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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 226 213
Rank change year-on-year -62 -13 -20
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 94 138 196
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.64% 1.01% 1.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.46% 3.85% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 100 158
10th Percentile £385 £384 £385
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £533 £568
Median % change year-on-year -22.07% -6.17% -15.93%
75th Percentile £552 £624 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £704
England median daily rate £456 £511 £540
% change year-on-year -10.76% -5.32% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 - -
England median hourly rate £55.50 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -3.97%

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 3,826 3,587 4,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.12% 26.16% 24.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,579 2,335 3,499
10th Percentile £363 £380 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £688
90th Percentile £772 £825 £800
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 20 30
10th Percentile £35.00 £34.83 £29.60
25th Percentile £41.88 £38.44 £35.79
Median hourly rate £55.00 £54.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +10.77% -25.00%
75th Percentile £66.25 £65.00 £69.19
90th Percentile £95.00 £81.38 £76.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

.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 27 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 27 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 -32 3 £500 -23.08% 13
South London -5 2 £500 -18.37%
West London - 1 £400 - 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 15 (15.96%) IIS
2 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (4.26%) Confluence
3 4 (4.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (18.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.06%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.06%) Fidessa
1 1 (1.06%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 28 (29.79%) Azure
2 16 (17.02%) GitHub
3 15 (15.96%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (11.70%) AWS
5 7 (7.45%) Azure Service Bus
5 7 (7.45%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (6.38%) Azure App Service
6 6 (6.38%) Azure Key Vault
6 6 (6.38%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (6.38%) Entra ID
7 5 (5.32%) Azure WebJobs
7 5 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (5.32%) PaaS
8 3 (3.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (3.19%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (3.19%) GCP
8 3 (3.19%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.19%) Serverless
9 2 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.13%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.64%) Internet
2 1 (1.06%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (65.96%) SQL Server
2 22 (23.40%) Oracle Database
3 7 (7.45%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.13%) Power BI
4 2 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.06%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.06%) DataStage
5 1 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (12.77%) SpecFlow
2 10 (10.64%) Visual Studio
3 9 (9.57%) Git
3 9 (9.57%) JIRA
4 4 (4.26%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.19%) MSTest
5 3 (3.19%) Postman
6 2 (2.13%) Selenium
7 1 (1.06%) AppVeyor
7 1 (1.06%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.06%) JMeter
7 1 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 42 (44.68%) Finance
2 24 (25.53%) Social Skills
3 20 (21.28%) Banking
4 6 (6.38%) Financial Institution
5 5 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.32%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.19%) Front Office
6 3 (3.19%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (80.85%) Developer
2 54 (57.45%) C# Developer
3 33 (35.11%) .NET Developer
4 24 (25.53%) C# .NET Developer
5 16 (17.02%) Angular Developer
5 16 (17.02%) Senior
6 14 (14.89%) Senior Developer
7 12 (12.77%) C# WPF Developer
7 12 (12.77%) WPF Developer
8 8 (8.51%) Senior .NET Developer
8 8 (8.51%) Senior C# Developer
9 6 (6.38%) Architect
9 6 (6.38%) C# WCF Developer
9 6 (6.38%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (6.38%) WCF Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Agile .NET Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Agile C# Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Agile Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Applications Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (100.00%) .NET
2 24 (25.53%) WPF
3 21 (22.34%) Entity Framework
4 19 (20.21%) REST
5 18 (19.15%) WinForms
6 16 (17.02%) .NET Core
7 15 (15.96%) AngularJS
7 15 (15.96%) NHibernate
7 15 (15.96%) Playwright
7 15 (15.96%) RESTful
8 13 (13.83%) React
9 11 (11.70%) ASP.NET
10 8 (8.51%) Web Services
11 7 (7.45%) SOAP
11 7 (7.45%) WCF
12 6 (6.38%) ASP.NET MVC
13 5 (5.32%) ASP.NET Web API
13 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Graph
14 4 (4.26%) XML
15 3 (3.19%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.51%) Enterprise Software
1 8 (8.51%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.32%) Credit Risk
2 5 (5.32%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.32%) Market Risk
3 3 (3.19%) AI Agents
3 3 (3.19%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.19%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.13%) Derivative
4 2 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.06%) BYOD
5 1 (1.06%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (1.06%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.06%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.06%) Life Science
5 1 (1.06%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.06%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 40 (42.55%) Windows
2 14 (14.89%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.06%) Linux
3 1 (1.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (30.85%) DevOps
2 28 (29.79%) CI/CD
3 26 (27.66%) Agile
3 26 (27.66%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (24.47%) Microservices
5 22 (23.40%) Data Analysis
5 22 (23.40%) Unit Testing
6 21 (22.34%) Disaster Recovery
7 17 (18.09%) Full-Stack Development
8 16 (17.02%) Business Intelligence
8 16 (17.02%) Change Management
9 14 (14.89%) Clean Code
10 13 (13.83%) Risk Management
11 12 (12.77%) OOP
12 11 (11.70%) MVC
12 11 (11.70%) Scrum
13 10 (10.64%) AI
13 10 (10.64%) OO
13 10 (10.64%) SDLC
13 10 (10.64%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 91 (96.81%) C#
2 51 (54.26%) SQL
3 33 (35.11%) PL/SQL
4 27 (28.72%) T-SQL
5 16 (17.02%) VB
5 16 (17.02%) VBA
6 8 (8.51%) JavaScript
7 7 (7.45%) PowerShell
7 7 (7.45%) Python
8 6 (6.38%) VB.NET
9 5 (5.32%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (4.26%) TypeScript
11 2 (2.13%) Java
12 1 (1.06%) Bicep
12 1 (1.06%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (19.15%) Degree
2 8 (8.51%) SC Cleared
2 8 (8.51%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.13%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.06%) CISSP
4 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (29.79%) QA
2 3 (3.19%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.13%) MiFID
4 1 (1.06%) EMIR
System Software
1 7 (7.45%) Docker
2 2 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.19%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (42.55%) Oracle
2 24 (25.53%) Citrix
3 19 (20.21%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.19%) Marketo
4 3 (3.19%) OneTrust
4 3 (3.19%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.19%) Sitecore
5 2 (2.13%) Databricks
5 2 (2.13%) Okta
6 1 (1.06%) Blue Prism
6 1 (1.06%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.06%) Portware
6 1 (1.06%) UiPath