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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 273 215 214
Rank change year-on-year -58 -1 -39
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 109 185 228
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.77% 1.17% 1.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.95% 4.53% 4.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 136 180
10th Percentile £385 £380 -
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -20.65% +1.32% -14.02%
75th Percentile £602 £678 £650
90th Percentile £700 £794 £750
England median daily rate £466 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -15.23% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £20.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +235.00% -71.43% +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 3,700 4,085 5,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.26% 25.87% 25.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,508 2,673 3,872
10th Percentile £356 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £656 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 21 32
10th Percentile £34.52 £35.00 £32.30
25th Percentile £43.75 £38.25 £36.69
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.55% -11.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £72.41
90th Percentile £87.75 £71.00 £85.65
England median hourly rate £58.75 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -9.62% +23.81% -19.23%

.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 30 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 30 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 -14 7 £500 -28.57% 23
South London -1 2 £500 -23.08%
East London 0 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 (11.93%) IIS
2 5 (4.59%) Confluence
2 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.92%) Appian
4 1 (0.92%) Camunda
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 22 (20.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (8.26%) Aladdin
2 5 (4.59%) Fidessa
3 4 (3.67%) thinkFolio
4 2 (1.83%) OpenText MBPM
4 2 (1.83%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.92%) Eikon
5 1 (0.92%) Maximo
5 1 (0.92%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 39 (35.78%) Azure
2 23 (21.10%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (13.76%) GitHub
4 10 (9.17%) Azure Service Bus
5 8 (7.34%) AWS
6 7 (6.42%) Serverless
7 6 (5.50%) Azure App Service
7 6 (5.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (5.50%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (5.50%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (5.50%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (5.50%) Entra ID
7 6 (5.50%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (5.50%) PaaS
8 5 (4.59%) Azure WebJobs
8 5 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (4.59%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.75%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.75%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.83%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.26%) Internet
2 1 (0.92%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (59.63%) SQL Server
2 27 (24.77%) Oracle Database
3 4 (3.67%) Power BI
4 3 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.83%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.92%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.92%) DataStage
6 1 (0.92%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (12.84%) SpecFlow
2 12 (11.01%) JIRA
3 10 (9.17%) Git
4 5 (4.59%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.75%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.75%) MSTest
5 3 (2.75%) Postman
6 2 (1.83%) Selenium
7 1 (0.92%) AppVeyor
7 1 (0.92%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.92%) JetBrains Rider
7 1 (0.92%) JMeter
7 1 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 55 (50.46%) Finance
2 30 (27.52%) Social Skills
3 21 (19.27%) Banking
4 7 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.50%) Financial Institution
6 5 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.59%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.59%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.67%) Front Office
8 3 (2.75%) Legal
9 2 (1.83%) Retail
10 1 (0.92%) Back Office
10 1 (0.92%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 83 (76.15%) Developer
2 47 (43.12%) C# Developer
3 38 (34.86%) .NET Developer
4 27 (24.77%) C# .NET Developer
5 22 (20.18%) Angular Developer
6 20 (18.35%) C# WPF Developer
6 20 (18.35%) WPF Developer
7 15 (13.76%) Senior
8 14 (12.84%) Senior Developer
9 10 (9.17%) Architect
10 8 (7.34%) C# WCF Developer
10 8 (7.34%) WCF Developer
11 7 (6.42%) Senior .NET Developer
12 6 (5.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 6 (5.50%) Senior C# Developer
13 5 (4.59%) Agile .NET Developer
13 5 (4.59%) Agile C# Developer
13 5 (4.59%) Agile Developer
13 5 (4.59%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 5 (4.59%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (100.00%) .NET
2 36 (33.03%) Entity Framework
3 34 (31.19%) REST
4 28 (25.69%) WPF
5 26 (23.85%) AngularJS
6 21 (19.27%) NHibernate
7 17 (15.60%) RESTful
8 16 (14.68%) Playwright
9 15 (13.76%) .NET Core
9 15 (13.76%) WinForms
10 12 (11.01%) SOAP
11 11 (10.09%) React
12 10 (9.17%) ASP.NET
13 9 (8.26%) WCF
14 7 (6.42%) NgRx
14 7 (6.42%) Web Services
15 6 (5.50%) Vue
16 5 (4.59%) ASP.NET MVC
16 5 (4.59%) Dapper ORM
16 5 (4.59%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.17%) Fixed Income
1 10 (9.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (7.34%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (6.42%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.59%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.59%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.59%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.67%) Credit Risk
5 4 (3.67%) Derivative
5 4 (3.67%) Market Risk
6 3 (2.75%) Hedge funds
6 3 (2.75%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.92%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.92%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.92%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 37 (33.94%) Windows
2 6 (5.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (33.94%) Agile
1 37 (33.94%) DevOps
2 34 (31.19%) CI/CD
3 32 (29.36%) Microservices
4 25 (22.94%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (19.27%) Full-Stack Development
6 19 (17.43%) Unit Testing
7 17 (15.60%) Data Analysis
8 16 (14.68%) Clean Code
9 15 (13.76%) Disaster Recovery
9 15 (13.76%) Risk Management
9 15 (13.76%) Software Engineering
10 13 (11.93%) MVC
10 13 (11.93%) Scrum
11 12 (11.01%) API Development
11 12 (11.01%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (11.01%) OOP
12 11 (10.09%) ETRM
12 11 (10.09%) Line Management
12 11 (10.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 103 (94.50%) C#
2 56 (51.38%) SQL
3 32 (29.36%) PL/SQL
4 21 (19.27%) T-SQL
4 21 (19.27%) VB
4 21 (19.27%) VBA
5 15 (13.76%) JavaScript
6 12 (11.01%) VB.NET
7 7 (6.42%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.59%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (3.67%) Python
10 1 (0.92%) Bicep
10 1 (0.92%) Java
10 1 (0.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (12.84%) Degree
2 8 (7.34%) SC Cleared
2 8 (7.34%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (20.18%) QA
2 5 (4.59%) MiFID
3 3 (2.75%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.92%) EMIR
4 1 (0.92%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (10.09%) Docker
2 2 (1.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.83%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (38.53%) Oracle
2 31 (28.44%) Microsoft
3 17 (15.60%) Citrix
4 4 (3.67%) Murex
4 4 (3.67%) Portware
5 3 (2.75%) Marketo
5 3 (2.75%) OneTrust
5 3 (2.75%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.83%) Databricks
6 2 (1.83%) Okta
6 2 (1.83%) OpenText
7 1 (0.92%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.92%) CQG
7 1 (0.92%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.92%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.92%) Reuters
7 1 (0.92%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.92%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.92%) UiPath