.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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 260 190
Rank change year-on-year -60 -70 +53
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 121 111 223
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 0.82% 1.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.30% 2.82% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 87 160
10th Percentile £404 - £363
25th Percentile £434 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -7.00% -11.89%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £624
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
England median daily rate £489 £465 £483
% change year-on-year +5.11% -3.78% -12.14%

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 5,263 3,931 4,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.16% 29.19% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,514 2,734 3,485
10th Percentile £400 £369 £384
25th Percentile £455 £425 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £658 £688 £713
90th Percentile £756 £813 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 32 20
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £34.17 £33.54
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.97 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +15.49% -32.84%
75th Percentile £61.50 £62.81 £61.70
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.50
England median hourly rate £67.24 £54.79 £62.50
% change year-on-year +22.72% -12.34% -3.10%

.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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -8 16 £600 +26.32% 8
South London - 5 £713 - 2
.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 20 (16.53%) IIS
2 7 (5.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (5.79%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.13%) Appian
3 5 (4.13%) Camunda
3 5 (4.13%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.65%) CMS
5 1 (0.83%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.83%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 12 (9.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (5.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (4.13%) OpenText MBPM
2 5 (4.13%) Oracle BPM
3 3 (2.48%) Findur
4 1 (0.83%) Endur
4 1 (0.83%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.83%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 64 (52.89%) Azure
2 27 (22.31%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (20.66%) GitHub
4 14 (11.57%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (7.44%) Azure App Service
5 9 (7.44%) Entra ID
5 9 (7.44%) Power Platform
6 8 (6.61%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (5.79%) AWS
7 7 (5.79%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (5.79%) PaaS
7 7 (5.79%) SaaS
8 6 (4.96%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (4.96%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (4.13%) Power Automate
9 5 (4.13%) Serverless
10 4 (3.31%) Azure Functions
10 4 (3.31%) IaaS
10 4 (3.31%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.92%) Internet
2 2 (1.65%) Intranet
2 2 (1.65%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.83%) DHCP
3 1 (0.83%) DNS
3 1 (0.83%) Firewall
3 1 (0.83%) LAN
3 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.83%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (53.72%) SQL Server
2 27 (22.31%) Oracle Database
3 16 (13.22%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (4.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.31%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.31%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.31%) Power BI
6 4 (3.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.65%) ClickHouse
7 2 (1.65%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (1.65%) Db2
7 2 (1.65%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 12 (9.92%) Git
2 11 (9.09%) Visual Studio
3 5 (4.13%) Bitbucket
3 5 (4.13%) GitLab
3 5 (4.13%) JIRA
3 5 (4.13%) TeamCity
4 4 (3.31%) JetBrains Rider
5 3 (2.48%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.48%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.65%) Fiddler
6 2 (1.65%) git-flow
6 2 (1.65%) JMeter
6 2 (1.65%) Moq
6 2 (1.65%) MSI
6 2 (1.65%) NUnit
6 2 (1.65%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.65%) Selenium
6 2 (1.65%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.83%) MSTest
General
1 40 (33.06%) Finance
2 36 (29.75%) Social Skills
3 18 (14.88%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (14.05%) Banking
5 4 (3.31%) Marketing
6 2 (1.65%) Front Office
6 2 (1.65%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.65%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 73 (60.33%) Developer
2 37 (30.58%) C# Developer
3 31 (25.62%) Architect
4 22 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
5 20 (16.53%) .NET Developer
6 13 (10.74%) Senior
7 12 (9.92%) C# .NET Developer
7 12 (9.92%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (9.09%) Applications Architect
9 9 (7.44%) Senior Developer
10 7 (5.79%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 5 (4.13%) Applications Developer
11 5 (4.13%) BPM Developer
11 5 (4.13%) Full-Stack C# Developer
11 5 (4.13%) Senior .NET Developer
11 5 (4.13%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (4.13%) SQL Developer
12 4 (3.31%) Senior C# .NET Developer
12 4 (3.31%) Senior C# Developer
12 4 (3.31%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (100.00%) .NET
2 28 (23.14%) REST
3 21 (17.36%) .NET Core
4 20 (16.53%) React
5 18 (14.88%) ASP.NET
5 18 (14.88%) Entity Framework
6 17 (14.05%) AngularJS
7 12 (9.92%) WinForms
8 11 (9.09%) RESTful
8 11 (9.09%) SOAP
8 11 (9.09%) Web Services
8 11 (9.09%) WPF
9 8 (6.61%) ASP.NET MVC
9 8 (6.61%) ASP.NET Web API
9 8 (6.61%) CSS
9 8 (6.61%) HTML
9 8 (6.61%) Middleware
10 7 (5.79%) Kafka
11 6 (4.96%) ASP.NET Core
11 6 (4.96%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 26 (21.49%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (6.61%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.31%) AI Agents
5 4 (3.31%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (2.48%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.65%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.65%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) IoT
8 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (30.58%) Windows
2 13 (10.74%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.48%) Linux
4 2 (1.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (58.68%) DevOps
2 55 (45.45%) Agile
3 47 (38.84%) AI
4 39 (32.23%) CI/CD
4 39 (32.23%) SDLC
5 36 (29.75%) OOP
5 36 (29.75%) Scrum
6 31 (25.62%) Migration
7 26 (21.49%) Data Analysis
8 23 (19.01%) OO
9 22 (18.18%) Unit Testing
10 20 (16.53%) Disaster Recovery
11 18 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (14.05%) Microservices
13 16 (13.22%) Full-Stack Development
14 15 (12.40%) Event-Driven
15 14 (11.57%) Software Engineering
16 13 (10.74%) Deployment Automation
16 13 (10.74%) Software Architecture
16 13 (10.74%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 100 (82.64%) C#
2 59 (48.76%) SQL
3 33 (27.27%) T-SQL
4 31 (25.62%) JavaScript
5 30 (24.79%) PL/SQL
6 17 (14.05%) TypeScript
7 16 (13.22%) Python
8 10 (8.26%) VB
8 10 (8.26%) VBA
9 7 (5.79%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.48%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (2.48%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.65%) Bicep
11 2 (1.65%) C++
11 2 (1.65%) Java
12 1 (0.83%) CodeQL
12 1 (0.83%) XPath
Qualifications
1 28 (23.14%) Degree
2 12 (9.92%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.31%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.65%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (23.14%) QA
System Software
1 11 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (8.26%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.83%) Istio
Vendors
1 36 (29.75%) Oracle
2 29 (23.97%) Citrix
3 25 (20.66%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.13%) OpenText
5 3 (2.48%) IBM
5 3 (2.48%) OpenLink
5 3 (2.48%) Sitecore
5 3 (2.48%) UiPath
6 2 (1.65%) Databricks
7 1 (0.83%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.83%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.83%) F5
7 1 (0.83%) Foundry
7 1 (0.83%) Okta
7 1 (0.83%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.83%) SAP
7 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow