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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 222 218
Rank change year-on-year -83 -4 +45
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 112 129 187
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.61% 1.06% 1.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.63% 4.03% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 104 136
10th Percentile £404 - £363
25th Percentile £415 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £474 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.43% -5.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £600
90th Percentile £695 £746 £701
England median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -9.52%

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 4,263 3,203 4,553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.08% 26.33% 26.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,832 2,243 3,395
10th Percentile £375 £385 £375
25th Percentile £440 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £557 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -3.13% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £719 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 17 27
10th Percentile £24.30 £31.58 £16.25
25th Percentile £29.52 £33.25 £23.99
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -17.65% -36.57%
75th Percentile £64.50 £53.75 £63.77
90th Percentile £95.00 £68.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -17 6 £625 +13.64% 16
West London -31 1 £400 -27.80%
.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 (15.18%) IIS
2 9 (8.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (5.36%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.68%) Appian
4 3 (2.68%) Camunda
4 3 (2.68%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.89%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (10.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.89%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Findur
2 3 (2.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.68%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (2.68%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.89%) Endur
3 1 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.89%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.89%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 50 (44.64%) Azure
2 23 (20.54%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (18.75%) GitHub
4 15 (13.39%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
6 7 (6.25%) AWS
6 7 (6.25%) Azure App Service
6 7 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (5.36%) Entra ID
7 6 (5.36%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (4.46%) Azure WebJobs
8 5 (4.46%) PaaS
8 5 (4.46%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.57%) Azure AKS
9 4 (3.57%) Power Automate
10 3 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.68%) GCP
10 3 (2.68%) n8n
10 3 (2.68%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.82%) Internet
2 1 (0.89%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (53.57%) SQL Server
2 30 (26.79%) Oracle Database
3 14 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.68%) Crystal Reports
4 3 (2.68%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.68%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.68%) Power BI
4 3 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (8.93%) Git
1 10 (8.93%) Visual Studio
2 8 (7.14%) JIRA
3 3 (2.68%) GitLab
3 3 (2.68%) MSTest
3 3 (2.68%) NUnit
3 3 (2.68%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.79%) git-flow
4 2 (1.79%) Jasmine
4 2 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.79%) JMeter
4 2 (1.79%) Karma Test Runner
4 2 (1.79%) Moq
5 1 (0.89%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.89%) MSI
5 1 (0.89%) Postman
5 1 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.89%) TeamCity
General
1 45 (40.18%) Finance
2 27 (24.11%) Social Skills
3 20 (17.86%) Banking
4 6 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.68%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.79%) Front Office
6 2 (1.79%) Retail
7 1 (0.89%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.89%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 81 (72.32%) Developer
2 50 (44.64%) C# Developer
3 21 (18.75%) Architect
4 20 (17.86%) .NET Developer
5 18 (16.07%) Solutions Architect
6 15 (13.39%) Senior
7 13 (11.61%) C# .NET Developer
8 11 (9.82%) Applications Developer
9 10 (8.93%) Senior Developer
10 8 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (6.25%) C# Application Developer
12 5 (4.46%) Azure Developer
12 5 (4.46%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 5 (4.46%) Full-Stack C# Developer
12 5 (4.46%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 5 (4.46%) Senior C# Developer
12 5 (4.46%) Software Engineer
13 4 (3.57%) .NET Software Engineer
13 4 (3.57%) OpenLink Developer
13 4 (3.57%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (100.00%) .NET
2 22 (19.64%) React
3 17 (15.18%) .NET Core
4 14 (12.50%) CSS
4 14 (12.50%) HTML
4 14 (12.50%) WPF
5 13 (11.61%) ASP.NET
5 13 (11.61%) WinForms
6 12 (10.71%) Entity Framework
7 11 (9.82%) REST
8 10 (8.93%) AngularJS
9 9 (8.04%) RESTful
10 7 (6.25%) Web Services
11 6 (5.36%) OAuth
11 6 (5.36%) SOAP
11 6 (5.36%) Vue
12 5 (4.46%) ASP.NET MVC
12 5 (4.46%) ASP.NET Web API
12 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Graph
12 5 (4.46%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.04%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (5.36%) AI Agents
5 4 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.68%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.89%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.89%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.89%) Derivative
7 1 (0.89%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.89%) IoT
7 1 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.89%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.89%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.89%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.89%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 38 (33.93%) Windows
2 18 (16.07%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (50.00%) DevOps
2 42 (37.50%) Agile
3 41 (36.61%) AI
4 33 (29.46%) CI/CD
4 33 (29.46%) Data Analysis
5 28 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 28 (25.00%) OOP
6 27 (24.11%) Unit Testing
7 25 (22.32%) SDLC
8 21 (18.75%) Change Management
9 20 (17.86%) Scrum
10 18 (16.07%) OO
11 16 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (14.29%) Migration
11 16 (14.29%) Test Automation
12 14 (12.50%) Software Engineering
13 13 (11.61%) Full-Stack Development
13 13 (11.61%) Microservices
14 12 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (8.93%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 100 (89.29%) C#
2 57 (50.89%) SQL
3 35 (31.25%) T-SQL
4 34 (30.36%) PL/SQL
5 19 (16.96%) Python
6 17 (15.18%) JavaScript
7 15 (13.39%) TypeScript
8 11 (9.82%) VB
8 11 (9.82%) VBA
9 7 (6.25%) PowerShell
10 5 (4.46%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (2.68%) Java
11 3 (2.68%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.79%) Bicep
13 1 (0.89%) C++
13 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.89%) XPath
Qualifications
1 26 (23.21%) Degree
2 8 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.36%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.89%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.89%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.89%) CISSP
4 1 (0.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.89%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (33.04%) QA
2 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.89%) EMIR
2 1 (0.89%) MiFID
2 1 (0.89%) SLA
2 1 (0.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (9.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.79%) Terraform
3 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 50 (44.64%) Oracle
2 35 (31.25%) Citrix
3 14 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.57%) OpenLink
5 3 (2.68%) OpenText
6 2 (1.79%) Databricks
6 2 (1.79%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.89%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.89%) BMC
7 1 (0.89%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.89%) Google
7 1 (0.89%) Okta
7 1 (0.89%) Remedy
7 1 (0.89%) SAP
7 1 (0.89%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.89%) UiPath