.NET Framework Contracts in London

Microsoft .NET Framework
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring .NET Framework skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET Framework over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 223 221 272
Rank change year-on-year -2 +51 -71
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 128 184 238
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.03% 1.05% 0.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.96% 4.10% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 134 205
10th Percentile - £363 -
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £596 £619 £750
90th Percentile £738 £702 £820
England median daily rate £475 £475 £531
% change year-on-year - -10.59% -2.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £52.97
England median hourly rate £23.41 £80.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -70.74% +14.29% +40.04%

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 3,229 4,488 7,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.06% 25.69% 26.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,258 3,353 5,254
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £725
90th Percentile £838 £825 £810
England median daily rate £525 £550 £559
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.52% -2.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 24 36
10th Percentile - £16.25 £30.38
25th Percentile £33.25 £23.80 £36.89
Median hourly rate £48.50 £40.00 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.25% -40.52% +41.58%
75th Percentile £65.63 £63.13 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.60 £82.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing .NET Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Framework in London

.NET Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Framework in London.

Daily rate trend for .NET Framework in London

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Framework in London

.NET Framework
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Framework in London.

Hourly rate trend for .NET Framework in London

.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 20 May 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 -17 8 £550 -2.22% 11
West London +15 5 £554 -7.67% 1
East London +14 4 £438 -12.50% 1
South London - 3 £500 - 1
.NET Framework
England

.NET Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (10.16%) IIS
2 1 (0.78%) Confluence
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.78%) MQSeries
Applications
1 29 (22.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (10.94%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (31.25%) Azure
2 21 (16.41%) AWS
3 18 (14.06%) Dynamics 365
4 16 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 15 (11.72%) Azure Functions
5 15 (11.72%) Serverless
6 14 (10.94%) PowerApps
7 13 (10.16%) Azure Logic Apps
7 13 (10.16%) Azure Service Bus
7 13 (10.16%) Power Automate
8 11 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (6.25%) GCP
10 6 (4.69%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (4.69%) Entra ID
11 4 (3.13%) Azure Event Grid
11 4 (3.13%) GitHub
12 2 (1.56%) Boomi
12 2 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
13 1 (0.78%) IaaS
13 1 (0.78%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.81%) Internet
2 3 (2.34%) HTTP
3 2 (1.56%) DHCP
3 2 (1.56%) DNS
3 2 (1.56%) Firewall
3 2 (1.56%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.56%) SSL
3 2 (1.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (44.53%) SQL Server
2 35 (27.34%) Oracle Database
3 17 (13.28%) Relational Database
4 13 (10.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (4.69%) MongoDB
6 6 (4.69%) MySQL
6 6 (4.69%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.13%) Power BI
8 3 (2.34%) Redis
9 2 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.56%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.78%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 13 (10.16%) Git
2 6 (4.69%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.69%) JIRA
3 5 (3.91%) NUnit
4 4 (3.13%) GitLab
5 2 (1.56%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.56%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.78%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.78%) JUnit
6 1 (0.78%) Moq
6 1 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.78%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.78%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.78%) TestNG
6 1 (0.78%) Toad
General
1 44 (34.38%) Finance
2 30 (23.44%) Social Skills
3 22 (17.19%) Banking
4 8 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.47%) Front Office
6 5 (3.91%) Billing
6 5 (3.91%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.13%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.56%) Legal
9 1 (0.78%) Back Office
9 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 102 (79.69%) Developer
2 69 (53.91%) .NET Developer
3 59 (46.09%) C# Developer
4 43 (33.59%) C# .NET Developer
5 31 (24.22%) C# WPF Developer
5 31 (24.22%) WPF Developer
6 17 (13.28%) Senior
7 14 (10.94%) Senior Developer
8 11 (8.59%) Architect
9 10 (7.81%) C# WCF Developer
9 10 (7.81%) Senior C# Developer
9 10 (7.81%) WCF Developer
10 9 (7.03%) Cloud Developer
10 9 (7.03%) Lead
10 9 (7.03%) Senior .NET Developer
11 8 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (6.25%) Senior C# .NET Developer
12 7 (5.47%) CRM Architect
12 7 (5.47%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 7 (5.47%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (100.00%) .NET
2 39 (30.47%) Entity Framework
3 34 (26.56%) WPF
4 31 (24.22%) WCF
5 25 (19.53%) HTML
6 24 (18.75%) .NET Core
7 22 (17.19%) ASP.NET
7 22 (17.19%) CSS
8 21 (16.41%) ASP.NET Web API
9 15 (11.72%) AngularJS
9 15 (11.72%) RESTful
10 14 (10.94%) JSON
11 13 (10.16%) React
11 13 (10.16%) WinForms
11 13 (10.16%) XML
12 12 (9.38%) ASP.NET MVC
13 10 (7.81%) HTML5 Canvas
13 10 (7.81%) REST
14 9 (7.03%) Web Services
15 7 (5.47%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.47%) Fixed Income
2 5 (3.91%) Market Risk
2 5 (3.91%) N-Tier
2 5 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.56%) PKI
4 2 (1.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 40 (31.25%) Windows
2 3 (2.34%) Linux
2 3 (2.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (25.00%) Agile
2 23 (17.97%) MVC
2 23 (17.97%) TDD
3 22 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (16.41%) CI/CD
5 20 (15.63%) CRM
6 19 (14.84%) Web Development
7 17 (13.28%) DevOps
7 17 (13.28%) Full-Stack Development
7 17 (13.28%) Test Automation
7 17 (13.28%) Unit Testing
8 16 (12.50%) Design Patterns
9 15 (11.72%) Data Analysis
10 14 (10.94%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (10.94%) OOP
11 12 (9.38%) Containerisation
11 12 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
11 12 (9.38%) Microservices
12 11 (8.59%) Scrum
13 10 (7.81%) OO
Programming Languages
1 113 (88.28%) C#
2 83 (64.84%) SQL
3 45 (35.16%) PL/SQL
4 33 (25.78%) VB
5 32 (25.00%) JavaScript
6 31 (24.22%) VBA
7 19 (14.84%) VB.NET
8 18 (14.06%) T-SQL
9 12 (9.38%) TypeScript
10 11 (8.59%) RPG
10 11 (8.59%) RPG IV
11 6 (4.69%) F#
12 4 (3.13%) Python
13 2 (1.56%) C++
13 2 (1.56%) Java
13 2 (1.56%) VB6
Qualifications
1 11 (8.59%) Degree
2 7 (5.47%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (3.91%) MCPD
3 5 (3.91%) MCSD
3 5 (3.91%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.56%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 2 (1.56%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.78%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.94%) QA
2 2 (1.56%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.56%) Government Security Classifications
2 2 (1.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.78%) GDPR
3 1 (0.78%) HL7
System Software
1 23 (17.97%) Docker
2 4 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (13.28%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.69%) Terraform
3 1 (0.78%) Ansible
Vendors
1 39 (30.47%) Microsoft
2 37 (28.91%) Oracle
3 10 (7.81%) Citrix
4 5 (3.91%) TIBCO
5 4 (3.13%) Solace
6 3 (2.34%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.56%) Cisco
7 2 (1.56%) IBM
7 2 (1.56%) SAP
7 2 (1.56%) VMware
8 1 (0.78%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.78%) Databricks
8 1 (0.78%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.78%) Google
8 1 (0.78%) Pardot
8 1 (0.78%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.78%) Splunk
8 1 (0.78%) Workday