.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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 264 178
Rank change year-on-year -66 -86 +70
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 123 109 222
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 0.81% 1.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.30% 2.74% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 82 163
10th Percentile £404 - £363
25th Percentile £425 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -6.98% -6.52%
75th Percentile £650 £697 £628
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%

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 5,356 3,982 5,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.30% 29.57% 30.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,590 2,747 3,469
10th Percentile £400 £366 £377
25th Percentile £450 £430 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £703
90th Percentile £763 £811 £850
England median daily rate £534 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +2.99% -5.73% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 34 22
10th Percentile £26.43 £32.10 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.06 £34.61 £36.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +23.53% -34.62%
75th Percentile £63.00 £63.44 £59.51
90th Percentile £81.25 £82.85 £74.00
England median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +22.67% -12.00% -1.57%

.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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -16 15 £588 +23.68% 14
South London - 5 £713 - 3
.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 22 (17.89%) IIS
2 5 (4.07%) Appian
2 5 (4.07%) Camunda
2 5 (4.07%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (3.25%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.63%) CMS
6 1 (0.81%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.81%) nginx
6 1 (0.81%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 14 (11.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (7.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (4.07%) OpenText MBPM
2 5 (4.07%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.63%) Findur
4 1 (0.81%) Endur
4 1 (0.81%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.81%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 64 (52.03%) Azure
2 24 (19.51%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (18.70%) GitHub
4 11 (8.94%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (8.13%) AWS
5 10 (8.13%) Power Platform
6 9 (7.32%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (5.69%) SaaS
8 6 (4.88%) Azure App Service
8 6 (4.88%) Entra ID
8 6 (4.88%) Power Automate
9 5 (4.07%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (4.07%) PowerApps
10 4 (3.25%) Azure Functions
10 4 (3.25%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (3.25%) IaaS
10 4 (3.25%) PaaS
10 4 (3.25%) Serverless
11 3 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.38%) Internet
2 2 (1.63%) Intranet
2 2 (1.63%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.81%) DHCP
3 1 (0.81%) DNS
3 1 (0.81%) Firewall
3 1 (0.81%) LAN
3 1 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.81%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.81%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (52.85%) SQL Server
2 27 (21.95%) Oracle Database
3 16 (13.01%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (4.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.25%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.25%) Power BI
8 3 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.63%) ClickHouse
9 2 (1.63%) Db2
9 2 (1.63%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.63%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.81%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.81%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (8.94%) Visual Studio
2 10 (8.13%) Git
3 5 (4.07%) Bitbucket
3 5 (4.07%) GitLab
3 5 (4.07%) TeamCity
4 4 (3.25%) JetBrains Rider
4 4 (3.25%) JIRA
5 3 (2.44%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.44%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.44%) Selenium
6 2 (1.63%) Fiddler
6 2 (1.63%) git-flow
6 2 (1.63%) JMeter
6 2 (1.63%) Moq
6 2 (1.63%) MSI
6 2 (1.63%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.63%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.63%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.81%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.81%) NUnit
General
1 36 (29.27%) Finance
2 34 (27.64%) Social Skills
3 18 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (13.01%) Banking
5 4 (3.25%) Marketing
6 3 (2.44%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.63%) Front Office
7 2 (1.63%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.63%) Retail
8 1 (0.81%) Law
Job Titles
1 68 (55.28%) Developer
2 36 (29.27%) C# Developer
3 35 (28.46%) Architect
4 23 (18.70%) Solutions Architect
5 17 (13.82%) .NET Developer
6 14 (11.38%) Senior
7 13 (10.57%) Applications Architect
8 10 (8.13%) C# .NET Developer
8 10 (8.13%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (7.32%) Senior Developer
10 5 (4.07%) Applications Developer
10 5 (4.07%) BPM Developer
10 5 (4.07%) Dynamics 365 Architect
10 5 (4.07%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 5 (4.07%) Senior .NET Developer
10 5 (4.07%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.07%) SQL Developer
11 4 (3.25%) Full-Stack C# Developer
11 4 (3.25%) React Developer
11 4 (3.25%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (100.00%) .NET
2 26 (21.14%) REST
3 22 (17.89%) .NET Core
4 21 (17.07%) React
5 20 (16.26%) Entity Framework
6 19 (15.45%) ASP.NET
7 17 (13.82%) AngularJS
8 15 (12.20%) WPF
9 14 (11.38%) WinForms
10 10 (8.13%) ASP.NET Web API
10 10 (8.13%) RESTful
11 8 (6.50%) ASP.NET MVC
11 8 (6.50%) CSS
11 8 (6.50%) HTML
11 8 (6.50%) Middleware
11 8 (6.50%) SOAP
11 8 (6.50%) Vue
11 8 (6.50%) Web Services
12 7 (5.69%) Kafka
12 7 (5.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (21.14%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.94%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (5.69%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.25%) AI Agents
5 4 (3.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (2.44%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.63%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.63%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.81%) IoT
8 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (30.08%) Windows
2 11 (8.94%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.44%) Linux
4 2 (1.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (56.10%) DevOps
2 54 (43.90%) Agile
3 47 (38.21%) AI
4 40 (32.52%) SDLC
5 39 (31.71%) CI/CD
6 37 (30.08%) Scrum
7 36 (29.27%) OOP
8 35 (28.46%) Migration
9 26 (21.14%) Data Analysis
10 24 (19.51%) OO
11 20 (16.26%) Disaster Recovery
12 19 (15.45%) Unit Testing
13 18 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (13.82%) Microservices
14 17 (13.82%) Software Engineering
15 16 (13.01%) Event-Driven
15 16 (13.01%) Full-Stack Development
16 15 (12.20%) Deployment Automation
17 13 (10.57%) Workflow
18 12 (9.76%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 97 (78.86%) C#
2 59 (47.97%) SQL
3 36 (29.27%) JavaScript
4 33 (26.83%) T-SQL
5 30 (24.39%) PL/SQL
6 22 (17.89%) TypeScript
7 19 (15.45%) Python
8 12 (9.76%) VB
8 12 (9.76%) VBA
9 4 (3.25%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.44%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.63%) Bicep
11 2 (1.63%) C++
11 2 (1.63%) Java
12 1 (0.81%) CodeQL
12 1 (0.81%) XPath
Qualifications
1 28 (22.76%) Degree
2 13 (10.57%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.07%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.63%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.63%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (23.58%) QA
2 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (9.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (7.32%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.81%) Istio
Vendors
1 35 (28.46%) Oracle
2 29 (23.58%) Citrix
3 23 (18.70%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.07%) OpenText
5 3 (2.44%) IBM
5 3 (2.44%) Sitecore
5 3 (2.44%) UiPath
6 2 (1.63%) Databricks
6 2 (1.63%) OpenLink
6 2 (1.63%) WSO2
7 1 (0.81%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.81%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.81%) F5
7 1 (0.81%) Foundry
7 1 (0.81%) Okta
7 1 (0.81%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.81%) SAP
7 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow