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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 250 190
Rank change year-on-year -73 -60 +59
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 119 119 220
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 0.89% 1.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.60% 3.41% 4.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 93 157
10th Percentile £404 - £363
25th Percentile £434 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £465 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -11.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
England median daily rate £484 £458 £485
% change year-on-year +5.85% -5.67% -7.62%

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 4,573 3,487 4,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.78% 25.94% 27.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,032 2,426 3,163
10th Percentile £400 £363 £377
25th Percentile £452 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £530 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +3.41% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 27 23
10th Percentile £26.40 £32.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.63 £33.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +40.00% -44.03%
75th Percentile £62.25 £63.13 £49.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.20 £64.31
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% -1.83%

.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 August 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 August 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 -4 14 £625 +31.58% 15
South London -2 5 £713 +45.41% 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 21 (17.65%) IIS
2 9 (7.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (5.88%) SharePoint
4 5 (4.20%) Appian
4 5 (4.20%) Camunda
4 5 (4.20%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (1.68%) CMS
6 1 (0.84%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.84%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 12 (10.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (4.20%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (4.20%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (2.52%) Findur
3 1 (0.84%) Endur
3 1 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.84%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.84%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 58 (48.74%) Azure
2 24 (20.17%) Azure DevOps
2 24 (20.17%) GitHub
3 15 (12.61%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (8.40%) Azure App Service
4 10 (8.40%) Entra ID
5 9 (7.56%) Azure Monitor
6 8 (6.72%) PaaS
7 7 (5.88%) AWS
7 7 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
7 7 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (5.88%) Power Platform
7 7 (5.88%) SaaS
8 6 (5.04%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (4.20%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (3.36%) Azure WebJobs
10 4 (3.36%) IaaS
10 4 (3.36%) Power Automate
10 4 (3.36%) Serverless
11 3 (2.52%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.08%) Internet
2 2 (1.68%) Intranet
2 2 (1.68%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.84%) DHCP
3 1 (0.84%) DNS
3 1 (0.84%) Firewall
3 1 (0.84%) LAN
3 1 (0.84%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.84%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.84%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (55.46%) SQL Server
2 27 (22.69%) Oracle Database
3 16 (13.45%) Relational Database
4 6 (5.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (4.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.36%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.36%) Power BI
7 3 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.68%) ClickHouse
8 2 (1.68%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (1.68%) Db2
8 2 (1.68%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.68%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 11 (9.24%) Git
2 10 (8.40%) Visual Studio
3 5 (4.20%) Bitbucket
3 5 (4.20%) GitLab
3 5 (4.20%) TeamCity
4 4 (3.36%) JetBrains Rider
5 3 (2.52%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.52%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.52%) JIRA
5 3 (2.52%) NUnit
6 2 (1.68%) Fiddler
6 2 (1.68%) git-flow
6 2 (1.68%) Jasmine
6 2 (1.68%) JMeter
6 2 (1.68%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (1.68%) Moq
6 2 (1.68%) MSI
6 2 (1.68%) MSTest
6 2 (1.68%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.68%) SpecFlow
General
1 42 (35.29%) Finance
2 35 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 20 (16.81%) Banking
4 17 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.68%) Front Office
5 2 (1.68%) Investment Banking
5 2 (1.68%) Marketing
5 2 (1.68%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 76 (63.87%) Developer
2 41 (34.45%) C# Developer
3 29 (24.37%) Architect
4 22 (18.49%) .NET Developer
5 21 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
6 14 (11.76%) C# .NET Developer
7 13 (10.92%) Full-Stack Developer
7 13 (10.92%) Senior
8 10 (8.40%) Applications Architect
8 10 (8.40%) Senior Developer
9 8 (6.72%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 6 (5.04%) Applications Developer
10 6 (5.04%) Full-Stack C# Developer
11 5 (4.20%) BPM Developer
11 5 (4.20%) Senior .NET Developer
11 5 (4.20%) Senior C# Developer
11 5 (4.20%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (4.20%) SQL Developer
12 4 (3.36%) React Developer
12 4 (3.36%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (100.00%) .NET
2 27 (22.69%) REST
3 20 (16.81%) .NET Core
3 20 (16.81%) React
4 18 (15.13%) ASP.NET
5 17 (14.29%) AngularJS
6 16 (13.45%) Entity Framework
7 12 (10.08%) SOAP
7 12 (10.08%) Web Services
7 12 (10.08%) WinForms
8 11 (9.24%) RESTful
8 11 (9.24%) WPF
9 8 (6.72%) ASP.NET MVC
9 8 (6.72%) CSS
9 8 (6.72%) HTML
10 7 (5.88%) Kafka
11 6 (5.04%) ASP.NET Core
11 6 (5.04%) ASP.NET Web API
11 6 (5.04%) Vue
12 5 (4.20%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 27 (22.69%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.08%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (8.40%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.36%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.52%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.68%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.68%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.84%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.84%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.84%) IoT
8 1 (0.84%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (31.09%) Windows
2 14 (11.76%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.52%) Linux
4 2 (1.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (57.98%) DevOps
2 55 (46.22%) Agile
3 46 (38.66%) AI
4 40 (33.61%) CI/CD
5 38 (31.93%) OOP
6 37 (31.09%) SDLC
7 34 (28.57%) Scrum
8 29 (24.37%) Data Analysis
8 29 (24.37%) Migration
9 26 (21.85%) Unit Testing
10 24 (20.17%) OO
11 23 (19.33%) Disaster Recovery
12 18 (15.13%) Microservices
13 17 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
13 17 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (11.76%) Event-Driven
15 13 (10.92%) Software Architecture
16 12 (10.08%) Change Management
16 12 (10.08%) Generative AI
16 12 (10.08%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 99 (83.19%) C#
2 59 (49.58%) SQL
3 36 (30.25%) T-SQL
4 33 (27.73%) PL/SQL
5 29 (24.37%) JavaScript
6 16 (13.45%) TypeScript
7 14 (11.76%) Python
8 10 (8.40%) VB
8 10 (8.40%) VBA
9 8 (6.72%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.36%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (2.52%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.68%) Bicep
12 2 (1.68%) C++
12 2 (1.68%) Java
13 1 (0.84%) CodeQL
13 1 (0.84%) XPath
Qualifications
1 25 (21.01%) Degree
2 11 (9.24%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.20%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (24.37%) QA
System Software
1 11 (9.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (8.40%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.36%) Terraform
3 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.84%) Istio
Vendors
1 38 (31.93%) Oracle
2 31 (26.05%) Citrix
3 23 (19.33%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.20%) OpenText
5 3 (2.52%) IBM
5 3 (2.52%) OpenLink
5 3 (2.52%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.68%) Databricks
7 1 (0.84%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.84%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.84%) F5
7 1 (0.84%) Google
7 1 (0.84%) Okta
7 1 (0.84%) SAP
7 1 (0.84%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.84%) UiPath