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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 212 199
Rank change year-on-year -83 -13 +22
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 102 145 210
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.63% 1.08% 1.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.48% 4.11% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 118 166
10th Percentile £400 - £385
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% -13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £638
90th Percentile £668 £691 £700
England median daily rate £460 £480 £525
% change year-on-year -4.17% -8.57% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 - -
England median hourly rate £58.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -12.50%

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 4,119 3,524 4,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.33% 26.28% 24.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,799 2,385 3,387
10th Percentile £363 £383 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 33
10th Percentile £27.00 £34.48 £16.37
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.31 £28.51
Median hourly rate £47.00 £44.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +5.29% -35.01%
75th Percentile £63.00 £64.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.83 £74.73
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%

.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 7 March 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 7 March 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 -20 4 £525 -22.22% 16
South London -16 2 £500 -
West London - 1 £400 - 1
.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 17 (16.67%) IIS
2 12 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (8.82%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (13.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.98%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.98%) Findur
1 1 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.98%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 36 (35.29%) Azure
2 23 (22.55%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (15.69%) GitHub
4 12 (11.76%) Azure Service Bus
4 12 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (10.78%) Azure App Service
5 11 (10.78%) Azure Key Vault
5 11 (10.78%) Azure Monitor
5 11 (10.78%) Entra ID
6 10 (9.80%) Azure WebJobs
6 10 (9.80%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (9.80%) PaaS
7 9 (8.82%) AWS
8 4 (3.92%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.94%) GCP
9 3 (2.94%) Serverless
10 2 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.96%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.78%) Internet
2 1 (0.98%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (65.69%) SQL Server
2 28 (27.45%) Oracle Database
3 9 (8.82%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.96%) Power BI
5 1 (0.98%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.98%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.98%) DataStage
5 1 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (10.78%) Git
1 11 (10.78%) Visual Studio
2 10 (9.80%) JIRA
3 8 (7.84%) SpecFlow
4 4 (3.92%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.94%) MSTest
5 3 (2.94%) Postman
6 2 (1.96%) Selenium
7 1 (0.98%) AppVeyor
7 1 (0.98%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.98%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.98%) JMeter
7 1 (0.98%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.98%) NUnit
7 1 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 44 (43.14%) Finance
2 23 (22.55%) Social Skills
3 21 (20.59%) Banking
4 6 (5.88%) Financial Institution
4 6 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.96%) Front Office
6 2 (1.96%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (82.35%) Developer
2 59 (57.84%) C# Developer
3 30 (29.41%) .NET Developer
4 21 (20.59%) C# .NET Developer
5 13 (12.75%) Senior
6 10 (9.80%) Senior Developer
7 8 (7.84%) Angular Developer
7 8 (7.84%) Applications Developer
7 8 (7.84%) Architect
7 8 (7.84%) Azure Developer
8 7 (6.86%) C# Application Developer
9 6 (5.88%) C# WPF Developer
9 6 (5.88%) Microsoft 365 Developer
9 6 (5.88%) Senior .NET Developer
9 6 (5.88%) Senior C# Developer
9 6 (5.88%) Tester
9 6 (5.88%) WPF Developer
10 5 (4.90%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (3.92%) C# Architect
11 4 (3.92%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (100.00%) .NET
2 21 (20.59%) .NET Core
3 20 (19.61%) REST
3 20 (19.61%) WPF
4 19 (18.63%) WinForms
5 16 (15.69%) React
6 13 (12.75%) Web Services
7 12 (11.76%) SOAP
8 11 (10.78%) ASP.NET
8 11 (10.78%) Entity Framework
9 10 (9.80%) Microsoft Graph
9 10 (9.80%) Playwright
10 9 (8.82%) RESTful
11 8 (7.84%) AngularJS
11 8 (7.84%) CSS
11 8 (7.84%) HTML
12 7 (6.86%) NHibernate
13 6 (5.88%) ASP.NET MVC
13 6 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
14 4 (3.92%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.75%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (7.84%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (6.86%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (4.90%) Credit Risk
4 5 (4.90%) Market Risk
5 4 (3.92%) AI Agents
5 4 (3.92%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.94%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.96%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.98%) BYOD
8 1 (0.98%) Derivative
8 1 (0.98%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.98%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.98%) Life Science
8 1 (0.98%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.98%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.98%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 41 (40.20%) Windows
2 18 (17.65%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (36.27%) DevOps
2 30 (29.41%) Data Analysis
3 29 (28.43%) CI/CD
4 28 (27.45%) Disaster Recovery
5 25 (24.51%) Unit Testing
6 24 (23.53%) Agile
7 21 (20.59%) Change Management
8 20 (19.61%) AI
9 19 (18.63%) Business Intelligence
10 18 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (16.67%) OOP
12 15 (14.71%) Microservices
12 15 (14.71%) Test Automation
13 14 (13.73%) OO
14 12 (11.76%) Analytics
14 12 (11.76%) Observability
14 12 (11.76%) SDLC
14 12 (11.76%) Software Engineering
15 11 (10.78%) Full-Stack Development
15 11 (10.78%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 99 (97.06%) C#
2 52 (50.98%) SQL
3 36 (35.29%) PL/SQL
4 34 (33.33%) T-SQL
5 13 (12.75%) Python
5 13 (12.75%) VB
5 13 (12.75%) VBA
6 12 (11.76%) PowerShell
7 11 (10.78%) TypeScript
8 10 (9.80%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (8.82%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.96%) Java
10 2 (1.96%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.98%) Bicep
11 1 (0.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (15.69%) Degree
2 10 (9.80%) SC Cleared
2 10 (9.80%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.96%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.98%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.98%) CISSP
4 1 (0.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.98%) MBA
4 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (36.27%) QA
2 2 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.98%) EMIR
3 1 (0.98%) MiFID
3 1 (0.98%) SLA
3 1 (0.98%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (4.90%) Docker
2 2 (1.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.96%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.98%) Terraform
Vendors
1 50 (49.02%) Oracle
2 31 (30.39%) Citrix
3 23 (22.55%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.94%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.96%) Databricks
5 2 (1.96%) Okta
6 1 (0.98%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.98%) BMC
6 1 (0.98%) Google
6 1 (0.98%) Marketo
6 1 (0.98%) OneTrust
6 1 (0.98%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.98%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.98%) Remedy
6 1 (0.98%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.98%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.98%) UiPath