.NET Core Contracts in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for .NET Core skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited .NET Core over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 250 227 192
Rank change year-on-year -23 -35 -37
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 340 571 1,068
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.92% 1.17% 1.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.53% 5.07% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 419 912
10th Percentile £393 £413 £398
25th Percentile £463 £506 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £700 £695 £700
90th Percentile £788 £806 £763
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 17
10th Percentile £47.61 £49.30 -
25th Percentile £54.85 £50.50 £48.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -8.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £85.00 £57.50 £62.15
90th Percentile £87.00 - £64.16
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +45.45% -8.33% +66.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core 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 England 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 7,502 11,262 18,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.41% 23.04% 26.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,321 8,347 14,217
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -0.88% +13.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 139 215
10th Percentile £22.27 £29.15 £23.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.03 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +28.71% +12.22%
75th Percentile £65.01 £75.00 £67.65
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 11 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
London +10 250 £575 -11.54% 107
South West +39 37 £700 +64.71% 32
North of England -4 20 £408 -22.38% 116
South East +6 18 £470 -14.55% 49
North West -10 13 £475 -12.64% 71
Yorkshire +15 7 £300 -39.24% 32
Midlands -1 6 £538 +26.47% 65
East Midlands +4 3 £550 +29.41% 29
West Midlands +3 3 £400 -14.67% 36
East of England +7 2 £475 - 27
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 27 (7.94%) Confluence
2 22 (6.47%) CMS
3 9 (2.65%) BizTalk Server
4 6 (1.76%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.88%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.88%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.88%) IIS
5 3 (0.88%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.59%) Apache
7 1 (0.29%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.29%) Kentico
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.29%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (1.76%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.29%) Aareon QL
2 1 (0.29%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.29%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 209 (61.47%) Azure
2 123 (36.18%) Azure DevOps
3 78 (22.94%) AWS
4 73 (21.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 72 (21.18%) Azure Service Bus
6 40 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
7 35 (10.29%) Entra ID
8 34 (10.00%) Serverless
9 27 (7.94%) GCP
10 24 (7.06%) Azure Functions
11 19 (5.59%) Azure Pipelines
12 17 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (3.53%) GitHub
14 11 (3.24%) NuGet
14 11 (3.24%) PaaS
15 10 (2.94%) Azure AKS
15 10 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
16 9 (2.65%) Azure Event Grid
16 9 (2.65%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.06%) FTP
2 6 (1.76%) HTTP
3 2 (0.59%) Firewall
3 2 (0.59%) SSL
4 1 (0.29%) DHCP
4 1 (0.29%) DNS
4 1 (0.29%) Internet
4 1 (0.29%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (41.47%) SQL Server
2 31 (9.12%) NoSQL
3 23 (6.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 18 (5.29%) Redis
5 15 (4.41%) MongoDB
5 15 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (1.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.47%) SQLite
9 4 (1.18%) Big Data
10 3 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.88%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.88%) MySQL
10 3 (0.88%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.59%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.59%) RavenDB
12 1 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.29%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 77 (22.65%) Git
2 33 (9.71%) JIRA
3 28 (8.24%) Bitbucket
4 27 (7.94%) TeamCity
5 25 (7.35%) Jenkins
6 24 (7.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 19 (5.59%) NUnit
8 12 (3.53%) Cucumber
8 12 (3.53%) Selenium
9 11 (3.24%) Moq
10 10 (2.94%) Visual Studio
11 9 (2.65%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (2.35%) Jasmine
12 8 (2.35%) SonarQube
12 8 (2.35%) SpecFlow
13 5 (1.47%) Checkstyle
14 4 (1.18%) JMeter
14 4 (1.18%) webpack
15 3 (0.88%) Postman
15 3 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 60 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 56 (16.47%) Finance
3 39 (11.47%) Back Office
4 37 (10.88%) Front Office
5 32 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (8.53%) Public Sector
7 18 (5.29%) Aerospace
7 18 (5.29%) Banking
8 8 (2.35%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.35%) Local Government
8 8 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.88%) Automotive
10 3 (0.88%) Law
11 2 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.59%) Games
11 2 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.29%) Aviation
12 1 (0.29%) Legal
12 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 241 (70.88%) Developer
2 103 (30.29%) .NET Developer
3 74 (21.76%) Senior
4 69 (20.29%) C# Developer
5 62 (18.24%) Senior Developer
6 49 (14.41%) Software Engineer
7 40 (11.76%) Backend Developer
8 38 (11.18%) C# .NET Developer
9 36 (10.59%) Full Stack Developer
10 34 (10.00%) Lead
11 29 (8.53%) Senior Backend Developer
12 27 (7.94%) Azure Developer
13 26 (7.65%) .NET Software Engineer
14 21 (6.18%) Finance Manager
15 19 (5.59%) .NET Software Developer
15 19 (5.59%) Architect
16 18 (5.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 17 (5.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 17 (5.00%) Full Stack .NET Developer
17 17 (5.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 340 (100.00%) .NET
2 104 (30.59%) React
3 61 (17.94%) ASP.NET
4 53 (15.59%) CSS
5 52 (15.29%) .NET Framework
6 50 (14.71%) AngularJS
7 46 (13.53%) HTML
8 42 (12.35%) XML
9 31 (9.12%) REST
10 28 (8.24%) RESTful
11 27 (7.94%) Blazor
12 26 (7.65%) ASP.NET Core
13 25 (7.35%) jQuery
14 24 (7.06%) Kafka
15 22 (6.47%) ASP.NET Web API
16 19 (5.59%) Entity Framework
16 19 (5.59%) YAML
17 18 (5.29%) ASP.NET MVC
18 15 (4.41%) Redux
19 13 (3.82%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.41%) Product Ownership
2 26 (7.65%) Fixed Income
3 24 (7.06%) Greenfield Project
4 21 (6.18%) Equities
4 21 (6.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 20 (5.88%) Hedge funds
6 17 (5.00%) Cloud Native
7 15 (4.41%) Derivative
8 13 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (2.06%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.06%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.76%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.18%) Mobile Payment
12 4 (1.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 3 (0.88%) Contactless
14 2 (0.59%) Public Cloud
14 2 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
14 2 (0.59%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.12%) Linux
2 14 (4.12%) Windows
3 3 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.59%) VMS
5 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (51.76%) Agile
2 165 (48.53%) DevOps
3 109 (32.06%) OO
4 106 (31.18%) CI/CD
4 106 (31.18%) TDD
5 77 (22.65%) Software Engineering
6 69 (20.29%) Microservices
7 68 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
8 57 (16.76%) Scrum
9 56 (16.47%) OOD
10 52 (15.29%) API Management
11 51 (15.00%) Clean Code
12 47 (13.82%) Continuous Integration
12 47 (13.82%) MVC
13 43 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (11.76%) Test Automation
15 34 (10.00%) B2C
16 32 (9.41%) OOP
17 31 (9.12%) Deployment Automation
18 30 (8.82%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 266 (78.24%) C#
2 104 (30.59%) JavaScript
3 101 (29.71%) SQL
4 83 (24.41%) Bicep
5 67 (19.71%) PowerShell
5 67 (19.71%) TypeScript
6 55 (16.18%) Python
7 22 (6.47%) T-SQL
8 20 (5.88%) C++
8 20 (5.88%) PL/SQL
9 9 (2.65%) Go
9 9 (2.65%) Java
10 7 (2.06%) Bash
11 3 (0.88%) C
11 3 (0.88%) Perl
12 1 (0.29%) R
12 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 43 (12.65%) Security Cleared
2 33 (9.71%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.71%) Degree
4 10 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.35%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.76%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.88%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.59%) HND
9 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.06%) Accessibility
1 24 (7.06%) WCAG
2 21 (6.18%) QA
3 5 (1.47%) MiFID
4 4 (1.18%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 1 (0.29%) GDPR
6 1 (0.29%) HL7
System Software
1 73 (21.47%) Active Directory
2 29 (8.53%) Docker
3 3 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.59%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.29%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (11.47%) Kubernetes
2 24 (7.06%) Terraform
3 23 (6.76%) Ansible
3 23 (6.76%) PowerCLI
4 7 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.59%) Puppet
6 1 (0.29%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 107 (31.47%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.06%) Atlassian
2 24 (7.06%) Oracle
3 22 (6.47%) Dell
3 22 (6.47%) HP
4 11 (3.24%) TIBCO
5 9 (2.65%) MuleSoft
6 6 (1.76%) NEC
7 4 (1.18%) Optimizely
8 3 (0.88%) SAP
8 3 (0.88%) VMware
9 2 (0.59%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.29%) Aareon
10 1 (0.29%) Capita
10 1 (0.29%) Cerner
10 1 (0.29%) Civica
10 1 (0.29%) Google
10 1 (0.29%) IBM
10 1 (0.29%) Nintex