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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 224 195
Rank change year-on-year -94 -29 +50
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 128 143 224
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.65% 1.05% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.85% 4.05% 4.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 115 159
10th Percentile £404 £385 £363
25th Percentile £416 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £637
90th Percentile £690 £730 £750
England median daily rate £475 £475 £478
% change year-on-year - -0.68% -8.90%

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 4,494 3,532 4,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.70% 26.04% 26.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,977 2,453 3,386
10th Percentile £393 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £431 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £725
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £524 £550
% change year-on-year +0.19% -4.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 24 26
10th Percentile £24.30 £31.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.25 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £48.22 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% +20.55% -40.74%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.81 £58.76
90th Percentile £92.50 £81.88 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £58.00
% change year-on-year +6.12% +5.60% -8.66%

.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 17 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 17 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 -5 12 £645 +35.79% 3
South London -12 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 (16.41%) IIS
2 10 (7.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (6.25%) SharePoint
4 5 (3.91%) Appian
4 5 (3.91%) Camunda
4 5 (3.91%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.78%) CMS
Applications
1 13 (10.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.91%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (3.91%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (3.13%) Findur
3 3 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.78%) Endur
4 1 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.78%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.78%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 59 (46.09%) Azure
2 27 (21.09%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (17.97%) GitHub
4 15 (11.72%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (8.59%) Azure App Service
5 11 (8.59%) Entra ID
6 10 (7.81%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (7.03%) PaaS
8 8 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (5.47%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (5.47%) SaaS
10 6 (4.69%) AWS
11 5 (3.91%) Azure WebJobs
11 5 (3.91%) Power Platform
12 4 (3.13%) Azure AKS
12 4 (3.13%) IaaS
12 4 (3.13%) Power Automate
13 3 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (2.34%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.16%) Internet
2 2 (1.56%) Intranet
2 2 (1.56%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.78%) DHCP
3 1 (0.78%) DNS
3 1 (0.78%) Firewall
3 1 (0.78%) LAN
3 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.78%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (55.47%) SQL Server
2 34 (26.56%) Oracle Database
3 20 (15.63%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.34%) Crystal Reports
6 3 (2.34%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.34%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (2.34%) Power BI
6 3 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.56%) ClickHouse
7 2 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.56%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.78%) Db2
Development Applications
1 11 (8.59%) Visual Studio
2 8 (6.25%) Git
2 8 (6.25%) JIRA
3 4 (3.13%) GitLab
3 4 (3.13%) JetBrains Rider
4 3 (2.34%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.34%) MSTest
4 3 (2.34%) NUnit
4 3 (2.34%) SpecFlow
4 3 (2.34%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.56%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.56%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.56%) Fiddler
5 2 (1.56%) git-flow
5 2 (1.56%) Jasmine
5 2 (1.56%) JMeter
5 2 (1.56%) Karma Test Runner
5 2 (1.56%) Moq
5 2 (1.56%) MSI
6 1 (0.78%) Postman
General
1 48 (37.50%) Finance
2 35 (27.34%) Social Skills
3 24 (18.75%) Banking
4 11 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.34%) Front Office
5 3 (2.34%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.34%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 88 (68.75%) Developer
2 52 (40.63%) C# Developer
3 30 (23.44%) Architect
4 23 (17.97%) .NET Developer
4 23 (17.97%) Solutions Architect
5 15 (11.72%) C# .NET Developer
6 13 (10.16%) Full-Stack Developer
6 13 (10.16%) Senior
7 10 (7.81%) Senior Developer
8 9 (7.03%) Applications Developer
9 8 (6.25%) Applications Architect
10 7 (5.47%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 6 (4.69%) Full-Stack C# Developer
12 5 (3.91%) Azure Developer
12 5 (3.91%) BPM Developer
12 5 (3.91%) C# Application Developer
12 5 (3.91%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 5 (3.91%) Senior C# Developer
12 5 (3.91%) Software Engineer
12 5 (3.91%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (100.00%) .NET
2 27 (21.09%) React
3 22 (17.19%) .NET Core
3 22 (17.19%) REST
4 18 (14.06%) ASP.NET
5 15 (11.72%) Entity Framework
6 14 (10.94%) AngularJS
6 14 (10.94%) WinForms
7 13 (10.16%) CSS
7 13 (10.16%) HTML
7 13 (10.16%) WPF
8 10 (7.81%) SOAP
8 10 (7.81%) Web Services
9 9 (7.03%) RESTful
10 8 (6.25%) ASP.NET MVC
11 7 (5.47%) ASP.NET Web API
12 6 (4.69%) Vue
13 5 (3.91%) ASP.NET Core
13 5 (3.91%) Microsoft Graph
13 5 (3.91%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.81%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (7.03%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (7.03%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (5.47%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (4.69%) AI Agents
6 4 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.34%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.56%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.78%) Derivative
9 1 (0.78%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (0.78%) IoT
9 1 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.78%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 39 (30.47%) Windows
2 16 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.34%) Unix
4 2 (1.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (55.47%) DevOps
2 54 (42.19%) Agile
3 49 (38.28%) AI
4 37 (28.91%) CI/CD
4 37 (28.91%) OOP
4 37 (28.91%) SDLC
5 33 (25.78%) Data Analysis
6 32 (25.00%) Scrum
7 29 (22.66%) Unit Testing
8 27 (21.09%) Migration
9 26 (20.31%) Disaster Recovery
10 23 (17.97%) OO
11 18 (14.06%) Change Management
12 17 (13.28%) Full-Stack Development
13 16 (12.50%) Microservices
13 16 (12.50%) Software Engineering
14 14 (10.94%) Test Automation
15 13 (10.16%) Generative AI
15 13 (10.16%) Problem-Solving
15 13 (10.16%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 110 (85.94%) C#
2 64 (50.00%) SQL
3 37 (28.91%) T-SQL
4 36 (28.13%) PL/SQL
5 23 (17.97%) JavaScript
6 22 (17.19%) TypeScript
7 20 (15.63%) Python
8 11 (8.59%) VB
8 11 (8.59%) VBA
9 9 (7.03%) PowerShell
10 5 (3.91%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (2.34%) Java
11 3 (2.34%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.56%) Bicep
12 2 (1.56%) C++
13 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.78%) XPath
Qualifications
1 28 (21.88%) Degree
2 9 (7.03%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.47%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.78%) CISSP
4 1 (0.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.78%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (27.34%) QA
2 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.78%) SLA
2 1 (0.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (9.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (7.03%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.34%) Terraform
3 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 51 (39.84%) Oracle
2 35 (27.34%) Citrix
3 21 (16.41%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.91%) OpenText
5 4 (3.13%) OpenLink
6 2 (1.56%) Databricks
6 2 (1.56%) IBM
6 2 (1.56%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.78%) BMC
7 1 (0.78%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.78%) F5
7 1 (0.78%) Google
7 1 (0.78%) Okta
7 1 (0.78%) Remedy
7 1 (0.78%) SAP
7 1 (0.78%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.78%) UiPath