.NET Contracts in London

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring .NET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 35 38
Rank change year-on-year -18 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing .NET 554 910 1,545
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.42% 5.10% 5.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.94% 20.39% 20.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 703 1,214
10th Percentile £385 £386 £400
25th Percentile £458 £463 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £775 £688 £750
90th Percentile £850 £750 £806
England median daily rate £525 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -2.33% -6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £33.00
25th Percentile - - £36.25
Median hourly rate - - £44.99
75th Percentile - - £63.87
90th Percentile - - £70.00
England median hourly rate £23.41 £58.91 £55.00
% change year-on-year -60.26% +7.10% +13.40%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

.NET 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 3,271 4,464 7,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 25.04% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 3,349 5,511
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £730
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £36.06 £23.90 £37.84
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £68.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in London

.NET
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for .NET in London

.NET
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for .NET in London

.NET
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET in London

.NET
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 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 -1 97 £585 +6.36% 56
East London +10 7 £538 - 2
West London +3 5 £554 -3.65% 72
South London 0 3 £500 -1.96% 2
.NET
England

.NET
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 15 (2.71%) IIS
2 14 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.44%) GemFire
3 8 (1.44%) Oracle Coherence
4 7 (1.26%) Apache
4 7 (1.26%) BizTalk Server
5 5 (0.90%) Confluence
6 4 (0.72%) CMS
6 4 (0.72%) Drupal
7 3 (0.54%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.54%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.18%) MQSeries
Applications
1 36 (6.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 30 (5.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.08%) Endur
3 2 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.36%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.36%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.18%) FastStats
4 1 (0.18%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 222 (40.07%) Azure
2 84 (15.16%) AWS
3 79 (14.26%) Azure DevOps
4 60 (10.83%) Power Platform
5 46 (8.30%) Dynamics 365
6 41 (7.40%) Serverless
7 34 (6.14%) PowerApps
8 33 (5.96%) Azure Functions
8 33 (5.96%) Power Automate
9 28 (5.05%) Azure Logic Apps
10 27 (4.87%) Azure Service Bus
11 18 (3.25%) Azure Monitor
11 18 (3.25%) Entra ID
12 17 (3.07%) GitHub
13 16 (2.89%) Azure Data Factory
14 14 (2.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 14 (2.53%) Azure Sentinel
15 13 (2.35%) Azure AKS
16 12 (2.17%) GCP
17 11 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.35%) HTTP
2 12 (2.17%) DNS
2 12 (2.17%) TCP/IP
3 11 (1.99%) Internet
4 9 (1.62%) SSL
5 8 (1.44%) Firewall
6 7 (1.26%) FTP
6 7 (1.26%) SMTP
7 3 (0.54%) Network Security
8 2 (0.36%) DHCP
8 2 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.18%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (22.38%) SQL Server
2 36 (6.50%) Oracle Database
3 32 (5.78%) Relational Database
4 31 (5.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 27 (4.87%) NoSQL
6 24 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (3.79%) MongoDB
7 21 (3.79%) Power BI
8 16 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
9 15 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (1.44%) Big Data
11 8 (1.44%) MySQL
12 6 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.90%) Redis
14 4 (0.72%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.54%) ClickHouse
15 3 (0.54%) Snowflake Schema
15 3 (0.54%) Star Schema
16 2 (0.36%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 45 (8.12%) Git
1 45 (8.12%) Jenkins
2 29 (5.23%) JIRA
3 21 (3.79%) Bitbucket
4 15 (2.71%) TeamCity
5 9 (1.62%) NUnit
5 9 (1.62%) Selenium
6 6 (1.08%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.08%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.90%) Ant
7 5 (0.90%) GitLab
8 4 (0.72%) HP UFT
8 4 (0.72%) JUnit
8 4 (0.72%) Postman
8 4 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.72%) TestComplete
9 3 (0.54%) Babel
9 3 (0.54%) MSTest
9 3 (0.54%) SpecFlow
9 3 (0.54%) webpack
General
1 168 (30.32%) Social Skills
2 150 (27.08%) Finance
3 108 (19.49%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (19.31%) Banking
5 69 (12.45%) Front Office
6 55 (9.93%) Investment Banking
7 32 (5.78%) Public Sector
8 28 (5.05%) Organisational Skills
9 22 (3.97%) Back Office
10 8 (1.44%) Billing
10 8 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.26%) Marketing
12 6 (1.08%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.08%) Legal
12 6 (1.08%) Retail
13 5 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.72%) Law
15 3 (0.54%) Local Government
15 3 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 362 (65.34%) Developer
2 149 (26.90%) C# Developer
3 146 (26.35%) .NET Developer
4 80 (14.44%) C# .NET Developer
5 71 (12.82%) Senior
6 60 (10.83%) Lead
7 52 (9.39%) Senior Developer
8 38 (6.86%) Full-Stack Developer
9 37 (6.68%) Architect
10 36 (6.50%) Software Engineer
11 33 (5.96%) WPF Developer
12 32 (5.78%) C# WPF Developer
13 31 (5.60%) Python Developer
14 25 (4.51%) Technical Leader
15 23 (4.15%) C++ Developer
15 23 (4.15%) Senior .NET Developer
16 22 (3.97%) C++/C# Developer
16 22 (3.97%) Senior C# Developer
17 20 (3.61%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
17 20 (3.61%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (23.65%) .NET Framework
2 103 (18.59%) .NET Core
3 91 (16.43%) ASP.NET
4 76 (13.72%) HTML
4 76 (13.72%) React
5 75 (13.54%) AngularJS
6 70 (12.64%) CSS
7 53 (9.57%) WCF
8 48 (8.66%) Kafka
8 48 (8.66%) WPF
9 46 (8.30%) Web Services
10 42 (7.58%) ASP.NET Web API
11 41 (7.40%) Entity Framework
12 33 (5.96%) RESTful
13 32 (5.78%) JSON
14 26 (4.69%) ASP.NET Core
15 25 (4.51%) REST
16 23 (4.15%) FastAPI
16 23 (4.15%) Node.js
17 22 (3.97%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 40 (7.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 23 (4.15%) Product Ownership
3 21 (3.79%) Cloud Native
3 21 (3.79%) Legacy Applications
4 17 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (2.17%) Low-Code
7 11 (1.99%) Algorithms
7 11 (1.99%) Fixed Income
7 11 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (1.99%) Market Risk
8 10 (1.81%) Derivative
9 9 (1.62%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.08%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.08%) N-Tier
11 6 (1.08%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.08%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.08%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 76 (13.72%) Windows
2 13 (2.35%) Windows Server
3 12 (2.17%) Linux
4 3 (0.54%) CentOS
4 3 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.54%) Unix
5 1 (0.18%) Android
5 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.18%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (34.84%) DevOps
2 190 (34.30%) Agile
3 123 (22.20%) CI/CD
4 87 (15.70%) Full-Stack Development
4 87 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
5 81 (14.62%) Microservices
6 73 (13.18%) Software Engineering
7 66 (11.91%) OO
8 59 (10.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 56 (10.11%) TDD
10 51 (9.21%) Design Patterns
10 51 (9.21%) Test Automation
11 47 (8.48%) SDLC
12 42 (7.58%) Analytics
13 40 (7.22%) OOP
14 39 (7.04%) CRM
15 33 (5.96%) Containerisation
15 33 (5.96%) MVC
16 32 (5.78%) Computer Science
17 31 (5.60%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 415 (74.91%) C#
2 238 (42.96%) SQL
3 163 (29.42%) JavaScript
4 101 (18.23%) Java
5 88 (15.88%) Python
6 79 (14.26%) TypeScript
7 53 (9.57%) PL/SQL
8 45 (8.12%) C++
9 44 (7.94%) PowerShell
10 33 (5.96%) T-SQL
10 33 (5.96%) VB
10 33 (5.96%) VBA
11 22 (3.97%) VB.NET
12 18 (3.25%) Bicep
13 11 (1.99%) RPG
13 11 (1.99%) RPG IV
14 8 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
15 7 (1.26%) Go
16 6 (1.08%) F#
17 5 (0.90%) PHP
Qualifications
1 44 (7.94%) Security Cleared
2 34 (6.14%) Degree
3 32 (5.78%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.17%) Numerate Degree
5 10 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.08%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.90%) MCPD
9 5 (0.90%) MCSD
10 2 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.36%) CEH
10 2 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.36%) CISSP
10 2 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.18%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.96%) QA
2 10 (1.81%) PCI DSS
3 7 (1.26%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.26%) Government Security Classifications
4 6 (1.08%) EMIR
4 6 (1.08%) MiFID
5 4 (0.72%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.36%) GDPR
6 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (0.36%) WCAG
7 1 (0.18%) HL7
7 1 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 81 (14.62%) Docker
2 19 (3.43%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.44%) GridGain
4 5 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.54%) vCloud
5 3 (0.54%) VMware Workstation
5 3 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 95 (17.15%) Kubernetes
2 24 (4.33%) Ansible
3 22 (3.97%) Terraform
4 8 (1.44%) Grafana
5 6 (1.08%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.72%) Kibana
7 2 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.18%) Control-M
8 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.18%) Puppet
8 1 (0.18%) QRadar
8 1 (0.18%) Rancher
Vendors
1 118 (21.30%) Microsoft
2 102 (18.41%) Oracle
3 18 (3.25%) Databricks
4 12 (2.17%) Citrix
5 11 (1.99%) OutSystems
6 9 (1.62%) SAP
7 8 (1.44%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.26%) MuleSoft
9 6 (1.08%) Bloomberg
9 6 (1.08%) Cisco
9 6 (1.08%) VMware
10 5 (0.90%) IBM
10 5 (0.90%) OpenLink
10 5 (0.90%) Reuters
10 5 (0.90%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.90%) Solace
10 5 (0.90%) Splunk
10 5 (0.90%) TIBCO
11 4 (0.72%) UiPath
12 3 (0.54%) AppDynamics