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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 222 214
Rank change year-on-year -72 -8 +31
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 107 136 188
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 1.07% 1.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.53% 4.11% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 112 142
10th Percentile £404 - £363
25th Percentile £414 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -17.53%
75th Percentile £535 £596 £625
90th Percentile £600 £700 £700
England median daily rate £460 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -3.16% - -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 - -
England median hourly rate £58.00 £23.41 £80.00
% change year-on-year +147.76% -70.74% +6.67%

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 4,225 3,310 4,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.30% 26.05% 24.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,850 2,319 3,342
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £653 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £801
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 21
10th Percentile £23.33 £34.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £38.19 £24.18
Median hourly rate £42.50 £54.00 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -21.30% +46.58% -45.01%
75th Percentile £60.94 £65.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.80 £81.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

.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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -19 6 £535 -20.74% 17
South London -16 2 £500 -
West London -28 1 £400 -27.54% 2
.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 19 (17.76%) IIS
2 13 (12.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (8.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (11.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.93%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Findur
2 2 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.93%) Endur
3 1 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.93%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 47 (43.93%) Azure
2 24 (22.43%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (15.89%) GitHub
4 13 (12.15%) Azure Service Bus
5 12 (11.21%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (10.28%) Azure App Service
6 11 (10.28%) Azure Key Vault
6 11 (10.28%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (9.35%) Azure WebJobs
7 10 (9.35%) Entra ID
7 10 (9.35%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (9.35%) PaaS
8 9 (8.41%) AWS
9 5 (4.67%) Power Platform
9 5 (4.67%) Serverless
10 4 (3.74%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (3.74%) Power Automate
11 3 (2.80%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.80%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.21%) Internet
2 1 (0.93%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (59.81%) SQL Server
2 30 (28.04%) Oracle Database
3 11 (10.28%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.87%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (1.87%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.87%) Power BI
6 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.93%) DataStage
6 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (14.02%) Git
2 11 (10.28%) Visual Studio
3 8 (7.48%) JIRA
4 4 (3.74%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.74%) MSTest
5 3 (2.80%) NUnit
5 3 (2.80%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.87%) Jasmine
6 2 (1.87%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (1.87%) Postman
7 1 (0.93%) JMeter
7 1 (0.93%) Moq
7 1 (0.93%) Selenium
7 1 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 50 (46.73%) Finance
2 27 (25.23%) Social Skills
3 21 (19.63%) Banking
4 7 (6.54%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.67%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.87%) Front Office
8 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 85 (79.44%) Developer
2 55 (51.40%) C# Developer
3 28 (26.17%) .NET Developer
4 15 (14.02%) C# .NET Developer
5 14 (13.08%) Architect
5 14 (13.08%) Senior
6 12 (11.21%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (9.35%) Senior Developer
8 8 (7.48%) Applications Developer
8 8 (7.48%) Azure Developer
8 8 (7.48%) C# Application Developer
9 6 (5.61%) Microsoft 365 Developer
9 6 (5.61%) Software Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) Tester
10 5 (4.67%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.67%) Senior .NET Developer
11 4 (3.74%) .NET Software Engineer
11 4 (3.74%) C# Architect
11 4 (3.74%) IT Architect
11 4 (3.74%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (100.00%) .NET
2 21 (19.63%) .NET Core
3 20 (18.69%) WinForms
4 19 (17.76%) WPF
5 18 (16.82%) REST
6 17 (15.89%) React
7 12 (11.21%) ASP.NET
7 12 (11.21%) Web Services
8 11 (10.28%) SOAP
9 10 (9.35%) CSS
9 10 (9.35%) HTML
9 10 (9.35%) Microsoft Graph
10 9 (8.41%) AngularJS
11 8 (7.48%) RESTful
12 6 (5.61%) ASP.NET Web API
12 6 (5.61%) Entity Framework
13 5 (4.67%) ASP.NET MVC
14 4 (3.74%) ASP.NET Core
15 3 (2.80%) OAuth
15 3 (2.80%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.28%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (7.48%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.48%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (6.54%) AI Agents
4 6 (5.61%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (4.67%) Credit Risk
5 5 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.67%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.87%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.93%) BYOD
7 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.93%) Derivative
7 1 (0.93%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.93%) IoT
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.93%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.93%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 42 (39.25%) Windows
2 19 (17.76%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (44.86%) DevOps
2 34 (31.78%) CI/CD
3 32 (29.91%) Data Analysis
4 31 (28.97%) Agile
4 31 (28.97%) AI
5 30 (28.04%) Disaster Recovery
6 26 (24.30%) OOP
7 23 (21.50%) Change Management
8 22 (20.56%) Unit Testing
9 20 (18.69%) Business Intelligence
9 20 (18.69%) SDLC
10 17 (15.89%) OO
11 14 (13.08%) Software Engineering
11 14 (13.08%) Test Automation
12 12 (11.21%) Full-Stack Development
12 12 (11.21%) Observability
13 11 (10.28%) Analytics
13 11 (10.28%) Log Analytics
13 11 (10.28%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (10.28%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 102 (95.33%) C#
2 55 (51.40%) SQL
3 38 (35.51%) PL/SQL
3 38 (35.51%) T-SQL
4 16 (14.95%) Python
5 13 (12.15%) TypeScript
6 12 (11.21%) PowerShell
6 12 (11.21%) VB
6 12 (11.21%) VBA
7 11 (10.28%) JavaScript
8 10 (9.35%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.87%) Java
10 1 (0.93%) Bicep
10 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (20.56%) Degree
2 12 (11.21%) SC Cleared
2 12 (11.21%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.93%) CISSP
4 1 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.93%) MBA
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (37.38%) QA
2 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.93%) EMIR
2 1 (0.93%) MiFID
2 1 (0.93%) SLA
2 1 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (6.54%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.74%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 54 (50.47%) Oracle
2 35 (32.71%) Citrix
3 24 (22.43%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.74%) Databricks
5 3 (2.80%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.80%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.93%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.93%) BMC
6 1 (0.93%) Google
6 1 (0.93%) Remedy
6 1 (0.93%) SAP
6 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow