.NET Software Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

.NET Software Engineer
England > London

The median .NET Software Engineer daily rate in London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 360 358
Rank change year-on-year -13 -2 +138
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Software Engineer 7 10 56
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.049% 0.064% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.068% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 51
10th Percentile £370 £400 £600
25th Percentile £430 £573 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £663 £700
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -5.36% +7.69%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £788
90th Percentile £688 £788 -
England median daily rate £500 £575 £700
% change year-on-year -13.04% -17.86% +7.69%

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 13,154 14,645 18,088
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.27% 93.65% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,738 9,514 13,071
10th Percentile £338 £338 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -2.60%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £761 £800 £788
England median daily rate £504 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.05% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 154 210
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.15
25th Percentile £21.35 £23.80 £21.81
Median hourly rate £27.86 £35.75 £36.31
Median % change year-on-year -22.08% -1.53% +3.73%
75th Percentile £54.06 £53.75 £59.69
90th Percentile £74.75 £80.75 £73.66
England median hourly rate £25.74 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.91% -17.22% +38.46%

.NET Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring '.NET Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

.NET Software Engineer job vacancy trend in London

.NET Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for .NET Software Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for .NET Software Engineer job vacancies 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 3 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Software Engineer in London

.NET Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for .NET Software Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for .NET Software Engineer job vacancies in London

.NET Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 3 December 2025, .NET Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring .NET Software Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) .NET
1 7 (100.00%) C#
1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) OO
3 3 (42.86%) OOP
3 3 (42.86%) SOLID
3 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) API Development
4 2 (28.57%) Cash Management
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Fintech
4 2 (28.57%) Kafka
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Multithreading
4 2 (28.57%) Order Management
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Salesforce
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
5 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
5 1 (14.29%) AWS
5 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
5 1 (14.29%) Docker
5 1 (14.29%) Entity Framework
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code

.NET Software Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Investment Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Front Office
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
3 1 (14.29%) Entity Framework
3 1 (14.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Microservices
2 3 (42.86%) OO
2 3 (42.86%) OOP
2 3 (42.86%) SOLID
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) API Development
3 2 (28.57%) Cash Management
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Fintech
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Multithreading
3 2 (28.57%) Order Management
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Salesforce