.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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 212 213
Rank change year-on-year -76 +1 -39
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 96 169 196
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.67% 1.13% 1.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.52% 4.38% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 124 152
10th Percentile £385 £366 -
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -24.56% -0.87% -14.81%
75th Percentile £584 £675 £671
90th Percentile £700 £738 £740
England median daily rate £463 £542 £550
% change year-on-year -14.66% -1.46% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £20.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +235.00% -71.43% +6.40%

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 3,809 3,860 4,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.45% 25.73% 25.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,574 2,519 3,570
10th Percentile £361 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £667 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 19 31
10th Percentile £33.43 £34.65 £29.72
25th Percentile £43.77 £38.38 £35.94
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -19.68%
75th Percentile £63.56 £63.75 £71.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £72.80 £77.50
England median hourly rate £57.75 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -7.60% +20.45% -20.17%

.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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 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 -28 4 £525 -25.00% 13
South London -7 2 £500 -18.37% 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 14 (14.58%) IIS
2 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (4.17%) Confluence
3 4 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (20.83%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (6.25%) Aladdin
2 5 (5.21%) Fidessa
3 4 (4.17%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 32 (33.33%) Azure
2 18 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (16.67%) GitHub
4 10 (10.42%) Azure Service Bus
5 9 (9.38%) AWS
6 7 (7.29%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (7.29%) Serverless
7 6 (6.25%) Azure App Service
7 6 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (6.25%) Entra ID
8 5 (5.21%) Azure WebJobs
8 5 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (5.21%) PaaS
9 3 (3.13%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (2.08%) Azure Event Grid
10 2 (2.08%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.38%) Internet
2 1 (1.04%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (60.42%) SQL Server
2 24 (25.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.08%) Power BI
3 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.04%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.04%) DataStage
4 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (13.54%) SpecFlow
2 10 (10.42%) JIRA
3 9 (9.38%) Git
4 6 (6.25%) Visual Studio
5 4 (4.17%) Jenkins
6 3 (3.13%) MSTest
6 3 (3.13%) Postman
7 2 (2.08%) Selenium
8 1 (1.04%) AppVeyor
8 1 (1.04%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.04%) JMeter
8 1 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 49 (51.04%) Finance
2 27 (28.13%) Social Skills
3 20 (20.83%) Banking
4 7 (7.29%) Financial Institution
5 6 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.21%) Front Office
6 5 (5.21%) Investment Banking
6 5 (5.21%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.04%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 74 (77.08%) Developer
2 47 (48.96%) C# Developer
3 35 (36.46%) .NET Developer
4 25 (26.04%) C# .NET Developer
5 19 (19.79%) Angular Developer
6 17 (17.71%) C# WPF Developer
6 17 (17.71%) WPF Developer
7 14 (14.58%) Senior
8 13 (13.54%) Senior Developer
9 9 (9.38%) Architect
10 7 (7.29%) C# WCF Developer
10 7 (7.29%) Senior .NET Developer
10 7 (7.29%) WCF Developer
11 6 (6.25%) Senior C# Developer
12 5 (5.21%) Agile .NET Developer
12 5 (5.21%) Agile C# Developer
12 5 (5.21%) Agile Developer
12 5 (5.21%) Full-Stack Developer
13 4 (4.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 4 (4.17%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (100.00%) .NET
2 26 (27.08%) WPF
3 25 (26.04%) Entity Framework
3 25 (26.04%) REST
4 18 (18.75%) AngularJS
4 18 (18.75%) NHibernate
5 16 (16.67%) Playwright
5 16 (16.67%) RESTful
5 16 (16.67%) WinForms
6 14 (14.58%) .NET Core
7 9 (9.38%) React
7 9 (9.38%) SOAP
8 8 (8.33%) ASP.NET
8 8 (8.33%) WCF
9 7 (7.29%) Web Services
10 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (5.21%) NgRx
11 4 (4.17%) ASP.NET MVC
11 4 (4.17%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (7.29%) Fixed Income
2 7 (7.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.21%) Credit Risk
4 5 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (5.21%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.21%) Market Risk
4 5 (5.21%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.17%) Derivative
6 3 (3.13%) Hedge funds
7 2 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.04%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.04%) BYOD
8 1 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.04%) Life Science
8 1 (1.04%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (39.58%) Windows
2 9 (9.38%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (32.29%) DevOps
2 30 (31.25%) Agile
2 30 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 28 (29.17%) Microservices
4 24 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (19.79%) Unit Testing
6 18 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 17 (17.71%) Clean Code
7 17 (17.71%) Data Analysis
8 16 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
9 14 (14.58%) Risk Management
10 13 (13.54%) Software Engineering
11 12 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (12.50%) OOP
12 11 (11.46%) Scrum
13 10 (10.42%) API Development
13 10 (10.42%) Design Patterns
13 10 (10.42%) ETRM
13 10 (10.42%) Line Management
14 9 (9.38%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 92 (95.83%) C#
2 53 (55.21%) SQL
3 32 (33.33%) PL/SQL
4 23 (23.96%) T-SQL
5 19 (19.79%) VB
5 19 (19.79%) VBA
6 10 (10.42%) VB.NET
7 7 (7.29%) PowerShell
8 6 (6.25%) JavaScript
9 5 (5.21%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (2.08%) Python
11 1 (1.04%) Bicep
11 1 (1.04%) Java
11 1 (1.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (15.63%) Degree
2 8 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 8 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (21.88%) QA
2 6 (6.25%) MiFID
3 3 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.08%) EMIR
System Software
1 8 (8.33%) Docker
2 2 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.08%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (36.46%) Oracle
2 23 (23.96%) Microsoft
3 19 (19.79%) Citrix
4 4 (4.17%) Portware
5 3 (3.13%) Marketo
5 3 (3.13%) OneTrust
5 3 (3.13%) Sitecore
6 2 (2.08%) Databricks
6 2 (2.08%) Murex
6 2 (2.08%) Okta
6 2 (2.08%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.04%) CQG
7 1 (1.04%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.04%) TOWER Software
7 1 (1.04%) UiPath