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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 272 190
Rank change year-on-year -51 -82 +45
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 126 97 205
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 0.72% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.35% 2.44% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 67 151
10th Percentile £404 - £363
25th Percentile £433 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £681 £643
90th Percentile £700 £750 £788
England median daily rate £500 £463 £542
% change year-on-year +8.11% -14.66% -1.46%

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 5,364 3,978 4,827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.35% 29.69% 30.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,623 2,714 3,281
10th Percentile £400 £364 £385
25th Percentile £455 £431 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £700
90th Percentile £762 £800 £850
England median daily rate £537 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 32 23
10th Percentile £28.00 £31.77 £23.88
25th Percentile £36.25 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.56% +22.28% -32.54%
75th Percentile £66.06 £61.56 £61.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.20
England median hourly rate £67.00 £54.85 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.15% -15.62% +8.33%

.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 October 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 October 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 15 £600 +14.29% 13
South London - 6 £725 - 3
.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 (16.67%) IIS
2 5 (3.97%) Appian
2 5 (3.97%) Camunda
2 5 (3.97%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (3.17%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.38%) CMS
4 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.38%) nginx
5 1 (0.79%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.79%) SAS
5 1 (0.79%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 12 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (8.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.97%) OpenText MBPM
2 5 (3.97%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.59%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.79%) Findur
4 1 (0.79%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.79%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 64 (50.79%) Azure
2 24 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (18.25%) GitHub
4 14 (11.11%) AWS
5 11 (8.73%) Dynamics 365
6 10 (7.94%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (7.94%) Power Platform
7 7 (5.56%) SaaS
8 6 (4.76%) Azure App Service
8 6 (4.76%) Entra ID
8 6 (4.76%) Power Automate
9 5 (3.97%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (3.97%) PowerApps
10 4 (3.17%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (3.17%) Azure Functions
10 4 (3.17%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (3.17%) IaaS
10 4 (3.17%) PaaS
10 4 (3.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.52%) Internet
2 2 (1.59%) Intranet
2 2 (1.59%) OpenVPN
2 2 (1.59%) VPN
2 2 (1.59%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.79%) DHCP
3 1 (0.79%) DNS
3 1 (0.79%) Firewall
3 1 (0.79%) LAN
3 1 (0.79%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.79%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (52.38%) SQL Server
2 24 (19.05%) Oracle Database
3 17 (13.49%) Relational Database
4 9 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (3.17%) MongoDB
8 4 (3.17%) Power BI
9 3 (2.38%) Db2
9 3 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (2.38%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (1.59%) ClickHouse
10 2 (1.59%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.59%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.79%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.79%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (9.52%) Git
1 12 (9.52%) Visual Studio
2 9 (7.14%) GitLab
3 6 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.76%) TeamCity
4 5 (3.97%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.17%) Artifactory
5 4 (3.17%) JetBrains Rider
5 4 (3.17%) JIRA
6 3 (2.38%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (2.38%) REST Assured
6 3 (2.38%) Selenium
7 2 (1.59%) Fiddler
7 2 (1.59%) git-flow
7 2 (1.59%) JMeter
7 2 (1.59%) Moq
7 2 (1.59%) MSBuild
7 2 (1.59%) MSI
7 2 (1.59%) NUnit
7 2 (1.59%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (29.37%) Finance
1 37 (29.37%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (13.49%) Banking
4 4 (3.17%) Marketing
5 3 (2.38%) Law
6 2 (1.59%) Front Office
6 2 (1.59%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.59%) Police
6 2 (1.59%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 68 (53.97%) Developer
2 34 (26.98%) Architect
2 34 (26.98%) C# Developer
3 20 (15.87%) .NET Developer
4 19 (15.08%) Solutions Architect
5 15 (11.90%) Applications Architect
6 14 (11.11%) Senior
7 12 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (8.73%) C# .NET Developer
9 9 (7.14%) Senior Developer
10 7 (5.56%) Senior .NET Developer
11 6 (4.76%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 5 (3.97%) BPM Developer
12 5 (3.97%) Dynamics 365 Architect
12 5 (3.97%) React Developer
12 5 (3.97%) Senior C# .NET Developer
12 5 (3.97%) Senior C# Developer
12 5 (3.97%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (3.97%) Software Engineer
12 5 (3.97%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (100.00%) .NET
2 32 (25.40%) REST
3 25 (19.84%) Entity Framework
4 23 (18.25%) React
5 22 (17.46%) .NET Core
6 19 (15.08%) ASP.NET
7 17 (13.49%) WPF
8 16 (12.70%) AngularJS
9 12 (9.52%) ASP.NET Web API
9 12 (9.52%) WinForms
10 11 (8.73%) RESTful
11 10 (7.94%) Vue
11 10 (7.94%) Web Services
12 9 (7.14%) SOAP
12 9 (7.14%) Terraform
13 8 (6.35%) ASP.NET MVC
13 8 (6.35%) CSS
13 8 (6.35%) HTML
13 8 (6.35%) Middleware
14 7 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (20.63%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.17%) AI Agents
5 4 (3.17%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (3.17%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.59%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.59%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.59%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.79%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.79%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.79%) IoT
7 1 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.79%) Spread Betting
7 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (30.16%) Windows
2 12 (9.52%) Windows Server
3 7 (5.56%) Linux
4 2 (1.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (58.73%) DevOps
2 60 (47.62%) Agile
3 49 (38.89%) AI
4 47 (37.30%) CI/CD
5 40 (31.75%) SDLC
6 36 (28.57%) Scrum
7 35 (27.78%) Migration
7 35 (27.78%) OOP
8 26 (20.63%) OO
9 25 (19.84%) Data Analysis
10 21 (16.67%) Microservices
10 21 (16.67%) Software Engineering
11 20 (15.87%) Disaster Recovery
11 20 (15.87%) Unit Testing
12 18 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (12.70%) Deployment Automation
13 16 (12.70%) Full-Stack Development
14 15 (11.90%) Event-Driven
15 13 (10.32%) API Design
15 13 (10.32%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 98 (77.78%) C#
2 57 (45.24%) SQL
3 40 (31.75%) JavaScript
4 30 (23.81%) T-SQL
5 27 (21.43%) PL/SQL
6 21 (16.67%) TypeScript
7 18 (14.29%) Python
8 10 (7.94%) VB
8 10 (7.94%) VBA
9 5 (3.97%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.38%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.59%) Bicep
11 2 (1.59%) C++
11 2 (1.59%) CodeQL
11 2 (1.59%) Groovy
11 2 (1.59%) Java
12 1 (0.79%) Bash
12 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.79%) XPath
Qualifications
1 26 (20.63%) Degree
2 16 (12.70%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.59%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.59%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.79%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (12.70%) Docker
2 2 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.17%) Kibana
3 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.79%) Istio
Vendors
1 32 (25.40%) Oracle
2 26 (20.63%) Citrix
2 26 (20.63%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.97%) OpenText
4 4 (3.17%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.38%) IBM
5 3 (2.38%) Sitecore
5 3 (2.38%) UiPath
5 3 (2.38%) WSO2
6 2 (1.59%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.59%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.59%) Snow
6 2 (1.59%) Temenos
7 1 (0.79%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.79%) Foundry
7 1 (0.79%) JDA
7 1 (0.79%) Okta
7 1 (0.79%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.79%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.79%) SAP