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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 219 197
Rank change year-on-year -74 -22 +10
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 103 138 217
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.66% 1.02% 1.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.55% 3.88% 4.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 110 170
10th Percentile £400 - £385
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £475 £563
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% -15.56% -13.46%
75th Percentile £572 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
England median daily rate £475 £495 £538
% change year-on-year -4.04% -7.91% -10.42%
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 4,036 3,557 4,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.77% 26.33% 24.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,723 2,378 3,431
10th Percentile £363 £382 £385
25th Percentile £425 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £654 £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 24 20 31
10th Percentile £29.40 £36.58 £28.51
25th Percentile £35.19 £39.06 £35.94
Median hourly rate £50.50 £54.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% +8.00% -23.54%
75th Percentile £63.19 £65.00 £68.50
90th Percentile £87.50 £81.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £52.20
% change year-on-year +4.00% +19.74% -19.70%

.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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -22 3 £500 -23.08% 13
South London -12 2 £500 -18.37%
West London - 1 £400 -
.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 16 (15.53%) IIS
2 6 (5.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (4.85%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (14.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.97%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.97%) Findur
1 1 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.97%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 35 (33.98%) Azure
2 21 (20.39%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (14.56%) GitHub
4 10 (9.71%) AWS
5 8 (7.77%) Azure Service Bus
5 8 (7.77%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (6.80%) Azure App Service
6 7 (6.80%) Azure Key Vault
6 7 (6.80%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (6.80%) Entra ID
7 6 (5.83%) Azure WebJobs
7 6 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (5.83%) PaaS
8 4 (3.88%) GCP
8 4 (3.88%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.91%) Azure AKS
9 3 (2.91%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.94%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.68%) Internet
2 1 (0.97%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (65.05%) SQL Server
2 25 (24.27%) Oracle Database
3 9 (8.74%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.94%) Power BI
5 1 (0.97%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.97%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.97%) DataStage
5 1 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (12.62%) JIRA
2 11 (10.68%) Git
2 11 (10.68%) SpecFlow
2 11 (10.68%) Visual Studio
3 4 (3.88%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.91%) MSTest
4 3 (2.91%) Postman
5 2 (1.94%) Selenium
6 1 (0.97%) AppVeyor
6 1 (0.97%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.97%) JMeter
6 1 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 46 (44.66%) Finance
2 24 (23.30%) Social Skills
3 19 (18.45%) Banking
4 6 (5.83%) Financial Institution
5 5 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.85%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.94%) Front Office
6 2 (1.94%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (79.61%) Developer
2 58 (56.31%) C# Developer
3 32 (31.07%) .NET Developer
4 22 (21.36%) C# .NET Developer
5 15 (14.56%) Senior
6 14 (13.59%) Angular Developer
7 12 (11.65%) Senior Developer
8 10 (9.71%) Architect
9 8 (7.77%) C# WPF Developer
9 8 (7.77%) Senior .NET Developer
9 8 (7.77%) Senior C# Developer
9 8 (7.77%) WPF Developer
10 7 (6.80%) Applications Developer
11 6 (5.83%) C# Application Developer
11 6 (5.83%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (5.83%) Tester
12 5 (4.85%) Agile .NET Developer
12 5 (4.85%) Agile C# Developer
12 5 (4.85%) Senior C# .NET Developer
12 5 (4.85%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (100.00%) .NET
2 21 (20.39%) .NET Core
2 21 (20.39%) WPF
3 19 (18.45%) REST
3 19 (18.45%) WinForms
4 18 (17.48%) Entity Framework
4 18 (17.48%) React
5 14 (13.59%) Playwright
6 13 (12.62%) ASP.NET
6 13 (12.62%) NHibernate
6 13 (12.62%) RESTful
7 12 (11.65%) AngularJS
8 9 (8.74%) Web Services
9 8 (7.77%) ASP.NET MVC
9 8 (7.77%) SOAP
10 7 (6.80%) CSS
10 7 (6.80%) HTML
11 6 (5.83%) ASP.NET Web API
11 6 (5.83%) Microsoft Graph
12 5 (4.85%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.62%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (7.77%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (7.77%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (4.85%) Credit Risk
3 5 (4.85%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.85%) Market Risk
4 4 (3.88%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.91%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.94%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.97%) Derivative
7 1 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.97%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.97%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.97%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.97%) Robotics
7 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 39 (37.86%) Windows
2 15 (14.56%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.97%) Linux
3 1 (0.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (33.01%) DevOps
2 30 (29.13%) CI/CD
3 27 (26.21%) Agile
4 25 (24.27%) Data Analysis
5 24 (23.30%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (22.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 22 (21.36%) Unit Testing
8 20 (19.42%) Microservices
9 19 (18.45%) Change Management
10 18 (17.48%) AI
11 17 (16.50%) Business Intelligence
12 16 (15.53%) Full-Stack Development
13 15 (14.56%) Test Automation
14 13 (12.62%) OOP
15 12 (11.65%) Clean Code
15 12 (11.65%) MVC
15 12 (11.65%) Risk Management
15 12 (11.65%) SDLC
15 12 (11.65%) Software Engineering
16 11 (10.68%) OO
Programming Languages
1 99 (96.12%) C#
2 50 (48.54%) SQL
3 32 (31.07%) PL/SQL
4 29 (28.16%) T-SQL
5 14 (13.59%) VB
5 14 (13.59%) VBA
6 13 (12.62%) Python
7 11 (10.68%) TypeScript
8 10 (9.71%) JavaScript
9 8 (7.77%) PowerShell
10 6 (5.83%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (2.91%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.94%) Java
13 1 (0.97%) Bicep
13 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (18.45%) Degree
2 9 (8.74%) SC Cleared
2 9 (8.74%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.94%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.97%) CISSP
4 1 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.97%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.97%) MBA
4 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (31.07%) QA
2 4 (3.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.97%) EMIR
3 1 (0.97%) MiFID
3 1 (0.97%) SLA
3 1 (0.97%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (6.80%) Docker
2 2 (1.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.91%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 45 (43.69%) Oracle
2 27 (26.21%) Citrix
3 21 (20.39%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.91%) Marketo
4 3 (2.91%) OneTrust
4 3 (2.91%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.91%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.94%) Databricks
5 2 (1.94%) Okta
6 1 (0.97%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.97%) BMC
6 1 (0.97%) Google
6 1 (0.97%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.97%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.97%) Remedy
6 1 (0.97%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.97%) UiPath