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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 211 195
Rank change year-on-year -89 -16 +41
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 103 139 203
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 1.10% 1.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.44% 4.21% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 116 152
10th Percentile - - £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.06% -7.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £521 £588 £628
90th Percentile £613 £694 £702
England median daily rate £455 £473 £475
% change year-on-year -3.70% -0.53% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 - -
England median hourly rate £58.00 £23.41 -
% change year-on-year +147.76% - -

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 4,218 3,301 4,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.59% 26.03% 24.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,862 2,307 3,340
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £662 £713 £699
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 17 23
10th Percentile £24.95 £34.30 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £39.25 £25.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 £55.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -19.82% +45.46% -41.30%
75th Percentile £59.99 £65.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.75 £69.40
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

.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 5 April 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 5 April 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 -21 5 £520 -20.00% 16
South London -16 2 £500 -
West London -24 1 £400 -27.27% 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 18 (17.48%) IIS
2 12 (11.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (8.74%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.97%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (12.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.97%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Findur
2 1 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.97%) Endur
2 1 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.97%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 44 (42.72%) Azure
2 24 (23.30%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (14.56%) GitHub
4 12 (11.65%) Azure Service Bus
4 12 (11.65%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (10.68%) Azure App Service
5 11 (10.68%) Azure Key Vault
5 11 (10.68%) Azure Monitor
5 11 (10.68%) Entra ID
6 10 (9.71%) AWS
6 10 (9.71%) Azure WebJobs
6 10 (9.71%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (9.71%) PaaS
7 5 (4.85%) Serverless
8 4 (3.88%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.91%) Azure Functions
9 3 (2.91%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.91%) GCP
10 2 (1.94%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.65%) Internet
2 1 (0.97%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (62.14%) SQL Server
2 28 (27.18%) Oracle Database
3 10 (9.71%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.91%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.94%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (1.94%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.94%) Power BI
6 1 (0.97%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.97%) DataStage
6 1 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (13.59%) Git
2 11 (10.68%) Visual Studio
3 10 (9.71%) JIRA
4 5 (4.85%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.88%) MSTest
5 4 (3.88%) SpecFlow
6 3 (2.91%) Postman
7 2 (1.94%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.94%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.94%) NUnit
7 2 (1.94%) Selenium
8 1 (0.97%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.97%) JMeter
8 1 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 44 (42.72%) Finance
2 26 (25.24%) Social Skills
3 23 (22.33%) Banking
4 7 (6.80%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.85%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.94%) Front Office
6 2 (1.94%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (79.61%) Developer
2 54 (52.43%) C# Developer
3 25 (24.27%) .NET Developer
4 14 (13.59%) C# .NET Developer
4 14 (13.59%) Senior
5 13 (12.62%) Architect
6 11 (10.68%) Senior Developer
7 10 (9.71%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (8.74%) Applications Developer
9 8 (7.77%) Azure Developer
9 8 (7.77%) C# Application Developer
10 6 (5.83%) Microsoft 365 Developer
10 6 (5.83%) Tester
11 5 (4.85%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (4.85%) Senior .NET Developer
11 5 (4.85%) Senior C# Developer
12 4 (3.88%) C# Architect
12 4 (3.88%) IT Architect
12 4 (3.88%) IT Support
13 3 (2.91%) C# WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (100.00%) .NET
2 21 (20.39%) .NET Core
3 20 (19.42%) React
3 20 (19.42%) REST
3 20 (19.42%) WinForms
4 19 (18.45%) WPF
5 13 (12.62%) ASP.NET
5 13 (12.62%) Web Services
6 12 (11.65%) SOAP
7 11 (10.68%) AngularJS
8 10 (9.71%) CSS
8 10 (9.71%) HTML
8 10 (9.71%) Microsoft Graph
8 10 (9.71%) RESTful
9 7 (6.80%) Entity Framework
10 6 (5.83%) ASP.NET MVC
10 6 (5.83%) ASP.NET Web API
11 4 (3.88%) ASP.NET Core
11 4 (3.88%) OAuth
11 4 (3.88%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.65%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (7.77%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (6.80%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.83%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.85%) Credit Risk
5 5 (4.85%) Market Risk
6 4 (3.88%) AI Agents
6 4 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.94%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.97%) BYOD
8 1 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.97%) Derivative
8 1 (0.97%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.97%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.97%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.97%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.97%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 40 (38.83%) Windows
2 18 (17.48%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (41.75%) DevOps
2 32 (31.07%) Data Analysis
3 31 (30.10%) CI/CD
4 29 (28.16%) Disaster Recovery
5 25 (24.27%) Agile
6 24 (23.30%) AI
7 22 (21.36%) Change Management
7 22 (21.36%) OOP
7 22 (21.36%) Unit Testing
8 19 (18.45%) Business Intelligence
9 16 (15.53%) SDLC
10 15 (14.56%) OO
10 15 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (13.59%) Test Automation
12 13 (12.62%) Full-Stack Development
13 12 (11.65%) Analytics
13 12 (11.65%) Observability
14 11 (10.68%) Microservices
14 11 (10.68%) Software Engineering
14 11 (10.68%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 98 (95.15%) C#
2 55 (53.40%) SQL
3 36 (34.95%) PL/SQL
3 36 (34.95%) T-SQL
4 16 (15.53%) Python
5 13 (12.62%) TypeScript
6 12 (11.65%) JavaScript
6 12 (11.65%) PowerShell
6 12 (11.65%) VB
6 12 (11.65%) VBA
7 10 (9.71%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (2.91%) Java
9 1 (0.97%) Bicep
9 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (18.45%) Degree
2 11 (10.68%) SC Cleared
2 11 (10.68%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.94%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.97%) CISSP
4 1 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.97%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.97%) MBA
4 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (36.89%) QA
2 2 (1.94%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.97%) EMIR
3 1 (0.97%) MiFID
3 1 (0.97%) SLA
3 1 (0.97%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (6.80%) Docker
2 2 (1.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.97%) Terraform
Vendors
1 53 (51.46%) Oracle
2 33 (32.04%) Citrix
3 23 (22.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.88%) Databricks
5 3 (2.91%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.91%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.97%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.97%) BMC
6 1 (0.97%) Google
6 1 (0.97%) Marketo
6 1 (0.97%) Okta
6 1 (0.97%) OneTrust
6 1 (0.97%) Remedy
6 1 (0.97%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.97%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.97%) UiPath