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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 233 212
Rank change year-on-year -60 -21 +53
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 113 128 189
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.63% 1.02% 1.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.70% 3.92% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 106 141
10th Percentile £404 - £363
25th Percentile £415 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% -3.06% -19.18%
75th Percentile £559 £592 £600
90th Percentile £621 £719 £700
England median daily rate £460 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -3.16% - -13.64%

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 4,183 3,268 4,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.49% 26.00% 25.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,793 2,294 3,338
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £432 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 17 27
10th Percentile £23.00 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £35.00 £23.99
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +40.00% -44.24%
75th Percentile £61.63 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £68.20
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 6 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 6 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 -24 4 £548 -15.77% 19
South London -15 2 £500 -
West London -27 1 £400 -27.80% 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 19 (16.81%) IIS
2 10 (8.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (6.19%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.88%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (10.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Findur
2 2 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.88%) Endur
3 1 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.88%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.88%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 52 (46.02%) Azure
2 28 (24.78%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (17.70%) GitHub
4 14 (12.39%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (8.85%) AWS
5 10 (8.85%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (7.96%) Azure Key Vault
6 9 (7.96%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (7.08%) Azure App Service
7 8 (7.08%) Entra ID
8 7 (6.19%) Azure WebJobs
8 7 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (6.19%) PaaS
9 5 (4.42%) Power Platform
10 4 (3.54%) Power Automate
10 4 (3.54%) Serverless
11 3 (2.65%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.65%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (2.65%) GCP
11 3 (2.65%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.62%) Internet
2 1 (0.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (59.29%) SQL Server
2 30 (26.55%) Oracle Database
3 12 (10.62%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.65%) Power BI
4 3 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.77%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (1.77%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.88%) DataStage
6 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (13.27%) Git
2 11 (9.73%) Visual Studio
3 8 (7.08%) JIRA
4 4 (3.54%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.65%) MSTest
5 3 (2.65%) NUnit
5 3 (2.65%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.77%) GitLab
6 2 (1.77%) Jasmine
6 2 (1.77%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (1.77%) Moq
7 1 (0.88%) Postman
7 1 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.88%) TeamCity
General
1 52 (46.02%) Finance
2 30 (26.55%) Social Skills
3 21 (18.58%) Banking
4 6 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.42%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.54%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.77%) Front Office
8 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 90 (79.65%) Developer
2 56 (49.56%) C# Developer
3 28 (24.78%) .NET Developer
4 18 (15.93%) Senior
5 16 (14.16%) Architect
6 15 (13.27%) C# .NET Developer
7 14 (12.39%) Senior Developer
7 14 (12.39%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (9.73%) Applications Developer
9 8 (7.08%) C# Application Developer
10 7 (6.19%) Azure Developer
10 7 (6.19%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (6.19%) Senior .NET Developer
11 5 (4.42%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 5 (4.42%) Senior C# Developer
11 5 (4.42%) Software Engineer
11 5 (4.42%) Tester
12 4 (3.54%) .NET Software Engineer
12 4 (3.54%) IT Architect
12 4 (3.54%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (100.00%) .NET
2 23 (20.35%) .NET Core
3 22 (19.47%) React
4 20 (17.70%) WinForms
5 19 (16.81%) WPF
6 15 (13.27%) REST
7 14 (12.39%) CSS
7 14 (12.39%) HTML
8 13 (11.50%) ASP.NET
9 12 (10.62%) AngularJS
10 11 (9.73%) Entity Framework
10 11 (9.73%) RESTful
11 10 (8.85%) Web Services
12 9 (7.96%) SOAP
13 7 (6.19%) ASP.NET Web API
13 7 (6.19%) Microsoft Graph
14 6 (5.31%) ASP.NET MVC
14 6 (5.31%) Vue
15 4 (3.54%) OAuth
16 3 (2.65%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.62%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (9.73%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.08%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (6.19%) AI Agents
5 6 (5.31%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (5.31%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (4.42%) Credit Risk
6 5 (4.42%) Market Risk
7 3 (2.65%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.77%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.88%) BYOD
9 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.88%) Derivative
9 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.88%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (0.88%) IoT
9 1 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.88%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.88%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 43 (38.05%) Windows
2 20 (17.70%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (47.79%) DevOps
2 40 (35.40%) CI/CD
3 36 (31.86%) Agile
4 32 (28.32%) AI
4 32 (28.32%) Data Analysis
5 30 (26.55%) Disaster Recovery
6 29 (25.66%) OOP
7 26 (23.01%) Unit Testing
8 25 (22.12%) SDLC
9 23 (20.35%) Change Management
10 21 (18.58%) Business Intelligence
11 19 (16.81%) OO
12 15 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (12.39%) Full-Stack Development
14 13 (11.50%) Software Engineering
14 13 (11.50%) Test Automation
15 12 (10.62%) Design Patterns
15 12 (10.62%) Migration
15 12 (10.62%) Scrum
16 11 (9.73%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 105 (92.92%) C#
2 61 (53.98%) SQL
3 39 (34.51%) T-SQL
4 38 (33.63%) PL/SQL
5 19 (16.81%) Python
6 17 (15.04%) JavaScript
7 14 (12.39%) TypeScript
8 12 (10.62%) VB
8 12 (10.62%) VBA
9 8 (7.08%) PowerShell
10 7 (6.19%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (2.65%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.77%) Java
13 1 (0.88%) Bicep
13 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.88%) XPath
Qualifications
1 23 (20.35%) Degree
2 8 (7.08%) SC Cleared
2 8 (7.08%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.88%) CISSP
4 1 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.88%) MBA
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (35.40%) QA
2 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.88%) EMIR
2 1 (0.88%) MiFID
2 1 (0.88%) SLA
2 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (7.96%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (6.19%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 53 (46.90%) Oracle
2 35 (30.97%) Citrix
3 21 (18.58%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.54%) Databricks
5 3 (2.65%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.65%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.88%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.88%) BMC
6 1 (0.88%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.88%) Google
6 1 (0.88%) Okta
6 1 (0.88%) Remedy
6 1 (0.88%) SAP
6 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow