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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 266 214 207
Rank change year-on-year -52 -7 -31
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 112 186 235
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.80% 1.17% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.02% 4.48% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 138 186
10th Percentile £385 £363 -
25th Percentile £401 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -23.48% +1.32% -12.69%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £659
90th Percentile £700 £791 £750
England median daily rate £456 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -17.05% - -8.33%
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% +6.40%

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 3,707 4,150 5,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.35% 26.08% 26.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,515 2,724 3,928
10th Percentile £361 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -3.36% -0.83%
75th Percentile £669 £710 £700
90th Percentile £788 £838 £800
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 22 35
10th Percentile £34.19 £35.13 £33.20
25th Percentile £43.77 £38.31 £36.55
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -15.22% -3.36%
75th Percentile £63.56 £62.25 £72.00
90th Percentile £87.63 £70.40 £82.94
England median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.46% +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 23 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 23 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 -10 7 £500 -28.57% 42
South London -4 2 £500 -23.08%
East London +2 1 £415 +38.33%
.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 13 (11.61%) IIS
2 5 (4.46%) Confluence
2 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.57%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.89%) Appian
4 1 (0.89%) Camunda
4 1 (0.89%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 24 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (8.04%) Aladdin
2 5 (4.46%) Fidessa
3 4 (3.57%) thinkFolio
4 2 (1.79%) OpenText MBPM
4 2 (1.79%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.89%) Eikon
5 1 (0.89%) Maximo
5 1 (0.89%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 41 (36.61%) Azure
2 25 (22.32%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (13.39%) GitHub
4 11 (9.82%) Azure Service Bus
5 9 (8.04%) Serverless
6 8 (7.14%) AWS
7 7 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (5.36%) Azure App Service
8 6 (5.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (5.36%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (5.36%) Entra ID
8 6 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (5.36%) PaaS
9 5 (4.46%) Azure WebJobs
9 5 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (4.46%) Power Platform
10 4 (3.57%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.68%) Power Automate
11 3 (2.68%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.93%) Internet
2 1 (0.89%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (58.93%) SQL Server
2 28 (25.00%) Oracle Database
3 4 (3.57%) Power BI
4 3 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.79%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.89%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.89%) DataStage
6 1 (0.89%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (12.50%) SpecFlow
2 12 (10.71%) Git
2 12 (10.71%) JIRA
3 5 (4.46%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.68%) MSTest
4 3 (2.68%) Postman
5 2 (1.79%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.79%) Selenium
6 1 (0.89%) AppVeyor
6 1 (0.89%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.89%) JetBrains Rider
6 1 (0.89%) JMeter
6 1 (0.89%) NUnit
6 1 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 56 (50.00%) Finance
2 31 (27.68%) Social Skills
3 19 (16.96%) Banking
4 9 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.46%) Financial Institution
5 5 (4.46%) Front Office
5 5 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.46%) Investment Banking
5 5 (4.46%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.68%) Legal
7 2 (1.79%) Retail
8 1 (0.89%) Back Office
8 1 (0.89%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 85 (75.89%) Developer
2 50 (44.64%) C# Developer
3 38 (33.93%) .NET Developer
4 29 (25.89%) C# .NET Developer
5 24 (21.43%) C# WPF Developer
5 24 (21.43%) WPF Developer
6 23 (20.54%) Angular Developer
7 15 (13.39%) Senior
8 14 (12.50%) Senior Developer
9 10 (8.93%) Architect
9 10 (8.93%) C# WCF Developer
9 10 (8.93%) WCF Developer
10 7 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 7 (6.25%) Senior .NET Developer
10 7 (6.25%) Senior C# Developer
11 5 (4.46%) Agile .NET Developer
11 5 (4.46%) Agile C# Developer
11 5 (4.46%) Agile Developer
11 5 (4.46%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (4.46%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (100.00%) .NET
2 38 (33.93%) Entity Framework
3 37 (33.04%) REST
4 30 (26.79%) WPF
5 26 (23.21%) AngularJS
6 22 (19.64%) NHibernate
7 20 (17.86%) RESTful
8 16 (14.29%) Playwright
9 15 (13.39%) .NET Core
9 15 (13.39%) WinForms
10 12 (10.71%) React
10 12 (10.71%) SOAP
11 11 (9.82%) ASP.NET
11 11 (9.82%) WCF
12 8 (7.14%) Web Services
13 7 (6.25%) NgRx
14 6 (5.36%) CSS
14 6 (5.36%) HTML
14 6 (5.36%) Vue
15 5 (4.46%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.93%) Fixed Income
1 10 (8.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.46%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.46%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.46%) Market Risk
4 5 (4.46%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.57%) Credit Risk
5 4 (3.57%) Derivative
6 3 (2.68%) Hedge funds
6 3 (2.68%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.89%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.89%) BYOD
8 1 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.89%) Life Science
8 1 (0.89%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 38 (33.93%) Windows
2 4 (3.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (34.82%) DevOps
2 38 (33.93%) Agile
3 34 (30.36%) CI/CD
3 34 (30.36%) Microservices
4 26 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
6 19 (16.96%) Unit Testing
7 17 (15.18%) Data Analysis
8 16 (14.29%) Clean Code
8 16 (14.29%) Risk Management
9 15 (13.39%) Disaster Recovery
9 15 (13.39%) Software Engineering
10 14 (12.50%) Scrum
11 13 (11.61%) MVC
12 12 (10.71%) API Development
12 12 (10.71%) OOP
13 11 (9.82%) ETRM
13 11 (9.82%) Line Management
13 11 (9.82%) SDLC
14 10 (8.93%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 105 (93.75%) C#
2 59 (52.68%) SQL
3 33 (29.46%) PL/SQL
4 24 (21.43%) VBA
5 23 (20.54%) VB
6 22 (19.64%) T-SQL
7 16 (14.29%) JavaScript
8 13 (11.61%) VB.NET
9 7 (6.25%) PowerShell
10 5 (4.46%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (3.57%) Python
12 2 (1.79%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.89%) Bicep
13 1 (0.89%) Java
13 1 (0.89%) Korn
Qualifications
1 13 (11.61%) Degree
2 8 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 8 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.89%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (18.75%) QA
2 5 (4.46%) MiFID
3 3 (2.68%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.89%) EMIR
4 1 (0.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (9.82%) Docker
2 2 (1.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.68%) Terraform
2 2 (1.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 42 (37.50%) Oracle
2 31 (27.68%) Microsoft
3 16 (14.29%) Citrix
4 4 (3.57%) Murex
4 4 (3.57%) Portware
5 3 (2.68%) Marketo
5 3 (2.68%) OneTrust
5 3 (2.68%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.79%) Databricks
6 2 (1.79%) Okta
6 2 (1.79%) OpenText
7 1 (0.89%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.89%) CQG
7 1 (0.89%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.89%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.89%) Reuters
7 1 (0.89%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.89%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.89%) UiPath