.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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 34 40
Rank change year-on-year -24 +6 -5
Contract jobs citing .NET 517 922 1,335
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.22% 5.28% 5.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.99% 20.21% 19.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 713 1,064
10th Percentile £385 £386 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £597 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £775 £688 £738
90th Percentile £850 £750 £806
England median daily rate £515 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -4.19% -6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £32.40
25th Percentile - - £36.00
Median hourly rate - - £37.00
75th Percentile - - £52.97
90th Percentile - - £64.69
England median hourly rate £50.30 £58.91 £53.99
% change year-on-year -14.61% +9.11% +10.17%

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 3,234 4,561 6,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.38% 26.13% 26.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,263 3,396 5,096
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £440 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £723 £700 £725
90th Percentile £830 £838 £813
England median daily rate £525 £550 £557
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.26% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 27 39
10th Percentile £32.00 £16.25 £30.60
25th Percentile £33.25 £23.99 £41.63
Median hourly rate £38.91 £42.50 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% -36.57% +49.30%
75th Percentile £54.69 £63.77 £75.00
90th Percentile £74.38 £75.00 £84.40
England median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +23.81%

.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 31 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 31 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 -13 87 £563 +4.65% 55
East London +14 6 £438 -15.66% 13
West London -3 5 £554 -3.65% 12
South London -6 3 £500 -1.96% 3
.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 (2.90%) IIS
2 13 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.55%) GemFire
3 8 (1.55%) Oracle Coherence
4 5 (0.97%) Apache
5 4 (0.77%) BizTalk Server
5 4 (0.77%) CMS
5 4 (0.77%) Confluence
5 4 (0.77%) Drupal
6 2 (0.39%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.19%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 43 (8.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 29 (5.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.35%) Endur
3 3 (0.58%) OpenText MBPM
3 3 (0.58%) Oracle BPM
4 2 (0.39%) Infor CloudSuite
5 1 (0.19%) FastStats
5 1 (0.19%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 193 (37.33%) Azure
2 76 (14.70%) AWS
3 65 (12.57%) Azure DevOps
4 58 (11.22%) Power Platform
5 45 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
6 39 (7.54%) Serverless
7 36 (6.96%) Power Automate
8 35 (6.77%) PowerApps
9 31 (6.00%) Azure Functions
10 29 (5.61%) Azure Logic Apps
10 29 (5.61%) Azure Service Bus
11 21 (4.06%) GitHub
12 20 (3.87%) Entra ID
13 19 (3.68%) Azure Data Factory
14 14 (2.71%) Azure Monitor
15 12 (2.32%) Azure AKS
15 12 (2.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 12 (2.32%) Azure Sentinel
16 11 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
16 11 (2.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.32%) DNS
1 12 (2.32%) HTTP
1 12 (2.32%) Internet
2 11 (2.13%) TCP/IP
3 8 (1.55%) SSL
4 7 (1.35%) Firewall
4 7 (1.35%) FTP
4 7 (1.35%) SMTP
5 2 (0.39%) DHCP
5 2 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (25.53%) SQL Server
2 39 (7.54%) Oracle Database
3 32 (6.19%) Relational Database
3 32 (6.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 28 (5.42%) NoSQL
5 23 (4.45%) Power BI
6 20 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (3.48%) MongoDB
8 17 (3.29%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (1.74%) MySQL
11 6 (1.16%) Big Data
11 6 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.16%) Redis
12 5 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.58%) ClickHouse
14 2 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.39%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.39%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.39%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 44 (8.51%) Git
2 35 (6.77%) JIRA
3 33 (6.38%) Jenkins
4 19 (3.68%) Bitbucket
5 14 (2.71%) TeamCity
6 9 (1.74%) NUnit
6 9 (1.74%) Selenium
7 8 (1.55%) GitLab
8 6 (1.16%) SpecFlow
8 6 (1.16%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.97%) Ant
9 5 (0.97%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.77%) HP UFT
10 4 (0.77%) JUnit
10 4 (0.77%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.77%) TestComplete
11 3 (0.58%) Babel
11 3 (0.58%) Postman
11 3 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.58%) webpack
General
1 160 (30.95%) Finance
2 159 (30.75%) Social Skills
3 105 (20.31%) Banking
4 102 (19.73%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (13.35%) Front Office
6 49 (9.48%) Investment Banking
7 25 (4.84%) Organisational Skills
7 25 (4.84%) Public Sector
8 9 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.55%) Marketing
10 7 (1.35%) Billing
11 6 (1.16%) Back Office
11 6 (1.16%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.16%) Retail
12 5 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.97%) Legal
12 5 (0.97%) Local Government
12 5 (0.97%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.77%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 351 (67.89%) Developer
2 148 (28.63%) C# Developer
3 140 (27.08%) .NET Developer
4 83 (16.05%) C# .NET Developer
5 72 (13.93%) Senior
6 56 (10.83%) Senior Developer
7 40 (7.74%) Lead
8 36 (6.96%) WPF Developer
9 35 (6.77%) C# WPF Developer
10 34 (6.58%) Architect
11 33 (6.38%) Full-Stack Developer
12 31 (6.00%) Software Engineer
13 26 (5.03%) Python Developer
13 26 (5.03%) Senior .NET Developer
14 24 (4.64%) Senior C# Developer
15 18 (3.48%) C++ Developer
16 17 (3.29%) .NET Software Engineer
16 17 (3.29%) Azure Engineer
16 17 (3.29%) C++/C# Developer
16 17 (3.29%) Real Time Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (24.95%) .NET Framework
2 100 (19.34%) .NET Core
3 85 (16.44%) ASP.NET
4 75 (14.51%) React
5 74 (14.31%) AngularJS
6 73 (14.12%) HTML
7 67 (12.96%) CSS
8 55 (10.64%) WPF
9 48 (9.28%) WCF
10 42 (8.12%) ASP.NET Web API
10 42 (8.12%) Entity Framework
11 41 (7.93%) Web Services
12 34 (6.58%) RESTful
13 33 (6.38%) Kafka
14 32 (6.19%) REST
15 28 (5.42%) JSON
16 24 (4.64%) ASP.NET Core
16 24 (4.64%) Reactive Extensions
17 22 (4.26%) XML
18 21 (4.06%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 35 (6.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 18 (3.48%) Cloud Native
3 17 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (3.29%) Legacy Applications
4 15 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (2.90%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (2.13%) Derivative
7 9 (1.74%) Algorithms
7 9 (1.74%) Fixed Income
7 9 (1.74%) Low-Code
7 9 (1.74%) Market Risk
7 9 (1.74%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.16%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.16%) N-Tier
9 6 (1.16%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.16%) TWAP
9 6 (1.16%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.16%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 81 (15.67%) Windows
2 14 (2.71%) Windows Server
3 13 (2.51%) Linux
4 5 (0.97%) Android
4 5 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.58%) CentOS
5 3 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.39%) Unix
7 1 (0.19%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (34.62%) Agile
2 175 (33.85%) DevOps
3 111 (21.47%) CI/CD
4 87 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
5 86 (16.63%) Microservices
6 80 (15.47%) Full-Stack Development
7 69 (13.35%) Software Engineering
8 57 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 51 (9.86%) OO
10 50 (9.67%) Test Automation
11 44 (8.51%) Design Patterns
12 42 (8.12%) TDD
13 38 (7.35%) OOP
13 38 (7.35%) SDLC
14 37 (7.16%) Unit Testing
15 36 (6.96%) CRM
15 36 (6.96%) Data Analysis
16 34 (6.58%) Containerisation
16 34 (6.58%) Infrastructure as Code
17 33 (6.38%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 395 (76.40%) C#
2 230 (44.49%) SQL
3 145 (28.05%) JavaScript
4 82 (15.86%) Java
5 81 (15.67%) Python
6 78 (15.09%) TypeScript
7 52 (10.06%) PL/SQL
8 37 (7.16%) C++
8 37 (7.16%) VBA
9 35 (6.77%) VB
10 32 (6.19%) PowerShell
10 32 (6.19%) T-SQL
11 23 (4.45%) VB.NET
12 19 (3.68%) Bicep
13 12 (2.32%) RPG
14 11 (2.13%) RPG IV
15 8 (1.55%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (1.16%) F#
17 5 (0.97%) PHP
17 5 (0.97%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (6.96%) Security Cleared
2 34 (6.58%) Degree
3 25 (4.84%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.32%) Numerate Degree
5 11 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.35%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.97%) MCPD
9 5 (0.97%) MCSD
10 3 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.39%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.39%) CEH
11 2 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.39%) CISSP
11 2 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.19%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.19%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.35%) QA
2 7 (1.35%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.77%) EMIR
3 4 (0.77%) Government Security Classifications
3 4 (0.77%) MiFID
4 3 (0.58%) GDPR
4 3 (0.58%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.39%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (0.39%) WCAG
6 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 69 (13.35%) Docker
2 24 (4.64%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.55%) GridGain
4 5 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.58%) vCloud
5 3 (0.58%) VMware Workstation
5 3 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 82 (15.86%) Kubernetes
2 26 (5.03%) Terraform
3 19 (3.68%) Ansible
4 9 (1.74%) Grafana
5 7 (1.35%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.77%) Kibana
8 1 (0.19%) Control-M
8 1 (0.19%) Istio
8 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.19%) Puppet
8 1 (0.19%) Rancher
Vendors
1 105 (20.31%) Oracle
2 100 (19.34%) Microsoft
3 17 (3.29%) Databricks
4 15 (2.90%) Citrix
5 10 (1.93%) UiPath
6 9 (1.74%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.55%) OutSystems
7 8 (1.55%) SAP
8 7 (1.35%) OpenLink
9 6 (1.16%) Bloomberg
9 6 (1.16%) Cisco
9 6 (1.16%) VMware
10 5 (0.97%) IBM
10 5 (0.97%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.97%) Reuters
10 5 (0.97%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.97%) Solace
10 5 (0.97%) TIBCO
11 4 (0.77%) Splunk
12 3 (0.58%) OpenText