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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 265 201
Rank change year-on-year -78 -64 +33
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 123 105 213
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.61% 0.78% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.30% 2.63% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 78 157
10th Percentile £404 - £363
25th Percentile £433 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.74% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £765
England median daily rate £500 £473 £525
% change year-on-year +5.82% -10.00% -4.55%

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 5,355 3,986 4,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.35% 29.59% 30.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,602 2,747 3,411
10th Percentile £400 £367 £385
25th Percentile £454 £432 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £680 £702
90th Percentile £763 £800 £850
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 32 22
10th Percentile £26.25 £31.77 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.00 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.37% +22.28% -32.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.81 £59.51
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.00
England median hourly rate £66.83 £55.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +21.51% -12.60% +0.68%

.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 25 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 25 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 14 £600 +26.32% 12
South London - 6 £725 - 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 21 (17.07%) 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 13 (10.57%) 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 63 (51.22%) 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 13 (10.57%) 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 66 (53.66%) SQL Server
2 26 (21.14%) Oracle Database
3 17 (13.82%) 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%) Db2
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%) 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%) REST Assured
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%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.81%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.81%) NUnit
General
1 36 (29.27%) Finance
2 35 (28.46%) Social Skills
3 18 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.38%) Banking
5 4 (3.25%) Marketing
6 2 (1.63%) Front Office
6 2 (1.63%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.63%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.63%) Retail
7 1 (0.81%) Law
Job Titles
1 67 (54.47%) Developer
2 36 (29.27%) Architect
2 36 (29.27%) C# Developer
3 23 (18.70%) Solutions Architect
4 19 (15.45%) .NET Developer
5 14 (11.38%) Applications Architect
5 14 (11.38%) Senior
6 11 (8.94%) C# .NET Developer
7 10 (8.13%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (7.32%) Senior Developer
9 7 (5.69%) Senior .NET 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 C# .NET Developer
10 5 (4.07%) Senior C# Developer
10 5 (4.07%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.07%) SQL Developer
11 4 (3.25%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 4 (3.25%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (100.00%) .NET
2 27 (21.95%) REST
3 23 (18.70%) .NET Core
4 20 (16.26%) Entity Framework
5 19 (15.45%) React
6 18 (14.63%) ASP.NET
7 17 (13.82%) AngularJS
8 14 (11.38%) WPF
9 13 (10.57%) WinForms
10 12 (9.76%) ASP.NET Web API
11 11 (8.94%) RESTful
12 9 (7.32%) SOAP
12 9 (7.32%) Web Services
13 8 (6.50%) ASP.NET MVC
13 8 (6.50%) CSS
13 8 (6.50%) HTML
13 8 (6.50%) Middleware
14 7 (5.69%) Kafka
14 7 (5.69%) XML
15 6 (4.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 27 (21.95%) 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%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.63%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.63%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.81%) IoT
7 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.81%) Spread Betting
7 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (29.27%) Windows
2 11 (8.94%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.44%) Linux
4 2 (1.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (56.91%) DevOps
2 56 (45.53%) Agile
3 49 (39.84%) AI
4 42 (34.15%) SDLC
5 40 (32.52%) CI/CD
6 38 (30.89%) Scrum
7 37 (30.08%) OOP
8 36 (29.27%) Migration
9 25 (20.33%) Data Analysis
9 25 (20.33%) OO
10 19 (15.45%) Disaster Recovery
10 19 (15.45%) Unit Testing
11 18 (14.63%) Microservices
11 18 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (14.63%) Software Engineering
12 16 (13.01%) Event-Driven
13 15 (12.20%) Deployment Automation
14 14 (11.38%) Full-Stack Development
15 13 (10.57%) Generative AI
15 13 (10.57%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 96 (78.05%) C#
2 58 (47.15%) SQL
3 37 (30.08%) JavaScript
4 32 (26.02%) T-SQL
5 29 (23.58%) PL/SQL
6 22 (17.89%) TypeScript
7 17 (13.82%) Python
8 11 (8.94%) VB
8 11 (8.94%) 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 12 (9.76%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.25%) 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 28 (22.76%) QA
2 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.81%) GDPR
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 34 (27.64%) Oracle
2 28 (22.76%) Citrix
3 24 (19.51%) 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%) 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