.NET Framework Contracts in London

Microsoft .NET Framework
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring .NET Framework skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET Framework over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 222 208 254
Rank change year-on-year -14 +46 -52
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 131 191 266
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.04% 1.07% 0.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.00% 4.28% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 143 224
10th Percentile - £363 -
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £619
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -19.19% +3.13%
75th Percentile £596 £600 £750
90th Percentile £711 £700 £825
England median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £53.92
25th Percentile - - £55.35
Median hourly rate - - £58.99
75th Percentile - - £63.87
90th Percentile - - £66.05
England median hourly rate £23.41 £80.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -70.74% +6.67% +53.06%

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 3,271 4,464 7,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 25.04% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 3,349 5,511
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £730
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £36.06 £23.90 £37.84
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £68.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing .NET Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Framework in London

.NET Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Framework in London.

Daily rate trend for .NET Framework in London

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Framework in London

.NET Framework
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Framework in London.

Hourly rate trend for .NET Framework in London

.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 1 May 2025. 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 -11 11 £650 +15.56% 9
West London +15 5 £554 -7.67%
East London +12 4 £438 -15.66%
South London - 3 £500 - 1
.NET Framework
England

.NET Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (11.45%) IIS
2 2 (1.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.76%) Confluence
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.76%) MQSeries
Applications
1 29 (22.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (10.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.53%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 42 (32.06%) Azure
2 22 (16.79%) AWS
3 17 (12.98%) Dynamics 365
4 15 (11.45%) Power Platform
5 14 (10.69%) Azure Functions
5 14 (10.69%) Serverless
6 13 (9.92%) PowerApps
7 12 (9.16%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (9.16%) Azure Logic Apps
7 12 (9.16%) Azure Service Bus
7 12 (9.16%) Power Automate
8 8 (6.11%) GCP
9 6 (4.58%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (4.58%) Entra ID
10 4 (3.05%) Azure Event Grid
11 2 (1.53%) Boomi
11 2 (1.53%) GitHub
11 2 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (0.76%) IaaS
12 1 (0.76%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.40%) Internet
2 3 (2.29%) HTTP
3 2 (1.53%) DHCP
3 2 (1.53%) DNS
3 2 (1.53%) Firewall
3 2 (1.53%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.53%) SSL
3 2 (1.53%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.76%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (43.51%) SQL Server
2 35 (26.72%) Oracle Database
3 16 (12.21%) Relational Database
4 14 (10.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 13 (9.92%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (9.92%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (4.58%) MongoDB
6 6 (4.58%) MySQL
6 6 (4.58%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.05%) Redis
8 3 (2.29%) Power BI
8 3 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.53%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.76%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 14 (10.69%) Git
2 6 (4.58%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.58%) NUnit
3 5 (3.82%) JIRA
4 4 (3.05%) GitLab
5 2 (1.53%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.53%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.76%) JUnit
6 1 (0.76%) Moq
6 1 (0.76%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.76%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.76%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.76%) TestNG
6 1 (0.76%) Toad
General
1 42 (32.06%) Finance
2 28 (21.37%) Social Skills
3 21 (16.03%) Banking
4 8 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.34%) Front Office
6 6 (4.58%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.82%) Billing
8 4 (3.05%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.53%) Legal
10 1 (0.76%) Back Office
10 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.76%) German Language
10 1 (0.76%) Marketing
10 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 101 (77.10%) Developer
2 67 (51.15%) .NET Developer
3 58 (44.27%) C# Developer
4 41 (31.30%) C# .NET Developer
5 30 (22.90%) C# WPF Developer
5 30 (22.90%) WPF Developer
6 17 (12.98%) Senior
7 12 (9.16%) Senior Developer
8 11 (8.40%) Architect
8 11 (8.40%) C# WCF Developer
8 11 (8.40%) WCF Developer
9 9 (6.87%) Cloud Developer
9 9 (6.87%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (6.87%) Lead
9 9 (6.87%) Senior C# Developer
10 8 (6.11%) Senior .NET Developer
11 7 (5.34%) CRM Architect
11 7 (5.34%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 7 (5.34%) Lead Developer
11 7 (5.34%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (100.00%) .NET
2 40 (30.53%) Entity Framework
3 33 (25.19%) WPF
4 32 (24.43%) WCF
5 26 (19.85%) .NET Core
5 26 (19.85%) HTML
6 23 (17.56%) CSS
7 22 (16.79%) ASP.NET
7 22 (16.79%) ASP.NET Web API
8 16 (12.21%) JSON
9 15 (11.45%) AngularJS
10 14 (10.69%) RESTful
10 14 (10.69%) WinForms
10 14 (10.69%) XML
11 13 (9.92%) React
12 12 (9.16%) ASP.NET MVC
13 10 (7.63%) HTML5 Canvas
14 9 (6.87%) REST
14 9 (6.87%) Web Services
15 8 (6.11%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.87%) Fixed Income
2 6 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.82%) N-Tier
4 4 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (3.05%) Market Risk
5 3 (2.29%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.53%) PKI
6 2 (1.53%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.76%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 40 (30.53%) Windows
2 3 (2.29%) Linux
2 3 (2.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (24.43%) Agile
2 23 (17.56%) CI/CD
2 23 (17.56%) MVC
2 23 (17.56%) TDD
3 20 (15.27%) CRM
3 20 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (14.50%) DevOps
4 19 (14.50%) Web Development
5 17 (12.98%) Design Patterns
5 17 (12.98%) Test Automation
6 16 (12.21%) Data Analysis
6 16 (12.21%) Full-Stack Development
6 16 (12.21%) OOP
6 16 (12.21%) Unit Testing
7 14 (10.69%) Disaster Recovery
7 14 (10.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (9.16%) Containerisation
8 12 (9.16%) OO
9 10 (7.63%) Scrum
10 9 (6.87%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 115 (87.79%) C#
2 80 (61.07%) SQL
3 45 (34.35%) PL/SQL
4 33 (25.19%) JavaScript
5 32 (24.43%) VB
6 30 (22.90%) VBA
7 20 (15.27%) T-SQL
8 17 (12.98%) VB.NET
9 13 (9.92%) TypeScript
10 11 (8.40%) RPG
10 11 (8.40%) RPG IV
11 6 (4.58%) F#
12 4 (3.05%) Python
13 2 (1.53%) C++
13 2 (1.53%) Java
13 2 (1.53%) VB6
14 1 (0.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (7.63%) Degree
2 7 (5.34%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (4.58%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.82%) MCPD
4 5 (3.82%) MCSD
5 3 (2.29%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.53%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.76%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.21%) QA
2 2 (1.53%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.53%) Government Security Classifications
2 2 (1.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.76%) HL7
3 1 (0.76%) SEPA
System Software
1 24 (18.32%) Docker
2 4 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (13.74%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.58%) Terraform
3 1 (0.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 40 (30.53%) Microsoft
2 37 (28.24%) Oracle
3 11 (8.40%) Citrix
4 5 (3.82%) TIBCO
5 4 (3.05%) Solace
6 3 (2.29%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.53%) Cisco
7 2 (1.53%) IBM
7 2 (1.53%) Murex
7 2 (1.53%) SAP
7 2 (1.53%) VMware
8 1 (0.76%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.76%) Databricks
8 1 (0.76%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.76%) Google
8 1 (0.76%) Pardot
8 1 (0.76%) Splunk
8 1 (0.76%) Workday