.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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 216 203
Rank change year-on-year -74 -13 +55
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 124 137 214
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.65% 1.07% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.82% 4.07% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 112 151
10th Percentile £404 - £363
25th Percentile £415 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -5.00% -4.31%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £625
90th Percentile £690 £745 £725
England median daily rate £475 £475 £483
% change year-on-year - -1.71% -7.07%

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 4,391 3,368 4,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.85% 26.29% 26.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,908 2,348 3,474
10th Percentile £381 £377 £375
25th Percentile £450 £429 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £713 £710
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 21 28
10th Percentile £24.30 - £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.00 £45.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.88% -36.80%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.50 £61.70
90th Percentile £92.50 £87.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.15
% change year-on-year +8.33% +3.18% -10.54%

.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 29 June 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 29 June 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 -11 12 £645 +39.46% 14
West London -22 1 £400 -27.80%
.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 (15.32%) IIS
2 10 (8.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (6.45%) SharePoint
4 5 (4.03%) Appian
4 5 (4.03%) Camunda
4 5 (4.03%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.81%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.81%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (4.03%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (4.03%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (3.23%) Findur
3 3 (2.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.81%) Endur
4 1 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.81%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.81%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 56 (45.16%) Azure
2 25 (20.16%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (17.74%) GitHub
4 15 (12.10%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (7.26%) Azure App Service
5 9 (7.26%) Entra ID
6 8 (6.45%) Azure Key Vault
6 8 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
6 8 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (5.65%) AWS
7 7 (5.65%) Azure Service Bus
7 7 (5.65%) PaaS
8 5 (4.03%) Azure WebJobs
8 5 (4.03%) Power Platform
8 5 (4.03%) SaaS
9 4 (3.23%) Azure AKS
9 4 (3.23%) Power Automate
10 3 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.42%) n8n
10 3 (2.42%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.68%) Internet
2 2 (1.61%) Intranet
2 2 (1.61%) 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%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.81%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.81%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (54.03%) SQL Server
2 32 (25.81%) Oracle Database
3 20 (16.13%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.42%) Crystal Reports
5 3 (2.42%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.42%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (2.42%) Power BI
5 3 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.61%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.81%) ClickHouse
7 1 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 11 (8.87%) Visual Studio
2 9 (7.26%) Git
3 8 (6.45%) JIRA
4 4 (3.23%) GitLab
5 3 (2.42%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.42%) MSTest
5 3 (2.42%) NUnit
5 3 (2.42%) SpecFlow
5 3 (2.42%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.61%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.61%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.61%) Fiddler
6 2 (1.61%) git-flow
6 2 (1.61%) Jasmine
6 2 (1.61%) JetBrains Rider
6 2 (1.61%) JMeter
6 2 (1.61%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (1.61%) Moq
6 2 (1.61%) MSI
7 1 (0.81%) Claude Code
General
1 47 (37.90%) Finance
2 33 (26.61%) Social Skills
3 25 (20.16%) Banking
4 9 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.42%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.61%) Front Office
6 2 (1.61%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 86 (69.35%) Developer
2 51 (41.13%) C# Developer
3 27 (21.77%) Architect
4 22 (17.74%) Solutions Architect
5 21 (16.94%) .NET Developer
6 15 (12.10%) Senior
7 13 (10.48%) C# .NET Developer
8 11 (8.87%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (8.87%) Senior Developer
9 10 (8.06%) Applications Developer
10 7 (5.65%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 6 (4.84%) C# Application Developer
11 6 (4.84%) Full-Stack C# Developer
11 6 (4.84%) Senior C# Developer
12 5 (4.03%) Applications Architect
12 5 (4.03%) Azure Developer
12 5 (4.03%) BPM Developer
12 5 (4.03%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 5 (4.03%) Senior .NET Developer
12 5 (4.03%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (100.00%) .NET
2 26 (20.97%) React
3 20 (16.13%) .NET Core
4 17 (13.71%) REST
5 16 (12.90%) ASP.NET
6 14 (11.29%) CSS
6 14 (11.29%) HTML
7 13 (10.48%) Entity Framework
8 12 (9.68%) WinForms
8 12 (9.68%) WPF
9 11 (8.87%) AngularJS
10 10 (8.06%) RESTful
11 9 (7.26%) Web Services
12 8 (6.45%) SOAP
13 6 (4.84%) ASP.NET MVC
13 6 (4.84%) OAuth
13 6 (4.84%) Vue
14 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Graph
14 5 (4.03%) OAuth2
14 5 (4.03%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.94%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.06%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (8.06%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (4.84%) AI Agents
4 6 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.42%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.61%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.81%) Derivative
8 1 (0.81%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (0.81%) IoT
8 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.81%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.81%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 39 (31.45%) Windows
2 17 (13.71%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.42%) Unix
4 2 (1.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (54.03%) DevOps
2 51 (41.13%) Agile
3 47 (37.90%) AI
4 36 (29.03%) CI/CD
5 34 (27.42%) Data Analysis
5 34 (27.42%) OOP
6 32 (25.81%) SDLC
7 30 (24.19%) Unit Testing
8 29 (23.39%) Scrum
9 27 (21.77%) Disaster Recovery
10 24 (19.35%) Migration
11 21 (16.94%) Change Management
11 21 (16.94%) OO
12 16 (12.90%) Full-Stack Development
12 16 (12.90%) Microservices
12 16 (12.90%) Test Automation
13 15 (12.10%) Software Engineering
14 13 (10.48%) Business Intelligence
14 13 (10.48%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (10.48%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 108 (87.10%) C#
2 61 (49.19%) SQL
3 36 (29.03%) PL/SQL
3 36 (29.03%) T-SQL
4 22 (17.74%) Python
5 20 (16.13%) TypeScript
6 19 (15.32%) JavaScript
7 10 (8.06%) VB
7 10 (8.06%) VBA
8 9 (7.26%) PowerShell
9 5 (4.03%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (2.42%) Java
10 3 (2.42%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.61%) Bicep
11 2 (1.61%) C++
12 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.81%) XPath
Qualifications
1 30 (24.19%) Degree
2 9 (7.26%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.65%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.81%) CISSP
4 1 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.81%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (29.84%) QA
2 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.81%) SLA
2 1 (0.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (7.26%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.42%) Terraform
3 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 52 (41.94%) Oracle
2 35 (28.23%) Citrix
3 17 (13.71%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.03%) OpenText
5 4 (3.23%) OpenLink
6 2 (1.61%) Databricks
6 2 (1.61%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.81%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.81%) BMC
7 1 (0.81%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.81%) F5
7 1 (0.81%) Google
7 1 (0.81%) Okta
7 1 (0.81%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.81%) Remedy
7 1 (0.81%) SAP
7 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.81%) UiPath