.NET Framework Contracts in London

Microsoft .NET Framework
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring .NET Framework skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET Framework over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 197 258
Rank change year-on-year -22 +61 -54
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 142 222 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.07% 1.26% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.05% 4.67% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 159 206
10th Percentile - £363 -
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% -5.91% -6.38%
75th Percentile £600 £637 £716
90th Percentile £725 £740 £806
England median daily rate £475 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -2.56% -7.14% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £52.97
England median hourly rate £23.41 £80.00 £52.97
% change year-on-year -70.74% +51.03% -10.97%

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 3,504 4,755 6,813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.38% 26.99% 26.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,442 3,490 5,129
10th Percentile £375 £375 £413
25th Percentile £428 £462 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £713 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £813
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 27 42
10th Percentile £31.50 £16.25 £31.18
25th Percentile £33.25 £23.80 £47.50
Median hourly rate £48.22 £42.50 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -36.80% +37.97%
75th Percentile £62.81 £61.97 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.88 £75.00 £86.20
England median hourly rate £57.75 £58.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.94% -10.31% +21.50%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing .NET Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Framework in London

.NET Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Framework in London.

Daily rate trend for .NET Framework in London

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework in London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Framework in London

.NET Framework
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Framework in London.

Hourly rate trend for .NET Framework in London

.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 July 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 -14 9 £475 -20.77% 50
West London +14 5 £554 -7.67% 5
East London +7 5 £415 -2.35% 1
South London -1 1 £490 -24.62% 3
.NET Framework
England

.NET Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (9.86%) IIS
2 2 (1.41%) Confluence
3 1 (0.70%) Appian
3 1 (0.70%) Camunda
3 1 (0.70%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 31 (21.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (9.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.52%) Aladdin
3 3 (2.11%) Fidessa
4 2 (1.41%) OpenText MBPM
4 2 (1.41%) Oracle BPM
4 2 (1.41%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.70%) Eikon
5 1 (0.70%) Maximo
5 1 (0.70%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 47 (33.10%) Azure
2 19 (13.38%) AWS
2 19 (13.38%) Azure DevOps
2 19 (13.38%) Serverless
3 18 (12.68%) Dynamics 365
3 18 (12.68%) Power Platform
4 16 (11.27%) Azure Functions
4 16 (11.27%) Azure Service Bus
4 16 (11.27%) PowerApps
5 15 (10.56%) Azure Logic Apps
5 15 (10.56%) Power Automate
6 6 (4.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (4.23%) GitHub
7 5 (3.52%) Azure Event Grid
8 4 (2.82%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.82%) GCP
9 2 (1.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.41%) Boomi
9 2 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.45%) Internet
2 2 (1.41%) DHCP
2 2 (1.41%) DNS
2 2 (1.41%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (1.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (46.48%) SQL Server
2 37 (26.06%) Oracle Database
3 19 (13.38%) Relational Database
4 12 (8.45%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (8.45%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (8.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (4.93%) MongoDB
6 6 (4.23%) Power BI
7 5 (3.52%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.82%) MySQL
9 3 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.41%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.70%) MS Access
11 1 (0.70%) Redis
11 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (10.56%) Git
2 10 (7.04%) JIRA
3 5 (3.52%) NUnit
3 5 (3.52%) SpecFlow
4 3 (2.11%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.41%) GitLab
5 2 (1.41%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.70%) JetBrains Rider
6 1 (0.70%) Moq
6 1 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 59 (41.55%) Finance
2 35 (24.65%) Social Skills
3 21 (14.79%) Banking
4 10 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.34%) Front Office
6 5 (3.52%) Billing
6 5 (3.52%) Legal
7 4 (2.82%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.82%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.41%) Back Office
9 2 (1.41%) Retail
10 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.70%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 108 (76.06%) Developer
2 63 (44.37%) .NET Developer
3 57 (40.14%) C# Developer
4 39 (27.46%) C# .NET Developer
5 34 (23.94%) C# WPF Developer
5 34 (23.94%) WPF Developer
6 19 (13.38%) Senior
7 15 (10.56%) Senior Developer
8 14 (9.86%) Architect
9 12 (8.45%) C# WCF Developer
9 12 (8.45%) WCF Developer
10 11 (7.75%) Angular Developer
11 9 (6.34%) Cloud Developer
12 8 (5.63%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (5.63%) Senior C# Developer
13 7 (4.93%) CRM Architect
13 7 (4.93%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 7 (4.93%) Senior .NET Developer
14 6 (4.23%) Senior C# .NET Developer
15 5 (3.52%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (100.00%) .NET
2 52 (36.62%) Entity Framework
3 37 (26.06%) WPF
4 32 (22.54%) WCF
5 26 (18.31%) .NET Core
5 26 (18.31%) HTML
6 23 (16.20%) CSS
6 23 (16.20%) REST
7 21 (14.79%) AngularJS
8 20 (14.08%) ASP.NET
9 19 (13.38%) ASP.NET Web API
9 19 (13.38%) RESTful
10 15 (10.56%) React
11 14 (9.86%) WinForms
12 13 (9.15%) XML
13 12 (8.45%) HTML5 Canvas
13 12 (8.45%) JSON
14 10 (7.04%) Dapper ORM
15 9 (6.34%) ASP.NET MVC
15 9 (6.34%) NHibernate
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.15%) Fixed Income
2 6 (4.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.52%) N-Tier
3 5 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.82%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.11%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.11%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.41%) Derivative
6 2 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.41%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.41%) PKI
7 1 (0.70%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.70%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (28.87%) Windows
2 3 (2.11%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (30.99%) Agile
2 29 (20.42%) CI/CD
3 28 (19.72%) DevOps
4 25 (17.61%) TDD
5 23 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (15.49%) Microservices
6 22 (15.49%) MVC
7 21 (14.79%) Unit Testing
8 20 (14.08%) Full-Stack Development
9 19 (13.38%) CRM
9 19 (13.38%) Test Automation
10 18 (12.68%) Data Analysis
11 17 (11.97%) Infrastructure as Code
11 17 (11.97%) Web Development
12 16 (11.27%) Design Patterns
13 15 (10.56%) Containerisation
14 14 (9.86%) Disaster Recovery
15 13 (9.15%) OOP
15 13 (9.15%) Scrum
16 12 (8.45%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 125 (88.03%) C#
2 91 (64.08%) SQL
3 48 (33.80%) PL/SQL
4 35 (24.65%) JavaScript
4 35 (24.65%) VB
5 34 (23.94%) VBA
6 23 (16.20%) T-SQL
7 19 (13.38%) VB.NET
8 13 (9.15%) TypeScript
9 11 (7.75%) RPG
9 11 (7.75%) RPG IV
10 7 (4.93%) Python
11 6 (4.23%) F#
12 2 (1.41%) C++
12 2 (1.41%) VB6
13 1 (0.70%) Java
13 1 (0.70%) Korn
Qualifications
1 12 (8.45%) Degree
2 7 (4.93%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (3.52%) MCPD
3 5 (3.52%) MCSD
4 4 (2.82%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.41%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.70%) MCAD
6 1 (0.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.08%) QA
2 3 (2.11%) MiFID
3 2 (1.41%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.41%) GDPR
3 2 (1.41%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (1.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.70%) EMIR
4 1 (0.70%) HL7
System Software
1 23 (16.20%) Docker
2 4 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (9.86%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.93%) Terraform
3 1 (0.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 47 (33.10%) Microsoft
2 44 (30.99%) Oracle
3 13 (9.15%) Citrix
4 5 (3.52%) TIBCO
5 4 (2.82%) Solace
6 2 (1.41%) Cisco
6 2 (1.41%) IBM
6 2 (1.41%) Murex
6 2 (1.41%) OpenText
6 2 (1.41%) Portware
6 2 (1.41%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.41%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.41%) VMware
7 1 (0.70%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.70%) CQG
7 1 (0.70%) Pardot
7 1 (0.70%) Reuters
7 1 (0.70%) SAP
7 1 (0.70%) Splunk
7 1 (0.70%) TOWER Software