.NET Software Engineer Contracts in London

.NET Software Engineer
England > London

The median .NET Software Engineer daily rate in London is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 338 417
Rank change year-on-year +2 +79 +82
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Software Engineer 17 53 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.30% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.32% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 47 71
10th Percentile £450 £538 £550
25th Percentile £547 £594 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £788 £750 £700
90th Percentile £825 £800 £738
England median daily rate £700 £688 £650
% change year-on-year +1.82% +5.77% +4.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

.NET Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured .NET Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Software Engineer in London

.NET Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for .NET Software Engineer in London

.NET Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Software Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Software Engineer in London

.NET Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET Software Engineer in London

.NET Software Engineer
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 Software Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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 +4 1 £575 -11.54% 12
.NET Software Engineer
England

.NET Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, .NET Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring .NET Software Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) .NET
1 17 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 16 (94.12%) C#
3 8 (47.06%) Azure
4 7 (41.18%) Front Office
5 6 (35.29%) .NET Core
5 6 (35.29%) Banking
6 5 (29.41%) Finance
6 5 (29.41%) AWS
7 4 (23.53%) Investment Banking
7 4 (23.53%) Agile
7 4 (23.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (23.53%) Microservices
7 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
7 4 (23.53%) Bicep
7 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
8 3 (17.65%) Event-Driven
8 3 (17.65%) Code Quality
8 3 (17.65%) Low Latency
8 3 (17.65%) Docker
8 3 (17.65%) Python
8 3 (17.65%) SQL
8 3 (17.65%) Unit Testing
8 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
8 3 (17.65%) Git
9 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
9 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
9 2 (11.76%) Entity Framework
9 2 (11.76%) Multithreading

.NET Software Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Stack
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) Ant
3 1 (5.88%) GitLab
3 1 (5.88%) Maven
3 1 (5.88%) Subversion
General
1 7 (41.18%) Front Office
2 6 (35.29%) Banking
3 5 (29.41%) Finance
4 4 (23.53%) Investment Banking
4 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Advertising
5 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (100.00%) .NET
2 6 (35.29%) .NET Core
3 2 (11.76%) .NET Framework
3 2 (11.76%) Entity Framework
4 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
4 1 (5.88%) Blazor
4 1 (5.88%) Dapper ORM
4 1 (5.88%) HTML
4 1 (5.88%) htmx
4 1 (5.88%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (5.88%) REST
4 1 (5.88%) RESTful
4 1 (5.88%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (11.76%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Derivative
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (5.88%) Equities
3 1 (5.88%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) NHS
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) TWAP
3 1 (5.88%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (23.53%) Agile
2 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
2 4 (23.53%) Microservices
3 3 (17.65%) Code Quality
3 3 (17.65%) Event-Driven
3 3 (17.65%) Low Latency
3 3 (17.65%) Unit Testing
4 2 (11.76%) Backlog Management
4 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
4 2 (11.76%) Data Development
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (11.76%) Multithreading
4 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
5 1 (5.88%) Architectural Design
5 1 (5.88%) Design Patterns
5 1 (5.88%) Digital Engineering
5 1 (5.88%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) C#
2 4 (23.53%) Bicep
3 3 (17.65%) Python
3 3 (17.65%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) C++
4 1 (5.88%) Go
4 1 (5.88%) VB
4 1 (5.88%) VB6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Databricks