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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 219 204
Rank change year-on-year -69 -15 -22
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 89 155 190
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 1.09% 1.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.36% 4.24% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 113 148
10th Percentile £385 £377 £385
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -24.55% -4.35% -14.81%
75th Percentile £551 £631 £671
90th Percentile £700 £738 £743
England median daily rate £443 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -15.71% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +7.04%

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 3,768 3,657 4,512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.29% 25.65% 25.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,547 2,391 3,402
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -2.13% -2.16%
75th Percentile £674 £700 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 19 30
10th Percentile £35.00 £34.65 £29.60
25th Percentile £42.19 £38.38 £35.79
Median hourly rate £54.50 £52.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +7.69% -18.07%
75th Percentile £63.19 £63.75 £69.25
90th Percentile £71.40 £72.80 £75.29
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -4.00% +20.45% -20.17%

.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 January 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 8 January 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 -23 3 £500 -23.08% 10
South London -4 2 £500 -18.37%
.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 14 (15.73%) IIS
2 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (4.49%) Confluence
3 4 (4.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (20.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Aladdin
2 2 (2.25%) Fidessa
2 2 (2.25%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 29 (32.58%) Azure
2 17 (19.10%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (16.85%) GitHub
4 9 (10.11%) AWS
5 8 (8.99%) Azure Service Bus
6 7 (7.87%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (6.74%) Azure App Service
7 6 (6.74%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (6.74%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (6.74%) Entra ID
8 5 (5.62%) Azure WebJobs
8 5 (5.62%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (5.62%) PaaS
9 4 (4.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (4.49%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (4.49%) Serverless
10 3 (3.37%) Power Platform
11 2 (2.25%) Azure AKS
11 2 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (2.25%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.11%) Internet
2 1 (1.12%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (61.80%) SQL Server
2 22 (24.72%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.25%) Power BI
3 2 (2.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.12%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.12%) DataStage
4 1 (1.12%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (13.48%) SpecFlow
2 9 (10.11%) JIRA
3 8 (8.99%) Git
3 8 (8.99%) Visual Studio
4 4 (4.49%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.37%) MSTest
5 3 (3.37%) Postman
6 2 (2.25%) Selenium
7 1 (1.12%) AppVeyor
7 1 (1.12%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.12%) JMeter
7 1 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.12%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 45 (50.56%) Finance
2 23 (25.84%) Social Skills
3 17 (19.10%) Banking
4 6 (6.74%) Financial Institution
5 5 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.62%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.37%) Front Office
6 3 (3.37%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 70 (78.65%) Developer
2 46 (51.69%) C# Developer
3 31 (34.83%) .NET Developer
4 22 (24.72%) C# .NET Developer
5 17 (19.10%) Angular Developer
6 15 (16.85%) C# WPF Developer
6 15 (16.85%) WPF Developer
7 13 (14.61%) Senior
8 12 (13.48%) Senior Developer
9 7 (7.87%) Architect
9 7 (7.87%) C# WCF Developer
9 7 (7.87%) Senior .NET Developer
9 7 (7.87%) WCF Developer
10 6 (6.74%) Senior C# Developer
11 5 (5.62%) Agile .NET Developer
11 5 (5.62%) Agile C# Developer
11 5 (5.62%) Agile Developer
11 5 (5.62%) Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (4.49%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 4 (4.49%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (100.00%) .NET
2 24 (26.97%) WPF
3 23 (25.84%) Entity Framework
4 22 (24.72%) REST
5 16 (17.98%) AngularJS
5 16 (17.98%) NHibernate
5 16 (17.98%) WinForms
6 15 (16.85%) Playwright
7 14 (15.73%) RESTful
8 12 (13.48%) .NET Core
9 9 (10.11%) SOAP
10 8 (8.99%) ASP.NET
10 8 (8.99%) React
10 8 (8.99%) WCF
11 7 (7.87%) Web Services
12 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Graph
13 4 (4.49%) ASP.NET MVC
13 4 (4.49%) NgRx
13 4 (4.49%) XML
14 3 (3.37%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.99%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (5.62%) Credit Risk
2 5 (5.62%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.62%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.62%) Market Risk
3 4 (4.49%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.49%) Fixed Income
3 4 (4.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.37%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.25%) Derivative
5 2 (2.25%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.12%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.12%) BYOD
6 1 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.12%) Life Science
6 1 (1.12%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (42.70%) Windows
2 11 (12.36%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.12%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (31.46%) DevOps
2 27 (30.34%) CI/CD
3 26 (29.21%) Agile
4 23 (25.84%) Microservices
5 22 (24.72%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (22.47%) Unit Testing
7 19 (21.35%) Data Analysis
8 18 (20.22%) Disaster Recovery
9 16 (17.98%) Full-Stack Development
10 15 (16.85%) Clean Code
11 14 (15.73%) Business Intelligence
12 13 (14.61%) Risk Management
13 12 (13.48%) OOP
14 11 (12.36%) Change Management
14 11 (12.36%) Software Engineering
15 10 (11.24%) Scrum
16 9 (10.11%) Analytics
16 9 (10.11%) Line Management
16 9 (10.11%) MVC
16 9 (10.11%) OO
Programming Languages
1 85 (95.51%) C#
2 50 (56.18%) SQL
3 32 (35.96%) PL/SQL
4 24 (26.97%) T-SQL
5 17 (19.10%) VB
5 17 (19.10%) VBA
6 8 (8.99%) VB.NET
7 7 (7.87%) PowerShell
8 6 (6.74%) JavaScript
9 5 (5.62%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (2.25%) Python
11 1 (1.12%) Bicep
11 1 (1.12%) Java
11 1 (1.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (17.98%) Degree
2 8 (8.99%) SC Cleared
2 8 (8.99%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (25.84%) QA
2 3 (3.37%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.37%) MiFID
3 1 (1.12%) EMIR
System Software
1 8 (8.99%) Docker
2 2 (2.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.25%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (39.33%) Oracle
2 21 (23.60%) Citrix
3 20 (22.47%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.37%) Marketo
4 3 (3.37%) OneTrust
4 3 (3.37%) Sitecore
5 2 (2.25%) Databricks
5 2 (2.25%) Murex
5 2 (2.25%) Okta
5 2 (2.25%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.25%) Portware
6 1 (1.12%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.12%) UiPath