.NET Contracts in London

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for .NET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited .NET over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 38 35
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 -9
Contract jobs citing .NET 924 1,453 2,573
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 5.24% 5.51% 6.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.60% 20.31% 21.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 714 1,150 2,164
10th Percentile £391 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £513 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £620
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.84% +12.73%
75th Percentile £688 £747 £750
90th Percentile £750 £806 £800
England median daily rate £538 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 4
10th Percentile - £33.00 £29.00
25th Percentile - £36.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate - £44.99 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - -10.03% +12.36%
75th Percentile - £63.87 £52.50
90th Percentile - £70.00 £57.00
England median hourly rate £58.91 £55.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +7.10% +12.24% +10.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

.NET is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,485 7,155 12,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.41% 27.12% 31.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,346 5,360 9,314
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £457 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £706
90th Percentile £825 £810 £793
England median daily rate £550 £560 £565
% change year-on-year -1.79% -0.88% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 40 66
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.68 £31.88
25th Percentile £23.80 £41.97 £35.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £67.25 £48.04
Median % change year-on-year -40.52% +39.99% -3.92%
75th Percentile £63.13 £75.00 £68.44
90th Percentile £72.60 £82.33 £79.13
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +9.89%

.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 12 May 2024.

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

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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 12 May 2024. 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 +2 129 £538 -17.31% 74
West London +24 17 £575 +27.78% 13
East London -3 12 £538 +34.38% 7
South London +12 10 £510 +13.33% 7
North London +1 1 £550 +62.96%
.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 29 (3.14%) IIS
2 25 (2.71%) CMS
3 16 (1.73%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.19%) Umbraco
5 9 (0.97%) BizTalk Server
6 5 (0.54%) Apache
6 5 (0.54%) WordPress
7 4 (0.43%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.43%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.22%) nginx
9 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.11%) Confluence
10 1 (0.11%) EPiServer
10 1 (0.11%) Jadu
10 1 (0.11%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 31 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 26 (2.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.52%) Endur
3 6 (0.65%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.54%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.54%) SimCorp Dimension
5 4 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.22%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.11%) Aareon QL
7 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.11%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.11%) MIS ActiveH
7 1 (0.11%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 493 (53.35%) Azure
2 240 (25.97%) Azure DevOps
3 156 (16.88%) AWS
4 110 (11.90%) Azure Service Bus
5 83 (8.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 75 (8.12%) Entra ID
7 61 (6.60%) Serverless
8 51 (5.52%) Azure Monitor
9 48 (5.19%) GCP
10 43 (4.65%) Azure Functions
11 41 (4.44%) Power Platform
12 34 (3.68%) Azure Logic Apps
13 32 (3.46%) Dynamics 365
14 27 (2.92%) PaaS
15 24 (2.60%) PowerApps
16 21 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
16 21 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
16 21 (2.27%) Azure Pipelines
16 21 (2.27%) GitHub
17 20 (2.16%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.38%) Internet
2 10 (1.08%) DNS
3 8 (0.87%) FTP
3 8 (0.87%) Network Security
4 7 (0.76%) Firewall
4 7 (0.76%) HTTP
5 6 (0.65%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.65%) VPN
6 5 (0.54%) Intranet
7 4 (0.43%) SSH
8 2 (0.22%) AMQP
8 2 (0.22%) BIG-IP
8 2 (0.22%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.22%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.22%) Wireless
9 1 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
9 1 (0.11%) MPLS
9 1 (0.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 313 (33.87%) SQL Server
2 51 (5.52%) NoSQL
3 36 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 33 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 30 (3.25%) Relational Database
6 27 (2.92%) Oracle Database
7 26 (2.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 23 (2.49%) MongoDB
9 22 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (2.16%) Redis
11 16 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
11 16 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (1.73%) Power BI
12 12 (1.30%) Big Data
12 12 (1.30%) DynamoDB
13 10 (1.08%) Data Lake
14 9 (0.97%) GIS
15 7 (0.76%) RDBMS
16 6 (0.65%) MySQL
16 6 (0.65%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 124 (13.42%) Git
2 51 (5.52%) TeamCity
3 50 (5.41%) SpecFlow
4 45 (4.87%) Visual Studio
5 39 (4.22%) Selenium
6 25 (2.71%) Jenkins
7 24 (2.60%) Cucumber
7 24 (2.60%) NUnit
8 21 (2.27%) WebDriver
9 19 (2.06%) Postman
10 18 (1.95%) Moq
11 14 (1.52%) JIRA
12 11 (1.19%) JUnit
12 11 (1.19%) REST Assured
12 11 (1.19%) SoapUI
13 10 (1.08%) Appium
13 10 (1.08%) eggPlant
13 10 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
13 10 (1.08%) SOAtest
13 10 (1.08%) TestNG
General
1 228 (24.68%) Finance
2 149 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 99 (10.71%) Front Office
4 87 (9.42%) Banking
5 85 (9.20%) Public Sector
6 59 (6.39%) Back Office
7 47 (5.09%) Analytical Skills
7 47 (5.09%) Investment Banking
8 29 (3.14%) Local Government
9 15 (1.62%) Marketing
10 12 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (1.19%) Retail
12 10 (1.08%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.08%) Manufacturing
13 9 (0.97%) Law
13 9 (0.97%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.87%) Electronics
14 8 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 565 (61.15%) Developer
2 250 (27.06%) .NET Developer
3 195 (21.10%) C# Developer
4 186 (20.13%) Senior
5 125 (13.53%) Senior Developer
6 105 (11.36%) Software Engineer
7 91 (9.85%) C# .NET Developer
8 87 (9.42%) Full Stack Developer
9 68 (7.36%) Azure Developer
10 67 (7.25%) Lead
11 63 (6.82%) Software Developer
12 57 (6.17%) Architect
13 53 (5.74%) .NET Software Engineer
14 42 (4.55%) Backend Developer
15 40 (4.33%) .NET Software Developer
16 39 (4.22%) Azure Engineer
17 38 (4.11%) Senior Software Developer
18 36 (3.90%) DevOps Engineer
18 36 (3.90%) Full Stack .NET Developer
19 33 (3.57%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (27.06%) .NET Core
2 188 (20.35%) .NET Framework
3 159 (17.21%) React
4 150 (16.23%) ASP.NET
5 137 (14.83%) AngularJS
6 109 (11.80%) XML
7 89 (9.63%) HTML
8 84 (9.09%) CSS
9 70 (7.58%) REST
10 54 (5.84%) ASP.NET Core
11 50 (5.41%) WCF
12 45 (4.87%) Web Services
13 41 (4.44%) Entity Framework
14 39 (4.22%) RESTful
15 36 (3.90%) Redux
16 33 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
17 32 (3.46%) Blazor
17 32 (3.46%) Kafka
17 32 (3.46%) WPF
18 31 (3.35%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 62 (6.71%) Product Ownership
2 47 (5.09%) Derivative
3 46 (4.98%) Fixed Income
4 43 (4.65%) Hedge funds
5 41 (4.44%) Equities
6 36 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
7 35 (3.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 25 (2.71%) Cloud Native
9 17 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.30%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.19%) Market Risk
13 8 (0.87%) Mobile App
13 8 (0.87%) Onboarding
14 7 (0.76%) Client/Server
14 7 (0.76%) Data Structures
14 7 (0.76%) NHS
14 7 (0.76%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 88 (9.52%) Windows
2 25 (2.71%) Linux
3 23 (2.49%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.43%) Android
5 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.22%) VMS
6 1 (0.11%) Unix
6 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (40.26%) DevOps
2 354 (38.31%) Agile
3 191 (20.67%) CI/CD
4 186 (20.13%) Software Engineering
5 164 (17.75%) TDD
6 140 (15.15%) Full Stack Development
7 134 (14.50%) Scrum
8 118 (12.77%) Microservices
9 109 (11.80%) OO
10 97 (10.50%) Test Automation
11 74 (8.01%) Problem-Solving
12 72 (7.79%) B2C
13 68 (7.36%) API Management
14 66 (7.14%) SDLC
15 65 (7.03%) MVC
16 64 (6.93%) Continuous Integration
17 62 (6.71%) Migration
18 55 (5.95%) Clean Code
18 55 (5.95%) Front End Development
19 54 (5.84%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 751 (81.28%) C#
2 358 (38.74%) SQL
3 204 (22.08%) JavaScript
4 171 (18.51%) PowerShell
5 97 (10.50%) TypeScript
6 89 (9.63%) Bicep
7 87 (9.42%) Java
8 77 (8.33%) Python
9 64 (6.93%) T-SQL
10 63 (6.82%) PL/SQL
11 43 (4.65%) C++
12 39 (4.22%) VBA
13 34 (3.68%) VB.NET
14 31 (3.35%) VB
15 14 (1.52%) Go
16 12 (1.30%) Ruby
17 10 (1.08%) Bash
17 10 (1.08%) PHP
18 6 (0.65%) C
19 5 (0.54%) Perl
Qualifications
1 68 (7.36%) Degree
2 37 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 29 (3.14%) SC Cleared
4 21 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (0.87%) Master's Degree
6 6 (0.65%) Azure Certification
7 5 (0.54%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.43%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.32%) CISSP
10 2 (0.22%) CCNP
10 2 (0.22%) CISA
10 2 (0.22%) CISM
10 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.11%) CBAP
11 1 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.11%) SANS
11 1 (0.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.36%) QA
2 31 (3.35%) Accessibility
3 22 (2.38%) WCAG
4 10 (1.08%) MiFID
5 8 (0.87%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.54%) Dodd-Frank
6 5 (0.54%) EMIR
7 4 (0.43%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.11%) DICOM
9 1 (0.11%) GDPR
9 1 (0.11%) GRC
9 1 (0.11%) HL7
9 1 (0.11%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 121 (13.10%) Active Directory
2 62 (6.71%) Docker
3 5 (0.54%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.43%) NFS
5 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.22%) vSphere
6 1 (0.11%) Firmware
6 1 (0.11%) GridGain
6 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.11%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 64 (6.93%) Kubernetes
2 37 (4.00%) Terraform
3 14 (1.52%) Ansible
4 11 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (1.08%) ITRS Geneos
6 9 (0.97%) BladeLogic
7 4 (0.43%) SCOM
8 3 (0.32%) Grafana
8 3 (0.32%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.32%) SCCM
9 2 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.22%) SCOrch
10 1 (0.11%) Kibana
10 1 (0.11%) logstash
10 1 (0.11%) Packer
10 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 254 (27.49%) Microsoft
2 110 (11.90%) Oracle
3 29 (3.14%) Citrix
4 20 (2.16%) SAP
5 16 (1.73%) Databricks
5 16 (1.73%) MuleSoft
6 14 (1.52%) OpenLink
7 11 (1.19%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.19%) TIBCO
8 9 (0.97%) Altiris
8 9 (0.97%) Dynatrace
9 6 (0.65%) Blue Prism
9 6 (0.65%) Google
9 6 (0.65%) NEC
9 6 (0.65%) UiPath
10 5 (0.54%) Automation Anywhere
10 5 (0.54%) F5
10 5 (0.54%) SimCorp
10 5 (0.54%) Virgin Media
11 4 (0.43%) Alteryx