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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 207 215
Rank change year-on-year -78 +8 -40
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 91 159 193
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.63% 1.10% 1.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.39% 4.29% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 117 150
10th Percentile £385 £381 £385
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% -4.35% -14.81%
75th Percentile £570 £675 £670
90th Percentile £700 £738 £741
England median daily rate £450 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -14.29% -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 - - +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 3,809 3,704 4,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.41% 25.56% 25.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,574 2,414 3,512
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £672 £700 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 19 31
10th Percentile £35.08 £34.65 £29.72
25th Percentile £43.44 £38.38 £35.94
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -19.68%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.40 £72.80 £77.50
England median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.20
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.74% -19.70%

.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 2 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 2 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 -22 4 £525 -25.00% 11
South London -7 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 (15.38%) IIS
2 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (4.40%) Confluence
3 4 (4.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (20.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Aladdin
2 4 (4.40%) Fidessa
3 3 (3.30%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 30 (32.97%) Azure
2 17 (18.68%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (16.48%) GitHub
4 9 (9.89%) AWS
4 9 (9.89%) Azure Service Bus
5 7 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (6.59%) Azure App Service
6 6 (6.59%) Azure Key Vault
6 6 (6.59%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (6.59%) Entra ID
7 5 (5.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (5.49%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (5.49%) Azure WebJobs
7 5 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (5.49%) PaaS
7 5 (5.49%) Serverless
8 3 (3.30%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.20%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.20%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.89%) Internet
2 1 (1.10%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (61.54%) SQL Server
2 23 (25.27%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.20%) Power BI
3 2 (2.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.10%) DataStage
4 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (13.19%) SpecFlow
2 9 (9.89%) JIRA
3 8 (8.79%) Git
4 7 (7.69%) Visual Studio
5 4 (4.40%) Jenkins
6 3 (3.30%) MSTest
6 3 (3.30%) Postman
7 2 (2.20%) Selenium
8 1 (1.10%) AppVeyor
8 1 (1.10%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.10%) JMeter
8 1 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.10%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 46 (50.55%) Finance
2 24 (26.37%) Social Skills
3 18 (19.78%) Banking
4 7 (7.69%) Financial Institution
5 5 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.49%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.40%) Front Office
6 4 (4.40%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.10%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 71 (78.02%) Developer
2 46 (50.55%) C# Developer
3 33 (36.26%) .NET Developer
4 23 (25.27%) C# .NET Developer
5 17 (18.68%) Angular Developer
6 16 (17.58%) C# WPF Developer
6 16 (17.58%) WPF Developer
7 13 (14.29%) Senior
8 12 (13.19%) Senior Developer
9 8 (8.79%) Architect
10 7 (7.69%) C# WCF Developer
10 7 (7.69%) Senior .NET Developer
10 7 (7.69%) WCF Developer
11 6 (6.59%) Senior C# Developer
12 5 (5.49%) Agile .NET Developer
12 5 (5.49%) Agile C# Developer
12 5 (5.49%) Agile Developer
12 5 (5.49%) Full-Stack Developer
13 4 (4.40%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 4 (4.40%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (100.00%) .NET
2 25 (27.47%) WPF
3 23 (25.27%) Entity Framework
3 23 (25.27%) REST
4 16 (17.58%) AngularJS
4 16 (17.58%) NHibernate
4 16 (17.58%) WinForms
5 15 (16.48%) Playwright
6 14 (15.38%) RESTful
7 13 (14.29%) .NET Core
8 9 (9.89%) React
8 9 (9.89%) SOAP
9 8 (8.79%) ASP.NET
9 8 (8.79%) WCF
10 7 (7.69%) Web Services
11 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Graph
12 4 (4.40%) ASP.NET MVC
12 4 (4.40%) NgRx
12 4 (4.40%) XML
13 3 (3.30%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.79%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (6.59%) Fixed Income
2 6 (6.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (5.49%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.49%) Credit Risk
3 5 (5.49%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (5.49%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.49%) Market Risk
4 4 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.40%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.30%) Derivative
6 2 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.20%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.10%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.10%) BYOD
7 1 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.10%) Life Science
7 1 (1.10%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (41.76%) Windows
2 10 (10.99%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (31.87%) DevOps
2 28 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 27 (29.67%) Agile
4 24 (26.37%) Microservices
5 22 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (20.88%) Unit Testing
7 18 (19.78%) Data Analysis
8 17 (18.68%) Disaster Recovery
9 16 (17.58%) Clean Code
9 16 (17.58%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (14.29%) Risk Management
11 12 (13.19%) OOP
12 11 (12.09%) Software Engineering
13 10 (10.99%) Change Management
13 10 (10.99%) Scrum
14 9 (9.89%) API Development
14 9 (9.89%) Line Management
14 9 (9.89%) MVC
14 9 (9.89%) OO
Programming Languages
1 87 (95.60%) C#
2 51 (56.04%) SQL
3 32 (35.16%) PL/SQL
4 24 (26.37%) T-SQL
5 18 (19.78%) VB
5 18 (19.78%) VBA
6 9 (9.89%) VB.NET
7 7 (7.69%) PowerShell
8 6 (6.59%) JavaScript
9 5 (5.49%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (2.20%) Python
11 1 (1.10%) Bicep
11 1 (1.10%) Java
11 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (16.48%) Degree
2 8 (8.79%) SC Cleared
2 8 (8.79%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (24.18%) QA
2 5 (5.49%) MiFID
3 3 (3.30%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.20%) EMIR
System Software
1 8 (8.79%) Docker
2 2 (2.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.20%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.20%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (38.46%) Oracle
2 21 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 20 (21.98%) Citrix
4 3 (3.30%) Marketo
4 3 (3.30%) OneTrust
4 3 (3.30%) Portware
4 3 (3.30%) Sitecore
5 2 (2.20%) Databricks
5 2 (2.20%) Murex
5 2 (2.20%) Okta
5 2 (2.20%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.10%) CQG
6 1 (1.10%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.10%) TOWER Software
6 1 (1.10%) UiPath