.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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 222 208
Rank change year-on-year -57 -14 -31
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 102 168 208
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.72% 1.10% 1.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.74% 4.29% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 121 162
10th Percentile £385 - £400
25th Percentile £404 £385 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -25.22% - -14.81%
75th Percentile £614 £675 £668
90th Percentile £700 £750 £749
England median daily rate £463 £544 £550
% change year-on-year -14.94% -1.14% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £20.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +235.00% -71.43% +6.40%

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 3,728 3,915 4,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.14% 25.63% 25.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,516 2,552 3,743
10th Percentile £359 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £661 £704 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 20 29
10th Percentile £33.79 £34.83 £31.54
25th Percentile £43.13 £37.88 £36.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% -19.68%
75th Percentile £63.38 £63.13 £72.00
90th Percentile £70.80 £71.90 £80.00
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025. 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 -20 4 £525 -25.00% 8
South London -4 2 £500 -18.37%
East London +3 1 £415 +38.33%
.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 (13.73%) IIS
2 5 (4.90%) Confluence
2 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.92%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.98%) Appian
4 1 (0.98%) Camunda
4 1 (0.98%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 21 (20.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (6.86%) Aladdin
2 5 (4.90%) Fidessa
3 4 (3.92%) thinkFolio
4 2 (1.96%) OpenText MBPM
4 2 (1.96%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 35 (34.31%) Azure
2 21 (20.59%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (16.67%) GitHub
4 10 (9.80%) Azure Service Bus
5 8 (7.84%) AWS
6 7 (6.86%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (6.86%) Serverless
7 6 (5.88%) Azure App Service
7 6 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (5.88%) Entra ID
8 5 (4.90%) Azure WebJobs
8 5 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (4.90%) PaaS
8 5 (4.90%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.96%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (1.96%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.96%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.82%) Internet
2 1 (0.98%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (60.78%) SQL Server
2 27 (26.47%) Oracle Database
3 4 (3.92%) Power BI
4 2 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.96%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.98%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.98%) DataStage
5 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (13.73%) SpecFlow
2 12 (11.76%) JIRA
3 11 (10.78%) Git
4 5 (4.90%) Visual Studio
5 4 (3.92%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.94%) MSTest
6 3 (2.94%) Postman
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 53 (51.96%) Finance
2 29 (28.43%) Social Skills
3 23 (22.55%) Banking
4 7 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.86%) Financial Institution
5 5 (4.90%) Investment Banking
5 5 (4.90%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.92%) Front Office
7 3 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.96%) Retail
9 1 (0.98%) Back Office
9 1 (0.98%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 78 (76.47%) Developer
2 46 (45.10%) C# Developer
3 36 (35.29%) .NET Developer
4 26 (25.49%) C# .NET Developer
5 21 (20.59%) Angular Developer
6 18 (17.65%) C# WPF Developer
6 18 (17.65%) WPF Developer
7 15 (14.71%) Senior
8 14 (13.73%) Senior Developer
9 9 (8.82%) Architect
10 7 (6.86%) C# WCF Developer
10 7 (6.86%) Senior .NET Developer
10 7 (6.86%) WCF Developer
11 6 (5.88%) Senior C# Developer
12 5 (4.90%) Agile .NET Developer
12 5 (4.90%) Agile C# Developer
12 5 (4.90%) Agile Developer
12 5 (4.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 5 (4.90%) Full-Stack Developer
13 4 (3.92%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (100.00%) .NET
2 29 (28.43%) Entity Framework
3 27 (26.47%) REST
4 26 (25.49%) WPF
5 20 (19.61%) AngularJS
5 20 (19.61%) NHibernate
6 17 (16.67%) Playwright
7 16 (15.69%) RESTful
7 16 (15.69%) WinForms
8 13 (12.75%) .NET Core
9 10 (9.80%) ASP.NET
9 10 (9.80%) SOAP
10 9 (8.82%) React
11 8 (7.84%) WCF
12 7 (6.86%) Web Services
13 6 (5.88%) NgRx
14 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Graph
15 4 (3.92%) ASP.NET Core
15 4 (3.92%) FIX Protocol
15 4 (3.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.84%) Enterprise Software
1 8 (7.84%) Fixed Income
1 8 (7.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.90%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.90%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.92%) Credit Risk
4 4 (3.92%) Derivative
4 4 (3.92%) Market Risk
5 3 (2.94%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.96%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.98%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.98%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.98%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 38 (37.25%) Windows
2 8 (7.84%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.98%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (33.33%) Agile
1 34 (33.33%) DevOps
2 33 (32.35%) CI/CD
3 30 (29.41%) Microservices
4 25 (24.51%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (19.61%) Full-Stack Development
5 20 (19.61%) Unit Testing
6 18 (17.65%) Data Analysis
7 17 (16.67%) Clean Code
8 16 (15.69%) Disaster Recovery
9 15 (14.71%) Risk Management
10 14 (13.73%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (12.75%) OOP
11 13 (12.75%) Software Engineering
12 12 (11.76%) Scrum
13 11 (10.78%) API Development
13 11 (10.78%) ETRM
13 11 (10.78%) Line Management
13 11 (10.78%) SDLC
14 10 (9.80%) OO
Programming Languages
1 97 (95.10%) C#
2 55 (53.92%) SQL
3 33 (32.35%) PL/SQL
4 23 (22.55%) T-SQL
5 20 (19.61%) VB
5 20 (19.61%) VBA
6 11 (10.78%) VB.NET
7 10 (9.80%) JavaScript
8 7 (6.86%) PowerShell
9 5 (4.90%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.96%) Python
11 1 (0.98%) Bicep
11 1 (0.98%) Java
11 1 (0.98%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (14.71%) Degree
2 8 (7.84%) SC Cleared
2 8 (7.84%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.98%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (21.57%) QA
2 5 (4.90%) MiFID
3 3 (2.94%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.98%) EMIR
System Software
1 9 (8.82%) Docker
2 2 (1.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.96%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (38.24%) Oracle
2 26 (25.49%) Microsoft
3 19 (18.63%) Citrix
4 4 (3.92%) Portware
5 3 (2.94%) Marketo
5 3 (2.94%) Murex
5 3 (2.94%) OneTrust
5 3 (2.94%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.96%) Databricks
6 2 (1.96%) Okta
6 2 (1.96%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.96%) OpenText
7 1 (0.98%) CQG
7 1 (0.98%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.98%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.98%) UiPath