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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 219 204
Rank change year-on-year -86 -15 +33
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 102 135 211
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 1.06% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.44% 4.06% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 112 159
10th Percentile £403 - £381
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £521 £588 £625
90th Percentile £604 £688 £700
England median daily rate £460 £463 £495
% change year-on-year -0.54% -6.57% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 - -
England median hourly rate £58.00 £23.41 £70.00
% change year-on-year +147.76% -66.56% +3.10%

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 4,186 3,324 4,438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.79% 26.14% 24.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,832 2,327 3,341
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £713 £694
90th Percentile £775 £834 £800
England median daily rate £525 £537 £540
% change year-on-year -2.23% -0.56% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 26
10th Percentile £26.63 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.69 £25.88
Median hourly rate £44.75 £54.00 £44.85
Median % change year-on-year -17.13% +20.41% -31.42%
75th Percentile £59.04 £65.00 £65.69
90th Percentile £82.50 £76.25 £76.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year +0.78% +33.18% -25.49%

.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 29 March 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 29 March 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 5 £520 -20.00% 16
South London -15 2 £500 -
West London -19 1 £400 -20.00% 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 17 (16.67%) IIS
2 12 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (8.82%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.98%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.94%) Findur
2 1 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.98%) Endur
2 1 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.98%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 43 (42.16%) Azure
2 25 (24.51%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (16.67%) GitHub
4 13 (12.75%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (11.76%) Azure Service Bus
6 11 (10.78%) Azure App Service
6 11 (10.78%) Azure Key Vault
6 11 (10.78%) Azure Monitor
6 11 (10.78%) Entra ID
7 10 (9.80%) AWS
7 10 (9.80%) Azure WebJobs
7 10 (9.80%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (9.80%) PaaS
8 5 (4.90%) Serverless
9 4 (3.92%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.94%) Azure Functions
10 3 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (2.94%) GCP
11 2 (1.96%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.78%) Internet
2 1 (0.98%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (64.71%) SQL Server
2 27 (26.47%) Oracle Database
3 10 (9.80%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.96%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (1.96%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.96%) Power BI
6 1 (0.98%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.98%) DataStage
6 1 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (13.73%) Git
2 11 (10.78%) JIRA
2 11 (10.78%) Visual Studio
3 6 (5.88%) SpecFlow
4 5 (4.90%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.92%) MSTest
6 3 (2.94%) Postman
7 2 (1.96%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.96%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.96%) NUnit
7 2 (1.96%) Selenium
8 1 (0.98%) AppVeyor
8 1 (0.98%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.98%) JMeter
8 1 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 44 (43.14%) Finance
2 26 (25.49%) Social Skills
3 24 (23.53%) Banking
4 7 (6.86%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.90%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.96%) Front Office
6 2 (1.96%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (80.39%) Developer
2 55 (53.92%) C# Developer
3 26 (25.49%) .NET Developer
4 16 (15.69%) C# .NET Developer
5 15 (14.71%) Senior
6 12 (11.76%) Senior Developer
7 11 (10.78%) Architect
8 9 (8.82%) Applications Developer
9 8 (7.84%) Azure Developer
9 8 (7.84%) C# Application Developer
9 8 (7.84%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (5.88%) Microsoft 365 Developer
10 6 (5.88%) Senior .NET Developer
10 6 (5.88%) Senior C# Developer
10 6 (5.88%) Tester
11 4 (3.92%) C# Architect
11 4 (3.92%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 4 (3.92%) IT Architect
11 4 (3.92%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (100.00%) .NET
2 22 (21.57%) .NET Core
3 21 (20.59%) REST
4 20 (19.61%) React
5 19 (18.63%) WinForms
6 18 (17.65%) WPF
7 13 (12.75%) ASP.NET
7 13 (12.75%) Web Services
8 12 (11.76%) AngularJS
8 12 (11.76%) SOAP
9 10 (9.80%) CSS
9 10 (9.80%) HTML
9 10 (9.80%) Microsoft Graph
9 10 (9.80%) RESTful
10 9 (8.82%) Entity Framework
11 7 (6.86%) Playwright
12 6 (5.88%) ASP.NET MVC
12 6 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
13 4 (3.92%) OAuth
13 4 (3.92%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (7.84%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (6.86%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (5.88%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.90%) Credit Risk
5 5 (4.90%) Market Risk
6 4 (3.92%) AI Agents
6 4 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.96%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.98%) Derivative
8 1 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.98%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (0.98%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.98%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.98%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.98%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.98%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.98%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 38 (37.25%) Windows
2 18 (17.65%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (41.18%) DevOps
2 32 (31.37%) CI/CD
3 30 (29.41%) Data Analysis
4 28 (27.45%) Disaster Recovery
5 26 (25.49%) Agile
6 23 (22.55%) Unit Testing
7 22 (21.57%) AI
8 21 (20.59%) Change Management
9 20 (19.61%) OOP
10 19 (18.63%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (14.71%) SDLC
12 15 (14.71%) Test Automation
13 14 (13.73%) Full-Stack Development
13 14 (13.73%) Microservices
13 14 (13.73%) OO
14 12 (11.76%) Analytics
14 12 (11.76%) Observability
15 11 (10.78%) Log Analytics
15 11 (10.78%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 98 (96.08%) C#
2 53 (51.96%) SQL
3 34 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 34 (33.33%) T-SQL
4 16 (15.69%) Python
5 13 (12.75%) TypeScript
6 12 (11.76%) PowerShell
7 11 (10.78%) JavaScript
7 11 (10.78%) VB
7 11 (10.78%) VBA
8 10 (9.80%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (2.94%) Java
10 1 (0.98%) Bicep
10 1 (0.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (17.65%) Degree
2 11 (10.78%) SC Cleared
2 11 (10.78%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.96%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.98%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.98%) CISSP
4 1 (0.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.98%) MBA
4 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (36.27%) QA
2 2 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.98%) EMIR
3 1 (0.98%) MiFID
3 1 (0.98%) SLA
3 1 (0.98%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (6.86%) Docker
2 2 (1.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.92%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.98%) Terraform
Vendors
1 51 (50.00%) Oracle
2 31 (30.39%) Citrix
3 23 (22.55%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.92%) Databricks
5 3 (2.94%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.94%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.98%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.98%) BMC
6 1 (0.98%) Google
6 1 (0.98%) Marketo
6 1 (0.98%) Okta
6 1 (0.98%) OneTrust
6 1 (0.98%) Remedy
6 1 (0.98%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.98%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.98%) UiPath