.NET Core Contracts with Work from Home Options

.NET Core
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 232 208 171
Rank change year-on-year -24 -37 -25
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 109 295 712
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.72% 1.18% 1.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.00% 4.65% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 217 583
10th Percentile £330 £413 £383
25th Percentile £402 £465 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £631 £688 £600
90th Percentile £688 £810 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £545
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% +14.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 11
10th Percentile - £45.35 £48.50
25th Percentile - £45.88 £48.88
Median hourly rate - £47.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -21.67% +71.43%
75th Percentile - £48.38 £62.15
90th Percentile - £49.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +45.45% -8.33% +69.01%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

.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 with a WFH option and 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 3,636 6,344 12,982
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.12% 25.29% 29.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,551 4,723 9,580
10th Percentile £331 £399 £400
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +12.82%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £730
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 80 116
10th Percentile £24.45 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.60 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.65
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%

.NET Core
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing .NET Core as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

.NET Core trend for jobs with a WFH option

.NET Core
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing .NET Core.

.NET Core daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

.NET Core
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing .NET Core over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

.NET Core daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

.NET Core
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing .NET Core.

.NET Core hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

.NET Core
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 16 (14.68%) CMS
2 4 (3.67%) Umbraco
3 3 (2.75%) Confluence
3 3 (2.75%) Kentico
4 2 (1.83%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.83%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.83%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.92%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.92%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.92%) IIS
5 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 77 (70.64%) Azure
2 48 (44.04%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (27.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 25 (22.94%) Azure Service Bus
5 14 (12.84%) AWS
5 14 (12.84%) Serverless
6 12 (11.01%) Azure Monitor
6 12 (11.01%) Entra ID
7 10 (9.17%) Azure Functions
8 8 (7.34%) Azure Pipelines
8 8 (7.34%) PaaS
9 7 (6.42%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (5.50%) NuGet
11 5 (4.59%) Azure API Management
11 5 (4.59%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (3.67%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (3.67%) GCP
12 4 (3.67%) IaaS
13 3 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.83%) DHCP
1 2 (1.83%) DNS
1 2 (1.83%) HTTP
1 2 (1.83%) VPN
2 1 (0.92%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (44.04%) SQL Server
2 13 (11.93%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (5.50%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.59%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.59%) Redis
5 4 (3.67%) MySQL
5 4 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.83%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.92%) Big Data
8 1 (0.92%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.92%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.92%) SQLite
8 1 (0.92%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 24 (22.02%) Git
2 4 (3.67%) JIRA
2 4 (3.67%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (2.75%) Bitbucket
3 3 (2.75%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.75%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.83%) NUnit
4 2 (1.83%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.83%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.92%) Checkstyle
5 1 (0.92%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.92%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.92%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.92%) Selenium
5 1 (0.92%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.92%) webpack
General
1 21 (19.27%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.76%) Public Sector
3 13 (11.93%) Finance
4 12 (11.01%) Back Office
5 4 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.67%) Banking
5 4 (3.67%) Front Office
5 4 (3.67%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.75%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.92%) Automotive
7 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (77.06%) Developer
2 45 (41.28%) .NET Developer
3 26 (23.85%) C# Developer
4 23 (21.10%) Senior
5 22 (20.18%) Senior Developer
6 18 (16.51%) C# .NET Developer
7 16 (14.68%) Azure Developer
8 14 (12.84%) Backend Developer
9 11 (10.09%) Full Stack Developer
9 11 (10.09%) Senior Backend Developer
10 10 (9.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 10 (9.17%) Lead
11 7 (6.42%) Architect
12 6 (5.50%) React Developer
12 6 (5.50%) Senior C# Developer
13 5 (4.59%) Lead Developer
13 5 (4.59%) Senior .NET Developer
14 4 (3.67%) Applications Developer
14 4 (3.67%) Technical Architect
14 4 (3.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (100.00%) .NET
2 34 (31.19%) React
3 26 (23.85%) ASP.NET
4 25 (22.94%) .NET Framework
5 22 (20.18%) CSS
6 20 (18.35%) AngularJS
7 19 (17.43%) HTML
8 15 (13.76%) Entity Framework
8 15 (13.76%) REST
9 13 (11.93%) XML
10 12 (11.01%) jQuery
11 10 (9.17%) ASP.NET MVC
12 8 (7.34%) YAML
13 7 (6.42%) ASP.NET Web API
13 7 (6.42%) Blazor
13 7 (6.42%) Vue
14 6 (5.50%) SOAP
15 5 (4.59%) RESTful
15 5 (4.59%) Swagger
15 5 (4.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.01%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.34%) Mobile App
3 6 (5.50%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.67%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.75%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.75%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.83%) Contactless
7 2 (1.83%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.83%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.92%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.92%) Mobile Payment
8 1 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.92%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.67%) Linux
1 4 (3.67%) Windows
2 2 (1.83%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.92%) Android
3 1 (0.92%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (50.46%) DevOps
2 52 (47.71%) Agile
3 27 (24.77%) OO
3 27 (24.77%) TDD
4 26 (23.85%) CI/CD
5 25 (22.94%) Microservices
6 22 (20.18%) MVC
7 21 (19.27%) Clean Code
8 20 (18.35%) Full Stack Development
9 18 (16.51%) OOD
10 16 (14.68%) API Management
11 14 (12.84%) Scrum
11 14 (12.84%) SOLID
11 14 (12.84%) Unit Testing
12 12 (11.01%) B2C
12 12 (11.01%) Front End Development
12 12 (11.01%) Software Engineering
13 10 (9.17%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (8.26%) Design Patterns
15 8 (7.34%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 82 (75.23%) C#
2 31 (28.44%) JavaScript
3 30 (27.52%) Bicep
4 24 (22.02%) SQL
5 20 (18.35%) PowerShell
6 18 (16.51%) TypeScript
7 14 (12.84%) Python
8 4 (3.67%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.83%) C++
9 2 (1.83%) Go
9 2 (1.83%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.83%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.92%) Bash
10 1 (0.92%) C
10 1 (0.92%) Java
10 1 (0.92%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (8.26%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.34%) Degree
3 7 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (6.42%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.83%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.83%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.17%) Accessibility
1 10 (9.17%) WCAG
2 4 (3.67%) QA
3 3 (2.75%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.92%) MiFID
System Software
1 24 (22.02%) Active Directory
2 8 (7.34%) Docker
3 2 (1.83%) Terminal Services
3 2 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (11.01%) Terraform
2 10 (9.17%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.75%) Ansible
3 3 (2.75%) PowerCLI
4 2 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (36.70%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.50%) Oracle
3 3 (2.75%) Atlassian
3 3 (2.75%) Dell
3 3 (2.75%) HP
3 3 (2.75%) Xamarin
4 2 (1.83%) Adobe
4 2 (1.83%) MuleSoft
4 2 (1.83%) SAP
4 2 (1.83%) VMware
5 1 (0.92%) Cerner
5 1 (0.92%) NEC
5 1 (0.92%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.92%) Salesforce