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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 219 190
Rank change year-on-year -72 -29 +24
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 103 139 215
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.65% 1.04% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.53% 3.91% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 110 169
10th Percentile £400 - £385
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £480 £563
Median % change year-on-year -13.54% -14.67% -13.46%
75th Percentile £552 £607 £638
90th Percentile £679 £700 £700
England median daily rate £470 £495 £538
% change year-on-year -5.05% -7.91% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 - -
England median hourly rate £58.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -12.50%

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 4,071 3,551 4,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.62% 26.46% 24.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,752 2,382 3,401
10th Percentile £363 £383 £388
25th Percentile £425 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 21 35
10th Percentile £27.80 £35.00 £20.12
25th Percentile £35.06 £38.50 £29.12
Median hourly rate £50.50 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +23.53% -34.62%
75th Percentile £63.56 £65.00 £66.88
90th Percentile £92.50 £80.00 £74.46
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

.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 28 February 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 28 February 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 -14 3 £500 -25.93% 14
South London -18 2 £500 -18.37%
West London - 1 £400 - 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 (16.50%) IIS
2 8 (7.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (5.83%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (13.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.97%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.97%) Findur
1 1 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.97%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 36 (34.95%) Azure
2 22 (21.36%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (14.56%) GitHub
4 9 (8.74%) AWS
4 9 (8.74%) Azure Service Bus
4 9 (8.74%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (7.77%) Azure App Service
5 8 (7.77%) Azure Key Vault
5 8 (7.77%) Azure Monitor
5 8 (7.77%) Entra ID
6 7 (6.80%) Azure WebJobs
6 7 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (6.80%) PaaS
7 4 (3.88%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.91%) Azure AKS
8 3 (2.91%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (2.91%) GCP
8 3 (2.91%) Serverless
9 2 (1.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.94%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.68%) Internet
2 1 (0.97%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (66.02%) SQL Server
2 25 (24.27%) Oracle Database
3 9 (8.74%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.94%) Power BI
5 1 (0.97%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.97%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.97%) DataStage
5 1 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (11.65%) Git
1 12 (11.65%) JIRA
2 11 (10.68%) SpecFlow
2 11 (10.68%) Visual Studio
3 4 (3.88%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.91%) MSTest
4 3 (2.91%) Postman
5 2 (1.94%) Selenium
6 1 (0.97%) AppVeyor
6 1 (0.97%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.97%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.97%) JMeter
6 1 (0.97%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.97%) NUnit
6 1 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 46 (44.66%) Finance
2 24 (23.30%) Social Skills
3 20 (19.42%) Banking
4 6 (5.83%) Financial Institution
5 5 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.85%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.94%) Front Office
6 2 (1.94%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (79.61%) Developer
2 59 (57.28%) C# Developer
3 32 (31.07%) .NET Developer
4 23 (22.33%) C# .NET Developer
5 14 (13.59%) Senior
6 12 (11.65%) Angular Developer
7 11 (10.68%) Senior Developer
8 10 (9.71%) Architect
9 8 (7.77%) Applications Developer
9 8 (7.77%) Senior .NET Developer
10 7 (6.80%) C# Application Developer
10 7 (6.80%) Senior C# Developer
11 6 (5.83%) C# WPF Developer
11 6 (5.83%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (5.83%) Tester
11 6 (5.83%) WPF Developer
12 5 (4.85%) Agile .NET Developer
12 5 (4.85%) Agile Developer
12 5 (4.85%) Azure Developer
12 5 (4.85%) Full-Stack C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (100.00%) .NET
2 21 (20.39%) .NET Core
3 20 (19.42%) REST
3 20 (19.42%) WPF
4 19 (18.45%) WinForms
5 18 (17.48%) React
6 15 (14.56%) Entity Framework
7 13 (12.62%) ASP.NET
7 13 (12.62%) Playwright
8 11 (10.68%) AngularJS
8 11 (10.68%) NHibernate
8 11 (10.68%) RESTful
9 10 (9.71%) Web Services
10 9 (8.74%) SOAP
11 8 (7.77%) ASP.NET MVC
11 8 (7.77%) CSS
11 8 (7.77%) HTML
12 7 (6.80%) Microsoft Graph
13 6 (5.83%) ASP.NET Web API
14 4 (3.88%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.62%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (8.74%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (7.77%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.85%) Credit Risk
4 5 (4.85%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.85%) Market Risk
5 4 (3.88%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.91%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.94%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.97%) BYOD
8 1 (0.97%) Derivative
8 1 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.97%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (0.97%) Life Science
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 16 (15.53%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.97%) Linux
3 1 (0.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (35.92%) DevOps
2 32 (31.07%) CI/CD
3 27 (26.21%) Agile
3 27 (26.21%) Data Analysis
4 25 (24.27%) Disaster Recovery
5 23 (22.33%) Unit Testing
6 22 (21.36%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (19.42%) Change Management
8 19 (18.45%) AI
8 19 (18.45%) Microservices
9 18 (17.48%) Business Intelligence
10 16 (15.53%) OOP
11 15 (14.56%) Test Automation
12 14 (13.59%) Full-Stack Development
13 13 (12.62%) OO
14 12 (11.65%) MVC
14 12 (11.65%) SDLC
14 12 (11.65%) Software Engineering
15 11 (10.68%) Analytics
15 11 (10.68%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 99 (96.12%) C#
2 50 (48.54%) SQL
3 33 (32.04%) PL/SQL
4 31 (30.10%) T-SQL
5 13 (12.62%) Python
5 13 (12.62%) VB
5 13 (12.62%) VBA
6 11 (10.68%) JavaScript
6 11 (10.68%) TypeScript
7 9 (8.74%) PowerShell
8 7 (6.80%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.94%) Java
9 2 (1.94%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.97%) Bicep
10 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (17.48%) Degree
2 10 (9.71%) SC Cleared
2 10 (9.71%) 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 34 (33.01%) QA
2 4 (3.88%) 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 3 (2.91%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 47 (45.63%) Oracle
2 28 (27.18%) Citrix
3 22 (21.36%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.91%) Marketo
4 3 (2.91%) OneTrust
4 3 (2.91%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.91%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.94%) Databricks
5 2 (1.94%) Okta
6 1 (0.97%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.97%) BMC
6 1 (0.97%) Google
6 1 (0.97%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.97%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.97%) Remedy
6 1 (0.97%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.97%) UiPath