azure Key Vault
5 8 (6.72%) Entra ID
5 8 (6.72%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (5.88%) AWS
6 7 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (5.04%) PaaS
8 5 (4.20%) Azure WebJobs
8 5 (4.20%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.36%) Azure AKS
9 4 (3.36%) Power Automate
9 4 (3.36%) SaaS
10 3 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.52%) n8n
10 3 (2.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.24%) Internet
2 2 (1.68%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.84%) DHCP
3 1 (0.84%) DNS
3 1 (0.84%) Firewall
3 1 (0.84%) Intranet
3 1 (0.84%) LAN
3 1 (0.84%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.84%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.84%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (53.78%) SQL Server
2 31 (26.05%) Oracle Database
3 17 (14.29%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.52%) Crystal Reports
5 3 (2.52%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.52%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (2.52%) Power BI
5 3 (2.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.84%) ClickHouse
7 1 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.84%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (9.24%) Visual Studio
2 9 (7.56%) Git
3 8 (6.72%) JIRA
4 4 (3.36%) GitLab
5 3 (2.52%) MSTest
5 3 (2.52%) NUnit
5 3 (2.52%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.68%) Fiddler
6 2 (1.68%) git-flow
6 2 (1.68%) Jasmine
6 2 (1.68%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.68%) JMeter
6 2 (1.68%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (1.68%) Moq
6 2 (1.68%) MSI
6 2 (1.68%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.84%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.84%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.84%) JetBrains Rider
7 1 (0.84%) Postman
General
1 46 (38.66%) Finance
2 31 (26.05%) Social Skills
3 23 (19.33%) Banking
4 8 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.52%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.68%) Front Office
6 2 (1.68%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 83 (69.75%) Developer
2 50 (42.02%) C# Developer
3 25 (21.01%) Architect
4 21 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
5 20 (16.81%) .NET Developer
6 15 (12.61%) Senior
7 13 (10.92%) C# .NET Developer
8 11 (9.24%) Senior Developer
9 10 (8.40%) Applications Developer
10 9 (7.56%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (5.04%) C# Application Developer
11 6 (5.04%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 6 (5.04%) Full-Stack C# Developer
11 6 (5.04%) Senior C# Developer
12 5 (4.20%) Azure Developer
12 5 (4.20%) BPM Developer
12 5 (4.20%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 5 (4.20%) Senior .NET Developer
12 5 (4.20%) Software Engineer
13 4 (3.36%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (100.00%) .NET
2 24 (20.17%) React
3 19 (15.97%) .NET Core
4 15 (12.61%) REST
5 14 (11.76%) ASP.NET
5 14 (11.76%) CSS
5 14 (11.76%) HTML
6 12 (10.08%) Entity Framework
6 12 (10.08%) WinForms
6 12 (10.08%) WPF
7 11 (9.24%) AngularJS
8 9 (7.56%) RESTful
9 8 (6.72%) Web Services
10 7 (5.88%) SOAP
11 6 (5.04%) OAuth
11 6 (5.04%) Vue
12 5 (4.20%) ASP.NET MVC
12 5 (4.20%) ASP.NET Web API
12 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Graph
12 5 (4.20%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.97%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.40%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (7.56%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (6.72%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (5.04%) AI Agents
6 5 (4.20%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.52%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.68%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.84%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.84%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.84%) Derivative
10 1 (0.84%) Equity Derivative
10 1 (0.84%) IoT
10 1 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.84%) N-Tier
10 1 (0.84%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.84%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 39 (32.77%) Windows
2 17 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.68%) Unix
4 1 (0.84%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (52.94%) DevOps
2 47 (39.50%) Agile
3 45 (37.82%) AI
4 35 (29.41%) CI/CD
5 34 (28.57%) Data Analysis
6 32 (26.89%) OOP
7 29 (24.37%) SDLC
7 29 (24.37%) Unit Testing
8 27 (22.69%) Disaster Recovery
9 26 (21.85%) Scrum
10 22 (18.49%) Change Management
10 22 (18.49%) Migration
11 20 (16.81%) OO
12 15 (12.61%) Microservices
12 15 (12.61%) Software Engineering
12 15 (12.61%) Test Automation
13 14 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
13 14 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
14 13 (10.92%) Problem-Solving
15 12 (10.08%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 104 (87.39%) C#
2 58 (48.74%) SQL
3 36 (30.25%) T-SQL
4 35 (29.41%) PL/SQL
5 21 (17.65%) Python
6 19 (15.97%) JavaScript
7 18 (15.13%) TypeScript
8 10 (8.40%) VB
8 10 (8.40%) VBA
9 9 (7.56%) PowerShell
10 5 (4.20%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (2.52%) Java
11 3 (2.52%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.68%) Bicep
12 2 (1.68%) C++
13 1 (0.84%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.84%) XPath
Qualifications
1 29 (24.37%) Degree
2 8 (6.72%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.04%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.84%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.84%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.84%) CISSP
4 1 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.84%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (30.25%) QA
2 1 (0.84%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.84%) SLA
2 1 (0.84%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (10.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (7.56%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.52%) Terraform
3 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 51 (42.86%) Oracle
2 35 (29.41%) Citrix
3 16 (13.45%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.20%) OpenText
5 4 (3.36%) OpenLink
6 2 (1.68%) Databricks
7 1 (0.84%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.84%) BMC
7 1 (0.84%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.84%) F5
7 1 (0.84%) Google
7 1 (0.84%) Okta
7 1 (0.84%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.84%) Remedy
7 1 (0.84%) SAP
7 1 (0.84%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.84%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.84%) UiPath