.NET Core Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

.NET Core
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring .NET Core skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 50 44
Rank change year-on-year -24 -6 +17
Contract jobs citing .NET Core 2 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.30% 0.57% 0.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.06% 3.57% 8.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - - £466
25th Percentile £405 £463 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% -2.56% +4.84%
75th Percentile £415 £488 £494
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -2.56%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cheshire

.NET Core 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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 189 84 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 28.42% 16.09% 9.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 61 28
10th Percentile £313 £313 £375
25th Percentile £358 £360 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £444 £481
Median % change year-on-year -8.78% -7.74% -9.62%
75th Percentile £492 £506 £554
90th Percentile £678 £620 £584
North West median daily rate £446 £477 £525
% change year-on-year -6.40% -9.24% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £36.58 - -
25th Percentile £46.44 - -
Median hourly rate £64.25 - -
75th Percentile £81.44 - -
90th Percentile £90.93 - -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +51.58% - -34.03%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET Core in Cheshire

.NET Core
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing .NET Core.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Warrington -6 1 £410 -13.68%
.NET Core
North West

.NET Core
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) Vue
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) SOLID
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle