.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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 204 212
Rank change year-on-year -65 +8 -43
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 103 189 235
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.74% 1.21% 1.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.81% 4.59% 4.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 138 186
10th Percentile £385 £363 £400
25th Percentile £396 £385 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -23.48% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £675
90th Percentile £706 £800 £750
England median daily rate £450 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -18.18% - -7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £17.99 £70.00
% change year-on-year +272.43% -74.30% +13.82%

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 3,667 4,116 5,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.36% 26.27% 25.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,501 2,691 3,988
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £706 £700
90th Percentile £788 £850 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 18 35
10th Percentile £31.61 £32.99 £33.20
25th Percentile £34.87 £38.31 £38.05
Median hourly rate £51.44 £47.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.87% -21.25% +2.13%
75th Percentile £61.88 £60.76 £72.83
90th Percentile £87.50 £73.70 £88.62
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%

.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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 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 -17 6 £513 -24.07% 62
East London +1 1 £415 +38.33% 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 10 (9.71%) IIS
2 6 (5.83%) Confluence
3 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.94%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.97%) Appian
5 1 (0.97%) Camunda
5 1 (0.97%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 25 (24.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (8.74%) Aladdin
2 5 (4.85%) Fidessa
3 4 (3.88%) thinkFolio
4 2 (1.94%) OpenText MBPM
4 2 (1.94%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.97%) Eikon
5 1 (0.97%) Maximo
5 1 (0.97%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 33 (32.04%) Azure
2 21 (20.39%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (14.56%) GitHub
4 9 (8.74%) Azure Service Bus
4 9 (8.74%) Serverless
5 7 (6.80%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (4.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (4.85%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.88%) AWS
7 4 (3.88%) Azure Functions
7 4 (3.88%) PaaS
7 4 (3.88%) Power Automate
7 4 (3.88%) PowerApps
8 3 (2.91%) Azure App Service
8 3 (2.91%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (2.91%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.91%) Azure WebJobs
8 3 (2.91%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.74%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (55.34%) SQL Server
2 27 (26.21%) Oracle Database
3 4 (3.88%) Power BI
4 3 (2.91%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.97%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (16.50%) SpecFlow
2 14 (13.59%) JIRA
3 6 (5.83%) Git
4 3 (2.91%) MSTest
4 3 (2.91%) Postman
4 3 (2.91%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.94%) Selenium
6 1 (0.97%) AppVeyor
6 1 (0.97%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.97%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.97%) JetBrains Rider
6 1 (0.97%) JMeter
6 1 (0.97%) NUnit
6 1 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 52 (50.49%) Finance
2 29 (28.16%) Social Skills
3 18 (17.48%) Banking
4 8 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.85%) Front Office
5 5 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.85%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.88%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.91%) Legal
8 2 (1.94%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.94%) Retail
9 1 (0.97%) Back Office
9 1 (0.97%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 78 (75.73%) Developer
2 46 (44.66%) C# Developer
3 35 (33.98%) .NET Developer
4 30 (29.13%) C# .NET Developer
5 26 (25.24%) Angular Developer
6 25 (24.27%) C# WPF Developer
6 25 (24.27%) WPF Developer
7 15 (14.56%) Senior
8 14 (13.59%) Senior Developer
9 9 (8.74%) Architect
9 9 (8.74%) C# WCF Developer
9 9 (8.74%) WCF Developer
10 8 (7.77%) Senior C# Developer
11 7 (6.80%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 5 (4.85%) Agile .NET Developer
12 5 (4.85%) Agile C# Developer
12 5 (4.85%) Agile Developer
12 5 (4.85%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (4.85%) Senior .NET Developer
12 5 (4.85%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (100.00%) .NET
2 40 (38.83%) Entity Framework
3 33 (32.04%) REST
4 27 (26.21%) AngularJS
4 27 (26.21%) WPF
5 25 (24.27%) NHibernate
6 19 (18.45%) Playwright
6 19 (18.45%) RESTful
7 11 (10.68%) ASP.NET
8 10 (9.71%) React
8 10 (9.71%) WCF
9 9 (8.74%) .NET Core
9 9 (8.74%) SOAP
9 9 (8.74%) WinForms
10 7 (6.80%) NgRx
11 6 (5.83%) CSS
11 6 (5.83%) HTML
12 5 (4.85%) Dapper ORM
12 5 (4.85%) LINQ
12 5 (4.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.71%) Fixed Income
1 10 (9.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (5.83%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.83%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.85%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.88%) Derivative
4 4 (3.88%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.91%) Hedge funds
5 3 (2.91%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.94%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.97%) Life Science
7 1 (0.97%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (29.13%) Windows
2 1 (0.97%) Linux
2 1 (0.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (35.92%) Agile
1 37 (35.92%) Microservices
2 31 (30.10%) DevOps
3 26 (25.24%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (24.27%) CI/CD
5 23 (22.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 19 (18.45%) Unit Testing
7 18 (17.48%) Clean Code
8 17 (16.50%) Scrum
9 16 (15.53%) Risk Management
10 14 (13.59%) ETRM
10 14 (13.59%) Line Management
10 14 (13.59%) Software Engineering
11 13 (12.62%) Data Analysis
12 11 (10.68%) API Development
12 11 (10.68%) Disaster Recovery
13 10 (9.71%) Front End Development
13 10 (9.71%) Test Automation
14 9 (8.74%) API Design
14 9 (8.74%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 96 (93.20%) C#
2 56 (54.37%) SQL
3 28 (27.18%) PL/SQL
4 25 (24.27%) VBA
5 24 (23.30%) VB
6 15 (14.56%) JavaScript
6 15 (14.56%) T-SQL
6 15 (14.56%) VB.NET
7 5 (4.85%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.91%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (2.91%) Python
9 2 (1.94%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.97%) Java
10 1 (0.97%) Korn
Qualifications
1 12 (11.65%) Degree
2 6 (5.83%) SC Cleared
2 6 (5.83%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.97%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.56%) QA
2 5 (4.85%) MiFID
3 3 (2.91%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.94%) GDPR
5 1 (0.97%) EMIR
System Software
1 10 (9.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.97%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.94%) Terraform
2 1 (0.97%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 37 (35.92%) Oracle
2 25 (24.27%) Microsoft
3 11 (10.68%) Citrix
4 4 (3.88%) Murex
4 4 (3.88%) Portware
5 3 (2.91%) Marketo
5 3 (2.91%) OneTrust
5 3 (2.91%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.94%) Okta
6 2 (1.94%) OpenText
6 2 (1.94%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.97%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.97%) CQG
7 1 (0.97%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.97%) Reuters
7 1 (0.97%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.97%) UiPath