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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 234 196
Rank change year-on-year -80 -38 +53
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 124 142 220
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.63% 1.04% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.76% 4.00% 4.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 114 155
10th Percentile £404 £385 £363
25th Percentile £423 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £638
90th Percentile £690 £735 £750
England median daily rate £481 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +1.26% - -9.52%

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 3,554 4,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.67% 26.13% 27.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,965 2,481 3,294
10th Percentile £391 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £429 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £700 £725
90th Percentile £787 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 23 26
10th Percentile £23.98 £31.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £34.20 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £45.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% +12.50% -39.39%
75th Percentile £61.50 £60.75 £58.76
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.50 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -0.86% -7.20%

.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 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 23 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 -13 12 £645 +35.79% 5
South London -13 2 £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 21 (16.94%) IIS
2 10 (8.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (6.45%) SharePoint
4 5 (4.03%) Appian
4 5 (4.03%) Camunda
4 5 (4.03%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.81%) CMS
Applications
1 13 (10.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.03%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (4.03%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (3.23%) Findur
3 3 (2.42%) 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 (47.58%) Azure
2 27 (21.77%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (18.55%) GitHub
4 15 (12.10%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (8.87%) Azure App Service
5 11 (8.87%) Entra ID
6 10 (8.06%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (7.26%) PaaS
8 8 (6.45%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (5.65%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (5.65%) SaaS
10 5 (4.03%) AWS
10 5 (4.03%) Azure WebJobs
10 5 (4.03%) Power Platform
11 4 (3.23%) Azure AKS
11 4 (3.23%) IaaS
11 4 (3.23%) Power Automate
12 3 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (2.42%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.48%) Internet
2 2 (1.61%) Intranet
2 2 (1.61%) 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 (54.03%) SQL Server
2 33 (26.61%) Oracle Database
3 17 (13.71%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.42%) Crystal Reports
6 3 (2.42%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.42%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (2.42%) Power BI
6 3 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.61%) ClickHouse
7 2 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.61%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.81%) Db2
Development Applications
1 10 (8.06%) Visual Studio
2 8 (6.45%) Git
2 8 (6.45%) JIRA
3 4 (3.23%) GitLab
3 4 (3.23%) JetBrains Rider
4 3 (2.42%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.42%) MSTest
4 3 (2.42%) NUnit
4 3 (2.42%) SpecFlow
4 3 (2.42%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.61%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.61%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.61%) Fiddler
5 2 (1.61%) git-flow
5 2 (1.61%) Jasmine
5 2 (1.61%) JMeter
5 2 (1.61%) Karma Test Runner
5 2 (1.61%) Moq
5 2 (1.61%) MSI
6 1 (0.81%) Postman
General
1 47 (37.90%) Finance
2 34 (27.42%) Social Skills
3 22 (17.74%) Banking
4 11 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.42%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.61%) Front Office
6 2 (1.61%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 83 (66.94%) Developer
2 47 (37.90%) C# Developer
3 31 (25.00%) Architect
4 23 (18.55%) Solutions Architect
5 22 (17.74%) .NET Developer
6 14 (11.29%) C# .NET Developer
7 12 (9.68%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (9.68%) Senior
8 9 (7.26%) Applications Architect
8 9 (7.26%) Senior Developer
9 8 (6.45%) Applications Developer
10 7 (5.65%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 5 (4.03%) Azure Developer
11 5 (4.03%) BPM Developer
11 5 (4.03%) Full-Stack C# Developer
11 5 (4.03%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 5 (4.03%) Software Engineer
11 5 (4.03%) SQL Developer
12 4 (3.23%) IT Architect
12 4 (3.23%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (100.00%) .NET
2 24 (19.35%) React
3 21 (16.94%) REST
4 20 (16.13%) .NET Core
5 17 (13.71%) ASP.NET
6 15 (12.10%) Entity Framework
7 14 (11.29%) AngularJS
8 13 (10.48%) CSS
8 13 (10.48%) HTML
8 13 (10.48%) WinForms
9 12 (9.68%) WPF
10 10 (8.06%) SOAP
10 10 (8.06%) Web Services
11 9 (7.26%) RESTful
12 7 (5.65%) ASP.NET MVC
13 6 (4.84%) ASP.NET Web API
13 6 (4.84%) Vue
14 5 (4.03%) ASP.NET Core
14 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Graph
15 4 (3.23%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 24 (19.35%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.06%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (7.26%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (5.65%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (4.03%) AI Agents
5 5 (4.03%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.42%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.61%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.81%) IoT
9 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 37 (29.84%) Windows
2 14 (11.29%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.61%) Linux
3 2 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (56.45%) DevOps
2 54 (43.55%) Agile
3 48 (38.71%) AI
4 38 (30.65%) OOP
5 36 (29.03%) CI/CD
5 36 (29.03%) SDLC
6 32 (25.81%) Data Analysis
6 32 (25.81%) Scrum
7 28 (22.58%) Migration
7 28 (22.58%) Unit Testing
8 25 (20.16%) Disaster Recovery
9 24 (19.35%) OO
10 16 (12.90%) Full-Stack Development
11 15 (12.10%) Change Management
11 15 (12.10%) Microservices
11 15 (12.10%) Software Engineering
12 14 (11.29%) Test Automation
13 13 (10.48%) Software Architecture
14 12 (9.68%) Generative AI
15 11 (8.87%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 105 (84.68%) C#
2 62 (50.00%) SQL
3 36 (29.03%) T-SQL
4 35 (28.23%) PL/SQL
5 23 (18.55%) JavaScript
6 20 (16.13%) TypeScript
7 17 (13.71%) Python
8 11 (8.87%) VB
8 11 (8.87%) VBA
9 9 (7.26%) PowerShell
10 5 (4.03%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (2.42%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.61%) Bicep
12 2 (1.61%) C++
12 2 (1.61%) Java
13 1 (0.81%) XPath
Qualifications
1 27 (21.77%) Degree
2 9 (7.26%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.65%) 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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (26.61%) QA
2 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.81%) SLA
2 1 (0.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (8.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.42%) Terraform
3 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 47 (37.90%) Oracle
2 34 (27.42%) Citrix
3 21 (16.94%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.03%) OpenText
5 4 (3.23%) OpenLink
6 2 (1.61%) Databricks
6 2 (1.61%) IBM
6 2 (1.61%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.81%) BMC
7 1 (0.81%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.81%) F5
7 1 (0.81%) Google
7 1 (0.81%) Okta
7 1 (0.81%) Remedy
7 1 (0.81%) SAP
7 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.81%) UiPath